War, Black Hawk to Watts's

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

War, Black Hawk, n. (1)

    ALin 11.330 15 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...

war, n. (296)

    AmS 1.102 18 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    LT 1.276 21 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not war...are needed...
    LT 1.280 6 ...how frivolous is your war against circumstances.
    LT 1.281 25 Other times have had war...as their antagonism.
    LT 1.283 26 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    LT 1.284 2 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not also a war of posts...
    Con 1.295 11 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only in battle-fields...
    Con 1.322 26 I understand well the respect of mankind for war...
    Con 1.323 1 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    Con 1.323 11 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates...
    Tran 1.359 12 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined by war...
    YA 1.372 21 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male, as if to counterbalance the necessarily increased exposure of male life in war, navigation, and other accidents.
    YA 1.376 27 ...as long as war lasts, the nobles, who must be soldiers, rule very well.
    SR 2.70 19 ...war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat...
    SR 2.72 17 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden...
    SR 2.86 27 We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science...
    Comp 2.111 17 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him...[my neighbor' s] eyes no longer seek mine; there is war between us;...
    Prd1 2.227 12 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.
    Hsm1 2.249 12 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    Hsm1 2.249 21 Let [a man] hear in season that he is born into the state of war...
    Hsm1 2.250 9 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease, which makes the attractiveness of war.
    Hsm1 2.251 27 [Heroism] is the state of the soul at war...
    OS 2.277 1 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
    Cir 2.322 11 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Pt1 3.27 27 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... war...
    Chr1 3.92 8 There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the State, or letters;...
    Chr1 3.100 5 There is nothing real or useful that is not a seat of war.
    Mrs1 3.123 17 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.153 7 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in war...
    Pol1 3.201 11 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war...
    UGM 4.13 15 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
    UGM 4.22 19 ...our system is one of war...
    UGM 4.30 26 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;...
    PPh 4.43 26 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war...
    PPh 4.72 11 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.130 27 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    ShP 4.190 17 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
    ShP 4.197 25 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.
    NMW 4.229 24 The art of war was the game in which [Bonaparte] exerted his arithmetic.
    NMW 4.231 13 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself...on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
    NMW 4.235 26 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.247 20 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief of all military men that there could be nothing new in war;...
    NMW 4.250 1 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    NMW 4.252 5 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions...the impatience of words he was wont to show in war.
    NMW 4.255 9 ...men should be firm in heart and purpose [said Napoleon], or they should have nothing to do with war and government.
    NMW 4.257 19 ...when men saw that after victory was another war;...they deserted [Napoleon].
    ET1 5.20 1 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.
    ET4 5.45 24 [The English] have...supreme endurance in war and in labor.
    ET4 5.49 6 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
    ET4 5.56 18 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    ET4 5.67 16 [The English] are rather manly than warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and domestic tastes...
    ET5 5.75 19 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual that a feudal or military tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war.
    ET5 5.75 20 The power of the Saxon-Danes, so thoroughly beaten in the war that the name of English and villein were synonymous......stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET5 5.85 17 In war, the Englishman looks to his means.
    ET5 5.87 7 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
    ET5 5.88 16 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.
    ET5 5.92 13 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    ET5 5.93 5 There is no secret of war in which [the English] have not shown mastery.
    ET5 5.100 26 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in war...
    ET5 5.101 16 In politics and in war [the English] hold together as by hooks of steel.
    ET7 5.120 5 [Wellington] augured ill of the [Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious, and lived by war.
    ET7 5.120 5 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
    ET7 5.124 9 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET8 5.128 14 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade...instead of frivolous games.
    ET8 5.130 27 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET8 5.140 24 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET8 5.140 25 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making itself a war of opinions also...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET10 5.155 21 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.161 8 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon, and the next war will be fought in the air.
    ET10 5.161 16 By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are changed.
    ET10 5.161 23 The telegraph is a limp band that will hold the Fenris-wolf of war.
    ET10 5.161 26 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET11 5.174 14 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    ET11 5.175 25 In France and in England, the nobles were, down to a late day, born and bred to war...
    ET11 5.175 26 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET11 5.185 1 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET11 5.188 17 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...
    ET11 5.191 3 War is a foul game, yet war is not the worst part of aristocratic history.
    ET11 5.191 5 ...when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET14 5.257 7 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of war.
    ET15 5.264 2 [The London Times] declared war against Ireland, and conquered it.
    ET18 5.301 1 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    ET18 5.301 27 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war...
    ET18 5.302 1 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be of any nation at war with us.
    ET18 5.302 24 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...
    F 6.19 3 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    F 6.31 17 ...in war, [men] believe a malignant energy rules.
    F 6.32 24 The annual slaughter from typhus far exceeds that of war;...
    F 6.36 11 The whole circle of animal life...devouring war, war for food... pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Pow 6.56 19 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.63 22 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were not those who knew better...
    Pow 6.68 19 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made for war...
    Pow 6.69 10 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
    Pow 6.71 11 The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war.
    Pow 6.71 19 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
    Pow 6.75 2 Concentration is the secret of strength...in war...
    Wth 6.90 1 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
    Wth 6.105 16 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is war...
    Wth 6.109 27 ...after the war was over, we received compensation over and above, by treaty, for all the seizures [of American ships].
    Ctr 6.140 27 What we call our root-and-branch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
    Bhr 6.175 13 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
    Wsp 6.202 5 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Wsp 6.225 3 Here is a low political economy...excluding others by force, or making war on them;...
    Wsp 6.225 6 ...the real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
    CbW 6.253 9 It is of no use for us to make war with [the fools]; [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers]...
    CbW 6.254 21 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    CbW 6.255 2 Without war, no soldiers;...
    CbW 6.261 9 A rich man was never in danger from cold, or hunger, or war...
    CbW 6.262 6 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...civil war... more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    CbW 6.262 15 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy...
    Civ 7.22 8 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
    Civ 7.30 13 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
    Farm 7.151 25 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear,--chances of war,--sometimes the bear eats him.
    WD 7.163 14 ...the next war will be fought in the air.
    WD 7.174 7 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    Clbs 7.240 27 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Cour 7.258 4 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
    Cour 7.261 3 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    Cour 7.261 22 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war.
    Cour 7.271 5 'T is still observed those men most valiant are/ Who are most modest ere they came to war./
    Suc 7.284 15 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands.
    Suc 7.290 5 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    SA 8.95 13 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.
    SA 8.96 5 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you.
    SA 8.104 9 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
    SA 8.106 7 ...[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 8.116 5 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the war...
    Elo2 8.131 2 ...all eloquence is a war of posts.
    Res 8.141 17 Life is always rapid here [in America], but what acceleration to its pulse in ten years,--what in the four years of the war!
    Res 8.143 26 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    PC 8.208 22 The war gave us the abolition of slavery...
    PC 8.218 3 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the scale of war and peace at will.
    PC 8.221 4 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in mining and in war.
    PC 8.231 25 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times...
    PPo 8.238 12 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an epigram or a distich...
    Insp 8.279 19 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
    Dem1 10.20 27 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.37 23 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...
    Aris 10.40 26 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach...out of their old war and modern land-owning...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    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...
    Aris 10.45 16 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
    Aris 10.65 4 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of...war...
    Chr2 10.106 27 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon...
    Chr2 10.118 8 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created the Hilton Head and Charleston missions...
    Edc1 10.127 10 Victory over things is the office of man. Of course, until it is accomplished, it is the war and insult of things over him.
    SovE 10.189 17 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
    SovE 10.189 19 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.
    Prch 10.232 1 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to war and peace, new events...
    MoL 10.246 13 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
    MoL 10.248 5 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.
    MoL 10.257 7 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war...
    MoL 10.257 9 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once.
    MoL 10.257 13 The war uplifted us into generous sentiments.
    MoL 10.257 14 War ennobles the age.
    Schr 10.285 27 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom...
    Plu 10.303 10 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
    LLNE 10.325 20 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed a war between intellect and affection;...
    LLNE 10.338 10 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton...
    MMEm 10.422 20 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    MMEm 10.422 26 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
    MMEm 10.423 8 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People, nay, it is said there was war in Heaven.
    MMEm 10.423 9 War is among the means of discipline...
    MMEm 10.423 11 War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace does not less.
    MMEm 10.425 26 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
    HDC 11.57 18 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been pressed by three of the colonies...
    HDC 11.57 27 This expedition [against the Niantic Indians] was but the introduction of the war with King Philip.
    HDC 11.58 7 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    HDC 11.58 10 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.
    HDC 11.59 12 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of war give them an overwhelming advantage...
    HDC 11.59 15 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    HDC 11.59 20 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    HDC 11.59 22 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    HDC 11.60 15 With the tragical end of Philip, the war ended.
    HDC 11.61 1 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war.
    HDC 11.75 12 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston, which was an omen to both parties of the event of the war.
    HDC 11.78 4 In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town [Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
    HDC 11.79 16 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds. And so on, with every levy, to the end of the war.
    HDC 11.79 19 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.79 22 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord]...
    HDC 11.79 23 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted;...
    HDC 11.82 12 [Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence...
    HDC 11.86 23 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons.
    EWI 11.135 15 Here [in emancipation in the West Indies] was no prodigy... no bloody war...
    War 11.151 11 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time,- and, particularly, war.
    War 11.151 12 War...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    War 11.151 21 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 17 War educates the senses...
    War 11.153 4 The strong tribe, in which war has become an art, attack and conquer their neighbors...
    War 11.154 11 Considerations of this [historical] kind lead us to a true view of the nature and office of war.
    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.
    War 11.154 25 What does all this war, beginning from the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
    War 11.155 20 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    War 11.156 22 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    War 11.156 24 Nothing is plainer than that the sympathy with war is a juvenile and temporary state.
    War 11.157 1 Trade...is the antagonist of war.
    War 11.157 10 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
    War 11.157 11 ...all history is the picture of war, as we have said...
    War 11.157 13 ...[all history] is the record of the mitigation and decline of war.
    War 11.157 25 ...the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
    War 11.158 1 By all these means, war has been steadily on the decline;...
    War 11.159 24 All history is the decline of war...
    War 11.159 26 All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation: the doctrine of the right of war still remains.
    War 11.160 19 Cannot peace be, as well as war?
    War 11.161 17 ...war is on its last legs;...
    War 11.166 24 War and peace thus resolve themselves into a mercury of the state of cultivation.
    War 11.167 27 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive war as just.
    War 11.168 1 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive war as just.
    War 11.168 2 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...
    War 11.168 25 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.170 21 The next season, an Indian war...or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    War 11.170 26 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way, and cries, Havoc and war!
    War 11.171 17 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace...
    War 11.171 18 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm...
    War 11.171 20 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through all the throats of artillery...
    War 11.173 13 This self-subsistency is the charm of war;...
    War 11.174 10 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham, and the peace will be base. War is better...
    War 11.175 10 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.195 23 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    AKan 11.257 25 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is...a systematic war to the knife...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.263 6 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    JBB 11.268 2 [John Brown's] father...became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...
    ACiv 11.298 11 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile war...
    ACiv 11.298 17 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    ACiv 11.300 12 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower...
    ACiv 11.303 4 Better the war should more dangerously threaten us...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    ACiv 11.304 15 The war is welcome to the Southerner;...
    ACiv 11.304 19 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war...
    ACiv 11.304 24 [The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home, so that he loses no labor by the war.
    ACiv 11.306 2 We fancy that the endless debate, emphasized by the crime and by the cannons of this war, has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    ACiv 11.308 20 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations.
    EPro 11.317 27 When we consider the immense opposition that has been neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
    EPro 11.319 2 ...one midsummer day seems to repair the damage of a year of war.
    EPro 11.319 4 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war, worth its costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.
    EPro 11.322 1 The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
    EPro 11.323 1 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.
    EPro 11.323 2 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
    EPro 11.323 5 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but war was in the minds and bones of the combatants...
    EPro 11.323 22 The [Civil] war was formidable, but could not be avoided.
    EPro 11.323 23 The [Civil] war was and is an immense mischief...
    EPro 11.324 11 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.
    EPro 11.325 4 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper, until the instinct of self-preservation forced us into the war.
    EPro 11.325 4 ...the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
    EPro 11.325 12 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...the cause of war being removed, Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    ALin 11.332 18 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    ALin 11.335 5 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war.
    ALin 11.336 24 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that...what remained to be done required...a new spirit born out of the ashes of the war;...
    HCom 11.341 16 War passes the power of all chemical solvents...
    HCom 11.342 10 The proof that war also is within the highest right...is its morale.
    HCom 11.342 12 The war gave back integrity to this erring and immoral nation.
    HCom 11.342 15 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent.
    HCom 11.342 23 It is easy to recall the mood in which our young men... went to the war.
    HCom 11.343 6 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    HCom 11.343 11 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
    HCom 11.343 12 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    SMC 11.351 1 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SMC 11.351 14 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.353 5 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship, and south is north. The storm of war works the like miracle on men.
    SMC 11.353 9 War, says the poet,...is the arduous strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
    SMC 11.353 15 When the rights of man are recited under any old government, every one of them is a declaration of war.
    SMC 11.353 15 War civilizes, rearranges the population, distributing by ideas...
    SMC 11.354 19 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    SMC 11.354 26 The opinions of masses of men...the [Civil] war discovered;...
    SMC 11.355 18 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men, during the war.
    SMC 11.356 16 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers. And the first events of the war of the Rebellion gave the like training to the new recruits.
    SMC 11.356 18 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...
    SMC 11.358 12 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    SMC 11.359 3 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... one of the last men in this town [Concord] you would have picked out for the rough dealing of war...
    SMC 11.359 19 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal...
    SMC 11.360 19 These letters [from soldiers] play a great part in the [Civil] war.
    SMC 11.366 21 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...
    SMC 11.367 5 Enlisting for three years, and remaining to the end of the war, these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    SMC 11.367 7 ...these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service which the war offered...
    SMC 11.375 12 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War]. I hope they will be content with the laurels of one war.
    EdAd 11.389 6 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
    Koss 11.398 23 [The sympathy of Americans] is, in every expression, antagonized. No opinion will pass but must stand the tug of war.
    Koss 11.399 25 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...that it is a state of war;...
    FRO1 11.480 15 The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...
    FRO1 11.480 18 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...
    FRep 11.512 18 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.
    FRep 11.513 13 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
    FRep 11.513 22 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
    FRep 11.513 23 As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man can apply.
    FRep 11.543 11 No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner. Every one of these is the seed of vice, war and national disorganization.
    PLT 12.18 26 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...the armaments of war...
    PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In debate, in legislature, not less in action; in war or in affairs, alike daring and effective.
    CInt 12.114 12 When the war came to his own city, [Michaelangelo] lent his genius...
    CInt 12.114 27 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...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...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    Bost 12.200 17 ...a war, a crusade...speak to the imagination...
    MAng1 12.230 24 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa.
    Milt1 12.256 8 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
    Milt1 12.265 25 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics. He opens the war and strikes the first blow.
    ACri 12.283 7 The secondary services of literature...are quite as important in letters as iron is in war.
    ACri 12.283 14 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.
    Trag 12.405 9 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be a defensive war...
    Trag 12.415 19 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold.

War, n. (8)

    LT 1.269 7 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    Hist 2.9 18 This life of ours is stuck round with...War, Colonization...as with so many flowers...
    Ctr 6.165 22 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if War with his cannonade;...can set his dull nerves throbbing... make way and sing paean!
    War 11.176 5 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...here, where not a family, not a few men, but mankind, shall say what shall be; here, we ask, Shall it be War, or shall it be Peace?
    FSLN 11.236 7 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters, by poverty, solitude, passions, War, Slavery;...
    HCom 11.341 13 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.
    HCom 11.341 20 It is not the Government, but the War, that has appointed the good generals...
    HCom 11.341 22 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.

War, Revolutionary, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.382 14 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.

War, Thirty Years', n. (1)

    CbW 6.254 8 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.

war-blast, n. (1)

    SMC 11.360 11 Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business arrangements this war-blast made.

warbled, v. (1)

    QO 8.187 14 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.

warbler, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 25 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

warblings, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.8 8 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...

Warburton, William, n. (2)

    ShP 4.206 14 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil.
    LS 11.4 12 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God; Cudworth and Warburton, that this was not a sacrifice but a sacrificial feast;...

war-chiefs, n. (1)

    EWI 11.126 24 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs.

war-class, n. (1)

    ET8 5.134 12 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture; war-class as well as clerks;...

war-clubs, n. (1)

    PC 8.215 12 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their...boats and carved war-clubs.

war-councillors, n. (1)

    Bost 12.210 11 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.

war-cries, n. (2)

    CL 12.148 19 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot; they are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations.
    ACri 12.295 25 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...street-cries and war-cries;...

Ward. (1)

    EWI 11.111 18 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...

ward, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.152 1 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.
    PI 8.41 21 ...the broker sees the stock-list; the politician, the ward and county votes;...

ward, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.220 3 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Bty 6.287 21 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at the death of its ward, entered a new-born child...
    FRep 11.529 14 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does, the primary ward and town-meeting...

Ward, Robert Plumer, n. (1)

    EurB 12.377 9 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume...

war-dogs, n. (1)

    ET4 5.68 24 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie.

wardrobe, n. (7)

    Nat 1.3 16 ...why should we...put the living generation into masquerade out of [the past's] faded wardrobe?
    Con 1.312 6 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores...for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    ShP 4.205 5 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre: its wardrobe and other appurtenances were his...
    ET11 5.191 21 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table, and no handkerchers in his wardrobe...
    ET14 5.246 12 How can [English genius] discern and hail...new and gigantic thoughts which cannot dress themselves out of any old wardrobe of the past?
    DL 7.106 23 ...Pilgrim's Progress...what a wardrobe to dress the whole world withal, are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    Comc 8.170 5 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...a picture of his own, with which the poor painter had been fain to repair the shortcomings of his wardrobe.

wardrobes, n. (1)

    WD 7.175 25 Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes...

wards, n. (5)

    NER 3.285 2 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
    Prch 10.230 2 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
    LVB 11.92 20 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of...in the dealing of a nation with its own allies and wards...
    Trag 12.416 1 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.
    Trag 12.416 5 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.

warehouse, n. (4)

    LT 1.273 20 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion...into his custody;...
    UGM 4.4 25 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets.
    Wth 6.88 16 Every warehouse and shop-window...opens a new want to [a man]...
    LLNE 10.356 2 ...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 nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...

warehouses, n. (3)

    ET3 5.42 5 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    FSLN 11.218 17 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses.
    CInt 12.115 4 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses...

wares, n. (7)

    MN 1.194 8 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell...
    Comp 2.112 21 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares...
    ET3 5.43 17 With [England's] fruits, and wares, and money, must its civil influence radiate.
    Wsp 6.225 4 Here is a low political economy...by cunning tariffs giving preference to worse wares of ours.
    Bty 6.286 1 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they...the equality to any event which we demand in man, or only the reactions of the mill, of the wares, of the chicane?
    Boks 7.189 17 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    Res 8.143 25 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.

war-establishment, n. (1)

    War 11.164 1 It is really a thought that built this portentous war-establishment...

warfare, n. (8)

    NER 3.259 4 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    Wsp 6.206 25 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day...
    SovE 10.189 15 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
    Schr 10.274 4 Is there only one courage and one warfare?
    MMEm 10.422 27 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities, pinching, bitter warfare of the human heart...
    Carl 10.495 7 Combined with this warfare on respectabilities, and indeed, pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.
    War 11.159 4 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
    FSLN 11.239 5 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...

war-fires, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.303 11 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged. They can be read by war-fires...

war-gods, n. (2)

    War 11.152 10 Not only every tribe has war-gods, religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.
    Bost 12.210 11 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.

wariest, n. (1)

    PPh 4.73 22 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.

warily, adv. (1)

    Pt1 3.14 12 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place, and should go very warily and reverently.

wariness, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.114 24 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages. It requires the more wariness in our private estimates.

warlike, adj. (10)

    LE 1.160 12 I will say with the warlike king, God gave me this crown...
    Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude...
    ET4 5.67 15 [The English] are rather manly than warlike.
    Cour 7.266 22 Undoubtedly there is a temperamental courage, a warlike blood...
    Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!
    LLNE 10.328 6 The stockholder has stepped into the place of the warlike baron.
    HDC 11.68 1 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    EWI 11.123 22 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were less warlike, and less energetic shopkeepers than we;...
    War 11.167 5 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal principle;...
    CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.

Warlike..., Athenians...more (1)

    Plu 10.305 17 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.

war-lord, n. (2)

    ET11 5.174 15 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord;...
    ET11 5.175 20 The war-lord earned his honors...

warm, adj. (54)

    Nat 1.59 8 I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    Nat 1.77 5 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...warm hearts...
    AmS 1.111 7 It is a sign...of new vigor...when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.
    DSA 1.133 25 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell, alive and warm...
    LE 1.168 24 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    LE 1.176 21 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting...the privacy, and the true and warm heart of the citizen!
    Con 1.316 15 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have more clothes, but am not so warm;...
    Hist 2.22 27 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits] sleeps as warm...as beside his own chimneys.
    Lov1 2.188 19 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    Fdsp 2.206 19 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection, say some who are learned in this warm lore of the heart, betwixt more than two.
    Fdsp 2.211 6 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will trust itself...
    Fdsp 2.215 15 It would...give me a certain household joy to...come down to warm sympathies with you;...
    Exp 3.70 8 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Chr1 3.104 25 A word warm from the heart enriches me.
    Mrs1 3.148 20 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on the second reading: it is not warm with life.
    Nat2 3.169 17 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    Nat2 3.191 7 ...wealth was good as it...brought friends together in a warm and quiet room...
    Nat2 3.191 12 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days.
    SwM 4.142 19 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg] a grammar of hieroglyphs...
    ShP 4.193 26 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play...
    ET19 5.311 18 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...
    Wth 6.87 7 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...
    SS 7.9 24 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life...making our warm covenants sentimental and momentary.
    Elo1 7.68 25 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech, all warm and colored and alive...
    Elo1 7.70 3 [The right eloquence] draws...the invalid from his warm chamber...
    DL 7.105 18 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...
    DL 7.106 6 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now!
    DL 7.113 14 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and warm lodging...
    DL 7.120 6 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other in schoolyard...with scraps of poetry or song...
    Farm 7.149 18 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...brisk circulations keep him warm in cold rooms...
    Elo2 8.118 20 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
    Res 8.144 13 ...the woodsman knows how to make warm garments out of cold and wet themselves.
    Res 8.144 23 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down, in which he sleeps warm till the morning.
    Res 8.144 26 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice...
    Insp 8.289 27 We not only want time, but warm time.
    Imtl 8.338 16 I do not wish to live for the sake of my warm house...
    Dem1 10.4 10 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    Supl 10.179 11 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
    Schr 10.262 4 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
    Schr 10.286 17 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...
    LLNE 10.329 13 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.329 17 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and vegetation,-all gone;...
    LLNE 10.356 6 Since the foxes and the birds have the right of it, with a warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    LLNE 10.356 10 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave, when the sun is warm, and defy the robber.
    MMEm 10.400 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...a warm patriot in 1775, went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga...
    MMEm 10.414 10 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart;...
    PLT 12.26 22 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids, neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    PLT 12.57 24 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax...
    CL 12.139 24 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.
    CL 12.153 17 Shores in sight of each other in a warm climate make boat-builders;...
    MLit 12.310 6 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.

warm, adv. (1)

    Hsm1 2.255 14 [The heroic soul] does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.

warm, v. (9)

    DSA 1.140 19 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    MR 1.254 11 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    Con 1.306 13 In his first consideration how to feed, clothe, and warm himself, [the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    ET5 5.85 5 [The English]...warm and ventilate houses.
    Elo1 7.93 22 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color...
    Boks 7.213 9 [The great arts] are [man's] becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
    Grts 8.320 15 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    Edc1 10.151 5 What fiery soul will [the college] send out to warm a nation with his charity?
    II 12.69 20 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips?

warmed, v. (8)

    Elo1 7.68 8 ...we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best...
    QO 8.187 7 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    Insp 8.292 27 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right conditions...
    PerF 10.76 8 ...[man] is warmed by the sun, and so of every element;...
    Edc1 10.127 4 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being fed and warmed.
    RBur 11.439 16 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    Scot 11.462 4 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...
    Milt1 12.268 7 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.

warmer, adj. (5)

    Lov1 2.182 11 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities...
    ET3 5.38 14 The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is entitled to by latitude.
    SA 8.105 21 The warmer [the sentimentalists'] expressions, the colder we feel;...
    Res 8.152 13 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    JBB 11.266 6 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...

warmest, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.172 16 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We...take the warmest interest in the development of the romance.

warm-hearted, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted... what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

warming, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.152 7 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments;...
    SovE 10.185 3 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...
    GSt 10.501 5 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise...the fire for warming us.

warmly, adv. (5)

    Tran 1.333 14 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action, and so, warmly co-operating with men...yet when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Fdsp 2.191 9 How many we...sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    Fdsp 2.195 22 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
    ET1 5.10 18 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome;...
    PI 8.55 18 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Midnight walks, when all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;/...

warms, v. (7)

    DSA 1.125 20 ...when love warms him;...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    Lov1 2.170 17 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women...
    OS 2.281 25 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men...
    ET18 5.305 21 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
    Suc 7.306 21 All beauty warms the heart...
    SovE 10.202 5 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but...the sun warms him.
    Milt1 12.269 24 The humanity which warms [Milton's] pages begins, as it should, at home.

warmth, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.206 11 [A cent's value] is so much warmth, so much bread...
    Wth 6.88 11 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    LLNE 10.345 15 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.

warm-tinted, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.412 17 [Women] emit from their pores a colored atmosphere...and see all objects through this warm-tinted mist that envelops them.

warn, v. (4)

    Chr1 3.107 2 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
    ET10 5.168 12 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.
    F 6.1 5 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
    Schr 10.267 3 Young men, I warn you against the clamors of these self-praising frivolous activities,-against these busy-bodies;...

warned, v. (6)

    DSA 1.125 21 ...when he chooses, warned from on high, the good and great deed; then, deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    Hsm1 2.249 24 ...warned, self-collected and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    UGM 4.5 11 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    F 6.46 11 ...our flesh hath no might/ To understand it aright/ For it is warned too derkely./
    Bty 6.289 6 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty.
    SlHr 10.437 24 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...

warneth, v. (1)

    F 6.46 6 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come,/ And that he warneth all and some/ Of everiche of hir aventures/...

warning, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.126 13 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.

warning, n. (6)

    Nat2 3.179 8 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    SwM 4.144 14 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's]...like a hoarse voice in a beautiful person, is a kind of warning.
    Cour 7.265 14 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities, for the sake of giving us warning to put us on our guard;...
    PI 8.4 8 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
    ACiv 11.300 8 If the American people hesitate, it is not for want of warning or advices.
    Let 12.396 14 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

warnings, n. (3)

    Con 1.306 13 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    Wsp 6.233 20 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct...
    SA 8.83 19 Whilst certain faces are...decorated with invitation, others are marked with warnings...

war-note, n. (2)

    PerF 10.87 13 ...every principle is a war-note...
    SMC 11.353 13 Every principle is a war-note.

warns, v. (4)

    Ctr 6.137 7 Culture...warns [a man] of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
    Bty 6.303 15 ...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
    PerF 10.85 19 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us out of that despair into which Saxon men are prone to fall...
    Humb 11.458 16 One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises them above the French.

warp, n. (7)

    WD 7.170 17 The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time.
    QO 8.178 21 Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
    Dem1 10.18 5 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof.
    SovE 10.190 23 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe?
    SovE 10.191 4 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice. These make the gloomy warp of ages.
    MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    JBS 11.279 6 [John Brown] grew up...having that force of thought and that sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness.

warp, v. (7)

    Prd1 2.234 25 ...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...
    NER 3.278 14 Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth.
    UGM 4.27 4 [The great man's] attractions warp us from our place.
    F 6.13 26 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots, until...their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.
    Edc1 10.137 15 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    MoL 10.249 15 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...who warp the churches of the world from their traditions...
    WSL 12.346 13 [Landor] has no clanship, no friendships that warp him.

war-path, n. (1)

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

warped, v. (7)

    AmS 1.90 1 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
    NER 3.266 15 ...when [the individual's] will, enlightened by reason, is warped by his sense;...what concert can be?
    ET8 5.143 1 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    Elo1 7.91 23 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.
    PerF 10.71 21 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them, such as...impossibility of being warped.
    FRep 11.524 14 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.
    PLT 12.33 25 ...the ingenious person is warped by his ingenuity and mis-sees.

warping, v. (3)

    LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    PerF 10.72 27 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself, the impossibility of tampering with it or warping it,-the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    FSLC 11.196 27 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.

war-population, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.304 26 ...the South...is almost on a footing in effective war-population with the North.

war-proa, n. (1)

    PC 8.215 12 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.

warps, v. (2)

    LE 1.172 19 ...any particular portraiture...when considered by the soul, warps and shrinks away.
    PI 8.65 16 Literature warps away from life...

warrant, n. (4)

    Con 1.308 5 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor...
    PPh 4.61 9 A great common-sense is [Plato's] warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter.
    HDC 11.65 19 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
    HDC 11.67 23 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

warrant, v. (3)

    Con 1.302 23 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude, but...such a one as the faculties of man and the constitution of things will warrant.
    EWI 11.118 11 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it. But I think experience does not warrant this favorable distinction...
    FSLN 11.233 7 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown that it would not warrant the crimes that are done under it;...

warrants, v. (3)

    YA 1.379 12 That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope...
    ET9 5.149 11 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing...
    II 12.70 8 The human faculty only warrants inceptions.

warranty-deed, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.119 4 The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty-deed recorded;...

warranty-deeds, n. (1)

    Nat 1.8 22 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

warre, n. (1)

    F 6.6 7 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./

Warren, John Collins, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.340 16 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together, and make society that deserved the name. He had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose...

Warren's, John Collins, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.340 19 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.

warring, adj. (1)

    WD 7.172 21 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...

warrior, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.200 9 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Elo1 7.99 23 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...

warriors, n. (7)

    Hsm1 2.255 5 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Ord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    F 6.8 9 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus, and other warriors hidden in the sea, are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    PI 8.19 6 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind,--saints, poets, lawgivers and warriors.
    PPo 8.239 23 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
    Plu 10.301 18 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports...
    FSLC 11.192 8 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLN 11.235 2 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be citadels and warriors yourselves...

wars, n. (23)

    LT 1.270 14 The political questions touching...the Boundary wars;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Con 1.323 5 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
    Tran 1.350 17 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    SL 2.135 21 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
    MoS 4.164 15 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    ET4 5.51 3 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...
    ET5 5.97 12 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and Manchester, whose mills paid for the wars of Europe, had no representative.
    ET13 5.225 6 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
    Pow 6.69 9 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
    Wth 6.109 17 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.
    CbW 6.254 1 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    CbW 6.254 17 Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
    Clbs 7.239 26 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    SovE 10.188 22 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
    Plu 10.295 5 In France, in the middle of the most turbulent civil wars, Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
    EWI 11.143 6 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water. Who cares for these or for their wars?
    War 11.152 11 Not only every tribe has war-gods, religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.
    TPar 11.289 27 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...unjust wars...it is a hypocrisy...
    ChiE 11.471 18 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRep 11.515 3 No interest now attaches to the wars of York and Lancaster...
    FRep 11.515 4 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors...
    FRep 11.515 6 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars...
    FRep 11.525 9 ...any disturbances in politics, in civil or foreign wars, sober [the American people]...

war-ship, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 19 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...

war-state, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.304 22 We are advanced some ages on the war-state...

wart, n. (1)

    DSA 1.132 3 That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Warton, Thomas, n. (2)

    Exp 3.47 19 The history of literature--take the net result of Tiraboschi, Warton, or Schlegel--is a sum of very few ideas...
    NER 3.272 27 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley...

war-trump, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 5 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.

Warwick, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.188 14 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Warwick and Portland vases...

Warwick Castle, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.188 10 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.

Warwick, Earl of [Richard (2)

    ET11 5.175 14 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
    ET11 5.176 7 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.

Warwick, Guy of, n. (1)

    ET14 5.236 6 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish, like the legendary feats of Guy of Warwick.

Warwick, n. (1)

    ET11 5.176 6 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.

Warwick, Philip, n. (1)

    ET5 5.90 16 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like Clarendon, Sir Philip Warwick, Sir William Coventry...there is nothing too good or too high for him.

Warwick [Shakespeare, Henry (2)

    ShP 4.209 20 ...let Warwick...answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ET11 5.189 21 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.

Warwick Vase, n. (1)

    Bty 6.295 22 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Warwick Vase...

Warwicks, n. (2)

    War 11.172 17 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the Warwicks, the Plantagenets?
    Shak1 11.451 5 There are no Warwicks, no Talbots...in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].

Warwickshire, England, n. (1)

    Wth 6.117 22 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time.

wary, adj. (6)

    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;...
    Wth 6.106 26 ...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;...
    SS 7.7 17 We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.
    Clbs 7.249 11 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary...
    Thor 10.449 2 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    ACri 12.292 15 Never use the word development, and be wary of the whole family of Fero.

wash, n. (2)

    NR 3.238 6 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring, that all this wash and waste of power may be imparted and exchanged.
    Farm 7.152 11 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...

wash, v. (12)

    LE 1.171 12 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain...
    MN 1.205 10 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    Comp 2.107 3 Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.
    ET18 5.308 7 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous for immortal laws...
    WD 7.163 16 We may yet find a rose-water that will wash the negro white.
    WD 7.177 16 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    PI 8.3 5 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build.
    PI 8.57 3 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will wash and float him also...
    PPo 8.258 4 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Carl 10.496 20 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    LS 11.11 11 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, and told them that, as he had washed their feet, they ought to wash one another's feet;...
    MLit 12.316 12 The water we wash with never speaks of itself...

washed, v. (9)

    SR 2.62 14 That popular fable of the sot...washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
    Bhr 6.169 23 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Bhr 6.172 18 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to get [people] washed, clothed, and set up on end;...
    WD 7.171 16 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...
    PI 8.14 8 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
    MMEm 10.412 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.
    LS 11.10 9 [Jesus] washed the feet of his disciples.
    LS 11.11 9 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples...
    LS 11.11 10 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, and told them that, as he had washed their feet, they ought to wash one another's feet;...

washer-woman, n. (1)

    CbW 6.255 14 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.

washes, v. (7)

    DSA 1.124 13 ...the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.
    Exp 3.48 21 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
    NER 3.262 2 The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
    Suc 7.300 9 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves!
    HDC 11.29 24 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river, plough the fields it washes...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    PLT 12.15 16 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...which surges and washes hither and thither...
    WSL 12.339 26 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands and the jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in water, he washes them in wine; but you are never secure from his freaks.

washing, n. (2)

    Nat 1.5 14 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...
    LS 11.11 22 [Christ's washing the disiciples' feet] only differs in this, that we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing of the feet not.

washing, v. (2)

    Wth 6.89 14 The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Boks 7.221 13 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold, after the washing;...

washing-day, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.366 23 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...

Washington, D.C., adj. (2)

    Res 8.153 11 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals, and better than Washington politics.
    SovE 10.212 1 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law...to the self-revealing idea;...

Washington D.C., n. [Washington,] (22)

    yA 1.371 16 From Washington...through all its cities...[America] is a country of beginnings...
    ShP 4.198 22 The learned member of the legislature, at Westminster or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands.
    Pow 6.63 6 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...to represent its wrath and cupidity at Washington,--let these drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Ctr 6.161 4 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    CbW 6.250 2 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...
    Elo1 7.91 15 ...we go to Washington...to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo2 8.122 26 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams, at that time a member of the United States Senate at Washington, was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Elo2 8.123 8 On his return in the winter to the Senate at Washington, [John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Elo2 8.123 12 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
    Imtl 8.332 4 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Chr2 10.118 10 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created... the nurses and teachers at Washington.
    EzRy 10.392 11 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation at the time when the Doctor was perparing to go to Baltimore and Washington, that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    GSt 10.506 7 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation, and the broad hospitality which brought them about his board at his own house or in New York, or in Washington, never altered...one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    EWI 11.133 10 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    EWI 11.133 24 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    AsSu 11.247 23 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    AsSu 11.248 23 ...it will only do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them to be safe.
    AsSu 11.249 13 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend;...
    EPro 11.323 17 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore. Give them these, and they would have insisted on Washington.
    EPro 11.323 18 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy...
    SMC 11.349 5 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 11.374 19 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...

Washington, George, n. (33)

    DSA 1.133 15 When I see a majestic...Washington...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    SR 2.83 16 Where is the master who could have instructed...Washington...
    SL 2.158 14 A fop may sit in any chair of the world nor be distinguished for his hour from Homer and Washington;...
    SL 2.164 22 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...or to General Washington.
    Hsm1 2.258 2 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread...
    Hsm1 2.263 23 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    Chr1 3.89 13 We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.
    Mrs1 3.146 18 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Washington...
    NR 3.227 15 ...there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus...nor Washington, such as we have made.
    NR 3.229 10 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no?
    UGM 4.27 14 They cry up the virtues of George Washington...
    UGM 4.27 15 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.
    ET1 5.7 15 ...[Landor] admired Washington;...
    ET1 5.8 18 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...
    Ctr 6.132 15 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    Ctr 6.161 17 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
    Bty 6.282 1 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Art2 7.52 16 Raphael paints wisdom...Washington arms it...
    Cour 7.253 23 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Washington, giving his service to the public without salary or reward.
    OA 7.323 3 We still feel the force...of Washington, the perfect citizen;...
    OA 7.333 14 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age, General Washington was about fifty-eight, and I was about fifty-eight...
    SA 8.102 19 Our gentlemen of the old school, that is, the school of Washington, Adams and Hamilton, were bred after English types...
    Carl 10.494 14 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    HDC 11.78 13 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    HDC 11.84 19 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    EWI 11.137 4 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, in this country, all recorded their votes.
    ALin 11.336 16 Only Washington can compare with [Lincoln] in fortune.
    Koss 11.400 13 You [Kossuth] have achieved your right to interpret our Washington.
    Koss 11.400 19 ...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who, all over the world, think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    FRep 11.539 13 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.
    CInt 12.113 20 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue...of Washington or Napoleon...
    Bost 12.210 12 Washington has seemed an exceptional virtue.
    Bost 12.210 22 Bacon, Newton and Washington were childless.

Washington Irving [ship], n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 8 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.

Washington, Mount, New Ham (1)

    Thor 10.464 1 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.

Washington's, George, n. (4)

    SR 2.59 27 [Virtue] is it which throws...dignity into Washington's port...
    SL 2.164 9 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    Cour 7.256 5 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!
    HDC 11.78 18 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...

Washingtons, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.95 1 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.

wasp, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.403 19 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display, any more than a wasp would parade his sting.

wasps, n. (1)

    Cour 7.266 24 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in wasps...

waste, adj. (7)

    MN 1.205 4 Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility?
    ShP 4.193 22 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    ET8 5.132 10 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
    ET10 5.166 17 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual,--that he has waste strength...
    Wth 6.84 4 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    MMEm 10.426 16 Number the waste places of the journey...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    CL 12.153 25 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...

waste, n. (17)

    LE 1.175 19 ...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true nature gives you...
    YA 1.375 8 ...we redeem the waste...for remote generations.
    Pt1 3.29 27 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    NR 3.237 25 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house...
    NR 3.238 6 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring, that all this wash and waste of power may be imparted and exchanged.
    ET5 5.84 12 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field. All are well kept. There is no want and no waste.
    Wsp 6.229 20 Not only does our beauty waste, but it leaves word on how it went to waste.
    Boks 7.210 10 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...
    Res 8.141 23 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    Dem1 10.28 9 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard...
    EzRy 10.391 1 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty. There was no waste and no stint.
    MMEm 10.415 13 'T was I [Nature] who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not, and you were placed in my most leafless waste.
    PLT 12.24 26 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground in order to repair its own waste by exhalation...
    PLT 12.54 27 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution. Hence the perpetual loss of power and waste of human life.
    CL 12.139 5 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...plant its miles and miles of barren waste with oak and pine...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.165 22 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    PPr 12.383 5 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits.

waste, v. (10)

    MR 1.241 21 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled...to waste several days that he may enhance and glorify one;...
    SL 2.160 19 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act?
    NER 3.262 23 I cannot afford...to waste all my time in attacks.
    SwM 4.138 3 No man can afford to waste his moments in compunctions.
    Wsp 6.229 19 Not only does our beauty waste, but it leaves word on how it went to waste.
    DL 7.113 23 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not... waste your time.
    Boks 7.194 10 Let [each student]...not waste his memory on a crowd of mediocrities.
    Suc 7.309 14 Don't waste yourself in rejection...
    PI 8.31 16 ...if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis...it shall not waste my time.
    Imtl 8.328 21 Don't waste life in doubts and fears;...

wasted, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.112 19 The walls of the temple are wasted and thin...

wasted, v. (17)

    AmS 1.91 14 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    Tran 1.357 3 [The Transcendentalist's] strength and spirits are wasted in rejection.
    YA 1.373 13 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation;...
    Exp 3.73 23 Our life seems...not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast-flowing vigor.
    Exp 3.81 27 Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on the symptoms.
    Chr1 3.91 19 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
    Chr1 3.103 9 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches...
    Chr1 3.106 2 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity; I never listened to your people's law...and wasted my time.
    SwM 4.135 5 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    ShP 4.206 14 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil.
    ET16 5.274 9 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...
    F 6.33 24 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power...was God; that it must be availed of, and not by any means let off and wasted.
    Pow 6.80 22 ...[spirit] may be husbanded or wasted;...
    Wth 6.106 18 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    SA 8.97 25 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some weary, captious paradox to fight you with, and the time and temper wasted.
    Schr 10.279 24 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are...all wasted and mischievous when they assume to lead and not obey.
    HDC 11.60 18 ...his piles of meal and other provision wasted by the English, it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.

wasteful, adj. (2)

    LE 1.184 27 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object, whether it be a concentrated or a wasteful employment...
    MN 1.201 27 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.

wastes, v. (6)

    SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
    Prd1 2.240 6 Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
    Bhr 6.186 3 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
    Farm 7.145 18 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection, which wastes while it works.
    Supl 10.173 18 ...the luminous object wastes itself by its shining...
    MMEm 10.406 5 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.

wasting, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.143 17 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of...a wasting unbelief.

wasting, v. (1)

    CW 12.174 4 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.

watch, n. (18)

    SR 2.84 20 What a contrast between the...thinking American, with a watch... in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander...
    SR 2.85 8 [The civilized man] has a fine Geneva watch...
    Comp 2.107 17 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no offence go unchastised.
    ET2 5.27 15 Watchfulness is the law of the ship,--watch on watch, for advantage and for life.
    ET2 5.28 22 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h. 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET4 5.63 3 ...one may say of England that this watch moves on a splinter of adamant.
    ET9 5.151 24 Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.
    ET17 5.297 9 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton...
    ET17 5.297 13 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company...
    F 6.33 9 ...the chemic explosions are controlled like [man's] watch.
    Wsp 6.220 3 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Art2 7.40 2 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal cipher;...
    Elo2 8.117 8 [The orator] is put together like a Waltham watch...
    Insp 8.276 15 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no use that your engine is made like a watch...if there is no coal.
    Mem 12.97 21 A knife with a good spring...a watch...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.109 4 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CInt 12.129 11 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?
    Let 12.393 18 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...

watch, v. (30)

    Nat 1.31 2 A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image...arises in his mind...
    Nat 1.60 26 [The soul]...is a doer, only that it may the better watch.
    YA 1.379 15 Our part is plainly...to watch the uprise of successive mornings...
    SR 2.45 18 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...
    Comp 2.109 22 Harm watch, harm catch.
    OS 2.268 11 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    Chr1 3.105 21 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon every new thought...
    ET15 5.264 9 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
    ET15 5.270 20 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
    Pow 6.60 27 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.
    Bhr 6.182 13 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.188 7 In persons of character we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness. We are surprised by the thing done, out of all power to watch the way of it.
    Bty 6.292 19 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained.
    Elo1 7.87 23 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.
    WD 7.164 19 A man builds a fine house; and now he has...a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it...the rest of his days.
    Boks 7.219 18 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark; I watch them on waves on the beach;...
    Suc 7.301 6 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities...
    Grts 8.307 22 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns to watch the delicate hints and insights that come to him...
    MoL 10.247 15 The fears and agitations of men who watch the markets... are not for [the scholar].
    MMEm 10.400 18 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...
    Thor 10.469 13 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits, nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him.
    HDC 11.60 5 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    War 11.151 3 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...
    FSLN 11.216 6 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    AKan 11.258 19 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly, met to watch the government and to correct it.
    PLT 12.16 14 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream...
    PLT 12.53 6 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    CInt 12.130 6 Watch the breaking morning, the enchantments of the sunset.
    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.
    Bost 12.202 23 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will work and watch and rally...

watch-dog, n. (1)

    MR 1.239 9 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.

watched, v. (17)

    SR 2.49 12 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds...
    Comp 2.114 1 Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws.
    Chr1 3.102 6 Had there been something latent in the man...we had watched for its advent.
    ET10 5.168 15 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    ET16 5.285 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...watched the deer;...
    Bhr 6.192 5 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], [the boy's] climbing...
    Civ 7.24 27 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    WD 7.155 7 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    EzRy 10.393 1 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest the garden, the field...
    HDC 11.43 21 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed; the Indian to be watched and resisted;...
    JBS 11.278 4 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...not one his own master...and the other watched and whipped.
    ALin 11.336 3 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have watched the decay of his own faculties;...
    Koss 11.398 3 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention your progress through the land...
    CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.
    Bost 12.183 3 The old physiologists...watched the effect of different climates.
    AgMs 12.358 11 ...[Edmund Hosmer] always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself.
    EurB 12.377 1 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...

watcher, n. (2)

    Nat 1.60 25 [The soul] is a watcher more than a doer...
    Lov1 2.175 13 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes a watcher of windows...

Watcher, n. (1)

    PPo 8.263 11 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./

watches, n. (9)

    Bhr 6.177 9 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.
    Farm 7.138 27 [The farmer] is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches.
    WD 7.158 15 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.
    Clbs 7.234 5 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that...their watches are slower than ours.
    Suc 7.288 24 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people, whose watches go faster than their neighbors'...
    PI 8.52 24 We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...
    PC 8.205 4 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    FSLC 11.209 5 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... We will give up our coaches, and wine, and watches.
    FRep 11.511 9 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...

watches, v. (13)

    Hist 2.13 11 Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.
    Fdsp 2.205 9 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It... watches with the sick;...
    Pt1 3.11 25 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Chr1 3.91 26 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words, watches the color of their cheek...
    Ctr 6.131 11 [Culture] watches success.
    CbW 6.255 24 ...nature watches over all...
    DL 7.106 14 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    DL 7.107 1 ...by beautiful traits...provoking the love that watches and educates him, the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    Farm 7.142 5 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder.
    Cour 7.259 21 In ordinary, we have a snappish criticism which watches and contradicts the opposite party.
    PI 8.43 22 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say.
    Chr2 10.118 22 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays; no bishop watches him...
    Schr 10.268 14 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives, and Honor watches to see whether you dare seize the palms.

watch-fires, n. (1)

    SHC 11.428 21 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...

watchful, adj. (4)

    Lov1 2.175 25 Thou are not gone being gone, where'er thou art,/ Thou leav' st in him thy watchful eyes,.../
    LLNE 10.343 16 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...watchful of all the intellectual light from whatever quarter it flowed.
    HDC 11.70 17 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...
    PLT 12.61 3 ...the soul in which one [mind or heart] predominates is ever watchful and jealous when such immense claims are made for one as seem injurious to the other.

watchful, n. (1)

    Wth 6.120 27 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law.

watchfulness, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 14 Watchfulness is the law of the ship...

watch-house, n. (1)

    PI 8.45 7 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.

watching, n. (4)

    LE 1.164 24 ...we must...pass...by assiduous love and watching, into the visions of absolute truth.
    Wth 6.119 16 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
    Wth 6.119 25 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
    PLT 12.14 8 ...this watching of the mind, in season and out of season...is a little of the detective.

watching, v. (6)

    AmS 1.101 2 ...[the scholar]...watching days and months sometimes for a few facts;...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    LE 1.178 4 ...out of travelling, and voting, and watching and caring;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Hist 2.16 21 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    ET2 5.33 13 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    ET15 5.270 22 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement, year by year; watching them only to taunt and obstruct them...
    FSLC 11.199 14 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections;...

watchman, n. (2)

    MR 1.239 9 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.
    Pt1 3.11 19 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.

watchmen, n. (1)

    Hist 2.20 7 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...

watch-seal, n. (1)

    WSL 12.344 13 [Landor]...is not insensible to the beauty of his watch-seal...

watch-tower, n. (2)

    Tran 1.346 27 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    ACiv 11.300 14 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower...

watch-towers, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.202 21 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?

watchword, n. (1)

    RBur 11.440 2 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together, but rather after their watchword, Each for himself,-by the fact that Robert Burns... represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...

watchwords, n. (2)

    EWI 11.146 25 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
    FSLN 11.217 12 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.

water, adj. (3)

    YA 1.364 17 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the choice of water privileges...
    Chr2 10.121 13 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.
    PLT 12.15 19 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front.

Water Commissioners, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 15 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...

water, n. (232)

    Nat 1.12 20 What angels invented...this ocean of water beneath...
    Nat 1.13 2 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
    Nat 1.19 12 The shows of day...shadows in still water...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat 1.38 13 Water is good to drink...
    Nat 1.38 15 ...wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun...
    Nat 1.49 9 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena, as of...water...
    Nat 1.72 18 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of...water...
    AmS 1.110 3 ...a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim.
    MN 1.205 12 ...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water meet.
    MR 1.239 17 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...water and land...seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.243 3 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black bread.
    MR 1.251 22 [Caliph Omar's] drink was water.
    MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
    LT 1.275 2 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    LT 1.278 2 We...want...not a chemical drop of water, but rain;...
    Con 1.319 27 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of...her water and bread...
    YA 1.363 22 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances of land and water.
    YA 1.364 20 Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
    Hist 2.26 23 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    Hist 2.36 16 ...the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists...
    Hist 2.37 21 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    SR 2.71 18 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
    SR 2.87 12 The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
    Comp 2.104 26 The parted water reunites behind our hand.
    Comp 2.111 10 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water...
    Comp 2.116 12 The laws and substances of nature,--water, snow, wind, gravitation,--become penalties to the thief.
    Comp 2.119 14 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to make water run up hill...
    SL 2.137 3 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built...and which are superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level of its source.
    SL 2.146 10 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.
    SL 2.147 16 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.
    SL 2.147 17 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky. There are as good earth and water in a thousand places, yet how unaffecting!
    SL 2.153 6 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought. How much water does it draw?
    Lov1 2.175 21 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Fdsp 2.212 20 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water;...
    Fdsp 2.212 21 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water;...
    Hsm1 2.254 15 ...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
    Hsm1 2.254 27 John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water...
    Hsm1 2.255 2 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it.
    Hsm1 2.255 5 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    OS 2.268 14 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I...not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water;...
    OS 2.294 13 ...the water of the globe is all one sea...
    Int 2.325 4 Water dissolves wood and iron and salt;...
    Int 2.325 5 ...air dissolves water;...
    Int 2.338 16 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water...
    Int 2.344 14 ...a capillary column of water is a balance for the sea.
    Art1 2.355 22 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
    Art1 2.361 18 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither, over four thousand miles of salt water, to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Pt1 3.5 27 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars, earth and water.
    Pt1 3.12 25 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish, a little way from the ground or the water;...
    Pt1 3.29 4 Milton says that...the epic poet...must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Pt1 3.29 11 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...the water and stones, which should be their toys.
    Pt1 3.29 17 ...[the poet] should be tipsy with water.
    Pt1 3.42 17 Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.46 4 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream, when the factories above them have exhausted the water.
    Exp 3.49 13 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Exp 3.71 10 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions, as when, being thirsty, I drink water;...
    Exp 3.72 27 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as, Thales by water...
    Chr1 3.95 18 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel.
    Chr1 3.101 3 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than in a midsummer pond.
    Mrs1 3.144 24 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square, being steeped in Cologne water...
    Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    Gts 3.160 20 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
    Gts 3.162 17 We arraign society if it do not give us, besides earth and fire and water, opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Nat2 3.171 7 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.171 9 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet. It is firm water; it is cold flame; what health, what affinity!
    Nat2 3.171 18 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
    Nat2 3.171 22 There is the bucket of cold water from the spring...and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    Nat2 3.172 12 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.180 23 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    Nat2 3.181 4 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    Nat2 3.196 11 Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.
    Pol1 3.206 12 [A cent's value] is...so much water, so much land.
    Pol1 3.211 24 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that...a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
    NR 3.236 6 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a fleet of ripples which the wind drives over the surface of the water.
    NR 3.237 10 We fetch fire and water...
    NER 3.266 17 ...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
    NER 3.280 10 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    NER 3.284 24 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances, we drink water...
    UGM 4.30 5 The microscope observes a monad or wheel-insect among the infusories circulating in water.
    UGM 4.31 12 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    PPh 4.47 14 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
    PPh 4.72 20 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in the strictest sense, on bread and water...
    PNR 4.85 3 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia;...
    SwM 4.99 1 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    SwM 4.103 2 A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
    SwM 4.114 2 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    MoS 4.184 13 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it.
    NMW 4.245 1 I know, [Napoleon] said, the depth and draught of water of every one of my general.
    NMW 4.250 5 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe, either by water or by fire...
    NMW 4.251 13 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
    ET2 5.26 23 The good ship darts through the water all day, all night, like a fish;...
    ET2 5.28 9 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...she runs her nose into the water;...
    ET2 5.29 17 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
    ET3 5.39 2 [England] has plenty of water, of stone...
    ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET4 5.51 25 ...as water, lime and sand make mortar, so certain temperaments marry well...
    ET4 5.64 21 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...
    ET4 5.69 22 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water...
    ET4 5.69 25 The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
    ET5 5.96 12 All the houses in London buy their water.
    ET5 5.98 17 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
    ET8 5.132 9 [Young Englishmen] drink brandy like water...
    ET10 5.159 24 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    ET12 5.207 6 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height, and kills all that growth of weeds which this Castalian water kills.
    ET16 5.282 14 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    ET18 5.301 25 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to pass as well by land as by water...
    F 6.25 4 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    F 6.32 4 The water drowns ship and sailor like a grain of dust.
    F 6.32 19 ...the secrets of water and steam...are awaiting you.
    F 6.34 3 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely...weight or resistance of water...
    F 6.37 14 Eyes are found in light;...fins in water;...
    F 6.41 1 Ducks take to the water...
    Pow 6.57 24 What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
    Pow 6.60 16 We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.
    Pow 6.64 12 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water.
    Pow 6.72 22 ...[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...
    Wth 6.87 18 Wealth begins...in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water;...
    Wth 6.89 12 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wth 6.101 5 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    Wth 6.119 15 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property; but its value is flowing like water.
    Ctr 6.152 2 It is odd that our people should have--not water on the brain, but a little gas there.
    Ctr 6.162 9 Try the rough water as well as the smooth.
    Ctr 6.162 9 Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
    Bhr 6.176 24 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    CbW 6.257 11 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top.
    CbW 6.276 25 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water...
    Bty 6.291 9 A man leading a horse to water...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Bty 6.292 21 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of running water...
    Bty 6.298 26 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    Bty 6.303 10 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
    Ill 6.309 23 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
    SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as... atmospheric air and water.
    SS 7.14 14 ...[people in conversation] separate as oil from water...
    Civ 7.25 3 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Civ 7.25 13 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school and a manufactory of honest men out of rogues, as the steamer made fresh water out of salt,--these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Art2 7.54 21 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Elo1 7.71 10 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
    DL 7.106 17 The first ride into the country, the first bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    Farm 7.139 7 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...excess or lack of water...
    Farm 7.142 24 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air, the water of the brook...
    Farm 7.144 6 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    Farm 7.145 27 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering... deluges of water, to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Farm 7.146 8 Water works in masses...
    Farm 7.149 17 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...
    Farm 7.149 21 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
    WD 7.175 6 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was common lime and silex and water and sunlight...
    WD 7.177 20 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms...
    WD 7.178 5 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it, whether time, or space, or light, or water, or food.
    Boks 7.195 2 Nature is always clarifying her water and her wine.
    Cour 7.267 9 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts, for he never tasted any liquid but pure water.
    Cour 7.273 11 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    Suc 7.285 5 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...
    Suc 7.299 23 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
    Suc 7.299 26 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water?...
    PI 8.3 4 We must learn the homely laws of fire and water;...
    PI 8.4 2 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.13 20 ...if running water, if burning coal...say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.14 6 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.
    PI 8.16 27 ...the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water;...
    PI 8.45 14 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
    PI 8.53 5 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    PI 8.58 24 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    Elo2 8.119 5 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...
    Res 8.139 14 Is there any load which water cannot lift?
    Res 8.140 20 By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark;...
    Res 8.144 7 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    Res 8.145 9 The boat is full of water...
    Res 8.146 15 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    QO 8.186 4 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    PC 8.217 7 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...as a drop of water balances the sea;...
    PC 8.227 14 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
    PPo 8.238 18 ...life [in the East] hangs on the contingency of a skin of water more or less.
    PPo 8.241 12 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water...
    PPo 8.241 15 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming. The Queen of Sheba...raised her robes, thinking she was to pass through the water.
    PPo 8.258 8 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.272 15 Every youth should know the way to prophecy as surely as the miller understands how to let on the water...
    Insp 8.288 5 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
    Insp 8.290 7 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted,-namely, the slightest irregularity, even to the drinking too much water on the preceding day.
    Imtl 8.326 15 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...
    Imtl 8.336 14 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow, to melt again to water in the first thaw.
    Dem1 10.12 1 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water...
    Aris 10.38 5 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever, a drop of water or a crystal of ice ended them.
    PerF 10.70 21 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    PerF 10.71 24 ...gravity is as adhesive...water as medicinal as on the first day.
    PerF 10.76 7 ...a man draws on all the air for his occasions, as if there were no other breather; on all the water as if there were no other sailor;...
    PerF 10.84 19 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
    Edc1 10.127 25 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy...with water, with wood...
    Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one;...
    Supl 10.178 15 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...in having water cheap and pure...
    SovE 10.200 5 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee, staring with wonder to see water turned into wine...
    Prch 10.224 20 Now every man...with one hand rows, and with the other backs water.
    MoL 10.247 19 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
    MoL 10.249 19 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
    MoL 10.251 15 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do.
    Schr 10.276 1 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can enter our flesh.
    Schr 10.276 9 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it?
    EzRy 10.387 16 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    Thor 10.462 18 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;...
    Thor 10.472 7 ...the fishes swam into [Thoreau's] hand, and he took them out of the water;...
    Thor 10.483 7 Immortal water, alive even to the superficies.
    Carl 10.491 14 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    Carl 10.496 16 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...
    GSt 10.501 4 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    LS 11.10 7 [Jesus] instructed the woman of Samaria respecting living water.
    HDC 11.33 7 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water...
    HDC 11.74 15 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
    EWI 11.143 5 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water.
    War 11.154 22 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    JBS 11.281 3 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.
    Scot 11.462 5 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...
    FRep 11.513 19 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
    FRep 11.514 19 The law of water and all fluids is true of wit.
    PLT 12.41 13 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    PLT 12.54 25 [A man] rows with one hand and with the other backs water...
    Mem 12.102 11 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain. This water once spilled cannot be gathered.
    CL 12.138 7 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water...
    CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab, on air and water.
    CL 12.162 27 ...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.
    CL 12.166 24 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
    Bost 12.183 12 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night...from every water and soil...
    Bost 12.186 25 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
    Bost 12.187 3 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
    Bost 12.187 6 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...
    Milt1 12.263 11 [Milton] tells us...that he who would write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.
    MLit 12.309 11 Our souls...do eat and drink of chemical water and wheat.
    MLit 12.316 12 The water we wash with never speaks of itself...
    WSL 12.337 23 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow;...
    WSL 12.339 26 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands and the jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in water, he washes them in wine; but you are never secure from his freaks.
    Pray 12.356 20 Neither was [the light of the soul] so above my understanding, as oil swims above water...
    Trag 12.407 17 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]: If you balk water you will be drowned the next time;...
    Trag 12.411 18 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.
    Trag 12.415 7 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

Water, Virginia, n. (1)

    Bty 6.291 15 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!

water-birds, n. (1)

    ET3 5.39 7 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock, and the shores are animated by water-birds.

watercourse, n. (1)

    CL 12.149 26 [The Indian] knows his way in a straight line from watercourse to watercourse...

water-courses, n. [watercourses,] (4)

    Nat 1.18 27 By water-courses, the variety is greater.
    Pow 6.81 13 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Plu 10.303 11 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
    SHC 11.431 9 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses;...

water-cresses, n. (1)

    ET4 5.69 11 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious diet. The operative cannot subsist on water-cresses.

water-drainage, n. (1)

    Wth 6.123 7 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the spring and water-drainage...

water-drop, n. (1)

    War 11.160 7 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals, the tiger and the shark, and the savages of the water-drop.

watered, v. (1)

    Comp 2.109 17 He that watereth shall be watered himself.

watereth, v. (1)

    Comp 2.109 17 He that watereth shall be watered himself.

waterfall, n. (3)

    ET5 5.83 13 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the waterfall...
    F 6.48 17 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire...a waterfall...
    Civ 7.27 22 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...

waterfalls, n. (1)

    Ill 6.309 12 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...heard the voice of unseen waterfalls;...

Waterford, Ireland, n. (1)

    ET2 5.33 15 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day...we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.

Waterford, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.401 22 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...

water-front, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 4 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.

water-hemlock, n. (1)

    CL 12.137 21 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass, and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance...

watering, v. (2)

    Art2 7.48 3 ...[the artist] saw that his planting and his watering waited for the sunlight of Nature, or were vain.
    Farm 7.142 11 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe... bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.

watering-places, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 16 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...

water-jet, n. (1)

    Bty 6.302 13 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...tapping a mountain for his water-jet;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.

Waterland's, Daniel, n. (1)

    ET1 5.10 25 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...

water-laws, n. (1)

    ET2 5.31 6 The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism;...

Waterloo, Belgium, n. (1)

    ET7 5.120 12 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo...

watermelon's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.238 9 The rich [in the East] feed on fruits and game,-the poor, on a watermelon's peel.

water-party, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.141 19 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at...a water-party or a shooting-match.
    CL 12.161 12 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.

water-pipes, n. (2)

    WD 7.160 8 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make water-pipes and stomach-pumps...
    Res 8.142 21 ...the walls of a modern house are perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...

water-plants, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 27 [Thoreau] waded into the pool for the water-plants...

waterpot, n. (1)

    Hist 2.5 19 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...

water-pots, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 19 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases, urns water-pots...

water-power, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 12 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.

water-privilege, n. (1)

    Aris 10.44 18 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the water-privilege...

waters, n. (58)

    Nat 1.42 16 ...this moral sentiment which...impregnates the waters of the world, is caught by man...
    Nat 1.46 7 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends, who, like skies and waters, are coextensive with our idea;...
    Nat 1.71 21 ...having made for himself this huge shell, [man's] waters retired;...
    DSA 1.139 25 [The prayers and dogmas of our church] mark the height to which the waters once rose.
    MN 1.214 10 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
    MN 1.216 25 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    Con 1.311 26 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Hist 2.32 6 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.
    Hist 2.32 12 Every animal...of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth, has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Comp 2.96 18 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the ebb and flow of waters;...
    Comp 2.107 2 Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.
    Comp 2.116 26 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    Comp 2.120 27 Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    SL 2.137 13 The circuit of the waters is mere falling.
    Fdsp 2.207 1 Do not mix waters too much.
    Int 2.342 23 The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.
    Pt1 3.15 7 No wonder then, if these waters be so deep, that we hover over them with a religious regard.
    Pt1 3.33 13 On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.
    Gts 3.163 5 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him, and his to me.
    Nat2 3.173 25 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.192 8 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery...
    SwM 4.121 15 In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits every hydrant.
    NMW 4.235 7 ...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
    ET2 5.33 5 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for...the bed of those waters.
    ET3 5.34 19 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities...the fords, the navigable waters;...
    ET5 5.95 23 In due course, all England will be drained and rise a second time out of the waters.
    ET8 5.135 7 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters...
    ET14 5.250 20 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters...
    Pow 6.57 2 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it. They come of themselves, as the waters flow to it.
    Wsp 6.217 6 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others; are bathed by sweeter waters;...
    Bty 6.293 27 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as the circulation of waters, the circulation of the blood...
    Bty 6.297 27 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form...with woods and waters...
    Ill 6.309 14 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River, whose waters are peopled with the blind fish;...
    Elo1 7.61 7 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep.
    PI 8.7 1 Such currents...exist in thoughts, those finest and subtilest of all waters, that as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.17 24 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    Res 8.144 20 The sailor by his boat and sail makes a ford out of deepest waters.
    PC 8.215 13 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.
    Grts 8.320 8 If men were equals, the waters would not move;...
    Aris 10.66 6 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...
    Chr2 10.101 13 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    MoL 10.250 1 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the ebb and flow of waters...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    Thor 10.466 6 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    HDC 11.37 9 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms.
    HDC 11.84 26 Without navigable waters...the natural increase of [Concord' s] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    War 11.158 4 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal.
    EdAd 11.386 18 ...who can see the continent with its inland and surrounding waters...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    SHC 11.431 3 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;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    SHC 11.431 22 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    SHC 11.435 27 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern...will seek the waters of the meadow;...
    CPL 11.502 3 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters?
    PLT 12.33 15 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
    II 12.65 7 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
    Mem 12.103 14 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.
    CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;...
    Bost 12.190 18 In our beautiful [Boston] bay, with its broad and deep waters covered with sails from every port...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.190 20 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    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.

Waters, n. (1)

    CL 12.149 3 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness your car!

water-side, n. [waterside,] (2)

    SL 2.131 9 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...have a grace in the past.
    Nat2 3.190 25 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!

water-spout, n. (2)

    Cour 7.263 24 To [the sailor] a leak, a hurricane, or a water-spout is so much work,--no more.
    PerF 10.75 17 [Labor] is under the house in the well; it is over the house in slates and copper and water-spout;...

water-tank, n. (2)

    WD 7.165 13 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy...to pull up the handles or mind the water-tank.
    II 12.66 25 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens...

Waterton, Charles, n. (1)

    Pow 6.69 15 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...riding alligators in South America with Waterton;...

Watertown, Massachusetts, n. (3)

    HDC 11.32 21 ...[the pilgrims] could go up the [Charles] river as far as Watertown.
    HDC 11.58 20 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston;...
    HDC 11.64 4 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.

water-wheel, n. (3)

    MN 1.192 6 I love the music of the water-wheel;...
    Farm 7.142 14 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
    Res 8.139 6 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...

water-works, n. (1)

    Res 8.148 14 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill...

watery, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.241 1 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.

Watt, James, n. (13)

    Hist 2.37 18 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood"
    ET5 5.77 2 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET5 5.93 6 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
    ET10 5.158 10 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam.
    ET14 5.238 23 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    F 6.33 21 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil...
    Pow 6.57 25 What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
    Wth 6.87 3 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
    Art2 7.52 17 Raphael paints wisdom...Watt mechanizes it.
    Insp 8.269 1 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    Insp 8.269 13 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is. If Watt knew, he forgot to tell us the number of the street.
    Dem1 10.12 4 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson...

Watt's, James, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 20 The rapid doubling of the population [in England] dates from Watt's steam-engine.

Watts, n. (2)

    F 6.18 2 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes were made of...Watts.
    F 6.34 16 The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it was a power...

Watts's, Isaac, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.383 24 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with Watts's hymns...

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