Piccadilly to Pivots

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

Piccadilly, London, England (1)

    ET11 5.181 12 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...

pick, n. (2)

    Wth 6.86 23 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.
    MoL 10.243 6 Lawyers [in California] went and came with pick and wheelbarrow;...

pick, v. (7)

    Prd1 2.240 15 Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in our company...
    OS 2.283 7 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places. But we must pick no locks.
    NR 3.229 19 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    NR 3.237 26 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house, and poultry shall pick the crumbs...
    ET4 5.48 21 An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.
    ET4 5.59 12 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...
    FSLC 11.196 8 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions.

picked, adj. (1)

    War 11.152 26 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...

picked, v. (7)

    SR 2.62 12 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...symbolizes...the state of man...
    ShP 4.200 14 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ, in the Rabbinical forms. He picked out the grains of gold.
    ShP 4.200 25 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    Civ 7.22 15 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up with her finger and thumb...
    Boks 7.190 14 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Thor 10.463 27 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere, and, stooping forward, picked one on the instant from the ground.
    SMC 11.359 2 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...

pickerel, n. (1)

    HDC 11.36 16 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...

pickerel-weed, n. (1)

    Nat 1.19 2 In July, the blue pontederia or pickerel-weed blooms in large beds...

Pickering, Charles, n. (1)

    ET4 5.44 17 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].

picket, adj. (2)

    MoL 10.246 14 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
    SMC 11.364 16 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or other duty]...

picket, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 21 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg.

picketed, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.147 8 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.

picket-firing, n. (1)

    SMC 11.372 14 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.

pickle, n. (1)

    EWI 11.104 9 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle...we too should wince.

pickle-dealer, n. (2)

    ET9 5.152 19 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    ET9 5.152 27 ...[The Americans and the English] are equally badly off in our founders; and the false pickle-dealer is an offset to the false bacon-seller.

pickpocket, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 9 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have...

picnic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.35 19 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...

picnic, n. (3)

    SwM 4.142 9 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is...an evangelical picnic...
    LLNE 10.364 25 [Brook Farm] was a perpetual picnic...
    Bost 12.199 2 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

picnic-party, n. (1)

    Res 8.151 13 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk, so allowing the picnic-party the full freedom of the woods.

Pico della Mirandola, Giova (1)

    PPh 4.40 21 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Marcilius Ficinus and Picus Mirandola.

Pico della Mirandola, n. (1)

    Supl 10.172 26 The arithmetic of Newton, the memory of Magliabecchi or Mirandola...are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.

Pict, n. (1)

    PLT 12.26 8 The Briton, the Pict, is nothing until the Roman, the Saxon, the Norman, arrives.

Pictish, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...

pictorial, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.50 21 The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
    LE 1.159 3 ...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
    UGM 4.8 17 Men have a pictorial or representative quality...
    F 6.26 16 Where [the mind] shines...all things make a musical or pictorial impression.
    F 6.48 12 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars; but...that all is and must be pictorial;...
    Ill 6.311 13 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.
    Boks 7.203 14 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details...
    Mem 12.106 10 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...

pictorially, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.82 22 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.

picture, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.362 16 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value...

picture, n. (115)

    Nat 1.5 12 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the same things [unchanged essences], as in...a picture.
    Nat 1.18 15 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before...
    Nat 1.21 5 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    Nat 1.22 2 Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
    Nat 1.26 18 ...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
    Nat 1.33 15 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.
    Nat 1.51 12 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
    Nat 1.60 8 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity...
    MN 1.206 10 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own; if not into a picture...why, then, into a trade...
    MN 1.206 14 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples.
    MN 1.218 2 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same?
    LT 1.261 25 In our idea of progress, we do not go out of this personal picture.
    LT 1.274 12 [Milton's] picture would serve for our times.
    Con 1.326 8 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
    Tran 1.347 17 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Hist 2.15 17 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Hist 2.25 2 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots...
    SR 2.62 10 The picture waits for my verdict;...
    Fdsp 2.197 20 Thou [my friend] art not Being...thou art not my soul, but a picture and effigy of that.
    Prd1 2.229 25 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery (the only great affecting picture which I have seen) is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Prd1 2.230 7 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life.
    Int 2.335 18 To be communicable [the thought] must become picture or sensible object.
    Int 2.336 16 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Int 2.337 6 A child knows if an arm or a leg be distorted in a picture;...
    Art1 2.349 9 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Art1 2.351 23 In a portrait [the painter]...must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.
    Art1 2.357 5 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Art1 2.357 13 As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
    Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
    Art1 2.365 5 Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
    Art1 2.365 16 A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
    Art1 2.366 16 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or a picture.
    Pt1 3.4 16 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg, and the masters of sculpture, picture and poetry.
    Pt1 3.22 5 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
    Pt1 3.37 18 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    Exp 3.62 8 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture...
    Exp 3.75 7 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    Exp 3.77 19 There will be the same gulf between every me and thee as between the original and the picture.
    Exp 3.83 5 I know better than to claim any completeness for my picture.
    Gts 3.161 15 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the painter, his picture;...
    Nat2 3.175 9 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich;...
    NR 3.233 13 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
    NR 3.234 10 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous;...
    SwM 4.102 25 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    SwM 4.112 10 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
    SwM 4.132 25 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth.
    MoS 4.151 4 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    ShP 4.214 3 [Shakespeare] had the power to make one picture.
    ShP 4.217 7 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture.
    ShP 4.218 8 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream, or Winter Evening's Tale: what signifies another picture more or less?
    NMW 4.253 9 I am sorry that the brilliant picture [of Napoleon] has its reverse.
    GoW 4.262 13 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture...
    GoW 4.262 25 Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture.
    GoW 4.278 25 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    ET1 5.14 3 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's...
    ET1 5.14 6 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET1 5.14 9 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old...
    ET12 5.202 15 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    ET16 5.288 16 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious, too much by half for man in the picture...
    F 6.16 23 See the shades of the picture.
    F 6.19 24 No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts.
    Pow 6.73 1 [Michel Angelo] was not crushed by his one picture left unfinished at last.
    Wth 6.92 16 The artist has made his picture so true that it disconcerts criticism.
    Bhr 6.196 11 We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture...
    Wsp 6.207 4 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
    Wsp 6.223 12 If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it.
    Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
    Ill 6.310 21 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars... ... ...I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture.
    Art2 7.40 7 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Art2 7.45 8 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    Art2 7.47 23 Nature paints the best part of the picture...
    DL 7.131 4 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael, reckoned the first picture in the world;...
    WD 7.164 23 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
    Boks 7.199 9 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...
    Boks 7.201 4 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being...a picture of a feast of wits...
    Suc 7.294 25 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby sold his picture or machine...but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    Suc 7.299 22 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture.
    Suc 7.309 9 Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall...
    OA 7.316 3 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    OA 7.326 23 The youth suffers...from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality.
    SA 8.79 11 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
    Comc 8.170 3 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...a picture of his own...
    QO 8.203 20 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
    PPo 8.244 8 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    PPo 8.258 6 This picture of the first days of Spring...seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Grts 8.312 23 Say with Antoninus, If the picture is good, who cares who made it?
    Imtl 8.348 8 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
    Aris 10.34 8 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day, which is hardening to an immortal picture.
    Supl 10.168 27 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was...the power to receive things as they befall, and to transfer the picture of them to another mind unaltered.
    SovE 10.193 14 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    LLNE 10.367 4 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day, and perhaps drew his picture, and both received at night the same wages.
    MMEm 10.397 9 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
    SlHr 10.441 10 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw...
    HDC 11.83 21 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
    War 11.157 11 ...all history is the picture of war, as we have said...
    FSLC 11.202 3 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification,-they have torn down his picture from the wall...
    JBS 11.279 22 Walter Scott would have delighted to draw [John Brown's] picture...
    ALin 11.335 26 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    EdAd 11.384 19 Keep our eyes as long as we can on this picture [of America], we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this power and population...
    PLT 12.14 26 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.
    CL 12.156 16 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
    CL 12.158 5 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture!
    MAng1 12.227 2 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.
    MAng1 12.228 7 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
    MAng1 12.243 10 There [in Florence], [Michelangelo's] picture hangs in every window;...
    ACri 12.298 6 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.
    WSL 12.338 13 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
    WSL 12.347 12 [Landor's] picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate.
    EurB 12.370 25 ...[modern painters] will not paint for their times, agitated by the spirit which agitates their country; so should their picture picture us, and draw all men after them;...
    PPr 12.381 7 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted...
    PPr 12.381 21 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the picture of Abbot Samson, the true governor, who is not there to expect reason and nobleness of others, he is there to give them of his own reason and nobleness;...
    PPr 12.385 24 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.
    PPr 12.386 6 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of the picture.
    PPr 12.387 27 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

picture, v. (1)

    EurB 12.370 25 ...[modern painters] will not paint for their times, agitated by the spirit which agitates their country; so should their picture picture us, and draw all men after them;...

picture-alphabet, n. (1)

    SwM 4.128 15 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt...to keep the picture-alphabet through which our first lessons are prettily conveyed.

picture-book, n. (3)

    DL 7.106 5 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    PI 8.9 18 The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life.
    PI 8.23 6 A man's action is only a picture-book of his creed.

pictured, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.218 2 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [inEngland] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.

pictured, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.178 15 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
    II 12.84 15 Men go through the world each musing on a great fable dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.

picture-dealer, n. (1)

    ET1 5.14 4 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...

picture-galleries, n. (1)

    Con 1.322 6 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... picture-galleries...or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.

picture-gallery, n. (1)

    ET11 5.190 25 ...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.

picture-language, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.13 11 Nature offers all her creatures to [the poet] as a picture-language.
    SwM 4.118 3 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.118 12 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices, and read one never quite expressed fact in endless picture-language?

pictures, n. (121)

    AmS 1.84 12 [The scholar] Nature solicits with...all her monitory pictures;...
    AmS 1.96 7 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air.
    LE 1.166 16 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak...with pictures...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.168 21 ...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded of these... Chaucerian pictures.
    MN 1.206 13 You admire pictures...
    Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...rich pictures...about you?
    Con 1.315 18 Look at our pictures and books, [the mothers] said...
    Hist 2.6 15 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.7 11 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    Hist 2.17 13 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    SL 2.131 8 Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    Lov1 2.172 19 The earliest demonstrations of complacency and kindness are nature's most winning pictures.
    Lov1 2.176 14 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
    Hsm1 2.248 4 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Hsm1 2.258 8 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Art1 2.356 16 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.
    Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Art1 2.356 27 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
    Art1 2.359 5 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Art1 2.360 26 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Art1 2.361 6 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...
    Art1 2.362 2 I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me...
    Art1 2.362 4 Pictures must not be too picturesque.
    Art1 2.362 7 All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
    Art1 2.363 18 ...[art] is impatient...of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are.
    Pt1 3.3 3 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    Pt1 3.3 7 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of taste] are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
    Pt1 3.17 7 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with...pictures...of the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.27 26 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... pictures...
    Exp 3.55 23 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius. So with pictures;...
    Exp 3.56 1 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    Exp 3.56 4 I have had good lessons from pictures which I have since seen without emotion or remark.
    Exp 3.63 4 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street...
    Exp 3.83 11 I have seen many fair pictures not in vain.
    Chr1 3.109 7 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance...
    Mrs1 3.134 9 ...what is it that we seek, in so many visits and hospitalities? Is it your draperies, pictures and decorations?
    Mrs1 3.149 5 ...[a beautiful behavior] gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;...
    Mrs1 3.150 19 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions, and verifies the pictures of Minerva, Juno, or Polymnia;...
    Nat2 3.170 23 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape, absorbed by new pictures and by thoughts fast succeeding each other, until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    Nat2 3.172 22 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.178 14 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    Pol1 3.201 13 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place in turn to new prayers and pictures.
    UGM 4.21 3 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
    UGM 4.34 6 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred...
    PPh 4.47 16 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. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures.
    SwM 4.93 10 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures...
    SwM 4.104 1 ...[Swedenborg's] life was dignified by noblest pictures of the universe.
    SwM 4.119 8 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw...he saw not abstractly, but in pictures...
    SwM 4.132 24 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held as mystical...
    SwM 4.141 23 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like, in its endless power of lurid pictures, to the phenomena of dreaming...
    ShP 4.209 17 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    ShP 4.210 25 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered...into songs and pictures...
    ShP 4.214 2 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that...more or fewer pictures, is a thing indifferent.
    ShP 4.215 19 We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
    NMW 4.225 26 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of pictures, statues...
    NMW 4.246 8 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...
    GoW 4.276 26 ...[Goethe]...instead of looking in books and pictures, looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
    ET1 5.7 4 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca...
    ET1 5.9 8 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show...
    ET4 5.65 21 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people.
    ET4 5.65 23 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people.
    ET4 5.73 21 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...
    ET6 5.107 18 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...hung with pictures...
    ET8 5.135 23 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    ET11 5.190 8 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET12 5.200 5 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls;...
    ET14 5.242 1 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...
    ET16 5.284 23 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
    Wth 6.98 10 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    Wth 6.98 16 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Ctr 6.149 24 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Bhr 6.174 19 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    Bhr 6.174 24 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn...in the pictures which Commodore Perry brought home of dignitaries in Japan.
    Wsp 6.223 15 If you spend for show...on pictures or on equipages, it will so appear.
    Bty 6.283 27 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers, pictures, music and wine.
    Elo1 7.70 8 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages... show what it aims at.
    DL 7.130 14 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends to pictures and vases...
    DL 7.130 26 I do not undervalue the fine instruction which statues and pictures give.
    Boks 7.200 20 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
    Clbs 7.233 20 [Holmes's (?)] conversation is all pictures...
    Suc 7.304 15 ...it has happened that the artist has often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
    Suc 7.308 19 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
    Suc 7.308 22 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    PI 8.14 21 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.38 15 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that what they had called pictures are realities...
    PI 8.38 16 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that...the mean life is pictures.
    SA 8.81 1 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens...
    SA 8.83 6 'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures;...
    Res 8.148 21 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it: the story, the pictures...
    Comc 8.170 21 In fine pictures the head sheds on the limbs the expression of the face.
    Comc 8.171 2 In poor pictures the limbs and trunk degrade the face.
    QO 8.193 16 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style of pictures...on us.
    Insp 8.291 6 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country, and he painted two or three pictures as the fruits of that drive.
    Imtl 8.338 16 I do not wish to live for the sake of...my pictures.
    Dem1 10.4 5 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures.
    Dem1 10.9 21 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    Dem1 10.15 9 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...
    Aris 10.31 10 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men,-true instead of spurious pictures of excellence...
    PerF 10.75 21 [Labor] is in dress, in pictures, in ships, in cannon;...
    PerF 10.78 9 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry...
    SovE 10.192 3 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are...significant pictures of the laws of the mind;...
    SovE 10.206 7 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination, to which they pay homage.
    Prch 10.220 2 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns.
    Schr 10.277 4 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past...
    LLNE 10.333 7 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which were only pleasing pictures...
    LLNE 10.351 19 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    EWI 11.129 26 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned their backs on me. No: I see other pictures,-of mean men;...
    FRO1 11.479 11 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
    II 12.68 7 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
    Mem 12.102 2 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...
    CInt 12.131 16 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    CL 12.164 19 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
    Bost 12.185 15 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures;...
    MAng1 12.234 14 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.239 6 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
    WSL 12.343 13 Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.
    EurB 12.366 14 [The poet's] words must be pictures...
    EurB 12.378 3 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...
    EurB 12.378 5 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...
    Trag 12.417 1 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music, and garnished with rich dark pictures.

picture-shops, n. (1)

    Exp 3.62 24 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a landscape of Poussin...

picturesque, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.29 7 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...
    Nat 1.30 22 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
    LE 1.166 8 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    YA 1.392 20 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
    Art1 2.362 4 Pictures must not be too picturesque.
    Mrs1 3.152 11 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    PPh 4.61 17 [Plato]...slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.
    ET6 5.114 23 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as broken country makes picturesque landscape;...
    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!
    Insp 8.290 23 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...to these picturesque liberties [in nature].
    Edc1 10.140 16 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    Plu 10.300 22 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied;...
    CSC 10.374 20 If the assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was disorderly, it was picturesque.
    MMEm 10.401 15 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was in a picturesque country...
    EWI 11.101 10 If the Virginian piques himself on the picturesque luxury of his vassalage...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    SHC 11.431 25 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    Scot 11.464 14 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
    ACri 12.288 17 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...

picturesque, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.178 18 ...our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    ET6 5.114 22 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...

Picturesque Traveller [Sart (1)

    PPr 12.389 1 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable...Dryasdust, or Picturesque Traveller, says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

piddling, adj. (1)

    LT 1.273 9 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.

piece, n. (86)

    Nat 1.9 16 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
    LE 1.176 19 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...a piece of the street...
    Con 1.306 24 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world; but you may come and work in ours, for us, and we will give you a piece of bread.
    Con 1.312 20 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    Tran 1.345 4 ...every piece has a crack.
    SR 2.52 25 Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine...
    SL 2.162 24 One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
    Prd1 2.229 27 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Prd1 2.234 11 The laws of the world are written out for [a man] on every piece of money in his hand.
    OS 2.269 15 We see the world piece by piece...
    Cir 2.308 23 There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow;...
    Int 2.335 12 [The thought] is...a piece of genuine and immeasurable greatness.
    Exp 3.58 18 If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
    Chr1 3.101 27 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...
    Nat2 3.183 13 This guiding identity [in nature] runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece...
    NR 3.233 15 'T is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore.
    NR 3.242 9 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...
    NR 3.246 21 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl, a piece of life...
    UGM 4.21 24 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
    PPh 4.76 26 Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left...
    SwM 4.109 21 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    SwM 4.111 19 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
    ShP 4.195 18 Malone's sentence is an important piece of external history.
    ShP 4.214 13 [Shakespeare's] lyric power lies in the genius of the piece.
    ShP 4.214 17 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they; and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece;...
    ET1 5.9 9 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece...
    ET1 5.16 2 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence.
    ET2 5.31 13 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET8 5.134 17 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET11 5.177 13 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons, who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with ermine.
    ET16 5.289 7 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer...
    F 6.10 14 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
    F 6.18 27 ...the journals contrive to furnish one good piece of news every day.
    F 6.42 16 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is a piece of causation;...
    F 6.49 6 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece;...
    Pow 6.77 21 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Pow 6.77 24 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion? Every stroke. Which blast burst the piece? Every blast.
    Pow 6.81 26 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    Pow 6.82 9 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...
    Wth 6.88 26 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Bhr 6.183 4 There are people who come in ever like a child with a piece of good news.
    Wsp 6.236 18 [Benedict] had the whim not to make an apology to the same individual whom he had wronged. For this he said was a piece of personal vanity;...
    Wsp 6.237 10 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief...
    Ill 6.313 2 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino. The unities, the fictions of the piece it would be an impertinence to break.
    Art2 7.41 9 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...
    Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece?
    Elo1 7.86 19 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... a piece of the well-known human life,--that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.88 11 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...
    Elo1 7.95 27 [The woods and mountains] send us every year some piece of aboriginal strength...
    Farm 7.153 22 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    Clbs 7.227 20 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Suc 7.299 19 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    Res 8.141 27 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha...obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    QO 8.186 14 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    PPo 8.252 8 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    PPo 8.252 13 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son,- Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry;...
    Grts 8.305 22 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
    PerF 10.77 19 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it a piece of industry, or the founding of a colony or a college...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    SovE 10.190 12 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.
    Plu 10.317 2 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved, if only as a piece of history, the preface of Mr. Morgan...
    Plu 10.317 22 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
    LLNE 10.334 27 There was that finish about this person [Everett]...which distinguishes every piece of genius from the works of talent...
    Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
    EWI 11.145 5 ...in the great anthem which we call history, a piece of many parts and vast compass...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    EWI 11.146 3 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    FSLN 11.227 14 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be...a piece of money?
    JBB 11.273 2 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself...by offering him a form which is a piece of paper.
    JBS 11.278 21 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    SMC 11.349 19 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SHC 11.431 2 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.
    FRep 11.520 15 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    PLT 12.52 19 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece...this continuity is for the great.
    PLT 12.52 25 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work, which, though successive in the mind of the master, were primarily combined in his piece.
    Mem 12.91 14 Any piece of knowledge I acquire to-day...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.91 16 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.91 19 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. To-morrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge, and use it better.
    CInt 12.125 12 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
    CL 12.143 10 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...
    Milt1 12.249 20 ...the piece [a tract by Milton] shows all the rambles and resources of indignation...
    Milt1 12.251 3 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica...the most splendid of his prose works.
    ACri 12.294 17 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    MLit 12.324 2 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    MLit 12.325 26 [Says Wieland] The piece [Goethe's journal] is one of the most masterly productions...
    MLit 12.326 2 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal];...
    EurB 12.375 7 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably.

piece, v. (1)

    ET10 5.159 14 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.

piecemeal, adj. (1)

    NER 3.263 5 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

piecemeal, adv. (1)

    SovE 10.188 13 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus raises virtue piecemeal.

pieces, n. (21)

    Hist 2.33 25 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    Hsm1 2.256 2 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands, but tears it to pieces before the tribunes.
    Chr1 3.99 22 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    Mrs1 3.142 13 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then, said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in pieces.
    PPh 4.58 8 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.
    ShP 4.201 22 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET5 5.78 11 The English game is main force to main force...till one or both come to pieces.
    ET7 5.117 14 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    Bty 6.282 15 Chemistry takes to pieces, but it does not construct.
    Elo1 7.85 7 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration. We must not quite omit to name the principal pieces.
    PI 8.59 16 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds, when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces...
    QO 8.183 22 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
    PPo 8.252 21 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven were lately learning his last pieces.
    LLNE 10.327 27 Prerogative, government, goes to pieces day by day.
    LLNE 10.358 12 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...
    Thor 10.463 22 ...those pieces of luck which happen only to good players happened to [Thoreau].
    MAng1 12.230 11 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...and a series of greater and smaller fancy pieces in the lunettes.
    MAng1 12.230 13 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...is a study of anatomy and design.
    Milt1 12.249 25 Two of [Milton's] pieces may be excepted from this description, one for its faults, the other for its excellence.
    MLit 12.311 22 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...

pieces, v. (1)

    War 11.165 2 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.

pied, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.91 2 The wings of Time are black and white,/ Pied with morning and with night./
    Fdsp 2.197 17 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...

Pied Piper, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.65 22 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
    QO 8.186 22 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The Pied Piper...

pierce, v. (18)

    Nat 1.30 21 ...wise men pierce this rotten diction...
    AmS 1.95 13 I pierce [the world's] order;...
    AmS 1.114 1 If there be one lesson...which should pierce [the scholar's] ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all;...
    DSA 1.147 12 Can we not...pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth?
    LE 1.176 13 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
    LE 1.182 5 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet and make him the utterer of melodies that pierce the ear of eternal time.
    MN 1.196 4 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will...pierce to the core of things.
    Pt1 3.24 4 ...the melodies of the poet ascend and leap and pierce into the deeps of infinite time.
    Chr1 3.105 2 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature.
    GoW 4.271 15 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted, easily able by his subtlety to pierce these...
    WD 7.183 19 We pierce to the eternity, of which time is the flitting surface;...
    SovE 10.213 26 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.237 4 The old intellect still lives, to pierce the shows to the core.
    FRep 11.537 20 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms; farther pierce his eyes;...than the Englishman's...
    Mem 12.91 5 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed. Perception, though it...could pierce through the universe, was not sufficient.
    CInt 12.112 6 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    Bost 12.190 3 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river, which doth pierce many days' journey into the entrails of that country.
    Pray 12.353 5 If I may not search out and pierce thy thought, so much the more may my living praise thee [My Father].

pierced, v. (6)

    AmS 1.113 3 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.
    MN 1.196 11 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
    Prd1 2.225 9 Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws...
    Art1 2.361 8 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...pierced directly to the simple and true;...
    Edc1 10.128 4 Here is a world pierced and belted with natural laws...
    MLit 12.324 11 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.

pierces, v. (3)

    Hist 2.27 16 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    Int 2.326 19 Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form...
    Wsp 6.227 16 [As we grow older] We have...an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer;...

piercing, adj. (2)

    MR 1.239 14 ...instead of...those piercing and learned eyes...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    CL 12.142 25 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing...

piercing, v. (4)

    WD 7.160 15 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...piercing the Arabian desert?
    PI 8.30 8 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility, piercing the outward fact to the meaning of the fact;...
    PI 8.55 12 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh that piercing mortifies/...
    Schr 10.265 27 ...[the poet's] achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...

Pierre, St., n. (1)

    SovE 10.184 14 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.

Pierre's, St., Jacques Hen (1)

    War 11.160 21 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is no man's invention, neither St. Pierre's, nor Rousseau's...

piers, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 9 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.

Pieta [Michelangelo], n. (1)

    MAng1 12.229 26 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.

Pietro in Vincolo, Rome, I (1)

    MAng1 12.229 14 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest work is the statue of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.

piety, n. (62)

    Nat 1.57 6 Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into [ideas'] region.
    DSA 1.126 11 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    DSA 1.135 7 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach;...
    DSA 1.139 18 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...
    DSA 1.142 21 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety...
    MN 1.210 24 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?-call it piety, call it veneration...
    MN 1.213 7 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
    MN 1.220 24 And what is to replace for us the piety of that race [the Puritans]?
    MR 1.249 14 ...if...a woman or a child discovers a sentiment of piety...I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    LT 1.273 24 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
    LT 1.278 24 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.
    LT 1.285 11 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future...
    Con 1.315 8 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    Con 1.322 3 Every honest fellow...must patronize Providence and piety...
    Con 1.326 9 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
    Hist 2.28 3 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact...
    Hist 2.29 18 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    SL 2.138 6 We pass in the world...for erudition and piety...
    Prd1 2.231 23 Genius is always ascetic, and piety, and love.
    Hsm1 2.247 5 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    Pt1 3.17 18 The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness.
    Exp 3.69 7 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.
    Mrs1 3.146 9 ...there is still...some well-concealed piety;...
    Pol1 3.216 21 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    Pol1 3.217 10 Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world.
    PPh 4.58 1 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness, which mounts, in the Republic and in the Phaedo, to piety.
    SwM 4.145 25 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    MoS 4.174 9 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension, even of lofty piety, leads to this ghastly insight...
    ShP 4.200 6 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...
    NMW 4.228 16 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    GoW 4.285 5 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
    ET13 5.220 11 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England], when the nation was full of genius and piety.
    ET13 5.230 11 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    DL 7.130 5 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    DL 7.131 9 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    WD 7.167 20 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of piety as well as prudence...
    WD 7.179 23 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments concealed from all but piety...
    PI 8.64 26 [Poetry] is the piety of the intellect.
    QO 8.202 1 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought. It implies Will, or original force, for their right distribution and expression. If to this the sentiment of piety be added...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile...
    PC 8.228 26 It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential condition of science...
    Edc1 10.135 12 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives.
    Supl 10.166 27 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    SovE 10.203 20 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the piety of the English Church in Cranmer, and Herbert, and Taylor;...
    SovE 10.207 8 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...
    Prch 10.218 13 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant; but more than this I do not readily find. The gracious motions of the soul,- piety, adoration,-I do not find.
    MoL 10.242 20 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down...the piety of learning.
    Schr 10.288 23 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person, out of his piety to that Eternal Spirit which dwells unexpressed with him.
    LLNE 10.345 6 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste...
    MMEm 10.405 11 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    MMEm 10.409 3 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none. The fact has generally increased piety and self-love.
    HDC 11.61 8 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    HDC 11.66 21 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.
    LVB 11.92 13 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    EWI 11.122 27 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and arts; that of Palestine in piety;...
    PLT 12.9 26 ...what we really want is...a certain piety toward the source of action and knowledge.
    CInt 12.125 18 Piety in a convent accuses every one, from the novice to the abbess.
    CInt 12.125 21 Piety comes to be regarded as a spy and a rebel.
    Bost 12.193 26 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
    Bost 12.194 18 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    Bost 12.194 21 That [Christian] piety is a refutation of every skeptical doubt.
    Bost 12.194 23 These men [Christian writers] are a bridge to us between the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.
    Milt1 12.255 1 ...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.

pig, n. (4)

    ET1 5.16 6 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
    ET1 5.16 8 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET10 5.169 7 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
    Thor 10.461 23 ...[Thoreau] could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.

pigeon-house, n. (1)

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

pigeons, n. (5)

    ET5 5.84 8 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    HDC 11.55 17 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
    CL 12.162 9 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
    Bost 12.192 10 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons and mice.
    Bost 12.202 13 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state out of reach of anything but squirrels and wild pigeons.

pig-eye, n. (1)

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

pig-headed, adj. (1)

    Carl 10.493 6 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.

pig-lead, n. (1)

    MoS 4.155 13 You that will have all solid, and a world of pig-lead, deceive yourselves grossly.

pigment, n. (4)

    PPh 4.56 7 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
    F 6.9 13 ...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.
    CbW 6.264 23 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment.
    PI 8.27 8 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...

pigments, n. (2)

    F 6.11 27 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...some stray taste or talent for...pigments...
    Edc1 10.146 9 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor of Sir Humphrey Davy to analyze the pigments;...

pigmies, n. (1)

    UGM 4.26 27 What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies!

pigs, n. (1)

    Art1 2.356 6 A dog, drawn by a master, or a litter of pigs, satisfies...

Pigweed, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 19 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens, such is their vigor. We have insulted them with low names, too,-as Pigweed, Wormwood, Chickweed, Shad-blossom.

pike, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.224 20 Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike.

pikes, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.224 21 Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike. Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in his energy and constancy.
    War 11.166 13 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the cannon would become street-posts; the pikes, a fisher's harpoon;...

Pike's Peak, Colorado, n. (3)

    Pow 6.68 16 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] pine for adventure, and must go to Pike's Peak;...
    Wsp 6.204 4 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that...which prevails now on the slope of...Pike's Peak.
    CbW 6.261 21 ...send [a rich man]...to Pike's Peak...and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants...

pilasters, n. (1)

    Bty 6.291 4 ...our taste in building...refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing...

pile, n. (7)

    Mrs1 3.152 10 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    ET16 5.285 24 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.
    ET18 5.299 2 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages...
    Art2 7.38 24 ...from [the child!s] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the Spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Clbs 7.238 4 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
    SMC 11.350 16 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough...
    II 12.69 22 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile?

pile, v. (3)

    MR 1.244 23 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...and so we pile the floor with carpets.
    Prd1 2.226 16 [The northerner] must...pile wood and coal.
    F 6.34 10 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...

piled, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.219 5 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...an obligation, a sadness, as of piled mountains, fell on them...

piled, v. (5)

    Pol1 3.197 13 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    Wth 6.84 3 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    CbW 6.265 11 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
    Civ 7.31 22 I see the immense material prosperity...wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities...
    Bost 12.200 7 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth...is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.

piles, n. (5)

    Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...piles of books about you?
    Hist 2.20 24 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Art1 2.349 4 ...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of stone;/...
    ET11 5.172 10 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles...
    HDC 11.60 17 ...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.

piles, v. (1)

    Cour 7.275 27 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...

Pilgrim Fathers, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.209 8 '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? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...the Pilgrim Fathers for theirs...

pilgrim, n. (5)

    LE 1.158 19 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things attend [the scholar's] steps.
    DL 7.107 1 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    LLNE 10.345 11 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door...
    MMEm 10.404 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] calls herself the puny pilgrim...
    SHC 11.428 11 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...

pilgrimage, n. (6)

    Hist 2.22 15 Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined...were the check on the old rovers;...
    MoS 4.163 7 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    PPo 8.263 17 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds...resolve on a pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...
    MMEm 10.414 25 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage...
    SMC 11.348 23 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
    Koss 11.397 15 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.

pilgrimages, n. (1)

    PPh 4.53 24 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...

Pilgrims, A Peep at the [H (1)

    OA 7.335 4 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper, and Peep at the Pilgrims...with praise...

pilgrims, n. (11)

    LE 1.169 22 What mean...these pilgrims to the White Hills?
    MN 1.219 13 What brought the pilgrims here?
    Fdsp 2.194 15 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand...no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe.
    Fdsp 2.213 22 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims whereof only one or two wander in nature at once...
    ET14 5.234 11 Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses.
    ET16 5.279 13 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near.
    PPo 8.254 11 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    HDC 11.33 25 Johnson, relating undoubtedly what he had himself heard from the pilgrims, intimates that they consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.35 26 ...the pilgrims had the preparation of an armed mind...
    HDC 11.37 18 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
    MAng1 12.244 2 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...

Pilgrims, n. (3)

    SA 8.101 23 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    HDC 11.76 11 The Pilgrims are gone;...
    Shak1 11.453 13 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620.

pilgrim's, n. (1)

    ShP 4.219 6 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a pilgrim's progress...

Pilgrim's Progress [John B (2)

    DL 7.106 22 ...Pilgrim's Progress,--what mines of thought and emotion... are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    PI 8.28 21 Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress;...

Pilgrims [Samuel Purchas], (1)

    ET12 5.201 21 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.

pilgrymages, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 9 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

piling, v. (1)

    F 6.34 20 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society,-grouping it on a level instead of piling it into a mountain...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.

pillaged, v. (1)

    AKan 11.257 23 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are then... pillaged...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]...

pillar, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.445 17 Society had reason to cherish [Samuel Hoar], for he was a main pillar on which it leaned.

pillared, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.320 14 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./

pillars, n. (5)

    YA 1.364 27 The heaven's blue pillars are Medea's house./
    Hist 2.20 8 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen or lean on the pillars of the interior?
    Hist 2.20 12 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.
    PPo 8.256 3 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
    AgMs 12.362 4 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.

pillory, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.200 14 ...[Nemesis's] dismal way is to pillory the offender in the moment of his triumph.
    FRep 11.517 4 The wilder the paradox, the more sure is Punch to put it in the pillory.

pillory, v. (1)

    Thor 10.456 2 [Thoreau] wanted...a blunder to pillory...

pillow, n. (5)

    Lov1 2.176 8 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on;...
    PPo 8.263 13 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./
    Plu 10.318 24 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    EWI 11.103 26 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest. Conscience rolled on its pillow, and could not sleep.
    FSLN 11.235 21 ...[the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.

pillows, n. (2)

    Con 1.320 5 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...mitigations of pain by pillows and anodynes;...
    Ill 6.313 21 There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm.

pills, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 13 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...swallowing pills and herb-tea.

pilot, n. (11)

    MN 1.209 17 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
    SwM 4.145 2 In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant myself here; all will sink before this;...
    ET10 5.157 25 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them.
    CbW 6.270 10 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Bty 6.287 22 ...[the ancients] pretended to guess the pilot by the sailing of the ship.
    Bty 6.289 25 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
    Boks 7.194 21 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    PC 8.215 5 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do, nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer;...
    SovE 10.196 12 ...we are never without a pilot.
    Plu 10.304 27 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that waited on Lysis, presided over him, if I can guess at the pilot from the sailing of the ship.
    ALin 11.335 6 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was place for...no fair-weather sailor; the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado.

pilots, n. (4)

    ET18 5.302 27 ...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...what seamen and pilots...
    Elo1 7.87 8 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... describing duties of insurers, captains, pilots and miscellaneous sea-officers that are or might be...
    Suc 7.285 11 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen,--some of them old pilots...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.285 15 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.

Pilpay [Bidpai], n. (2)

    ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    ALin 11.333 19 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years, like Aesop or Pilpay...

pimples, n. (1)

    Bty 6.300 26 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples...

pin, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.224 6 If a man...immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
    ET16 5.282 16 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, before it was suspended on a pin.
    Ctr 6.159 12 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.
    Boks 7.210 2 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop.
    War 11.170 21 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides, no man responsible, no man caring a pin.

pin, v. (2)

    AmS 1.90 15 [Institutions] pin me down.
    MoS 4.157 4 [The skeptic says] Why so talkative in public, when each of my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I cannot refute?

pincers, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 19 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.

pinch, n. (10)

    ET5 5.101 2 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 literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind, so that each of them could at a pinch stand in the shoes of the other;...
    ET8 5.135 8 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart... who loves to help you at a pinch.
    ET11 5.179 21 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the country from which its emigrants came; or named at a pinch from a psalm-tune.
    Grts 8.315 22 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France, and would help any wretch at a pinch.
    Prch 10.217 1 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    FSLC 11.183 13 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
    JBB 11.272 9 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no more use than idiots.
    TPar 11.288 25 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who...came to the rescue of civilization at a hard pinch...
    CL 12.149 20 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...making his bow of hickory, birch, or even a fir-bough, at a pinch;...
    CL 12.156 6 There is some pinch and narrowness to us...

pinch, v. (4)

    NR 3.235 23 I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake and preserve the due decorum.
    MoS 4.167 12 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.
    MoS 4.169 4 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things; as we pinch ourselves to know that we are awake.
    Bost 12.197 5 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which...goes rather to pinch the features and degrade the character.

pinched, v. (5)

    Art1 2.360 7 [The artist] must not be in any manner pinched or hindered by his material...
    F 6.10 24 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...
    Pow 6.62 22 The very word 'commerce'...is pinched to the cramp exigencies of English experience.
    Farm 7.139 19 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy. But if thus pinched on one side, he has compensatory advantages.
    OA 7.327 24 He is serene who does not feel himself pinched and wronged...

pinches, v. (2)

    SL 2.159 12 [A man's] vice...pinches the nose...
    ET9 5.146 20 The same insular limitation pinches [the Englishman's] foreign politics.

pinching, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.422 26 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities, pinching, bitter warfare of the human heart...

pinching, v. (2)

    NMW 4.255 25 [Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...
    FRep 11.523 20 ...[the people]...must have the means of living well, and not pinching.

Pindar, n. (29)

    Nat 1.22 4 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    LE 1.174 27 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    MN 1.211 11 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures; and the Greeks so quoted Homer, Theognis, Pindar, and the rest.
    Hist 2.15 11 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    Hist 2.27 2 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.
    MoS 4.150 13 Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...Pindar and Byron, in poets.
    Art2 7.53 17 The Iliad of Homer...the odes of Pindar...were made...in grave earnest...
    Boks 7.195 27 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    PI 8.21 21 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...
    PI 8.40 8 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
    PI 8.65 19 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets...
    QO 8.202 14 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    QO 8.202 23 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...
    PC 8.231 27 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell...
    PPo 8.244 13 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
    Insp 8.294 25 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans;...
    MoL 10.253 24 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise...
    MoL 10.253 26 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent...
    MoL 10.254 9 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone; whilst the ode of Pindar, in praise of Pytheas, remains entire.
    Plu 10.303 1 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages,-not only Thespis, Polemos...but fragments of Menander and Pindar.
    Plu 10.318 2 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.
    Thor 10.475 9 [Thoreau] admired Aeschylus and Pindar;...
    Wom 11.408 6 Sappho...in the Olympic Games, gained the crown over Pindar.
    CPL 11.502 11 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    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...
    ACri 12.300 22 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
    WSL 12.346 17 [Landor] loves Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides...
    WSL 12.347 15 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.
    EurB 12.365 22 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante, whilst they have the just and open soul, have also the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...

Pindar's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.250 26 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds...it speaks to the intelligent;...

pine, adj. (12)

    AmS 1.97 21 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    Hist 2.20 14 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...
    Prd1 2.236 1 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Pt1 3.29 19 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    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.
    Nat2 3.172 20 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Civ 7.21 24 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump.
    Farm 7.147 5 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
    Farm 7.147 8 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.
    WD 7.160 18 In Massachusetts we fight...the blowing sand-barrens with pine plantations.
    Cour 7.264 5 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together; with pine boughs they can mop out the flame...
    PI 8.12 23 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...

pine, n. (15)

    Nat 1.54 6 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up/ The pine and cedar./
    DSA 1.119 5 The air is...sweet with the breath of the pine...
    LE 1.168 9 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    Hist 2.21 1 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced...its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
    Comp 2.97 14 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman, in a single needle of the pine...
    CbW 6.264 27 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...
    DL 7.117 18 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    Farm 7.147 19 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin, where it found deep soil, cold enough and dry enough for the pine;...
    Res 8.146 17 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    Res 8.152 24 Among fossil remains, the willow and the pine appear with the ferns.
    Insp 8.290 17 Certain localities, as...natural parks of oak and pine...are excitants of the muse.
    HDC 11.39 1 The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air.
    CL 12.139 6 ...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 12.160 16 ...the zones of plants, the savin, the pine, vernal gentian...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
    CL 12.162 6 Where is the Norway pine, where the beech...

pine, v. (7)

    AmS 1.97 14 I will not...transplant an oak into a flower-pot, there to hunger and pine;...
    LT 1.283 5 It is not that men do not wish to act; they pine to be employed...
    MoS 4.159 12 If [men] keep too much at home, they pine.
    Pow 6.68 15 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] pine for adventure...
    DL 7.121 12 [The eager, blushing boys] pine for freedom from that mild parental yoke;...
    PLT 12.52 6 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine.
    MLit 12.310 27 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books for which men and women peak and pine;...

pine-apples, n. [pineapples,] (3)

    ET5 5.84 8 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    ET5 5.94 20 ...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the Mediterranean.
    PLT 12.29 1 To the gardener [Nature's] loam is all strawberries, pears, pineapples.

pine-barren, n. (1)

    PerF 10.75 5 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid...in the harvest grown on what was shingle and pine-barren.

pine-cone, n. (2)

    Nat 1.16 6 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the pine-cone...
    Farm 7.147 12 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...

pined, v. (1)

    Farm 7.148 2 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home, where every year...his forlorn trees pined like suffering virtue.

pinery, n. (1)

    CL 12.144 13 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...

pines, n. (7)

    Nat 1.32 1 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the pines murmur...
    LE 1.169 8 ...the pines, bearded with savage moss...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    SR 2.58 18 My book should smell of pines...
    Nat2 3.170 15 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the best pines...
    SHC 11.428 3 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.431 18 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking...

pines, v. (1)

    LE 1.174 1 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...

pine-tree, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.192 19 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature.
    Farm 7.147 10 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year...

pine-trees, n. (1)

    CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...

pine-woods, n. (3)

    Elo2 8.114 5 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    CL 12.157 10 Can you bring home...the savageness of pine-woods?
    CW 12.169 2 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...

pinfold, n. (2)

    SR 2.80 17 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low...
    Chr2 10.106 21 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.

pingo, v. (1)

    CInt 12.131 17 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.

pining, adj. (1)

    LT 1.262 20 How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!

pining, v. (1)

    WD 7.170 13 Yesterday not a bird peeped; the world was barren, peaked and pining...

pink, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.17 23 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes...
    MMEm 10.410 4 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    CL 12.162 8 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or pink huckleberry?...

pin-makers, n. (1)

    PPh 4.53 5 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of the weavers...

pinnacle, n. (3)

    AmS 1.112 3 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.
    YA 1.368 19 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house...on a pinnacle.
    SL 2.141 13 The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

pinned, v. (1)

    SwM 4.128 1 ...Swedenborg, after his mode, pinned his theory [of marriage] to a temporary form.

pinning, v. (1)

    ET14 5.247 15 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...

pin-polisher, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 11 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher...

pins, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 22 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless, like a giant slaughtered by pins?

pins, v. (2)

    Boks 7.213 14 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down...
    SA 8.83 12 Whilst one man by his manners pins me to the wall, with another I walk among the stars.

pint, n. (3)

    Wth 6.106 14 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    EWI 11.111 8 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours, and his ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt herring a day.
    PLT 12.32 16 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen. But a girl who understands it will find you a pint in a quarter of an hour.

pints, n. (1)

    Wth 6.106 15 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the rigorous limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.

pioneer, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.20 5 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important. That comes of the pioneer state of things.

pioneer, n. (2)

    ET6 5.105 6 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience, as much as a solitary pioneer in Wisconsin.
    Wth 6.83 9 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./

pioneers, n. (3)

    Cour 7.276 14 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature, but are made useful as checks, scavengers and pioneers;...
    SovE 10.188 17 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers...
    War 11.166 15 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants, peaceful pioneers at the fountains of the Wabash and the Missouri.

pioneer's, n. (1)

    Civ 7.22 2 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

pious, adj. (19)

    DSA 1.141 4 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    Int 2.328 19 Our thinking is a pious reception.
    PNR 4.87 11 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls;...
    F 6.31 13 What pious men in the parlor will vote for what reprobates at the polls!
    Pow 6.66 7 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    Pow 6.66 8 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    Ill 6.315 1 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility, and that it was the duty of every pious man to keep up the comedy.
    Cour 7.273 21 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
    Insp 8.284 26 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Grts 8.315 25 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him and wished to dedicate it to a pious Duc d'Orleans, came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
    EzRy 10.385 8 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion? Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
    MMEm 10.421 4 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    HDC 11.35 4 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins...
    HDC 11.38 19 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
    HDC 11.86 16 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    CPL 11.498 1 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England...
    Bost 12.193 21 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.194 10 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Let 12.401 18 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great...

piously, adv. (4)

    MN 1.197 23 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    LT 1.277 24 [The work of the reformer] is done in the same way [as other work], it is done profanely, not piously;...
    ET13 5.224 19 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    War 11.159 1 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.

pip, n. (1)

    SwM 4.137 12 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.

pipe, n. (6)

    SL 2.134 22 ...the virtue of a pipe is to be smooth and hollow.
    ET10 5.153 11 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses? How can a man be a gentleman without a pipe of wine?
    Aris 10.42 26 ...the body is the pipe through which we tap all the succors and virtues of the material world...
    PerF 10.74 9 No force but is [man's] force. He does not possess them, he is a pipe through which their currents flow.
    PerF 10.78 14 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making peoples' hearts dance to his pipe!
    PLT 12.36 5 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe...

pipe, v. (3)

    Exp 3.71 20 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon...shepherds pipe and dance.
    Bhr 6.175 27 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;--little cared he; he knew that it had got to pipe, or wheeze, or screech his argument and his indignation.
    MLit 12.309 17 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.

pipe-bowls, n. (1)

    EWI 11.141 5 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets.

piped, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.175 26 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;...

Piper, Pied, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.65 22 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
    QO 8.186 22 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The Pied Piper...

pipes, n. (6)

    PPh 4.74 26 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums...
    Res 8.148 13 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill...
    PC 8.215 11 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    Plu 10.320 6 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
    PLT 12.36 6 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres...
    II 12.66 27 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: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...

pipe-staves, n. (1)

    HDC 11.56 20 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies, with pipe-staves, lumber and fish;...

piping, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.275 19 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...

piping, v. (3)

    Suc 7.297 14 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a sparrow, than in all his literary results?
    Insp 8.287 24 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    CL 12.151 3 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...

piptousin, v. (1)

    Comp 2.102 12 Aei gar eu piptousin oi Dios kuboi...

piquancy, n. (5)

    Nat 1.29 19 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer...
    SR 2.48 13 So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm...
    Int 2.332 26 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography...delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.
    Suc 7.304 23 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!
    MMEm 10.401 11 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it...give much piquancy to her letters in after years.

pique, n. (1)

    HDC 11.48 23 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...

pique, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.210 20 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    ET14 5.237 5 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    Suc 7.298 20 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods];...
    Dem1 10.7 25 [Dreams] pique us by independence of us...

piqued, v. (9)

    LE 1.164 11 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality of literary or metaphysical power, and he is piqued.
    UGM 4.15 6 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to some purpose...
    ShP 4.201 24 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ET4 5.50 13 We are piqued with pure descent...
    Ctr 6.150 27 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito...
    Ctr 6.153 1 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    Clbs 7.243 8 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first......piqued the emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies...
    MMEm 10.405 25 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names.
    Thor 10.476 1 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of his mind.

piques, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.208 13 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    EWI 11.101 9 If the Virginian piques himself on the picturesque luxury of his vassalage...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    CL 12.161 21 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.

piracy, n. (7)

    ET2 5.27 24 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day, which have their own chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke, piracy, cold and thunder.
    ET4 5.56 25 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET11 5.174 13 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    War 11.158 5 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal.
    FSLC 11.195 7 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 13 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
    Let 12.393 12 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

pirate, n. (4)

    Comp 2.99 2 Is a man...a morose ruffian, with a dash of the pirate in him?-- Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    ET11 5.174 3 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son.
    ET11 5.174 5 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son. The Norman noble, who was the Norwegian pirate baptized, did likewise.
    AKan 11.262 18 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen...

pirates, n. (8)

    Mrs1 3.123 21 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    Mrs1 3.125 4 [My gentleman] is good company for pirates and good with academicians;...
    ET4 5.60 26 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates.
    ET4 5.62 11 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...
    ET11 5.176 18 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    Pow 6.63 27 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates;...
    Elo1 7.78 14 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then?
    War 11.173 11 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.

Pirate's Own Book, n. (1)

    WD 7.165 17 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.

piratic, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.325 8 ...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...

piratical, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.59 27 The early [Norse] Sagas are sanguinary and piratical;...
    ET4 5.61 15 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...

Pisa, Italy, n. (1)

    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.

pisciculture, n. (1)

    ET6 5.114 14 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds, agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.

Pisistratus, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.199 19 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus or Cromwell, does for a time...

pismire, n. (2)

    SwM 4.145 15 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    MoS 4.179 13 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.

pismires, n. (1)

    PI 8.36 22 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him...

pistareen-Providence, n. (1)

    F 6.6 18 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence...

pistil, n. (2)

    SwM 4.107 13 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
    PI 8.8 14 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part, as bract, leaf, petal, stamen, pistil or seed.

pistol, n. (3)

    Carl 10.493 27 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    EWI 11.105 12 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head...
    EurB 12.374 22 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into...a highwayman's pistol to rob and kill with.

pistols, n. (1)

    ET9 5.149 24 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols...

piston, n. (2)

    Farm 7.142 20 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires, never wear out...
    Res 8.139 12 The vat, the piston, the wheels and tires [of the earth], never wear out...

pit, n. (12)

    Tran 1.332 7 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space on the edge of an unimaginable pit of emptiness.
    SR 2.48 27 A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;...
    Cir 2.302 17 The Greek letters...are already...tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Cir 2.317 3 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices...
    PPh 4.76 1 Mounting into heaven, diving into the pit...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    SwM 4.131 14 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
    SwM 4.141 17 The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the pit.
    ET2 5.29 16 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
    F 6.37 22 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives; his coal in the pit;...
    Bhr 6.194 4 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
    Imtl 8.333 5 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    ACri 12.284 4 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.

Pit, n. (2)

    UGM 4.17 19 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.
    FSLC 11.210 8 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.

pitch, n. (9)

    MN 1.199 15 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution. Its smoothness is the smoothness of the pitch of the cataract.
    Hist 2.37 5 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    SR 2.84 3 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    SR 2.85 3 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch...
    Cir 2.307 5 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Cour 7.272 10 Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of courage], and soar to a pitch unknown before.
    Dem1 10.23 7 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his instincts...
    EWI 11.145 10 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
    PLT 12.58 9 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try...a higher pitch than we have yet climbed...

pitch, v. (3)

    Exp 3.58 22 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...
    Thor 10.474 1 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
    MLit 12.321 7 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.

pitcher, n. (2)

    Insp 8.272 12 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern, but the poet does not know the pitcher that holds his nectar.
    Plu 10.309 9 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.

pitchers, n. (1)

    PPh 4.55 8 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from pitchers and soup-ladles;...

pitches, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 5 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...

pitchforks, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.140 16 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire!...

pitching, v. (2)

    MoS 4.149 8 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails.
    SMC 11.363 14 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre...

pitch-pine, n. (1)

    II 12.80 23 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives...

pit-coal, n. (2)

    ET10 5.158 9 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...
    Insp 8.276 14 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no use that your engine is made like a watch...if there is no coal.

piteous, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.53 18 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in their request to remain near the English...

piteously, adv. (1)

    Elo1 7.87 17 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court...

pitfalls, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.431 25 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a day is a thousand years...

pith, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.36 12 Of the pith elder...[the Indians] made their arrow.

pith, n. (7)

    Nat 1.42 1 [The moral law] is the pith and marrow of every substance...
    DSA 1.120 3 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    OS 2.265 9 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
    Exp 3.47 16 ...the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    SwM 4.97 26 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
    ET7 5.122 19 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot, so entirely was the pith and heart of monarchy eaten out.
    Elo1 7.85 26 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...

pitiable, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.167 19 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One cannot be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
    Ill 6.316 3 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection...

pitied, v. (5)

    AmS 1.109 23 Sight is the last thing to be pitied.
    DSA 1.142 11 ...[man] skulks and sneaks through the world...to be pitied...
    NMW 4.232 25 [Kings and governors] are a class of persons much to be pitied...
    ET13 5.230 4 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied.
    EurB 12.368 24 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth] pitied and rebuked [the dukes' and earls'] false lives, and celebrated his own with the religion of a true priest.

pitiers, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.173 13 I have seen...the pitiers of themselves, a perilous class;...
    CbW 6.265 26 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...

pitiful, adj. (22)

    DSA 1.127 27 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    MN 1.210 10 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...
    YA 1.391 25 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics...there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    SL 2.143 5 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and the hero out of the pitiful habitation and company in which he was hidden.
    Lov1 2.177 23 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world...
    Prd1 2.233 12 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
    Cir 2.315 16 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Exp 3.57 16 I cannot recall any form of man who is not superfluous sometimes. But is not this pitiful?
    Exp 3.83 17 I should feel it pitiful to demand a result on this town and county...
    NER 3.267 10 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion; and the stricter the union the smaller and more pitiful he is.
    NER 3.280 4 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.
    Wth 6.92 20 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust...but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    Ctr 6.153 13 Life [in the city] is dragged down to a fracas of pitiful cares and disasters.
    Bty 6.303 20 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world, and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality.
    DL 7.108 18 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks...
    DL 7.124 4 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    WD 7.170 19 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...
    Dem1 10.5 9 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams]. The fairest forms...are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.
    SovE 10.196 23 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person...
    EWI 11.128 25 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    MAng1 12.226 8 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays but a pitiful part in Michael's history.
    WSL 12.343 14 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments.

pitiless, adj. (13)

    Comp 2.114 1 Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws.
    NER 3.283 10 Pitiless, [the Law] avails itself of our success when we obey it, and of our ruin when we contravene it.
    PPh 4.53 4 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes...
    PPh 4.73 17 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...
    NMW 4.234 7 [Napoleon was] Not bloodthirsty, but not sparing of blood,-- and pitiless.
    ET5 5.78 26 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...
    ET8 5.129 12 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg, or was it only his pitiless logic, that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    Wsp 6.224 17 ...the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
    Farm 7.145 20 Intellect is a fire: rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man.
    Boks 7.199 1 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...pitiless exposure of pedants...he shall be contented also.
    Aris 10.64 1 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
    SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.
    LLNE 10.328 27 In science the French savant, exact, pitiless...travels into all nooks and islands...

pits, n. (7)

    ET2 5.29 17 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
    ET14 5.237 9 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    CbW 6.255 9 ...Art lives and thrills in...mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
    Bty 6.279 17 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through/...
    Ill 6.309 11 [In the Mammoth Cave] I saw high domes and bottomless pits;...
    MoL 10.249 21 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...
    PLT 12.42 16 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...over terrific pits right and left, it were a wide prairie.

Pitt, William [Chatham, Ea [Pitt,] (3)

    UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to Pitt...
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    Aris 10.51 23 To a right aristocracy...to Sir Robert Walpole, to Fox, Chatham...everything will be permitted and pardoned...

Pitt, William [Earl of Cha [Pitt,, Pitt,] (29)

    MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    Pt1 3.18 2 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    Chr1 3.89 1 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
    GoW 4.270 24 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
    ET4 5.68 25 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    ET5 5.90 12 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.
    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET6 5.111 7 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET9 5.146 27 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;...
    ET10 5.168 20 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...were by this means sent to Parliament...
    Ctr 6.152 26 Mr. Pitt...thought the title of Mister good against any king in Europe.
    Bhr 6.182 2 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
    Elo1 7.63 12 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
    Elo1 7.85 4 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Fox, of Pitt...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.94 25 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    elo1 7.99 8 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note of the discourses of Demosthenes, as of Chatham.
    DL 7.103 13 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
    Cour 7.253 22 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham...
    Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Elo2 8.117 18 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    PC 8.218 8 If [a man] has...administrative faculty, like Chatham or Bismarck, he is the king's king.
    EWI 11.109 3 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].
    EWI 11.109 8 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
    EWI 11.128 2 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate, Fox, Pitt, Burke... ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    EWI 11.141 6 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These he showed to Mr. Pitt...
    AsSu 11.250 27 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of Chatham...
    ACri 12.286 11 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity,-Mirabeau, Chatham, Fox...

pittance, n. (2)

    YA 1.374 8 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    ET16 5.289 17 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year, that were meant for the poor, and spends a pittance on this small-beer and crumbs.

Pitt's, William [Earl of C (2)

    LE 1.163 11 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Chatham' s...day...
    SR 2.59 26 [Virtue] is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice...

pity, n. (25)

    AmS 1.106 22 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    AmS 1.115 22 The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity...
    DSA 1.140 3 We are struck with pity, rather, at the swift retribution of [the negligent servant's] sloth.
    Fdsp 2.205 17 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.
    OS 2.276 27 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion; of love, hatred, fear, admiration, pity;...
    Chr1 3.112 2 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men], from asking their praise, or help, or pity, and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    ET9 5.145 17 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman;...
    ET14 5.247 1 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks...
    CbW 6.266 24 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    Elo1 7.87 19 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court, but read to those who had no pity.
    DL 7.103 18 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
    Boks 7.215 10 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Supl 10.170 22 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...
    Plu 10.312 15 [Seneca] called pity, that fault of narrow souls.
    EzRy 10.383 18 It was a pity that [Ezra Ripley's] old meeting-house should have been modernized in his time.
    MMEm 10.428 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she thinking it a pity to let it lie idle, wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    EWI 11.142 25 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies]...
    FSLC 11.192 23 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity?
    FSLC 11.193 24 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
    AsSu 11.249 18 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent...
    SMC 11.370 7 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    Mem 12.106 20 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    Bost 12.201 5 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
    Bost 12.201 7 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
    Trag 12.409 20 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.

pity, v. (8)

    SR 2.76 26 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...we pity him no more...
    SwM 4.128 21 ...we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.
    Ctr 6.133 7 The sufferers [from egotism]...reveal their indictable crimes, that you may pity them.
    WD 7.158 5 ...we pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism...
    PI 8.42 5 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks, and we pity the poverty of these dreaming Buddhists.
    Aris 10.47 17 I do not pity the misery of a man underplaced: that will right itself presently...
    Aris 10.47 19 ...I pity the man overplaced.
    Pray 12.351 23 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

pitying, v. (1)

    Grts 8.315 27 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him...

pivot, n. (2)

    DL 7.127 10 We see heads that turn on the pivot of the spine,--no more;...
    DL 7.127 12 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world...

pivots, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 15 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn;...

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