Suez to Sung

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

Suez, Isthmus of, n. (1)

    NMW 4.246 14 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...wading in the gulf of the Isthmus of Suez.

suffer, v. (82)

    Nat 1.21 10 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled, to suffer death as the champion of the English laws, one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Nat 1.37 23 Debt...is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
    AmS 1.95 11 I...take my place in the ring, to suffer and to work...
    DSA 1.129 6 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
    DSA 1.130 4 Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would not suffer it to be commanded.
    DSA 1.135 18 [The office of priest] is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood.
    LE 1.166 18 ...it needs not to do, but to suffer;...
    LE 1.176 11 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge...
    MN 1.220 7 A [New England] man was born...to suffer for the benefit of others...
    MR 1.241 2 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket...to sever him from those duties;...
    MR 1.255 9 Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man the reformer?
    Con 1.301 26 ...we must...suffer men to learn as they have done for six millenniums, a word at time;...
    Con 1.308 7 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you...to ride into my estate, and claim to scatter it as your own.
    Hist 2.8 19 [Each man] must...not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires...
    Comp 2.94 1 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many...crooked passages in our journey, that would not suffer us to lose our way.
    Comp 2.109 7 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Comp 2.110 26 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
    Comp 2.118 25 Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated.
    SL 2.161 24 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction...
    Hsm1 2.250 12 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.
    Hsm1 2.255 21 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
    Hsm1 2.264 1 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    Int 2.328 25 We do not determine what we will think. We only...clear away as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see.
    Pt1 3.6 4 ...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    Pt1 3.21 5 All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man, to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact.
    Pt1 3.26 10 The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
    Pt1 3.26 12 A spy [things] will not suffer;...
    Pt1 3.26 13 A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.
    Exp 3.61 9 ...however a thoughtful man may suffer from the defects and absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Exp 3.67 1 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these beautiful limits...
    Mrs1 3.152 24 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    Nat2 3.170 11 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would...suffer nature to intrance us.
    PPh 4.40 1 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].
    PNR 4.84 2 Plato affirms...that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it;...
    MoS 4.157 27 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance;...
    NMW 4.231 5 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or misled by any pretences of others...
    GoW 4.263 9 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    GoW 4.290 18 The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us;...
    ET11 5.183 24 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work for themselves when every man in England...will suffer before they come to harm?
    ET12 5.203 25 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.
    ET18 5.306 21 ...any forbearance from [an Englishman's] superiors surprises him, and they suffer in his good opinion.
    F 6.21 12 The doer must suffer, said the Greeks;...
    Pow 6.62 3 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Ctr 6.154 9 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Ctr 6.159 14 I suffer every day from the want of perception of beauty in people.
    Ctr 6.165 1 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the estate shall suffer no harm by his administration...
    Wsp 6.239 24 ...[men] suffer from politics, or bad neighbors...and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    Bty 6.300 2 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced to suffer some intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Elo1 7.62 15 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    DL 7.112 15 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    Cour 7.265 7 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility...suffer in the fear of the pang more acutely than in the pang.
    Cour 7.265 11 ...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than the victims.
    OA 7.326 5 ...[the old lawyer's] reputation does not gain or suffer from one or a dozen new performances.
    PerF 10.88 4 What we do and suffer is in moments...
    Chr2 10.116 5 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss...
    Edc1 10.129 22 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Edc1 10.137 24 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...
    Edc1 10.151 8 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties, to wait and to suffer?
    SovE 10.189 8 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    SovE 10.193 13 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    SovE 10.204 10 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now men...suffer in character and intellect.
    MMEm 10.430 6 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy, nor suffer any real compassion.
    GSt 10.507 1 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...was never called to suffer under the decays and loss of his powers...I count him happy among men.
    HDC 11.40 15 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.
    HDC 11.69 17 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea...neither will we suffer any such tea to be used in our families.
    EWI 11.134 1 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...
    EWI 11.136 16 ...It is better to suffer every evil, than to consent to any.
    War 11.158 12 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    FSLC 11.190 5 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
    AKan 11.256 20 In these calamities under which they suffer...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
    JBB 11.269 21 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
    ALin 11.329 22 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent, and suffer the awful voices of the time to thunder to us.
    Koss 11.396 2 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Wom 11.419 15 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    CPL 11.498 16 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.
    Mem 12.92 19 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then you suffer no more...
    CInt 12.113 12 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.
    CW 12.173 27 If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident or low spirits, his spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
    Milt1 12.249 12 [Milton's tracts'] rhetorical excellence must also suffer some deduction.
    Let 12.402 19 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.
    Trag 12.409 19 ...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
    Trag 12.410 16 If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers not, for grief is dumb.

sufferance, n. (4)

    AmS 1.104 27 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance.
    AmS 1.105 1 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance.
    Chr1 3.87 5 ...matched his sufferance sublime/ The taciturnity of time./
    F 6.35 12 The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.

suffered, v. (51)

    AmS 1.83 15 The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk...
    LT 1.286 9 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.335 26 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    SR 2.63 14 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Comp 2.117 13 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    SL 2.132 1 ...it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered;...
    Hsm1 2.248 2 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Cir 2.311 26 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
    Pt1 3.27 7 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...with the intellect...suffered to take its direction from its celestial life;...
    Exp 3.46 21 ...all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.
    Nat2 3.188 2 ...James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ.
    NR 3.237 19 [Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.
    SwM 4.146 5 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure;...
    ShP 4.215 7 The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has suffered a transformation since it was an experience.
    GoW 4.285 18 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered...
    ET5 5.78 23 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing,--not so much as secret ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
    ET15 5.268 15 No writer is suffered to claim the authorship of any paper [in the London Times];...
    Ctr 6.143 19 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Bhr 6.186 22 ...Godfrey acts ever as if he suffered from some mortifying circumstance.
    Bhr 6.186 26 The hero is suffered to be himself.
    SS 7.4 18 ...[[my new friend] suffered at being seen where he was...
    DL 7.107 17 It is what is done and suffered in the house...that has the profoundest interest for us.
    WD 7.184 9 There are people...who are suffered to be themselves in society;...
    OA 7.332 26 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
    Res 8.147 17 Against the terrors of the mob, which...once suffered to gain the ascendant, is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    PC 8.232 24 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    Grts 8.320 23 The man...who is suffered to be himself in society;...he it is whom we seek...
    Aris 10.50 4 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.
    Plu 10.317 26 If I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be ascribed to him, I regret that he should have suffered such destruction of his own.
    MMEm 10.414 2 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    HDC 11.37 7 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
    HDC 11.55 18 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;...and the crops suffered much from mice.
    HDC 11.61 1 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war.
    HDC 11.65 26 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
    HDC 11.82 12 [Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence...
    LVB 11.88 5 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence,/ Suffered or done./ Wordsworth.
    EWI 11.111 9 [The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at the humor of the master...
    EWI 11.111 21 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world, of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    EWI 11.116 11 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence...
    EWI 11.131 9 ...this kidnapping [of freeborn negroes] is suffered within our own land and federation...
    FSLC 11.212 16 We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
    FSLN 11.228 20 I said I had never in my life up to this time suffered from the Slave Institution.
    ALin 11.335 24 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.
    SMC 11.364 23 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness, and suffered the more from this heat.
    SMC 11.366 12 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    SMC 11.368 17 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part...suffered severely.
    EdAd 11.393 9 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs. But the form shall not be suffered to be an impediment.
    Wom 11.419 16 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Wom 11.423 24 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    FRep 11.542 2 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served. How can men have any other ambition where the reason has not suffered a disastrous eclipse?
    Bost 12.192 10 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons and mice.

sufferer, n. (13)

    SR 2.78 11 Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer;...
    Comp 2.123 15 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
    UGM 4.24 2 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life...
    DL 7.115 2 To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off.
    Farm 7.138 11 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
    Cour 7.265 27 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive...how serene is the sufferer.
    Edc1 10.158 8 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    SovE 10.195 2 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    LVB 11.95 27 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
    CPL 11.503 12 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.
    CL 12.138 23 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer.
    Trag 12.410 12 Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
    Trag 12.416 22 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.

sufferers, n. (6)

    Mrs1 3.154 24 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side.
    Ctr 6.133 5 The sufferers [from egotism] parade their miseries...
    Clbs 7.233 7 The greatest sufferers are often those who have the most to say...
    MoL 10.257 26 I learn with grief...that you have had your sufferers in the battle...
    GSt 10.503 6 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...
    JBB 11.270 10 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...

suffering, adj. (6)

    LT 1.262 6 They indicate,-these...suffering...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    Hsm1 2.261 21 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
    Art2 7.53 21 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men.
    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.
    PC 8.209 6 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve...suffering Greeks...
    Trag 12.408 4 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of which he is a part.

suffering, n. (14)

    YA 1.389 8 Men complain of their suffering, and not of the crime.
    Hsm1 2.249 15 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    Exp 3.48 10 There are moods in which we court suffering...
    Bhr 6.193 21 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Cour 7.265 20 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering...
    Cour 7.265 21 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering...
    Imtl 8.343 10 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints; and these by any man's suffering are enlarged and enthroned.
    Aris 10.46 17 ...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering.
    MMEm 10.422 4 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.
    FSLN 11.236 12 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us...are an offset to a Universe of suffering and crime;...
    SMC 11.374 5 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold...
    Milt1 12.267 13 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures... strength by suffering...
    Trag 12.412 14 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or suffering.
    Trag 12.415 10 Most suffering is only apparent.

suffering, v. (16)

    YA 1.388 1 The people, and the world, are now suffering from the want of religion and honor in its public mind.
    Comp 2.110 18 You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
    Pt1 3.26 25 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;...
    Mrs1 3.153 21 [Love] impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.
    ShP 4.191 13 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in... suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
    ET13 5.231 4 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    Pow 6.73 22 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.
    Wth 6.102 21 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
    Bhr 6.184 23 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    HDC 11.48 1 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant...suffering from any violence or usurpation of any class.
    EWI 11.129 5 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro, for man suffering these wrongs, combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLN 11.219 1 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.
    SMC 11.367 7 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    SMC 11.371 5 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    CL 12.137 16 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle...
    Milt1 12.278 21 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.

sufferings, n. (5)

    Elo1 7.62 12 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience.
    HDC 11.35 12 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon following;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.81 4 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
    EWI 11.105 9 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    Trag 12.415 18 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings.

suffers, v. (26)

    Nat 1.53 8 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/ It suffers not in smiling pomp.../
    DSA 1.127 17 ...because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of, the doctrine of it suffers this perversion...
    DSA 1.138 12 ...[this man] smiles and suffers;...
    Hist 2.30 23 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals, and readily suffers all things on their account.
    SR 2.70 25 Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
    Lov1 2.170 10 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...suffers no one who is its servant to grow old...
    Prd1 2.235 11 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    NR 3.242 24 [Nature] suffers no seat to be vacant in her college.
    NER 3.277 5 The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
    SwM 4.133 11 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep...
    ET6 5.104 26 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...
    F 6.14 23 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
    F 6.29 12 ...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers himself to be betrayed by Fate!
    F 6.47 21 Leaving the daemon who suffers, [man] is to take sides with the Deity...
    Art2 7.37 20 The child not only suffers, but cries;...
    OA 7.326 21 The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried...
    PI 8.28 15 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
    PPo 8.248 11 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see... that the mind suffers no religion and no empire but its own.
    Aris 10.63 26 ...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...
    PerF 10.86 27 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    Plu 10.314 3 The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
    FSLC 11.182 7 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    MLit 12.335 7 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.
    PPr 12.388 16 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
    Trag 12.410 17 If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers not, for grief is dumb.
    Trag 12.416 7 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition...

suffice, v. (14)

    Hist 2.38 12 Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    SL 2.132 27 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
    Pt1 3.29 15 ...the air should suffice for [the poet's] inspiration...
    Exp 3.73 19 Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at a wall...
    Exp 3.84 18 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. That is an august entertainment, and would suffice me a great while.
    CbW 6.257 16 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    Civ 7.17 18 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Boks 7.199 5 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race;...
    Imtl 8.341 13 A thousand years,-tenfold, a hundredfold [the thinker's] faculties, would not suffice.
    FSLN 11.220 7 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be. It will always suffice to say,-I followed him.
    JBS 11.276 11 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
    II 12.86 10 His art shall suffice this artist...
    CL 12.148 8 Some English reformers thought...that, if there were no cows to pasture, less land would suffice.
    EurB 12.378 9 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid castigation...

sufficed, v. (7)

    MN 1.207 19 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    Con 1.317 7 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.355 1 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation.
    ET4 5.45 26 The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the colonization of great parts of the world;...
    LLNE 10.327 24 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    HDC 11.37 2 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.
    ACri 12.295 11 Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation for vast periods.

suffices, v. (5)

    LE 1.157 11 It suffices me to say...that the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind...
    Fdsp 2.211 4 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me.
    Pt1 3.29 17 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Aris 10.65 10 ...it suffices that [a man of generous spirit's] aims are high...
    Supl 10.166 22 The more I am engaged with [the real world], the more it suffices.

sufficiency, n. (7)

    NER 3.254 2 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...an assertion of the sufficiency of the private man.
    Suc 7.307 24 We know...the sufficiency of truth.
    Chr2 10.121 26 There is no end to the sufficiency of character.
    SovE 10.212 5 The commanding fact which I never do not see, is the sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
    Thor 10.479 3 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    EWI 11.122 12 [Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast...
    PLT 12.3 10 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts, sure of their sufficiency.

sufficient, adj. (71)

    Nat 1.47 9 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
    Nat 1.68 5 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    DSA 1.144 15 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.
    MN 1.216 17 Be you only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you in every part of my life and fortune...
    MR 1.244 21 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the house...
    LT 1.273 23 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
    LT 1.279 4 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
    Hist 2.12 12 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...its Saints' days and image-worship, we have as it were been the man that made the minster; we have seen how it could and must be. We have the sufficient reason.
    Hist 2.14 20 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did.
    Hist 2.37 6 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    SR 2.59 7 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
    Lov1 2.178 11 Beauty...seems sufficient to itself.
    Prd1 2.222 19 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three.
    Hsm1 2.263 8 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    Pt1 3.6 10 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
    Pt1 3.37 5 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life...
    Exp 3.83 15 Let who will ask, Where is the fruit? I find a private fruit sufficient.
    Chr1 3.111 5 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Mrs1 3.138 18 It is not quite sufficient to good-breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
    Pol1 3.200 6 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
    Pol1 3.207 14 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people, which they still express with sufficient fidelity...
    Pol1 3.213 27 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
    Pol1 3.214 7 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
    Pol1 3.220 23 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things...
    Pol1 3.221 2 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    UGM 4.23 5 I applaud a sufficient man...
    PPh 4.48 13 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause...self-assured that it shall arrive at an absolute and sufficient one...
    SwM 4.105 24 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
    MoS 4.161 27 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ET2 5.25 17 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services. At all events it was sufficient to cover any travelling expenses...
    ET3 5.42 4 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    ET3 5.42 19 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET16 5.287 12 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
    F 6.36 14 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Bhr 6.185 23 ...the movements of Blanche are the sallies of a spirit which is sufficient for the moment...
    CbW 6.273 22 ...we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient;...
    SS 7.16 3 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight, with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right...
    Civ 7.24 7 ...a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
    Elo1 7.95 21 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    DL 7.113 17 It is a sufficient accusation of our ways of living...that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.128 7 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Suc 7.288 9 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
    PI 8.72 16 Music seems to you sufficient...
    Comc 8.160 19 ...all falsehoods, all vices seen at sufficient distance... become ludicrous.
    QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.201 13 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
    PC 8.225 26 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man.
    PPo 8.241 1 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon...
    PPo 8.248 9 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    Insp 8.294 14 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Imtl 8.328 20 Sufficient to to-day are the duties of to-day.
    Imtl 8.340 24 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
    Dem1 10.10 9 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign.
    Aris 10.50 25 It is not sufficient that your work follows your genius...
    Aris 10.55 25 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come.
    PerF 10.83 16 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
    SovE 10.201 13 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
    Schr 10.279 18 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    LS 11.19 16 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance.
    War 11.170 16 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    War 11.174 21 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    FSLC 11.213 27 ...there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.240 11 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    EdAd 11.390 15 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    Wom 11.417 12 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    PLT 12.27 8 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say it truly until a sufficient time for the arrangement of the particles has elapsed.
    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.
    MAng1 12.224 22 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient...
    MAng1 12.231 1 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
    ACri 12.300 26 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
    WSL 12.345 27 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.

sufficiently, adv. (22)

    AmS 1.91 5 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.
    Con 1.307 13 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
    Con 1.319 2 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Tran 1.354 16 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
    SR 2.48 18 ...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic.
    Pt1 3.9 7 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently praise.
    Pt1 3.25 13 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.
    Chr1 3.91 6 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    UGM 4.31 20 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    PNR 4.85 21 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    MoS 4.162 1 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related to the world to do justice to Paris or London...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    NMW 4.241 14 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    NMW 4.246 27 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    NMW 4.251 22 I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other antagonists;...
    ET4 5.49 17 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it, as not sufficiently based.
    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.
    Elo1 7.74 12 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive to him who is devoid of that talent...
    Aris 10.65 19 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Plu 10.299 15 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...
    EzRy 10.381 22 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
    II 12.83 15 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    Bost 12.186 11 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood, which Puritanism has not sufficiently chastised;...

sufficing, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.29 9 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
    Suc 7.302 1 Ah! if one could...live in the happy sufficing present...
    Imtl 8.336 2 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?

sufficing, v. (1)

    PLT 12.51 27 Not sufficing to feed all the faculties synchronously, [Nature] feeds one faculty and starves all the rest.

suffocate, v. (1)

    PI 8.35 21 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...

suffocated, v. (4)

    Hist 2.31 14 Antaeus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules...
    ET2 5.29 7 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge...
    PPo 8.238 23 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.
    FSLC 11.188 1 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...suffocated in a wooden box, to get away from his driver...

suffocating, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.307 19 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.

suffocation, n. (1)

    SS 7.14 18 ...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.

suffrage, n. (11)

    SR 2.50 13 Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
    Pol1 3.209 13 Parties of principle, as...the party...of universal suffrage... degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.210 2 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for wide suffrage...
    ET7 5.118 17 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
    ET18 5.305 14 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic emancipation...
    Civ 7.34 10 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    PI 8.13 17 I had rather have a good symbol of my thought...than the suffrage of Kant or Plato.
    PC 8.231 8 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
    Aris 10.35 2 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
    ACiv 11.298 27 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    Wom 11.416 26 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to the exercise of the professions and of suffrage.

suffrages, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.97 15 Men are averse and hostile, to give value to their suffrages.
    CInt 12.122 11 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.

suffused, v. (1)

    DSA 1.140 9 Instantly [the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame...

sugar, n. (31)

    MR 1.232 7 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations, and one dies in ten every year...to yield us sugar.
    MR 1.237 7 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.237 18 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    Hsm1 2.243 2 ...Sugar spends to fatten slaves/...
    Mrs1 3.137 27 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each wants salt or sugar.
    UGM 4.6 6 It is easy to sugar to be sweet...
    PPh 4.76 15 The qualities of sugar remain with sugar...
    MoS 4.151 27 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist: no, but sticks to cotton, sugar, wool and salt.
    MoS 4.162 1 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is not salt or sugar...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ET10 5.168 1 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish, nor sugar sweeten...
    Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
    CbW 6.262 21 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
    Ill 6.311 27 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
    Ill 6.321 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.
    Elo1 7.69 26 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination, though it may have no lasting effect. Some portion of this sugar must intermingle.
    PPo 8.244 7 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 8.249 16 We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders...
    Insp 8.269 20 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...
    Thor 10.482 22 Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
    HDC 11.56 22 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
    HDC 11.59 21 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    EWI 11.102 14 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers...of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy;..I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and coffee, at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.124 11 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
    EWI 11.124 21 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with intellect, as well as with a love of sugar;...
    FSLN 11.233 10 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    ACiv 11.297 13 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
    ACiv 11.302 5 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    CL 12.149 23 [The Indian] can draw sugar from the maple...
    AgMs 12.360 24 The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining...
    EurB 12.371 11 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar.

sugar-plums, n. (1)

    Hsm1. 2.252 12 What shall [heroism] say then to the sugar-plums and cats'-cradles... which rack the wit of all society?

suggest, v. (42)

    Nat 1.31 12 These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses...
    DSA 1.122 1 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    MN 1.198 10 In treating a subject so large, in which we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MR 1.242 6 ...I will suggest that no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    Tran 1.345 16 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?
    YA 1.366 28 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which... affection for a man's home could suggest.
    OS 2.289 12 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
    ET4 5.49 16 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    ET11 5.190 6 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques... record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    Ctr 6.145 14 All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.
    Ctr 6.150 4 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.
    Bhr 6.182 2 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
    Wsp 6.221 20 ...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Wsp 6.238 9 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute.
    Bty 6.303 19 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world...
    Civ 7.19 14 In the hesitation to define what [Civilization] is, we usually suggest it by negations.
    Elo1 7.68 19 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... though he cannot describe, hopes to suggest the whole scene.
    DL 7.126 6 ...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and true teach us better,--nay, the men themselves suggest a better life.
    DL 7.127 21 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Boks 7.214 10 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams...suggest new thoughts for to-morrow.
    PI 8.68 27 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,--by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say.
    QO 8.188 5 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    Dem1 10.7 5 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory?
    Dem1 10.7 23 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.
    Chr2 10.96 27 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Edc1 10.154 27 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    Supl 10.164 22 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it.
    Prch 10.232 15 ...there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Plu 10.294 16 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    LLNE 10.348 19 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It...could not but suggest vast possibilities of reform to the coldest and least sanguine.
    MMEm 10.417 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
    SlHr 10.441 10 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw...
    GSt 10.503 17 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach, to suggest and urge the measures needed for the hour.
    Wom 11.425 7 I need not repeat to you-your own solitude will suggest it-that a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
    SHC 11.434 4 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached, if it did not suggest the design, as the fit place for their final repose.
    FRep 11.525 5 Faults in the working appear in our system...but they suggest their own remedies.
    FRep 11.539 23 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    PLT 12.11 23 ...I might suggest that he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
    MAng1 12.218 2 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    MAng1 12.243 1 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...
    ACri 12.283 9 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    EurB 12.367 6 ...Wordsworth, though satisfied if he can suggest to a sympathetic mind his own mood...is really a master of the English language...

suggested, v. (32)

    Nat 1.35 21 A new interest surprises us, whilst, under the view now suggested, we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    Nat 1.39 17 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Nat 1.51 3 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    Nat 1.51 14 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    AmS 1.86 16 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
    DSA 1.123 24 These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    DSA 1.127 26 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life...when suggested, seem ridiculous.
    MR 1.246 15 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these they crave also...
    Hist 2.16 5 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock.
    SR 2.50 19 ...my friend suggested,--But these impulses may be from below...
    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.
    NMW 4.242 1 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
    GoW 4.275 3 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    ET13 5.225 16 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it...suggested a masquerade of old costumes.
    ET16 5.279 20 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    Art2 7.54 18 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Elo1 7.62 17 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    Elo2 8.111 23 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the unexpected turn things may take...
    QO 8.179 12 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    Insp 8.276 12 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
    Insp 8.297 1 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social practices their experience suggested and approved.
    Imtl 8.324 3 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would of course be suggested.
    SovE 10.183 5 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    Plu 10.311 25 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets, and the virtues suggested by them...
    MMEm 10.414 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her...
    Thor 10.472 2 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    LS 11.23 24 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
    HDC 11.49 1 ...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], as proof that...if the good counsel prevailed, the sneaking counsel did not fail to be suggested;...
    EWI 11.106 16 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
    CL 12.158 14 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
    MAng1 12.234 23 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    Milt1 12.249 7 There is [in Milton's tracts]...no mediate, no preparatory course suggested...

suggesting, v. (8)

    Nat 1.58 1 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture, in degrading nature and suggesting its dependence on spirit.
    ET11 5.180 5 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that the tie is not cut...
    ET11 5.180 13 [The English lords]...call themselves after their lands, as if the man represented the country that bred him;... It has...the advantage of suggesting responsibleness.
    Cour 7.254 20 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make the earthquake harmless...
    PI 8.4 12 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    Imtl 8.339 2 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,- suggesting a design still to be carried out;...
    Edc1 10.156 23 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    LVB 11.95 15 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

suggestion, n. (31)

    Nat 1.10 22 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
    Nat 1.70 5 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    Tran 1.338 18 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life]...
    Cir 2.305 15 Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be.
    Art1 2.351 9 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.
    SwM 4.105 9 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies, and the suggestion of his problems.
    ET2 5.25 12 The request [to lecture in England] was urged with every kind suggestion...
    Ctr 6.136 27 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    Bhr 6.197 10 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
    Wsp 6.210 24 How prompt the suggestion of a low motive!
    Bty 6.304 4 [Chosen men and women] have a largeness of suggestion...
    Boks 7.198 25 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato].
    Boks 7.211 10 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it...and it is full of suggestion...
    Boks 7.213 1 What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the suggestion of rich music!
    Clbs 7.230 1 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more;...
    PI 8.21 14 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
    QO 8.180 7 There is imitation, model and suggestion, to the very archangels, if we knew their history.
    QO 8.202 3 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    Insp 8.276 21 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad. Well, we have the same hint or suggestion, day by day.
    Chr2 10.116 1 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Edc1 10.143 26 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    Schr 10.269 18 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.
    Plu 10.301 24 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Thor 10.474 19 ...[Thoreau] found poetic suggestion in the humming of the telegraph-wire.
    HDC 11.47 20 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
    PLT 12.16 8 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    Mem 12.109 19 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...every relation and suggestion...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CL 12.139 7 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    MLit 12.310 9 [Poems' light] is not in their grammatical construction which they give me. If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me, but is the genius and suggestion of the whole.
    WSL 12.339 14 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not so much the suggestion of merriment as of bitterness.
    Pray 12.356 2 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!

suggestions, n. (21)

    SR 2.82 4 I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions...
    Lov1 2.181 26 ...if, accepting the hint of these visions and suggestions which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Int 2.342 22 The suggestions are thousand-fold that I hear and see.
    Nat2 3.190 14 Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not satisfactions, but suggestions.
    Pol1 3.221 19 Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
    UGM 4.31 5 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
    CbW 6.271 18 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living...
    PI 8.6 16 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind; its strange suggestions and laws;...
    PI 8.22 4 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts.
    QO 8.191 1 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.199 6 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition; waking, the like suggestions occurred for and against the proposition as his own thoughts;...
    Insp 8.271 1 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope...
    Insp 8.293 15 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require new ways of living...
    Imtl 8.345 10 ...whilst I find the signatures, the hints and suggestions, noble and wholesome...yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Chr2 10.115 18 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only suggestions...
    SovE 10.201 25 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
    Plu 10.295 21 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
    GSt 10.505 15 When one remembers...the useful suggestions;...I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    FRO1 11.480 2 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    PLT 12.35 21 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
    II 12.68 19 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.

suggestive, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.18 1 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
    Boks 7.212 1 ...[sentences] are good only as strings of suggestive words.
    PLT 12.43 15 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

suggests, v. (30)

    Nat 1.24 5 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
    Nat 1.47 6 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
    Nat 1.61 13 [Nature] suggests the absolute.
    DSA 1.150 20 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests, even to the vile, the dignity of spiritual being.
    Con 1.321 19 Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Comp 2.97 5 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole;...
    Lov1 2.180 19 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions;...
    Lov1 2.181 18 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the beauty.
    NR 3.225 5 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    UGM 4.16 2 Shakspeare's name suggests other and purely intellectual benefits.
    SwM 4.102 19 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.
    SwM 4.130 8 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. ... But this topic suggests a sad afterthought, that here we find the seat of his own pain.
    MoS 4.176 21 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    ShP 4.216 11 [Shakespeare's] name suggests joy and emancipation to the heart of men.
    ET14 5.259 24 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone and suggests the presence of the invisible gods.
    ET15 5.267 20 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
    Bty 6.293 4 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode... This fact suggests the reason of all mistakes and offence in our own modes.
    DL 7.126 25 Every face, every figure, suggests its own right and sound estate.
    Farm 7.147 9 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    Cour 7.263 20 To the sailor's experience every new circumstance suggests what he must do.
    Suc 7.304 27 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated;...
    PI 8.9 26 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.42 22 [Everything] suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read.
    Elo2 8.115 4 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.
    Comc 8.159 10 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness...
    Chr2 10.103 11 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Plu 10.299 22 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne...
    Thor 10.476 26 [Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides...
    II 12.83 23 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
    Let 12.393 11 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.

suicidal, adj. (5)

    YA 1.389 11 Stealing is a suicidal business;...
    NMW 4.257 16 [Napoleon's] attempt was in principle suicidal.
    Civ 7.34 13 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil, climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
    FSLC 11.206 16 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion. The law is suicidal, and cannot be obeyed.
    CInt 12.117 6 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college is suicidal;...

suicidally, adv. (2)

    Con 1.303 8 We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction...reacts suicidally on the actor himself.
    Wth 6.106 27 ...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...

suicide, n. (16)

    MR 1.247 11 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    Tran 1.337 6 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt; I would resolve on suicide like Cato;...
    Tran 1.357 1 ...it is well if [the Transcendentalist] can keep from lying, injustice, and suicide.
    SR 2.46 13 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...that imitation is suicide;...
    Prd1 2.236 27 Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar...
    Exp 3.54 20 On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism, and would soon come to suicide.
    NER 3.278 20 Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
    PPh 4.68 11 Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence. We can define but a little way; but here is a fact...which to shut our eyes upon is suicide.
    F 6.19 3 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    Suc 7.290 21 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that; these are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind.
    SA 8.90 3 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...sex, hatred, suicide...
    Res 8.138 2 ...skepticism is slow suicide.
    Dem1 10.7 18 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see...the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl. You think, could the man overlook his own condition, he could not be restrained from suicide.
    Dem1 10.26 11 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
    MoL 10.246 23 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide.
    WSL 12.345 23 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide.

suicides, n. (3)

    AmS 1.114 26 Young men...die of disgust, some of them suicides.
    UGM 4.27 6 [The great man's] attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides.
    Wsp 6.201 20 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.

suit, n. (5)

    ET1 5.10 16 [Coleridge] took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit.
    ET5 5.84 5 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
    ET10 5.158 2 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
    Ctr 6.151 3 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...
    HDC 11.38 2 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...

suit, v. (12)

    Nat 1.22 2 Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
    Tran 1.349 10 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes, and retailed in small quantities to suit purchasers.
    Nat2 3.187 18 ...the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans...
    NER 3.270 27 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober. The text will suit me very well.
    ET4 5.52 6 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
    ET4 5.52 8 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    ET4 5.65 19 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures, with costume and manners to suit.
    ET7 5.121 8 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour.
    PI 8.30 19 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...
    ACiv 11.304 21 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such advantage as in the last twelvemonth. It does not suit us.
    Wom 11.412 6 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./
    Bost 12.205 24 The sailor and the merchant [in America] made the law to suit themselves...

suitable, adj. (7)

    MN 1.197 23 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    MoS 4.167 15 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.
    EzRy 10.385 1 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence, to make suitable remarks on it...
    LS 11.18 27 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper], however suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    LS 11.19 18 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me.
    HDC 11.49 23 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    Wom 11.407 12 ...there is usually no employment or career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of society quit for a suitable marriage.

suitableness, n. (1)

    LS 11.21 25 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

suitably, adv. (3)

    EzRy 10.384 27 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
    EzRy 10.385 2 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...and to be suitably affected with it.
    EurB 12.375 8 ...[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.

suited, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.79 17 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work, which was not suited to the country.

suited, v. (1)

    Pow 6.72 23 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.

suites, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.243 5 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her hotel...with superb suites of drawing-rooms on the same floor...

suitors, n. (4)

    SR 2.62 7 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...suitors for his notice...
    ET5 5.81 5 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    Pow 6.76 22 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who...rules something intelligible for the guidance of suitors.
    PPo 8.256 18 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./

suits, n. (1)

    Wth 6.87 18 Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes...

suits, v. (5)

    F 6.40 26 Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes...
    Wth 6.90 18 ...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons];...
    ACiv 11.304 17 The war is welcome to the Southerner;...and suits his semi-civilized condition.
    Wom 11.426 8 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    FRO1 11.478 6 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us.

sulkily, adv. (1)

    PLT 12.28 18 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning her wealth to man.

sulkiness, n. (1)

    EWI 11.117 25 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of the addresses of this assembly.

sulking, v. (1)

    ET8 5.135 13 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...sulking in a lonely house;...

sulky, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.65 15 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...sulky or savage...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...

sulky, n. (1)

    SS 7.8 16 Like President Tyler...we must ride in a sulky at last.

sullenness, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.258 9 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...

Sully's, Maximelien de Beth (1)

    Boks 7.208 25 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Sully's Memoirs;...

sulphur, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.306 9 ...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.

sulphuric, adj. (4)

    F 6.20 26 Neither brandy...nor sulphuric ether...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    WD 7.158 6 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs...
    Clbs 7.239 8 ... Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Aris 10.40 12 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage, the finder of sulphuric ether and the electric telegraph...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

Sultan, n. (2)

    PPo 8.238 11 Favor of the Sultan, or his displeasure, is [in the East] a question of Fate.
    PPo 8.250 16 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...

sultriness, n. (1)

    Thor 10.479 14 ...in snow and ice [Thoreau] would find sultriness...

sultry, adj. (2)

    OS 2.265 10 ...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./
    Comc 8.170 2 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow, very refreshing in so sultry a day;...

sum, n. (13)

    Nat 1.5 3 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...
    Con 1.302 4 For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we must even hear the parties plead as parties.
    Exp 3.47 19 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas...
    ET11 5.186 10 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius...
    Wth 6.112 14 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness. This is so much economy that...it is the sum of economy.
    Elo1 7.87 10 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum...
    DL 7.115 21 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    Suc 7.294 9 The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    PI 8.2 11 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
    PPo 8.245 14 Here is the sum, that, when one door opens, another shuts.
    HDC 11.57 9 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.
    ALin 11.331 23 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent in working out the sum for himself;...
    FRep 11.513 7 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power...

sum total, n. (1)

    SR 2.62 27 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a...common day's work; but...the sum total of both is the same.

sum, v. (3)

    MoS 4.154 21 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    ET16 5.273 11 I was glad to sum up a little my experiences, and to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    PLT 12.64 1 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.

summarily, adv. (1)

    ET13 5.229 15 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.

summary, adj. (4)

    SR 2.49 4 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...in the swift, summary way of boys...
    ET14 5.240 21 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    Edc1 10.155 1 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    FSLC 11.207 18 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?

summary, n. (3)

    Wth 6.125 1 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in the world which is not repeated in [a man's] body, his body being a sort of miniature or summary of the world;...
    Boks 7.201 15 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Imtl 8.343 24 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself. It is a kind of summary or completion of man.

summe, n. (1)

    GSt 10.499 4 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.

summed, v. (3)

    Nat 1.61 9 ...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one...
    SwM 4.114 3 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...and which Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature exists entire in leasts,--is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
    Wsp 6.240 11 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

summer, adj. (23)

    Nat 1.18 23 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Hist 2.18 21 I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...
    Hist 2.19 5 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    SL 2.143 22 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves;...
    Lov1 2.179 1 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
    Pt1 3.42 9 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain...
    Nat2 3.192 12 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
    NR 3.223 7 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake/...
    ET16 5.281 3 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
    F 6.48 9 I do not wonder at...a summer landscape...
    Ill 6.309 2 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    Insp 8.287 6 Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!
    Imtl 8.337 22 I have seen what glories...of summer mornings and evenings...
    Dem1 10.11 6 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
    SovE 10.184 27 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day.
    SovE 10.188 9 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds...
    MMEm 10.398 2 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    Thor 10.466 12 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years...
    Thor 10.484 8 There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called Life-Everlasting...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    HDC 11.36 14 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...
    SHC 11.434 2 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day, or a summer twilight...
    PLT 12.25 6 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    CL 12.152 10 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived, and that Nature has played out her summer score.

summer, n. (42)

    Nat 1.9 10 Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
    Nat 1.18 12 I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as by the genial influences of summer.
    Nat 1.75 1 What is summer?
    Nat 1.76 27 As when the summer comes from the south the snow-banks melt...so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    DSA 1.119 1 In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.
    Con 1.298 21 We are reformers in spring and summer...
    Con 1.300 23 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...
    Hist 2.21 19 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
    Prd1 2.225 25 Do what we can, summer will have its flies;...
    Pt1 3.25 25 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song...
    Nat2 3.169 15 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    NER 3.257 24 The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.
    PPh 4.72 24 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the same for summer and winter...
    ET16 5.273 22 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire, in which he is wont to spend a part of every summer, made the way short.
    F 6.7 27 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets, which, having filled the summer with noise, are silenced by the fall of the temperature of one night.
    F 6.37 6 ...it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
    CbW 6.267 23 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood...
    Bty 6.298 1 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form...with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer.
    Civ 7.28 1 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
    Res 8.150 18 Is not the seaside necessary in summer?
    QO 8.187 6 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    Insp 8.285 22 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Insp 8.288 4 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer...
    Insp 8.288 11 I have found my advantage in going in summer to a country inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
    MoL 10.248 3 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.
    MMEm 10.397 22 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    Thor 10.468 15 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers all spring and summer, and yet have prevailed...
    Thor 10.474 2 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
    HDC 11.33 15 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.
    HDC 11.55 16 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;...
    ACiv 11.305 9 Then comes the summer, and the fever will drive the soldiers home;...
    PLT 12.25 7 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop. They look all summer as if they would presently burst into bud again, but they do not.
    CL 12.135 23 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing;...
    CL 12.136 7 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets the victory.
    CL 12.140 8 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...
    CL 12.146 4 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground, and keep him there overnight, all day, all summer, for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
    CW 12.171 13 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you, all summer, access to enchantments, new every day...
    Bost 12.196 6 ...the young farmers and mechanics, who work all summer in the field or shop, in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Milt1 12.264 26 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier...
    MLit 12.331 15 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...

summer-fruit, n. (1)

    Gts 3.160 11 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.

summer-house, n. (1)

    ET16 5.285 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house...

summer-houses, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 18 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their...fish-ponds, sculptured summer-houses and grottoes;...

summer-rain, n. (1)

    Exp 3.49 15 The dearest events are summer-rain...

summers, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.199 9 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must ripen.
    PC 8.212 17 Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    MoL 10.248 11 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over: a few summers, and they smile with plenty...
    Mem 12.104 2 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.

summer's, n. (5)

    Nat 1.34 8 Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/ Without our special wonder?/
    SA 8.87 20 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    HDC 11.36 27 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
    CW 12.169 4 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/ Nor the red rainbow of a summer's eve,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    AgMs 12.358 22 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer, after how many and many a hard-fought summer's day and winter's day;...

summersaults, n. (1)

    UGM 4.17 9 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.

summer-time, n. (1)

    PPo 8.236 7 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/...

summing, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.65 5 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in...neatly summing up evidence...

summit, n. (5)

    MN 1.214 4 ...only the light-armed arrive at the summit.
    Hist 2.16 4 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Chr1 3.95 14 Truth is the summit of being;...
    PPo 8.240 21 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf.
    SovE 10.205 17 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.

Summitlevel, Mr., n. (1)

    Ctr 6.135 24 Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel, and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.

summit-levels, n. (1)

    Farm 7.135 12 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./

summits, n. (12)

    UGM 4.33 5 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region...wherein all touch by their summits.
    SwM 4.145 24 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    ET14 5.244 19 Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    Ill 6.322 2 A sudden rise in the road shows us...all the summits, which have been just as near us all the year, but quite out of mind.
    Supl 10.170 7 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises...
    Supl 10.172 23 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art...
    SovE 10.187 2 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science...
    Thor 10.453 19 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    HDC 11.39 4 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
    CL 12.157 4 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...
    MLit 12.326 24 ...[Goethe's] thinking is...not a succession of summits, but a high Asiatic table-land.
    WSL 12.347 2 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...

summon, v. (5)

    Nat 1.35 9 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
    MR 1.246 8 Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them.
    SR 2.88 25 ...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude.
    Wsp 6.228 9 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay.
    MLit 12.313 22 ...the single soul feels its right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal.

summoned, v. (2)

    FRO1 11.477 4 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
    CL 12.136 24 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country...

summoning, v. (1)

    PPr 12.388 26 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 Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

summons, n. (4)

    LE 1.155 4 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    SL 2.141 17 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...is fanaticism...
    Aris 10.42 9 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
    CSC 10.374 10 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...

summons, v. (1)

    ET13 5.229 19 George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt...

Sumner, Charles, n. (6)

    AsSu 11.248 17 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    AsSu 11.249 12 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest;...
    AsSu 11.250 6 ...if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear of them.
    AsSu 11.251 13 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    AsSu 11.251 20 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    Shak1 11.447 22 We [The Saturday Club] regret also the absence of our members Sumner and Motley.

Sumner's, Charles, n. (2)

    AsSu 11.248 27 Mr. Sumner's position is exceptional in its honor.
    AsSu 11.250 26 ...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...

sumptuary, adj. (2)

    YA 1.374 6 We devise sumptuary and relief laws...
    Wth 6.105 24 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.

sumptuous, adj. (6)

    Nat2 3.177 13 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
    ET10 5.163 27 This comfort and splendor [in England]...sumptuous castle and modern villa,--all consist with perfect order.
    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...
    ET11 5.190 25 ...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.
    Wth 6.95 13 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
    SHC 11.431 21 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...

sumptuous-looking, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.223 19 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.

sumptuously, adv. (1)

    LT 1.274 4 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;...

sums, n. (5)

    NMW 4.240 7 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...and reduced the claims by considerable sums.
    ET1 5.17 13 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
    Elo2 8.118 11 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    Aris 10.48 24 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave...
    SlHr 10.442 22 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.

Sumter, Fort, South Caroli (2)

    EPro 11.323 3 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
    HCom 11.343 18 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.

sun, n. (219)

    Nat 1.3 16 The sun shines to-day also.
    Nat 1.8 24 Most persons do not see the sun.
    Nat 1.8 26 The sun illuminates only the eye of the man...
    Nat 1.9 10 Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
    Nat 1.13 11 ...the sun evaporates the sea;...
    Nat 1.20 15 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators. So are the sun and moon...
    Nat 1.20 19 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.21 22 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself...the sun as its candle.
    Nat 1.28 18 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year.
    Nat 1.33 19 ...Make hay while the sun shines;...
    Nat 1.42 6 ...blight, rain, insects, sun, - [a farm] is a sacred emblem...
    Nat 1.47 13 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call sun and moon...
    Nat 1.51 24 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Nat 1.61 15 [Nature] is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.
    Nat 1.69 11 The stars have us to bed:/ Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws./
    Nat 1.71 16 Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon;...
    Nat 1.71 17 Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon; from man the sun, from woman the moon.
    Nat 1.71 27 Now is man the follower of the sun...
    Nat 1.76 25 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up...
    AmS 1.84 25 Every day, the sun;...
    AmS 1.91 16 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    LE 1.167 16 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature,-flowers, birds, mountains, sun, and moon;...
    LE 1.169 16 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.176 3 We live in the sun and on the surface...
    LE 1.187 7 Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who...hides his thoughts from the waiting world? Hides his thoughts! Hide the sun and moon.
    MN 1.197 20 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    MN 1.218 18 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks;...
    MN 1.218 19 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones.
    MN 1.219 4 [Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
    MR 1.239 7 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...
    MR 1.253 24 It is better to work on institutions by the sun than by the wind.
    MR 1.256 27 ...the time will come when we too...shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
    LT 1.265 1 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let the sun paint the people.
    Con 1.297 9 ...the word of Uranus came into [Saturn's] mind like a ray of the sun...
    Con 1.309 18 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
    Con 1.311 14 Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
    Tran 1.342 8 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Hist 2.9 10 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    Hist 2.26 22 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    SR 2.65 23 ...my perception of [a trait] is as much a fact as the sun.
    SR 2.73 14 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me...
    SR 2.85 9 ...[the civilized man] fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.
    Comp 2.107 19 ...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the Furies] would punish him.
    Comp 2.124 2 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
    SL 2.137 18 ...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.
    SL 2.140 5 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose and the air and the sun.
    SL 2.147 19 People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and the trees;...
    SL 2.155 25 ...every shadow points to the sun.
    SL 2.163 26 The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    SL 2.164 4 ...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Lov1 2.178 9 Beauty...welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine... seems sufficient to itself.
    Lov1 2.181 9 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun...
    Lov1 2.182 7 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection, as the sun puts out fire by shining on the hearth, [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Fdsp 2.208 10 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour.
    Fdsp 2.216 12 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...
    Prd1 2.224 19 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Prd1 2.225 5 There revolve...the sun and moon...
    Prd1 2.237 27 ...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
    Prd1 2.238 24 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both;...
    Hsm1 2.246 11 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell;.../
    Hsm1 2.259 3 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
    OS 2.269 16 We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree;...
    OS 2.296 21 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars...
    Art1 2.365 12 The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the earth...
    Pt1 3.5 27 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars...
    Pt1 3.25 1 ...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...
    Pt1 3.29 10 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature, the sun and moon...which should be their toys.
    Pt1 3.29 21 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone on which the dull March sun shines, comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Chr1 3.87 1 The sun set; but set not his hope:/...
    Chr1 3.91 1 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun...
    Chr1 3.96 18 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun...
    Chr1 3.96 19 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person.
    Nat2 3.179 2 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire, and not with reflex rays of sun and moon.
    NR 3.246 1 ...our earth, whilst it spins on its own axis, spins all the time around the sun...
    NR 3.246 10 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
    NER 3.257 20 ...we cannot tell...the hour of the day by the sun.
    PPh 4.48 14 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.69 8 ...every pool reflects the image of the sun...
    SwM 4.102 8 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
    SwM 4.106 12 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    SwM 4.138 21 ...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers;...
    SwM 4.141 12 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...
    MoS 4.173 8 [The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him.
    GoW 4.264 27 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine.
    GoW 4.269 15 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky; and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more necessity.
    ET13 5.228 17 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a fact to front the sun;...
    ET14 5.235 15 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    ET16 5.281 3 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.281 17 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    ET16 5.282 10 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
    F 6.49 2 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.59 2 [The strong man's] eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
    Pow 6.59 23 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has the sun and wind...
    Pow 6.64 13 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.
    Wth 6.95 22 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Wth 6.123 7 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    Ctr 6.154 10 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Bhr 6.177 21 Man cannot fix his eye on the sun...
    Wsp 6.213 3 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun...
    Wsp 6.215 24 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
    Wsp 6.218 22 We have learned the manners of the sun and of the moon...
    Wsp 6.218 26 Man has learned to weigh the sun...
    CbW 6.255 3 The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque.
    CbW 6.267 17 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
    Bty 6.302 14 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.318 23 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself, and that the sun borrows his beams?
    SS 7.4 9 ...the sun and moon put [my new friend] out.
    Civ 7.29 25 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon...
    Art2 7.37 5 [All the departments of life] are rays of one sun;...
    Art2 7.41 25 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
    Art2 7.53 14 ...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
    Elo1 7.74 1 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    Elo1 7.79 19 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go, as sensibly as a July sun or a December frost...
    DL 7.101 7 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./
    DL 7.117 16 [A house] stands there under the sun and moon to ends analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
    Farm 7.139 5 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun...
    Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
    Farm 7.145 25 Whilst all thus burns,--the universe in a blaze kindled from the torch of the sun,--it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Farm 7.147 19 [The tree]...defended itself from the sun by growing in groves...
    Farm 7.148 4 In September, when the pears hang heaviest and are taking from the sun their gay colors, comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Farm 7.152 17 ...true political economy is...on the pattern of the sun and sky.
    Farm 7.153 23 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to sun and moon...
    WD 7.167 3 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...
    WD 7.179 9 He only can enrich me who can recommend to me the space between sun and sun.
    WD 7.182 9 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
    Boks 7.203 10 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun, sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Clbs 7.237 21 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun...
    Cour 7.273 15 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail, or as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed the sun.
    Suc 7.309 1 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. The eye shall not see it; the sun shall not shine on it.
    Suc 7.312 1 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world.
    PI 8.1 19 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.23 17 The staff in [man's] hand is the radius vector of the sun.
    PI 8.23 27 How long it took to find out what a day was, or what this sun, that makes days!
    PI 8.24 5 Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
    PI 8.39 18 [The poet] knows that he did not make his thought,--no, his thought made him, and made the sun and the stars.
    Res 8.140 23 By his machines man...can see the system of the universe like Uriel, the angel of the sun;...
    QO 8.187 7 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    QO 8.201 7 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.
    PC 8.222 17 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall of the earth to the sun...that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PC 8.222 18 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PC 8.224 19 State the sun, and you state the planets, and conversely.
    PPo 8.238 14 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
    PPo 8.241 8 ...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them from the sun.
    PPo 8.243 16 The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall/...
    PPo 8.262 19 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    PPo 8.264 7 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
    PPo 8.265 23 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
    Insp 8.275 14 The raptures of goodness are as old as history and new with this morning's sun.
    Insp 8.280 22 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/...
    Insp 8.281 9 ...I fancy that my logs, which have grown so long in sun and wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.
    Insp 8.285 21 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
    Grts 8.303 21 If a man's centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as well snub the sun.
    Grts 8.305 13 ...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Imtl 8.326 4 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
    Imtl 8.335 21 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star...
    Dem1 10.10 14 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Dem1 10.10 18 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.
    Dem1 10.11 9 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction, revealed by the beams of the rising sun!
    Dem1 10.22 20 We may...say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    Dem1 10.26 7 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions. This is to prefer halos and rainbows to the sun and moon.
    Aris 10.44 12 It were to dispute against the sun, to deny this difference of brain.
    Aris 10.55 26 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come. It is not important what they say. The sun and the evening sky are not calmer.
    PerF 10.71 12 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues; lets it lie in sun and rain...
    PerF 10.71 21 The sun has lost no beams...
    PerF 10.76 8 ...[man] is warmed by the sun, and so of every element;...
    Edc1 10.127 14 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
    Supl 10.165 24 ...there is an inverted superlative...which shivers like Demophoon, in the sun...
    Supl 10.174 5 I will bask in the common sun a while longer.
    SovE 10.193 9 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it...
    SovE 10.196 15 When the stars and sun appear...we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
    SovE 10.202 5 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but...the sun warms him.
    Prch 10.215 4 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
    Prch 10.222 8 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him.
    Schr 10.260 1 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
    Schr 10.265 14 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the sun shines...
    Schr 10.283 21 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal, its light ubiquitous like the sun.
    Schr 10.287 3 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron, who distributes sun and shade after immutable laws.
    Plu 10.321 26 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it.
    LLNE 10.336 4 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe, around which the sun and stars revolved every day...
    LLNE 10.336 10 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system...
    LLNE 10.356 8 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    LLNE 10.356 10 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave, when the sun is warm, and defy the robber.
    HDC 11.28 7 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    HDC 11.33 15 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.
    HDC 11.33 20 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
    EWI 11.102 18 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.104 10 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk, in the scorching heat of the sun;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.142 2 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    FSLC 11.209 23 The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadow.
    FSLN 11.240 20 [The free man] is a finished man;...the sun does not see anything nobler, and has nothing to teach him.
    EdAd 11.387 14 ...this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...
    Wom 11.404 2 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.424 23 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds...of the same influences that make the sun and moon.
    SHC 11.428 20 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    CPL 11.502 7 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    CPL 11.505 26 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    CPL 11.506 4 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me.
    PLT 12.17 24 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
    PLT 12.32 23 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    PLT 12.36 3 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains, lying on the ground, tooting like a cricket in the sun...
    PLT 12.39 13 To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic relations, and it is as good as sun and star now.
    PLT 12.41 16 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than the sun and moon...
    PLT 12.61 27 Lovers of men are as safe as the sun.
    II 12.86 16 The old Herschel must...draw on his night-cap when the sun rises, and defend his eyes for nocturnal use.
    CL 12.145 8 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples]...
    CL 12.145 15 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam of the sun, serve him.
    CL 12.163 2 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions...
    CW 12.176 22 A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
    Bost 12.190 20 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its islands hospitably shining in the sun...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.192 5 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
    Bost 12.196 25 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    Bost 12.211 18 Let every child that is born of her and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
    ACri 12.290 26 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
    MLit 12.315 11 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident with the sun and moon...
    MLit 12.331 23 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...
    EurB 12.377 18 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.
    PPr 12.387 21 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?
    Let 12.393 20 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

Sun, n. (2)

    PI 8.51 4 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they brought to me, being hungry, the Sun and the Moon instead of Thee.
    Plu 10.307 18 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.

sun, v. (3)

    AmS 1.107 5 [The poor and the low] sun themselves in the great man's light...
    MoS 4.173 14 I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of their holes and sun them a little.
    Bty 6.279 19 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./

sun-baked, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.349 8 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./

sunbeam, n. (4)

    Nat 1.23 23 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.
    Suc 7.282 3 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
    ACri 12.294 10 ...[Shakespeare's] impartiality is like a sunbeam.
    MLit 12.312 19 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...What music a sunbeam awoke in the groves...

sunbeams, n. (4)

    Int 2.346 16 With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays the foundations of nature.
    F 6.30 12 The glance of [the hero's] eye has the force of sunbeams.
    Suc 7.298 17 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz... garlanded with vines, flowers and sunbeams...
    Bost 12.183 18 There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the sunbeams are vertical;...

sun-blind, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.536 16 A man does not want to be sun-dazzled, sun-blind;...

sunbright, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.72 1 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...the sunbright Mecca of the desert.

sunbursts, n. (1)

    PPr 12.389 6 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

Sunday, adj. (11)

    Mrs1 3.144 10 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
    MoS 4.173 20 I shall not take Sunday objections, made up on purpose to be put down.
    ET1 5.3 5 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning;...
    ET2 5.26 19 At last, on Sunday night...the storm came...
    ET17 5.294 11 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal Mount.
    OA 7.335 11 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election, on Sunday afternoon...
    Elo2 8.120 25 I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a successful day.
    SlHr 10.447 6 In the time of the Sunday laws [Samuel Hoar] was a tithing-man;...
    Thor 10.460 19 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening...
    HDC 11.67 15 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon;...
    FSLN 11.228 11 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do...went through all the Sunday decorums;...

Sunday, n. (14)

    MR 1.245 26 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    ET6 5.109 18 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    ET13 5.216 16 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
    ET16 5.286 22 On Sunday we had much discourse, on a very rainy day.
    Civ 7.21 26 '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.
    DL 7.120 11 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the youthful criticism, on Sunday, of the sermons;...
    DL 7.132 23 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
    Chr2 10.107 8 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
    Chr2 10.117 15 The Sunday is the core of our civilization...
    Prch 10.230 16 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Prch 10.230 19 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.
    LLNE 10.366 15 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    SMC 11.360 20 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp...
    EurB 12.376 5 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday from so many pulpits.

Sunday School, n. (2)

    LT 1.279 23 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would the wounds of the world heal...
    Exp 3.64 10 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not come out of the Sunday School...

Sunday Schools, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.448 15 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of...the Sunday Schools...

Sundays, n. (3)

    DSA 1.143 6 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    Supl 10.174 14 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Prch 10.232 8 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.

Sunday-school, n. (1)

    SL 2.136 16 ...why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole of Christendom?

Sunday-schools, n. (1)

    SL 2.136 3 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck.

sun-dazzled, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.536 15 A man does not want to be sun-dazzled, sun-blind;...

sunder, v. (1)

    Comp 2.103 20 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek...to sunder...

sundered, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.52 20 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together...
    OS 2.273 21 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.

sundered, v. (2)

    Nat 1.38 11 Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are...sundered and individual.
    PPo 8.246 20 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./

sundew, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 8 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or sundew...

sundown, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 4 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown...

sundry, adj. (3)

    Con 1.323 25 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    F 6.26 1 This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the Universe, against all and sundry;...
    EurB 12.371 4 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as... sketches after the styles of sundry old masters.

sunetois, n. (1)

    PPo 8.250 27 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds,-sunetois phonei, it speaks to the intelligent;...

sung, v. (15)

    AmS 1.82 4 Events, actions arise, that must be sung...
    DSA 1.133 21 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    SL 2.134 12 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
    Prd1 2.219 1 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/...
    Pt1 3.2 1 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./
    CbW 6.243 1 Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest tongue./
    Ill 6.310 19 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Cour 7.277 22 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
    PI 8.37 22 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PPo 8.253 19 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I bored./
    Thor 10.475 15 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
    LS 11.9 17 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    HDC 11.54 7 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    EWI 11.114 26 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...they cried, they sung, they prayed...
    HCom 11.344 20 [Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.

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