Thomas Carlyle

Ablaze

The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.

Abysmal

Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.

Acidify

His thin existence all acidified into rage.

Affluence

There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year.

Amenable

Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel.

Anonymity

He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity.

Apocalypse

The new apocalypse of Nature.

Apostatize

He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in emblances.

Aërate

His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains.

Arrowy

With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities.

Articulate

Total changes of party and articulate opinion.

To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people.

Available

Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable.

Before

The golden age . . . is before us.

Bluebeard

The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look.

Bore

Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

Cachinnatory

Cachinnatory buzzes of approval.

Clutch

An expiring clutch at popularity.

Collide

No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.

Concordance

Contrasts, and yet concordances.

Conflate

The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation.

Conjectural

Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural.

Constitutionality

Constitutionalities, bottomless cavilings and questionings about written laws.

Crackle

The crackle of fireworks.

Crank

Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.

Crimp

Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him.

Croak

Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness.

Disbelief

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men.

Discursive

A man rather tacit than discursive.

Dispiritment

Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this.

Dress

If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form.

Dubitate

If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come.

Ebullient

The ebullient enthusiasm of the French.

Edacious

Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time.

Egoist

I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness.

Environment

It is no friendly environment, this of thine.

Epitome

An epitome of English fashionable life.

Eupeptic

Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat.

Farmstead

With its pleasant groves and farmsteads.

Fat

Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk.

Fattish

Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.

Fugle

Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air.

Furthersome

You will not find it furthersome.

Fuss

Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise

Genesis

The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club.

Ha

Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke.

Hero

Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.

History

Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Imbroglio

Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio.

Inertia

Men . . . have immense irresolution and inertia.

Instant

I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation.

Invalid

Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay.

Invite

I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this.

Jangle

Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

Keep

Grass equal to the keep of seven cows.

Leave

By the time I left for Scotland.

Look

There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this.

Misworship

Such hideous jungle of misworships.

Monkery

Miters, and wretched dead mediaeval monkeries.

Odinism

Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor.

Palaver

This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.

Peptic

Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic.

Quack

Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.

Reticulation

The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation.

Rhapsodist

The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto.

Sashery

Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia.

Secretarial

Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training.

Shuttle

I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be.

Small

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Speciosity

Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance.

Spiritualize

This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.

Squelch

If you deceive us you will be squelched.

Swindle

Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres.

Telluric

Amid these hot, telluric flames.

Threap

He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done.

Uranic

On I know not what telluric or uranic principles.

Vaporous

Such vaporous speculations were inevitable.

Veracious

The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will find it a mad one.

Vocable

Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables.

Vulpinism

He was without guile, and had no vulpinism at all.

Wagonage

Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon.

Welter

The foul welter of our so-called religious or other controversies.

Whirl

He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust.

Whitherward

Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent.

Wiggery

Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts.]

Worsen

Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve.

Wrinkly

His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last.