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O fair Creseide, the flower and A per se
Of Troy and Greece.
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a .
And have such pleasant walks into the woods
A-mornings .
We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence.
A position à cheval on a river is not one which a general willingly assumes.
A priori , that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible.
In all her gates, Abaddon rues
Thy bold attempt.
Enforced the kingdom to aband .
That he might . . . abandon them from him.
Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .
He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
The abandonment of the independence of Europe.
Saying so, he abased his lance.
Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased .
Abashed , the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is.
He was a man whom no check could abash .
Satan stood
Awhile as mute, confounded what to say.
The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated .
Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds.
To abate the edge of envy.
She hath abated me of half my train.
The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated .
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian.
Monks abdicant of their orders.
The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
The understanding abdicates its functions.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan,
Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.
If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate.
So did the faery knight himself abear .
Not to be abed after midnight.
Six abeles i' the churchyard grow.
The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.
Their own defective and aberrating vision.
Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form.
Would not the fool abet the stealth,
Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?
Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted .
Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance .
This is abhominable , which he [Don Armado] would call abominable .
— Shak. Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1.
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
It doth abhor me now I speak the word.
I utterly abhor , yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge.
Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law.
The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason.
The arts of pleasure in despotic courts
I spurn abhorrent .
The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine.
A judicious abidance by rules.
Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
Let every man abide in the same calling.
The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first.
Bonds and afflictions abide me.
[Thou] shalt abide her judgment on it.
She could not abide Master Shallow.
Dearly I abide that boast so vain.
Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in.
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability , determined to send relief unto the brethren.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study.
The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability .
I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis .
From the safe shore their floating carcasses
And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
And banish hence these abject , lowly dreams.
Shall these abjects , these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?
An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever.
That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible?
It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal.
Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
All ablaze with crimson and gold.
The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.
A many man, to ben an abbot able .
No man wrote abler state papers.
With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court.
A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor.
Nor iron bands aboard
The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.
And with her fled away without abode .
He waxeth at your abode here.
Come, let me lead you to our poor abode .
High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes .
And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
His quick instinctive hand
Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.
Antony, most large in his abominations .
Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough.
The ceiling fair that rose aboon .
It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state.
The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe.
Where sin abounded grace did much more abound .
Men abounding in natural courage.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings.
It abounds with cabinets of curiosities.
Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses.
Roving still about the world.
He went out about the third hour.
I must be about my Father's business.
Paul was now about to open his mouth.
She must have her way about Sarah.
'Tis time to look about .
Wandering about from house to house.
Fowl that may fly above the earth.
I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun.
Abreast therewith began a convocation.
An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed.
She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity.
Ancient coins as abridgments of history.
What abridgment have you for this evening? What mask? What music?
Hogsheads of ale were set abroach .
The fox roams far abroad .
I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad .
He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter.
Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate .
The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
The marmot absconds all winter.
That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond .
Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .
To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .
What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.
Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
So absolute she seems,
And in herself complete.
To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute .
I am absolute 't was very Cloten.
The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,
With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.
Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen.
In his name I absolve your perjury.
The work begun, how soon absolved .
The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion.
That grave question which had begun to absorb the Christian mind -- the marriage of the clergy.
Too long hath love engrossed Britannia's stage,
And sunk to softness all our tragic rage.
Should not the sad occasion swallow up
My other cares?
And in destruction's river
Engulf and swallow those.
The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat.
Not a few abstained from voting.
Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
Whether he abstain men from marrying.
Under his special eye
Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain.
Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious .
Such is the virtue of the abstemious well.
The task of ablution and abstersion being performed.
The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate.
The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one.
Penance, fasts, and abstinence ,
To punish bodies for the soul's offense.
The more abstract . . . we are from the body.
A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression “abstract name” to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
An abstract of every treatise he had read.
Man, the abstract
Of all perfection, which the workmanship
Of Heaven hath modeled.
The concretes “father” and “son” have, or might have, the abstracts “paternity” and “filiety.”
The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community.
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
The eternal eye whose sight discerns
Abstrusest thoughts.
Profound and abstruse topics.
This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great.
His travels were full of absurdities .
It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity.
The . . . tellers of news abused the general.
Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.
Abuse after disappeared without a struggle..
The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse , came to blows.
Or is it some abuse , and no such thing?
I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.
Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground,
Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness .
Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear.
But nought that wanteth rest can long aby .
Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.
Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss .
The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light.
The abysses of metaphysical theology.
In unfathomable abysses of disgrace.
Edward IV., who had acceded to the throne in the year 1461.
If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power .
The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded .
A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration .
The tender accent of a woman's cry.
Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear,
Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.
In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated .
If you accept them, then their worth is great.
To accept of ransom for my son.
She accepted of a treat.
The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
Peradventure he will accept of me.
They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
Here's a proof of gift,
But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy .
This is saying worthy of all acceptation .
Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God.
My words, in common acceptation ,
Could never give this provocation.
God is no accepter of persons.
Here the word “baron” is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it.
I did repel his letters, and denied
His access to me.
During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
I, from the influence of thy looks, receive
Access in every virtue.
The first access looked like an apoplexy.
To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary .
Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning.
The best information . . . at present accessible .
The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.
Of moving accidents by flood and field.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident :
It is the very place God meant for thee.
This accident , as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea.
He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation.
Our heralds now accited all that were
Endamaged by the Elians.
While the shouting crowd
Acclaims thee king of traitors.
On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation , an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children.
Whether high towering or accoasting low.
Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .
The Persian dames, . . .
In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together.
Success unto our valiant general,
And happiness to his accomplices !
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
He had accomplished half a league or more.
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
The armorers accomplishing the knights.
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland.
To work in close design by fraud or guile
What force effected not.
The Saints, like stars, around his seat
Perform their courses still.
They . . . show themselves accomplished bees.
Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace.
A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
These all continued with one accord in prayer.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Of his own accord he went unto you.
They rushed with one accord into the theater.
Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
When they were accorded from the fray.
All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.
My heart accordeth with my tongue.
Thy actions to thy words accord .
Strictly accordant with true morality.
And now his voice accordant to the string.
According to him, every person was to be bought.
Our zeal should be according to knowledge.
Is all things well,
According as I gave directions?
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.
Behold, and so proceed accordingly .
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
Give an account of thy stewardship.
This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.
The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted .
Accounting that God was able to raise him up.
Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable , -- not a burden but a privilege.
The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen.
Both accoutered like young men.
For this, in rags accoutered are they seen.
Accoutered with his burden and his staff.
Then is your careless courage accoyed .
His censure will . . . accredit his praises.
These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France.
The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy.
A mineral . . . augments not by growth, but by accretion .
To strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative as a later accretion .
They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power.
And though power failed, her courage did accrue .
The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press.
The Roman . . . accumbent posture in eating.
Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates , and men decay.
The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy .
The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides.
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.
And the city shall be accursed .
Thro' you, my life will be accurst .
We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.
[They] set up over his head his accusation .
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.
Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart.
I 'll not wag an ace further.
The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama .
A false or acephalous structure of sentence.
The sins that in your conscience ache .
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
Thou hast achieved our liberty.
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
He hath achieved a maid
That paragons description.
[The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes.
The highest achievements of the human intellect.
The aching heart, the aching head.
He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
His thin existence all acidified into rage.
We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault.
I acknowledge my transgressions.
For ends generally acknowledged to be good.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him.
By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee.
They his gifts acknowledged none.
Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip.
The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.
Strong
As aconitum or rash gunpowder.
Acoustics , then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics.
Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it.
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love.
I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland.
Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance , with a guileful man.
Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him.
We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds.
It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue.
They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just.
Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace.
No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
The acquisition or loss of a province.
He died not in his acquisitive , but in his native soil.
A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted .
You can produce acquittances
For such a sum, from special officers.
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial ground, God's acre .
John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs.
In his official letters he expressed, with great acrimony , his contempt for the king's character.
It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
A just reverence of mankind prevents the growth of harshness and brutality.
The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ.
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
The seeds of plants are not at first in act , but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
This woman was taken . . . in the very act .
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity.
Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
Uplifted hands that at convenient times
Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest.
To show the world how Garrick did not act .
One wise in council, one in action brave.
The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
The Euripus of funds and actions .
To poke the fire is an act , to reconcile friends who have quarreled is a praiseworthy action .
Active and nervous was his gait.
After a well graced actor leaves the stage.
Her walking and other actual performances.
Let your holy and pious intention be actual ; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God.
The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, “actuals ,” but only Egyptian budget estimates.
Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
Acturience , or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable.
Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close.
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,”
Like the poor cat i' the adage .
And whipped the offending Adam out of him.
Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant , his ample shield.
As true to thee as steel to adamant .
For nature, always in the right,
To your decays adapts my sight.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons.
The sight whereof did greatly him adaw .
A man that waketh of his sleep
He may not suddenly well taken keep
Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly
Till that he be adawed verily.
The Lord shall add to me another son.
Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years.
He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax.
He is addicted to his study.
That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
A man gross . . . and addicted to low company.
The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.
My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age.
Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more.
And this good knight his way with me addrest .
His foe was soon addressed .
Turnus addressed his men to single fight.
The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.
These men addressed themselves to the task.
Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel.
The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance.
Are not your orders to address the senate?
The representatives of the nation addressed the king.
Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest .
Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides.
Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible .
An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters.
In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles.
Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt .
Beaus adept in everything profound.
In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory.
Ireland had no adequate champion.
It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity.
His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy.
To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion .
Yourself and yours shall have
Free adit .
I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians.
Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three.
Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note.
When one man's land adjoins to another's.
She lightly unto him adjoined side to side.
Upon the hills adjoining to the city.
It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
'Tis a needful fitness
That we adjourn this court till further day.
Without reprieve, adjudged to death
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.
He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship.
Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.
Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations .
Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho.
The high priest . . . said . . . I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ.
The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties.
Adjusting the orthography.
Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned.
It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division.
For forms of government let fools contest:
Whate'er is best administered is best.
[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
A noxious drug had been administered to him.
Swear . . . to keep the oath that we administer .
A fountain . . . administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration .
A mild and popular administration .
The administration has been opposed in parliament.
In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness.
Like some mighty admiral , dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides.
Season your admiration for a while.
Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration .
Examples rather to be admired than imitated.
Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed.
To wonder at Pharaoh, and even admire at myself.
What numbers groan for sad admission there!
The too easy admission of doctrines.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king.
To gain admittance into the house.
He desires admittance to the king.
To give admittance to a thought of fear.
Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.
I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold
The danger, and the lurking enemy.
Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle.
Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor .
An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
With much ado , he partly kept awake.
Let's follow to see the end of this ado .
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long.
I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself.
The adorable Author of Christianity.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration .
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James II.] publicly adored .
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore .
I profess myself her adorer , not her friend.
As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorned the venerable place.
Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed.
So on the sea shall be set adrift .
Were from their daily labor turned adrift .
Adroitness was as requisite as courage.
Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
With titles blown from adulation ?
A mere rant of adulatory freedom.
The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words.
The shameless adulteration of the coin.
When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds.
You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.
Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated .
Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth.
The aduncity of the beaks of hawks.
A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion.
They . . . advanced their eyelids.
Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.
Advanced to a level with ancient peers.
[He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances .
The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles.
In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement .
True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people.
Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
The advantages of a close alliance.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
And with advantage means to pay thy love.
The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.
What is a man advantaged , if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Advabtageous comparison with any other country.
You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes.
Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient.
Death's dreadful advent .
Expecting still his advent home.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.
He was in great adventure of his life.
He loved excitement and adventure .
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
Yet they adventured to go back.
Discriminations might be adventured .
I would adventure for such merchandise.
Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria .
His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries .
Agree with thine adversary quickly.
It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to dispute without an adversary .
Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
I may again advert to the distinction.
To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation.
I will advertise thee what this people shall do.
An advertisement of danger.
Therefore give me no counsel:
My griefs cry louder than advertisement .
We may give advice , but we can not give conduct.
How shall I dote on her with more advice ,
That thus without advice begin to love her?
Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day.
Bid thy master well advise himself.
Advise if this be worth attempting.
And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep.
Tempering the passion with advisement slow.
The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches.
We have an Advocate with the Father.
To advocate the cause of thy client.
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated .
Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause.
The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us.
The donations or advocations of church livings.
Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome.
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar .
Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises.
Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love.
An affable and courteous gentleman.
His manners polite and affable .
A serene and affable countenance.
And with his best affair
Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun.
A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded.
As might affect the earth with cold heat.
The climate affected their health and spirits.
As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected , rather honored than loved, her.
For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.
Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty.
This proud man affects imperial way.
The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
Careless she is with artful care,
Affecting to seem unaffected.
Thou dost affect my manners.
One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural.
His affected Hercules.
How stand you affected to his wish?
He is . . . too spruce, too affected , too odd.
Affected coldness and indifference.
Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible .
A drawling; affecting rouge.
And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,
An old and strange affection of the house.
Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality.
All his affections are set on his own country.
Most wretched man,
That to affections does the bridle lend.
Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate .
Affectionated to the people.
Be kindly affectioned one to another.
Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges.
Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love.
Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have
Most joy and most affiance .
To me, sad maid, he was affianced .
Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh.
There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity.
About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer.
Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Not that I so affirm , though so it seem
To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth.
This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law.
Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito.
Whether there are such beings or not, 't is sufficient for my purpose that many have believed the affirmative .
Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food.
A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus .
They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
That which was the worst now least afflicts me.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
To repay that money will be a biting affliction .
Some virtues are seen only in affliction .
Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain.
The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain.
There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year.
And old age of elegance, affluence , and ease.
Language . . . affluent in expression.
Loaded and blest with all the affluent store,
Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.
His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers.
The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats.
The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
Smale foules a great heap
That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep.
That voice doth us affray .
Dreams affright our souls.
A drear and dying sound
Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.
He looks behind him with affright , and forward with despair.
Bugbears or affrightful apparitions.
Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment .
All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
That he, as 't were by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia.
How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded
On hostile ground, none daring my affront .
Offering an affront to our understanding.
Captious persons construe every innocent freedom into an affront . When people are in a state of animosity, they seek opportunities of offering each other insults . Intoxication or violent passion impels men to the commission of outrages .
How affrontive it is to despise mercy.
I first affused water upon the compressed beans.
How jocund did they drive their team afield !
Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five!
On such a full sea are we now afloat .
Their founts aflow with tears.
The bank is . . . aflush with the sea.
If he have never drunk wine afore .
She is come aforehand to anoint my body.
Aforehand in all matters of power.
They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh .
Codrus after Phbus sings the best.
After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Ye shall not go after other gods.
After whom is the king of Israel come out?
Our eldest son was named George after his uncle.
He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes.
They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.
He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value.
It was about the space of three hours after .
If a man die, shall he live again ?
Again , it is of great consequence to avoid, etc.
Albeit that it is again his kind.
Jacob saw the angels of God come against him.
The gate would have been shut against her.
An argument against the use of steam.
Urijah the priest made it, against King Ahaz came from Damascus.
All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock.
Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape .
The whole army stood agazed on him.
Mine age is as nothing before thee.
Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.
Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness.
Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages .
The way which the age follows.
Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age .
They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
I am aging ; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there.
Custom without truth is but agedness of error.
The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.
Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill.
The violence of the waters aggested the earth.
Where he builds the agglomerated pile.
An excessive agglomeration of turrets.
Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative .
In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds.
Cf. man-kind , heir-loom , war-like , which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages.
Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots.
His scheme for aggrandizing his son.
Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize .
Each one sought his lady to aggrate .
To aggravate the horrors of the scene.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating .
By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head.
It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated .
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation , but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space.
Their military aggresses on others.
No aggressive movement was made.
The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer.
Aggrieved by oppression and extortion.
Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed,
Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread.
The commissioners read and stood aghast .
Shaking it with agile hand.
They . . . trust to the agility of their wit.
Wheeling with the agility of a hawk.
The agility of the sun's fiery heat.
Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life.
The mind of man is agitated by various passions.
A logical agitation of the matter.
The project now in agitation .
Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity.
And wreaths of agnus castus others bore.
All agog to dash through thick and thin.
Three days agone I fell sick.
As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays.
To smart and agonize at every pore.
He agonized his mother by his behavior.
The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.
Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.
With cries and agonies of wild delight.
The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants.
His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment.
An equal agrarian is perpetual law.
If music and sweet poetry agree .
Their witness agreed not together.
The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
Agree with thine adversary quickly.
Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
A train of agreeable reveries.
These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us.
The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature.
The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe.
The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down.
Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably .
What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?
Expansion and duration have this further agreement .
The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist.
His manly face that did his foes agrise .
Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised .
Her aguish love now glows and burns.
The island bore but a little ahead of us.
Two suspicious fellows ahorseback .
You speedy helpers . . .
Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid .
It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
Aidance 'gainst the enemy.
What aileth thee, Hagar?
When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish.
Aim'st thou at princes?
Each at the head leveled his deadly aim .
To be the aim of every dangerous shot.
How oft ambitious aims are crossed!
What you would work me to, I have some aim .
He was still all air and fire.
Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play.
The keen, the wholesome air of poverty.
You gave it air before me.
It was communicated with the air of a secret.
It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired .
Were you but riding forth to air yourself.
Airing a snowy hand and signet gem.
This is the air-drawn dagger.
Empty sound, and airy notions.
The ait where the osiers grew.
Among green aits and meadows.
The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character.
'T were well if we were a little more alacrious .
I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
Arming to answer in a night alarm .
Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
Thy palace fill with insults and alarms .
Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp.
Alarmed by rumors of military preparation.
The white pavilions rose and fell
On the alarmed air.
The alary system of insects.
There hath been alate such tales spread abroad.
Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess.
Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth.
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion .
You are alchemist ; make gold.
Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators.
Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy .
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy .
The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors.
The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove .
Now when Aldebaran was mounted high
Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair.
Their aleberries , caudles, possets.
That shall alegge this bitter blast.
The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic .
The alembic of a great poet's imagination.
The needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Ulna now he algates must forego.
An alien sound of melancholy.
Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.
The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage.
Estates forfeitable on account of alienage .
O alienate from God.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.
The alienation of his heart from the king.
It the alienee enters and keeps possession.
The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism .
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Aliments of their sloth and weakness.
The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs.
Tremblingly alive to nature's laws.
Northumberland was the proudest man alive .
Prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
All as his straying flock he fed.
A damsel lay deploring
All on a rock reclined.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all .
All that thou seest is mine.
Thou shalt be all in all , and I in thee,
Forever.
Trust me not at all, or all in all .
All they were wondrous loth.
Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me “Thane of Cawdor.”
The first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day .
— Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).
It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison.
The like allayment could I give my grief.
I thought their allegation but reasonable.
The most authentic examples allegeable in the case.
With many complaints and allegements .
Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance hear me!
So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found, . . .
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.
As we know that the several unit characters are of such a nature that any one of them is capable of independently displacing or being displaced by one or more alternative characters taken singly, we may recognize this fact by naming such characters allelomorphs .
I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia .
Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense.
Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds].
The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters.
He alleviates his fault by an excuse.
I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply.
I know each lane and every alley green.
The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel.
The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics.
Instincts alligated to their nature.
The allineation of the two planets.
The boisterous allision of the sea.
Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness.
Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I sh ope me in sh roudes as I a sh epe were.
The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity.
The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants.
Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge.
The alloments of God and nature.
A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs.
Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
How allow you the model of these clothes?
Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year.
I allow , with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible.
Allowing still for the different ways of making it.
Without the king's will or the state's allowance .
The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others.
I can give the boy a handsome allowance .
After making the largest allowance for fraud.
Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it.
Gold and iron alloy with ease.
These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
With promised joys allured them on.
The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven
Allured his eye.
The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell.
The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains.
O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied .
These three did love each other dearly well,
And with so firm affection were allied .
The virtue nearest to our vice allied .
The English soldiers and their French allies .
Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally .
The Almehs lift their arms in dance.
I am the Almighty God.
Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people.
Alms are but the vehicles of prayer.
Fresh waters run aloft the sea.
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
It is not good that the man should be alone .
Man shall not live by bread alone .
The citizens alone should be at the expense.
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity.
Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung.
We will go along by the king's highway.
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along .
He to England shall along with you.
The kine . . . went along the highway.
Our palace stood aloof from streets.
To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties.
Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands.
The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life.
Cry aloud , spare not, lift up thy voice.
Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp .
Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise.
In am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
The very alphabet of our law.
I say unto you, that Elias is come already .
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also .
Noah builded an altar unto the Lord.
It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents.
Alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences.
Ere long might perceive
Strange alteration in me.
Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations , that council degenerated into a most corrupt.
Their whole life was little else than a perpetual wrangling and altercation .
For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity ) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.
And bid alternate passions fall and rise.
Grateful alternates of substantial.
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast.
Different species alternating with each other.
There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
Having to choose between two alternatives , safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse.
If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
With no alternative but death.
My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives .
Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.
The man of law began to get into his altitude .
Altogether they went at once.
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble.
Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts.
He always rides a black galloway.
God said unto Moses, I am that am .
They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain .
That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain .
They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics.
Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
They only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue.
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade.
The life of Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with.
An amassment of imaginary conceptions.
The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true.
A labyrinth to amaze his foes.
And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?
The wild, bewildered
Of one to stone converted by amaze .
His words impression left
Of much amazement .
After many ambages , perspicuously define what this melancholy is.
You that smell of amber at my charge.
The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters , so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other.
Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity .
All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued.
The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity .
What have been thy answers? What but dark,
Ambiguous , and with double sense deluding?
His great parts did not live within a small ambit .
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition :
By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain.
A giant statue . . .
Pushed by a wild and artless race,
From off wide, ambitious base.
The skipping king, he ambled up and down.
Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.
His dewy locks distilled ambrosia .
The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege
Or ambush from the deep.
Bold in close ambush , base in open field.
The ambush arose quickly out of their place.
By ambushed men behind their temple laid,
We have the king of Mexico betrayed.
Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey.
Enlightened all with stars,
And richly ameled .
In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
And let all the people say, Amen .
Amen , amen , I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.
— John ii. 3. Rhemish Trans.
Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government.
Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel.
Mar not the thing that can not be amended .
An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought.
We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends .
A sweetness and amenity of temper.
This climate has not seduced by its amenities .
The globular ament of a buttonwood.
Millions of spirits for his fault amerced
Of Heaven.
Shall by him be amerced with penance due.
The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism.
Every excellency is a degree of amiability .
So amiable a prospect.
Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.
That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed.
But rather famish them amid their plenty.
Those squalid cabins and uncleared woods amidst which he was born.
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss ?
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss .
His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss .
Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe.
A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue.
To live on terms of amity with vice.
They heard,
And from his presence hid themselves among
The thickest trees.
Blessed art thou among women.
What news among the merchants?
Human sacrifices were practiced among them.
Divide that gold amongst you.
Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors.
It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe.
Thy roses amorous of the moon.
High nature amorous of the good.
Sure my brother is amorous on Hero.
Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style.
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
The whole amount of that enormous fame.
The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea.
Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage.
Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king.
An amphibolous sentence is one that is capable of two meanings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e . g ., “The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.”
If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly , a double meaning where there is none.
All the people in that ample house
Did to that image bow their humble knees.
An humble amplexation of those sacred feet.
To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire.
“All bodies possess power of attraction” is an ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attributes.
Exaggeration is a species of amplification .
I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied.
Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
Strait was the way at first, withouten light,
But further in did further amplify .
He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles.
The cathedral of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese.
Each of the provinces [of Denmark] is divided into several amts , answering . . . to the English hundreds.
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck , and tilt at all I meet.
Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold.
Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house.
A group of children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake.
He amused his followers with idle promises.
Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.
Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement , revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs.
His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening.
Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe.
An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas .
Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster.
The anabasis of Napoleon.
Such branches of a river as after separation reunite, I would term anastomosing branches; or, if a word might be coined, anabranches , and the islands they form branch islands.
Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus.
When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical .
A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel.
Analogous tendencies in arts and manners.
Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death.
The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many.
No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain.
Imperial anarchs doubling human woes.
We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
Spread anarchy and terror all around.
There being then . . . an anarchy , as I may term it, in authors and their rekoning of years.
The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels.
[They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers.
Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families].
The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema , and be destroyed himself.
We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists.
The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e. the French ] great figure painters .
If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect.
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy .
The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature.
They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy .
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.
Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.
My invention . . . anchors on Isabel.
And there, a saintly anchoress , she dwelt.
Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals.
Witness those ancient empires of the earth.
Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise.
Remove not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set.
An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters.
A friend, perhaps, or an ancient acquaintance.
He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient .
Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm.
They mourned their ancient leader lost.
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof.
Junius and Andronicus . . . in Christianity . . . were his ancients .
More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient .
This is Othello's ancient , as I take it.
They contain not word of ancientry .
Wronging the ancientry .
A gentleman of more ancientry than estate.
The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary , to the greater province.
At least to try and teach the erring soul.
When that I was and a little tiny boy.
As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous .
The measure of misery anear us.
All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage , must be a tissue of lies.
The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper.
The dear good angel of the Spring,
The nightingale.
O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel , girt with golden wings.
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write.
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.
The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience.
It ought not to be our object to angelize , nor to brutalize, but to humanize man.
The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology , demonology.
I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him.
He . . . angereth malign ulcers.
Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.
Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly .
Into the utmost angle of the world.
To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
Give me mine angle : we 'll to the river there.
A fisher next his trembling angle bears.
The hearts of all that he did angle for.
The thrice three-angled beechnut shell.
Whether Catholics, Anglicans , or Calvinists.
It is quite correct to call Æthelstan “King of the Anglo-Saxons ,” but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan “an Anglo-Saxon ” is simply nonsense.
Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything.
God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit.
Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves.
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.
I never ate with angrier appetite.
But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child.
Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
Held together by hooks and angulous involutions.
They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation.
Does he hawk anights still?
The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called.
He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions .
I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty.
I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice.
The admirable structure of animate bodies.
The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame.
Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .
Such as give some proof of animosity , audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth.
Such [writings] as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcilable.
[These] factions . . . never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government.
The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages.
The short and simple annals of the poor.
It was one of the most critical periods in our annals .
He annexed a province to his kingdom.
It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated .
Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
Publish laws, announce
Or life or death.
Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy
Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy .
A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers.
For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense.
The annual overflowing of the river [Nile].
A thousand pound a year, annual support.
Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals ; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets.
Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct.
And all her various objects of delight
Annulled .
Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties?
The anodyne draught of oblivion.
Presentation considered as having an existence relatively independent of thought, may be called sentience, or anoetic consciousness. Thought and sentience are fundamentally distinct mental functions.
And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint .
He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's] head and anoint him.
Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men.
As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it.
As it shall better appear anon .
Sometimes he trots, . . . anon he rears upright.
A pouncet box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose.
He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity .
Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more.
Would serve to scale another Hero's tower.
He winks, and turns his lips another way.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
While I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
It used to go in another-guess manner.
She answers him as if she knew his mind.
So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
No man was able to answer him a word.
These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
The reasoning was not and could not be answered .
This proud king . . . studies day and night
To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
I will . . . send him to answer thee.
And grievously hath Cæzar answered it.
The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them.
Money answereth all things.
Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
There was no voice, nor any that answered .
Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.
Do the strings answer to thy noble hand?
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
If this but answer to my just belief,
I 'll remember you.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
At my first answer no man stood with me.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
I called him, but he gave me no answer .
Great the slaughter is
Here made by the Roman; great the answer be
Britons must take.
Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God?
The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable .
What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians.
Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable , he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain.
Antagonist of Heaven's Almighty King.
Our antagonists in these controversies.
They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic .
Antagony that is between Christ and Belial.
The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents .
My antecedent , or my gentleman usher.
If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents , the victory is surely ours.
The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices.
The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal.
And antedate the bliss above.
Who rather rose the day to antedate .
The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell.
Antepasts of joy and comforts.
Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius.
Sweet birds antheming the morn.
He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe.
You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing .
The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening.
In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy.
The antic postures of a merry-andrew.
The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape.
Woven with antics and wild imagery.
And fraught with antics as the Indian bird
That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
Performed by knights and ladies of his court
In nature of an antic .
Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell.
To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose.
He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace.
Good with bad
Expect to hear; supernal grace contending
With sinfulness of men.
I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.
Timid men were anticipating another civil war.
So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.
Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be.
Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war,
Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar.
Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins.
Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful.
As it were by his own antinomy , or counterstatute.
Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided.
A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason.
O! never more for me shall winds intone,
With all your tops, a vast antiphony .
In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king.
Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel?
Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one.
Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated.
For the antique world excess and pride did hate.
Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques .
We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work.
It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity ?
That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has vowed.
You are a shrewd antiquity , neighbor Clench.
The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians .
It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe , in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song.
Huge stags with sixteen antlers .
The sweet of life, from which
God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares.
He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform.
No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, . . . and it shall be given him.
That if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
You are not to go loose any longer.
Before you go any farther.
His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody .
All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list.
Anyhow , it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error.
Anyhow , the languages of the two nations were closely allied.
Did you ever know of anything so unlucky?
They do not know that anything is amiss with them.
I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything .
Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed.
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
His dewy locks did drop with brine apace .
A visible triumph of the gospel draw on apace .
Others apart sat on a hill retired.
The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.
Let Pleasure go, put Care apart .
A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried.
An aperture between the mountains.
The back aperture of the nostrils.
The main object being to develop the several aperçus or insights which furnish the method of such psychology.
A series of partial and more or less disparate aperçus or outlooks; each for itself a center of experience.
These words . . . have been aphetized .
The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, “Life is short, and the art is long.”
The method of the book is aphoristic .
Full fresh and new here gear apiked was.
The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy.
The new apocalypse of Nature.
The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works.
To apologize for his insolent language.
The Christians . . . were apologized by Plinie.
It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none.
He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains.
For which he can not well apology .
So spake the apostate angel.
A wretched and apostate state.
We are not of them which apostate from Christ.
An heretical and apostatical church.
He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in emblances.
He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles .
Judas had miscarried and lost his apostolate .
In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e.
The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . .
Hath so appalled my countenance.
Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold.
The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.
Fresh in his new apparel , proud and young.
At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity.
Ships . . . appareled to fight.
They which are gorgeously appareled , and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Appareled in celestial light.
The moon . . . apparent queen.
It is apparent foul play.
To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown.
If he should scorn me so apparently .
The sudden apparition of the Spaniards.
The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.
Which apparition , it seems, was you.
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition .
Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
And oft of error did himself appeach .
Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists.
I appeal unto Cæsar.
I appeal to the Scriptures in the original.
They appealed to the sword.
A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders.
Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms.
And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear .
We must all appear before the judgment seat.
One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .
It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
Of their vain contest appeared no end.
They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
And now am come to see . . .
It thy appearance answer loud report.
There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire.
For man looketh on the outward appearance .
Judge not according to the appearance .
Will he now retire,
After appearance , and again prolong
Our expectation?
There is that which hath no appearance .
They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates.
God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them.
An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant.
A further purpose appended to the primary one.
Modesty is the appendage of sobriety.
Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling.
As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
Normandy became an appendix to England.
This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence.
Things appertaining to this life.
Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth .
They had a strong appetency for reading.
These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate.
Appetent after glory and renown.
The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
Men must have appetite before they will eat.
It God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
In all bodies there as an appetite of union.
Power being the natural appetite of princes.
The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing .
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.
By the gods, I do applaud his courage.
The brave man seeks not popular applause .
The applicant for a cup of water.
The court require the applicant to appear in person.
Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements.
The act of faith is applicated to the object.
He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.
Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater.
He said, and the sword his throat applied .
Yet God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied .
Apply thine heart unto instruction.
Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto.
I applied myself to him for help.
She was skillful in applying his “humors.”
And he applied each place so fast.
I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water.
When he appointed the foundations of the earth.
Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint .
He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness.
Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting.
Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
The English, being well appointed , did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn.
Appoint not heavenly disposition.
For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel.
The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees .
— Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).
According to the appointment of the priests.
The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments .
I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands
Void of appointment , that thou liest.
An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary.
The nymph herself did then appose ,
For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly.
It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.
Appositive to the words going immediately before.
Enoch . . . appraised his weight.
Appraised the Lycian custom.
A solemn apprecation of good success.
To appreciate the motives of their enemies.
Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money.
To test the power of bees to appreciate color.
His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character.
We have two hands to apprehend it.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
G. E. apprehend
The means and manner how.
The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.
To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension .
After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life.
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk.
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive , tenderest parts.
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city?
But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching .
He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer.
A nearer approach to the human type.
The approach to kings and principal persons.
I approbate the one, I reprobate the other.
Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation .
The silent approbation of one's own breast.
Animals . . . love approbation or praise.
This day my sister should the cloister enter,
And there receive her approbation .
To appromt our invention.
If you can neglect
Your own appropriaments .
In its strict and appropriate meaning.
Appropriate acts of divine worship.
It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation .
A censor . . . without whose approval n capital sentences are to be executed.
Wouldst thou approve thy constancy? Approve
First thy obedience.
Opportunities to approve . . . worth.
He had approved himself a great warrior.
'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
His account . . . approves him a man of thought.
The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
They had not approved of the deposition of James.
They approved of the political institutions.
I did nothing without your approvement .
To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature.
The telescope approximates perfection.
The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.
If a vine be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it.
In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.
Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy.
The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances .
Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption.
The April's her eyes; it is love's spring.
He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives.
A cobbler aproned , and a parson gowned.
A tale extremely apropos .
They have always apt instruments.
A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb.
My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
Apter to give than thou wit be to ask.
That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers.
Live a thousand years,
I shall not find myself so apt to die.
I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear.
That our speech be apted to edification.
He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops.
That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman.
He was a boy of remarkable aptitude .
The aptness of his quotations.
The aqueous vapor of the air.
An aqueous deposit.
Terribly arched and aquiline his nose.
Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly.
The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways.
The araba of the Turks has its sides of latticework to admit the air
— Balfour (Cyc. of India).
His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains.
Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage.
For Jove is arbiter of both to man.
The arbitrament of time.
Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament .
It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so.
Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness.
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
The swelling difference of your settled hate.
Though Heaven be shut,
And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure.
Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace.
Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal .
Among thick-woven arborets , and flowers
Imbordered on each bank.
From under shady, arborous roof.
Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs .
Where the cow is, there is Arcadia .
Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead.
The horse arched his neck.
The most arch act of piteous massacre.
[He] spoke his request with so arch a leer.
My worthy arch and patron comes to-night.
A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary.
Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries .
Let all our archery fall off
In wings of shot a-both sides of the van.
The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet.
Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world.
This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation.
The architects of their own happiness.
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress.
These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged.
Many other architectures besides Gothic.
The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.
The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture .
Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.
Some rotten archive , rummaged out of some seldom explored press.
Archly the maiden smiled.
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons [Rev. Ver. : “the Bear with her train”].
An ardent and impetuous race.
Those arduous paths they trod.
Lo! further on,
Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore.
The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater.
The largest area of human history and man's common nature.
Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.
But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt!
The arefaction of the earth.
The polished argent of her breast.
Yonder argent fields above.
Celestial Dian, goddess argentine .
Bowls of frosted argentry .
The “Argonauts of '49” were a strong, self-reliant, generous body of men.
Where your argosies with portly sail . . .
Do overpeer the petty traffickers.
I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will.
So many laws argue so many sins.
Thoughts and expressions . . . which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality.
Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth.
Unskilled to argue , in dispute yet loud,
Bold without caution, without honors proud.
Betwixt the dearest friends to raise debate .
There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.
Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion?
The argument is about things, but names.
You and love are still my argument .
The abstract or argument of the piece.
[Shields] with boastful argument portrayed.
Sheathed their swords for lack of argument .
Which manner of argumentation , how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth.
The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman.
Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs is harmonic.
There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph.
The doubts that in his heart arose .
Whence haply mention may arise
Of something not unseasonable to ask.
In the Senate
Right not our quest in this, I will protest them
To all the world, no aristocracy .
The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach.
A born aristocrat , bred radical.
His whole family are accused of being aristocrats .
Bearing that precious relic in an ark .
To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
And make him with our pikes and partisans
A grave: come, arm him.
Arm your prize;
I know you will not lose him.
His shoulders broad and strong,
Armed long and round.
Abram . . . armed his trained servants.
Arm yourselves . . . with the same mind.
A wreath of gold, arm-gret .
A distemper eminently armed from heaven.
They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire.
The arming was now universal.
The temple stood of Mars armipotent .
This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain.
Figures with armorial signs of race and birth.
Celestial armory , shields, helms, and spears.
The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory , which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin.
He lays down his arms , but not his wiles.
Three horses and three goodly suits of arms .
Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries.
A lambent flame arose, which gently spread
Around his brows.
Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and activity of our better nature.
Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse
His brother, mighty sovereign on the host.
No suspicion was aroused .
And twenty, rank in rank, they rode arow .
Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers .
They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition.
So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets.
[They] were beginning to arrange their hampers.
A mechanism previously arranged .
I discover an arrant laziness in my soul.
An arrant honest woman.
Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread.
Behind the arras I'll convey myself.
Wedged together in the closest array .
A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers.
Their long array of sapphire and of gold.
By torch and trumpet fast arrayed ,
Each horseman drew his battle blade.
These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.
Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.
In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed .
For much I dread due payment by the Greeks
Of yesterday's arrear .
I have a large arrear of letters to write.
The old arrearages . . . being defrayed.
God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect .
My supplication to you I arrect .
Odd, arreptitious , frantic extravagances.
Nor could her virtues the relentless hand
Of Death arrest .
We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies.
As the arrest of the air showeth.
William . . . ordered him to be put under arrest .
[Our brother Norway] sends out arrests
On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys.
The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention.
This most solemn and arresting occurrence.
Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning.
The moment we entered the stubble or arrish .
Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes,
Expect his swift arrival .
Another arrival still more important was speedily announced.
The house has a corner arrival .
[Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich.
When he arrived at manhood.
We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts.
If at great things thou wouldst arrive .
Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
And made the sea-trod ship arrive them.
Ere he arrive the happy isle.
Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
Arrive at last the blessed goal.
How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!
I hate not you for her proud arrogance .
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate.
He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine.
The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you.
How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowy showers.
By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone.
With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities.
Blest with each grace of nature and of art .
Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill.
The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea.
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts .
Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation.
So vast is art , so narrow human wit.
They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors.
Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength.
In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity.
He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order.
Artful in speech, in action, and in mind.
The artful revenge of various animals.
In magnitude, in interest, and as a literary origin, the Arthurian invention dwarfs all other things in the book.
A very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding.
This last article will hardly be believed.
The articles which compose the blood.
They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food.
This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice.
If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.
He shall be articled against in the high court of admiralty.
Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased.
Total changes of party and articulate opinion.
Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church.
To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people.
I had articulately set down in writing our points.
That definiteness and articulation of imagery.
The material universe . . . in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist.
His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice .
Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry.
The great Artificer of all that moves.
Artificial strife
Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought.
Sharp dissembled so artificially .
If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature.
And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad.
This is willingly submitted to by the artisan , who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue.
How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast,
Instruct the articles and reward their.
Artless of stars and of the moving sand.
Artless and massy pillars.
They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them.
O, how unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven's easy, artless , unencumbered plan!
Our common arums -- the lords and ladies of village children.
His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren.
The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king.
As I return I will fetch off these justices.
As the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms . . . they were not indifferently prepared.
We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited.
I can place thee in such abject state, as help shall never find thee.
The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination.
He lies, as he his bliss did know.
The king was not more forward to bestow favors on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors.
Higher yet that star ascends .
I ascend unto my father and your father.
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.
Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant .
Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
The constellation . . . about that time ascendant .
An ascendant spirit over him.
The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position.
An undisputed ascendency .
Custom has an ascendency over the understanding.
rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage.
Vaporous ascensions from the stomach.
To him with swift ascent he up returned.
When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained .
Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects.
The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth.
The very deferring [of his execution] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation.
The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers.
The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation.
He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable.
The positive ascertainment of its limits.
The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.
I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts.
Be systematically ascetic . . . do . . . something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it.
Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name.
The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem.
More than good-will to me attribute naught.
Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit.
And fairly quit him of the imputed blame.
An ascriptitious and supernumerary God.
All that forsake thee shall be ashamed .
I began to be ashamed of sitting idle.
Enough to make us ashamed of our species.
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present.
Their martyred blood and ashes sow.
The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds.
The lip of ashes , and the cheek of flame.
Rough ashlar , a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar .
Here shall I die ashore .
I must fetch his necessaries ashore .
Thou shalt set aside that which is full.
But soft! but soft! aside : here comes the king.
The flames were blown aside .
Then lords and ladies spake aside .
Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Ask me never so much dowry.
To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity.
He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
He asked the way to Chester.
Ask , and it shall be given you.
Wherefore . . . dost ask after my name?
They dart away; they wheel askance .
My palfrey eyed them askance .
Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
[The shaft] drove through his neck aslant .
There is a willow grows aslant a brook.
Fast asleep the giant lay supine.
By whispering winds soon lulled asleep .
Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep .
His aspect was bent on the ground.
[Craggs] with aspect open shall erect his head.
The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish.
This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
The astrologers call the evil influences of the stars evil aspects .
Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze.
The asperated part of its surface.
It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
The acclivities and asperities of duty.
With blackest crimes aspersed .
Behold an immersion, not and aspersion .
Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers.
Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue.
Pansies, and violets, and asphodel .
In consequence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants .
But yet they are not aspirate , i. e. , with such an aspiration as h .
If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing.
Vague aspiration after military renown.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
My own breath still foments the fire,
Which flames as high as fancy can aspire .
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
No rude noise mine ears assailing .
No storm can now assail
The charm he wears within.
The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail .
The papal authority . . . assailed .
They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony.
An assailant of the church.
His most frequent assailment was the headache.
Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated .
Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
Such usage as your honorable lords
Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.
If I had made an assassinate upon your father.
The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault .
Unshaken bears the assault
Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.
Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery.
Insnared, assaulted , overcome, led bound.
Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . .
Assault his ears.
I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
This can not be, by no assay of reason.
Through many hard assays which did betide.
With gold and pearl of rich assay .
To-night let us assay our plot.
Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed .
When the heart is ill assayed .
She thrice assayed to speak.
In sweet assemblage every blooming grace.
Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit.
To weete [know] the cause of their assemblance .
Thither he assembled all his train.
All the men of Israel assembled themselves.
The Parliament assembled in November.
Bribes may be assembled to pitch.
Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.
The princess assented to all that was suggested.
Faith is the assent to any proposition, on the credit of the proposer.
The assent , if not the approbation, of the prince.
Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration.
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.
Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause.
That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.
I will assert it from the scandal.
The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church.
There is a difference between assertion and demonstration.
In a confident and assertive form.
The assertors of liberty said not a word.
Faithful assertor of thy country's cause.
Arguments . . . assertory , not probatory.
An assertory , not a promissory, declaration.
A proposition is assertory , when it enounces what is known as actual.
This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act.
Whence to his Son,
The assessor of his throne, he thus began.
With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment.
Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions.
I have, with much pains and assiduity , qualified myself for a nomenclator.
She grows more assiduous in her attendance.
To weary him with my assiduous cries.
In the order I assign to them.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .
He assigned to his men their several posts.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned .
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
Assimilate all objects.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood.
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England.
To aspire to an assimilation with God.
The assimilation of gases and vapors.
Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation , but preserving it by ventilation.
Such . . . appear to be of the assich kind . . .
Assist me, knight. I am undone!
With God not parted from him, as was feared,
But favoring and assisting to the end.
Without the assistance of a mortal hand.
Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance , . . . John Cavendish.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Four assistants who his labor share.
Rhymes merely as assistants to memory.
An hundred cubits high by just assize .
We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.
The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body.
He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
While I descend . . . to my associate powers.
The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
Words . . . must owe their powers association .
Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations , be profaned?
How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers,
And Carolina's with associators .
Till from her hands the spright assoiled is.
Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle.
Acquitted and assoiled from the guilt.
Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled , because they are . . . not of scandalous lives.
Let each act assoil a fault.
She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil .
Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield.
God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed.
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard.
Assonance between facts seemingly remote.
They appear . . . no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate.
Some ecstasy assotted had his sense.
Willie, I ween thou be assot .
Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .
To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
The fount at which the panting mind assuages
Her thirst of knowledge.
The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage .
Music her soft assuasive voice applies.
Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature.
Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
The god assumed his native form again.
The consequences of assumed principles.
Ambition assuming the mask of religion.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
The sun of all your assumpts is this.
The assumption of authority.
This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body.
That calm assumption of the virtues.
Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong.
Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
Brave men meet danger with assurance .
Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance .
His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . .
Assures me that the bitterness of death
Is past, and we shall live.
I dare assure thee that no enemy
Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus.
And it shall be assured to him.
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body.
And I astonied fell and could not pray.
Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol].
The very cramp-fish [i. e. astonish others.
Musidorus . . . had his wits astonished with sorrow.
I, Daniel . . . was astonished at the vision.
A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say.
Lest the place
And my quaint habits breed astonishment .
Thou shalt become an astonishment .
The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied .
This sodeyn cas this man astonied so,
That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking.
Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound .
As sudden ruin yawned around.
No puissant stroke his senses once astound .
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound
The virtuous mind.
Shines only with an astral luster.
Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer.
Ye were as sheep going astray .
The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted .
The mind is astricted to certain necessary modes or forms of thought.
Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade.
Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose.
Which contraction . . . astringeth the moisture of the brain and thereby sendeth tears into the eyes.
External astringents are called styptics.
An undevout astronomer is mad.
They astronomized in caves.
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy .
Inflated and astrut with self-conceit.
I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder .
As wide asunder as pole and pole.
So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary.
Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold bosom.
If gentil men, or othere of hir contree
Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon .
Now and then there occur cases of what physiologists call atavism , or reversion to an ancestral type of character.
Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader.
Written in the table of athamaunt .
Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none?
Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness.
Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded.
Atheistical explications of natural effects.
They endeavored to atheize one another.
I should say science was atheous , and therefore could not be atheistic.
Athwart the thicket lone.
Sometimes athwart , sometimes he strook him straight.
All athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news.
Abroach, atilt , and run
Even to the lees of honor.
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
The weight of mightiest monarchies.
The seven Atlantic sisters.
An atmosphere of cold oxygen.
Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres .
The chillest of social atmospheres .
The lower atmospheric current.
In am so atmospherical a creature.
There was not an atom of water.
It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis.
The liquids in the form of spray are said to be pulverized, nebulized, or atomized .
He and Aufidius can no more atone
Than violentest contrariety.
The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood.
The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure.
I would do much
To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
The four elements . . . have atoned
A noble league.
Or each atone his guilty love with life.
By whom we have now received the atonement .
He desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.
When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others.
The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.
Down he fell atones as a stone.
A hard-faced, atrabilious , earnest-eyed race.
He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful.
Men may the olde atrenne, but hat atrede .
Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them.
The atrocities which attend a victory.
The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles.
A huge stone to which the cable was attached .
Incapable of attaching a sensible man.
God . . . by various ties attaches man to man.
Top this treasure a curse is attached .
The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history.
On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever.
Hydrofluoric acid . . . attacks the glass.
Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means?
Not well attaining his meaning.
If by any means they might attain to Phenice.
Nor nearer might the dogs attain .
To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber.
Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.
The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life.
General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country.
He lived from all attainder of suspect.
The attainment of every desired object.
Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition.
No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses.
My tender youth was never yet attaint
With any passion of inflaming love.
For so exceeding shone his glistring ray,
That Phbus' golden face it did attaint .
Lest she with blame her honor should attaint .
And right anon his tale he hath attamed .
If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still.
Arts . . . attempered to the lyre.
Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise.
Something attempted , something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
It made the laughter of an afternoon
That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.
Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:
Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.
Without attempting his adversary's life.
By his blindness maimed for high attempts .
The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger.
The fifth had charge sick persons to attend .
Attends the emperor in his royal court.
With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.
What cares must then attend the toiling swain.
The state that attends all men after this.
Three days I promised to attend my doom.
Attend to the voice of my supplications.
Man can not at the same time attend to two objects.
He was required to attend upon the committee.
For this perfection she must yet attend ,
Till to her Maker she espoused be.
Till I come, give attendance to reading.
Constant attendance at church three times a day.
Languishing attendance and expectation of death.
If your stray attendance by yet lodged.
From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph.
Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord.
The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
[A] sense of fame, the attendant of noble spirits.
The uncomfortable attendments of hell.
Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.
They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point.
We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness.
The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.
Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors.
The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state
Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.
The attest of eyes and ears.
Finely attired in a robe of white.
With the linen miter shall he be attired .
Earth in her rich attire .
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire .
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire ?
The attitude of the country was rapidly changing.
'T is business of a painter in his choice of attitudes (posituræ ) to foresee the effect and harmony of the lights and shadows.
Never to keep the body in the same posture half an hour at a time.
Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp.
And will have no attorney but myself.
All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies.
Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation.
The motion of the steel to its attrahent .
Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly?
Errors . . . attributable to carelessness.
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . .
It is an attribute to God himself.
Effected by attrition of the inward stomach.
Wake to energy each social aim,
Attuned spontaneous to the will of Jove.
The crowing cock . . .
Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear.
His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed.
Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys ?
With auctionary hammer in thy hand.
Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away.
As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
Audacious .
The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men.
With the most arrogant audacity .
Visibles are swiftlier carried to the sense than audibles .
Thou, therefore, give due audience , and attend.
According to the fair play of the world,
Let me have audience : I am sent to speak.
Fit audience find, though few.
He drew his audience upward to the sky.
He appeals to a high audit .
Yet I can make my audit up.
It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.
Let Hocus audit ; he knows how the money was disbursed.
Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing.
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken.
But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting.
But their spite still serves
His glory to augment .
Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found
Without a priestly curse or boding sound.
My auguring mind assures the same success.
It seems to augur genius.
I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with.
From their flight strange auguries she drew.
He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness.
So beautiful and so august a spectacle.
To mingle with a body so august .
Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities.
The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses.
The aureole of young womanhood.
This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular .
Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays.
Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush.
They auspicate all their proceedings.
Which by his auspice they will nobler make.
Auspicious union of order and freedom.
From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose.
A doctrine austerely logical.
The austerity of John the Baptist.
Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners.
They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another.
To be avenged
On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being, authentic , and a book may be authentic without being genuine .
The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors .
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored .
More of him I dare not author .
The sacred functions of authoritative teaching.
The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other.
Thus can the demigod, Authority ,
Make us pay down for our offense.
By what authority doest thou these things ?
Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern
Authority for sin, warrant for blame.
The authorization of laws.
A special authorization from the chief.
A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam.
Authorizing himself , for the most part, upon other histories.
The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy .
The autocrat of the breakfast table.
Nothing can be said to be automatic .
Unconscious or automatic reasoning.
So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
These living automata , human bodies.
The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic .
By autopsy and experiment.
Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa.
An autumnal matron.
The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.
O, what avails me now that honor high !
Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names.
I have availed myself of the very first opportunity.
Words avail very little with me, young man.
The avail of a deathbed repentance.
The avails of their own industry.
He was . . . nominated for his availability .
Laws human are available by consent.
Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable.
Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares.
And from their sweaty courses did avale .
To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice .
All are taught an avarice of praise.
Martha Stewart , the home-and-hearth avatar whose products are now available at Kmart stores, is making upscale design touches like 200-thread-count cotton bed sheets something that most every American can aspire to.
— Leslie Kaufman (N. Y. Times, May 7, 1999).
He repeated Aves and Credos.
Their loud applause and aves vehement.
To number Ave Maries on his beads.
Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour !
Yet are not these parts avelled .
He will avenge the blood of his servants.
Avenge , O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen.
Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies.
I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another.
Into the castle's tower,
The only Aventine that now is left him.
On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry.
An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts.
It is sufficient that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case.
Then all averred I had killed the bird.
Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events.
Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others.
The tracks averse a lying notice gave,
And led the searcher backward from the cave.
Averse alike to flatter, or offend.
Men who were averse to the life of camps.
Pass by securely as men averse from war.
Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness.
Mutual aversion of races.
His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion .
A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection.
His aversion towards the house of York.
It is not difficult for a man to see that a person has conceived an aversion for him.
The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk.
Pain their aversion , pleasure their desire.
When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.
Cold and averting from our neighbor's good.
Who scornful pass it with averted eye.
Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary of England.
His books were received and read with avidity .
Want makes us know the price of what we avile .
Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be,
Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood.
With sharp, aviseful eye.
One who avocateth his mind from other occupations.
He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome.
Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin.
Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations .
By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life.
There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women.
In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations .
An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture.
Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided
the room.
How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?
What need a man forestall his date of grief.
And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it.
So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox,
Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks.
David avoided out of his presence.
The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.
Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him.
Avoidances and drainings of water.
They avouch many successions of authorities.
We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
If this which he avouches does appear.
Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish.
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.
The sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes.
Which I to be the of Israel's God
Avow , and challenge Dagon to the test.
Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me?
Let God alone be our avowry .
The avulsion of two polished superficies.
In these rare instances, the law of pedigree, whether direct or avuncular , gives way.
Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat,
Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
O Eve, some farther change awaits us night.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
It way awake my bounty further.
No sunny gleam awake s the trees.
The national spirit again awoke .
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
Before whom awake I stood.
She still beheld,
Now wide awake , the vision of her sleep.
He was awake to the danger.
[He] is dispatched
Already to awaken whom thou nam'st.
Their consciences are thoroughly awakened .
To review
The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
An award had been given against.
Aware of nothing arduous in a task
They never undertook.
The sound is going away .
Have me away , for I am sore wounded.
The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun.
Be near me when I fade away .
And the Lord said . . . Away , get thee down.
His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe .
There is an awe in mortals' joy,
A deep mysterious fear.
To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe .
The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power.
That same eye whose bend doth awe the world.
His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders.
An awesome glance up at the auld castle.
Heaven's awful Monarch.
A weak and awful reverence for antiquity.
Thrust from the company of awful men.
The awfulness of grandeur.
Producing in us reverence and awfulness .
And dropped an awkward courtesy.
A long and awkward process.
An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust.
O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel.
Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry .
Into the devious air.
Or by her charms
Draws him awry , enslaved.
Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men.
To take on an axial , and not an equatorial, direction.
The stores of axiomatic wisdom.
Had from her axle torn
The steadfast earth.
Merlin's agate-axled car.
For his mercies aye endure.
Not like those steps
On heaven's azure .
Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen
Of turkis blue, and emerald green.