Quotes: W

Waddle

She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace.

Wade

When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade.

Forbear, and wade no further in this speech.

So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.

The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.

Wafer

Wafers piping hot out of the gleed.

The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes.

A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making

Waft

But soft: who wafts us yonder?

A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

And now the shouts waft near the citadel.

In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft.

Waftage

Boats prepared for waftage to and fro.

Wafter

O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane.

Wafture

An angry wafture of your hand.

Wag

No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.

Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more.

“Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags.”

I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.

We wink at wags when they offend.

A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse.

Wag-halter

I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter.

Wage

My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies.

To wake and wage a danger profitless.

[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit.

The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.

Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.

I would have them waged for their labor.

By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry.

Our praises are our wages.

Existing legislation on the subject of wages.

wager

Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may be as the persons please.

If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.

And wagered with him Pieces of gold 'gainst this which he wore.

'T was merry when You wagered on your angling.

Wages

The wages of sin is death.

Waggery

A drollery and lurking waggery of expression.

Waggle

Why do you go nodding and waggling so?

Wagonage

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

Wai Wu Pu

The Tsung-li Yamen, or Foreign Office, created by a decree of January 19, 1861, was in July, 1902, superseded by the formation of a new Foreign Office called the Wai Wu Pu, . . . with precedence before all other boards.

Waif

A waif Desirous to return, and not received.

Wail

Therefore I will wail and howl.

Wain

The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.

Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.

Wainscot

A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree.

Inclosed in a chest of wainscot.

Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.

The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.

Waist

I am in the waist two yards about.

Waistcoateer

Do you think you are here, sir, Amongst your waistcoateers, your base wenches?

Wait

“But [unless] ye wait well and be privy, I wot right well, I am but dead,” quoth she.

All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait.

Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, And wait with longing looks their promised guide.

He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.

Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, And everlasting anguish be thy portion.

There is a wait of three hours at the border Mexican town of El Paso.

Hark! are the waits abroad?

The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.

Waiter

The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, “Make room,” as if a duke were passing by.

Waive

He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.

We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.

To waive from the word of Solomon.

Wake

This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.

Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.

The father waketh for the daughter.

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.

I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.

He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.

Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked.

Then wake, my soul, to high desires.

The angel . . . came again and waked me.

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.

Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.

To second life Waked in the renovation of the just.

Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.

Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.

The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light.

The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.

Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.

And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.

Wakeful

Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright.

Waken

Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

Then Homer's and Tyrtaeus' martial muse Wakened the world.

Venus now wakes, and wakens love.

They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high.

Wakening

They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet.

Waking

In the fourth waking of the night.

Wale

Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride.

Walk

At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again.

When was it she last walked?

Do you think I'd walk in any plot?

I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.

We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.

He will make their cows and garrans to walk.

As we walk our earthly round.

She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.

A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers.

He had walk for a hundred sheep.

Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain.

The mountains are his walks.

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.

walk-off

Curtis's homer over the left-center-field fence beat the Braves and was the first walk-off homer by a Yankee in the World Series since Mickey Mantle slugged one against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 3 in 1964.

There are so many people in here who are happy for Chad. We know what he's been through. Those hits could make Chad Curtis's whole year. When you hit a walk-off homer in the World Series, that's something he's going to remember for a long time.

Walker

Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.

She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought.

Wall

The plaster of the wall of the King's palace.

The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls.

To rush undaunted to defend the walls.

The king of Thebes, Amphion, That with his singing walled that city.

The terror of his name that walls us in.

Wallet

[His hood] was trussed up in his walet.

Wallow

I may wallow in the lily beds.

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.

One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.

Wampum

Round his waist his belt of wampum.

Girded with his wampum braid.

Wan

My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

With the wan moon overhead.

Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair.

Wand

With good smart blows of a wand on his back.

Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment.

Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand.

Wander

They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

He wandereth abroad for bread.

When God caused me to wander from my father's house.

O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

Wane

Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep.

You saw but sorrow in its waning form.

Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.

An age in which the church is in its wane.

Though the year be on the wane.

Wang

So work aye the wangs in his head.

Wanger

His bright helm was his wanger.

Waning

This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.

Wannish

No sun, but a wannish glare, In fold upon fold of hueless cloud.

Want

And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other prey.

From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

They that want honesty, want anything.

Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise.

The unhappy never want enemies.

I want to speak to you about something.

The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.

You have a gift, sir (thank your education), Will never let you want.

For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.

Wanton

A wanton and a merry [friar].

[She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved.

How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!

Not with wanton looking of folly.

[Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton.

I am afeard you make a wanton of me.

Peace, my wantons; he will do More than you can aim unto.

Anything, sir, That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton.

Nature here wantoned as in her prime.

How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams!

Wantonness

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.

Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness.

War

Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.

His complement of stores, and total war.

On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war.

Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.

Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it.

Why should I war without the walls of Troy?

Our countrymen were warring on that day!

To war the Scot, and borders to defend.

That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare.

Warble

If she be right invoked in warbled song.

Warbling sweet the nuptial lay.

Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat.

And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued every pulsing sound.

Warbler

In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo.

Ward

Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.

For the best ward of mine honor.

The assieged castle's ward Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.

For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.

I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward.

It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.

Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, Dealing an equal share to every ward.

The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.

Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same.

Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers.

Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.

The pointed javelin warded off his rage.

It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.

She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back.

Warden

He called to the warden on the . . . battlements.

I would have had him roasted like a warden.

Warder

When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there.

Wafting his warder thrice about his head, He cast it up with his auspicious hand, Which was the signal, through the English spread, This they should charge.

Wardrobe

Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear.

With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe.

Wardship

Wardship is incident to tenure in socage.

It was the wisest act . . . in my wardship.

Ware

It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day.

She was ware and knew it bet [better] than he.

Of whom be thou ware also.

He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.

The only good that grows of passed fear Is to be wise, and ware of like again.

God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice.

Then ware a rising tempest on the main.

Wareless

And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought.

Warely

They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep.

Warfare

The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.

This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

Wariness

To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used.

Warish

My brother shall be warished hastily.

Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.

Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape.

Warison

Wit and wisdom is good warysoun.

Warlike

Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men.

The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased.

Warling

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.

Warlock

It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded!

Thou shalt win the warlock fight.

Warm

Warm and still is the summer night.

Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

They say he's warm man and does not care to be mad mouths at.

I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't.

Warm householders, every one of them.

You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.

Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting “warm,” children say at blindman's buff.

Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.

I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.

There shall not be a coal to warm at.

Warmth

Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments.

That warmth . . . which agrees with Christian zeal.

Warn

Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee.

Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?

Warning

That warning timepiece never ceased.

A great journey to take upon so short a warning.

Could warning make the world more just or wise.

Warp

The planks looked warped.

Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.

This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.

We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.

While doth he mischief warp.

One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp.

They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.

There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp.

A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.

Warrant

I give thee warrant of thy place.

His worth is warrant for his welcome hither.

That show I first my body to warrant.

I'll warrant him from drowning.

In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I can not be.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides.

How little while it is since he went forth out of his study, -- chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant.

[My neck is] as smooth as silk, I warrant ye.

Warrantable

His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing.

Warranty

If they disobey precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty . . . to disobey likewise.

The stamp was a warranty of the public.

Warre

They say the world is much warre than it wont.

Warren

They wend both warren and in waste.

Warrior

Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.

Wary

We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men.

It behoveth our words to be wary and few.

Wash

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.

Fresh-blown roses washed with dew.

[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.

Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.

The tide will wash you off.

Wash in Jordan seven times.

These Lincoln washes have devoured them.

The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.

Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper.

Washy

A polish . . . not over thin and washy.

Waspish

He was naturally a waspish and hot man.

Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.

Wassail

Geoffrey of Monmouth relates, on the authority of Walter Calenius, that this lady [Rowena], the daughter of Hengist, knelt down on the approach of the king, and, presenting him with a cup of wine, exclaimed, Lord king waes heil, that is, literally, Health be to you.

The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail.

The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail.

A jolly wassail bowl, A wassail of good ale.

Have you done your wassail! 'T is a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you.

Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling, and wassailing.

Wassailer

The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.

Waste

The dismal situation waste and wild.

His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.

But his waste words returned to him in vain.

Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground.

Ill day which made this beauty waste.

And strangled with her waste fertility.

Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight.

The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.

Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.

O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain.

Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.

The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

The time wasteth night and day.

The barrel of meal shall not waste.

But man dieth, and wasteth away.

For all this waste of wealth loss of blood.

He will never . . . in the way of waste, attempt us again.

Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.

All the leafy nation sinks at last, And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the waste.

The gloomy waste of waters which bears his name is his tomb and his monument.

Wasteful

In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.

Wastel

Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread.

The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.

Wasteness

A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness.

Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.

Waster

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Sconces are great wasters of candles.

Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head.

Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters.

Watch

Shepherds keeping watch by night.

All the long night their mournful watch they keep.

Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.

Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . and it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins.

Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch.

I did stand my watch upon the hill.

Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames.

I have two nights watched with you.

Couldest thou not watch one hour ?

Take ye heed, watch and pray.

The Son gave signal high To the bright minister that watched.

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.

Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to watch him, and to slay him.

I must cool a little, and watch my opportunity.

In lazy mood I watched the little circles die.

And flaming ministers, to watch and tend Their earthy charge.

Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.

Watchet

Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?

Watchful

'Twixt prayer and watchful love his heart dividing.

Watchword

Nor deal in watchwords overmuch.

Water

Remembering he had passed over a small water a poor scholar when first coming to the university, he kneeled.

With tears watering the ground.

Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands.

If thine eyes can water for his death.

Water gall

These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent.

False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow.

Waterish

Feed upon such nice and waterish diet.

Watery

The oily and watery parts of the aliment.

Wattle

And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore.

The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes.

Wattled

The wattled cocks strut to and fro.

Wattling

Made with a wattling of canes or sticks.

Waul

The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world.

Waur

Murder and waur than murder.

Wave

His purple robes waved careless to the winds.

Where the flags of three nations has successively waved.

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.

Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.

Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground.

She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal.

The wave behind impels the wave before.

Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.

Wave-worn

The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed.

Waver

With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.

Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.

Let us hold fast . . . without wavering.

In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols.

Wavy

Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.

Wax

The waxing and the waning of the moon.

Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.

Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.

Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound.

Waxen

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Way

I shall him seek by way and eke by street.

The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.

And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail.

I prythee, now, lead the way.

If that way be your walk, you have not far.

And let eternal justice take the way.

My best way is to creep under his gaberdine.

By noble ways we conquest will prepare.

What impious ways my wishes took!

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

When men lived in a grander way.

The public ministers that fell in my way.

All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray.

There is but one road by which to climb up.

When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

On a time as they together wayed.

Wayed

A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge.

Wayfare

A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.

Waylay

Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid.

She often contrived to waylay him in his walks.

Wayment

Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten.

For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced?

Wayward

My wife is in a wayward mood.

Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.

Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought?

Waywiser

The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index.

Weak

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.

Weak with hunger, mad with love.

A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.

To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.

Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods.

If evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails.

A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.

I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong.

Never to seek weaking variety.

Weaken

Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.

Weakling

We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

Weakness

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Weal

God . . . grant you wele and prosperity.

As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.

To him linked in weal or woe.

Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high.

The special watchmen of our English weal.

Weald

Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled.

Wealth

I have little wealth to lose.

Each day new wealth, without their care, provides.

Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else.

Wealthily

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.

Wealthy

A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.

Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

The wealthy witness of my pen.

Wean

And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.

I, being but a yearling wean.

Weanling

The weaning of the whelp is the great test of the skill of the kennel man.

Weapon

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped.

Wear

What compass will you wear your farthingale?

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.

His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine.

That wicked wight his days doth wear.

The waters wear the stones.

Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us.

Away, I say; time wears.

Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee.

His stock of money began to wear very low.

The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century.

Motley 's the only wear.

Wearer

Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags.

Weariness

With weariness and wine oppressed.

A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

Wearing

Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing.

Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

Wearish

A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature.

Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted.

Wearisome

These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome.

Weary

I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.

[I] am weary, thinking of your task.

So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.

I stay too long by thee; I weary thee.

I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries.

Weasand

Cut his weasand with thy knife.

Weather

Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.

Fair weather cometh out of the north.

What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage!

Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather house, that useful toy!

[An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails.

This gear lacks weathering.

For I can weather the roughest gale.

You will weather the difficulties yet.

The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them.

To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather gauge of laws.

Weather-fend

[We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof.

Weathercock

Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation.

Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire.

Weave

This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.

That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons.

And for these words, thus woven into song.

When she weaved the sleided silk.

Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves.

Weazen

They were weazen and shriveled.

Web

Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive.

Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile.

The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold.

Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.

And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.

The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.

Webby

Bats on their webby wings in darkness move.

Wed

Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security].

With this ring I thee wed.

I saw thee first, and wedded thee.

And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her.

Thou art wedded to calamity.

Men are wedded to their lusts.

[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.

They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.

Wedded

Let walth, let honor, wait the wedded dame.

Wedding

Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.

Let her beauty be her wedding dower.

Wedge

In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more.

He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth.

Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.

Wedlock

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife?

Wee

A little wee face, with a little yellow beard.

Weed

He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off.

In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.

A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed.

Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.

Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.

Weedy

See from the weedy earth a rivulet break.

She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.

Week

I fast twice in the week.

Ween

I have lost more than thou wenest.

For well I ween, Never before in the bowers of light Had the form of an earthly fay been seen.

Though never a dream the roses sent Of science or love's compliment, I ween they smelt as sweet.

Weep

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck.

Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.

And eyes that wake to weep.

And they wept together in silence.

The blood weeps from my heart.

We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe.

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.

Weigh

An expedition was got under weigh from New York.

The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

A young man not weighed in state affairs.

Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own.

Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.

In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs.

Without sufficiently weighing his expressions.

All that she so dear did weigh.

Your vows to her and me . . . will even weigh.

This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.

Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart.

Could not weigh of worthiness aright.

Weight

For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes.

For the public all this weight he bears.

[He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.

In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.

A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.

The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.

Weighty

Let me have your advice in a weighty affair.

Weird

Myself too had weird seizures.

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land.

Wel-begone

Fair and rich and young and wel-begone.

Welaway

Then welaway, for she undone was clean.

Welcome

When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest.

His warmest welcome at an inn.

Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.

To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome.

Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

Weld

Two women faster welded in one love.

Welfare

How to study for the people's welfare.

In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come.

Welk

When ruddy Phbus 'gins to welk in west.

The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.

Mot thy welked neck be to-broke [broken].

Now sad winter welked hath the day.

Welkin

On the welkne shoon the sterres lyght.

The fair welkin foully overcast.

When storms the welkin rend.

Well

Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well.

The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled.

A well of serious thought and pure.

From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm, Pure welling out, he through the lucid lake Of fair Dambea rolls his infant streams.

If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

Lot . . . beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere.

WE are wellable to overcome it.

She looketh well to the ways of her household.

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight.

Well nine and twenty in a company.

Know In measure what the mind may well contain.

All the world speaks well of you.

Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age.

It was well with us in Egypt.

Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake?

He followed the fortunes of that family, and was well with Henry the Fourth.

Well-bred

I am as well-bred as the earl's granddaughter.

Well-favored

Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.

Well-intentioned

Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the wellintentioned party.

Well-known

A church well known with a well-known rite.

Well-liking

They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking.

Well-natured

Well-natured, temperate, and wise.

Well-seen

Well-seen in arms and proved in many a fight.

Wellhead

At the wellhead the purest streams arise.

Our public-school and university life is a great wellhead of new and irresponsible words.

Wellspring

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly.

Welter

When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.

These wizards welter in wealth's waves.

He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.

The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their blood.

Waves that, hardly weltering, die away.

Through this blindly weltering sea.

Weltered hearts and blighted . . . memories.

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

Wem

Withouten wem of you, through foul and fair.

Wench

Lord and lady, groom and wench.

That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot.

He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue-eyed little wench.

She shall be called his wench or his leman.

It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches.

Wend

To Athens shall the lovers wend.

Went

To the church both be they went.

But here my weary team, nigh overspent, Shall breathe itself awhile after so long a went.

He knew the diverse went of mortal ways.

Were

Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.

Werewolf

The werwolf went about his prey.

The brutes that wear our form and face, The werewolves of the human race.

Wern

He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern.

West

And fresh from the west is the free wind's breath.

This shall be your west border.

Westering

Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.

Western

Far o'er the glowing western main.

Westward

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

Yond same star that's westward from the pole.

Wet

Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet.

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant.

Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.

Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles.

Whack

Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes.

Wharf

Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.

Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame.

Wharl

A strange, uncouth wharling in their speech.

What

What see'st thou in the ground?

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

What, could ye not watch with me one hour?

What a piece of work is man!

O what a riddle of absurdity!

What partial judges are our love and hate!

With joy beyond what victory bestows.

I'm thinking Captain Lawton will count the noses of what are left before they see their whaleboats.

What followed was in perfect harmony with this beginning.

I know well . . . how little you will be disposed to criticise what comes to you from me.

See what natures accompany what colors.

To restrain what power either the devil or any earthly enemy hath to work us woe.

We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel.

Whether it were the shortness of his foresight, the strength of his will, . . . or what it was.

What for lust [pleasure] and what for lore.

Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom shrunk.

The year before he had so used the matter that what by force, what by policy, he had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles.

What time the morn mysterious visions brings.

And gave him for to feed, Such homely what as serves the simple clown.

What should I tell the answer of the knight.

But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? What do I pick up so thriftily their scatterings and diminishings of the meaner subject?

Whatever

Whatever fortune stays from his word.

Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields.

Whatever be its intrinsic value.

Whatso

Whatso he were, of high or low estate.

Whatso the heaven in his wide vault contains.

Whatsoever

Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Wheedle

The unlucky art of wheedling fools.

And wheedle a world that loves him not.

A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.

Wheel

The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel Of his own car.

His examination is like that which is made by the rack and wheel.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar A touch can make, a touch can mar.

You must sing a-down a-down, An you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it!

According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.

[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.

Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course.

The moon carried about the earth always shows the same face to us, not once wheeling upon her own center.

Being able to advance no further, they are in a fair way to wheel about to the other extreme.

Then wheeling down the steep of heaven he flies.

Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky, And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls.

Whelm

She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!

The whelming billow and the faithless oar.

Whelp

That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.

Unless she had whelped it herself, she could not have loved a thing better.

Did thy foul fancy whelp so black a scheme?

When

When shall these things be?

Kings may Take their advantage when and how they list.

Book lore ne'er served, when trial came, Nor gifts, when faith was dead.

I was adopted heir by his consent; Since when, his oath is broke.

Come hither; mend my ruff: Here, when! thou art such a tedious lady!

When as sacred light began to dawn.

When that mine eye is famished for a look.

Whenas

Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter.

Whence

Whence hath this man this wisdom?

Whence and what art thou?

Grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends.

O, how unlike the place from whence they fell?

From whence come wars and fightings among you?

Whencesoever

Any idea, whencesoever we have it.

Wher

Men must enquire (this is mine assent), Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe.

Where

God called unto Adam, . . . Where art thou?

She visited that place where first she was so happy.

Where I thought the remnant of mine age Should have been cherished by her childlike duty.

Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.

But where he rode one mile, the dwarf ran four.

But where does this tend?

Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the gold breezes come not.

The star . . . stood over where the young child was.

The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Within about twenty paces of where we were.

Where did the minstrels come from?

And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

Finding the nymph asleep in secret where.

Whereabout

A puzzling notice of thy whereabout.

Whereas

At last they came whereas that lady bode.

Are not those found to be the greatest zealots who are most notoriously ignorant? whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge.

Whereat

They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews.

Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane.

Whereby

Whereby shall I know this?

Wherefore

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

But wherefore that I tell my tale.

Wherefore didst thou doubt?

Wherein

Her clothes wherein she was clad.

There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent.

Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him!

Whereinto

Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not?

The brook, whereinto he loved to look.

Whereness

A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next to nothing.

Whereof

I do not find the certain numbers whereof their armies did consist.

Let it work like Borgias' wine, Whereof his sire, the pope, was poisoned.

Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one.

Whereof was the house built?

Whereon

O fair foundation laid whereon to build.

Whereout

The cleft whereout the lightning breaketh.

Wherethrough

Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.

Whereto

Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day.

Whereupon

The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither.

Wherever

He can not but love virtue wherever it is.

Wherewith

The love wherewith thou hast loved me.

Wherewith shall I save Israel?

So shall I have wherewith to answer him.

The wherewith to meet excessive loss by radiation.

Wherewithal

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?

[The builders of Babel], still with vain design, New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build.

Whet

The mower whets his scythe.

Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak.

Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept.

Whether

Now choose yourself whether that you liketh.

One day in doubt I cast for to compare Whether in beauties' glory did exceed.

Whether of them twain did the will of his father?

And now who knows But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?

You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

But whether thus these things, or whether not; Whether the sun, predominant in heaven, Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun, . . . Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid.

Whetstone

The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits.

Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor.

Which

And which they weren and of what degree.

Which of you convinceth me of sin?

And when thou fail'st -- as God forbid the hour! -- Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!

God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Our Father, which art in heaven.

The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

Whiff

But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls.

The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.

Old Empedocles, . . . who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.

Whiffle

A person of whiffing and unsteady turn of mind can not keep close to a point of controversy.

Whiffler

Every whiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution.

Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, Seems to prepare his way.

While

This mighty queen may no while endure.

[Some guest that] hath outside his welcome while, And tells the jest without the smile.

I will go forth and breathe the air a while.

Satan . . . cast him how he might quite her while.

And so on us at whiles it falls, to claim Powers that we dread.

The lovely lady whiled the hours away.

Use your memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it.

I may be conveyed into your chamber; I'll lie under your bed while midnight.

Whilere

Helpeth me now as I did you whilere.

He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world.

Whiles

The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him.

Whilom

Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, There was a duke that highte Theseus.

Whilst

Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch.

Whim

Let every man enjoy his whim.

Whimling

Go, whimling, and fetch two or three grating loaves.

Whimmy

The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so.

Whimper

Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him?

Whimsey

Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy.

Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth.

To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.

Whimsical

My neighbors call me whimsical.

Whimwham

They'll pull ye all to pieces for your whimwhams.

Whin

Through the whins, and by the cairn.

Whine

The hounds were . . . staying their coming, but with a whining accent, craving liberty.

Dost thou come here to whine?

Whinger

The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger.

Whinny

A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common.

Whip

Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.

They would whip me with their fine wits.

Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.

In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.

She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.

He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.

Whipping their rough surface for a trout.

With speed from thence he whipped.

Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.

In his right hand he holds a whip, with which he is supposed to drive the horses of the sun.

Whippletree

[People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot.

Whipster

Every puny whipster gets my sword.

Whir

The partridge bursts away on whirring wings.

This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends.

Whirl

He whirls his sword around without delay.

See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly.

The wooden engine flies and whirls about.

But whirled away to shun his hateful sight.

The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble beings above.

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

Whirl-blast

A whirl-blast from behind the hill.

Whirlbat

The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Caesar.

Whirlicote

Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes.

Whirligig

With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head.

Whirlpool

The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are; among which the whales and whirlpools, called “balaenae,” take up in length as much as four . . . arpents of land.

Whirlwind

The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages.

Whisk

This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art but an earl.

My wife in her new lace whisk.

He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.

I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.

Whisker

Hoary whiskers and a forky beard.

Whiskered

Our forefathers, a grave, whiskered race.

The whiskered vermin race.

Whisper

The hollow, whispering breeze.

All that hate me whisper together against me.

They might buzz and whisper it one to another.

And whisper one another in the ear.

Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed.

The inward voice or whisper can not give a tone.

Soft whispers through the assembly went.

Whist

The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed.

Whistle

The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way.

The wild winds whistle, and the billows roar.

He chanced to miss his dog; we stood still till he had whistled him up.

I 'ld whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune.

Might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, . . . Or whistle from the lodge.

The countryman could not forbear smiling, . . . and by that means lost his whistle.

They fear his whistle, and forsake the seas.

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.

So was her jolly whistle well ywet.

Let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles.

Whit

So shall I no whit be behind in duty.

It does not me a whit displease.

White

White as the whitest lily on a stream.

Or whispering with white lips, “The foe! They come! they come!”

White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear.

No whiter page than Addison's remains.

Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.

On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.

Come forth, my white spouse.

I am his white boy, and will not be gullet.

Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats.

A pistol charged with white powder.

Finely attired in a of white.

'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.

Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness.

So as no fuller on earth can white them.

White-livered

They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights.

Whiten

The broad stream of the Foyle then whitened by vast flocks of wild swans.

Whiteness

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

Whither

Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?

That no man should know . . . whither that he went.

We came unto the land whither thou sentest us.

Nor have I . . . whither to appeal.

Whitherward

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

Whitster

The whitsters in Datchet mead.

Whittle

He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose.

“In vino veritas.” When men are well whittled, their tongues run at random.

Dexterity with a pocketknife is a part of a Nantucket education; but I am inclined to think the propensity is national. Americans must and will whittle.

Whiz

It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way.

Like the whiz of my crossbow.

Who

[He] should not tell whose children they were.

There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan.

Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness.

Whom I could pity thus forlorn.

How hard is our fate, who serve in the state.

Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death.

The brace of large greyhounds, who were the companions of his sports.

As who should say, it were a very dangerous matter if a man in any point should be found wiser than his forefathers were.

Whole

The whole race of mankind.

My life is yet whole in me.

[She] findeth there her friends hole and sound.

They that be whole need not a physician.

When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole.

All the whole army stood agazed on him.

One entire and perfect chrysolite.

Lest total darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life.

So absolute she seems, And in herself complete.

This not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Wholesale

Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale.

Wholesome

Wholesome thirst and appetite.

From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.

I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased.

A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained.

Wholly

Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.

They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.

Whom

And every grass that groweth upon root She shall eke know, and whom it will do boot.

Whomsoever

The Most High ruleth in the kingdow of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

Whoop

Each whooping with a merry shout.

When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome.

A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos.

The whoop of the crane.

Whoredom

O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God.

Whortle

[He] looked ahead of him from behind a tump of whortles.

Whose

Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee.

The question whose solution I require.

Whoso

Whoso shrinks or falters now, . . . Brand the craven on his brow!

Whosoever

Whosoever will, let him take . . . freely.

Whurry

Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore.

Why

Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.

Turn the discourse; I have a reason why I would not have you speak so tenderly.

If her chill heart I can not move, Why, I'll enjoy the very love.

The how and the why and the where.

Why-not

When the church Was taken with a why-not in the lurch.

This game . . . was like to have been lost with a why-not.

Wicca

Encouraged by court rulings recognizing witchcraft as a legal religion, an increasing number of books related to the subject, and the continuing cultural concern for the environment, Wicca -- as contemporary witchcraft is often called -- has been growing in the United States and abroad. It is a major element in the expanding “neo-pagan” movement whose members regard nature itself as charged with divinity.

“I don't worship Satan, who I don't think exists, but I do pray to the Goddess of Creation.” said Margot S. Adler, a New York correspondent for National Public Radio and a Wiccan practitioner. “Wicca is not anti-Christian or pro-Christian, it's pre-Christian.”

For at least one person who has seen “The Blair Witch Project”, the surprise hit movie of the summer did not so much terrify as infuriate. One long slur against witches, said Selena Fox, a witch, or Wicca, as male and female American witches prefer to call themselves.

wick

But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light goes out, and wick is thrown away.

Wicked

Hence, then, and evil go with thee along, Thy offspring, to the place of evil, hell, Thou and thy wicked crew!

Never, never, wicked man was wise.

This were a wicked way, but whoso had a guide.

Pen looked uncommonly wicked.

Wickedly

I have sinned, and I have done wickedly.

Wickedness

God saw that the wickedness of man was great.

Their inward part is very wickedness.

I'll never care what wickedness I do, If this man comes to good.

Wicker

Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it.

Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrailéd curiously.

Wickered

Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather.

Wicket

And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed.

The wicket, often opened, knew the key.

Wide

The chambers and the stables weren wyde.

Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction.

For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den.

When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours.

Men of strongest head and widest culture.

The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God.

It is far wide that the people have such judgments.

How wide is all this long pretense !

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.

I was but two bows wide.

[I] went wyde in this world, wonders to hear.

Widen

Arches widen, and long aisles extend.

Widow

Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury.

The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears.

Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail.

Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn.

Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all.

Widowhood

Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years.

Wield

When a strong armed man keepeth his house, all things that he wieldeth ben in peace.

Wile [ne will] ye wield gold neither silver ne money in your girdles.

The famous orators . . . whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty.

Her newborn power was wielded from the first by unprincipled and ambitions men.

Base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield!

Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.

Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade.

Wielder

A wielder of the great arm of the war.

Wielding

To have them in your might and in your wielding.

Wife

On the green he saw sitting a wife.

Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Wifely

With all the tenderness of wifely love.

Wiggery

Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts.]

Wight

She was fallen asleep a little wight.

Every wight that hath discretion.

Oh, say me true if thou wert mortal wight.

'T is full wight, God wot, as is a roe.

He was so wimble and so wight.

They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Pilgrims wight with steps forthright.

Wigwam

Very spacious was the wigwam, Made of deerskin dressed and whitened, With the gods of the Dacotahs Drawn and painted on its curtains.

Wild

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

The woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.

What are these So withered and so wild in their attire ?

With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven.

The wild winds howl.

Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known.

then Libya first, of all her moisture drained, Became a barren waste, a wild of sand.

Wilded

An old garden plant escaped and wilded.

Wilder

Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate.

Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose.

Wilderment

And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death.

Wilderness

The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply.

These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease.

Wildfire

Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench.

Wildgrave

The wildgrave winds his bugle horn.

Wilding

Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.

The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.

The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.

Wile

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.

Will

It is necessary to form a distinct notion of what is meant by the word “volition” in order to understand the import of the word will, for this last word expresses the power of mind of which “volition” is the act.

Will is an ambiguous word, being sometimes put for the faculty of willing; sometimes for the act of that faculty, besides [having] other meanings. But “volition” always signifies the act of willing, and nothing else.

Appetite is the will's solicitor, and the will is appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject.

The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything.

The word “will,” however, is not always used in this its proper acceptation, but is frequently substituted for “volition”, as when I say that my hand mover in obedience to my will.

Thy will be done.

Our prayers should be according to the will of God.

What's your will, good friar?

The mariner hath his will.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies.

A wife as of herself no thing ne sholde [should] Wille in effect, but as her husband wolde [would].

Caleb said unto her, What will thou ?

They would none of my counsel.

I am able to devote as much time and attention to other subjects as I will [shall] be under the necessity of doing next winter.

A countryman, telling us what he had seen, remarked that if the conflagration went on, as it was doing, we would [should] have, as our next season's employment, the Old Town of Edinburgh to rebuild.

I feel assured that I will [shall] not have the misfortune to find conflicting views held by one so enlightened as your excellency.

And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.

By all law and reason, that which the Parliament will not, is no more established in this kingdom.

Two things he [God] willeth, that we should be good, and that we should be happy.

They willed me say so, madam.

Send for music, And will the cooks to use their best of cunning To please the palate.

As you go, will the lord mayor . . . To attend our further pleasure presently.

At Winchester he lies, so himself willed.

He that shall turn his thoughts inward upon what passes in his own mind when he wills.

I contend for liberty as it signifies a power in man to do as he wills or pleases.

Willful

In willful poverty chose to lead his life.

Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence.

Willing

Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

With wearied wings and willing feet.

[Fruit] shaken in August from the willing boughs.

[They] are held, with his melodious harmony, In willing chains and sweet captivity.

No spouts of blood run willing from a tree.

Willingly

The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it.

Willingness

Sweet is the love which comes with willingness.

Willow

And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me.

Willowy

Where willowy Camus lingers with delight.

Wilt

Despots have wilted the human race into sloth and imbecility.

Wily

This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind.

Wimple

Full seemly her wympel ipinched is.

For she had laid her mournful stole aside, And widowlike sad wimple thrown away.

Then Vivian rose, And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws.

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.

For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere, Her head and face was hid.

With me through . . . meadows stray, Where wimpling waters make their way.

Win

Thy well-breathed horse Impels the flying car, and wins the course.

Thy virtue wan me; with virtue preserve me.

She is a woman; therefore to be won.

Even in the porch he him did win.

And when the stony path began, By which the naked peak they wan, Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.

Nor is it aught but just That he, who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms.

Wince

I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word.

Wincopipe

There is small red flower in the stubble fields, which country people call the wincopipe; which if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow.

Wind

Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor.

Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.

In his terms so he would him wind.

Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses.

Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical.

Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse.

So swift your judgments turn and wind.

And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.

He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which . . . winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.

The lowing herd wind lowly o'er the lea.

To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison.

Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good.

Winds were soft, and woods were green.

Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.

If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.

A pack of dogfish had him in the wind.

Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.

Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe.

Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn.

That blast was winded by the king.

Wind-break

'T would wind-break a mule to vie burdens with her.

Windfall

He had a mighty windfall out of doubt.

Windiness

The swelling windiness of much knowledge.

Winding

To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.

Windlace

Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels.

Window

I leaped from the window of the citadel.

Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow.

Till he has windows on his bread and butter.

Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck?

Windy

Blown with the windy tempest of my heart.

It keeps on the windy side of care.

Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored.

Wine

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.

Noah awoke from his wine.

Wing

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.

Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Fiery expedition be my wing.

Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms.

Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours.

The main battle, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.

I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough.

There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him.

Winged

How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake.

Wingy

With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind.

Those wingy mysteries in divinity.

Wink

He must wink, so loud he would cry.

And I will wink, so shall the day seem night.

They are not blind, but they wink.

A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day.

Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.

The times of this ignorance God winked at.

And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign.

Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.

I have not slept one wink.

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink.

The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down, And tips you, the freeman, a wink.

Winning

Ye seek land and sea for your winnings.

Winnow

Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor.

Winnow well this thought, and you shall find This light as chaff that flies before the wind.

Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air.

Winnow not with every wind.

Winsome

Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature.

Still plotting how their hungry ear That winsome voice again might hear.

Winter

And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.

Winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.

Because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence.

Winter-ground

The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse.

Winter-proud

When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early.

Winterly

The sir growing more winterly in the month of April.

Wintry

Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile.

Wipe

Let me wipe thy face.

I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.

If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.

Wirble

The waters went wirbling above and around.

Wiredraw

My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy.

Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of justice.

wirepuller

Political wire-pullers and convention packers.

Wiry

He bore his age well, and seemed to retain a wiry vigor and alertness.

Wis

Nor do I know how long it is (For I have lain entranced, I wis).

Wisdom

We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but in the doctrine of the spirit.

Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom that they will yield everything to reason, and refuse everything to force.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wise

They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks.

From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.

Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford?

Nor, on the other side, Will I be penuriously wise As to make money, that's my slave, my idol.

Lords do not care for me: I am too wise to die yet.

A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one; He's wise in years, and of a temperate warmth.

You are too wise in years, too full of counsel, For my green experience.

To love her in my beste wyse.

This song she sings in most commanding wise.

Let not these blessings then, sent from above, Abused be, or spilt in profane wise.

Wise-like

The only wise-like thing I heard anybody say.

Wiseacre

Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a mighty wiseacre.

Wisely

And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild.

Wish

They cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.

I would not wish Any companion in the world but you.

I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper.

I would not wish them to a fairer death.

I wish it may not prove some ominous foretoken of misfortune to have met with such a miser as I am.

Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil.

I would be glad to thrive, sir, And I was wished to your worship by a gentleman.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God a stead.

Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish.

Will he, wise, let loose at once his ire . . . To give his enemies their wish!

Wishful

From Scotland am I stolen, even of pure love To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.

Wishy-washy

A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own.

Wisp

In a small basket, on a wisp of hay.

The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.

Wisse

Ere we depart I shall thee so well wisse That of mine house ne shalt thou never misse.

Wistful

Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea.

That he who there at such an hour hath been, Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot.

Wit

Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.

Thou wost full little what thou meanest.

We witen not what thing we prayen here.

When that the sooth in wist.

Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?

A prince most prudent, of an excellent And unmatched wit and judgment.

Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.

He wants not wit the dander to decline.

I will stare him out of his wits.

The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.

Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity.

Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy.

In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.

A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit.

But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.

Witch

There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.

He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.

[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.

Whether within us or without The spell of this illusion be That witches us to hear and see.

witchcraft

He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue.

Witchery

Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries.

A woman infamous . . . for witcheries.

He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky.

The dear, dear witchery of song.

Wite

Though that I be jealous, wite me not.

There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray.

With

Thy servant will . . . fight with this Philistine.

I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.

Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate.

See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her they flourished, and with her they die.

There is no living with thee nor without thee.

Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers.

Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee.

That with these fowls I be all to-rent.

Thou wilt be like a lover presently, And tire the hearer with a book of words.

[He] entertained a coffeehouse with the following narrative.

With receiving your friends within and amusing them without, you lead a good, pleasant, bustling life of it.

Can blazing carbuncles with her compare.

With that she told me . . . that she would hide no truth from me.

With her they flourished, and with her they die.

With this he pointed to his face.

Withal

He will scarce be pleased withal.

Fy on possession But if a man be virtuous withal.

If you choose that, then I am yours withal.

How modest in exception, and withal How terrible in constant resolution.

This diamond he greets your wife withal.

Whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal.

Withdraw

Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.

Withdrawing-room

A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room.

Withe

You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death.

Wither

Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?

This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.

There was a man which had his hand withered.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.

States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.

The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth.

Shot forth pernicious fire Among the accursed, that withered all their strength.

The passions and the cares that wither life.

Withers

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

Withhold

Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him.

Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good.

To withhold it the more easily in heart.

Within

O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.

Till this be cured by religion, it is as impossible for a man to be happy -- that is, pleased and contented within himself -- as it is for a sick man to be at ease.

Within these five hours lived Lord Hastings, Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.

Both he and she are still within my power.

Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power.

Were every action concluded within itself, and drew no consequence after it, we should, undoubtedly, never err in our choice of good.

Ills from within thy reason must prevent.

Withinforth

[It is much greater] labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon.

Without

Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.

Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.

I wolde it do withouten negligence.

Wise men will do it without a law.

Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction.

There is no living with thee nor without thee.

You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

Without were fightings, within were fears.

The people came unto the house without.

Withsay

If that he his Christendom withsay.

Withstand

I withstood him to the face.

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast. The little tyrant of his fields withstood.

Withwind

He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, In a withewyndes wise ybounden about.

Withy

The stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation.

Witless

A witty mother! witless else her son.

Witless pity breedeth fruitless love.

Witling

A beau and witing perished in the forming.

Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!

Witness

May we with . . . the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?

If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

Laban said to Jacob, . . . This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness.

Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.

This, I confess, is haste with a witness.

This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.

General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.

Behold how many things they witness against thee.

The men of Belial witnessed against him.

The witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with this event [martyrdom] that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness to death.

Witticism

He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse.

Wittily

Who his own harm so wittily contrives.

Wive

Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive.

I have wived his sister.

Wiver

The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons.

Wizard

See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet!

The wily wizard must be caught.

Where Deva spreads her wizard stream.

Wizen

A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy.

Wlatsome

Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God.

Woad

Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures.

Woe

Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.

[They] weep each other's woe.

Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life].

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!

Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!

His clerk was woe to do that deed.

Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.

And looking up he waxed wondrous woe.

Woe-begone

So woe-begone was he with pains of love.

Woeful

How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!

O woeful day! O day of woe!

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!

Wold

And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.

The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold.

Wolf

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.

Woman

Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.

Man is destined to be a prey to woman.

Womanhood

Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood.

Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood.

Womanish

A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike.

Womankind

A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access.

Womanlike

Womanlike, taking revenge too deep.

Womanliness

There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.

Womanly

A blushing, womanly discovering grace.

Womb

And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him.

An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.

The womb of earth the genial seed receives.

The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb.

Won

This land where I have woned thus long.

Wonder

They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.

I am as a wonder unto many.

I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.

We cease to wonder at what we understand.

I wonder, in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny.

After that he said a wonder thing.

Wonderment

All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage.

Wonders

They be wonders glad thereof.

Wonderwork

Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand.

Wondrous

For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.

And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold.

That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works.

Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved.

Wone

Their habitation in which they woned.

To liven in delight was all his wone.

Wont

If the ox were wont to push with his horn.

They are . . . to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont.

From childly wont and ancient use.

A yearly solemn feast she wont to make.

Wonted

Again his wonted weapon proved.

Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner.

She was wonted to the place, and would not remove.

Woo

Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought.

Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song.

I woo the wind That still delays his coming.

Wood

Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.

Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.

We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.

Wood-note

Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

Woodbind

A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves.

Woodbine

Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

Woodcock

If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, “A woodcock!”

Woodcraft

Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight.

Wooded

The brook escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell.

Wooden

When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.

His singing was, I confess, a little wooden.

Woodenness

We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology.

Woodland

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again.

Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.

She had a rustic, woodland air.

Like summer breeze by woodland stream.

Woodman

[The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for.

Woodman, spare that tree.

Woodness

Woodness laughing in his rage.

Woodsy

It [sugar making] is woodsy, and savors of trees.

Woody

Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove.

Wool

Wool of bat and tongue of dog.

Woolgathering

His wits were a woolgathering, as they say.

Woolward-going

Their . . . woolward-going, and rising at midnight.

Word

You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense.

Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes.

Why should calamity be full of words?

Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear.

I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes.

Give the word through.

Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly.

I know you brave, and take you at your word.

I desire not the reader should take my word.

Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me.

All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

She said; but at the happy word “he lives,” My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound.

There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark.

The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince.

Wording

It is believed this wording was above his known style.

Wordish

The truth they hide by their dark woordishness.

Wordy

We need not lavish hours in wordy periods.

Work

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of.

In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

To leave no rubs or blotches in the work.

The work some praise, And some the architect.

Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.

The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . . is the chief work of elements.

I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago.

Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another.

He shall reward every man according to his works.

Faith, if it hath not works, is dead.

Energy is the capacity of doing work. . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another.

O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness?

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you.

Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass.

We bend to that the working of the heart.

We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.

This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught.

She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him.

They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded.

Confused with working sands and rolling waves.

Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind.

The working of beer when the barm is put in.

Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.

He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time.

Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill.

So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.

Knowledge in building and working ships.

Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve.

The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do.

Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt.

The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks.

Worker

Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.

Working

The word must cousin be to the working.

Working-day

O, how full of briers in this working-day world.

Workmanship

Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Not any skilled in workmanship embossed.

By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God.

Workyday

Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune.

World

The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.

With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.

Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.

There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign.

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety.

Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain.

Happy is she that from the world retires.

If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in ignorance.

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it.

Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?

I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company.

A world of woes dispatched in little space.

O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.

Throughout all ages, world without end.

Worldling

A foutre for the world and worldlings base.

If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument.

And worldlings blot the temple's gold.

Worldly

Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it.

With his soul fled all my worldly solace.

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek.

Worm

There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer.

'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks.

The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!

I am a worm, and no man.

The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms.

When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded.

They find themselves wormed out of all power.

They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.

The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.

Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served.

Worm-eaten

Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut.

Wormling

O dusty wormling! dost thou strive and stand With heaven's high monarch?

Wormwood

Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood.

Worry

A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood.

Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure.

Worry him out till he gives consent.

Worse

Or worse, if men worse can devise.

[She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.

Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.

There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse.

“But I love him.” “Love him? Worse and worse.”

Now will we deal worse with thee than with them.

Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.

Worsen

It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened.

Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve.

Worser

Thou dost deserve a worser end.

From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.

A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war.

Worship

A man of worship and honour.

Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land.

Of which great worth and worship may be won.

Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

My father desires your worships' company.

The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.

'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship.

In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair.

Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph.

This holy image that is man God worshipeth.

But God is to be worshiped.

When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.

With bended knees I daily worship her.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence?

Worshipful

[She is] so dear and worshipful.

Worst

I have a wife, the worst that may be.

If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.

The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst.

He is always sure of finding diversion when the worst comes to the worst.

The . . . Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark.

Worth

I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe.

He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray.

It was not worth to make it wise.

A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats.

All our doings without charity are nothing worth.

If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.

This is life indeed, life worth preserving.

At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns.

What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?

To be of worth, and worthy estimation.

As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well.

To think how modest worth neglected lies.

Worthily

You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues.

Some may very worthily deserve to be hated.

Worthiness

Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness?

She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness.

The prayers which our Savior made were for his own worthiness accepted.

Worthless

'T is a worthless world to win or lose.

Worthy

Full worthy was he in his lordes war.

These banished men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities.

Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be.

This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.

No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.

The merciless Macdonwald, Worthy to be a rebel.

Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.

And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness.

The lodging is well worthy of the guest.

Worthy women of the town.

The blood of ancient worthies in his veins.

Wot

Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it.

Would

Right as our Lord hath would.

Wound

Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Woundless

[Slander] may miss our name, And hit the woundless air.

Woundy

Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor.

A am woundy cold.

Wraith

She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith.

O, hollow wraith of dying fame.

Wrangle

For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle.

He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.

Wrap

Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves.

Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure.

Wise poets that wrap truth in tales.

Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.

Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity.

Wrastle

Who wrastleth best naked, with oil enoint.

Wrath

Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.

When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.

Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in.

If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.

Wraw

With this speech the cock wex wroth and wraw.

Wray

To no wight thou shalt this counsel wray.

Wreak

He should wreake him on his foes.

Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself.

Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.

On me let Death wreak all his rage.

Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years.

But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave.

Wreaker

The stork, the wrekere of avouterye [adultery].

Wreath

[He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath.

Conquest doth grant He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant.

Far back in the ages, The plow with wreaths was crowned.

Wreathe

And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe.

The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular physiognomy was wreathed.

From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped.

Each wreathed in the other's arms.

Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed.

And with thy winding ivy wreathes her lance.

In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss.

Wreck

Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.

The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.

Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves.

Wrench

His wily wrenches thou ne mayst not flee.

He wringeth them such a wrench.

The injurious effect upon biographic literature of all such wrenches to the truth, is diffused everywhere.

Wrench his sword from him.

Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony.

You wrenched your foot against a stone.

Wrest

Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.

They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.

Wrest once the law to your authority.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.

Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text.

The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp.

Wrestle

To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well.

Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

Come, wrestle with thy affections.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood.

Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.

Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs.

Wretch

Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun?

Wretched

O cruel Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.

Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices.

Wretchedness

Eat worms and such wretchedness.

Wretchless

Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor.

Wriggle

Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.

Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole.

Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over.

Wright

He was a well good wright, a carpenter.

Wring

[His steed] so sweat that men might him wring.

The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.

The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head.

Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.

Didst thou taste but half the griefs That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.

How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?

Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.

He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.

To wring the widow from her 'customed right.

The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.

'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow.

Look where the sister of the king of France Sits wringing of her hands, and beats her breast.

Wrinkle

Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.

A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.

Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.

Wrinkly

His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last.

Wrist

He took me by the wrist, and held me hard.

Writ

Then to his hands that writ he did betake, Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.

Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ.

Write

Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.

I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved.

I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living.

He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.

So it stead you, I will write, Please you command.

They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.

He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom.

Writer

They [came] that handle the pen of the writer.

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile.

Writhe

Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro.

Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown.

His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.

The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed.

The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in writhing money from them by every species of oppression.

After every attempt, he felt that he had failed, and writhed with shame and vexation.

Writhen

A writhen staff his step unstable guides.

Writing

And Pilate wrote a title . . . And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

Wrong

I have deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong places.

Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss.

When I had wrong and she the right.

One spake much of right and wrong.

Friend, I do thee no wrong.

As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither can he do right but in his courts and by his courts.

The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as binding as that of paying a debt.

He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul.

I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.

Wrongness

The best great wrongnesses within themselves.

The rightness or wrongness of this view.

Wroth

Revel and truth as in a low degree, They be full wroth [i. e., at enmity] all day.

Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Wrought

Alas that I was wrought [created]!

Wrought and wreaked havoc Recently, we mentioned that something had wreaked havoc with our PC. We were fairly quickly corrected by someone who said, "Shouldn't that be wrought havoc?" The answer is no, because either wreaked or wrought is fine here. A misconception often arises because wrought is wrongly assumed to be the past participle of wreak. In fact wrought is the past participle of an early version of the word work! Wreak comes from Old English wrecan "drive out, punish, avenge", which derives ultimately from the Indo-European root *wreg- "push, shove, drive, track down". Latin urgere "to urge" comes from the same source, giving English urge. Interestingly, wreak is also related to wrack and wreck. The phrase wreak havoc was first used by Agatha Christie in 1923. Wrought, on the other hand, arose in the 13th century as the past participle of wirchen, Old English for "work". In the 15th century worked came into use as the past participle of work, but wrought survived in such phrases as finely-wrought, hand-wrought, and, of course, wrought havoc . . . . Havoc, by the way, comes from Anglo-French havok, which derived from the phrase crier havot "to cry havoc". This meant "to give the army the order to begin seizing spoil, or to pillage". It is thought that this exclamation was Germanic in origin, but that's all that anyone will say about it! The destruction associated with pillaging came to be applied metaphorically to havoc, giving the word its current meaning.

Wry

Wrie you in that mantle.

Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.

He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers.

This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen.

How many Must murder wives much better than themselves For wrying but a little!

Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's neck were wried.

Wull

Pour out to all that wull.

Wynd

The narrow wynds, or alleys, on each side of the street.