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By cursed cabals of women.
Caballing still against it with the great.
The Heptarchus is a cabalistic exposition of the first chapter of Genesis.
A close caballer and tongue-valiant lord.
Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth.
A hunting cabin in the west.
So long in secret cabin there he held
Her captive.
I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave.
I am cabined , cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Hearken a while from thy green cabinet ,
The rural song of careful Colinet.
Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet .
He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe.
The cabrioles which his charger exhibited.
Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation .
Cachinnatory buzzes of approval.
The orchestra plays the cachucha .
When every goose is cackling .
By her cackle saved the state.
There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon.
Heterodoxy, or what Luther calls cacodoxy .
He brought his cade lamb with him.
A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000.
Now was the sun in western cadence low.
Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull
Seafaring men o'erwatched.
The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence .
Golden cadence of poesy.
If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be “prosed in faire cadence .”
These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief.
The cadet of an ancient and noble family.
Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie .
[A] jumble of youth and caducity .
The caduke pleasures of his world.
The turbaned and caftaned damsel.
In his cage , like parrot fine and gay.
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage .
Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn .
Arnold had sped his caitiff flight.
Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave.
I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views.
Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Clotted blood that caked within.
Ten thousands of calamitous persons.
Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.
The deliberations of calamity are rarely wise.
Where'er I came I brought calamity .
The baroness in a calash capable of holding herself, her two children, and her servants.
A calencar exacity calculated than any othe.
A cunning man did calculate my birth.
[Religion] is . . . calculated for our benefit.
The strong passions, whether good or bad, never calculate .
The only danger that attends multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society.
The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws.
The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.
The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a calculation crost,
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.
Long habits of calculative dealings.
Ambition is no exact calculator .
My good friend the calender .
Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
Or calentures in depths of limpid flood.
Some silly, doting, brainless calf .
The caliber of empty tubes.
A battery composed of three guns of small caliber .
The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company.
— Beck (Draper's Dict. ).
Subterranean caliducts have been introduced.
The caliginous regions of the air.
Their left hand does the calking iron guide.
Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain
Paul . . . called to be an apostle
The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Now call we our high court of Parliament.
If you would but call me Rosalind.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
This speech calls him Spaniard.
No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear.
I call God for a witness.
— 2 Cor. i. 23 [Rev. Ver. ]
If thou canst awake by four o' the clock.
I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
You must call to the nurse.
The angel of God called to Hagar.
They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
I rose as at thy call , but found thee not.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
Running into danger without any call of duty.
St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians.
The baker's punctual call .
A callat of boundless tongue.
Her eagly-eyed callidity .
Excellence in the calligraphic act.
The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment.
Who hath . . . called us with an holy calling .
Give diligence to make yior calling . . . sure.
The humble calling of ter female parent.
To impose celibacy on wholy callings .
I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son
His youngest son, and would not change that calling .
It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule.
A callousness and numbness of soul.
An in the leafy summit, spied a nest,
Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid.
The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making.
To calm the tempest raised by Eolus.
Passions which seem somewhat calmed .
Now all is calm , and fresh, and still.
Such calm old age as conscience pure
And self-commanding hearts ensure.
The gentle stream which calmly flows.
The gentle calmness of the flood.
Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power.
Caloric expands all bodies.
Satisfactory calorimetric results.
Smoked the calumet , the Peace pipe,
As a signal to the nations.
Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.
The calumniation of her principal counselors.
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny .
Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve ?
The grassy clods now calved .
For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats.
The spirit of camaraderie is strong among these riders of the plains.
He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics , lawns.
All in a camis light of purple silk.
Give them a camisado in night season.
Though my nose be cammoused .
Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston.
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together.
They camped out at night, under the stars.
Many of the campaniles of Italy are lofty and magnificent structures.
With gentle words he can faile gree.
Fill the cup and fill can ,
Have a rouse before the morn.
I can rimes of Robin Hood.
I can no Latin, quod she.
Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can .
The will of Him who all things can .
For what, alas, can these my single arms?
Mæcænas and Agrippa, who can most with Cæsar.
Yet he could not but acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque
Tom felt that this was a rebuff for him, and could not but understand it as a left-handed hit at his employer.
Make you dance canary
With sprightly fire and motion.
But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet.
A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.
A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled ; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli ; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
The indentures were canceled .
He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.
A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced
To cancelier .
The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies,
Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach.
The box receives all black; but poured from thence,
The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence.
Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp.
Will the cold brook,
Candied with ice, caudle thy morning tast?
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
By these blessed candles of the night.
Never went by candlelight to bed.
A bookworm, a candlewaster .
Nor yor unquestioned integrity
Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot
That may take from your innocence and candor .
Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question.
Those frosts that winter brings
Which candy every green.
Like light canes , that first rise big and brave.
Stir the fire with your master's cane .
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign
The flying skirmish of the darted cane .
The cankers of envy and faction.
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose.
And plant this thorm, this canker , Bolingbroke.
No lapse of moons can canker Love.
A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate.
Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding.
Deceit and cankered malice.
As with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers .
O me! you juggler! you canker blossom !
You thief of Love!
Misdeem it not a cankerous change.
He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm.
Blue Walden rolls its cannonade .
The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country.
Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe .
A birch canoe , with paddles, rising, falling, on the water.
Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman .
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry.
Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century.
Fame in time to come canonize us.
A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter.
He chooses his language for its rich canorousness .
The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant .
The cant of any profession.
They shall hear no cant from me.
To introduce and multiply cant words in the most ruinous corruption in any language.
The rankest rogue that ever canted .
The doctor here,
When he discourseth of dissection,
Of vena cava and of vena porta,
The meseræum and the mesentericum,
What does he else but cant .
That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it.
The cantankerous old maiden aunt.
A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.
The day when he was a canter and a rebel.
Cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Write loyal cantons of contemned love.
That little canton of land called the “English pale”
There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons , the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented.
The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world.
The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum.
Contented with little, and canty with mair.
By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar.
To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see.
Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with all possible diligence.
An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass .
No previous canvass was made for me.
Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks.
The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance.
Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows.
Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter.
A capability to take a thousand views of a subject.
Concious of joy and capable of pain.
More capable to discourse of battles than to give them.
The benefice he is capacified and designed for.
In the capacious recesses of his mind.
By this instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors.
Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together.
The capacity of the exhausted cylinder.
Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere passive operations of the mind]; its primary signification, which is literally room for , as well as its employment, favors this; although it can not be denied that there are examples of its usage in an active sense.
The capacity of blessing the people.
A cause with such capacities endued.
Their horses clothed with rich caparison .
My heart groans beneath the gay caparison .
The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand.
I am caparisoned like a man.
A capcase for your linen and your plate.
He capers , he dances, he has eyes of youth.
The nimble caperer on the cord.
Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise
Expect with mortal pain.
Many crimes that are capital among us.
To put to death a capital offender.
A capital article in religion
Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity.
He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture.
Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital .
The expenditure of the capitalist .
Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow?
The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars .
From the pope to the member of the capitular body.
Several of Charlemagne's capitularies .
There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary.
There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate .
The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .
With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify.
The merry thought of a capon .
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
The sun was entered into Capricorn .
The family . . . is alternately known as the nightjars (derived from the "churring" sounds of several species -- "jarring" the night air), or goatsuckers, a nonsense name that should be discontinued as it has its origin in the preposterous myth that the birds sucked the milk of nanny goats until they were dry.
— Terence Michael Short (Wild Birds of the Americas)
But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?
A trainband captain eke was he.
The Rhodian captain , relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards.
Foremost captain of his time.
Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms.
captain jewes in the carcanet.
Without any of those dresses, or popular captations , which some men use in their speeches.
This doctrine is for caption and contradiction.
A captious and suspicious age.
I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to abide the test of a captious controversy.
Captious restraints on navigation.
Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper.
Their woes whom fortune captivates .
Small landscapes of captivating loveliness.
Women have been captivate ere now.
The captivation of our understanding.
Then, when I am thy captive , talk of chains.
A poor, miserable, captive thrall.
Even in so short a space, my wonan's heart
Grossly grew captive to his honey words.
Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived .
More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs.
Sink in the soft captivity together.
Even with regard to captures made at sea.
Her heart is like some fortress that has been captured .
A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin .
Your caputs and heads of colleges.
The gilded car of day.
The towering car , the sable steeds.
The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car .
The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay.
Prince John caracoled within the lists.
Caraways , or biscuits, or some other [comfits].
The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process.
A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed .
I'll so carbonado your shanks.
He has deserves it [armor], were it carbuncled
Like holy Phabus' car.
By carbureting the gas you may use poorer coal.
He turned to see the carcass of the lion.
This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads.
Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature.
For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature.
A rotten carcass of a boat.
A discharge of carcasses and bombshells.
Our first cards were to Carabas House.
All the quartere that they know
I' the shipman's card .
These card the short comb the longer flakes.
This book [must] be carded and purged.
You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong.
The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu .
The cardinal intersections of the zodiac.
Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals , as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved.
Where's your cardinal ! Make haste.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
The care of all the churches.
Him thy care must be to find.
Perplexed with a thousand cares .
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares .
I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.
Master, carest thou not that we perish?
He cared not for the affection of the house.
To go back again the same career .
When a horse is running in his full career .
An impartial view of his whole career .
Careering gayly over the curling waves.
Be careful [Rev. Ver. “anxious”] for nothing.
The careful plowman doubting stands.
The careful cold beginneth for to creep.
By Him that raised me to this careful height.
Thou hast been careful for us with all this care.
What could a careful father more have done?
Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
My brother was too careless of his charge.
He grew careless of himself.
He framed the careless rhyme.
Their many wounds and careless harms.
Wooed her with his soft caresses .
He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command.
The lady caresses the rough bloodhound.
Cargoes of food or clothing.
The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature .
A grotesque caricature of virtue.
He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand.
His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
Fling cark and care aside.
Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer.
The miller was a stout carl .
Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday.
— Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875).
They danced and yelled the carmagnole .
A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage .
The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit.
For ye are yet carnal .
Not sunk in carnal pleasure.
Carnal desires after miracles.
This carnal cur
Preys on the issue of his mother's body.
Because of the carnality of their hearts.
A sensual and carnalized spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Her complexion of the delicate carnation .
The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations .
The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of.
He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall
Hold o'er the dead their carnival
A distinct carnose muscle.
[Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity .
The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity .
To mount two-wheeled caroches .
The costly feast, the carol , and the dance.
It was the carol of a bird.
Heard a carol , mournful, holy.
In the darkness sing your carol of high praise.
I heard the bells on Christmans Day
Their old, familiar carol play.
The Shepherds at their festivals
Carol her goodness.
Hovering swans . . . carol sounds harmonious.
And carol of love's high praise.
The gray linnets carol from the hill.
A bay window may thus be called a carol .
Such heavenly notes and carolings .
Told down the crowns and Caroluses .
The swains were preparing for a carousal .
Drink carouses to the next day's fate.
The early feast and late carouse .
He had been aboard, carousing to his mates.
Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape.
Egypt's wanton queen,
Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love.
Carping and caviling at faults of manner.
And at my actions carp or catch.
Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.
Carpeted temples in fashionable squares.
The floor was covered with rich carpeting .
David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage .
And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem.
Nine days employed in carriage .
His gallant carriage all the rest did grace.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
The roads are crowded with carriers , laden with rich manufactures.
They did eat the dead carrions .
A prey for carrion kites.
When he dieth he shall carry nothing away.
Devout men carried Stephen to his burial.
Another carried the intelligence to Russell.
The sound will be carried , at the least, twenty miles.
If the ideas . . . were carried along with us in our minds.
Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
He carried away all his cattle.
Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
The carrying of our main point.
The town would have been carried in the end.
He thought it carried something of argument in it.
It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.
We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade .
Packing all his goods in one poor cart .
She chuckled when a bawd was carted .
He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel .,
You shall cartel him.
The Cartesion argument for reality of matter.
Or they will carven the shepherd's throat.
Carved with figures strange and sweet.
An angel carved in stone.
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone.
My good blade carved the casques of men.
A million wrinkles carved his skin.
Who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree.
The carven cedarn doors.
A screen of carven ivory.
The carver of his fortunes.
— Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )
I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa , and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.
The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade .
Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade .
The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
By aventure, or sort, or cas .
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge.
If the case of the man be so with his wife.
And when a lady's in the case
You know all other things give place.
You think this madness but a common case .
I am in case to justle a constable,
A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases .
Let us consider the reason of the case , for nothing is law that is not reason.
Not one case in the reports of our courts.
Case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative.
A casement of the great chamber window.
This bank is properly a general cash , where every man lodges his money.
£20,000 are known to be in her cash .
They have cashiered several of their followers.
He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard.
Connections formed for interest, and endeared
By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered .
They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words.
The little casket bring me hither.
They found him dead . . . an empty casket .
His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes.
A general cassation of their constitutions.
Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones.
Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
We must be cast upon a certain island.
How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
His filth within being cast .
Neither shall your vine cast her fruit.
The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc.
Thy she-goats have not cast their young.
This . . . casts a sulphureous smell.
The government I cast upon my brother.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
You cast the event of war, my noble lord.
The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
She was cast to be hanged.
Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast .
How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
Our parts in the other world will be new cast .
Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.
She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be.
Who would cast and balance at a desk.
It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness.
These verses . . . make me ready to cast .
A cast of dreadful dust.
An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way.
I have set my life upon a cast ,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon.
An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Gray with a cast of green.
We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage.
If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it.
As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false.
The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
And let you see with one cast of an eye.
This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye.
The dancer, holding a castanet in each hand, rattles them to the motion of his feet.
— Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Lest . . . when I have preached to others , I myself should be a castaway .
The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .
The keenest castigation of her slanderers.
The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose.
Our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn.
I have always been known for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor .
My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places.
Casual breaks, in the general system.
A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture.
Losses that befall them by mere casualty .
The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence.
The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry .
Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule).
Laying aside their often rancorous debate over how best to preserve the Florida panther , state and federal wildlife officials, environmentalists, and independent scientists endorsed the proposal, and in 1995 the eight cats [female Texas cougars] were brought from Texas and released. . . .
Uprooted from the arid hills of West Texas, three of the imports have died, but the remaining five adapted to swamp life and have each given birth to at least one litter of kittens.
— Mark Derr (N. Y. Times, Nov. 2, 1999, Science Times p. F2).
[A] catachrestical and improper way of speaking.
Sad catalysis and declension of piety.
The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans .
Archers and slingers, cataphracts , and spears.
Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical .
The catasterisms of Eratosthenes.
The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London.
The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw.
Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited.
The soothing arts that catch the fair.
Torment myself to catch the English throne.
Have is have, however men do catch .
Does the sedition catch from man to man?
The common and the canon law . . . lie at catch , and wait advantages one againt another.
Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains.
It has been writ by catches with many intervals.
We retain a catch of those pretty stories.
Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables.
It [the fox's scent] is . . . flighty or catchy , if variable.
Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing.
The Jews, even till this day, have their catechisms .
The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal.
The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed.
There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category .
“For loss of catel may recovered be,
But loss of tyme shendeth us,” quod he.
I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together.
[He] providently caters for the sparrow.
The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer .
Cates for which Apicius could not pay.
Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay .
The Vatican Council declares that the Pope, is infallible “when he speaks ex cathedra .”
— Addis & Arnold's Cath. Dict.
Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article!
Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war.
This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment.
— John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].
The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes.
The caul serves for the warming of the lower belly.
It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chrysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses.
I was born with a caul , which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words.
Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink.
The causality of the divine mind.
The kind of causation by which vision is produced.
Causative in nature of a number of effects.
Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be.
I did it not for his cause .
What counsel give you in this weighty cause !
God befriend us, as our cause is just.
The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause .
I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
Cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans.
My fears are causeless and ungrounded.
But that broad causeway will direct your way.
The other way Satan went down
The causey to Hell-gate.
The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
In way of caution I must tell you.
You cautioned me against their charms.
He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands.
Cautious feeling for another's pain.
Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue.
He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city.
The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier , verbal fluency of the other, form a complete contrast.
The mouldred earth cav'd the banke.
We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion.
The wolves yelled on the caverned hill.
You do not well in obstinacy
To cavil in the course of this contract.
All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief.
Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures.
His depreciatory and caviling criticism.
The cavity or hollowness of the place.
An instrument with a small cavity , like a small spoon.
Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ.
Rising and cawing at the gun's report.
The poor shall never cease out of the land.
But he, her fears to cease
Sent down the meek-eyed peace.
Cease , then, this impious rage.
The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights.
The greater house he ceiled with fir tree.
From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution as surprising in its manner as happy in its consequences.
Earth, water, air, and fire, with feeling glee,
Exult to celebrate thy festival.
Celebrated for the politeness of his manners.
His memory deserving a particular celebration .
Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass
To hasten the celebration of their marriage.
The celebrity of the marriage.
An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy.
Time, with all its celerity , moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.
He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marriage.
The heroic confessor in his cell .
You hear this fellow in the cellarage .
Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose .
The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment.
A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.
Lord Cobham honored him with a cenotaphy .
The Salii sing and cense his altars round.
Her thoughts are like the fume of frankincense
Which from a golden censer forth doth rise.
Nor can the most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve.
Received with caution by the censors of the press.
The censorial declamation of Juvenal.
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors.
The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship .
He caused the whole realm to be described in a censual roll.
Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment.
Both the censure and the praise were merited.
Excommunication or other censure of the church.
I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
That opened through long lines
Of sacred ilex and centennial pines.
Where there is no visible truth wherein to center , error is as wide as men's fancies.
Our hopes must center in ourselves alone.
Thy joys are centered all in me alone.
The neglect of a few centesimals .
Meantime there is a great centrality , a centripetence equal to the centrifugence.
[To] centralize the power of government.
At York or some other centrical place.
A centurion of the hand called the Italian band.
And on it said a century of prayers.
With wide Cerberean mouth.
Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth .
Ceremonial observances and outward show.
He moves in the dull ceremonial track.
The gorgeous ceremonial of the Burgundian court.
The ceremonious part of His worship.
Too ceremonious and traditional.
According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it [the Passover].
Bring her up the high altar, that she may
The sacred ceremonies there partake.
[The heralds] with awful ceremony
And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim
A solemn council.
Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on . . . hollow welcomes . . .
But where there is true friendship there needs none.
Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them.
Disrobe the images,
If you find them decked with ceremonies .
. . . Let no images
Be hung with Cæsar's trophies.
Cæsar, I never stood on ceremonies ,
Yet, now they fright me.
Chaplets green of cerrial oak.
To make her certain of the sad event.
I myself am certain of you.
However, I with thee have fixed my lot,
Certain to undergo like doom.
The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.
Virtue that directs our ways
Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.
I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.
The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.
It came to pass when he was in a certain city.
About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum.
The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.
Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
Certes it great pity was to see
Him his nobility so foul deface.
We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation.
The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded.
Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall
A flower from its cerulean wall.
To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom.
A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting.
The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .
The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities.
The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor.
A cession of the island of New Orleans.
A pot with hot water . . . made with the powder of a certain herb called chaa , which is much esteemed.
— Tr. J. Van Linschoten's Voyages (1598).
To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin.
Her intercession chafed him.
Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed .
Made its great boughs chafe together.
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores.
He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall.
A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons.
So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
Old birds are not caught with caff .
The chaff and ruin of the times.
By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful.
Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him.
A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts.
To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set.
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
Slight and chaffy opinion.
I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction.
Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin .
[They] put a chain of gold about his neck.
Driven down
To chains of darkness and the undying worm.
Chained behind the hostile car.
And which more blest? who chained his country, say
Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day?
And in this vow do chain my soul to thine.
The chair of a philosophical school.
A chair of philology.
Think what an equipage thou hast in air,
And view with scorn two pages and a chair .
Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses.
Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen.
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder.
A challenge to controversy.
There must be no challenge of superiority.
I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood.
By this I challenge him to single fight.
Challenge better terms.
He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them.
Where nature doth with merit challenge .
They beat the chamade , and sent us carte blanche.
Foamed and champed the golden bit.
They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit.
Fair champaign , with less rivers interveined.
Through Apline vale or champaign wide.
A wide, champaign country, filled with herds.
Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness,
Ne may with Venus holde champartye .
A stouter champion never handled sword.
Champions of law and liberty.
Championed or unchampioned, thou diest.
It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause.
Any society into which chance might throw him.
That power
Which erring men call Chance .
By chance a priest came down that way.
In the field of observation, chance favors only the mind that is prepared.
It was a chance that happened to us.
The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts,
And wins (O shameful chance !) the Queen of Hearts.
I spake of most disastrous chance .
So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune.
That I would get my life on any chance ,
To mend it, or be rid on 't
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee.
I chanced on this letter.
How chance , thou art returned so soon?
Come what will, I will chance it.
The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne,
With tallow spots thy coat.
Therefore will I change their glory into shame.
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
Look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition.
He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it.
For I am Lord, I change not.
Apprehensions of a change of dynasty.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Our fathers did for change to France repair.
The ringing grooves of change .
Thirty change (R.V. changes ) of garments.
They call an alehouse a change .
Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
His course had been changeful .
Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft.
The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.
Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.
Wildly we roam in discontent about.
Some are so studiously changeling .
The veins are converging channels .
At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
Langtoft had written in the ordinary measure of the later chansons de geste .
These pretty little chansonnettes that he sung.
The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music.
The poets chant in the theaters.
His strange face, his strange chant .
May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea?
Between us and there is fixed a great chaos .
— Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans.).
Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,
Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps .
If you want to sell, here is your chap .
His head and face covered with a chaperon , out of which there are but two holes to look through.
Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon , sent to excuse herself.
The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship .
Her chaplet of beads and her missal.
The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it.
In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
When thou hast done this chare , I give thee leave
To play till doomsday.
Thet char is chared , as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.
In all his dressings, characts , titles, forms.
It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
You know the character to be your brother's?
The character or that dominion.
Know well each Ancient's proper character ;
His fable, subject, scope in every page;
Religion, Country, genius of his Age.
A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character .
This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
These trees shall be my books.
And in their barks my thoughts I 'll character .
Characteristic clearness of temper.
The characteristics of a true critic.
European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized .
Under the name of Tamerlane he intended to characterize King William.
The softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries.
Fairies use flowers for their charactery .
I will construe to thee
All the charactery of my sad brows.
A carte that charged was with hay.
The charging of children's memories with rules.
Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
When land shall be charged by any lien.
No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime
On native sloth and negligence of time.
If he did that wrong you charge him with.
Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
To charge me to an answer.
Charged our main battle's front.
Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
“Charge for the guns!” he said.
'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.
The king gave cherge concerning Absalom.
The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena.
Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies.
The charge of the light brigade.
Many suchlike “as's” of great charge .
That we might not be chargeable to any of you.
For the sculptures, which are elegant, were very chargeable .
The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion.
I was chargeous to no man.
— Wyclif, (2 Cor. xi. 9).
Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger .
And furious every charger neighed.
First moved the chariots , after whom the foot.
Be thy intents wicked or charitable , . . .
. . . I will speak to thee.
What charitable men afford to beggars.
By a charitable construction it may be a sermon.
Now abideth faith, hope, charity , three; but the greatest of these is charity .
They, at least, are little to be envied, in whose hearts the great charities . . . lie dead.
With malice towards none, with charity for all.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian.
She did ill then to refuse her a charity .
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.
With charm of earliest birds.
Free liberty to chant our charms at will.
My high charms work.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
The charm of beauty's powerful glance.
Here we our slender pipes may safely charm .
No witchcraft charm thee!
Music the fiercest grief can charm .
They, on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.
I, in my own woe charmed ,
Could not find death.
The voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Libanus shall be turned into charmel , and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest.
— Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).
How charming is divine philosophy.
In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ.
The king [John, a.d . 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the “Great Charter ,” either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom.
My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me.
The sufficiency of chartered rights.
The air, a chartered libertine.
His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame.
We are those which chased you from the field.
Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and place.
Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place.
Chasing each other merrily.
You see this chase is hotly followed.
Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase ,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill.
Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.
They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed.
The great chasseur who had announced her arrival.
Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced.
That great model of chaste , lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth .
They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions.
Of such a finished chastened purity.
How fine my master is! I am afraid
He will chastise me.
I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised .
The gay, social sense, by decency chastised .
Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars,
On equal terms to give him chastesement !
I have borne chastisement ; I will not offend any more.
The chastiser of the rich.
She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity .
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity ,
That, when a soul is found sicerely so
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
To chat a while on their adventures.
Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat ,
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters .
To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue.
With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
Begin his witless note apace to chatter .
Your words are but idle and empty chatter .
He was a horse chaunter ; he's a leg now.
The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped,
Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap .
You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
My proffered love has cheapened me.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
Airy wonders, which cheats interpret.
I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
To cheat winter of its dreariness.
Their purest cheat ,
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity.
No check , no stay, this streamlet fears.
Useful check upon the administration of government.
A man whom no check could abash.
So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
The good king, his master, will check him for it.
The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
And like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
Dancing in the checkered shade.
This checkered narrative.
How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.
To checkmate and control my just demands.
Cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
Be of good cheer .
The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer .
I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street.
The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered .
At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up.
How cheer'st thou, Jessica?
And even the ranks of Tusculum
Could scare forbear to cheer .
To entertain a cheerful disposition.
The cheerful birds of sundry kind
Do chant sweet music.
A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.
This general applause and cheerful shout.
There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness .
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly.
We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children.
To cherish virtue and humanity.
The cherisher of my flesh and blood.
Rich bounty and dear cherishment .
I knew that they were the cherubim .
He rode upon a cherub and did fly.
He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed.
Heaps of money crowded in the chest .
He is now dead and mailed in his cheste .
He dieth and is chested .
Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn .
Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise .
The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star.
Here's wit of cheveril , that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad.
A cheveril conscience and a searching wit.
Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance .
[A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace.
One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes.
He chews revenge, abjuring his offense.
Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
old politicians chew wisdom past.
If e'er to bless thy sons
My voice or hands deny,
These hands let useful skill forsake,
This voice in silence die.
To shuffle from them by chicane .
To cut short this chicane , I propound it fairly to your own conscience.
Irritated by perpetual chicanery .
Upbraided, chid , and rated at.
The sea that chides the banks of England.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses.
As doth a rock againts the chiding flood.
The chide of streams.
The chief of the things which should be utterly destroyed.
A whisperer separateth chief friends.
Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes.
The chiefest among ten thousand.
Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook;
But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge.
Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay.
A curl that had strayed from her chignon .
When I was child . I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
A boy or a child , I wonder?
This queen Genissa childing died.
It chanced within two days they childed both.
I have walked before you from my childhood .
The well-governed childhood of this realm.
The childhood of our joy.
Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent.
The world, then in the seventh chiliad , will be assumed up unto God.
Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill .
When winter chilled the day.
Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn.
Instruments that made melodius chime .
We have heard the chimes at midnight.
Everything chimed in with such a humor.
And chime their sounding hammers.
Chime his childish verse.
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
By cause of his skarsete and chincherie .
Through one cloudless chink , in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
It must be clearly and unmistakably understood, then, that, whenever painted (that is to say, decorated with painted enrichment) or inlaid furniture is described as Chippendale , no matter where or by whom, it is a million chances to one that the description is incorrect.
All full of chirkyng was that sorry place.
He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes.
The criket chirrups on the hearth.
The sparrows' chirrup on the roof.
A little chit of a woman.
I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth.
In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise.
By his light
Did all the chivalry of England move,
To do brave acts.
The glory of our Troy this day doth lie
On his fair worth and single chivalry .
Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.
I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice .
The common wealth is sick of their own choice .
The flower and choice
Of many provinces from bound to bound.
My choicest hours of life are lost.
Choice word measured phrase.
His choiceful sense with every change doth fit.
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
The words choked in his throat.
The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey .
His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler ; and yet his motion was slow.
He is rash and very sudden in choler .
Choose me for a humble friend.
The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion.
Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
Chop off your hand, and it to the king.
Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up.
Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.
This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
We go on chopping and changing our friends.
Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
The freedom of a chophouse .
Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine .
When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba.
The chorography of their provinces.
Its distribution or chorology .
O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay !
He chortled in his joy.
The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.
What the lofty, grave tragedians taught
In chorus or iambic.
Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.
Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism.
The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon.
From infant conning of the Christcross-row .
Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms .
The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom .
A wide and still widening Christendom .
The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
The graceful tact; the Christian art.
To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons.
Christianized philosophers.
The pagans began to Christianize .
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion.
Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne.
Partly on a chronical , and partly on a topical method.
Such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.
THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December.
If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid.
[The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus.
Chucked the barmaid under the chin.
Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors.
The sound of the churchgoing bell.
There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens .
Like graves in the holy churchyard .
Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches.
Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
That's the churring of the nightjar.
Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone , or a Cicero.
His robe was of ciclatoun ,
That coste many a Jane.
Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer.
A Cilicious or sackcloth habit.
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
The cinematograph , invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass.
The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft.
Here he was a mere cipher .
This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures.
His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher .
'T was certain he could write and cipher too.
His notes he ciphered with Greek characters.
The pleasure of the Circensian shows.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.
In the circle of this forest.
As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.
That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.
Has he given the lie,
In circle , or oblique, or semicircle.
Other planets circle other suns.
Their heads are circled with a short turban.
So he lies, circled with evil.
Thy name shall circle round the gaping through.
Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled.
Fairest of stars . . . that crown'st the smiling morn
With thy bright circlet .
The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles.
The golden circuit on my head.
A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees.
Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido?
A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England.
A man so absolute and circular
In all those wished-for rarities that may take
A virgin captive.
This continual circulation of human things.
The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation .
His ponderous shield . . .
Behind him cast. The broad circumference
Hung on his shoulders like the moon.
His army circumfused on either wing.
Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored.
A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration .
the plain Billingsgate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution .
The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order.
Having circumnavigated the whole earth.
Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph.
To circumscribe royal power.
The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine.
With silent circumspection , unespied.
[Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security.
The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
So without more circumstance at all
I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
When men are easy in their circumstances , they are naturally enemies to innovations.
The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner.
The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other.
The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety.
We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship . . . and what is merely circumstantial .
Tedious and circumstantial recitals.
Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different.
To set down somewhat circumstantially , not only the events, but the manner of my trials.
If the act were otherwise circumstantiated , it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.
Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.
I circumvented whom I could not gain.
A school in which he learns sly circumvention .
Circumvested with much prejudice.
The circumvolant troubles of humanity.
He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions .
The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.
A dismal cirque
Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor.
Which past endurance sting the tender cit .
This horse load of citations and fathers.
The cited dead,
Of all past ages, to the general doom
Shall hasten.
Cited by finger of God.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The imperfections which you have cited .
Aged honor cites a virtuous youth.
That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs.
I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick.
A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city .
When Gorges constituted York a city , he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law.
England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil .
Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven.
Ancient civilians and writers upon government.
Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility , and fallen again to ruin.
The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization.
To serve in a civility .
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.
The sweet civilities of life.
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization , have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion.
Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
Her land to civilize , as to subdue.
Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society.
Sitting at the clachon alehouse .
We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches.
Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims , came by his authority.
You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes , or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure.
— Capt. John Smith (1616).
Clams , or clamps , is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand.
A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again.
The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
Clambering the walls to eye him.
The people with a shout
Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise.
Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly.
To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang.
The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night.
The policeman with clamping feet.
Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me.
The whole clan of the enlightened among us.
Not close and clancular , but frank and open.
The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms.
The broadsword's deadly clang ,
As if a thousand anvils rang.
But not in chains to pine,
His spirit withered with tyeur clank .
Then like a bird it sits and sings,
And whets and claps its silver wings.
He had just time to get in and clap to the door.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony.
Their ladies bid them clap .
The doors around me clapped .
Horrible claps of thunder.
What, fifty of my followers at a clap !
Unextrected claps or hisses.
The clarification of men's ideas.
To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
Fadir, clarifie thi name.
Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another.
He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.
Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity ,
Innumerable virgin graces row.
However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony.
The roll of cannon and clash of arms.
Clashes between popes and kings.
She had lost one class energies.
The genus or family under which it classes .
Give, as thy last memorial to the age,
One classic drama, and reform the stage.
Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins].
Though throned midst Latium's classic plains.
The epithet classical , as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote.
He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
Classical , provincial, and national synods.
In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic .
His opinion of that classis of men.
Clattering loud with iron clank.
I see thou dost but clatter .
You clatter still your brazen kettle.
The goose let fall a golden egg
With cackle and with clatter .
Throw by your clatter
And handle the matter.
The usual attestation clause to a will.
Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers .
Rich men they claw , soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.
In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.
Like a clawback parasite.
I also am formed out of the clay .
The earth is covered thick with other clay ,
Which her own clay shall cover.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven
All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Cleanliness from head to heel.
Some plain but cleanly country maid.
Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
Through his fine handling and his cleanly play.
He was very cleanly dressed.
If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.
Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear .
Fair as the moon, clear as the sun.
One truth is clear ; whatever is, is right.
Mother of science! now I feel thy power
Within me clear , not only to discern
Things in their causes, but to trace the ways
Of highest agents.
With a countenance as clear
As friendship wears at feasts.
Hark! the numbers soft and clear
Gently steal upon the ear.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honor clear .
I often wished that I had clear ,
For life, six hundred pounds a-year.
My companion . . . left the way clear for him.
The cruel corporal whispered in my ear,
Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear .
Now clear I understand
What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain.
He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
Many knotty points there are
Which all discuss, but few can clear .
Our common prints would clear up their understandings.
Clear your mind of cant.
A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality.
How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?
The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
Advise him to stay till the weather clears up.
He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality.
She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face.
Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances .
Imputed by his friends to the clearedness , by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience.
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding.
The better clearing of this point.
A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake.
My bones cleave to my skin.
The diseases of Egypt . . . shall cleave unto thee.
Sophistry cleaves close to and protects
Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.
Cleave unto the Lord your God.
New honors come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold
But with the aid of use.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws.
The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst.
Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects.
They had applied for the royal clemency .
That other son was cleped Cambalo.
Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high
Cleping for vengeance of this treachery.
Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy .
Put their second sons to learn some clergy .
If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction.
All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ.
He was no great clerk , but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe.
And like unlettered clerk still cry “Amen”.
The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill.
Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever .
'T would sound more clever
To me and to my heirs forever.
Never was man so clever absurd.
Untwisting his deceitful clew .
The clew , without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands.
Direct and clew me out the way to happiness.
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.
She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
When merry milkmaids click the latch.
I do think they are your friends and clients ,
And fearful to disturb you.
A dependent and cliental relation.
I sat down in the cliental chair.
The least cliented pettifiggers.
That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar.
Climb the Ande clifted side.
It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”).
“Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope” -- a happy climax .
We must look higher for the climax of earthly good.
Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric , to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics.
Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display.
And what hath life for thee
That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
I clung legs as close to his side as I could.
If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee.
A more tenacious cling to worldly respects.
And let me the canakin clink .
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped .
All my reports go with the modest truth;
No more nor clipped , but so.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket.
clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money.
No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter.
To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings .
Their services are clocklike , to be set
Backward and forward at their lord's command.
The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod , is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod .
The clod
Where once their sultan's horse has trod .
This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us.
Clodded in lumps of clay.
All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression.
As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose,
And quits his clog .
A clog of lead was round my feet.
In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs .
The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow.
The commodities are clogged with impositions.
You 'll rue the time
That clogs me with this answer.
In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog .
Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.
But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister's pale.
Fitter for a cloister than a crown.
None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery.
In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell,
Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
Best become a cloistral exercise.
The sonne, he sayde, is clomben up on hevene.
One frugal supper did our studies close .
The depth closed me round about.
But now thou dost thyself immure and close
In some one corner of a feeble heart.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.
The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.
His long and troubled life was drawing to a close .
At every close she made, the attending throng
Replied, and bore the burden of the song.
Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close , . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.
“Her close intent.”
The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.
Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall.
The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing -- not a faint hearsay.
League with you I seek
And mutual amity, so strait, so close ,
That I with you must dwell, or you with me.
A wondrous vision which did close imply
The course of all her fortune and posterity.
That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe
Her dainty couch with tears which
closely she did weepe.
Half stifled by the closeness of the room.
We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius.
An affectation of closeness and covetousness.
A chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine.
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.
He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
He had been closeted with De Quadra.
Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
O thou bloody prison . . .
Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread.
Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth ?
The cloth , the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom.
Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
The naked every day he clad ,
When he put on his clothes.
Language in which they can clothe their thoughts.
His sides are clothed with waving wood.
Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb.
Care no more to clothe eat.
She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes .
If I may touch but his clothes , I shall be whole.
She turned each way her frighted head,
Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
From others he shall stand in need of nothing,
Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing .
As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth.
Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing .
When lust . . .
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion.
I do set my bow in the cloud .
One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice.
I would not be a stander-by to hear
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
My present vengeance taken.
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud .
So vanished my cloud-built palace.
A scudding cloudage of shapes.
Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping.
As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended.
Cloudy and confused notions of things.
His garments, nought but many ragged clouts ,
With thorns together pinned and patched was.
A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood.
A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout .
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet.
Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
If fond Bavius vent his clouted song.
The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it.
Rough-hewn, cloutery verses.
Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves .
Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale.
The clown , the child of nature, without guile.
The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere.
Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed.
That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness .
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed .
He never shod horse but he cloyed him.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs ;
Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.
They talked
At wine, in clubs , of art, of politics.
He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club , but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club .
They laid down the club .
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream
Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
The owl, the raven, and the bat,
Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clucked three to the wars.
You have wound a goodly clue .
This clue once found unravels all the rest.
Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge.
A clump of shrubby trees.
Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds.
The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance.
But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed,
Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed.
Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes,
Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
As bees . . .
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In clusters .
We loved him; but, like beasts
And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters ,
Who did hoot him out o' the city.
His sunny hair
Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
The princes of the country clustering together.
Not less the bee would range her cells, . . .
The foxglove cluster dappled bells.
Or from the forest falls the clustered snow.
An expiring clutch at popularity.
But Age, with his stealing steps,
Hath clawed me in his clutch .
I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ?
Come, let me clutch thee.
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market.
He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
Each of the hundred was to coopt three others.
The first election and cooptation of a friend.
Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach .
The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach .
I coached him before he got his scholarship.
The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted .
But if I tell you how these two did coact .
Any coactive power or the civil kind.
With what's unreal thou coactive art.
Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor .
The coadunation of all the civilized provinces.
Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations.
Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing , could not be shaken loose.
Let them continue to coalite .
Time has by degrees blended . . . and coalited the conquered with the conquerors.
A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg.
The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery.
I feel
Of what coarse metal ye are molded.
To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions.
Pardon the coarseness of the illustration.
A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings.
From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be.
He sees in English ships the Holland coast .
We the Arabian coast do know
At distance, when the species blow.
Anon she hears them chant it lustily,
And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
The Indians . . . coasted me along the river.
Let each
His adamantine coat gird well.
Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
She was sought by spirits of richest coat .
Fruit of all kinds, in coat
Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,
Or tear the lions out of England's coat .
Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs .
The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering.
I can not but lament thy splendid wit
Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.
Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn .
Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks !
Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.
He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock .
Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
They cocked their hats in each other's faces.
Cocked , fired, and missed his man.
Under the cocked hay.
Yond tall anchoring bark [appears]
Diminished to her cock ; her cock , a buoy
Almost too small for sight.
Seduced by military liveries and cockades .
A little transverse bone
Which boys and bruckeled children call
(Playing for points and pins) cockal .
That bare vowel, I, shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice .
The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's [Rev. Ver. basilisk's ] den.
This little cockatrice of a king.
Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid.
Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up.
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.
Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.
The tender horns of cockled snails.
Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain.
To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters.
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney .
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
Henry the Eighth had built . . . a cockpit .
“Making a cockshy of him,” replied the hideous small boy.
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me.
It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail .
It [the guava fruit] may be coddled .
How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas!
He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
A few of us old codgers met at the fireside.
A codling when 't is almost an apple.
In once he come to be a cardinal,
He'll make his cap coequal with the crown.
Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort.
Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice.
The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called coercive force .
We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son].
A . . . coetanean of the late earl of Southampton.
And all [members of the body] are coetaneous .
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born!
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam.
Silence! coeval with eternity!
Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade.
As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit.
Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together.
So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities.
Without the help, or so much as the coexistence , of any condition.
The law of coexistent vibrations.
According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest.
Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations?
They have in Turkey a drink called coffee . . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion.
The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution. . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm.
In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns.
He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers , for honor sake.
Hold, here is half my coffer .
They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin .
Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?
Devotion is not coffined in a cell.
I'll . . . cog their hearts from them.
Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.
For guineas in other men's breeches,
Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
An antecedent argument of extreme cogency .
The cogent force of nature.
No better nor more cogent reason.
Proofs of the most cogent description.
The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands,
Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands.
Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power.
He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth .
He . . . is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor.
As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam.
A like temper and cognation .
I will not be myself nor have cognation
Of what I feel: I am all patience.
Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts.
Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor.
Who, soon as on that knight his eye did glance,
Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizance .
Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master.
This pale and angry rose,
As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate.
The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it.
The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing.
The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them.
No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England.
That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted.
Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere .
Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing.
Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him.
Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
That time and place, with this deceit so lawful,
May prove coherent .
Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion , which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid.
With him the cohort bright
Of watchful cherubim.
From point and saucy ermine down
To the plain coif and russet gown.
The judges, . . . althout they are not of the first magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif , yet are they considerable.
And coif me, where I'm bald, with flowers.
From some shielded nook or coign of vantage.
The lithosphere would be depressed on four faces; . . . the four projecting coigns would stand up as continents.
See you yound coigne of the Capitol? yon corner stone?
You can see his flery serpents . . .
Coiting , playing in the water.
The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree.
It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined ,
To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
They cannot touch me for coining .
The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates.
This is the very coinage of your brain.
If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided , it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless.
The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other.
The very concurrence and coincidence of so many evidences . . . carries a great weight.
Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness.
Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well-inclined man.
Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods.
Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms.
Pinners edged with colbertine .
Difference rose between
Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine .
A cold and unconcerned spectator.
No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.
Smell this business with a sense as cold
As is a dead man's nose.
He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
When she saw her lord prepared to part,
A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.
Withdraw unto some private place,
And reason coldly of your grievances.
A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop.
If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . .
To you in satisfaction.
That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true.
Yet the attempt may give
Collateral interest to this homely tale.
These pulleys . . . placed collaterally .
The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly.
Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people.
A collation of wine and sweetmeats.
May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden.
A band of men
Collected choicely from each country.
'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect .
Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse.
We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes.
Local is his throne . . . to fix a point,
A central point, collective of his sons.
The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition.
I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector .
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors , and other officers.
Of all the colleens in the land
Sweet Mollie is the daisy.
The college of the cardinals.
Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this.
Thick as the college of the bees in May.
How full the collet with his jewel is!
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .
Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided .
The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.
He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful . . . phenomena.
Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation .
And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds.
The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire.
[Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil.
When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation , that sort of concretion we call “glass”.
The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction .
The collision of contrary false principles.
Sensitive to the most trifling collisions .
To marshal and collocate in order his battalions.
The choice and collocation of words.
Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter,
Collogue with her again, and all shall be well.
He had been colloguing with my wife.
God knows thou art a collop of my flesh.
Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked.
Cut two good collops out of the crown land.
With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain.
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order.
They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion.
Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins.
If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition.
The foxe, maister of collusion .
That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion .
By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive.
Thou hast not collied thy face enough.
Brief as the lighting in the collied night.
In the face of these guilty collybists .
The last tie of colonialism which bound us to the mother country is broken.
The wide continent of America invited colonization .
They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants.
The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials.
The colophon , or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book.
The book was uninjured from title page to colophon .
Give color to my pale cheek.
They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship.
That he should die is worthy policy;
But yet we want a color for his death.
Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color .
In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors , one national and one regimental.
The rays, to speak properly, are not colored ; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color.
He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen.
That by his fellowship he color might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice.
The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration .
The lime rod, colored as the glede.
The colored rainbow arched wide.
His colored crime with craft to cloke.
Colored , meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.
Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss.
Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists .
He doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus .
They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
He was all coltish , full of ragery.
Troas and Ilion's columned citadel.
Thrice the equinoctial line
He circled; four times crossed the car of night
From pole to pole, traversing each colure .
When the bee doth leave her comb .
Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.
A gradual rise the shelving combe
Displayed.
To combat with a blind man I disdain.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.
When he the ambitious Norway combated .
And combated in silence all these reasons.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
My courage try by combat , if thou dar'st.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
A controversy which long survived the original combatants .
Making new compounds by new combinations .
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls.
A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin.
So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined .
Friendship is the cement which really combines mankind.
And all combined , save what thou must combine
By holy marriage.
Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined .
I am combined by a sacred vow.
You with your foes combine ,
And seem your own destruction to design
So sweet did harp and voice combine .
The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings .
Planets that are oft combust .
Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
Arnold was a combustible character.
All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel.
Combustion results in common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed.
There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.
But say from whence this new combustion springs.
Look, who comes yonder?
I did not come to curse thee.
When we came to Rome.
Lately come from Italy.
The hour is coming , and now is.
So quick bright things come to confusion.
From whence come wars?
Both riches and honor come of thee !
Then butter does refuse to come .
How come you thus estranged?
How come her eyes so bright?
Think not that I am come to destroy.
We are come off like Romans.
The melancholy days are come , the saddest of the year.
They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday.
On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about , and won to the true side.
With all the vivacity of comedy .
Are come to play a pleasant comedy .
Comeliness is a disposing fair
Of things and actions in fit time and place.
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit.
Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness.
He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young.
Not once perceive their foul disfigurement
But boast themselves more comely than before.
This is a happier and more comely time
Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
Crying confusion.
It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely .
Some herbs are most comestible .
How does ut come about, sorr, that whin a man has put the comether on wan woman he's sure bound to put ut on another?
The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . .
Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last.
God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
I . . . can not help the noble chevalier:
God comfort him in this necessity!
Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
That we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction.
— 2 Cor. i. 4 (Rev. Ver.).
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort , and command.
In comfort of her mother's fears.
Cheer thy spirit with this comfort .
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
I had much joy and comfort in thy love.
He had the means of living in comfort .
Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable ; hold death a while at the arm's end.
Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
A comfortable provision made for their subsistence.
My lord leans wondrously to discontent;
His comfortable temper has forsook him:
He is much out of health.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem.
Let no comforter delight mine ear
But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
But the Comforter , which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.
The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
Comfortless through tyranny or might.
When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly.
The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador.
To be your comfortress , and to preserve you.
I can not for the stage a drama lay,
Tragic or comic , but thou writ'st the play.
They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical .
Welcome the coming , speed the parting, guest.
Your coming days and years.
We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
Go to your mistress:
Say, I command her come to me.
Monmouth commanded the English auxiliaries.
Such aid as I can spare you shall command .
Bridges commanded by a fortified house.
Up to the eastern tower,
Whose height commands as subject all the vale.
One side commands a view of the finest garden.
'Tis not in mortals to command success.
I will command my blessing upon you.
And reigned, commanding in his monarchy.
For the king had so commanded concerning [Haman].
Far and wide his eye commands .
Awaiting what command their mighty chief
Had to impose.
Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion.
The steepy stand
Which overlooks the vale with wide command .
He assumed an absolute command over his readers.
A leader and commander to the people.
A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.
And therefore put I on the countenance
Of stern commandment .
The war bands, called commandos , have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country.
She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done.
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord.
The commonwealth which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a feast of eternal commemoration .
An inscription commemorative of his victory.
Here the anthem doth commence .
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
We commence judges ourselves.
I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.
Many a wooer doth commence his suit.
The time of Henry VII. . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed “modern history.”
His eye commends the leading to his hand.
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
Among the objects of knowledge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation.
I commend unto you Phebe our sister.
Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles.
Commend me to my brother.
Speak in his just commend .
Hearty commends and much endeared love to you.
Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable .
There was [formerly] some sense for commendams .
Need we . . . epistles of commendation ?
By the commendation of the great officers.
Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man.
Hark you, Margaret;
No princely commendations to my king?
Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation .
Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration.
All fitness lies in a particular commensuration , or proportion of one thing to another.
The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men.
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.
Commercing with himself.
Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.
With terrible comminations to all them that did resist.
Those thunders of commination .
Natural and necessary comminution of our lives.
Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight
Of age, disease, or want, commiserate .
We should commiserate our mutual ignorance.
And pluck commiseration of his state
From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint.
Great Destiny, the Commissary of God.
Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery.
Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
Let him see our commission .
A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
A chosen band
He first commissions to the Latian land.
Delegate or commissionary authority.
To another address which requested that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners .
Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty.
The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subordinates of the secretary of the interior.
Commit thy way unto the Lord.
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
These two were committed .
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign.
Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
Committing short and long [quantities].
Commit not with man's sworn spouse.
They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged.
The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white.
To commix
With winds that sailors rail at.
An exact commixtion of the ingredients.
In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy.
Or under high commodes , with looks erect.
The haven was not commodious to winter in.
To pass commodiously this life.
Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation.
The commodiousness of the harbor.
Drawn by the commodity of a footpath.
Men may seek their own commodity , yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered.
A commodity of brown paper and old ginger.
Though life and sense be common to men and brutes.
Such actions as the common good requireth.
The common enemy of man.
Grief more than common grief.
The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life.
This fact was infamous
And ill beseeming any common man,
Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
Above the vulgar flight of common souls.
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common .
A dame who herself was common .
Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.
Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground.
The claim of commonage . . . in most of the forests.
The commonalty , like the nobility, are divided into several degrees.
The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only.
All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners , and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
Only commemorative and commonitive .
Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace .
'T is like the commons , rude unpolished hinds,
Could send such message to their sovereign.
The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers.
It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest.
Their commons , though but coarse, were nothing scant.
To shake his ears, and graze in commons .
Such a prince,
So kind a father of the commonweal .
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth .
Commorancy consists in usually lying there.
All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein.
Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable.
[What] commotion in the winds !
When ye shall hear of wars and commotions .
Straight the sands,
Commoved around, in gathering eddies play.
I would commune with you of such things
That want no ear but yours.
To commune under both kinds.
For days of happy commune dead.
In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the “commune ”, the general mass of the inhabitants, against the “prudhommes” or “wiser” few.
A never-failing monthly communicant .
To thousands that communicate our loss.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
She [the church] . . . may communicate him.
He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.
Ye did communicate with my affliction.
To do good and to communicate forget not.
Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic.
The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another.
The primitive Christians communicated every day.
Argument . . . and friendly communication .
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.
Determine, for the future, to be less communicative .
Canonical and communicatory letters.
We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others.
What communion hath light with darkness?
Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man.
The predicate and subject are not commutable .
So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves.
The use of money is . . . that of saving the commutation of more bulky commodities.
Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance.
Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice.
The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first “watery”, and the last “fiery”, than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse.
The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute , and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
There, with commutual zeal, we both had strove.
A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together.
A wandering fire,
Compact of unctuous vapor.
Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies.
Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone.
The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
The law of nations depends on mutual compacts , treaties, leagues, etc.
Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact .
The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified.
A regular compages of pipes and vessels.
The companions of his fall.
The companion of fools shall smart for it.
— Prov. xiii. 20 (Rev. Ver.).
Here are your sons again; and I must lose
Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate.
Companion me with my mistress.
He never seemed to avail himself of my sympathy other than by mere companionship .
Evil company doth corrupt good manners.
— 1 Cor. xv. 33. (Rev. Ver.).
Brethren, farewell: your company along
I will not wish.
To thee and thy company I bid
A hearty welcome.
Thou shalt meet a company of prophets.
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company .
Men which have companied with us all the time.
There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend.
The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.
The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.
In comparatives is expressed a relation of two; as in superlatives there is a relation of many.
Gerard ever was
His full comparative .
With but comparatively few exceptions.
Compare dead happiness with living woe.
The place he found beyond expression bright,
Compared with aught on earth.
Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
To compare great things with small.
Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counselors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
I should compare with him in excellence.
Shall pack horses . . . compare with Cæsars?
His mighty champion, strong beyond compare .
Their small galleys may not hold compare
With our tall ships.
Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare .
To fill his bags, and richesse to compare .
As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them.
The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison .
Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
The crystal surface is comparted all
In niches verged with rubies.
Their temples . . . needed no compartitions .
In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work.
They fetched a compass of seven day's journey.
This day I breathed first; time is come round,
And where I did begin, there shall I end;
My life is run his compass .
Their wisdom . . . lies in a very narrow compass .
The compass of his argument.
In two hundred years before (I speak within compass ), no such commission had been executed.
You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass .
He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.
To fix one foot of their compass wherever they please.
The tryne compas [the threefold world containing earth, sea, and heaven. Skeat. ]
Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet:
This is the compass flower .
Ye shall compass the city seven times.
We the globe can compass soon.
With terrors and with clamors compassed round.
Now all the blessings
Of a glad father compass thee about.
Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round.
If I can check my erring love, I will:
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.
How can you hope to compass your designs?
Compassing and imagining the death of the king are synonymous terms; compassing signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect.
She came . . . into the compassed window.
Womanly ingenuity set to work by womanly compassion .
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate .
Compassionates my pains, and pities me.
The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the canon law is a spiritual affinity.
Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible .
The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America.
She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race,
Compatriot , zealous, hospitable, kind.
And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer .
His compeer in arms.
In my rights,
By me invested, he compeers the best.
Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.
Commissions, which compel from each
The sixth part of his substance.
Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .
I compel all creatures to my will.
She had this knight from far compelled .
He useth this endearing compellation , “My little children.”
The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by “Sire,” which is nothing else but father.
A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law.
More compendious and expeditious ways.
Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious , sententious, and delectable.
Compendiously expressed by the word chaos.
A short system or compendium of a science.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
The rival statesmen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances.
The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.
To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence .
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
That is the privilege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition .
There is no competition but for the second place.
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.
And can not brook competitors in love.
Every hour more competitors
Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.
His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers.
Before that Merlin died, he did intend
A brazen wall in compass to compile .
Which these six books compile .
He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome.
The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously.
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency , if they discover none of the like in themselves.
Complacency , and truth, and manly sweetness,
Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts.
With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust.
They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain !
Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
They might the grievance inwardly complain .
By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'd
Her wrongs to us.
Eager complainants of the dispute.
He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and the other moiety to the use of the complainant .
Speechless complainer , I will learn thy thought.
I poured out my complaint before him.
Grievous complaints of you.
The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church.
One in a complaint of his bowels.
These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people.
They strive with their own hearts and keep them down,
In complaisance to all the fools in town.
There are to whom my satire seems too bold:
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough.
History is the complement of poetry.
To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons.
Without vain art or curious complements .
Ye are complete in him.
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon.
This course of vanity almost complete .
Bred only and completed to the taste
Of lustful appetence.
And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate.
The completion of some repairs.
Predictions receiving their completion in Christ.
Completory of ancient presignifications.
Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex ; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex .
This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
The complexedness of these moral ideas.
Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it.
This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms.
If his complexion incline him to melancholy.
It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
Tall was her stature, her complexion dark.
Between the pale complexion of true love,
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain.
A moral rather than a complexional timidity.
Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious.
A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best-colored clay.
The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity .
Many-corridored complexities
Of Arthur's palace.
Another compliable mind.
The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable , and accommodated to their passions.
What compliances will remove dissension?
Ready compliance with the wishes of his people.
A man of few words and of great compliance .
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate , how wonderful is man!
Nor can his complicated sinews fail.
Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action.
When the disease is complicated with other diseases.
A complication of diseases.
Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times.
To quell the rebels and their complices .
Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies.
Many a compliment politely penned.
Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . .
Should compliment their foes and shun their friends.
I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another.
Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth.
The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night.
I know their complot is to have my life.
We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scene of miseries to the Trojans.
Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply ,
Scandalous or forbidden in our law.
They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
Seemed to comply ,
Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.
A good pretense for componing peace.
The component parts of natural bodies.
How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
How their behavior herein comported with the institution.
The malcontented sort
That never can the present state comport .
Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself.
I knew them well, and marked their rude comport .
Goodly comportance each to other bear.
A graceful comportment of their bodies.
Her serious and devout comportment .
Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
Their borrowed gold composed
The calf in Oreb.
A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions.
Let me compose
Something in verse as well as prose.
The genius that composed such works as the “Standard” and “Last Supper”.
In a peaceful grave my corpse compose .
How in safety best we may
Compose our present evils.
Compose thy mind;
Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate,
Composed his posture, and his look sedate.
If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer .
His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer .
— Moore (Encyc. of Mus.).
Sweet composers of the pensive soul.
Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite .
View them in composition with other things.
The elementary composition of bodies.
A composition that looks . . . like marble.
There is no composition in these news
That gives them credit.
Thus we are agreed:
I crave our composition may be written.
Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood.
Cleared by composition with their creditors.
The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .
A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.
And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker.
Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
His composure must be rare indeed
Whom these things can not blemish.
When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .
The fashion of compotation .
Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort.
We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
Only compound me with forgotten dust.
His pomp and all what state compounds .
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year.
They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
Compound for sins they are inclined to
By damning those they have no mind to.
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun.
When the word “bishopric” was first made, it was made as a compound .
Religious houses made compounders
For the horrid actions of their founders.
Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure.
Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion.
And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying.
At a loss to comprehend the question.
Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend .
Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it.
The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us.
In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old.
Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet . . . a comprehension of them.
A very comprehensive definition.
Large and comprehensive idea.
Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins.
When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor , farewell faith and welcome vision.
Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life.
The same strength of expression, though more compressed , runs through his historical harangues.
A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness.
Comprise much matter in few words.
Friendship does two souls in one comprise .
But basely yielded upon compromise
That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
Laban and himself were compromised
That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied
Should fall as Jacob's hire.
The controversy may easily be compromised .
To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
The six islands, comprovincial
In ancient times unto Great Britain.
I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.
To recover of us, by strong hand
And terms compulsatory , those foresaid lands.
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion .
With what compulsion and laborious flight
We sunk thus low.
Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives.
This contribution threatening to fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory .
That acid and piercing spirit which, with such activity and compunction , invadeth the brains and nostrils.
He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction .
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.
He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion of incontinency and needed no compurgation .
All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators .
Not easily computable by arithmetic.
By just computation of the time.
By a computation backward from ourselves.
Two days, as we compute the days of heaven.
What's done we partly may compute ,
But know not what's resisted.
And turned my flying comrades to the charge.
I abjure all roofs, and choose . . .
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl.
“Certainly”, said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker.
Of muses, Hobbinol, I con no skill.
They say they con to heaven the highway.
Fixedly did look
Upon the muddy waters which he conned
As if he had been reading in a book.
I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson.
Of conation , in other words, of desire and will.
This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant.
What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece?
Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone.
This all things friendly will concatenate .
The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will.
A concatenation of explosions.
As concave . . . as a worm-eaten nut.
Up to the fiery concave towering hight.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing.
Declare ye among the nations, . . . publish and conceal not.
He which finds him shall deserve our thanks, . . .
He that conceals him, death.
Bur double griefs afflict concealing hearts.
Both dissemble deeply their affections.
We have in these words a primary sense, which reveals a future state, and a secondary sense, which hides and secretes it.
But let concealment , like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.
Some dear cause
Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
The cleft tree
Offers its kind concealment to a few.
Well read in strange concealments .
We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms.
I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet.
In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
A man wise in his own conceit .
How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .
Some to conceit alone their works confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so.
One of two bad ways you must conceit me,
Either a coward or a flatterer.
Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
He was . . . pleasantly conceited , and sharp of wit.
If you think me too conceited
Or to passion quickly heated.
Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
A conceited chair to sleep in.
Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless .
To be seduced by thy flattery?
It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that very person whose shape and voice it assumed.
She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee!
You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
A virgin shall conceive , and bear a son.
Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures.
That undisturbed song of pure concent .
In concent to his own principles.
God, in whom all perfections concenter .
In thee concentering all their precious beams.
All is concentered in a life intense.
(He) concentrated whole force at his own camp.
Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength.
Concentration of the lunar beams.
Intense concetration of thought.
The acid acquires a higher degree of concentration .
A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention.
Concentric circles upon the surface of the water.
Concentrical rings like those of an onion.
Its pecular relations to its concentrics .
The words conception , concept , notion , should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception .
Joy had the like conception in our eyes.
Under the article of conception , I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived.
Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all.
He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies.
Note this dangerous conception .
He . . . is full of conceptions , points of epigram, and witticism.
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
It much concerns a preacher first to learn
The genius of his audience and their turn.
Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned .
They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor.
Which to deny concerns more than avails.
The private concerns of fanilies.
Mysterious secrets of a high concern .
O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns
And gentle wishes follow me to battle.
I have accepted thee concerning this thing.
The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
So great and so concerning truth.
To mix with thy concernments I desist.
Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer.
He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.
While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment .
It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign.
The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot.
All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert .
Let us in concert to the season sing.
Visit by night your lady's chamber window
With some sweet concert .
And boding screech owls make the concert full.
By mutual concession the business was adjusted.
This is therefore a concession , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain.
When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions .
The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation.
The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America.
The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy.
An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy.
The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne.
The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood.
Where the author is . . . too brief and concise , amplify a little.
Before his funeral conclamation .
It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.
The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith.
But no frail man, however great or high,
Can be concluded blest before he die.
Is it concluded he shall be protector?
I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state.
If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
A train of lies,
That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries.
And, to conclude ,
The victory fell on us.
Can we conclude upon Luther's instability?
Conclude and be agreed.
Arguments highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes
And still conclusion .
We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
Like the famous ape,
To try conclusions , in the basket creep.
Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them.
Food is concocted , the heart beats, the blood circulates.
He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune.
Hence the concoctive powers, with various art,
Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle.
The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other.
It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
Reproach is a concomitant to greatness.
The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness.
Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
The concord made between Henry and Roderick.
Contrasts, and yet concordances .
His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance .
Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.
The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
If God did concreate grace with Adam.
The concrement of a pebble or flint.
They formed a . . . fixed concrescible oil.
The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete , those of classes abstract.
Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
To divide all concretes , minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances.
The concretes “father” and “son” have, or might have, the abstracts “paternity” and “filiety”.
There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others.
Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions .
The married and concubinarian , as well as looser clergy.
Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness.
The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite.
Anon they fierce encountering both concurred
With grisly looks and faces like their fates.
When outward causes concur .
Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion.
Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker.
This concurs directly with the letter.
We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us.
Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people.
We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it.
An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our concurrence .
I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
The concurrent testimony of antiquity.
There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return.
Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye.
To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties.
Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.
Then concussion , rapine, pilleries,
Their catalogue of accusations fill.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan.
And they shall condemn him to death.
The thief condemned , in law already dead.
No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn .
The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
In every other sense of condemnation , as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like.
A legal and judicial condemnation .
Whose condemnation is pronounced.
His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation .
This is the condemnation , that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil.
Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate.
Water . . . thickened or condensate .
He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation .
In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit.
The huge condense bodies of planets.
Can they think me so broken, so debased
With corporal servitude, that my mind ever
Will condescend to such absurd commands?
Spain's mighty monarch,
In gracious clemency, does condescend ,
On these conditions, to become your friend.
Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me.
All parties willingly condescended heruento.
It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others.
Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature.
Condign and worthy praise.
Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign .
Unless it were a bloody murderer . . .
I never gave them condign punishment.
Such a worthiness of condignity , and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings.
As for radish and the like, they are for condiments , and not for nourishment.
I am in my condition
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king.
And O, what man's condition can be worse
Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?
The new conditions of life.
It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others.
The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil.
I had as lief take her dowry with this condition , to be whipped at the high cross every morning.
Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance.
Pay me back my credit,
And I'll condition with ye.
To think of a thing is to condition .
Seas, that daily gain upon the shore,
Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously.
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals .
Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate .
The best conditioned and unwearied spirit.
Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval.
Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.
I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance.
Their congratulations and their condolences .
A special mission of condolence .
A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned .
It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns.
He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both.
The reasons you allege do more conduce
To the hot passion of distemper'd blood.
He was sent to conduce hither the princess.
Conducent to the good success of this business.
All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them.
However conducive to the good or our country.
Christianity has humanized the conduct of war.
The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs.
Conduct of armies is a prince's art.
Attacked the Spaniards . . . with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct , that his forces were totally routed.
I will be your conduct .
In my conduct shall your ladies come.
Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.
All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.
What in the conduct of our life appears
So well designed, so luckily begun,
But when we have our wish, we wish undone?
The book of Job, in conduct and diction.
I can conduct you, lady, to a low
But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.
Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege.
Conductance is an attribute of any specified conductor, and refers to its shape, length, and other factors. Conductivity is an attribute of any specified material without direct reference to its shape or other factors.
[The] communication [of heat] from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction .
The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive .
— Goodale (Gray's Bot. ).
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
All the conduits of my blood froze up.
This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits , we have drunk.
Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone
Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault.
I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau
If birds confabulate or no.
Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter.
Saffron confected in Cilicia.
Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
[My joys] are still confected with some fears.
At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
A new confection of mold.
Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons.
He will take your daughters to be confectionaries , and to be cooks.
The biscuit or confectionary plum.
Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents.
The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure.
He hath heard of our confederacy .
Virginia promoted a confederacy .
The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed.
Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.
All the swords
In Italy, and her confederate arms,
Could not have made this peace.
He found some of his confederates in gaol.
With these the Piercies them confederate .
By words men . . . covenant and confederate .
The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves.
This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England.
If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion.
The public marks of honor and reward
Conferred upon me.
The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union.
Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered.
You shall hear us confer of this.
Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford.
Nor with such free and friendly conference
As he hath used of old.
Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum.
And there confess
Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess , also, before my Father which is in heaven.
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
I never gave it him. Send for him hither,
And let him confess a truth.
As I confess it needs must be.
As an actor confessed without rival to shine.
Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
He . . . heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed .
Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold.
Every tongue shall confess to God.
But since
(And I confess with right) you think me bound.
With a crafty madness keeps aloof,
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.
With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution.
He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor .
Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors .
Our duty to contend even to confessorship .
You love me for no other end
Than to become my confidant and friend;
As such I keep no secret from your sight.
By thy command I rise or fall,
In thy protection I confide .
Judge before friendships, then confide till death.
Congress may . . . confide to the Circuit jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States.
Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity.
A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God .
The Lord shall be thy confidence .
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence ;
Do not go forth to-day.
But confidence then bore thee on secure
Either to meet no danger, or to find
Matter of glorious trial.
Sir, I desire some confidence with you.
I am confident that very much be done.
Be confident to speak, Northumberland;
We three are but thyself.
As confident as is the falcon's flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.
The fool rageth and is confident .
The cause was more confident than the event was prosperous.
Known by the name of uniformity;
Where pyramids to pyramids relate
And the whole fabric doth configurate .
It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels.
They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth.
Not confinable to any limits.
Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven.
Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three.
Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea.
And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world.
On the confines of the city and the Temple.
Confines , wards, and dungeons.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine .
The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up.
Happy confiners you of other lands,
That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.
Confirmed , then, I resolve
Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed .
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.
Their blood is shed
In confirmation of the noblest claim.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
This ordinance is called confirmation , because they who duly receive it are confirmed or strengthened for the fulfillment of their Christian duties, by the grace therein bestowed upon them.
A fact confirmatory of the conclusion.
Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate .
It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized.
The confiscations following a subdued rebellion.
Till one wide conflagration swallows all.
The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation.
As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict .
An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
Fire and water conflicting together.
A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.
Torn with sundry conflicting passions.
New York stood at the confluence of two rivers.
You see this confluence , this great flood of vistors.
The confluence . . . of all true joys.
These confluent steams make some great river's head.
The general conflux and concourse of the whole people.
To the gates cast round thine eye, and see
What conflux issuing forth, or entering in.
They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must have endless dispute.
Let us go down, and there confound their language.
They [the tinkers] were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies.
The gods confound ...
The Athenians both within and out that wall.
They trusted in thee and were not confounded .
So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood
A while as mute, confounded what to say.
One man's lust these many lives confounds .
How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour?
A cloudy and confounded philosopher.
He was a most confounded tory.
The tongue of that confounded woman.
Their witty descant of my confoundedness .
These live in one society and confraternity .
We four, indeed, confronted were with four
In Russian habit.
He spoke and then confronts the bull.
Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.
It was impossible at once to confront the might of France and to trample on the liberties of England.
When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands.
A confronter in authority.
A universal hubbub wild
Of stunning sounds and voices all confused .
Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
A life that leads melodious days.
Confused and sadly she at length replied.
The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable.
Moody beggars starving for a time
Of pellmell havoc and confusion .
Confusion dwelt in every face
And fear in every heart.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king,
Confusion on thy banners wait.
A conceit . . . confutable by daily experience.
Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced
Of his weak arguing fallacious drift.
No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error.
I confute a good profession with a bad conversation.
Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her congé ?
The captain salutes you with congé profound.
I have congeed with the duke, done my adieu with his nearest.
A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed .
As if with horror to congeal his blood.
Lest zeal, now melted . . .
Cool and congeal again to what it was .
Wash the congealment from your wounds.
And unto her his congee came to take.
The capillary tubes are obstructed either by outward compression or congelation of the fluid.
Sugar plums . . . with a multitude of congelations in jellies of various colors.
The cherry tree has been often grafted on the laurel, to which it is a congener .
Our elk is more polygamous in his habits than any other deer except his congener , the red deer of Europe.
Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins.
two congenial spirits united . . . by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues
To defame the excellence with which it has no sympathy . . . is its congenial work.
If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed.
Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us.
To what will thy congested guilt amount?
The congestion of dead bodies one upon another.
Conglobated bubbles undissolved.
Then founded, then conglobed
Like things to like.
Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate .
Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together.
A conglomerate , therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days.
Conglutination of parts separated by a wound.
Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou , or the “well worked”, a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term “English breakfast tea.”
With like joy
Congratulant approached him.
It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion.
Felicitations are little better than compliments; congratulations are the expression of a genuine sympathy and joy.
The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves.
With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival.
Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
Cold congregates all bodies.
The great receptacle
Of congregated waters he called Seas.
Even there where merchants most do congregate .
The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts.
A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations .
It is a sin offering for the congregation .
Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;
Their congress in the field great Jove withstands.
From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies.
The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna.
Congressional and official labor.
The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence.
With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ?
A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle.
Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry.
It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth.
A great conjector at other men by their writings.
And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me.
A slight expense of conjectural analogy.
Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural .
He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature.
Conjectures , fancies, built on nothing firm.
Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
The English army, that divided was
Into two parties, is now conjoined in one.
If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined .
Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
Mixtures and conjugations of atoms.
The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves.
He will unite the white rose and the red:
Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction .
Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others.
Though all conjunctions conjoin sentences, yet, with respect to the sense, some are conjunctive and some disjunctive.
The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity.
A fit conjuncture or circumstances.
He [Chesterfield] had recently governed Ireland, at a momentous conjuncture , with eminent firmness, wisdom, and humanity.
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; . . .
Under this conjuration speak, my lord.
Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event.
I conjure you, let him know,
Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons
Conjured against the Highest.
The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into.
She conjures ; away with her.
Dealing with witches and with conjurers .
From the account the loser brings,
The conjurer knows who stole the things.
A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital ; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate .
These affections are connatural to us.
And mix with our connatural dust.
A congruity and connaturality between them.
Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness.
He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.
A man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism.
He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect.
The eternal and inseparable connection between virtue and happiness.
Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things.
Men elevated by powerful connection .
At the head of a strong parliamentary connection .
Whose names, forces, connections , and characters were perfectly known to him.
The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
To connive at what it does not approve.
In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .
The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
The connoisseur is “one who knows,” as opposed to the dilettant, who only “thinks he knows.”
Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing.
The word “white” denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes , the attribute “whiteness.”
Nor Eve the rites
Mysterious of connubial love refused.
Kind, connubial tenderness.
Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B.
If we be conquer'd , let men conquer us.
We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms.
By winning words to conquer hearts,
And make persuasion do the work of fear.
He went forth conquering and to conquer .
The champions resolved to conquer or to die.
In joys of conquest he resigns his breath.
Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity .
The sweetest cordial we receive, at last,
Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
As science means knowledge , conscience etymologically means self-knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation.
Conscience supposes the existence of some such [i.e. , moral] faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions.
Conscienceless and wicked patrons.
The advice of wise and conscientious men.
A holy and conscientious course.
Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.
Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought.
Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt.
The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing.
With conscious terrors vex me round.
Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or “ego” of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine.
Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation.
And, when the steam
Which overflowed the soul had passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left.
. . . images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and can not be destroyed.
The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness.
An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness .
The conscription of men of war.
They were assembled in that consecrate place.
One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest.
Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Until the days of your consecration be at an end.
Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so.
The actions of a man consecutive to volition.
That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion.
And Saul was consenting unto his death.
Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
My poverty, but not my will, consents .
And whispering “I will ne'er consent,” -- consented .
Interpreters . . . will not consent it to be a true story.
All with one consent began to make excuse.
They fell together all, as by consent .
The melodious consent of the birds.
Such is the world's great harmony that springs
From union, order, full consent of things.
Thou wert possessed of David's throne
By free consent of all.
A good law and consentaneous to reason.
The consentient judgment of the church.
Shun to taste,
And shun the bitter consequence .
Such fatal consequence unites us three.
Link follows link by necessary consequence .
It is a matter of small consequence .
A sense of your own worth and consequence .
The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.
They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority.
These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
His stately and consequential pace.
The faculty of writing consequentially .
Consertion of design, how exquisite.
[An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis.
A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation .
We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative , party.
The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life.
The great Creator and Conservator of the world.
The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
The conservator of the estate of an idiot.
The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor.
I shall . . . study broths, plasters, and conserves , till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.
I will consider thy testimonies.
Thenceforth to speculations high or deep
I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind
Considered all things visible.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
Consider , sir, the chance of war: the day
Was yours by accident.
England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
We will consider of your suit.
'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so.
She wished she had taken a moment to consider , before rushing down stairs.
It is considerable , that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning.
Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration.
You are, indeed, a very considerable man.
In painting, not every action, nor every person, is considerable enough to enter into the cloth.
A considerable sum of money.
The breeds . . . differ considerably from each other.
Of dauntless courage and considerate pride.
Æneas is patient, considerate , and careful of his people.
The wisest and most considerate men in the world.
They may be . . . more considerate of praise.
Let us think with consideration .
Consideration , like an angel, came.
The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration .
The consideration with which he was treated.
Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church.
Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin.
He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations , to search an asylum.
Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment.
I love to be considerative .
At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state.
Atrides, parting for the Trojan war,
Consigned the youthful consort to his care.
The four evangelists consigned to writing that history.
The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor.
Consign my spirit with great fear.
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
Augment or alter . . .
And we'll consign thereto.
So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin.
A direct consignation of pardon.
The most certain consignations of an excellent virtue.
Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise.
The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify , and to change the value or the figures.
To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce.
The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class.
He is before all things, and by him all things consist .
The land would consist of plains and valleys.
If their purgation did consist in words.
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth .
This was a consisting story.
Health consists with temperance alone.
For orders and degrees
Jar not with liberty, but well consist .
Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence .
We are as water, weak, and of no consistence .
The same form, substance, and consistency .
Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.
The church of God, as meaning the whole consistence of orders and members.
His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency .
That consistency of behavior whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
Consistency , thou art a jewel.
The humoral and consistent parts of the body.
Show me one that has it in his power
To act consistent with himself an hour.
With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent.
It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator.
You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians.
To council summons all his mighty peers,
Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved,
A gloomy consistory .
Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory .
Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.
A friendly consociation with your kindred elements.
Against such cruelties
With inward consolations recompensed.
Are the consolations of God small with thee?
The punishment of tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind.
And empty heads console with empty sound.
I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete.
A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate .
He fixed and consolidated the earth.
Consolidating numbers into unity.
In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate .
The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated .
A mass of partially consolidated mud.
Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found.
The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random.
The consolidation of the great European monarchies.
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity.
The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance .
By the consonancy of our youth.
Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used.
That where much is given there shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity.
Consonant words and syllables.
No Russian whose dissonant consonant name
Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
The operation of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slacked and consopited .
He single chose to live, and shunned to wed,
Well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere.
The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort .
Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different.
In one consort ' there sat
Cruel revenge and rancorous despite,
Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate.
Lord, place me in thy consort .
To make a sad consort ';
Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs.
Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?
He with his consorted Eve.
For all that pleasing is to living ears
Was there consorted in one harmony.
He begins to consort himself with men.
Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence.
The conspersion washing the doorposts.
It was a rock
Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds,
Conspicious far.
Conspicious by her veil and hood,
Signing the cross, the abbess stood.
A man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England.
When shapen was all his conspiracy
From point to point.
They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah].
I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates.
A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things.
As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration .
In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration , a healthy whole.
They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
You have conspired against our royal person,
Joined with an enemy proclaimed.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
A fellow of plain uncoined constancy .
Constancy and contempt of danger.
If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
I am constant to my purposes.
His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
Onward the constant current sweeps.
But she constantly affirmed that it was even so.
The several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God.
Whe know how to constellate these lights.
The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible.
The constellations of genius had already begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign.
It is constellation , which causeth all that a man doeth.
The chiefs around,
In silence wrapped, in consternation drowned.
Attend the stern reply.
Of cold the property is to condense and constipate .
Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles.
Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents .
To appeal from the representatives to the constituents .
Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
The physical constitution of the sun.
Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
He defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution .
Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.
The positive constitutions of our own churches.
A constitution of Valentinian addressed to Olybrius, then prefect of Rome, for the regulation of the conduct of advocates.
The anient constitutional traditions of the state.
The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads.
Constitutionalities , bottomless cavilings and questionings about written laws.
The English were constitutionally humane.
Nothing would indue them to acknowledge that [such] an assembly . . . was constitutionally a Parliament.
An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue.
He binds in chains
The drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains .
When winter frosts constrain the fields with cold.
How the strait stays the slender waist constrain .
My sire in caves constrains the winds.
The love of Christ constraineth us.
I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar.
Long imprisonment and hard constraint .
Not by constraint , but by my choice, I came.
Such things as constrict the fibers.
Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction serves to constrict .
A constriction of the parts inservient to speech.
Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe , harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids.
An astrolabe of peculiar construction .
Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them.
Any person . . . might, by the sort of construction that would be put on this act, become liable to the penalties of treason.
Strictly , the term [construction ] signifies determining the meaning and proper effect of language by a consideration of the subject matter and attendant circumstances in connection with the words employed.
Interpretation properly precedes construction , but it does not go beyond the written text.
The constructive fingers of Watts.
A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government.
Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies.
And to be dull was construed to be good.
Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost.
His soul must be consubstantiated with reason.
The consubstantiating church and priest.
We must love her [the wife] that is thus consubstantiate with us.
To observe this consuetude or law.
Many of the consuls , raised and met,
Are at the duke's already.
With kings and consuls of the earth.
— Job. iii. 14 (Douay Ver. )
Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries.
We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
The council broke;
And all grave consults dissolved in smoke.
Thus they doubtful consultations dark
Ended.
He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive , knowing act.
If he were putting to my house the brand
That shall consume it.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
— Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver.).
Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,
Consume away in sighs.
He's so consumedly proud of it.
The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to, that which he would be willing to pay rather than go without it. . . . The excess of the price which he would be willing to pay rather than go without it, over that which he actually does pay, is the economic measure of this surplus satisfaction. It has some analogies to a rent; but is perhaps best called simply consumer's surplus .
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
To consummate this business happily.
'T is a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
From its original to its consummation .
Quiet consummation have,
And renownéd be thy grave.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption .
It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time.
A long consumptive war.
The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
To dare the vile contagion of the night?
When lust . . .
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion .
His genius rendered his courage more contagious .
The spirit of imitation is contagious .
Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house!
When that this body did contain a spirit.
What thy stores contain bring forth.
The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.
But if they can not contain , let them marry.
The containment of a rich man's estate.
Shall we now
Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .
The conte (sic) is a tale something more than a sketch, it may be, and something less than a short story. . . . The “Canterbury Tales” are contes , most of them, if not all, and so are some of the “Tales of a Wayside Inn.”
Contek with bloody knife.
Thy pompous delicacies I contemn .
One who contemned divine and human laws.
The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy.
Moisten and contemperate the air.
The different contemperature of the elements.
To love, at least contemplate and admire,
What I see excellent.
Milton.
We thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
So many hours must I contemplate .
In contemplation of created things,
By steps we may ascend to God.
Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view.
To live in prayer and contemplation .
In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left.
Fixed and contemplative their looks.
The lines of contemporaneity in the oolitic system.
The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy.
This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
A grove born with himself he sees,
And loves his old contemporary trees.
Criminal contempt of public feeling.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back.
Little insults and contempts .
The contempt and anger of his lip.
The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful.
If she should make tender of her love, 't is very possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit.
A proud, contemptuous behavior.
Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm.
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously .
For never two such kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood.
The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
In ambitious strength I did
Contend against thy valor.
You sit above, and see vain men below
Contend for what you only can bestow.
The question which our author would contend for.
Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Carthage shall contend the world with Rome.
In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party.
Having food and rai
ment, let us be therewith content .
I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original.
Strong ship's, of great content .
The geometrical content , figure, and situation of all the lands of a kingdom.
Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained.
Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them.
Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
Such is the fullness of my heart's content .
The sense they humbly take upon content .
So will I in England work your grace's full content .
Supposing the number of “Contents ” and “Not contents” strictly equal in number and consequence.
I would my arms could match thee in contention .
Contentions and strivings about the law.
An end . . . worthy our utmost contention to obtain.
All men seem agreed what is to be done; the contention is how the subject is to be divided and defined.
This was my original contention , and I still maintain that you should abide by your former decision.
Despotic and contentious temper.
More cheerful, though not less contentious , regions.
Contentment without external honor is humility.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city.
Love and life not conterminable .
This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws.
That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies.
The people . . . contested not what was done.
Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this.
The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest ?
Leave all noisy contests , all immodest clamors and brawling language.
The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another.
It was fully expected that the contest there would be long and fierce.
After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations , she found means to withdraw.
A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God.
The coats, without, are context and callous.
According to all the light that the contexts afford.
The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.
That wonderful contexture of all created beings.
He was not of any delicate contexture ; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles.
Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers.
If they [the unmarried and widows] have not continency , let them marry.
— 1 Cor. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ).
Chastity is either abstinence or continence : abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence , that of married persons.
Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
My past life
Hath been as continent , as chaste, as true,
As I am now unhappy.
The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast.
The smaller continent which we call a pipkin.
No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
The army before Boston was designated as the Continental army, in contradistinction to that under General Gage, which was called the “Ministerial army.”
Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions.
The remarkable position of the queen rendering her death a most important contingency .
Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage.
If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one.
His understanding could almost pierce into future contingents .
From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
The eye is deligh by a continental succession of small landscapes.
Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness?
Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually .
Great plagues, and of long continuance .
Patient continuance in well-doing.
The brute immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
An untirable and continuate goodness.
Preventing the continuation of the royal line.
My continuation of the version of Statius.
To these may be added continuatives ; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is.
Continuatives . . . consolidate sentences into one continuous whole.
Here to continue , and build up here
A growing empire.
They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
But now thy kingdom shall not continue .
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.
the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother.
O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee.
You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead.
A bridge of wond'rous length,
From hell continued , reaching th' utmost orb
of this frail world.
And how shall we continue Claudio.
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer .
The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects.
he can hear its continuous murmur.
The vertebral arteries are variously contorted .
Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed.
All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.
Titian's coloring and contours .
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband , and the most interested in the seizures.
The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade.
The law severly contrabands
Our taking business of men's hands.
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
Each from each contract new strength and light.
Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station.
We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen.
Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted ,
Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
Years contracting to a moment.
This is the the night of the contract .
Inquire me out contracted bachelors.
Small air bladders distable and contractible .
The heart's contractile force.
Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
And say it is not so.
The future can not contradict the past.
No truth can contradict another truth.
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents.
They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
His fair demands
Shall be accomplished without contradiction .
can he make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction .
We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.
Of contradictions infinite the slave.
Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense.
It is common with princes to will contradictories .
That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned.
These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished .
Contraindicating symptoms must be observed.
We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions which have been thus evolved and put upon the market.
They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants.
The struggles of contrariant factions.
If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries ; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.
There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses.
How can these contrarieties agree?
She flew contrarious in the face of God.
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise , blessing.
Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise .
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me.
We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way.
Fame, if not double-faced, is double mouthed,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds.
The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture.
No contraries hold more antipathy
Than I and such a knave.
I was advised not to contrary the king.
The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.
the figures of the groups must not be all on side . . . but must contrast each other by their several position.
place the prospect of the soul
In sober contrast with reality.
The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons.
So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened .
Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority.
Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament.
In contravention of all his marriage stipulations.
In this unhappy contretemps .
It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream.
England contributes much more than any other of the allies.
We are engaged in war; the secretary of state calls upon the colonies to contribute .
These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom.
A certain contribution for the poor saints which are at jerusalem.
Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences.
These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together.
Bonfires of contributory wood.
To deject and contrist myself.
A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite .
The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition .
My future days shall be one whole contrition .
A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable .
The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom.
neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
The Fates with traitors do contrive .
Thou hast contrived against th very life
Of the defendant.
Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric.
Active to meet their contrivements .
The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration.
This report was controlled to be false.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a scepter to control the world.
I feel my virtue struggling in my soul:
But stronger passion does its power control .
Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason.
The great controller of our fate
Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
You may do it without controlment .
Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,
Controlment for controlment.
The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces.
Whole libraries of controversial books.
He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made.
This left no room for controversy about the title.
A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing.
The Lord hath a controversy with the nations.
When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment.
Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists.
Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern.
How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic!
Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King.
There is another very, efficacious method for subduing the most obstinate, contumacious sinner.
The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy .
Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
Curving a contumelious lip.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely .
Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely .
Roots, barks, and seeds contused together.
Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint.
Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that?
He found the queen somewhat convalesced .
Liquids are generally heated by convection -- when heat is applied from below.
The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force.
With his wod his work is convenable .
And they missed
Their wonted convenance , cheerly hid the loss.
In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
The Parliament of Scotland now convened .
Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene .
And now the almighty father of the gods
Convenes a council in the blest abodes.
By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge.
Let's further think of this;
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
May fit us to our shape.
With all brief and plain conveniency ,
Let me have judgment.
Thus necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow chairs.
We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency .
A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
Feed me with food convenient for me.
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient .
Hereties used to be brought thither, convenient for burning.
A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings.
One of our convent , and his [the duke's] confessor.
One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent .
When that is known and golden time convents .
They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever.
The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution.
A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon.
Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics.
The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination.
There are thousands now
Such women, but convention beats them down.
He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles.
A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its defects.
Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention , and to William of Orange.
This convention , I think from my soul, is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; a truce without a suspension of hostilities.
The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their Legislature.
Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional .
All the artifice and conventionalism of life.
They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms , . . . simulating feelings according to a received standard.
The mountains converge into a single ridge.
I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy.
The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil.
As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent .
The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven.
While young, humane, conversable , and kind.
I have been conversant with the first persons of the age.
Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy.
he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all.
Conversant only with the ways of men.
Education . . . is conversant about children.
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.
I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.
All traffic and mutual conversation .
The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.
Till she be better conversationed , . . . I'll keep
As far from her as the gallows.
She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth.
These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies.
To seek the distant hills, and there converse
With nature.
Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
But to converse with heaven -
This is not easy.
Companions
That do converse and waste the time together.
We had conversed so often on that subject.
According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety.
'T is but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
Formed by thy converse happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Artificial conversion of water into ice.
The conversion of the aliment into fat.
Or bring my action of conversion
And trover for my goods.
He oft
Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached
Conversion and repentance, as to souls
In prison under judgments imminent.
O, which way shall I first convert myself?
If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.
That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.
No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death.
When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny.
Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted .
If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted .
A red dust which converth into worms.
The public hope
And eye to thee converting .
The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images.
The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land.
Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus.
So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms.
Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface.
Half heaven's convex glitters with the flame.
A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe.
I will convey them by sea in floats.
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means.
But as I am Crack, I will convey , crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius.
The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance .
Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text.
These pipes and these conveyances of our blood.
Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance .
[He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.
the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.
To conviciate instead of accusing.
The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.
He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.
They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.
Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.
A whole armado of convicted sail.
The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment.
Conviction may accrue two ways.
For all his tedious talk is but vain boast,
Or subtle shifts conviction to evade.
To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences.
And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction ?
The best and most convictive argument.
His two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume.
Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Which of you convinceth me of sin?
Seek not to convince me of a crime
Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.
The fear of a convincement .
Which feasts convivial meetings we did name.
In the first day there shall be a holy convocation .
There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament.
beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.
A highly convoluted brain.
O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift,
The feathered eddy floats.
Then Satan first knew pain,
And writhed him to and fro convolved .
The luster of the long convolvuluses
That coiled around the stately stems.
I know ye skillful to convoy
The total freight of hope and joy.
To obtain the convoy of a man-of-war.
When every morn my bosom glowed
To watch the convoy on the road.
With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame.
The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations .
Those two massy pillars,
With horrible convulsion , to and fro
He tugged, he shook, till down they came.
Times of violence and convulsion .
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher .
— Diet's Dry Dinner (1599).
Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business.
The stockdove only through the forest cooes ,
Mournfully hoarse.
I cooeyed and beckoned them to approach.
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
“Just How”: a key to the cookbooks .
Fanned with cool winds.
For a patriot, too cool .
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
He had lost a cool hundred.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool .
I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool .
If acid things were used only as coolers , they would not be so proper in this case.
The nights began to grow a little coolish .
The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
Coopery vessels made of wood.
She was usually good with her hands and well coordinated .
Cop they used to call
The tops of many hills.
You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic .
All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them.
For, of all miserias, I hold that chief
Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief.
the associates and copartners of our loss.
A copatain hat made on a Flemish block.
A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes .
Some bending down and coping toward the earth.
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
He would have sold his part of paradise
For ready money, had he met a copeman .
Whate'er cooperates to the common mirth.
Not holpen by the cooperation of angels.
Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night.
Kindly pours its copious treasures forth.
Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name
Shall be the copious matter of my song.
To imitatethe copiousness of Homer.
Myself will bear . . . coportion of your pack.
My friends filled my pockets with coppers .
All in a hot and copper sky.
The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines.
A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.
Powder of steel, or copple dust .
Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.
Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus.
I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
Let him first learn to write, after a copy , all the letters.
I like the work well; ere it be demanded
(As like enough it will), I'd have it copied .
Let this be copied out,
And keep it safe for our remembrance.
We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.
Some . . . never fail, when they copy , to follow the bad as well as the good things.
Various names have been given to the process [the gelatin copying process], some of them acceptable and others absurd; hectograph, polygraph, copygraph , lithogram, etc.
You are coquetting a maid of honor.
A pretty, coquettish housemaid.
To Canterbury with full devout corage .
It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig.
Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath.
The knots that tangle human creeds,
The wounding cords that bind and strain
The heart until it bleeds.
A rib with cordial spirits warm.
He . . . with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamored.
Behold this cordial julep here
That flames and dances in his crystal bounds.
Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind.
That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted.
Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coordinate powers presiding over each country.
Conjunctions joint sentences and coordinate terms.
It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one.
In this high court of parliament, there is a rare coordination of power.
Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain .
He was in a core of people.
A fever at the core ,
Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
He's like a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out.
This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace.
Bind fast hiss corky arms.
Cormorant , devouring time.
Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes
Unplagued with corns , will have a bout with you.
In one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn .
From the four corners of the earth they come.
This thing was not done in a corner .
Sits the wind in that corner !
Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society.
Up stood the cornu reed.
A draught of moist and corny ale.
Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary ,
Rather than want a spirit.
The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.
The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus.
Without a star, a coronet , or garter.
Pillories and other corporal infections.
A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are.
What seemed corporal melted
As breath into the wind.
They answer in a joint and corporate voice.
His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual.
Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God.
The one attributed corporeity to God.
Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity .
By what craft in my corps , it cometh [commences] and where.
A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry.
— Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )
The whole corps of the law.
The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps .
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it.
Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue.
Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh.
Always use the most correct editions.
This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me.
When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady.
The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices.
Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit.
Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali.
Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms.
Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives .
Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type.
Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther.
After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender.
Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state.
To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office.
The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations.
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
As fast the correspondent passions rise.
I will be correspondent to command.
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.
The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend.
The brain, with its proper corroborants , especially with sweet odors and with music.
As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green-blue solution.
Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum.
Care is no cure, but corrosive .
[Corrosives ] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene.
Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives .
Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
At what ease
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear against you.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge
That no king can corrupt .
He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .
Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold.
They systematically corrupt very corruptible race.
The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to “generation”.
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament.
It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat.
Thou studied old corruptress .
Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean.
For he was strong, and of so mighty corse
As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.
Set down the corse ; or, by Saint Paul ,
I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.
A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call t a little coruscation .
He might have illuminated his times with the incessant corcations of his genius.
That noted corypheus [Dr. John Owen] of the Independent faction.
Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering , that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord.
First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores,
With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers.
The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages.
The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers .
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite .
The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan .
The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter.
She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of.
Betwixt the costs of a ship.
A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats.
Though it cost me ten nights' watchings.
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you,
Here at my house, and at my proper cost .
At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion.
I know thy trains,
Though dearly to my cost , thy gins and toils.
Some [apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters.
Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder.
You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive .
Clay in dry seasons is costive , hardening with the sun and wind.
A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself.
He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess.
To show how costly summer was at hand.
A youth, that, following with a costrel , bore
The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.
I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume , too, is admirable.
The sheltered cot , the cultivated farm.
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve,
In hurdled cotes .
We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect.
What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face?
We are a king, cotquean , and we will reign in our pleasures.
Even humble Harting's cottaged vale.
Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter .
It cottons well; it can not choose but bear
A pretty nap.
New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?
A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another.
Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion?
Cottonary and woolly pillows.
Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain,
Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory.
A well-couched invective.
I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.
He stooped his head, and couched his spear ,
And spurred his steed to full career.
Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in hand.
If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies.
The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture.
An aged squire
That seemed to couch under his shield three-square.
Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch ?
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
An old lord of the council rated me the other day.
Satan . . . void of rest,
His potentates to council called by night.
O great in action and in council wise.
I will in three months be an expert counsilist .
All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.
I like thy counsel ; well hast thou advised.
It was ill counsel had misled the girl.
The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid.
The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges.
The players can not keep counsel : they 'll tell all.
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
To leave this place.
They who counsel war.
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb,
Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth.
Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he.
He did not believe it counselable .
Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor , or no?
Good counselors lack no clients.
Who can count the dust of Jacob?
In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins.
Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.
I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages.
Of blessed saints for to increase the count .
By this count , I shall be much in years.
So spake the Son, and into terror changed
His countenance .
In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance .
This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice.
The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.
This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason.
Error supports custom, custom countenances error.
Which to these ladies love did countenance .
The old gods of our own race whose names . . . serve as counters reckon the days of the week.
What comes the wool to? . . . I can not do it without counters .
To lock such rascal counters from his friends.
Anne Aysavugh . . . imprisoned in the Counter .
Running counter to all the rules of virtue.
This is counter , you false Danish dogs!
Which [darts] they never throw counter , but at the back of the flier.
With kindly counter under mimic shade.
His left hand countered provokingly.
[They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder.
The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature.
Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it.
Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor
Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
The system of checks and counterchecks .
Look here upon this picture, and on this-
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Thou drawest a counterfeit
Best in all Athens.
Even Nature's self envied the same,
And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame
The thing itself.
Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit .
Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
I fear thou art another counterfeit ;
And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.
The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters .
Counterfeiters of devotion.
Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodies.
For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
But he must die to-morrow?
The two armies marched and countermarched , drew near and receded.
Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom.
Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
'Tis hard for man to countermine with God.
On which a tissue counterpane was cast.
Read, scribe; give me the counterpane .
In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another.
O counterpart
Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords.
Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted .
Counterpoint , an invention equivalent to a new creation of music.
Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk.
Weights, counterpoising one another.
So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest.
Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale.
The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent.
The pendulous round eart, with balanced air,
In counterpoise .
The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style.
Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard.
A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance.
Give not shus the countertime to fate.
Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it.
Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review.
Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin,
In counterview .
M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
I have drawn some lines of Linger's character, on purpose to place it in counterview , or contrast with that of the other company.
That counterworks each folly and caprice.
As being one who took no pride,
And was a deal too countrified .
Return unto thy country , and to thy kindred.
I might have learned this by my last exile,
that change of countries cannot change my state.
Many a famous realm
And country , whereof here needs no account
As they walked, on their way into the country .
— Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ).
God made the covatry , and man made the town.
Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country .
All the country in a general voice
Cried hate upon him.
She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.
He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies.
In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen .
A simple countryman that brought her figs.
Every county , every town, every family, was in agitation.
While the coup was primarily, and usually, a blow with something held in the hand, other acts in warfare which involved great danger to him who performed them were also reckoned coups by some tribes.
Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup .
Woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup !
It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples ; they should be of the same size and humor .
I'll go in couples with her.
Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple .
[Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled.
Such were our couple , man and wife.
Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league.
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . .
And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.
A parson who couples all our beggars.
And forth together rode, a goodly couplement .
A sudden couplet rushes on your mind.
So priketh hem nature in here corages .
My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh,
and this soft courage makes your followers faint.
I'd such a courage to do him good.
The king-becoming graces . . .
Devotion, patience, courage , fortitude,
I have no relish of them.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it.
Paul writeth unto Timothy . . . to courage him.
With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate.
Her neck is short, her shoulders courb .
Then I courbed on my knees.
The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers , advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose.
And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais.
The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
A light by which the Argive squadron steers
Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
By course of nature and of law.
Day and night,
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
Shall hold their course .
My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
By perseverance in the course prescribed.
You hold your course without remorse.
He appointed . . . the courses of the priests
He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses , paid court to venal beauties.
We coursed him at the heels.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound.
In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds.
The courts of the house of our God.
And round the cool green courts there ran a row
Of cloisters.
Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .
Attends the emperor in his royal court .
This our court , infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn.
My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.
The princesses held their court within the fortress.
No solace could her paramour intreat
Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.
I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Most heartily I do beseech the court
To give the judgment.
By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .
If either of you both love Katharina . . .
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and solitude.
A well-worn pathway courted us
To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard , look to the plate.
A patient and courteous bearing.
His behavior toward his people is grave and courteous .
Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy .
Lasciviously decked like a courtesan .
And trust thy honest-offered courtesy ,
With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds,
With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls
And courts of princes, where it first was named,
And yet is most pretended.
Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more
I use the ancient courtesies of speech.
My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you.
The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual.
Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House .
You know I am no courtier , nor versed in state affairs.
This courtier got a frigate, and that a company.
There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.
In courtly company or at my beads.
They can produce nothing so courtly writ.
This method of courtship , [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow.
Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.
She [the Queen] being composed of courtship and Popery.
Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,
A cousin-german to great Priam's seed.
My noble lords and cousins , all, good morrow.
Above all other one Daniel
He loveth, for he couth well
Divine, that none other couth ;
To him were all things couth ,
As he had it of God's grace.
The world-wide custom of the couvade , where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days.
Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks.
The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
There's a gentry cove here.
— Wit's Recreations (1654).
Now, look to it, coves , that all the beef and drink
Be not filched from us.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant .
Let there be covenants drawn between us.
If we conclude a peace,
It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.
He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant , and was the heir of a covenanted house.
I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant , to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct.
And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver.
My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you.
Be they covenanting traitors,
Or the brood of false Argyle?
And with the majesty of darkness round
Covers his throne.
All that beauty than doth cover thee.
The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland.
A cloud covered the mount.
In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame.
While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs.
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen.
His calm and blameless life
Does with substantial blessedness abound,
And the soft wings of peace cover him round.
Cover thy head . . . ; nay, prithee, be covered .
A handsome cover for imperfections.
Being compelled to lodge in the field . . . whilst his army was under cover , they might be forced to retire.
Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship.
Noah removed the covering of the ark.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
A covering over the well's mouth.
Lay her in lilies and in violets . . .
And odored sheets and arras coverlets .
All the coverlid was cloth of gold.
How covert matters may be best disclosed.
Whether of open war or covert guile.
Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm.
The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside.
Protected by walls or other like coverture .
Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture .
Covet earnestly the best gifts.
If it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
Which [money] while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith.
Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue.
Covetous death bereaved us all,
To aggrandize one funeral.
The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world.
When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness .
Covetousness , by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting.
[Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
To vanquish a people already cowed .
THe French king was cowed .
Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch.
He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
Invading fears repel my coward joy.
A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse.
That which cowardeth a man's heart.
The cowardice of doing wrong.
Moderation was despised as cowardice .
God . . . cowardizeth . . . insolent spirits.
The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.
The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face.
Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow.
What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl ?
With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes.
Go; you're a brainless cox , a toy, a fop.
We will belabor you a little better,
And beat a little more care into your coxcombs .
Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy
Of powdered coxcombs at her levee.
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs , nature meant but fools.
Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails.
Coy , and difficult to win.
Coy and furtive graces.
Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed,
Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest.
Enforced hate,
Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets.
Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy .
Thus to coy it,
With one who knows you too!
If he coyed
To hear Cominius speak, I 'll keep at home.
When the kind nymph would coyness feign,
And hides but to be found again.
He had cozened the world by fine phrases.
Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters.
Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him,
and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.
Some cogging, cozening slave.
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl.
Sickness sours or crabs our nature.
The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast.
Crabbed age and youth can not live together.
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed , as dull fools suppose.
The whips of the most crabbish Satyristes.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked .
He thought none poets till their brains were cracked .
By misfortune it cracked in the coling.
The mirror cracked from side to side.
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks , when little comes in and much goes out.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack .
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack .
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?
Though now our voices
Have got the mannish crack .
I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack , madam.
What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it.
One of our crack speakers in the Commons.
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
The unknown ice that crackles underneath them.
The crackle of fireworks.
As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.
For the first time in his life he tested crackling .
The cradle that received thee at thy birth.
No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
But I was made a king, at nine months old.
From their cradles bred together.
A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles .
It cradles their fears to sleep.
He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
In Lombardy . . . boats are cradled and transported over the grade.
Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled .
Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making.
Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,
Has the craft of the smith been held in repute.
The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds.
You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft .
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft , and put him to death.
The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake.
You have crafted fair.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness .
Helpless, craftless , and innocent people.
In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster .
A noble crafty man of trees.
With anxious care and crafty wiles.
From crag to crag the signal flew.
And bear the crag so stiff and so state.
Into its cragged rents descend.
Each man may crake of that which was his own.
Their storehouses crammed with grain.
He will cram his brass down our throats.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things.
Gluttony . . . .
Crams , and blasphemes his feeder.
I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo . I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth.
His similes in order set
And every crambo he could get.
A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet.
A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear.
The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
When the gout cramps my joints.
Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion.
What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens.
An upstart craned up to the height he has.
The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks.
It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists .
So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
Quips, and cranks , and wanton wiles.
Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks .
Thou art a counterfeit crank , a cheater.
He who was, a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty.
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
See how this river comes me cranking in.
Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope,
Crankling her banks.
Along the crankling path.
In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies .
He peeped into every cranny .
The ground did cranny everywhere.
All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants , Her maiden strewments.
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
The hour for curling and craping the hair.
He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city.
The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills.
Begin from first where He encradled was,
In simple cratch , wrapt in a wad of hay.
While his wig was combed and his cravat tied.
The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted .
I crave your honor's pardon.
Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.
Once one may crave for love.
The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.
In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset.
King Henry . Is it fit this soldier keep his oath?
Fluellen . He is a craven and a villain else.
There is a prohibition so divine,
That cravens my weak hand.
A succession of cravings and satiety.
A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
Secretly crawling up the battered walls.
Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
Absurd opinions crawl about the world.
Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out.
God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels.
Till length of years,
And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
Grief hath crazed my wits.
She would weep and he would craze .
It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly.
Various crazes concerning health and disease.
Piles of mean andcrazy houses.
One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
Over moist and crazy brains.
The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
The creaking locusts with my voice conspire.
Doors upon their hinges creaked .
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
Start not at the creaking of the door.
In vain she tries her paste and creams ,
To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
Creaming the fragrant cups.
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool.
Creased , like dog's ears in a folio.
Hearts create of duty and zeal.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers.
Create in me a clean heart.
From the creation to the general doom.
As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura , which had before no being; and this we call creation .
We know that the whole creation groaneth.
A dagger of the mind, a false creation .
Choice pictures and creations of curious art.
An Irish peer of recent creation .
The creative force exists in the germ.
To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise.
The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs.
He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
God's first creature was light.
On earth, join, all ye creatures , to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
And most attractive is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
The world hath not a sweeter creature .
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.
Both Charles himself and his creature , Laud.
God was alone And creatureless at first.
Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul.
To give credence to the Scripture miracles.
An assertion which might easily find credence .
The great articles and credenda of Christianity.
If with too credent ear you list songs.
For my authority bears of a credent bulk.
Their credential letters on both sides.
The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners.
Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message.
Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves.
A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible .
When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit unto them, nor received them.
John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown.
The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony.
I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.
Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest.
Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time.
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit , and it sprung upon its feet.
How shall they credit
A poor unlearned virgin?
You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine.
Divers creditable witnesses deposed.
This gentleman was born of creditable parents.
He settled him in a good creditable way of living.
The easy creditors of novelties.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
He repeated Aves and Credos .
That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed.
Eve, our credulous mother.
Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists.
In the Protestant system the creed is not coordinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible.
I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed .
That part which is so creeded by the people.
Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
They discovered a certain creek , with a shore.
Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks .
The passages of alleys, creeks , and narrow lands.
Ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep .
The whining schoolboy . . . creeping , like snail,
Unwillingly to school.
Like a guilty thing, I creep .
The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.
Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women.
To come as humbly as they used to creep .
A creep of undefinable horror.
Out of the stillness, with gathering creep ,
Like rising wind in leaves.
Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites, creepers ; slimy, muddy, unclean.
She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness .
Casements lined with creeping herbs.
How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents.
There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age.
Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is.
One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy .
From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife.
Without cremation . . . of their bodies.
This semihistorical and crepuscular period.
Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular .
And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend.
The cross of our faith is replanted,
The pale, dying crescent is daunted.
Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns.
O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set.
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.
Starry lamps and blazing cressets , fed
With naphtha and asphaltus.
As a cresset true that darts its length
Of beamy luster from a tower of strength.
The cressy islets white in flower.
[Attack] his rising crest , and drive the serpent back.
Stooping low his lofty crest .
And on his head there stood upright
A crest , in token of a knight.
Throwing the base thong from his bending crest .
Like wave with crest of sparkling foam.
Now the time is come
That France must vail her lofty plumed crest .
The finials of gables and pinnacles are sometimes called crests .
His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm
Crested the world.
Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow.
Like as the shining sky in summer's night, . . .
Is crested with lines of fiery light.
Let it make thee crestfullen ;
Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride.
The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about.
Trickling through the creviced rock.
There a noble crew
Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew ?
The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs , . . .
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?
The Latin version technically called a crib .
Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib .
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage .
To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward.
He openeth his mouth like a crier .
No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.
The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall.
The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject . . . were in some cases liable to criminal process.
This is by no means the only criterion of criminality .
To criminate , with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament.
Impelled by the strongest pressure of hope and fear to criminate him.
The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties.
The comely hostess in a crimped cap.
Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him.
Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth.
The evidence is crimp ; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool.
A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
The blushing poppy with a crimson hue.
Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.
Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning.
When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions.
Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou
Once fawned and cringed , and servilely adored
Heaven's awful monarch?
Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing .
Till like a boy you see him cringe his face,
And whine aloud for mercy.
He the star crinital adoreth.
The houses crinkled to and fro.
Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled ,
Wondrously wrinkled.
The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes.
The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
And all the rooms
Were full of crinkling silks.
The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double.
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go.
— Pennsylvania Law Reports.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.
This hour's the very crisis of your fate.
The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.
Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.
You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . .
Leave jour crisp channels.
The cakes at tea ate short and crisp .
It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years.
Your neat crisp claret.
The snug, small room, and the crisp fire.
The lover with the myrtle sprays
Adorns his crisped tresses.
Along the crisped shades and bowers.
The crisped brooks,
Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.
To watch the crisping ripples on the beach.
Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations .
Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion.
Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion .
Inferences founded on such enduring criteria .
The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's “Traveler”] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the “Dunciad.”
When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
You know who the critics are? the men who have failed in literature and art.
And make each day a critic on the last.
Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not.
Virgil was so critical in the rites of religion, that he would never have brought in such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs.
O gentle lady, do not put me to 't,
For I am nothing, if not critical .
Our circumstances are indeed critical .
The small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends.
Critically to discern good writers from bad.
Coming critically the night before the session.
The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters .
Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association.
Cavil you may, but never criticise .
The elements ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which is the final end or object of study in every one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences.
By criticism , as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well.
About the plan of “Rasselas” little was said by the critics; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism .
I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal.
A question among critiques in the ages to come.
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked .
Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness.
The raven himself is hoarse,
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
Two ravens now began to croak
Their nuptial song.
Like foolish flies about an honey crock .
The antlers and the crockets .
A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground.
The conquests of the croises extending over Palestine.
But still the crone was constant to her note.
The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him.
A few old battered crones of office.
He soon found his former cronies , though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time.
A dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there.
Through lanes, and crooks , and darkness.
He left his crook , he left his flocks .
For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks .
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.
What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.
he is deformed, crooked , old, and sere.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro.
Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop ,
Corn, wine, and oil.
Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
Death . . . .crops the growing boys.
Nailed to the cross
By his own nation.
The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old.
Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
Tis where the cross is preached.
Heaven prepares a good man with crosses .
I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
Dun-Edin's Cross , a pillared stone,
Rose on a turret octagon.
Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses .
Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler.
The cross refraction of the second prism.
The cross and unlucky issue of my design.
The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind.
We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross ,
One must be happy by the other's loss.
He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track.
In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
An oyster may be crossed in love.
To cross me from the golden time I look for.
Men's actions do not always cross with reason.
If two individuals of distinct races cross , a third is invariably produced different from either.
Crossbones , scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality.
If the stuff proves crossgrained , . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way.
She was none of your crossgrained , termagant, scolding jades.
I do not bear these crossings .
And from the crossrow plucks the letter G.
The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
This belief in rightness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness .
Now crouch like a cur.
Must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humor?
She folded her arms across her chest,
And crouched her head upon her breast.
So light to the croup the fair lady he swung,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
The morning cock crew loud.
The sweetest little maid,
That ever crowed for kisses.
Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem.
Get me an iron crow , and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
Do I look as if I were crow-trodden ?
The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
The whole company crowded about the fire.
Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
A crowd of islands.
The crowd of Vanity Fair.
Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper .
They do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown .
Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown .
There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
The steepy crown of the bare mountains.
From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches.
Twenty things which I set down:
This done, I twenty more-had in my crown .
Her who fairest does appear,
Crown her queen of all the year.
Crown him, and say, “Long live our emperor.”
Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.
Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
One day shall crown the alliance.
To crown the whole, came a proposition.
With surpassing glory crowned .
O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . .
Whose bosom was my crownet , my chief end.
The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix .
And kissing oft her crucifix ,
Unto the block she drew.
Do ye prove
What crucifixions are in love?
They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him.
They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
See how thy blood cruddles at this.
Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials.
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude .
Crude , undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition.
The originals of Nature in their crude
Conception.
His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed.
The foolish and dull and crudy vapors .
Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy.
Cruel wars, wasting the earth.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel .
You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty .
Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition.
Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of Bute.
'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for pleasure.
He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla.
Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
Dust unto dust, what must be, must;
If you can't get crumb , you'd best eat crust.
He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints,
And crumble all thy sinews.
If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel.
The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces.
Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made.
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
The ship crunched through the ice.
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
Azure-eyed and golden-haired,
Forth the young crusaders fared.
Take with thee . . . a cruse of honey.
So David took . . . the cruse of water.
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed , or broken, or cut.
The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall.
To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.
Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night.
I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross.
Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever.
Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
He that keeps nor crust nor crumb.
They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty.
The whole body is crusted over with ice.
And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood
Crusted with bark.
Very foul and crusted bottles.
Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed.
Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness .
Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?
I'll lean upon one crutch , and fight with the other.
Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse.
The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists.
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.
Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.
Some cried after him to return.
Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart.
I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman.
The young ravens which cry .
In a cowslip's bell I lie
There I couch when owls do cry .
All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak.
The man . . . ran on,crying , Life! life! Eternal life!
Love is lost, and thus she cries him.
I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it.
Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever.
There shall be a great cry throughout all the land.
An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry .
The cry went once on thee.
O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls.
The street cries of London.
The cry goes that you shall marry her.
All now depends upon a good cry .
A cry more tunable
Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity.
Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning.
My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.
The blue crystal of the seas.
Through crystal walls each little mote will peep.
By crystal streams that murmur through the meads.
The crystal pellets at the touch congeal,
And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail.
Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline .
Their crystalline structure.
Marlborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other.
O, thou dissembling cub ! what wilt thou be
When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?
I would rather have such . . . .in cub or kennel than in my closet or at my table.
This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch.
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud , among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath.
The slavering cudden , propped upon his staff.
She cuddles low beneath the brake;
Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.
An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog.
When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.
Hast thou worn
Gowns in the university, tossed logic,
Sucked philosophy, eat cues ?
Exposed in cuerpo to their rage.
I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
They with their quills did all the hurt they could,
And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies;
Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff .
Many a bitter kick and cuff .
He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs , and a peaked beard.
The pure Culdees
Were Albyn's earliest priests of God.
From his herd he culls ,
For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls.
Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled .
When I am exellent at caudles
And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me.
I have learned that . . . I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.
Less frequent instances of eminent cullyism .
As when his beams at noon
Culminate from the equator.
The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating .
If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable , though he be mistaken in his measures.
Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense.
Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe .
An author is in the condition of a culprit ; the public are his judges.
Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it.
That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ.
Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature.
I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly.
To cultivate the wild, licentious savage.
The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end.
Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians.
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture , not the soil.
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a , the Romans by their humanitas , we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture .
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture .
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured .
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments.
The cunning hand and cultured brain.
The culturists , by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man.
“A bad horse, cultus [no good] !” he said, beating it with his whip.
Falcon and culver on each tower
Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.
Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin .
A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
And would but cumber and retard his flight?
Martha was cumbered about much serving.
Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory.
A place of much distraction and cumber .
Sage counsel in cumber .
To perform a cumbersome obedience.
He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome , circuitous.
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance , if not snare.
He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.
That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively.
A clud of cumbrous gnats.
Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes.
Ye pay tithe of mint, and cummin .
Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap.
The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Esau was a cunning hunter.
Over them Arachne high did lift
Her cunning web.
They are resolved to be cunning ; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
Let my right hand forget her cunning .
A carpenter's desert
Stands more in cunning than in power.
Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.
Give me a cup of sack, boy.
Thence from cups to civil broils.
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
Cup us, till the world go round.
Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids .
With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael.
They . . . like to village curs ,
Bark when their fellows do.
What would you have, you curs ,
That like nor peace nor war?
All this the good old man performed alone,
He spared no pains, for curate he had none.
Crooked and curbed lines.
Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.
Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
He that before ran in the pastures wild
Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.
By these men , religion ,that should be
The curb , is made the spur of tyranny.
Curds and cream, the flower of country fare.
Broccoli should be cut while the curd , as the flowering mass is termed, is entire.
Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd , is still close and compact.
Does it curd thy blood
To say I am thy mother?
Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold.
My chill blood is curdled in my veins.
Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Vicarages of greatcure , but small value.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Past hope! pastcure ! past help.
I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
The proper cure of such prejudices.
The child was cured from that very hour.
To cure this deadly grief.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure .
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
With patience undergo
A cureless ill, since fate will have it so.
He begins at curfew , and walks till the first cock.
The village curfew , as it tolled profound.
For pans, pots, curfews , counters and the like.
The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios .
When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity .
A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity .
We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town.
There hath been practiced also a curiosity , to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc.
Little curious in her clothes.
How shall we,
If he be curious , work upon his faith?
To devise curious works.
His body couched in a curious bed.
It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history.
A multitude of curious analogies.
Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them.
My father's care
With curiousness and cost did train me up.
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
Thicker than the snaky locks
That curled Megæra.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves.
Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
Then round her slender waist he curled .
Curling smokes from village tops are seen.
Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor.
Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes.
Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist.
— Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772).
I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot.
A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro.
The owlets hoot, the owlets curr .
He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency , and not after intrinsic value.
The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
Like the current fire, that renneth
Upon a cord.
To chase a creature that was current then
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current .
His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
To try if thou be current gold indeed.
Two such silver currents , when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in.
The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents , whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness?
Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next.
Thy currish spirit
Governed a wolf.
Some currish plot, -- some trick.
Your short horse is soon curried .
I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people.
Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose
Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
Then began he to curse and to swear.
His spirits hear me,
And yet I need must curse .
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses .
The priest shall write these curses in a book.
Curses , like chickens, come home to roost.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget,
Is propagated curse .
Let us fly this cursed place.
This cursed quarrel be no more renewed.
How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship !
With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles.
Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner.
Though his mind
Be ne'er so curst , his tonque is kind.
The curt , yet comprehensive reply.
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion.
Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.
Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.
A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
So when the sun in bed
Curtained with cloudy red.
Essays and curtal aphorisms.
The elegant curvature of their fronds.
Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie.
Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise.
Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity.
Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews.
A flat and cushiony nose.
In her opinion it was all pure “cussedness .”
Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call “cussedness ”).
A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas.
Jailer, take him to thy custody .
What pease will be given
To us enslaved, but custody severe,
And stripes and arbitrary punishment?
And teach customs which are not lawful.
Moved beyond his custom , Gama said.
A custom
More honored in the breach than the observance.
Let him have your custom , but not your votes.
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
On a bridge he custometh to fight.
Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom .
Even now I met him
With customary compliment.
A formal customary attendance upon the offices.
The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths.
He has got at last the character of a good customer ; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it.
You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
Before the whistling winds the vessels fly,
With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
Thy servants can skill to cut timer.
Why should a man. whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Loopholes cut through thickest shade.
The man was cut to the heart.
An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
I would to God, . . .
The king had cut off my brother's.
Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone.
Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper.
It should be understood, moreover, . . . that the group are not arbitrary cuts , but natural groups or types.
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut .
He'll buy me a cut , forth for to ride.
Now draweth cut . . .
The which that hath the shortest shall begin.
To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse .
Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
Her body shaded with a light cymar .
I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
He could obtain from one morose cynic , whose opinion it was impossible to despise, scarcely any not acidulated with scorn.
Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus black as e'er was crow.