Quotes: H
1251 quotations.
Ha
Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke.
Haberdash
To haberdash in earth's base ware.
Haberdasher
The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats.
Habit
A man of very shy, retired habits.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.
There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
He who reigns . . . upheld by old repute, Consent, or custom
In thilke places as they [birds] habiten.
They habited themselves like those rural deities.
Habitan
General Arnold met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry.
Habitant
The habitants or cultivators of the soil.
Habitat
This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire.
Habitation
The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just.
Habited
So habited he was in sobriety.
Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women.
Habitual
An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings.
Habituate
Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime.
Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices.
Habitude
The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another.
The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than their habitudes of thinking.
To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company.
It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite number of acts and perpetual practice.
Hack
My sword hacked like a handsaw.
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack.
The word “remarkable” has been so hacked of late.
Hackle
The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces.
Hackney
Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men.
Had
And lever me is be pore and trewe. [And more agreeable to me it is to be poor and true.]
Him had been lever to be syke. [To him it had been preferable to be sick.]
For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie.
Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
You were best hang yourself.
Me rather had my heart might feel your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
I hadde levere than my scherte, That ye hadde rad his legende, as have I.
I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Hades
And death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them.
Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments.
Haft
This brandish'd dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.
Hag
How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens.
This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.
Hag-ridden
hagridden . . . by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth
Haggard
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
Haggish
But on us both did haggish age steal on.
Haggle
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Hagiologist
Hagiologists have related it without scruple.
Hail
Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky.
And such a son as all men hailed me happy.
The angel hail bestowed.
Hail-fellow
Hail-fellow well met.
Hair
Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs.
And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
Hairbreadth
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss.
Hairen
His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet.
Hairsplitting
The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading.
Hairy
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge.
Halcyon
Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
Hale
Last year we thought him strong and hale.
All heedless of his dearest hale.
Easier both to freight, and to hale ashore.
As some dark priest hales the reluctant victim.
Half
Assumed from thence a half consent.
Their children spoke halfin the speech of Ashdod.
The four halves of the house.
Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us.
Half-clammed
Lions' half-clammed entrails roar for food.
Half-decked
The half-decked craft . . . used by the latter Vikings.
Half-heard
And leave half-heard the melancholy tale.
Half-moon
See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.
Halfness
As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.
Halfway
Temples proud to meet their gods halfway.
Halidom
So God me help and halidom.
By my halidom, I was fast asleep.
Hall
Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall.
Halleluiah
So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs.
In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,“any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs.”
Halloo
List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air.
Country folks hallooed and hooted after me.
Old John hallooes his hounds again.
If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare.
Hallow
Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein.
His secret altar touched with hallowed fire.
In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Gettysburg].
Hallowmas
To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas.
Hallstatt
The Hallstattian civilization flourished chiefly in Carinthia, southern Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, Silesia, Bosnia, the southeast of France, and southern Italy.
Hallucination
This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.
Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.
Halo
The fire That haloed round his saintly brow.
Haloed
Some haloed face bending over me.
Hals
Do me hangen by the hals.
Halse
Each other kissed glad And lovely halst.
O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity.
Halt
Without any halt they marched.
[Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
The blank verse shall halt for it.
Halter
No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Halve
So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own.
Halves
I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not.
Ham
A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
Hamlet
The country wasted, and the hamlets burned.
Hammer
With busy hammers closing rivets up.
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the “massive iron hammers” of the whole earth.
Who was hammering out a penny dialogue.
Whereon this month I have been hammering.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
Hamper
A lion hampered in a net.
They hamper and entangle our souls.
Hamstring
So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.
Han
Him thanken all, and thus they han an end.
Hand
On this hand and that hand, were hangings.
The Protestants were then on the winning hand.
He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator.
To change the hand in carrying on the war.
Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand.
A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for.
I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.
I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand.
Some writs require a judge's hand.
Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the government of Britain.
As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand comparison.
Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them.
That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to.
Handed
Into their inmost bower, Handed they went.
As poisonous tongued as handed.
handful
Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom.
This handful of men were tied to very hard duty.
They had their handful to defend themselves from firing.
Handiwork
The firmament showeth his handiwork.
Handle
Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh.
About his altar, handling holy things.
That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper.
The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts six months every year.
They that handle the law knew me not.
How wert thou handled being prisoner?
You shall see how I will handle her.
We will handle what persons are apt to envy others.
They have hands, but they handle not.
Handling
The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day.
Handsel
Their first good handsel of breath in this world.
Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.
No contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath handseled it with prayer.
Handsome
That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about.
For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him.
Easiness and handsome address in writing.
Handsome is as handsome does.
He . . . accumulated a handsome sum of money.
Handsomeness
Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative.
Handy
To draw up and come to handy strokes.
Hang
Hung be the heavens with black.
And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils.
Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head.
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden.
To decide which way hung the victory.
His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung.
A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan.
Hangdog
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.
Hanging
Now purple hangings clothe the palace walls.
Hank
When the devil hath got such a hank over him.
Hanker
He was hankering to join his friend.
Hansom
He hailed a cruising hansom . . . “ 'Tis the gondola of London,” said Lothair.
Hap
The surgeon happed her up carefully.
Whether art it was or heedless hap.
Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build Their hopes on haps.
Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre.
Haphazard
We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust.
Haply
Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Happed
All happed with flowers in the green wood were.
Happen
There shall no evil happen to the just.
All these things which had happened.
Happily
Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown.
Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Happiness
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care.
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Others in virtue place felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long life; In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease.
His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little.
Happy
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
Harangue
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard.
Haranguer
With them join'd all th' haranguers of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue.
Harass
[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march.
Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care.
Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt.
Harassment
Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate.
Harberous
A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous.
Harbinger
I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
Harbor
[A grove] fair harbour that them seems.
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
Any place that harbors men.
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected.
Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage.
For this night let's harbor here in York.
Harborage
Where can I get me harborage for the night?
Harborer
Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion.
Hard
The hard causes they brought unto Moses.
In which are some things hard to be understood.
The stag was too hard for the horse.
A power which will be always too hard for them.
I never could drive a hard bargain.
Figures harder than even the marble itself.
And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince.
My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself.
Whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
Hard-handed
Hard-handed men that work in Athens here.
hard-wired
People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are “hard wired” to do good in order to enhance their own happiness.
Harden
I would harden myself in sorrow.
The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition.
They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
Hardihood
A bound of graceful hardihood.
It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.
Hardiment
Changing hardiment with great Glendower.
Hardiness
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
Hardly
Recovering hardly what he lost before.
The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent.
Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.
He has in many things been hardly used.
Hardness
The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness.
Hardy
Hap helpeth hardy man alway.
[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.
Harebell
E'en the light harebell raised its head.
Hark
He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back.
He harked back to the subject.
Harlequin
As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters.
And kitten, if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit.
Harlot
He was a gentle harlot and a kind.
Harlotry
He sups to-night with a harlotry.
Harm
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms.
Though yet he never harmed me.
No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.
Harmonic
Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass.
Harmonious
God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us.
Harmony
Ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelic harmonies.
Harness
At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Harnessed in rugged steel.
A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear.
Harnessed to some regular profession.
Harp
I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.
Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was.
Thou 'st harped my fear aright.
Harper
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Harpy
Both table and provisions vanished quite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
The harpies about all pocket the pool.
Harridan
Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see.
Harrow
Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
My aged muscles harrowed up with whips.
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul.
Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain.
Meaning thereby to harrow his people.
Harry
To harry this beautiful region.
A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.
Harsh
Clarence is so harsh, so blunt.
Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed.
Harshly
'T will sound harshly in her ears.
Harshness
O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Hart
Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind.
Harum-scarum
They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad.
Harvest
Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease.
At harvest, when corn is ripe.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
The harvest of a quiet eye.
Harvest-home
Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home.
Hash
I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
Hassock
And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced.
Haste
The king's business required haste.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
I 'll haste the writer.
They were troubled and hasted away.
Hasten
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
I hastened to the spot whence the noise came.
Hastily
We hastily engaged in the war.
Hasty
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
The hasty multitude Admiring entered.
Be not hasty to go out of his sight.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
Hatch
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
His weapon hatched in blood.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them.
Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness.
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Hatcher
A great hatcher and breeder of business.
Hatchet
Buried was the bloody hatchet.
Hatchment
His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones.
Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh.
Hate
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
I hate that he should linger here.
For in a wink the false love turns to hate.
Hateful
And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest.
Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
Hater
An enemy to God, and a hater of all good.
Hath
What hath God wrought?
Hatte
A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte.
Hauberk
Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail.
Haugh
On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
Haughty
To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering.
Haul
Some dance, some haul the rope.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
Hault
Through support of countenance proud and hault.
Haunt
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
Those cares that haunt the court and town.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
Haunt thyself to pity.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.
The haunt you have got about the courts.
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.
Haunted
All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses.
Havana
Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable.
Have
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
He had a fever late.
Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me?
I had the church accurately described to me.
Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also?
Of them shall I be had in honor.
Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist.
The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction.
You have me, have you not?
Myself for such a face had boldly died.
Haven
What shipping and what lading 's in our haven.
Their haven under the hill.
The haven, or the rock of love.
Havened
Blissful havened both from joy and pain.
Havier
Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns.
Having
I 'll lend you something; my having is not much.
Havoc
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.
Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works!
To waste and havoc yonder world.
Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant.
Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!
Haw
And eke there was a polecat in his haw.
Cut it short; don't prose -- don't hum and haw.
Hawhaw
We haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour.
Hawk
A falconer Henry is, when Emma hawks.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
His works were hawked in every street.
Hawthorn
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds?
Hay
Make hay while the sun shines.
Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
Haycock
The tanned haycock in the mead.
Hazard
I will stand the hazard of the die.
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
He hazards his neck to the halter.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
They hazard to cut their feet.
Hazardize
Herself had run into that hazardize.
Hazardous
To enterprise so hazardous and high!
Haze
O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn.
Above the world's uncertain haze.
Hazel
I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
He
Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
I stand to answer thee, Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.
Head
The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
Your head I him appoint.
An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them.
It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head.
Men who had lost both head and heart.
Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption.
The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.
Headdress
Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume.
Headless
Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning.
Headlong
Like a tower upon a headlong rock.
Headpiece
In his headpiece he felt a sore pain.
Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains.
Headquarters
The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence.
Headspring
The headspring of our belief.
Headstrong
Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
Heady
All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other.
The liquor is too heady.
Heal
Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
I will heal their backsliding.
Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters.
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.
Healing
Here healing dews and balms abound.
Health
There is no health in us.
Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage.
Healthful
The healthful Spirit of thy grace.
A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
Healthy
His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
Heap
The wisdom of a heap of learned men.
A heap of vassals and slaves.
He had heaps of friends.
A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations.
I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
Though he heap up silver as the dust.
Hear
Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers.
He had been heard to utter an ominous growl.
Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
I beseech your honor to hear me one single word.
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice.
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not.
I have heard, sir, of such a man.
I must hear from thee every day in the hour.
Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings.
Hear him, . . . a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision.
Hearing
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear.
His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing.
Another hearing before some other court.
They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.
Hearken
The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl.
Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you.
[She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound.
The King of Naples . . . hearkens my brother's suit.
If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy.
Hearsay
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation.
Hearse
Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse.
Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.
Hearselike
If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols.
Heart
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart!
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain.
Exploits done in the heart of France.
Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
Eve, recovering heart, replied.
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another.
That the spent earth may gather heart again.
And then show you the heart of my message.
The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart.
My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.
Heart-spoon
He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke.
Heart-whole
If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master.
Heartburning
The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings.
Hearted
I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted.
Hearten
Hearten those that fight in your defense.
Hearth
There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
Household talk and phrases of the hearth.
He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money.
Hearthstone
Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone.
Heartily
I heartily forgive them.
Heartless
You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.
Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.
Heartless and melancholy.
Heartquake
In many an hour of danger and heartquake.
Heartstring
Sobbing, as if a heartstring broke.
Hearty
Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss.
Heat
Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat!
It has raised . . . heats in their faces.
The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat.
Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats.
[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of “Tam o' Shanter.”
With all the strength and heat of eloquence.
Heat me these irons hot.
Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
A noble emulation heats your breast.
Heath
Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.
Heathen
If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
Heathenry
Your heathenry and your laziness.
Heather
Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem.
Heave
One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.
And the huge columns heave into the sky.
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
The heaving plain of ocean.
The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.
After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves.
There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate.
None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them.
Heaven
I never saw the heavens so dim by day.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven.
Unto the God of love, high heaven's King.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.
Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear.
The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.
O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
We are happy as the bird whose nest Is heavened in the hush of purple hills.
Heavenly
As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Out heavenly guided soul shall climb.
Heavily
Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.
Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?
Heavy
The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
Sent hither to impart the heavy news.
Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Whilst the heavy plowman snores.
Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.
Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.
But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.
Hebraism
The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience.
Hebraistically
Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament.
Hebrew
There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew.
Hecatomb
Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed.
More than a human hecatomb.
Heckle
Robert bore heckling, however, with great patience and adroitness.
Hectic
It is no living hue, but a strange hectic.
Hedge
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north.
That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo.
I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch.
The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads.
Hedgerow
By hedgerow elms and hillocks green.
Heed
With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
With wanton heed and giddy cunning.
Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand.
Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard.
He did it with a serious mind; a heed Was in his countenance.
Heedless
O, negligent and heedless discipline!
The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so.
Heel
He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head.
I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt.
Heeler
The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
Heelpath
The Cowles found convenient spiles sunk in the heelpath.
Heft
He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts.
A man of his age and heft.
The size of “hefts” will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost about 15 marks.
Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft.
Height
Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
[Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span.
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
All would in his power hold, all make his subjects.
Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion.
My grief was at the height before thou camest.
[He] spake these same words, all on hight.
Heighten
An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous.
Heinous
It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege.
How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt!
Heir
I am my father's heir and only son.
And I his heir in misery alone.
One only daughter heired the royal state.
Heirloom
Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors.
Hele
Hide and hele things.
Helicon
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
Hell
He descended into hell.
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Hellhound
A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death.
Helm
The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers.
The business he hath helmed.
A wild wave . . . overbears the bark, And him that helms it.
She that helmed was in starke stours.
Helmed
The helmed cherubim Are seen in glittering ranks.
Helot
Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community.
Help
The true calamus helps coughs.
Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.
I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author.
The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help him out.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
God is . . . a very present help in trouble.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
Helper
Thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils.
Helpful
Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him!
Helpless
How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
Helpless of all that human wants require.
Helpmate
In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land.
A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson.
Helpmeet
The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman.
Helter-skelter
Helter-skelter have I rode to thee.
A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.
Hem
Cough or cry hem, if anybody come.
All the skirt about Was hemmed with golden fringe.
Hemicycle
The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion.
Hemisphere
He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere.
Hemlock
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
Hence
Arise, let us go hence.
I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom.
All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace.
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?
An ancient author prophesied from hence.
Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.
Henceforth
I never from thy side henceforth to stray.
Hent
This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast.
But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learning he it spente.
Hepatize
On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water.
Her
On here bare knees adown they fall.
Herald
It was the lark, the herald of the morn.
Herb
And flocks Grazing the tender herb.
Herborize
He herborized as he traveled.
Herborized stones contain fine mosses.
Herd
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much.
You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
I'll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number.
Here
He is not here, for he is risen.
Happy here, and more happy hereafter.
Here comes Virgil.
Thou led'st me here.
The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
Hereafter
Hereafter he from war shall come.
'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.
Hereafterward
Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come.
Hereby
And hereby we do know that we know him.
Herein
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.
Hereof
Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant.
Heresiarchy
The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our blessed Savior.
Heresy
New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.
After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood.
Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd.
Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life.
A second offense is that of heresy, which consists not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed.
Heretic
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.
Hereticate
And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.
Heritable
This son shall be legitimate and heritable.
Heritage
Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
Heritance
Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down
Hermetic
The alchemists, as the people were called who tried to make gold, considered themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers.
Hermit
He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot.
Hermitage
Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world.
Herne
Lurking in hernes and in lanes blind.
Hero
Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody.
The shining quality of an epic hero.
Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.
Heroine
The heroine assumed the woman's place.
Heroism
Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
Hesitate
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Hesitative
[He said] in his mild, hesitative way.
Hesperides
It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
Hesperus
The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus.
Hest
Let him that yields obey the victor's hest.
Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full.
Hete
But one avow to greate God I hete.
Heterodox
Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching.
Heterogeneity
The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt.
Hew
Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.
Rather polishing old works than hewing out new.
Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew.
Hexameter
Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman.
Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean.
Heyday
The heyday in the blood is tame.
In the heyday of their victories.
Hibernate
Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain.
Hide
A city that is set on an hill can not be hid.
If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion.
Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide.
O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
Hiding
There was the hiding of his power.
Hie
The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.
Hierarchism
The more dominant hierarchism of the West.
Hierarchy
Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees.
Hieratic
It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such distinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments; bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension.
Hieroglyphic
Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.
Higgle
A person accustomed to higgle about taps.
To truck and higgle for a private good.
High
Men must high them apace, and make haste.
He was a wight of high renown.
Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper.
An high look and a proud heart . . . is sin.
His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
High time it is this war now ended were.
High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.
The dayspring from on high hath visited us.
High-built
The high-built elephant his castle rears.
High-minded
Be not high-minded, but fear.
High-minded, manly recognition of those truths.
High-toned
In whose high-toned impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state Seem objects of indifferent weight.
Higher criticism
The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces us to a series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of higher, or historical, criticism.
Highering
In ever highering eagle circles.
Hight
The great poet of Italy, That highte Dante.
Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher. Father he hight, and he was, in the parish.
Childe Harold was he hight.
But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
Yet charge of them was to a porter hight.
He had hold his day, as he had hight.
Hike
It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went.
With every hike there's a few laid out with their hands crossed.
Hill
Every mountain and hill shall be made low.
Showing them how to plant and hill it.
Him
Him that is weak in the faith receive.
Friends who have given him the most sympathy.
I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman.
Himself
But he himself returned from the quarries.
David hid himself in the field.
The Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people.
With shame remembers, while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
It comprehendeth in himself all good.
Hind
The hind, that homeward driving the slow steer Tells how man's daily work goes forward here.
Hinder
He was in the hinder part of the ship.
Them that were entering in ye hindered.
I hinder you too long.
What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right?
This objection hinders not but that the heroic action of some commander . . . may be written.
Hindrance
What various hindrances we meet.
Something between a hindrance and a help.
Hine
Bailiff, herd, nor other hine.
Hinge
The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning.
When the moon is in the hinge at East.
Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad.
Hint
Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike.
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle.
Our hint of woe Is common.
The hint malevolent, the look oblique.
Hipped
When we are hipped or in high spirits.
Hippocrene
Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene.
Hire
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
They . . . have hired out themselves for bread.
Hirsute
Cynical and hirsute in his behavior.
His
No comfortable star did lend his light.
Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Hiss
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them.
Malcolm. What is the newest grief? Ros. That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker.
The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise.
“Hiss” implies audible friction of breath consonants.
A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.
But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue.
Hissing
I will make this city desolate, and a hissing.
Historian
Even the historian takes great liberties with facts.
Great captains should be good historians.
historic
There warriors frowning in historic brass.
Historify
Thy conquest meet to be historified.
Historionomer
And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races.
History
Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history.
What histories of toil could I declare!
Justly Cæsar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise.
No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast.
Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion.
Histrionic
Tainted with false and histrionic feeling.
Hit
I think you have hit the mark.
Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right.
There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him.
Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight.
He scarcely hit my humor.
If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.
And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
And millions miss for one that hits.
So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed.
What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit.
Hitch
Atoms . . . which at length hitched together.
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place.
Hither
Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man.
And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers.
To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.
Hitherto
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.
The Lord hath blessed me hitherto.
Hitherward
Marching hitherward in proud array.
Hive
The hive of Roman liars.
Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Ho
There is no ho with them.
The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried “Hoo!”
An herald on a scaffold made an hoo.
Hoar
Whose beard with age is hoar.
Old trees with trunks all hoar.
Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Hoard
To hoard for those whom he did breed.
Hoarding
Posted on every dead wall and hoarding.
The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin.
Hoarfrost
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Hoarse
The hoarse resounding shore.
Hoarsen
I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice.
Hoary
Reverence the hoary head.
Hob
From elves, hobs, and fairies, . . . Defend us, good Heaven !
Hobble
The friar was hobbling the same way too.
The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
Hobbledehoy
All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm.
Hobby
Not one of them has any hobbyhorse, to use the phrase of Sterne.
Hobnail
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
Hoggery
Crime and shame And all their hoggery.
Hoggish
Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes?
Hoise
They . . . hoised up the mainsail to the wind.
Hoist
They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.
Hoisting him into his father's throne.
'T is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar.
Hoity-toity
Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams?
Hold
The loops held one curtain to another.
Thy right hand shall hold me.
They all hold swords, being expert in war.
In vain he seeks, that having can not hold.
France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . . . A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of deity or empire.
This noble merchant held a noble house.
Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute.
And now the strand, and now the plain, they held.
We can not hold mortality's strong hand.
Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.
He had not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue.
Hold not thy peace, and be not still.
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course.
I would hold more talk with thee.
Broken cisterns that can hold no water.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.
Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
But still he held his purpose to depart.
I hold him but a fool.
I shall never hold that man my friend.
The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Let him hold his fingers thus.
O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods, And hold a lady in hand.
And damned be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”
Our force by land hath nobly held.
While our obedience holds.
The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
He will hold to the one and despise the other.
His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.
My crown is absolute, and holds of none.
His imagination holds immediately from nature.
Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold.
Thou should'st lay hold upon him.
My soul took hold on thee.
Take fast hold of instruction.
The law hath yet another hold on you.
Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of.
If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall.
They . . . put them in hold unto the next day.
King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke.
New comers in an ancient hold
Holdback
The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth.
Hole
The holes where eyes should be.
The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes.
The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Holethnic
The holethnic history of the Arians.
Holiday
And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.
Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised.
Holiness
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness!
Israel was holiness unto the Lord.
Hollo
And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo.
Hollow
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it.
With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Forests grew Upon the barren hollows.
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.
He has hollowed the hounds.
Holluschickie
But he'll lie down on the killing grounds where the holluschickie go.
Holm
The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms.
Holt
She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.
Holy
Now through her round of holy thought The Church our annual steps has brought.
Homage
All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage.
I sought no homage from the race that write.
Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet ! Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters' feet !
Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven.
Home
The disciples went away again to their own home.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home.
He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
Flandria, by plenty made the home of war.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.
They come home to men's business and bosoms.
Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home.
Home-bred
Benignity and home-bred sense.
Only to me home-bred youths belong.
Home-keeping
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Homeborn
Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness.
homecoming
Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge.
Homely
With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft.
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure.
Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains.
None so homely but loves a looking-glass.
Homestead
We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.
Homiletic
His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister.
Homily
As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies.
Homish
Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life.
Homologous
In similar polygons, the corresponding sides, angles, diagonals, etc., are homologous.
Homonymy
Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons.
Honest
Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.
Look ye out among you seven men of honest report.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
Honesty
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.
Honey
The honey of his language.
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus.
Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord.
Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech?
Honeycombed
Each bastion was honeycombed with casements.
Honor
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
Godlike erect, with native honor clad.
If she have forgot Honor and virtue.
Say, what is honor? 'T is the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offense Suffered or done.
I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
I have given thee . . . both riches, and honor.
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty.
Some in their actions do woo, and affect honor and reputation.
If my honor is meant anything distinct from conscience, 't is no more than a regard to the censure and esteem of the world.
Honor thy father and thy mother.
That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
It is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighten to honor.
The name of Cassius honors this corruption.
Honorable
Thy name and honorable family.
Is this proceeding just and honorable?
Honorable wounds from battle brought.
Marriage is honorable in all.
Let her descend: my chambers are honorable.
Honorably
The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him.
Why did I not more honorably starve?
Hood
How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, “Amen.”
Hoodlum
Just tell your hoodlum friends outside You ain't got time to take no ride.
Hoodwink
We will blind and hoodwink him.
Hoof
On burnished hooves his war horse trode.
Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind.
Hook
Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.
Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice.
Hooky
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and “hooky,” and marbles, was all moonshine.
Hoop
Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale.
Hoot
Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots.
Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.
Hop
[Birds] hopping from spray to spray.
Hope
The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
He wished, but not with hope.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.
The Lord will be the hope of his people.
A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of learning was highly commendable.
Lavina is thine elder brother's hope.
But I will hope continually.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
We hope no other from your majesty.
[Charity] hopeth all things.
Hopeful
Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited.
Hopeless
I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
The hopelessword of “never to return” Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.
Horary
Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer.
Horizon
And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon.
All the horizon round Invested with bright rays.
The strata all over the earth, which were formed at the same time, are said to belong to the same geological horizon.
Horn
The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx.
The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation.
Horn-mad
Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after?
Horned
The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip.
Hornpipe
Many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis.
Horopter
The sum of all the points which are seen single, while the point of sight remains unchanged, is called the horopter.
Horrent
Rough and horrent with figures in strong relief.
With bright emblazonry and horrent arms.
Horrible
A dungeon horrible on all sides round.
Horribleness
The horribleness of the mischief.
Horrid
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
Not in the legions Of horrid hell.
The horrid things they say.
Horrific
Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed.
Horror
Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.
How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered?
Breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Horror-sticken
Blank and horror-stricken faces.
Horse
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.
Horseback
The long journey was to be performed on horseback.
Horseflesh
The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day.
Horseplay
Too much given to horseplay in his raillery.
Hosanna
Hosanna to the Son of David.
Hose
These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments.
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank.
Hospitable
To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Hospitality
Given to hospitality.
And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality.
Host
A host so great as covered all the field.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God.
All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.
Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
Hostage
Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Hostel
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.
Hostelry
Come with me to the hostelry.
hostilities
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity.
Hostility
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend.
Hot
Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful.
There was mouthing in hot haste.
Hot-mouthed
That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb.
Hotchpot
A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.
Hote
There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.
Hound
Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs.
Hour
Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come.
This is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels.
Hourly
In hourly expectation of a martyrdom.
Great was their strife, which hourly was renewed.
Hours
Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear.
House
Houses are built to live in; not to look on.
Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away.
One that feared God with all his house.
The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name.
This mortal house I'll ruin, Do Cæsar what he can.
At length have housed me in a humble shed.
House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
You shall not house with me.
Household
And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers.
Householder
Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant.
Housekeeper
You are manifest housekeeper.
Housekeeping
Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry? Small housekeeping enough, said Phœbe.
Housewife
He a good husband, a good housewife she.
Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived.
Housewifely
A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely.
Hovel
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon.
The poor are hoveled and hustled together.
Hover
Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it.
A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.
Hovering o'er the paper with her quill.
How
How can a man be born when he is old?
O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth.
How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How, and with what reproach, shall I return?
How art thou called?
How a score of ewes now?
Let me beg you -- don't say “How?” for “What?”
Howbeit
The Moor -- howbeit that I endure him not - Is of a constant, loving, noble nature.
However
However yet they me despise and spite.
Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault.
Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be, however from the greatest evils.
In your excuse your love does little say; You might howe'er have took a better way.
Howl
And dogs in corners set them down to howl.
Methought a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
Wild howled the wind.
Howsoever
I am glad he's come, howsoever he comes.
Hoy
The hoy went to London every week.
Hoyman
A common hoyman to carry goods by water for hire.
Hubbub
This hubbub of unmeaning words.
Hucksterage
Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes.
Hucksterer
Those hucksterers or money-jobbers.
Huddle
The cattle huddled on the lea.
Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic-struck deer.
Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion.
Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
Hue
Hues of the rich unfolding morn.
Huff
You must not presume to huff us.
This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit.
Huffingly
And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride.
Hug
We hug deformities if they bear our names.
Huge
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
Hugger-mugger
Many things have been done in hugger-mugger.
Hull
Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.
Hum
Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep.
The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums.
Here the spectators hummed.
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums.
But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men.
These shrugs, these hums and ha's.
Human
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Sprung of humans that inhabit earth.
We humans often find ourselves in strange position.
Humane
Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination.
Humanify
The humanifying of the divine Word.
Humanism
[She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism.
Humanity
But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity.
It is a debt we owe to humanity.
Polished with humanity and the study of witty science.
Humanize
Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.
Humble
Thy humble nest built on the ground.
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
She should be humble who would please.
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes.
The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.
Humdrum
Dissatisfied with humdrum.
Humid
Evening cloud, or humid bow.
Humiliate
We stand humiliated rather than encouraged.
Humiliation
The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood.
Humility
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.
With these humilities they satisfied the young king.
Humor
Examine how your humor is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind.
A prince of a pleasant humor.
I like not the humor of lying.
Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.
A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention.
You humor me when I am sick.
Humorist
He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life.
The reputation of wits and humorists.
Humorous
All founts wells, all deeps humorous.
Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind.
Humorously
We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously.
Humorsome
The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms.
Hump
The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.
Having collected a sufficient quantity, we humped it out of the bush.
A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.
Hundred
With many hundreds treading on his heels.
Hundredfold
He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time.
Hunger
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
For hunger of my gold I die.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness.
Hungry
The cruel, hungry foam.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Hunker down
While many businessmen were hunkering down for another bust after the lean years of the Second World War and the Great Depression before it, Taylor and company correctly reckoned it was the dawn of an era of prosperity and growth.
Hunkers
Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge.
Hunks
Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks.
Hunky
He . . . began to shoot; began to get “hunky” with all those people who had been plugging at him.
Hunt
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
He hunts a pack of dogs.
Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
He after honor hunts, I after love.
The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.
Every landowner within the hunt.
Hunter
No keener hunter after glory breathes.
Hunt's-up
Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head.
Hurl
And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main.
God shall hurl at him and not spare.
Hurling
Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball.
Hurly
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes.
Hurly-burly
All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly.
Hurr
R is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound.
Hurrah
Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre.
A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen.
Hurricane
Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd.
Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane.
Hurry
Impetuous lust hurries him on.
They hurried him abroad a bark.
And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends.
Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts into a violent hurry of thought.
Hurt
The hurt lion groans within his den.
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt.
Hurter
The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel.
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.
Hurtle
Together hurtled both their steeds.
Now hurtling round, advantage for to take.
Down the hurtling cataract of the ages.
The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground.
His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.
And he hurtleth with his horse adown.
Hurtless
Gentle dame so hurtless and so true.
Husband
The painful husband, plowing up his ground.
He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations.
God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.
The husband and wife are one person in law.
For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far.
Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
Husbandry
There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.
Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food.
Hush
My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.
With thou, then, Hush my cares?
And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill.
But all these strangers' presence every one did hush.
Husky
A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard.
Hustings
When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies.
Hustle
Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed.
Huswife
The huswife is she that do labor doth fall.
Hut
Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut.
Hutch
The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.
Huzz
Huzzing and burring in the preacher's ear.
Huzza
They made a great huzza or shout.
He was huzzaed into the court.
Hyacinthine
His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers.
The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom.
Hyades
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea.
Hyaline
Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
Hybridizable
Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids.
Hydra
Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Hydrolytic
Hydrolytic agents, such as sulphuric acid or caustic alkali.
Hydropic
Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst.
Hydrostatic
The first discovery made in hydrostatics since the time of Archimedes is due to Stevinus.
Hymen
Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower.
Hymen of element and race.
Hymn
Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.
Where angels first should practice hymns, and string Their tuneful harps.
To hymn the bright of the Lord.
Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
Hyp
Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps.
Hypallage
The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language.
Hyperbaton
With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text.
Hyperbole
Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles.
Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving.
Hyperborean
The hyperborean or frozen sea.
Hyperion
So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr.
Hypermeter
When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter.
Hyperphysical
Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis.
Hyperthetical
Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression.
hypertonic
A knowledge of the colligative properties of solutions . . . is essential for one to understand fully the principles involved in rendering intravenous solutions isotonic with blood serum, or opthalmic solutions isotonic with lachrymal fluid. Solutions thus adjusted produce less shock and much less irritation than those which are hypotonic or hypertonic, and present-day practise recognizes the desirability of making the necessary adjustments whenever possible.
Hypochondriac
He had become an incurable hypochondriac.
Hypocoristic
The hypocoristic or pet form of William.
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrite
The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart.
Hypocritical
Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared.
Hypostasize
The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.
Hypostatic
The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.
Hypostatize
Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
Hypothecate
He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
Hypothecation
There are but few cases, if any, in our law, where an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee.
Hypothesis
An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination.
Hypothetic
Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us.
Hysteric
With no hysteric weakness or feverish excitement, they preserved their peace and patience.