Quotes: O
816 quotations.
O
Thou art an O without a figure.
For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day.
O for a kindling touch from that pure flame!
But she is in her grave, -- and oh The difference to me!
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness!
We should distinguish between the sign of the vocative and the emotional interjection, writing O for the former, and oh for the latter.
Oaken
Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships.
Oar
Oared with laboring arms.
Oarsman
At the prow of the boat, rose one of the oarsmen.
Oasis
My one oasis in the dust and drouth Of city life.
Oath
An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those [inventions] which we think fit to keep secret.
Obduracy
The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy.
Obdurate
The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
Obdure
This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured.
Obedience
Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
Obedient
And floating straight, obedient to the stream.
The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command.
Obediential
An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature.
Obeisance
Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king.
Obey
Children, obey your parents in the Lord.
Was she the God, that her thou didst obey?
My will obeyed his will.
Afric and India shall his power obey.
Will he obey when one commands?
His servants ye are, to whom ye obey.
He commanded the trumpets to sound: to which the two brave knights obeying, they performed their courses.
Obfuscate
His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females.
Obi
Over this is bound the large sash (obi) which is the chief article of feminine adornment.
Obit
The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value.
Object
Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.
Some strong impediment or other objecting itself.
Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies.
He gave to him to object his heinous crime.
Others object the poverty of the nation.
The book . . . giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered.
Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant; what the schoolmen have styled the “materia circa quam.”
The object of their bitterest hatred.
Object, beside its proper signification, came to be abusively applied to denote motive, end, final cause . . . . This innovation was probably borrowed from the French.
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
He, advancing close Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose In glorious object.
Objection
He remembers the objection that lies in his bosom, and he sighs deeply.
Objective
In the Middle Ages, subject meant substance, and has this sense in Descartes and Spinoza: sometimes, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind; objective, what is formed by the mind. This shows what is meant by realitas objectiva in Descartes. Kant and Fichte have inverted the meanings. Subject, with them, is the mind which knows; object, that which is known; subjective, the varying conditions of the knowing mind; objective, that which is in the constant nature of the thing known.
Objective has come to mean that which has independent existence or authority, apart from our experience or thought. Thus, moral law is said to have objective authority, that is, authority belonging to itself, and not drawn from anything in our nature.
Objective means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing, and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to that which is ideal -- what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual.
My troublous dream [on] this night doth make me sad.
To write of victories [in or for] next year.
In the philosophy of mind, subjective denotes what is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective what belongs to the object of thought, the non-ego.
Objectiveness
Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light?
Objectivity
The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared [in the life of the Greeks].
Objectize
In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections.
Objurgation
While the good lady was bestowing this objurgation on Mr. Ben Allen.
With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs.
Objurgatory
The objurgatory question of the Pharisees.
Oblation
A peculiar . . . oblation given to God.
A pin was the usual oblation.
Obligable
The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not.
Obligate
That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state.
That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations.
Obligation
A tender conscience is a stronger obligation than a proson.
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligation, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.
Obligatory
As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due.
Oblige
He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself.
The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it.
Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of our health.
Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more.
The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII.
I shall be more obliged to you than I can express.
obligement
I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me.
obliging
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.
Oblique
It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion.
The love we bear our friends . . . Hath in it certain oblique ends.
This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power.
Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye. That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy.
His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak.
Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine.
Obliquely
Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray.
His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others.
Obliquity
To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
Obliterate
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated.
Oblivion
Second childishness and mere oblivion.
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion.
Oblivious
She lay in deep, oblivious slumber.
Through are both weak in body and oblivious.
Oblong
The best figure of a garden I esteem an oblong upon a descent.
Obloquy
Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction?
Obnoxious
The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws.
Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse.
Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things
All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter.
Obscene
Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly.
A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.
Obscenity
Mr. Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit.
No pardon vile obscenity should find.
Obscure
His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.
The obscure corners of the earth.
They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured.
There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this.
And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame?
How! There's bad news. I must obscure, and hear it.
obscurity
You are not for obscurity designed.
They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair.
Obsequious
His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
There lies ever in “obsequious” at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another.
Obsequiously
Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Obsequy
I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, With silent obsequy and funeral train.
I will myself Be the chief mourner at his obsequies.
The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family.
Observable
The difference is sufficiently observable.
Observance
It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance.
At dances These young folk kept their observances.
Use all the observance of civility.
Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances.
O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances!
Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance.
This is not atheism, But court observance.
Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws.
Observant
Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd.
We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.
Silly ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely.
Observation
My observation, which very seldom lies.
In matters of human prudence, we shall find the greatest advantage in making wise observations on our conduct.
To observations which ourselves we make We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.
Observatory
The new observatory in Greenwich Park.
Observe
Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.
He wolde no such cursedness observe.
Must I budge? Must I observe you?
With solemn purpose to observe Immutably his sovereign will.
I have barely quoted . . . without observing upon it.
Observer
The observed of all observers.
Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower.
These . . . hearkened unto observers of times.
obsess
At all ages children are driven to figure out what it takes to succeed among their peers and to give these strategies precedence over anything their parents foist on them. Weary parents know they are no match for a child's peers, and rightly obsess over the best neighborhood in which to bring their children up.
Obsession
Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine.
Obsignation
The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation.
Obstacle
If all obstacles were cut away. And that my path were even to the crown.
Obstetricious
Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious.
Obstinacy
You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract.
To shelter their ignorance, or obstinacy, under the obscurity of their terms.
Obstinate
I have known great cures done by obstinate resolution of drinking no wine.
No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate.
Of sense and outward things.
Obstreperous
Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks.
Obstruct
'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear.
Obstruction
A popular assembly free from obstruction.
To die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot.
Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.
The king expected to meet with all the obstructions and difficulties his enraged enemies could lay in his way.
Obtain
His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven.
Some pray for riches; riches they obtain.
By guileful fair words peace may be obtained.
It may be that I may obtain children by her.
Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking.
The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe.
So run that ye may obtain.
There is due from the judge to the advocate, some commendation, where causes are fair pleaded; especially towards the side which obtaineth not.
Obtenebration
In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round.
Obtestation
Antonio asserted this with great obtestation.
Obtrude
The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no.
Obtrusive
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired.
Obtund
They . . . have filled all our law books with the obtunding story of their suits and trials.
Obvention
Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions.
Obverse
The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief.
Obvert
If its base be obverted towards us.
Obviate
Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion.
To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions.
Obvious
To the evil turn My obvious breast.
Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye.
Occasion
The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and its arduous occasions.
Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring Him to his death.
Her beauty was the occasion of the war.
After we have served ourselves and our own occasions.
When my occasions took me into France.
Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, And entertain with her occasions sly.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes.
Occasional
The . . . occasional writing of the present times.
Occasionally
The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment.
Occasionate
The lowest may occasionate much ill.
Occident
I may wander from east to occident.
Occlusion
Constriction and occlusion of the orifice.
Occult
It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation.
Occultation
The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation.
Occupation
Absence of occupation is not rest.
Occupier
The occupiers of thy merchandise.
Occupy
Woe occupieth the fine [end] of our gladness.
The better apartments were already occupied.
An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six.
They occupied themselves about the Sabbath.
All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
Not able to occupy their old crafts.
All the gold that was occupied for the work.
They occupy not money themselves.
Occur
The resistance of the bodies they occur with.
I must occur to one specious objection.
In Scripture, though the word heir occur, yet there is no such thing as “heir” in our author's sense.
There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit.
Occurrence
Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new.
All the occurrence of my fortune.
Occurrent
These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world.
Ocean
Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years.
You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion.
Oceanic
Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds.
Ochreate
A scholar undertook . . . to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor.
Octameter
Deep′ in|to′ the | dark′ness | peer′ing, | long′ I | stood′ there | wond'′ring, | fear′ing.
Octave
With mournful melody it continued this octave.
October
The country gentlemen had a posset or drink they called October.
octothorp
For the following explanation, I am indebted to Michael Quinion, whose World Wide Words web site (www.quinion.com/words) is a fascinating and invaluable resource for anyone interested in words and their origins. Anyone who has ever used a touch-tone telephone has seen the octothorpe. It's that little tic-tac-toe symbol in the lower right corner of the keypad, right across from the asterisk (which the telco folks, in their infinite wisdom, insist on calling a "star"). According to a Bell Laboratories engineer named Ralph Carlsen, the octothorpe and asterisk keys were developed in the early 1960s and originally intended to be used only to access computer systems via a telephone line. The octothorpe symbol itself had already existed for many years, although it was usually called a "pound sign" or "number sign" because it was often used in commerce to designate weight or quantity. According to Ralph Carlsen, a fellow Bell Labs engineer named Don MacPherson invented the term "octothorpe" when faced with the task of explaining the new touch-tone phones to corporate users. MacPherson chose "octo" (Latin for "eight") because there were eight points on the symbol. "Thorpe" is indeed an Old Norse word meaning "village," often found in the names of English towns, but that was evidently not the source in this case. According to Carlsen, "thorpe" was chosen because at the time MacPherson was involved in a campaign pressing for the return of legendary athlete Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals from Sweden..
octothorp
Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol for the pound avoirdupois, but this usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields.
Ocular
Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death.
Od
That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue.
Odalisque
Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode.
Odd
I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge.
There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not.
The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius.
Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by critical writings.
oddball
Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice.
oddity
That infinitude of oddities in him.
Oddly
A great black substance, . . . very oddly shaped.
Oddment
A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic verses, and “oddments” of different kinds.
Oddness
Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number.
Odds
The odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them.
All the odds between them has been the different scope . . . given to their understandings to range in.
Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie.
Set them into confounding odds.
I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds.
Ode
Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.
Odin
There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood.
Odinism
Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor.
Odious
He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.
The odious side of that polity.
Odium
She threw the odium of the fact on me.
I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully.
You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise.
Odor
Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around.
Odorous
Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell.
oeiliad
She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks.
Of
That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you.
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received.
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts.
Knew you of this fair work?
And told to her of [by] some.
He taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
[Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil.
Not be seen to wink of all the day.
My custom always of the afternoon.
Why, knows not Montague, that of itself England is safe, if true within itself?
Off
The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on.
off-putting
The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile.
offal
The offals of other professions.
Offend
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city.
Marry, sir, he hath offended the law.
Who hath you misboden or offended.
If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out . . . And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.
Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.
Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
I shall offend, either to detain or give it.
Offender
I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
Offense
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offense to their memories.
He was content to give them just cause of offense, when they had power to make just revenge.
Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!
Offer
Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.
I offer thee three things.
All that offer to defend him.
The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.
I will not offer at that I can not master.
When offers are disdained, and love denied.
Offering
They are polluted offerings more abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
[None] to the offering before her should go.
Offerture
More offertures and advantages to his crown.
Office
I would I could do a good office between you.
Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.
They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth.
In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
As for the offices, let them stand at distance.
This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.
Official
That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate.
The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition.
Officialism
Officialism may often drift into blunders.
Officiate
Merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth.
Officious
If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an officious and venial one.
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious.
They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable.
You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services.
Offspring
To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known.
Oft
Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Often
And weary thee with often welcomes.
Oftensith
For whom I sighed have so oftensith.
Ogle
And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.
Ogre
His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den.
Oily
His oily compliance in all alterations.
Old
Let not old age disgrace my high desire.
The melancholy news that we grow old.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old.
If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key.
Refuse profane and old wives' fables.
Old-fashioned
This old-fashioned, quaint abode.
Olden
She had oldened in that time.
Æolian
Viewless forms the æolian organ play.
Oligarchy
All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list.
Olio
Besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling.
Olitory
At convenient distance towards the olitory garden.
Ology
He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology, geology, mineralogy, and all other ologies whatsoever.
Omber
When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
Omega
“Omega! thou art Lord,” they said.
The alpha and omega of science.
Omen
Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name.
The yet unknown verdict, of which, however, all omened the tragical contents.
Ominous
He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.
In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.
Omission
The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission.
Omit
These personal comparisons I omit.
Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age.
Omniety
Omniety formed nullity into an essence.
Omnify
Omnify the disputed point into a transcendent, and you may defy the opponent to lay hold of it.
Omnipotence
Will Omnipotence neglect to save The suffering virtue of the wise and brave?
Omnipotent
God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power.
Omnipresence
His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives.
Omniscient
For what can scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient?
On
I stood on the bridge at midnight.
Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken.
His blood be on us and on our children.
Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?
They have added the -en plural form on to an elder plural.
We see the strength of the new movement in the new class of ecclesiastics whom it forced on to the stage.
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate.
Once
Ye shall . . . go round about the city once.
Trees that bear mast are fruitful but once in two years.
My soul had once some foolish fondness for thee.
That court which we shall once govern.
Wilt thou not be made clean? When shall it once be?
To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
One
The dream of Pharaoh is one.
O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England.
From the one side of heaven unto the other.
The church is therefore one, though the members may be many.
One plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Men may counsel a woman to be one.
One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase.
Well, I will marry one day.
He will hate the one, and love the other.
That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
It was well worth one's while.
Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can.
When any one heareth the word.
She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia.
The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.
The gentry received one another.
The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world.
Oneness
Our God is one, or rather very oneness.
Oneself
One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self = one's self.
Ongoing
The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life.
Onloft
She kept her father's life onloft.
Only
And to be loved himself, needs only to be known.
Every imagination . . . of his heart was only evil.
His most only elected mistress.
He might have seemed some secretary or clerk . . . only that his low, flat, unadorned cap . . . indicated that he belonged to the city.
Onset
The onset and retire Of both your armies.
Who on that day the word of onset gave.
There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Onslaught
By storm and onslaught to proceed.
Onward
Within a while, Philoxenus came to see how onward the fruits were of his friend's labor.
Not one looks backward, onward still he goes.
Ooze
The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass.
Ope
On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope.
Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show?
Open
Through the gate, Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed.
His ears are open unto their cry.
If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies.
The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me open to all injuries.
Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight.
With aspect open, shall erect his head.
The Moor is of a free and open nature.
The French are always open, familiar, and talkative.
His thefts are too open.
That I may find him, and with secret gaze Or open admiration him behold.
Then we got into the open.
And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.
The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.
Unto thee have I opened my cause.
While he opened to us the Scriptures.
The English did adventure far for to open the North parts of America.
Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our “bold peasantry, their country's pride.”
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Open door
She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind.
The steps taken by Britain to maintain the open door have so far proved to be perfectly futile.
Opening
The opening of your glory was like that of light.
We saw him at the opening of his tent.
Openly
How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness!
My love . . . shall show itself more openly.
Operate
The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.
A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock.
Operation
The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.
The bards . . . had great operation on the vulgar.
operational
de facto apartheid still operational even in the ‘new’ African nations
Operative
It holds in all operative principles.
Opiate
They chose atheism as an opiate.
Opinion
Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting.
I can not put off my opinion so easily.
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
However, I have no opinion of those things.
Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.
This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early progress into laborious . . . enterprises.
Opinioned
His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious.
Opponent
How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practiced moderator!
Opportune
This is most opportune to our need.
Opportunity
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs.
Opposability
In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes.
Oppose
Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people.
I may . . . oppose my single opinion to his.
I am . . . too weak To oppose your cunning.
opposite
Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pleasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.
The opposites of this day's strife.
The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other.
Oppositely
Winds from all quarters oppositely blow.
Opposition
The counterpoise of so great an opposition.
Virtue which breaks through all opposition.
Oppress
For thee, oppressèd king, am I cast down.
Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen!
The mutiny he there hastes to oppress.
Oppression
There gentle Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense.
Oppressive
To ease the soul of one oppressive weight.
Oppressor
The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds.
To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor.
Opprobrious
They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked.
This dark, opprobrious den of shame.
Opprobrium
Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium.
Oppugn
They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of Parliament.
Optatively
God blesseth man imperatively, and man blesseth God optatively.
Optic
The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen.
The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
Option
There is an option left to the United States of America, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation.
Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile.
Optional
If to the former the movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional.
Original writs are either optional or peremptory.
Opulent
I will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms.
Or
If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount.
Maugre thine heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow thy dispence.
But natheless, while I have time and space, Or that I forther in this tale pace.
Oracle
Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand.
The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
The first principles of the oracles of God.
Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God.
God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will.
The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning.
Oracular
They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
Oration
The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration.
Orator
I am no orator, as Brutus is.
Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome.
Oratory
An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian.
Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in.
When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory.
Orb
In the small orb of one particular tear.
Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.
The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb.
In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb.
A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.
The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled.
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.
The wheels were orbed with gold.
And orb into the perfect star.
Orbed
The orbèd eyelids are let down.
Orbicular
Orbicular as the disk of a planet.
Orbit
Roll the lucid orbit of an eye.
orc
An island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and orcs, and sea-mews' clang.
Goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description.
Ordain
The stake that shall be ordained on either side.
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month.
And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom ?
Being ordained his special governor.
Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops.
Order
The side chambers were . . . thirty in order.
Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt.
The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish.
Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England.
In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them.
They are in equal order to their several ends.
Various orders various ensigns bear.
Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me.
The venerable order of the Knights Templars.
The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness.
Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.
To him that ordereth his conversation aright.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.
These ordered folk be especially titled to God.
Persons presented to be ordered deacons.
Orderable
Being very orderable in all his sickness.
Orderly
You are blunt; go to it orderly.
Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace.
Ordinance
They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance.
Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance.
By custom and the ordinance of times.
Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Ordinarily
Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration.
Ordinary
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation that in writing.
An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way.
I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework.
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries.
All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries.
Ordination
The holy and wise ordination of God.
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.
Ordnance
All the battlements their ordnance fire.
Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance.
Ordonnance
Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts.
Oread
Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad.
Organ
The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow.
Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.
Organic
Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously.
Organical
The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move.
Organization
The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization.
What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means?
Organize
These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
This original and supreme will organizes the government.
Organology
The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
Orgy
As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held.
Oricalche
Costly oricalche from strange Phoenice.
Oriel
The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass.
Orient
Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun.
[Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
Best built city throughout the Orient.
Oriental
The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations.
Orientate
A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry.
Orientation
The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter.
Orifice
Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice.
Oriflamb
And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Origin
This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.
I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs.
Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.
Original
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness.
It hath it original from much grief.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.
Originally
God is originally holy in himself.
Originant
An absolutely originant act of self will.
Originary
The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth.
The grand originary right of all rights.
Originate
A decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order.
Origination
What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination.
This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars.
Orion
The flaming glories of Orion's belt.
Orison
Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid.
ornament
The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
Like that long-buried body of the king Found lying with his urns and ornaments.
ornamental
Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
Ornate
A graceful and ornate rhetoric.
They may ornate and sanctify the name of God.
Ornithomancy
Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science.
Orpiment
Our orpiment and sublimed mercurie.
Ort
Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave.
Orthodox
He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner.
Orthodoxy
Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy.
Orthographize
In the coalesced into ith, which modern reaction has orthographized to i' th'.
Orthography
When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation, but is hardened into orthography.
Oscillate
The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits.
Oscillation
His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme points of the oscillation were not very remote.
Oscitancy
It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers.
Oscitant
He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge.
Osier
The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream.
Ossianic
The compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic.
Ostend
Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend.
Ostensibly
Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico.
Ostent
We asked of God that some ostent might clear Our cloudy business, who gave us sign.
Ostentation
He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation.
Ostentatious
Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.
The ostentatious professions of many years.
ostracism
Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great.
Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country.
Ostreaceous
The crustaceous or ostreaceous body.
Other
Other of chalk, other of glass.
Each of them made other for to win.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
A distaff in her other hand she had.
The one shall be taken, and the other left.
Bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday? No, nor t' other day.
Othergates
He would have tickled you othergates.
Otherwhile
Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more.
Otherwise
Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise.
It is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society.
Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me.
Her eyebrows . . . rather full than otherwise.
Otiose
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce.
Oubliette
Sudden in the sun An oubliette winks. Where is he? Gone.
Ouch
A precious stone in a rich ouche.
Your brooches, pearls, and ouches.
Ought
This due obedience which they ought to the king.
The love and duty I long have ought you.
[He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound.
The knight the which that castle ought.
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.
To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?
Ounce
By ounces hung his locks that he had.
Ounding
Ounding, paling, winding, or bending . . . of cloth.
Our
The Lord is our defense.
Our wills are ours, we know not how.
Ourselves
We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do.
Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand.
Unless we would denude ourself of all force.
Oust
Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted.
From mine own earldom foully ousted me.
Ouster
Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement.
Out
He hath been out (of the country) nine years.
Leaves are out and perfect in a month.
She has not been out [in general society] very long.
Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
When the butt is out, we will drink water.
I have forgot my part, and I am out.
Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest.
Very seldom out, in these his guesses.
Three fishers went sailing out into the west, Out into the west, as the sun went down.
A king outed from his country.
The French have been outed of their holds.
[The play In and Out was] ... inspired by the way Tom Hanks clumsily outed his high school drama teacher during his Oscar-acceptance speech for his performance in “Philadelphia”.
Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!
Out-Herod
Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times.
Out-of-door
Amongst out-of-door delights.
Outact
He has made me heir to treasures Would make me outact a real window's whining.
Outbalance
Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night.
Outbid
Prevent the greedy, and outbid the bold.
Outbrag
Whose bare outbragg'd the web it seemed to wear.
Outbrave
The basest weed outbraves his dignity.
outbreak
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.
Outcast
The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Outcome
All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thought.
Outcourt
The skirts and outcourts of heaven.
Outdo
An imposture outdoes the original.
I grieve to be outdone by Gay.
Outface
Having outfaced all the world.
Outfield
The great outfield of thought or fact.
Outfly
Winged with fear outflies the wind.
Outgoing
The outgoings of the morning and evening.
The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan.
Outgush
A passionate outgush of emotion.
Outlandish
Him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Its barley water and its outlandish wines.
Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion.
Outlaugh
His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity.
Outlearn
Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn.
Men and gods have not outlearned it [love].
Outlet
Receiving all, and having no outlet.
Outline
Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.
But that larger grief . . . Is given in outline and no more.
Outlive
They live too long who happiness outlive.
Outlook
To outlook conquest, and to win renown.
Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms.
Outloose
That “whereas” gives me an outloose.
Outmantle
And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse.
Outname
And found out one to outname thy other faults.
Outness
The outness of the objects of sense.
Outpreach
And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson.
Outré
My first mental development had in it much of the uncommon -- even much of the outré.
Outrage
He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country.
Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
This interview outrages all decency.
Outray
And now they outray to your fleet.
Outraye
This warn I you, that ye not suddenly Out of yourself for no woe should outraye.
Outrun
Your zeal outruns my wishes.
The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher.
Outset
Giving a proper direction to this outset of life.
Outshine
A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.
Outshoot
Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark.
Outside
There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within.
Created beings see nothing but our outside.
I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside.
Outskirt
The outskirts of his march of mystery.
Outslide
At last our grating keels outslide.
Outspeed
Outspeed the realized miracles of steam.
Outspend
A mere outspend of savageness.
Outstanding
Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected.
Outstare
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.
Outstay
She concluded to outstay him.
Outstorm
Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies.
Outstrip
Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours.
He still outstript me in the race.
Outterm
Not to bear cold forms, nor men's outterms.
Outward
The wrong side may be turned outward.
Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
An outward honor for an inward toil.
The fire will force its outward way.
So fair an outward and such stuff within.
Outway
In divers streets and outways multiplied.
Outwit
They did so much outwit and outwealth us !
Ouzel
The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm.
Ovation
To rain an April of ovation round Their statues.
Over
The mercy seat that is over the testimony.
Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning.
Certain lakes . . . poison birds which fly over them.
Thou shalt be over my house.
I will make thee rules over many things.
Dost thou not watch over my sin ?
His tender mercies are over all his works.
Good measure, pressed down . . . and running over.
He that gathered much had nothing over.
Overact
The hope of inheritance overacts them.
Overawe
The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword.
Overbear
The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.
They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them.
Overblow
When this cloud of sorrow's overblown.
Overboil
Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng.
Overbrow
Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath.
Overcapable
Overcapable of such pleasing errors.
Overcast
Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly.
Overcharge
Our language is overcharged with consonants.
Overcome
This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
Overdeal
The overdeal in the price will be double.
Overdo
Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
Overest
Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy.
Overflow
The northern nations overflowed all Christendom.
Overflowing
He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject.
Overgloom
Overgloomed by memories of sorrow.
Overgrow
The green . . . is rough and overgrown.
Overhand
He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me.
Overhead
While overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
Overhent
So forth he went and soon them overhent.
Overissue
An overissue of government paper.
Overlay
When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it.
As when a cloud his beams doth overlay.
Framed of cedar overlaid with gold.
And overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss.
This woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire.
Overlie
A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping.
Overlive
The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy.
Overlook
[Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them.
The time and care that are required To overlook and file and polish well.
If you trouble me I will overlook you, and then your pigs will die.
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked.
They overlook truth in the judgments they pass.
The pardoning and overlooking of faults.
overnight
I had been telling her all that happened overnight.
Overpass
All the beauties of the East He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.
Override
The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart.
I overrode him on the way.
Overrule
His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled.
Overrun
Those barbarous nations that overran the world.
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
None of them the feeble overran.
Despised and trodden down of all that overran.
Oversee
The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee.
Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin.
Oversell
One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy.
Overshadow
There was a cloud that overshadowed them.
Oversize
O'ersized with coagulate gore.
Oversoul
That unity, that oversoul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other.
Oversow
His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat.
Overspread
Those nations of the North Which overspread the world.
Overstand
What madman would o'erstand his market twice?
Oversupply
A general oversupply or excess of all commodities.
overt
Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Overtake
Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good.
He had him overtaken in his flight.
If a man be overtaken in a fault.
I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.
Overthrow
His wife overthrew the table.
When the walls of Thebes he overthrew.
[Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
Your sudden overthrow much rueth me.
Overtoil
Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel.
Overtop
If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order.
Overture
It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us.
Overween
They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen.
Overweening
The conceits of warmed or overweening brain.
Here's an overweening rogue.
Overwet
Another ill accident is, overwet at sowing time.
Overwhelm
The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them.
Gaza yet stands; but all her sons are fallen, All in a moment overwhelmed and fallen.
His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight.
Overwork
My days with toil are overwrought.
Owe
Thou dost here usurp The name thou ow'st not.
O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree.
The one ought five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
A son owes help and honor to his father.
Owing
There is more owing her than is paid.
Own
The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide; But his sagacious eye an inmate owns.
Ox
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field.
Oxhead
Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead?