Quotes: U

Ubiquitous

In this sense is he ubiquitous.

Ubiquity

The arms of Rome . . . were impeded by . . . the wide spaces to be traversed and the ubiquity of the enemy.

Udder

A lioness, with udders all drawn dry.

Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes.

Ugly

The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

Like the toad, ugly and venomous.

O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.

Ulcerous

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Ultimate

My harbor, and my ultimate repose.

Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.

Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict.

Ululation

He may fright others with his ululation.

Umber

Their harps are of the umber shade That hides the blush of waking day.

Umbrage

Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad.

The opinion carries no show of truth nor umbrage of reason on its side.

Which gave umbrage to wiser than myself.

Persons who feel most umbrage from the overshadowing aristocracy.

umbrageous

Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape.

Umbrel

Each of them besides bore their umbrels.

Umbrella

Underneath the umbrella's oily shed.

Umbrere

But only vented up her umbriere.

Umlauted

There is no natural connection between umlauted forms and plurality.

Umpirage

The mild umpirage of the federal Union.

Umpire

A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others.

Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.

Un-Mosaic

By this reckoning Moses should be most un Mosaic.

Unable

Sapless age and weak unable limbs.

Unaccustomed

Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke.

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Unacquaintance

He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.

Unacquainted

And the unacquainted light began to fear.

Unactive

While other animals unactive range.

Unaffected

A poor, cold, unspirited, unmannered, Unhonest, unaffected, undone fool.

Unalloyed

I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company.

Unappealable

The infallible, unappealable Judge [God].

We submitted to a galling yet unappealable necessity.

Unapt

I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

Unawares

Lest unawares we lose This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill.

He breaks at unawares upon our walks.

So we met In this old sleepy town at unaware.

Unbalanced

Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly.

Unballasted

Unballasted by any sufficient weight of plan.

Unbarricade

You shall not unbarricade the door.

Unbay

I ought . . . to unbay the current of my passion.

Unbe

How oft, with danger of the field beset, Or with home mutinies, would he unbe Himself!

Unbecoming

My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall.

Unbed

Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder.

Unbelief

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain.

Unbend

You do unbend your noble strength.

Unbending

Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.

It may entertain your lordships at an unbending hour.

Unbid

Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

Unbody

Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse.

Unborn

Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb.

See future sons, and daughters yet unborn.

Unboundably

I am . . . unboundably beholding to you.

Unbridled

Lands deluged by unbridled floods.

Unbusied

These unbusied persons can continue in this playing idleness till it become a toil.

Uncamp

If they could but now uncamp their enemies.

Uncentury

It has first to uncentury itself.

Uncertain

Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.

O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!

From certain dangers to uncertain praise.

Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim.

Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone.

Uncertainty

Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty.

Uncharity

'T were much uncharity in you.

Uncivil

Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together.

Uncle

Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, -- an immense talker.

Unclean

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Unclothe

[We] do groan being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon.

Uncomeatable

My honor is infallible and uncomeatable.

Uncomfortable

The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year.

Uncomprehensive

Narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots.

Unconcern

A listless unconcern, Cold, and averting from our neighbor's good.

Unconcerned

Happy mortals, unconcerned for more.

Unconditional

O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional.

Unconform

Not unconform to other shining globes.

Unconformable

Moral evil is an action unconformable to it [the rule of our duty].

Unconscionable

Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended.

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides.

Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices.

Unconsidered

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

Uncouth

To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth.

Harness . . . so uncouth and so rich.

I am surprised with an uncouth fear.

Thus sang the uncouth swain.

Uncovenanted

In Scotland a few fanatical nonjurors may have grudged their allegiance to an uncovenanted king.

Uncover

We are forced to uncover after them.

Uncover, dogs, and lap.

Uncreate

Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know.

Uncrown

He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.

Uncrudded

Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded.

Unction

To be heir, and to be king By sacred unction, thy deserved right.

The king himself the sacred unction made.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

The delightful equivoque and unction of the passage in Farquhar.

The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast.

Uncunning

I am young and uncunning, as thou wost [knowest].

Uncurl

He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane.

Undecennary

An undecennary account laid before Parliament.

Undecked

[Eve] undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair Than wood nymph.

Under

Fruit put in bottles, and the bottles let down into wells under water, will keep long.

Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place.

Both Jews and Gentiles . . . are all under sin.

That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct.

Who have their provand Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows For sinking under them.

Three sons he dying left under age.

Medicines take effect sometimes under, and sometimes above, the natural proportion of their virtue.

There are several hundred parishes in England under twenty pounds a year.

It was too great an honor for any man under a duke.

Several young men could never leave the pulpit under half a dozen conceits.

A crew who, under names of old renown . . . abused Fanatic Egypt.

Mr. Duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine.

Under this head may come in the several contests and wars betwixt popes and the secular princes.

Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change.

I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.

The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under.

Under-age

I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation.

Underaction

The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design.

Underbuilder

An underbuilder in the house of God.

Undercurrent

All the while there was a busy undercurrent in her.

Underfringe

Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard.

Undergird

They used helps, undergirding the ship.

Undergo

Certain to undergo like doom.

Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo.

I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise.

Claudio undergoes my challenge.

Undergown

An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk.

Undergroan

Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet.

Underground

A spirit raised from depth of underground.

Underhand

Such mean revenge, committed underhand.

Baillie Macwheeble provided Janet, underhand, with meal for their maintenance.

Underhanded

Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now.

Underlet

All my farms were underlet.

Underlie

The knight of Ivanhoe . . . underlies the challenge of Brian der Bois Guilbert.

Underling

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Undermeal

In undermeals and in mornings.

Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing.

I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal.

In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers.

Undermine

A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it.

He should be warned who are like to undermine him.

Undern

Betwixt undern and noon was the field all won.

In a bed of worts still he lay Till it was past undern of the day.

Underneath

Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath.

Underneath this stone lie As much beauty as could die.

Undernime

He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast.

Underpart

It should be lightened with underparts of mirth.

Underpitch

He drank and well his girdle underpight.

Underprop

Underprop the head that bears the crown.

Underproportioned

Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility.

Undershapen

His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing.

Undersky

Floating about the undersky.

Undersong

In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend.

Underspore

Give me a staff that I may underspore.

Understand

Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say.

I understand not what you mean by this.

Understood not all was but a show.

A tongue not understanded of the people.

The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.

War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved.

Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see.

I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah.

Understanding

He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.

But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand.

In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension.

I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which “verstand” is now employed by the Germans.

Understandingly

The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.

Understrapper

This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers.

Undertake

To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt.

I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.

And he was not right fat, I undertake.

And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.

I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.

It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to.

Keep well those that ye undertake.

O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

It is the cowish terror of his spirit That dare not undertake.

But on mine honor dare I undertake For good lord Titus' innocence in all.

Undertaker

To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter.

In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders.

Undertide

He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw.

Undervalue

In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority.

I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

Underwood

Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars.

Underwork

But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king.

Underworld

That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld.

Underwrite

What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten.

The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.

Undevil

They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be undeviled by all their exorcisms.

Undirect

who make false fires to undirect seamen in a tempest.

Undistinctive

As undistinctive Death will come here one day.

Undividual

True courage and courtesy are undividual companions.

Undo

What's done can not be undone.

To-morrow, ere the setting sun, She 'd all undo that she had done.

Pray you, undo this button.

She took the spindle, and undoing the thread gradually, measured it.

That quaffing and drinking will undo you,

Undraw

Angels undrew the curtain of the throne.

Undreamed

Unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Undulate

Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated.

Unearth

To unearth the roof of an old tree.

Uneasy

Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood.

The road will be uneasy to find.

The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him.

Uneath

Who he was, uneath was to descry.

Uneath may she endure the flinty streets.

Unequal

Against unequal arms to fight in pain.

Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries.

To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal.

Unerring

Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew.

Unestablish

The Parliament demanded of the king to unestablish that prelatical government.

Uneven

Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet.

Unexceptionable

Chesterfield is an unexceptionable witness.

Unexpressive

Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.

Unfair

You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt.

Unfaith

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.

Unfaithful

My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight.

His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Unfeeling

To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.

Unfellow

Death quite unfellows us.

Unfix

The mountain stands; nor can the rising sun Unfix her frosts.

Unfold

Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.

Unfold the passion of my love.

The wind blows cold While the morning doth unfold.

Unfoldment

The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers.

Unforgettable

Pungent and unforgettable truths.

Unfree

There had always been a slave class, a class of the unfree, among the English as among all German peoples.

Unfrequent

They quit their thefts and unfrequent the fields.

Unfriended

If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended.

Unfriendship

An act of unfriendship to my sovereign person.

Ungainly

His ungainly figure and eccentric manners.

Ungenerous

The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms.

Ungentle

Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind.

That ungentle flavor which distinguishes nearly all our native and uncultivated grapes.

Unget

I 'll disown you, I 'll disinherit you, I 'll unget you.

Ungird

He ungirded his camels.

Unglue

She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise.

Ungodly

The hours of this ungodly day.

Ungraceful

The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk.

Ungracious

Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London.

Unhair

I 'll unhair thy head.

Unhallow

The vanity unhallows the virtue.

Unhallowed

In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible.

Unhand

Hold off! unhand me, gray beard loon! Eftsoons his hand dropped he.

Unhandsome

Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome.

I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe.

The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome.

A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage.

Unheard

What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard!

Nor was his name unheard or unadored.

Unheired

To leave him utterly unheired.

Unhinge

Why should I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind?

His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind.

Unhoped

Blessings of friends, which to my door Unasked, unhoped, have come.

Unhouseled

To die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled.

Unicity

Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity.

The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy.

Unicorn

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?

Unideaed

He [Bacon] received the unideaed page [Villiers] into his intimacy.

Unification

Unification with God was the final aim of the Neoplatonicians.

Uniform

The only doubt is . . . how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies.

There are many things which, a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.

Unify

A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty.

Perception is thus a unifying act.

Union

If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say “singular,” and by themselves alone.

In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.

One kingdom, joy, and union without end.

[Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his image multiplied. In unity defective; which requires Collateral love, and dearest amity.

Unique

The phenix, the unique of birds.

Unison

[sounds] intermixed with voice, Choral or unison.

Unit

Units are the integral parts of any large number.

Unite

Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul.

The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship.

Unity

Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Universal

The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws.

This universal frame began.

At which the universal host up dent A shout that tore Hell's concave.

Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason, of the universal.

Universe

How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man!

University

The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.

The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.

Univocally

How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin?

Unked

Weston is sadly unked without you.

Unkempt

My rhymes be rugged and unkempt.

Unkind

He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth.

Unking

Shall his condescension, therefore, unking him?

Unkingship

Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down.

Unkiss

Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me.

Unknit

Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow.

Unknowledged

For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent.

Unlace

What's the matter, That you unlace your reputation thus?

Unlade

The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more.

There the ship was to unlade her burden.

Unlearn

I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything.

Unless

Here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl.

Unlimited

Ascribe not unto God such an unlimited exercise of mercy as may destroy his justice.

Unliquored

Like an unliquored Silenus.

Unlock

Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.

[Lord] unlock the spell of sin.

Unlooked

She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.

Unlucky

Haunt me not with that unlucky face.

Unmake

God does not make or unmake things to try experiments.

Unman

Let's not unman each other.

Unmanned

Hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks With thy black mantle.

Unmantle

Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you.

Unmeaning

There pride sits blazoned on the unmeaning brow.

Unmeet

And all unmeet our carpet floors.

Unmonopolize

Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry.

Unnapped

I did not attempt her with a threadbare name, Unnapped with meritorious actions.

Unnature

A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements].

So as to be rather unnature, after all, than nature.

Unnerve

Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls.

Unnun

Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves.

Unpaired

And minds unpaired had better think alone.

Unparagoned

Your unparagoned mistress is dead.

Unparalleled

The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle.

Unpope

Rome will never so far unpope herself as to part with her pretended supremacy.

Unpractical

I like him none the less for being unpractical.

Unprobably

To diminish, by the authority of wise and knowing men, things unjustly and unprobably crept in.

Unprotestantize

The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England.

Unprovide

Lest her . . . beauty unprovide my mind again.

Unquestioned

She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went.

Their unquestioned pleasures must be served.

Unready

Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast.

Unrealize

His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch.

Unreason

To unreason the equity of God's proceedings.

Unreliable

Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) “unreliable;” or perhaps, in more correct English, too “unrelyuponable.”

Unreproved

In unreproved pleasures free.

Unrest

Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast?

Unriddle

And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust.

Unright

Nor did I you never unright.

Unroll

If I make not this cheat bring out another . . . let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue!

Unroofed

Broken carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, all indicated the movements.

Unruffled

Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea.

Unruly

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Unsad

O, stormy people, unsad and ever untrue.

Unsay

You can say and unsay things at pleasure.

Unscale

[An eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.

Unscience

If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion.

Unseal

Unable to unseal his lips beyond the width of a quarter of an inch.

Unsearchable

The counsels of God are to us unsearchable.

Unseason

Why do I send this rustic madrigal, That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite?

Unseemly

An unseemly outbreak of temper.

Unshale

I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe.

Unsight

For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline.

There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do “unsight unseen.”

Unskillful

Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve.

Unsoft

Great climbers fall unsoft.

Unsorted

The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you named uncertain; the time itself unsorted.

Unspeakable

Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Unspell

Such practices as these, . . . The more judicious Israelites unspelled.

Unstate

High-battled Caesar will unstate his happiness.

Unsured

Thy now unsured assurance to the crown.

Untack

being untacked from honest cares.

Untangle

Untangle but this cruel chain.

Unteach

Experience will unteach us.

One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule.

Untented

The untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee!

Unthank

Unthank come on his head that bound him so.

Unthinking

With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case.

Unthread

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints.

Untie

Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain.

Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink.

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches.

All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.

They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.

Until

Taverners until them told the same.

He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until.

He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity.

In open prospect nothing bounds our eye, Until the earth seems joined unto the sky.

But the rest of the dead lives not again until the thousand years were finished.

Untime

A man shall not eat in untime.

Unturned

[He] left unturned no stone To make my guilt appear, and hide his own.

Untwine

It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old.

Untwist

If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist.

Unused

Unused to bend, impatient of control.

Unutterable

Sighed and looked unutterable things.

Unvalued

The golden apples of unvalued price.

Unware

The unware woe of harm that cometh behind.

Unweld

Our old limbs move [may] well be unweld.

Unwemmed

With body clean and with unwemmed thought.

Unwilling

And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, “Keep your piece nine years.”

Unwisdom

Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute.

Unwish

Now thou hast unwished five thousand men.

Up

But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell.

But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.

Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye.

We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference.

And when the sun was up, they were scorched.

Those that were up themselves kept others low.

Helen was up -- was she?

Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword.

His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance.

Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms.

Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up.

A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate.

As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him.

Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double.

Fortune . . . led him up and down.

In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs.

They had their ups and downs of fortune.

Up-to-date

I must prefer to translate the poet in a manner more congenial if less up-to-date.

Upbear

One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God.

A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.

Upbraid

And upbraided them with their unbelief.

Vet do not Upbraid us our distress.

Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.

How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

Upclimb

Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.

Upgather

Himself he close upgathered more and more.

Upgrowth

The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy.

Upheaped

God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure.

Uphold

The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity.

Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.

Upholder

The upholder, rueful harbinger of death.

Upkeep

Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings.

Upland

Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite.

Uplandish

His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt.

Uplift

Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed.

Upon

Our host upon his stirrups stood anon.

Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar.

The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.

As I did stand my watch upon the hill.

He made a great difference between people that did rebel upon wantonness, and them that did rebel upon want.

This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms.

Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer.

He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow.

Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence.

Uppermost

Whatever faction happens to be uppermost.

Upright

With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.

All have their ears upright.

And that man [Job] was perfect and upright.

Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.

Uprise

Uprose the virgin with the morning light.

Uprose the mystic mountain range.

Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?

Uprist

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious sun uprist.

Uproar

But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar.

Uproot

Trees uprooted left their place.

At his command the uprooted hills retired.

Uprun

The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun.

[A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood.

Upsend

As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven.

Upset

After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan.

Upshot

I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot.

We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence.

Upside

These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.

Upsitting

To invite your lady's upsitting.

Upsodown

In man's sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown.

Upstand

At once upstood the monarch, and upstood The wise Ulysses.

Upstroke

Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega.

Uptill

She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast uptill a thorn.

Upturn

So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air.

Upward

Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.

Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish.

From twenty years old and upward.

I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years.

From the extremest upward of thy head.

Uranic

On I know not what telluric or uranic principles.

Urbanity

The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country.

Raillery in the sauce of civil entertainment; and without some such tincture of urbanity, good humor falters.

Urchin

And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.

You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband?

Ure

Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure That lies in us.

The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms.

Urge

Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.

My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.

Urge not my father's anger.

Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

Urgent

Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.

The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.

Urim

Thou shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim.

And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Urn

A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once more join us in the pious urn.

Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

When horror universal shall descend, And heaven's dark concave urn all human race.

Us

Give us this day our daily bread.

Usage

My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty.

A gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crew In courteous usage.

It has now been, during many years, the grave and decorous usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence, all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which are uttered from the throne.

In eld [old age] is both wisdom and usage.

Use

Books can never teach the use of books.

This Davy serves you for good uses.

When he framed All things to man's delightful use.

God made two great lights, great for their use To man.

'T is use alone that sanctifies expense.

Let later age that noble use envy.

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!

O Caesar! these things are beyond all use.

From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use.

Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.

Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs.

Some other means I have which may be used.

How wouldst thou use me now?

Cato has used me ill.

Use hospitality one to another.

I am so used in the fire to blow.

Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.

I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all.

To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy.

They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone.

Fears use to be represented in an imaginary.

Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room.

Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp.

He useth every day to a merchant's house.

Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks.

Useful

To what can I useful!

Useless

Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous.

Useless are all words Till you have writ “performance” with your swords. The other is for waiving.

Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless.

Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many.

Usher

These are the ushers of Marcius.

The stars that usher evening rose.

The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author.

Usquebaugh

The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh.

Ustulation

It is not certain that they took the better part when they chose ustulation before marriage, expressly against the apostle.

Usual

Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times.

We can make friends of these usual enemies.

Usufructuary

The ordinary graces bequeathed by Christ to his church, as the usufructuary property of all its members.

Usure

I usured not ne to me usured any man.

Foul usure and lucre of villainy.

Usurer

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

He was wont to call me usurer.

Usurp

Alack, thou dost usurp authority.

Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable.

The parish churches on which the Presbyterians and fanatics had usurped.

And now the Spirits of the Mind Are busy with poor Peter Bell; Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping, with a prevalence More terrible than magic spell.

Usurpation

He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him.

A law [of a State] which is a usurpation upon the general government.

Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States.

Usurper

A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.

Usury

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury.

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of is own.

Usury . . . bringeth the treasure of a realm or state into a few nds.

Utas

The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned.

Utensil

Wagons fraught with utensils of war.

Uterine

Walter Pope, uterine brother to Dr. Joh. Wilki.

Utilitarian

The utilitarians are for merging all the particular virtues into one, and would substitute in their place the greatest usefulness, as the alone principle to which every question respecting the morality of actions should be referred.

But what is a utilitarian? Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not?

Utility

The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless.

Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other.

Utilize

In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons.

Utmost

We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.

Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath.

He shall answer . . . to his utmost peril.

Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.

We have tried the utmost of our friends.

Utter

As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

The very utter part of Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich.

They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

How bragly [proudly] it begins to bud, And utter his tender head.

Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them.

They bring it home, and utter it commonly by the name of Newfoundland fish.

The whole kingdom should continue in a firm resolution never to receive or utter this fatal coin.

The words I utter Let none think flattery, for they 'll find 'em truth.

And the last words he uttered called me cruel.

Utterance

At length gave utterance to these words.

They . . . began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

O, how unlike To that large utterance of the early gods!

Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our men to skirmish one against another to the utterance.

Utterest

To the utterest proof of her courage.

Utterless

A clamoring debate of utterless things.

Uttermost

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.

He cannot have sufficient honor done unto him; but the uttermost we can do, we must.

Uxorial

The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment.

Uxorious

How wouldst thou insult, When I must live uxorious to thy will In perfect thraldom!