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DICTIONAEY OF ENGLISH
PHRASES, QUOTATIONS,
PROVERBS AND MAXIMS
With xact Chinese Translations

BY

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FIRST EDITION

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 DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH
PHRASES, QUOTATIONS,
PEOVEEBS AND MAXIMS
WITH EXACT CHINESE TRANSLATIONS
PART I.

ENGLISH PHEASES

A Abashed at discovery, to be K
Abactus venter
Abacus major, an
; before the king, to be

Abaft the beam

()
? ^! i , in the presence of superior
Abadden goodness or wisdom, to be -
Abandon a habit, to
,, an office, Abate a nuisance, to
,, a purpose, to a tax, to
„ a vife to in fury, to
hope, to in rigor, to M/JJ
, one's designs, to „ one's pride, to
oneself, to Abated arms
, one's property, to pride
,
„ one's riffht or privilege, to Abatement of penalty by degrees

society, to ^ on account of voluntary de-

(
^
, nunciation
Abandoned hope of penalty by legal ex-
"
(
( (
to one's fate cuses
*
Abandon fait larron of the fever
Ab antique Abbey-church
A.bandonment of ship
A.barfe a mountain, to
()
^ Abbay-laird
;
^
Abbey-lubber
, oneself, to Abbot of misrule
" U"' prou.l, to
 U

(2) Abound

Abbot of unreason
Abbreviate a phrase, to
( Ability for or in some work

((
life, to ,, to drink
Abbreviated character, an Ab incunabilis )

( %
,, expression, an Ab initio
,
A.B.C. Code
visit, an
A.B.c. ?51
Ab
Abit
Ab
intra (tfcTj

irato ( )

,, book Abject fear

„ nations „ submission
,,

Abderitan
process, the

laughter
„
[ ,,

Abjure
word, an fg
errors, to
heresy, to
Abdicate a throne, to the realm, to «R
Abdicated queen, an Abjured ambition
,, opinion, an Able speech, an
Abdominal ring, the to endure pain, to be ifit

Abet a crime, to own story, to be

to tell

$
its
,, an Ul-doer, to

(^
ii
a riot, to " strategist, an
,, vice, to Abnegate God, to

( ^(
Ah extra ,, the idea of freedom, tojS
^> hoc et ab hoc et ab ilia E
Ab hodierno Abnegation of self
Abhor a traitor, to Abnormal appetite iF-

,, cruelty, to mental development

Abhorred thraldom
Abhorrence of ingratitude ,, mind
,, of treason ,,
talent

by a contract, to
;
Abhorrent to one's feelings
Abide by, to
^! Abolish old customs, to

Abominable
,,
slavery, to
affair, an
f(

by a decision, to lie, an

by a person, to Abominably perverse

by a statement, to
by one's opinion, to ;
Abomination of desolation, an

(
"pTJR

(?
by one's word, to A boa chat, ban rat )

in or at, to
in sin, to
in virtue, to
;;
T A bon droit
A bon march'
( ;( IT

( r)H
(

one's time, to j& or/^'ntf

the consequences, to Abort fever, to
Abortive designs or schemes
"

Abigail,
with a person, to
Abiding romance, an
an ^ Abound in or with, to %\ Hi ^
 ^ ® H i^ ^
5

Abound ( 3 ) Absoftttt

Abound
„
in fish, to
in one's own
,
sense, to
Above-cited; above-named; above-
mentioned; above-said

(T)
with errors, to ^ Ab ovo usque ud mala
; ft

^(
„ with productions, to Abracadabra
Abraham-man
Abounding happiness #
About a ship, to (
() ;
Abraham's bosom

,
"
East
face
it
(
and about it
A bras ouverts
Abreast of
Abridge a history, to
; )

, one " a man of his rights, to

one's business, to be
, one's ear , labor, to
„ one's person
the ear
i ; Abridged from tl" original work,
to be
,
„ the size " statement
*
,
,,
to, to be
to die, to be
Abroad students
Abrogate a custom, to ^
Ab ovo
Above all
(;
to go, to be Abrogated law
Abrogative la w
Abrupt departure
„ all means ,, movement jt^ii
„ all praise „ slope

;;;
„ apprehension ,, style
-board „ thunder

^( ;
,,

,, ground „ transition
measure Absalom, an
,
, one's bend ( Absence d'espirit

,
one's
one's
one's
breath
capacity
desert
Absence of mind il
Absent air, an
friend, an
^;
„ one's head
hook
, from school
;^
^
one's oneself, to
par () (
Absente reo

(^
,
, price Absent-minded [;

^
-stairs Absit ravida )
snch meanness, to be Absolute acceptance ()

^;±
,, alcohol
h
W 9,
the mark authority
the rest , autocrat
the salt

^
'
„ beauty
water being
, work, to be duty
Alisolate ( 4 ) Accept

Absolute impossibility „ words

,, knowledge Absurdly dangerous R0( [

, monarchy Abundance of animal spirits

Abundans cautela non nocet (T)
, ownership
,,
promise Abundant crop
,, refusal
space ( )
„
,opportunity
in resources ifi

(
,,

,,
temperature ,, reason
,unit *g Ab tmo disce omnes )

,, veto Abuse a maiden, to

„ zero „ inherited wealth, tojg
Absolutely irrevocable „ one,s authority, to
Absolve an offender, to
Absolvi
Absorb heat,
animam wean
to
( :^ ,,

"
,,
one's confidence, to
one's health, to
prisoners, to &
,, moisture from the air, to Abusive book, an
* „ epithet
Absorbed in study, to be " government, an

Absorbent cotton
reverie
& ,,

„
language, an
treatment
fg

Absquatulate, to ({|)
Absque argmto omnia vana ( )
Abut on or upon, to
Abyss of time

,,
hoc ( ( )
Abuteinent arch or pier
A cader va chi troppo alto salo ()
,,

;
uZZa co/idWo/ie )

( ; ^^
Abstain from, to Academic courses
from fornication, to , department
"
,,
from gambling, to
from smoking, to
from wine, to
@ Academy
jcaritKre
figure

A causa persa, parole avsai ^

()
Abstemious diet, an
life, an Accede to one's request, to
Abstinence from wiue to the terms, to
Abstract occurrenci of several of- „ to the throne, to
fences () Accelerate a journey, to
,, idea " the growth of a plant, to
,, of title ()
,, science ,, the progress of know-
terms, or words
,, ledge, to
Abstruse doctrine , the >:'t.ni oi education,
reasoning
,,

Absurd dream, an
opinion, an i "
to
Accept a draft, t
a giit, to
) (
,,
 II

Accept ( 5 )

Accept of a favor, to
service () Acclamation medals
virtue ;
Accord due praise to one, to B
(
,
) ;
the person or facs of, to
" with reason, to
;
Acceptable

Acceptance of persons
Access of fever
„
gift,

of Parliament
an
to a person
^ ||
Accordant with, or to
According as

„
„
to
;;
;;
to all accounts
to circumstances
„

,
of wealth
to a person
to a place p ^^
„
„
to cocker
to custom
to Hoyle
; [

Accessible mountain, an
,, person, an
,
„
to one's duty
to one's wishes ^
pleasure
Accession of territory ^* „ to order
to reasonable expecta-
„ to the throne
Accessorial guilt [
((
tion
Account current (
„ after the fact
before the fact
for, to
of, to
Accountable for
;
A certain Smith
Accessory contract, an
,, fruit (
, to ;
mineral Accredited agent
" with power, to be
Accidental conflagration
lapse
^<

Accommodate a friend with a loan,

Accruing
Accueil (;to
)

Accurate in calculations
n

to Accursed enemy
" differences, to Accused of a crime by a person, to
, oneself to, to be
Accusing conscience
,with, to , glance
"with lodgicgs, to Accustomed to speaking &
() #
Accommodation bill, or note
;
" coach
Accumulate merits, to

Accumulation
riches, to ^—
of degress
ladder Aceldama

Accompanied by
train ^ Acerta errando
Acervatim (
T)
()
[

Accomplice with a person in some

crime
JLccomplished scholar #^ldb
Achan, an
Achates
Acheron
((#
Aeneas 5

Sol Terra ,
 ^ £ & )

Aclierusia ( ^ ) Act

. Jupiter of a debt, to

( ;
of a promise, to
Acherusia Pal us oneself from blame, to MM
cheval
Achieve
"
AchHlefi
a great victory, to

(
one's object, to
Troy
"
;oneself toward a person

Acquittance from a crime

to

from a debt

Achilles' heel
,
an

spear
Acquitted of
Acribus initiis, incurioso fine (
Aching almanac, an
, void, an
Acrid controversy
,, speech ;
, wish

(
Achitophel, an
[ , taste
temper ;
Acis ^SiciJy
Galatea, Polyphemus
Acrimonious language
, warfare
Across country
^
Ack pirate, an ,, lots
Acknowledge a

,,
deed, fo

a favor, to ; A cruce
the sea
solus (#;
Act according to circumstances, to
an error, to
„
"
"
the corn, to (
the receipt of a letter,
according to orders, to
again st conscience, to
Ifij

Acompte
to
(( )
a good part, to
a part in a play, to ^ SP"
A coup
A convert (
mr

Acmonian Wood, the

as, to
as secretary, to
for another, to
|£
Acquainted with, to be in confusion, to
Acquiesce in a government, to of a play, an ;^
, in an opinion, to
of bequest,
of God ; an

Acqua To/ana
Acquire currency, to
(
in a proposal, to

; |g
of
of
government
Grace
of legislature
,, great fame, to of oblivion
„ knowledge, to # on, to
„ people's contidence, to
wealth, to
Acquired timidity
[
on another's advice, tiK|^
on, or from principle, to
one's part, to
^
Acquit a prisoner, to ^QJ on the stage, to
„ & responsibility, to the buffoon, to
 B

Act ( 1 ) kiimi
Act the hypocrite, to
the part of, to [ „ eyesight
;
the part of an umpire, to , observer, an •

the spy, to " pain

upon, to
up
up
to, to;
to one's duty, to
Acutely conscious
Adam
Adam's
Bell,
ale
an

up
Actseon, an ;' (
to one's promise, to

Acti labores jucundi ) IUJ

„
apple
arms
profession ; ft
,, sin
Acting appointment, an Adamantine chain, an
m
^
, secretary , rigidity
Action in war, an Adapted or to
for,
„ of debt, an
Actionnaire (; ()
"
for use
to one's tastes !^
Active capital
„ child, an
Adaptive wit
Ad arbitrium
((;
„
„
,,
commerce
demand for corn
laws
[ d sm
Ad dato
a
Ad aviaandum
) ( (; )

,
,,

,,
man

service
in business,
remedy, an
;
an
[
A day after
Ad captandum vulgus
;( the fair B
)t^3j^
„ statesman, an & Add a son to a family, to
volcano, an fuel to the flame, to A jta
wealth
Actively zealous
to, to
to
;
one's
grief, to
Actual cost of goods to the price, to
, existence sin to sin, to
, situation of the country, the up a sum, to

state of affairs
Addicted to, tobe ;
to gain and pleasure, to
,,

Actualized ideals be
Actuated by avarice, to be , to sensuality, to be
„ by love for riches, to bef^ ,, wine, or drinking, to
to
be
" by mercenary views, to be Additional happiness
, tax
" by virtuous sentiments, to Addle-brained; addle-headed; addl-
be
A f-uspide corona
Acute author, an
( ) '
ed-pated
Address a letter, to
,
v

[
a superior in writing, to |j[
•

disease, an " in one's presence, to

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ress ( 8 ) Admonitofl

Address oneself to, to

. , oneself to anotner, to
-a*
;; Adjudication of disappearance ()
Adjust a debt, to
" oneself to a task, to ,, a difficulty, to
,. oneself to learning, to , errors, to IE
the chair, to i „ the hair, to
Adduce
A
Adept
demi (;
in
proofs, to
)
,
Ad libitum
Administer an oath, to
(;
the price, to
)

in art " medicine, to

" in philosophy, an " relief, to
Adequacy of income to the expen- „ the laws of a country,
diture to
Adequate cognition time, to [

"
,, ;; compensation
to
to one's pleasure, to
„
to the poor, to
"
Administration with the will an-
„
„
to an undertaking
to the o ce nexed (@ iS
A dessein
A deux mains
) (^
(
( ) Administrative jurisdiction JS
Ad
Adfinem
extremum
(( ) organ
Administrator of an estate, the
[
()
Ad guslum
Ad hoc
Ad here to
( )

correct principle, to ' Admirable reserve

Admire at, to
" to custom, to " with approbation, to
,, to justice, to Admissible evidence
,, to one's declaration, to " into a place

Adhuc
" to petty formalities, to
mb judice lis est ( ^ Admission of an argument not
fully proved 18
Admit a student into a school, to*
() )

A
Ad
die
infinitum ((; [

by ticket, to
Ad
Ad
inquirendum
indar ) ( ) ,, no evil thoughts into the
mind, to
§^
Ad interim
Ad interiiecioiie/n
Adjacent country
() ( ) ,,

,,

Ad modum
of no doubt, to
one's guilt, to

I,. „ to Admonish of a fault, to

Adjective color „ one against evil prac-
Adjoining house tices, to
Ad j jam to another day, to „ one for misconduct, to
Adjudge a case, to
Adjudged to death, to be Adinonitory gesture j£>
 )

Ad nauseam 1 9 )

Ad nauseam
Ad ogai uccdlo
( il suo nido ebello ()
-money
Advanced sheets PI

Advancement in life
Adolescent youth Advancing years
Adonis ( Venus Advantage of birth
Proserpine

Ifil . Venus ;
Advantacreouslv situated, to be.

Adventious way
•

Adonis garden, an Adventurous mind

Adopt an idea, to Adverse current
" foreign costume, to
Adopted son, an
Adorable vanity
; "

,
experience
possession
wind
(
Adore by kneeling, to Adversely to one's interests
"
Adorn
„
by prostration, to
one's countenance, to
one's person, to
Advise with, to ;
with one's pillow, to
" one's person with virtue, to Advised on, to be ^

( ;( ;(
Adorned with [ Advocate for peace, an
Ad referendum Advocatus disaboU
M rem )

Ad
)

respondendum quaestioni ( ^ger, an

^geus ( ) ^gean

(
Adroit tiatterer ^gis ( .
Jupiter
Adroite
Adulated stranger
Minerva
.(
„
^
Adulterate gold with copper, to

wine, to
jEgrdscit
Pallas

vEgrotat, an
medendo

;(
Adultery from mutual attraction ^Elia Lselia
^Eolian harp, an
Ad valorem
Advance lor assault, to
in knowledge, to
jEneas (
^Ernonian arts, the

Venus
) Troy , Anchisea
Virgil
,,

^:
*^»4Pftl'Dffice, to
,,

,,
in price, to
in years, to
Mollis
^Eous (( neid
)R

,,

,
„
one's interest, to
one's opinion, to
money, to ^:
Aerial navigation
^sculapius ( |[1 Apollo

Hippolytus,

«(
,,
upon a contract Jupiter
„ upon an enemy mhiopem laiare

„ -guard (
 10 Afalflit
( )

^thon
A fair field
( and no
favor
Affluence oi young men, an
-.

lffj

Affably accommodating
A faire du
Affair of
cceur
honor
( li|
Amueiit language
Afflux of blood to the head

Afford assistance in urgent circum-

Affect integrity, to
stances, to
something in its vital parts,
,

„
„
to
the
the
crown, to II
heart, to
„ it, to
relief, to
;
consolation, to

Affront death, to
,, the
the
Affected indifference
style, an
ignorance
olfactories, to
@
of, to
Affronted at ill- treatment, to be

A fidus Achates
,
,, with

with disease, to be
commiseration, to be Afore the mast
A fortiori
Afraid of tfr
(
;;
)

,,
, of death
with fear, to be
„ H of nothing
with gratitude, to be
„ of one's own shadow

to be ^
with painful recollections,
,
After, to be
to say

Affecting scene, an
Affection for children
" of the heart, an
^ " a fashion
all ;
, a sort
Affectionate approval
dinner
• couple, an fit ,,

remembrance
„
,
its kind
one's fancy ;
,
Affianced lady
,,

to a person

Affiche de comedie (
,,

"
one's fashion
one's heart, to be
ones kind
;
It
the cloth is removed
Affiliate with, to
Affiliated society,
Affinity
;
an
between two things
"
\\
"
the Lord has called me

of language , the manner of

,, time
Affirmative attitude
you
Affix one's name, to
Afternoon farmer
" one's seal, to
Affixed to ; Again and again
Afflicted in body, to be
, in mind, to be
with, to be
3
jf>
; Against all chances
,

,
one'swill^^
;^
one's collar

,,

with pain, to be „ one's wishes

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Against ( 11 ) Mam
Against orders
„ the hair
Aglaia
Agree
(
to
) Venus
an offer, to ^
"
„
the laws
the rule
;&
to
with, to ;;
an opinion, to

„
"
the time
the stream
the grain ;;
Agreeable breeze
conversation
,
frankness
„
^^
A game
(
which two can play
at to the ear tfei
„
,, to the taste
Agamemnon Mycenae Agreeably to one's request
Argos Menelaus A hair's breadth
Troy A hair- breadth escape S
Aganippe
Agate, an
( Helicon "F
Ah me!
Aid and abet, to
Aide de camp, an

Age and
(
Agathocles' pot
A gauche )

fear
Aim crier, an
,,

„
at, to
at
;^
by improper means, to
„ of discretion
, at in conversation, to
,, of man , at one's destruction, to
,, the Bishops, the
of
•

high, to [
the Popes
of
Ages and climes
Aggregation resulting from repeti-
Aimless confusion
Air an opinion, to
Airy fame
^ it

tion () , music
Aggravated faults „ notions
Aggrandize oneself, to
Aggregate body
Agile tongue, an
,,

,,

"
nothings
situation,
splendor
an ^(
mind
Agitate by temptation, to Ajax (
toys
Troy
„ the mind, to
Agog on food, to be A
an
kind of
(
—; (
Agonizing appeal ^ la

( (
(;
A good deal A la bonne heure )

,,
„ hit A la mode
„ „ round sum A la mort

„ „ turn Aladdin's cave of wealth, an

A
„
„
great catch
„ deal
„ many
(( fei
.

'
Alarm by
,,
,

of
lamp
threats, to
danger of life

,,
,, way off mm of fire A
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Alarm ( 12 j All

Alarm of robbers
Alarming rapidity
Alas the day, or the time, or tho
,
„
„
amort
and some
and sundry
;
while : " as soon as
Alasnam's mirror
A lavolee ( ) g ;
,
,
at once
beer and skittle
;
Albany, or Albion
Albertine, an
Albion (
Neptime Britain
,,
but
cock-a-hoop for anything
day long
^
[
Alceste, or Alcestis
Admetus
(^ Pelias
Hercules
,,

,,
Dickey with any one |g
ear, to be
eyes, to be

Alcides
Alcinous, an
(
Hercules
,,
Fool's day
for
for the best
, hands

^
Alderman's pace [

Ale-bush, an „ his fingers are thumbs

, -Conner, an i , his swans are geese, or all his
,, -dagger, an swans are turned to geese
,, -draper, an ^;
,, -knight, an ,, hollow [
,, -silver

;
B
„
honor be
in all, to be
to
;
you

;
S
„ nrtake
,,

Alecto (
-wife, ;an
Furies
S
,,
,,
!n a pucker
in my eye and Betty Martin
;
Ales
Algerism
W !B ,,

„
in the wind
in the world ;( if
Alibi clock, an
Aliboron, an ;; ^ ,, life
manner

^
Bl „
Alike in rank ,, manner of ways
Alive and kicking ig , my eye

„
„
to, tobe
to the fact
ft
„
,,

„
of a blaze
of a heap
of a sudden
;^
with gold

—;
AU
"
,,
aboard
about ;
abroad, to be ; If
„
,,

,,
one
in one's eye
one's born days
(;
(®)—
,, agog „ over
;
„
,,

„
alone S3
along
along of
; …...
,• over with
,,

,,
over with one, to be
right #
amidst , round or Arouad BM
All ( 13 )
Alter nation

All round Allow a right, to 7|c

„ Saints' Diiy ,, a slave his liberty, to

Soul's Day
,, a sum for pledge, to
„ sting
„ talk and no cider ,, for, to
„ that [ „ that
the better
the day long ^ Allude to, to ;
All-pervading influence

the go
1
the fat being in the fire Allure by

"
m fair promises,

by riches, to
to

,
,,
the rage, to oe
there ;
Alluring idleness
Allusion to ;
,
„
there are
the same ; , to a passage in the classics

,
"
,, the
the
the
while
world ;
world and his wife
Alma mater
Almighty dollar
(
Allusive expression, an
^:

„ the world over Almond tree, the

„ the year round Alms basket
-thing Alnaschar dream, an
things considered Along of

,
things to all men
this
through
^az
,
,,

,,
shore
-side
with
(;
, times A long pull, a strong pull, and a
told
pull together
to one
Alpen stock Alps [
,,

, to smash
you have to do
( is to obey him
Alpha and Ome.^a
Alps on Alps
Alruna
— Alsatia
All's
"
one
one
Allay one's anger, to
„
for that

pain, to
Althaea's brand
Alter ego (; )
^:
Alter from bad to good, to
" one's mind or conduct, to
.sorrow, to

((
•

w :

thirst, to
'm
Alter idem )
Alleged reluctance
ipse amicus
Allegiance to a sovereign '

Allegorical vein
Alleviate pain, to
Allied to ;
Alternate one thing with another,
to
Alternation of day with night
[
 ^ g* ^ )

Alternm Amusing

Alterum. alterius auxilio eget ( A

A
mere form
merimlle (( ?
Altogether dissimilar
Alto rilievo
Altrustic ideal
()
Amaimon; Amaynioii; Amoymon
Amicable action

,,

"
•
^ arrangement
settlement of dispute ()
2
P
}?

A main armee (( Auiirus curiae ( )

Amantium irae
A ma puissance
;(#
)

)
"
,
(
usque aras (
humani
)
generis (t^CDizA.

Amaryllis, an
Amateur
Amati, an
of poetry, au
Ami de cour
Amltie
A mile or two
) (; )

Amatory effusions A miss is as good as a mile

A
"
matter
expression
of fact Ammon (
( Jupiter
, „
A maximis and
Amazing
of life

artifice
(
and death

^
m;";'ia't

[
/1

Among
hKjitle

,
the gods
the number
Amazingly wonderful
Amazon, an
Amazone ^ ^ Amorous behavior
(
A month of Sundays
Amor nummi )

g
Amazonian chin, an
Ambesas; ambes-ace; anies-ace
;
M
Amor
Amoroso
,,

(;( youth, an
pairi.v
^1
)

(
Ainbigua» in vulgum spargere voces
j
Amount
Amour propre ( to, to

(
)

Ambition for distinction Amphigouri

Ambitious project
„
,
of fame
of power
; Amphion
Antiope
Thebes mm^t
) Jupiter

Ambling pedestrian
Ambrosia
Ambrosial essence
Amphitheatre of
Amphitrite
tune
( life

) Ncp-

A mechant ohteh] court lien (i^SC) Amphitryon, an

Ame de boue
Amenable
( X)
to counsel
; Ample means
Amplitude
,,
of
ortive
range
and occiduous ^
„ to law
Amend one's way, to
Amende honorable
Amends for some
(tfault
;P^fft
Amputate the
Amuse oneself with, to
Amusement by walkiiiir
feet, to

It

A mensa et thoro (T) Amusing artlessness

story, an
 ^

Anacliarsis ( 15 ) Answer

Aiiacharsis among the Scythians ,

Angelic softness
visits ;
Anagram of a man, an Angle with a silver hook, to It
Analogous example, an Angry protestations
,, to „ with a person, or at a thing
Analytical survey
An Amu rath succeeds an Amu rath Anguished entreaty
Angular features *
An angel altogether A niche in tlie temple of fame
Anathema maran-atha
Anatomy, an ; BJilB.

An if

Ancestral worship
Anchor off a place, to
Animal courage
„ food &
„ of salvation, the
Ancient, an
,,
garb ^ ,,

Animated by
kingdom
spirits ;
of Days, the „ eloquence
Ancillary administration () nature
Animosity against a person
And all
all
;
that
Annihilate one's hope, to
the whole army, to
,,

,, Co.
, no mistake Anna Matilda, an
,, no wonder
; * Annexation to some kingdom
,,

,,

,,

,,
now
one's train
so forth
so on
that
Anno Domini (A. D. )
„ Mundi (A. M. )
Announce a victory,
Annoyed at a thing
to
^
,, the like
Andalusian eye, an " with a person for a. thing,
Andrea Fer(r)ara, an i
Andrew, an ||
A ndromache ( Ceplius Cas-
Annoying complications
Annual compliment, an
;
,
siopeia J u no Annuciator, an
ANo.l, or Al ; ^
Angerona
:( SB
)
Perseus Anodyne necklace, an

Anoymous benefactor, an
Angel of the village spire, the ,,

Another gates
placard, an [
()
Angels and ministers pair of shoes

Angel's music ^ of graces! „

,
Answer a charge,
matter, to be
ta
 *

Answer ( 16 ) Apostolic

Answer
„
for another, to
like a Norman, to
way
Anything but
;
„
,
„
the bell, or door, to
the demand, to
the purpose, to ;
"
"
in one's power
is at your service
of the kind
^
„ to, to Anzac, an New Zealand
Answerable for

(
Answering response? Apache, an
State, the ^ Arizona
Antaeus

.
) Neptune Terra
Hercules
;
A parte ante(;
Apart from
;
(( ;
Antagonistic views Ape, an
Ante bellum " carrier, an
,,
lucem )

" meridian (A.M.)

A peg
A ((; [
perindre
higher or lower
)
Antecedent facts
Anteverta )(^
Aperte de vue
Aperto vivere veto(; )

; (((
;*;; [
Anthropophagi Ape's paternoster
Antic, an A peu pres
Anticipate the evils of life, to A pezzi

" with certainty, to

^
A piac&ro
Apician food
( ;
Anticipated attention

(.
Antidote to poison
A
Apis
pied
( , )

Jupiter Niobe
Antigone CEdipus Jocastus

(; ^
Antimacassar, an
^ [
.
Apish agility
A plomb

(
Antinous, an
Antipathy against foreigners
„ to some
Antiquate the old laws, to
taste ^ Apocalypse
A
Apollo
point
(^
.
)

Jupiter Latona

Antiquated words .
Antique style
Anubis ( ; ^:
A number of tiniey
)
Belvidere, an
Apologetic explanation
Apologize to a person for a thing,
A nut to crack gg to
Anxiety for one's safety

(
Apology for some fault, an
A posse ad esse
Anxious about, or for
about the issue of battle A posteriori (
Apostate from a creed, an

A.ny and every Apostle spoon

,, more m
,i
one who Apostolic vicar
 i :

AppalleJ ( 17 ) Apt

Appalled at the prospect of death the mind, to ;

Appaling difficulties
Apparatus belli () Appoint a day, to
water, to ^
the testimony, to

Apparent significance
,, to any one
Appeal against a decision to a

"
higher court
a person of a felony, to |^
,
™"
a meeting
^^agreeraent', to
to a situation
Apportion time among various em-
ployments, to ^
^
Appreciate a friend, to

^
, to a person, to kindness, to }^
to one's pity, to
to public opinion
[ " one's motive, to
the money, to
,
, to the sword, to Apprehend a criminal, to
Appealing picture, an danger, to
Appear in one's original form, to Apprehension of danger
Apprehensive of
, in print, to
to court, to
Appease hunger, to
: ilj
Apprise of a
Approach a
fact, to
sage, to
death, to •
,
one's wrath, to
the passions, to
,^ Ij
,
the age of manhood, to

Appelles, an „ the wicked, to

Append to the girdle or dress, to ^!
Appertain to, to ; ^
Applause of one's heart, the ^[ [
Appropriate a name, to
• a thing to oneself, to

Apple of discord " to one's own use, to &.

; ;
, off another tree
,, of one's eye, the li
, -monger i|
; Appropriated
Approve of, to
to, to be

,
"
-pie order
squire, an
of Sodom
^ ,,

Approving smile, an
April squire, an
one's eyes, to

^ 5
Applicable to
Application for an office, an ;[ A prima vista
A priori ( (
to study
; Apron-man, an
(;
XK

((
Apply colors, to A propos )
, for, to ;
ointment, to
,, de bottes
,, ,, de rein )

" oneself, to ^: Apt remark, an

,
,,
one's strength, to
the ear, to
, scholar, an #
to
,, the hand to the breast, to ,, to get angry
,, wit
Aptitude ( 13 ) Armed

Aptitude for mathematics Argent comptant

„ fait tout (( )

Aqua
vit«
regia

Aguiln non capit muscas (

Argonaut, an
Argosy, an
Argue down,
;
to

(
)

^; „ with a person, to
Aquiline nose, an
^guoi bon'i
Arab, an
) ( Argumentum ad crumenam

" ad populum ( )
)

Arabian lawgiver, the

(;
; ;;
" i>ocw"'nwm

Arachne, an
bird, the
Arachne Argus ( .
,^ Mercury
Arister
Lydia
;
(;
Minerva ,, an
Arachne's art „ -eyed
,, labors Ariadne Minos
Arbitrate between two persons, to Theseus,
. Theseus
Arbitrary judgment Bacchus
( ,
Arbor Day
Arcadia ;; Arion IS) Methymna

Arcadian; arcadic
,, nightingales .
;
,
Arcana (( youth, an

imperii
)
Arise from, to
Aristseus (H^%) Apollo
Aristides, an
Gyrene
[.
,,

Arc-en-ciel
Arch Fiend, the
( )

Aristippus, an
Ariston metron
A
(
A
, look, an
rebours
2 recubons
((;; )

)
Aristotle of the
tury, het
Nineteenth Cen-
George
Leopold, Baron de Cuvier
Ardent courage
,
,,
;
effort
iove
Arkansas tooth-pick, an
Arm
"
in arm
of flesh, an ;
„ spirite ,, of the law
Ardor of life Armada, an
Arena of life
Armageddon, an
of war Armed at all points
,, force
Areopagus
man, the
Arethusa ( Diana
,,

,,
neutrality

A rez d$ chau»see ( ,,

••
ship
Soldier of Democracy, the^
 i |
{ T

Armed ( 19 )

words

#;
"
Armed to the teeth Article an apprentice to a mech-
" with patience anic, to
A rouse one's anger, to Articles of impeachment
"
„
,,
the age, the
to action, to
;
oneself to action, to

; [ ,
"
of war
of trade

Articulate contract, an {
r.
^ ty^ to seU-consideration Artificial flowers
,, tears
Arraigned for high treason Artinm magister (& )

Arrange a difficulty, to ; -Artless mind, an

Artillery park
"
Arrant ki ave, an
Arrectia auribus
in a series to

((
,,

Arts of design
of life
train
;
Arrest of judgment As a general thing
the attention > [ " a matter of fact
the eye, to
Arrayed against the enem ' " a rule ;
" any schoolboy will tell

,[
you

, in fine linen
Arriere pensee
Arrival at the
( )

summit of one's de-

" anything goes
" as ever
( '
• adjective) as anything can be

Arrive
"
sires, the
at, or in, to
at a conclusion, to
;; " a system
, becomes one
;;
, at by practice, to „ being
" at one's estate, to „ best one can
" ut perfection, to broad as long
„ at puberty, to , certain as if I have seen it

„ at the same end by different

means
or roads, to , concerning
at the truth, to
" „ fair as
Arrogance of opinion , far as
A rro^ate a name or titie, to far as anything goes
„ to oneself honor, to^^;^ follows

Ar^ ( for
" good as ;
;^
est eelare art

lonqa vita brevis

} ( , good as
good as
a play
done

Art and part

Artful dodge
lili

( -
„ good as
, good as
" if ;
gold
one's word;
manners , if by magic
woman, to 15
" j
,, ill befalls
 * $

As ( 20 ) Ascertain

As ill luck would have

,, is most likely

,, is natural
; it sound as roach
such

,, is the case , sure as you stand here

,, it happens , the case may be
„ it may be , the crow flies
,, it may chance, happen, or turn , the day is long
out , the moon obeys Aganice
,
"
it
it \t
seems
ere
Aganice (
„ its kind in
„ large as life
, life declines
,, the

, the
,, the
matter stands
sands on the seashore
saying is
i ^
lief ,, the stork flies
„
" like as two peas g§ „ the story goes, or runs
„ little as may be ,, the wind blows
„ long again ^ .
, the world goes or wags g
„ luck would have it
, many „ things are It
,, might have been expected ,, things go

,, much „ this is the case ^OtaA

„
„
,,
much again
much as to
much as to say
" to ;
though

, usual im^
„ old as I am
„ old boots
„ on a time
; , well
,, well as '; ;
„ which of us has not
,, one goes , who should say
, one is instructed yet
„ one
,,
man
one ought to be
one pleases Bl
—
;
; „
lie on it
you value your lives
;
you make your bed you must

• one said
Ascend a carriage, to
,,one thinks proper a mountain, to ^
" one would |^) , a throne
plain as the nose on one's face ,, from modern to ancient

pretty as they make them ,,

times
heaven
to
ft

;
,,
quick as thought
, regards, or respects
,,seems good to oneself
; Ascendency over a person

Ascertain by measurement, to
, snug as a bug in a rug , the circumstances, to
, soon as
 ( 21 j A!

Ascertain the truth, to Associate in crime, an

Ascribe a crime to one, to " oneself, to
Ashamed of oneself , with, to
, of one's stupidity, to be " with men of good char-
acter, to
" of paor clothes, to be Associated press
Association of ideas
**
„ on account of any one, to Assume credit to oneself, to

;—
be , great airs, to
A sheet of water
Aside from „ merit, to
A sight , power, to
Ask advice, to precedance, to
, after a person, to " the form of man, to
,, a person for a thing, to
,, a thing from a person, to Assumption ot sternness
Assured of final salvation, to be
" leave, to
,, one's pardon, to Assyrian queen, the Venus
" one to dinner, to
Aspect of affairs * A stand of arms
of grandeur
Aspiration after virtue
Aspire after fame, to
I
A stitch of work
A stone's throw
Astonish the Browns, to
—
, to the throne, to ,, the world, to 1^
Assail a city, to Astonished at, to be
w ,. an enemy, to Astonishing to a person
;
,
Assay
with words, to
silver, to ; Astraea (
A storm brewing 3|;

Assemble

"
at court, to
Assent to a petition, to
in the affirmative, to I
I
A sun
At a blow
„ a bound
; — 5g

,
"
Assert one's claim, to
one's right, to
;
^
to one's request, to
#
ij
\

I
, a
„ a
" a
clap
dead lift,

dead set,
to be
to be .
Assessed at $ 100 a year I „ a disadvantage, to be ®
,, a discount
Assiduous in application , a distance *
, in study
Assign a cause, to
a false cause, to
!

j
"a draught
„ a leap
all^rB
—
falsa judgment, lo " all events
Assist in doing evil, to j
all hazards or risk
Assistance to the poor jjjjf i ,, a loss, to be
At ( 22 )
At

At a loss how to act, t be first and last

„ a loss to know, to be
a low ebb, to be
" a moment's notice
;^ first
first
hand
sight
tisty cuffs, to be
, anchor fits and intervals jk;

, and beyond
, an end, to be
, another's expense
^ full-W
full
full sea
length
;
any hand fullspeed
„ any rate grade Sft

„ any cost
grips with
„ any time
,,

,,

"
a pinch
a premium
arm's length
heart ;^
hand; near at hand

his best 4

„ a snail's gallop hollow distance

,,

„
„
a stand, to be
a standstill
a stretch —;
# home
home, an
home on, or in any subject, to be
,, a stroke ;
—; ,

"
a time
a swoop
a venture
— home to any
home with a
people, to be
person, to be IS;

a white heat inches

bay
„ best
;
I

issue ;;
intervals

i; ^
bottom it, to be

breakfast its height

( ;
,
call
command
„ cost
larg^
last : ^;
ft

law, to be |2
•, court least; atthe least
" cross purpoKo, to
,,

,
daggers drawn
dawn
b»'
eisure
ength
;;
least needless

;
,, daybreak
, death's door
, dinner
; liberty

;
loggerheads, to he
loose ends
||

, discretion
ease
lurch (
market, to be
iffi

,, Easter price meal

,,every turn
„ fault, to be
tirst, or at the
;
first |y
midnight
nioint'iit's
most.; at
notice
the most
 g ^ j

At ( 23 ) ki

At no hand regular intervals

;;
noon right angles
,
;.
,, no periul roost
„ no rate school
, no time sea g
, odds second hand
„ odd hours short
„ odds with morning short words
,, once sight
,, one, te be —; sixes and sevens
,, one's best
,, one's discretion, to be stated periods

,, one's disposal
,

,
supper
sword's points, to be ;[
,, one's earliest convenience ,

,
table
that ;;
;;
„ one's ease , the back of
, one's elbow ' the beginning
,, one's expense , the best
„ one's feet , the best part cf one's life
,, one's heel

,, one's leisure
,

,
the
the
bottom
bottom of anything, to be
[
,, one's own risk ;
the bottom of Fortune's wheel
„ one's peril
• one's pleasure
,, one's post, to be

,, one's request
^^ the bottom of the sea
the breast
,, one's service, to be
„ one's skirts
,, one stroke ;
* A^( the close of life
the close of the day
the close of the year
;
one's wit's end
one swoop
, one's word
the cold steel
the disposal of, to Jbe
the door
the elbow
^
„ pains to do a thing, to be.
the eleventh hour
,,
parting hour the end of one's means
, pawn
, peace
,,
play
; the end of one's rope, to be

the end of one's tether

the expense of another
pleasure
,,
the first blush
the foot of the gallows
,,
quiet
M random ^ ;^ the foot of the hill
tlxe £uU
 ^ ^

At ( 24 ) Attend

At the Ate
front, to
the hand of, to be
be
A tempo ( (
A ^po giusto
the hea l of the poll f

(
^ teneris annis
„ the
the
the
heels of
instance of
last cast, to
;be
Athenian bee, the
Plato
Athirst after virtue
, the
„ the
last gasp
mercy
^ of, to be
Athletic games or sport's
Athwart the path ;
„ the
„ the outset
„ the pinch
most ,

Atlas (
the ship's course
A thousand of brick
Mauretania
(^
, the plague, to be H Perseus
,, the point of ; Atmosphere of obscurity M
,
„ the point of the bayonet

„ the point of the sword. @

Atone for a crime by meritorious
actions, to
;
,,the pressing instances
„ the sacrifice of another
Atonement
A tort et a travel s(;
for sin
SL;
„ the same time
„ the side of
the sudden ;
;; Atramentous spots
Atrocious deeds
Attach importance to, to
;
„ the tail of Attached to a friend, to be ^-S^tC
„ the thought that ; Attachment to a person or thing
„ the top of one's lungs
„ the top of one's speed
Attack on both

^
„ the top of one's voice sides, to

„ the top of the scale one's reputation, to

,
I the top of the tree Attacked by fever, to be
;
;^ ;
,, the worst
Attain one's eud, to tJ

* the threshold ,, to perfection, to

I times ,, to superiority, to

;;
, top speed Attainment cf knowledge by study
„ unawares
,, variance
Attemper rigid justice with cle-
" variance with mency, to
,,

, will :
war with, to be Attemper the strings of a lyre, to|Q

Attempt by means, to ^&

" work
A tatona
Atalanta
(( Scyros ,^ „
all
the eueiny'a camp,

upon a name, to
to

Attend a funeral, to
A% HippofaoBds
 g n ^

Attend ( 25 ) Awa^
Attend the sick, to
" to one's duty, to Authentic documents
Attendance on a person " history
Attendant at a meeting, an
Attending physician or surgeon
Aiithentiate by the affixing
seal, to
Authority for saying or doing
^ cf the

Attention to one's business

,, to study of maimer
Attentive to business, to be " over a person
Attic salt
Attitude of mind
.
Authorize to act for, to
Autummus ( )

Attract admirers, to
„
„
all hearts, to
notice, to
Avail
Auxiliary force, an
little, to
much, to
;
;
&;
,, one's eyes, to nothing, to
,, universal attention, to , of an experienced hand, to

g .

Attraction to or towards a thing " of violence, to

,, oneself of the opportunity, to
Attractive eyes
, to the eyes
Attribute to, to
, to
;
bad management, to
Avalanche of scorn
Avenues of dissemination
Average bond ^
duration of life, the
„ to oneself, to
Attune the voice to a harp, to , man, the

Au bon droit
Audacious cruelty
( Averse to
to food, tj be
to work
,, traitor Avert a blow, to
Audible voice, an calamity, to
Augustan age, the A vinculo matrimoni (&)
Auricular confession Avoid calamity, to
„ evidence „ expanses, to
, finger " one's creditors, to
„ tradition „ the hot weather, to
Auspicious day, an
,,
gales
omen, an
A
"
volonte
Awake to, to be
(
trouble, to
)

Aurora
„
„
( years

australis
Awake li from sin and
„ gratitude, to
the age, to ;
repent, to
[
Aat Caesar aut nullus ( i
Awakening words
Aware of
 U

Aware ( 26 ) Badger

Aware of one's intentions -stairs intiuence

Away from home, to be
, from school tho field, to
with!
„
Awkward
with one
gait, an
the oars, to
the sails, to
(^
;
" situation, an to back
Ay me!
Azure heaven, an Backbone
Backfish, a
up, to
;; ;
Backward blessing
B ,, steps
Baal a , students
Babel, a " years
Babel of tongues
Babies in the eyes
Babu; Baboo
Bactrian camel
Bad bargain, a
blood
It
;i-
;
;'
by nature
Babylon, a " cess to one

Bacchantes
Bacchus 5
(,
Babylonian numbers

(.
) Bacchus

Jupiter Se-
"

"
cold, a
company,
conscience
to be

debts mm
;^
mele
,,

Bachelor's fare
fruit " disease
effluvia
egg, a
;;
()
Back, to
,
"
an anchor, to
and belly
( I
,
"
feeling
for the eye ^
form
,
., and edge
and fill, to ( „
habits
harvest, a
, astern, to
a warrant, to
(( ,
iiat
in quality
job
„

„
-door
down, to
-Wend, a
; "
„
,,
neighborhood, a
omen
outlook, a

"
-hander, a
one's wishes, to
„
,,
shot
speculation, a ;
„ out or down, to
;
; ,, taste
times ^ [
^
out, to „ fi

out of, to tongue

, -rag (rack) Badger State, the ^HWiriconmn
 m ^ )

Badiniflton ( 2? are

Ridmiuton ;/ jj Bamboozle, to
B. and S.
(
Badly defeated, to be Ban of exclusion

Baffling
off
wind
;(
hurt, or wounded, to be Banal
Bandy words, to
Bang a gun, to
Bag and baggage the bush, to
,
-up ,
, game, to Banish bad thoughts, to
the enemy, to " malign spirits, to
Bagman, a

^
Banjo, a
Bag-of-bones, a
Bagatella, a (mere)
Baggage, a
;; Bank a fire, to

„
an estate, to
on one's honesty, to ()
Bail a boat, to
, one's own boat, to ( Banner of the rampant unicorn

up, to
Banting system
Bait one's horses, to , Banyan (Banian) days
Baiting-stock, a
Bajulus
Baker's dozen
^ Bapta
Baptism of fire
( hospitals

Balance accounts, to Bar a person from action, to

" in one's choice, to
,, entrance, to itA
" of power
, from, to
" of trade () of the public opinion, the

,
"
Balaam's
reasons, to
sheet, a
ass, a
; ,,

,,
out, to
progress, to
sinister, the
blessing, a
Barabas, a
Bald head, a ^gpj Barathron; Barathrum
spot, a
Bale out the sea, to
^^
Barbadoes-leg
Barbecue, a ;;
Baleful train
influence fi
Ball off, to
Bare, arms

»
as one's nail, as
in one's guilt
—
.,, in purse
()
,, up, to
Ball-and-socket joint
Balloon frame
,,

,,

„
living, a
of money
of grass
;
Balls or three golden balls poles
,,

Balmy I , the bo»oni, Ij 3^jf%

 S 4

6ar6 ( 28 )

Basking in sunshine
Bare the head, to
„ walls
„ words
^
^ Baste a person's jacket, to
" one's bacon, to
Barefaced treason
Bargain for a house, to
" money
ffii

I
Bastille, a
Bastinado
Bat on the head a
^ (
Bark and
,, at the
flee,
moon,
to
(; to
, -fowling
Bate an ace, to
" one's breath, to
;
one's heels, to

; (
,, " the wings, to
,, up the wrong tree, to Bathed in blood, to be
Batrachomyomchia
Barker, a Batten down the hatchway, to ()
Barley-cap, a
Barmecide feast
Baron and feme
;
( ,, floor
Batter a city with artillery, to
,, of beef, a
Barragouin Battle-born State, the Nevada
Barren of interest
;
;;
" mountain, a „ ground
woman, a „ of life
,, year, a
Barrier against invasions, a
, royal
[
„ of the books, a

" between nations , to death, a

,, to ambition " with any other, to
,, to progress
Barter one thing for another, to
:^
«
Battery of ten pieces ^f^fe+

Bartholomew baby
;
(doll), a
Bavius, a
Bawbee, a
Bawcock, a
/
,,
pig, a Bay
Bars of sunlight ,, State, the Massachusetts
Bas bleu, a
Base actions
„ metal, a
^"
® ;^
Bayard, a
"
;
of nations, the
on, to Bayard's bun
Bashful glance, a Bay-leaf eater, a
Bashi-bazouk ^ Bayou State, the Mississippi^
Basilisco, a ;
,,
-proof
Basis for discussion, a
of fact
Bayreuth hush
Be about, to ;
, all the better for, to ;
Bask in royal favor, to assured
fie ( 29 ) Bear

lirf by then, to ,, of moonlight

,,certain, to " with delight, to

,,
from, to
gone!
;:
, for doing a thing, to
^
Beamless sun, the
Bear a badge, to
a bob, to
" good enough,
him what he may
,, a burden, to 7rf ;M
,,

„ hanged
,,

,,
a
a
brain, to
charmed life, to ^ 4:
„ in, to
„ in with, to
I it so Jtts
f|; ,,

,,

,,
across, to
a daughter, a
against, to ;
„ known tt a good name, to

;( ;
,, master of oneself, to ,, a grudge, to
,, mine ,, a hand, to
;
.,,

,,
off
off, to ;; ,,

,
a
a
loss, to
name,
„ off with you
„ of opinion, to
;;;
; ,,
an egg, to
anything thorough, to ^;
,,

,,
on, to
one's own master, to ; ,

„
a part in, to
a punishment, to
a resemblance to, to

,;
,, out, to „ arms, to
,, out with, to arms against, to
„ part of, to , a son, to
,,

,,

,,
silent
so good, or kind as
so good to give
,

,
a sword, to
away the bell, to
away the palm, to
#
; 0,;fg
sure and keep your eyes open back, to
" cold, to ?^
" sure to j „ company, to
,, that as it may confinement, to
„

;
I

the better for, to j

date, to
„ the cause of, to diffic allies, to
the end of, to
„ the worse for, to
, down, to
down upon,
^; ,(
^ ,, to

;;
Bead-folks „ false witness, to
-roll fatigue, to
Beads sorrow of fruit, to
„ of sweat
Beadsman, a ; ,
„
-garden, a
bard, to ;p
Beak, a ; hard on, to
hardships, to
and claw 4
"
3eam and scale ^& '
, hard upon an enemy, to
 *k '

Bear ( 30 ) Beat

Bear heat, to

^
heavy, or heavily, to
in, to
; up under calamities,
up with, to
with, to ;;
to

in hand, to
in mind, to
interest, to
with me, to
witness, to
Bear, the
^
Beard a person, to
in the womb, to , the lion, to
in with, to (iS:) Bearded Master, the * Per-
leader sius Socrates
Beast of burden ^
light, to
much
off,to
on, to;;
killing, to
()
one company, to
,
of prey
Beat about, to
^
of chase, or game

about the bush, to (®)

one good will, to
one hard, to
oneself, to ,
a charge, to
a drum, to
(
oneself nobly, to „ against the wind, to
oneself proudly, to jj: " a hotel by securing free ac-

out, to
pain, to
;
one's testimony, to commodation, to||
an alarm, to ()
an enemy, to ^:
spite, to „ a parley, to ()
state,the |4
Arkansas „ a retreat, to igj
sway, to " a way through the snow, toS
testimony, to
the bell, to
the blame, to
;;^ "
back, to
black and blue, to
the brunt of, to ,, clothes, to
the charges of, to , cock-fighting, to
the expenses, to
the glee, to
the Iohs, to
;^ I

„
,
down,
down
to ^
to bedrock", to
the market, to

the pal in, to ^M

„ for recruits, to
(all)
;;
hollow, to

up, to
up
^; ;
the responsibility, to

for, to
;^
>
,,

,,
in, to
into, to
;
;
into the head, to
watch

;^
,, of clock or
up to, to
upon, to
up under,
M
to
; ;; ^ ,,

,,
of
OH',
drum
to
()
 -

Beat ( 31 ) Bed

Beat one out of a thing, to ,, out, to be

„
;
" one's head about a thing, to

one's head against the wall,

,,

, track, the
out of the

;
field, to be

to Beating of the heart

;;
, out, to wind, a
" out of one's head, to Beatified spirits

,, over, to ; Beau, a
" Bruuimel, a
;;
,,

,,
the air, to
the brains, to ;; ,,

,,
-ideal
-monde
Beautiful for situation
the bush „ in appearance
,, the devil's tattoo, to „ to the eye
Beaumon tague 5^
" the dog before the lion, to Beauty and the Beast
,,
-by-night
,, the Dutch, to >t itself, to be
,
,
the hoof, to
the offending
thee, to Sg
; Adam
out of
„
„
,,
-sleep
-spot
;
-of-the-night

" the price, to Beauties of nature,

„
,,
the record, to
the same ivy bush, to " yeux (; )

,,

,
the tattoo, to
the wings, to
Because of
,, this is
Beckon one with the hand,
the case
to
[
,,

,,

,,
time, to
together, to
to mummy,
*
to
,,

Become an author,
with the eyes, to

angry, to *
to ;^
,, k> arms, to () " a prey to anarchy, to
,,

up, to ;
to quarters, to ()
([ ,, food for fishes, to
,, up and down,

up for, to
to
,,

,,
good, to ;
in order, to
"

,,
rip for

up
customers, to

for recruits, to ;
„
,
Bed and board
of, to
of age, to
; ;
„ up one's quarters, to „ of a river !^
,, up through, to of coal, a
Beaten golden and ivory, to be all ,, of down, a
" of dust
M goJd of honor
 U

Bed ( 32 )
Below

bed of roses, a Behavior of a person toward others

„ of thorns, a
Bedlam, a Behind in one's payment, to be
Bee in one's bonnet
Before long ;'
; , ones back ;
,,

,,
now
one conld say knife
"
„
the curtain
the scenes
;
;
"
,,
one's eyes
one's time
^;
,
„
Behindhand
time
the times
in meeting
; bills
,
„
„
the lights
the wind
the world
( t|i
,, in one's circumstances,
„ you cross another t, to to be
in study
, you dot another i to
Beforehand with, to be 5^
; ;
Beholden
Bejan, a ;;
to a person,

Beg for bread, to

" leave, to
of a person, to
;
Belay a passage, to
Bel esprit
Belcher, a
) (
off, to Belie expectations, to
one for a fool, to Belief in doctrine
,
„
one's bread, to
the question ; " of a witness
Believe a man, to
in anything, to
^

Begbie murder, a " in ghosts, to

„ me
Beggar description, to Bell the cat, to
" on horseback, a
Beggars should not be choosers
Bellerophon ( S Ephyra
Pegasus
,
Glaucus

Beget a
„ strife, to
koii, to
; Belles letters(;
Belligerent nation, a
)
Chimera

Begin at the beginning

,,

,,
at the wrong end, to
the world, to ;
Bellibone, a
B3llona (
Bellona's handmaids

„ with, to ;
Beguile a person with songs, to
Bellow out a laugh, to
Belly-cheer
god
time, to [ Belong
,, -piece, a
to, to
,,
sorrow, to
Beguiled into a trap
Behave oneself like a man,
; to
Below
"

,,
to oneself, to
its full
par © ; ;
length

„ stairs
 M ^

Below ( 33 ) Besotted

Below the mark

the salt
; Benevolent government, a
,,
mind, a
Bench and bar Bengal s£ripes
^;
•
Bend a bow,
-whistler, a

a rope, to
t) *
^
Benign countenance, a
" disease, a
Benjamin's iness, or share IlA;
;
forward, to
,, one's body, to Bent double
" one's course, to *; " ou or upon, to be
one's head, to i , on studying, to be *
one's knee, to " of the mind
"
"
one'rflooks upon, to
one's principles to one's in-
" with age ^
Benton's mint drops ^
„
"
terest, to
one's step, to
one'.s will, to
; Beimmbed with cold
Bequeath
Ber<»aved
to posterity, to
of, to ^
" over, to , of one's parents, to be

y" sails, to
the brow, to of property, to be
„ the mind, to jfl of reason
to, to ; Berenice (^ )

to circumstances, to Olympic

^
to one's will, to Bsrgiean, a
I

to rules, to Bergaize, to
towards, to
weapons on, to
Bergamot, a
Bergen-op-zoom, n
If ;
|

Bendigo, a |
Berlin, a
Beneath contempt i
" blue
„ notice j
Bermudas
" one's dignicy Bernesque poetrv
one's q ual ity I
Bersek rage
„ the fed |
Berserker, a
Benedick, a i Beset on all side^, to
l^-ntdiet, a with difficulties
Beneliceiice to the poor
Beneti^-ial to man
;*^
Besetting sin, a
Beside oneself, to be ;
Benefit by, to
, one's health, to
,, one's patience
the mark
the question
: ^®
'•'
,
.*
'

;
the trade, to
the world, t)
to ail ages
I

.
„
Besides the purpow

Bertilionism
this

^volenc.' toward's the poor li^sotted devotion

„ on, to be ;
 3

Besotted ( 34 ) Beyond

Besetted slave to opium, a

Bespajigled with dewy

Bespatter one's reputation, to
secrets, to
the city, to
the cloven fjot, to
Betrayed into the enemy's hands
^
Bespeak gocdj, to Betroth a girl for one's wife, to
Bespew the face, to [^
Besprinkle with water, to
B3SS of Bjdlam, a
B..'ssemer steel
^ Better be the head of an ass than
the tail of a horse

Bcist man ,, half ;

part the
Bestir one8t;lf, to
Best )v a charity, to
;; ,,

,,
hand
not look a gifted horse in
the mouth
,,
appla ase
favors on a person, to ,,

,,
off,
oneself, to
to be ;
, much labor on a thing, to „ part

" oneself, to ;
Bestrewed with fallen leaves
,,
part of one's nature
than oneself, to be +

Betake oneself to, to

„ oneself to an
;in, t .'
Betty, a
Between ourselves, or us fl| ,
,, oneself flight, to , a may-be and a niay-not-
,, oneself to one's heels, to be
" Scvlla and Charybdis Jfi

„
Bete no re ( ;;
oneself to study, to
) „ the lights ;^
Bethel, a ^
Bethink oneself, to ,
,
m
two fires, to be
wind and water (
Bethlehem
Bet one's basnet against the cap of
,
,
iJi

you and
you and
me ^
me and the bed-
an apprentice, to post
f»« Betwixt and between
Betoke a storm, to
Betray a friend, to ^ Bevel ajiglo, a
Beware of

^^
" one's country, to , ofwii"
,, oneself into errors, to Bewilderment of filing
,, one's ignorance, to Beyond all hope
„ all praise

"
,,
one's master, to ft
one's trust, to
•

,,
belief
conception ^
 # • i

Beyond ( 35 ) Bill

Beyond control speed, to

, description |§ the banns, to
, dispute to a feast, to f
,, doubt up, to
,,

„
expression
measure
number
; welcome, to
Biddy, a
Bide by, to ;;
"
„
„
,,
one, to be
one's depth
oneself
^ tryst, to
Bidet, a
Bien venu (( )

one's expectation Blmseance

,,

„ one's means
price
Big as a bee's kme, as ®
,,

remedv
,, seas (
the bounds of reason
.
,
as a pin's head, a
Bend
Bo
State lr<J Tennessee
[
"

„ the mark ;^
„
,,

,
bugs, the
gun, a
(
„ the reach in clamor
" the sea Pot^
the solar road wig, a
„ the
veil „ with, to be
Bezoar stone, a
Bezonian, a ; *
!; II
„

"
with a child, to be
with pride, to be
with promise
;
*
Bias in one's favor, a " words
" towards a thing
Bib and Tucker
Bible oath, a
( Biggin, a
Bigotted to one's own opinion, to be

„ -backed |gj^f Bigottedly adhering to ancient us-

"
Bibliolatry
society, the

Biblion abiblion
; „
ages,
attached to the ancients

Bike, a
Bid adieu to, to -g-gij Bilbo, a
against, to Bilboes ;
„ beads, to Bilious fever j|
„ defiance, to
„
,,
fair, to ;
farewell to, to §i!
Bilk, to
Bill a circus, to
, and coo, to
God speed, to
,,

„
,,
good morning, to
one's time, to
„ at sight
,, of adventure
of costs 1
(
"

,,
prayers, to ,;, of credit
 i «

Bill ( 36 ) Bite

Bill of
;
debt
Biplane, a
Bird in one's bosom, the
" of divorc- 1
of entry
,

;
a

()
„ hi the hand, a
, of ill omen
,
,
,
of
of
exceptions
exchange
of fare
( ,,

,,

"
of
ef
Jove
Juno
of night
,, of health „ of one's own brain A
,
„
"
of lading
of mortality
of parcels
() ,,

"
"
of one's
of passage
of peace
;
own hatching^

, of particulars () , of prey
H „ of Washington
,

,,
of rights
of sale
of sight
; ,,

,
,
of wonder
-spit,
-witted, to be
a
EM
;;
of store Bird's-eye view
Billet a La Chatre, a Birds of a feather
Billet-
Billingsgate
doux, a

Billycock (hat), a ii
; Bis dat qui
of Diomedes
cito dat (
Bind a bargain with earnest, to " vincit qui se vincit in victoria (
a belt about one, to
)
,,

„ a book, to
a prisoner, to
# Bit and sup
I by bit
,, of cavalry

, an apprentice, to „ of ebony
„ of fat
,, by an agreement, to of jam

, by kindness, to
hand and foot, to *
„ of leaf
, of muslin
„ of mutton
;
of one's mind
in friendship, to
into a small compass, to
on a girdle, to
.[ „ of sticks
„ of stuff
Bite a person's nose
; off, to

one an apprentice, to „ into

out, to T [ " off more than one can cliew, to
over, to ()
the bowels, to , on the bridle, to
the conscience, to ;^ " one's lips, to
to, to ,, one's thumbs at, to
up a wound,
up in, to ; to ,,

••
the dust, or ground, to
the hand that feeds one, to ^
 M 1 B

fiife ( 37 ) Blank

Bite the tongue, to

hit, the
; eve
fast
faff*
the
J&i^
H i

Biting wind fisher a PI 'h%\^ tfi

Bitter as gall, as
enmity
lot, a
; ffts

pill toswallow
repentance ilU W "I vJi v<! i^tr.u axjx^kx^vy ^

to the taste the

weeping friar Igffi
world, the
Bitterness of feeling frost
" of one's soul, the
-hearted
Black and blue hole a /fc^

^ [
and white -ivorv Mt!
-and- white

art
artist, a letter day, a
list
magie
a Hz ^
as coal, as .mail 2
as a crow, or raven, as SI Maria, a
as hell, as Ma'u, the
as ink, as
as jet, as
as midnight, as
(
Mondav

Ji ****B
M 7U * .3t^Z
c V
="
4
^
Ttv< /

as pitch, as ox has trodden on his foot, a

as soot, as ;
as thunder, as rod li2 ©
ball, to
blood
Sanctus
sheep, a ( ;
book, a
cap, the vomit Bg
with clouds
(
spots in the horizon

cattle Blackamoor's teeth

coat, u
code, the Blacken one's character, to

country, the
day
Blackguard language
Blackleg ()
Blacksmith's daughter, the
;
despair
diamonds
dog
; m
Blague ( )

Blandishing lookb M
Blank ballot, a t&U
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Blank ( 68 ) Bloct

Riant har 2* fS^^Bfl Blind

"
m)
aesert, a rtW:*vi^t^W^
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,, terror
-vprqp hedffe a *
X>l<ll3t cl UGSigll, /jlE W, 1 Hoolrpv ffStti Sik

character, to in
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,,

m
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( to "^
y lilt? y%7t\\

pa^Scigc ill a book

T^l a "xin g
JDltflii^
ci-.a r
or oLc*i J^fc
-^p^t*.@ reader a

" ah LO -all oil w'^S-T^Ap^^cJ

" iretsiy
Lilt? IKJotJ,
f r^ol xt iux r>o"ap
u ca.uae
fr\r **
i7lb J?>iiiL

:^
RE1 ^* j4e" ifri
iiij/tj
H3 ui/lp of i\ w an tihft
\ ^ t ^ ^4

IS ]
liiwarQiy,
" "Do 3CiE>
let! V,

;?
<X ffiVTU f<^-TUV9
ti^er
one's self, to tcT
" one,s self with, to to one's own defect
„ one's star, to
,, the mark to one's own fault
Blessed be God! usage
,,
by heaven, to be wall, a
" in one's children will
„ tomb, the ! Blinded by gain, to be
„ with, to be [ Blindfold zeal
with good health
Blessings of heaven
on
|
Blind man's buff
Blindness of heart
Bliss of solitade
;
flight one's prospect, to H Bloated with pride, to be fej

i
Block out, to 2tM
 B

Block ( 39 ) fitue

Bl ck up the road, to
Blockade a city, to
" a seaport, to
^ „
,,

,
up, to
up, to
()
up a building
;;;
j;
f;
Blood, a , up a contention, to
" and matter upon, to
of the grapes ;
„ relation j£ Blown up
sucker, a Blue, a *
Bloody
-wite
Bloodless victory
battle, a
„
,
„
to
apron, a ; :
jfii

apron statesman, a 3
fellow, a ^" 2
simjjtr. " beans
„ sweat „ bird, the
Bloom

Bloomers
of life,

of youth, the
the
blood
bottle, a
;; ; ;
Blooming in health books
Bloomy beauties
Blot
;
on the escutcheon or scut-
day, a
devils (
,
cheon, a
one's reputation, to
out, to
fish, the
funk
God, the
;
Blow or blow out, a gown, a
a cloud, to
hot and cold, to ; Grass State, the
tucky
Ken-

off, to Hen Delware $

" one up sky-high, to () jackets
Law State, the Connecti-
, one's brains out, to cut
one's trumpet, to
-light E
„ out,' to mass ^;
,
;(
out the lamp, to -moon
Monday #
( 8
, over, to
short, to
,
,,
the
the
the
coals, to
gaff, to
grampus
()
( ; nose
party, the
peter
Nova Sc(»tia

„ the horn, o [ ribbon

the
,,

"
the
nose, to
trumpet, to
to an ague, to
U
rose, a
run
-stocking
( ; ^
Blue ( 40 ) Bolt

Blue story, a politic

true
;' „ -snatclier

^
, vault Boeotian
Bluebeard „
Bag tratter
ears 11

^
#
Bluff, to
[
off,
Blunder on, to
;
answer, a
to
B^gus
Bohea
Bohemian Tartar, a
Blunt the edge of, to Boil a bone, to
*,
„
Blurt
the feelings, to
the sabre's edge, to
at, to
,,

,,

"
away, to
down
down
;
a narrative, to
out, to off, to
Blush like a black dog, to " over, to
„ like a blue dog, to
Blushing from shame
Boanerges iM
; up, to
Boiled to rags
Boiling waves
t
Board a ship, to , with rage
„ and board i& Boisterous weather
„ at a hotel, to Bold as Beauchamp, as Be-
„ at a tavern, to auchamp
„ of health " as blind Bayard, as ifij

,, of trade
wages " as braes, as
Boards, the Baron ) If
Boast of boat, a
of heraldry " deportment, a
,, of one's attainments, to „ face, a
grain
,, of one's riches, to
oneself, to
Boastful of one's wealth
,
"
motlier-of-shell, a
of voict' ;
;( g
picture, a
BDat the oars, to " shore, a
Bob Acres, a
„ Sawyer ,, tale ;
stroke, a

the hair, to
, the head, to
-wig, a
^ ,,

,,
undertaking
views
writing
Bobadil, a Boldness of conception
Bobby, a ,, without contrivancep ||
Bocardo
Bock-beer Bolt away, to SC
Body and soul " food down one's throat, toji^gi
forth, to from the blue, a ;Ht
 «

Bolt ( 41 )
Born

Bolt in or upon, to I Boom a candidate, t<

,, out of the room, to ft
, out, to , a stock, to
to the bran, 1>

-upright
Booming of the sea, the
Boon companion
Boost, to
;'
BAts of death prices, to
of heaven [
Boot and saddle
BMus, aJS , forth, to
B:)mb of canstruction '
" is on the other leg, the
B.jmbast

( (
Bongre, maf. gre )
;
to be
ff
on the other leg, the

.
Bona
MOt
ton
fide
(( :
)

)
Borachis, a
Border a garment, to
Bona robs, a „ Eagle State, the || missis-
a
s;>cia,
Bond of alliance
. sippi:
on, to ;
Bonded goods
Boue, to () ; H
I
,
Bore for water, to
upon, to

„
head
-lace
(
a chicken, to
j ,
„
into a tree, to
into the ground, to
through a crowd, to
of contention, a through a wall, to !^
^
„
„

"
of one's bone
one's flesh
-shaker, a
and flesh of Boreal
l> >reas ( ,
Aurora
Astr«ua

Bored to death, to be
Boney eil— Born a soldier jg^i
Bonifaco, a
(; days

(—
Bonne bouche ,, in the purple
Booby-trap, a fr: , of heaven
Boodle ^;t) of rich parents

^^^ ^ ^
„
on Christmas Day or Good
Book, the
R^*- of Books, it^:^j[S
of God, the ^
Friday B
. ft

, of idiots, a 0^ " on the wrong side of the

of tlie Four Kings, tlie — gij blanket
to a lively patriotism, to be
,, of time
,,

"
up to
-worm, a
Booking-ollice, a
^ "

,,
witli a
moutli
goMen spoon in one's

with a silver spoon iu ouc'b

 A

Born ( 42 )

mouth
Born with knowledge, to l:>e
[ ,,

"
for, or to ;^
lu'nd and foot d^l

„
be
Borne in upr>n one
(
within sound of Bow bells, to '
"
,
in gratitude, to be
in
over to the peace
"
honor

Borrel) folk up in, to be

,
;;
Borrow a metaphor, to f^^f
" iu a dvance, to
upon, to
Boundless duration ;
;^
,,
on csedii, to happiness
„ trouble, to ft " ocean, the
Borrowed plumes ^Bft Bourbon, a

Bosh
Bosom
;
Bosch (Boch) butter

friend
Bourgeois
Bourgeoisie, the 4#^ffl
„ lover Bourne whence no traveller re-
of the deep, the turns, the
,, sermons Bourse, a i
,,

Boss, a
,,
;
thief

a house, to
Baustrapa
Bow and
cotton, to
scrape, to

rule of might
the show, to j, one's will, to
Botary Bay the fiddle, to
Both of a hair ' [ " the knee before, to
„ the one and the other , the knee to, to
Bottle-holder the knee to Baal, to
off, to
,, song " the nations, to fiSR
„ up
one's wrath, to ,, to the ground, to
u -washer, a " -wow way, a
Bottom of the bag, the BDwels of mercy
,,

,,
A

Bottomless
price,
upon or
pit,
the Jft
on, to
the
; Bowie-knife
Bowii.g acquaintance
Bowl over, to (;
Bouguereau quality Bowled out, to be Wk
Bought of a person AMI Box a tree, to
Bougie, a § ,, and needle
Boole (|& ,, coat
Bounce »; * ,, the compass, to

^'
„ into one's presence, to BB ^htz
Bound back, to ,, the ear, to
by a contract the mouth, to
, by affection, to be „ up, to
Boxing day ft|^|—B
 i ) 3

Boy ( 43 ) 6reak

Boy, to be the „ of prison

in buttons, a „ of promise, a
, of fifteen summers, a Ji , of trust

BDy's play ^; on an enemy, a

,
Bread and butter ;
Brace a bjw, to 5^
„
"
about, to
up, to
( " and butter miss, a
;
Bracing air " and cheese
" medicine " and water diet
Brag of, to ba ket
of one's attainment, to " buttered on both sides
Break a bank, to
" of one's merits, to a blow, to *
Bragi's apples „ a butterfly on the wheel, to
story
Braggadocio, a
Braid
"
of, to
St.
;
Catherine's tresses, to ,,
a camp, to
a contract, to
a deer, to
;
Branch off, to ;;
Brain-box or brain-pan, a
"

,
:
a fly upon the wheel,

a house, to (
to

oat, to II ; , a horse to the saddle, to

Bran-new or brand new a jest, to

Brangton, a ;
Brandish the sword, to "
„
a joke, to
a lance, to ;^
;^
^
Brass farthing ,, a match, to
Brassy age, a „ a note, to
Brave cold, to , a path, a road, etc, to
* *
,,

,,
danger, to
day, a
death, t> .
"
„
„
a promise, to
a set, to
'
a person's heart, to

„
Bravo, a
Brawny limbs
;
suspicion, to „
"
„
a straw, to
a treaty, to
a vow, to
#
Bray ink in printing, to ( i]j , an engagement, to
Brazil

Breach of duty, a
;£ ,
,,

"
an oath, to
away, to
y>reaC to
;
^
,

of faith bulk, to
of friendship, a C3ver, to
of morality, a fE ;
of peace, a ? £J down, to ^mmmim
 ' H ^

Break ( 44 ) Break

Break down a color, to one's spirit, to

„ down

down
in a carriage, to

one's opposition, to
3
i] :;

M
n
open, to
out, to ^^
;;;
one's word, to

ont into tears, to

, down one's strength, to over, to ;
Friscian's head, to
„ faith, to
,
„
for freedom, a
forth, to
prison, to
sheer, to (^
,
,
X
ground, to ;
in friendship, a short, to
short
;
off,
silence, to
to

„
"
,,
in, to

;^
in, or to pieces, to
in upon, to
squares, to
step, to
the back, to
(;
„ into, to' the back or neck of ( a dav's
,,

jail, to ;^;
into a run, to work), to B
the camel's back, to IS
,,

,,
joints, to
loose, to the heart, to ;;@
„
,
„
news, to
no bones, to
no squares, to
; the ice, to

the journey, to
iMf;

,
,,
of, to
of
of
beauty
day
the keel, to
the law, to
(
,, off,
off
to ;;
company, to
the line of defense, to

,,

, off with, to
the neck, to
one's arm, to the neck of, to
"
, one's courage, to
one's fall, to
the neck of anything, to
„

„
one's
one's
fast, to
heart, to
f!

ITfi
( the
the
the
peace, to
ranks, to
record, to ^:
,,

"
one's
one's
leg, to
mind, to # the
the
step, to
teeth, to ( ifri

"
,
one's neck, t)
one's plans, to
one's power, to
the thread, to ;
" oneself of anythiug, ti> 1 hrou^h a habit or custom,
one's sleep, to iiAf
Break ( 45 ) Bridle

i^reak through all difficulties, to , on one's hand, to ^

" one's last, to
, through all restraint, td „ out a sigh, to
,, upon, to ^
,,

;
through the clouds, to upon one's fair name, to

,,
thrcnigb, to
to the harness, to
Breathing-time
,,
-place, a ;
,, to the rein, to
Breathless attention
„ expectation ^
, up, to ; ,,

,,

Bred a scholar
impatience
speed [
,,

"

,
up a meoting, to
up housekeeping,

upon, to
to ,,

,,

,,
in the bone
to arms
up under,
^^^
to be
, upon a wheel,
( ; to Breech loader
Breed enmity, to

,,

,,
wind, to
with, to ;
"
,,

,,
in and in, to
in the line, to
out, to
;^
, with the past, to
Breakers ahead
Breast the wave or current, to
!^
,
,
,,
out and out, to
trouble, to
true, to
^(
Rreeze of anxiety
,, up a hedge,
Breath and time
to

^ [
Brentano, a
Brew
( ;
mischief, to
„
,,

,,
of iEolus, the
of air
of life ;
Briareus

Brick, a
,;
box

,,
of suspicion, a
Breathe a horse,
a little
tc
while, to'
|%
.
„ in the hat
over, to
(
,,

"
a reproach, to
a spirit of arait^, to
; , up, to
Bride-ale, a
of the seas, the Venice

Bridewell, a

^^ ;
a vein, to
, a word to one, to , -man, a
, after, to
again, to ;
fragrance around, to
Bridge over, to
Bridle-hand, the
one's pa^ionn, to

,, freely, to
one's tongue, to
" u V) to ^ [
Bridport ( 46 ) Bring

Bridport dagger, a
Brief synopsis
Brigand, a ;( by the lee, to
close to, to
(;
Bright and e >.rlv
,,

,,
annals
days B;
;
disgrace on, to
down, to
down the price, to
in#

„ idea, or thought, a down the whole house, to

,, in the eye
,, prospect, or future forth, to

reputation, a
forth fruit, to
forward, to ;
, side, a
triumph ; ;
grist to the mill, to

Brighten one's fame, to

Brim over, to
SSj^
;;
home,
in, to
to

Brillat-Savarin, a
Brilliancy of wit ;
in a verdict, to
in one's train
Brilliant achievement
„ career, a ,^
; ;
in profit, to
in question, to
,,
speech, a
Bring a gun t) bear on a fort, to
into
into
into
; being, to
court, to |?
one's thought, to
or raise a hornet's nest about
one's ears, to
( ;
into order, to
into play, to
a sail to, to
ship to, to
a thing borne to people, to
;;
lasting benefits, to

; ;
off, to
on, to
on one's way, to
a thing to perfection, to on oneself, to
one into debt, to
a woman to bed, to one into a fool's paradise, to
a work to an end
;
about, to
ahnut a change, to
ab)ut a desired end, to
;;^ one in f o trouble, to
one oil one's way, to
one out, to
%

ahnut a settlement, to one to a realizing sense of, to

;
an action or suit against, to one to poverty, to Hl^;
^;ignorant
an mind to know- one to reason, to
ledge, to
around, to ; one to the scratch of, to

back, to
back to the memory, to fiCfi; to ; 1«
one's eggs to a bad market,
«
 a H * •

Bring: ( 47 )

Bring one's father's gray hairs to ,, under, to

the grave, to „ under one's notice, to
;
"
" one's machines after the war
is over, to

one's nose to the grindstone, „

up to
up for trial,
; ;( to

;;
to ,, up short, to

to ;
one's pigs to a pretty market, „
,,
up the rear,
upvithto
to

^
"
to ;
one's shortcomings to light, ,,

,,
up with a round turn,
upon he carpet, to
t
to
k

;;;;,
,, oneself home, to
, oneself to, to , within bounds, to
„ out, to ,, witness, to
„ over, to " word, to
, over the coals, to Brioche, a
-, over to another opinion, to Brisle dice

;;
2 Bristle up, to
., round,' to jft Bristol, a

; (;
„ suit, to ,, board, a
,, through, t3
,, to, to „ man's gift, a
,, to a crisis, to
„ to a point or focus, to ,, milk
, to a speedy understanding, to Brittle as glass, as

„ to an end, or close, to ; Broach a subject, to

„ a secret, to
( ^
,, to bear, to " „ to, to

,,

,,

,,
to book, to
to life, to
to light, to
;; Broad and wide
„
„
as it is
awake, to be
long l&jft

,, to maturity, to " conviction, a

„
„

„
to notice, to
to one's mind, to
to pass, to ;
. ,,

,,

„
daylight

;
expanse of water, a
foot, a
? t

„ to reason, to ,. bint, a
, to terms, to " jest, a
,
,,

„
to the basket, to
to the gangway, to
io the hammer, to
( ,,
piece, a
line of distinction, a |§S

,, to the scratch, to " man, a

to the touchstone, to K ,, miith
#
,, to trial, to
together, to ^ " nonsense
rulo, a
 t S

Broad ( 48 ) Buckra
Broad shoulders „ of the sword, a
, silk ,, of the whip, a
, way, the Tom
„ words Broughtonian, a
Broadbrim, a Brought down into the dust, to be
Broaden one's horizon, to
Brobdingnagian " into personal contact, to
Brocard, a ^ be
Broil of politics
Broken army, a
bank, a
^ "
,
to account
to bed, to be
to justice, to be
beer Brown August
,
,
by age and disease
constitution, a "
bill, a
George, a ;
"
,
down
fortunes ; ,, Jones and Robinson

,,

,
„
health
heart
lands
:; „ study
Bruised reed
Brummagem ware
1f|

,,
meat Brunt of disgrace
„
,,
reed
sleep
to atoms, to be ;
Brush against, to
,,up, to
up
;;
one's spirit, to H:

(
,,

"
,,
utterance, a
voice, a ; ft Brute of a dog, a
Brutum fulmen )
•

waves

^
, Brutus, a
„ weather Bubble and squeak
,, words ,, bursts
Bronze Age " reputation
Brood of emotions
,,

„
on, to
over, to
;; Bucentaur, the
Bucephalus, a
Buck, a
„ sorrow, to ,, -eye, a Ohio
Brother bung ,, -eye State, the Ohio g
chip
,,

,,
in misfortune, a

Jonathan, a ft
[ ,,

,,

up, to
-horse, a
-tooth, a ;
,, of death, the gi
, Buckle on, to
„
,,

,,

,,
of the blade, a
of the brush, a
of the
of the
bung
Buskin, a
„
„
,,

,,
on one's armor, to :'
oneself for war, to
oneself to a job
to, to ;
^ ^

n of the string, a Buckra &MB

 c M

Buckram ( 49 ) Burn

!( ;
Buckram bag, a ., of fives ()
Budding beauty, a

Buff party, the

of affection, the ^ Bunco-steerer, a
Bundesrath |
Bundle of conceptions, a
18

Buffeted about in travelling, to be „ of faults, a

„ or out, to
off'

Buffle-head, a
Bug-bear, a
;;
,,

„ up, to;
into a carriage, to

Bugaboo, a
Bugs and goblins
Bung, a
, up, to (;
Build a bridge over the sea, to „
Bunk, to ;
up or down, to

,,

„
„
a fire to (^
a reputation, to

castles in the air, to |1[

Bunkum; Buncombe
Buoyancy of youth
Buoyed up, to be ;
±

„
„
,,
hopes, to
on, to ;
one's trust on God, to
Burchardize, to
Burden
„
of proof ()
with contributions, to

„ up, to
up
;;
Qne's constitution, to
„ with heavy taxes, to

Burial of an ass
^fi

Bulbul, a (
mankind
)
" service
Buridan's ass *
Bulk of
Bull-dog courage
-doze, to
Buried or sunk In oblivion
„
„
in study, to be
in thought
|g ^
,, in a china-shop Burke, to
„ feast, or bull-fight, a Burlaw
Burn a hole in one's pocket, to
)
Bulley-beef
Bullion State, the li Missouri
"
,,
daylight, to
in or into, to ;
Bull's eye
Bullyrag, to
; "
in effigy, to

in one's pocket, to
Bum-bailiff, a midnight lamp or oil, to

Bump
-boat, a
Bummer, a ()
against, to
,,

„
one's boats, to
one's bridges, to
" one's head against a post, to , one's fingers, to

Bumper, a , one's pocket, to

Bunch-clot, a „ the candle at both ends, to
 | g i *

Burn ( 50 ) Buy

Burn through the roof, to in an enterprise

^^^^^
,, through the skin, to with trifles
,, to a cinder, to with one's lessons
,, to ashes, to with, or about, or over one's
,, to the ground, to account
" together, to Bustling race
with devotion, to But a while sinca
,,

,,
with love, to 1#
with rage, to ;^ c
,,

,,
and
few
if

Burning head
,,

,,
hot
question ;
,,

,,

,,
for
just
]'ust
;;
now p
, me no buts!
,,

be
shame, a
Burnt out of house and home,
A
to
"
,,

,,
more
that
then
;
Burst in or on, to ,, too
"
,,

,,
into blossom, to
into laughter, to
into tears, to
^' „
,, yet
weak

Butcher's meat
,, open, to # grace, a —?
,, out, to ( Butter a person, to
,, up, to ,, both sides of one's bread, to
Bursting with rage
Bury one's talent in a napkin, to|)8 ,, -box, a; butter-bag, a
( no
,, oneself alive, to " to butter is relish ||?9
" the hatchet, to
Business center Buttered ale
,, circle ]^ Buttock-and-tongue
„ of life Button ear
,, is business „ -hole, to
hole a person, to
walks ffi
,,

(
Busiris
; , Hercules
Neptune
, ft Buy
,,
up one's pocket, to
a pig in a poke, to
m
g
Buskin
Busy as a bee, as
^ ,,

„
at a bargain, to
at the second hand, to
RtR
fit

" (fussy) as a hen that has one ,, favors with gifts, to

chick, as ,, flat, t ) S
at work ,, honor with flattery, to
" building one's nest, to be
 f

Buy ( 51 ) By

Buy in, to
off, to
; ,
heart
Heaven ;
on credit, to hook or by crook
„
one out, to
,
inches ^
out to
over to tBS
^
one's time, to

ft
,,

"
,
itself
Jingo
-law
leaps and bounds —
"
over another's head to

iiic reiusa i, to Tcly /E,^

,
,
little
long odds ;;
and

long chalks
little

,
"
up, to
wisdom with experience. to *A ,,

,,
main
many
means of
;
force

JllAA a UOl lit 1 IO TtHT^x^BA , mere chance

;
,

to ue "^ , might and main

a long chalk
accident ^:
( my faith
my heels I care not S
all means
all
all
and by
odds
that
;
is happy
"
,
"
my honor
my truth
my word
^
^
; ;
and large , night
any means il , no manner of means
bucketfuls , no means

common
;
carrier journeys
chance
consent
,,
ones ;—
occasion of

one's confession
,,
oneself, to be
consequence
constraint
; , order
, , profession
course ,,
rail
,

,
day
degrees
deputation
,,
reason of
right or rights
right of
;
dint of ; , rote
express rule
far slow degrees
, fits and snatch s snatches ";
" fits and starts some means or other
„

,,
good rights
helves
;
force of circumstances
m stealth
(ten) o'clock
;
, tmnd surprise
By ( 52 )
Cakes

the best account I have of him

Byblis (
Cannus
Miletus

the bushel
the bye, or by the way
C
the book
the card
Cabal, a
,
;
to
;
;
the due course of law Cabbage, to
the ears garden patriot, a
the favor of night Cabbala
the hand of
the head (; ; ^ Cacique, a
the hours together
the job
^
Cackler, a
Oacoethea ( (
the laws of nature
( (
Oacoethes ascribendi

( (
the lee loquendi )

the light of heaven Oselitus mihi vires

the name of Cacus Vulcan
the mark
the piece
the pound, yard, dozen, etc
Cad, a
Caddie, a
; ;;
Hercules

Cadet Engineer
the
the
the
rod
run
side of
(^ ,,

Vadit questio
Cad mean
(
Midshipman

letters
ft

( ^ (
the skin of one's teeth victory, a
the stern
the strong hand Cadmus Agenor
the
then
this
sweat of one's brow

ib; Cadogan, a
,
Phoenicia Thebes

trade
; Caduceus (^
(Mercury

^(
turns Cxca e.«t invidia f
twos and threes
virtue of
way
way
of;
of accommodation
Csesarian operation, a
>

Csesarism W
way of being, to bd
Oxteris paribus
yea and nay [ Caftan (
)

;;^
>lr
way of thanks
what mode
Cai II -colored beaid (hair)

;&
wholesale
word of command Cake-walk, a
word of mouth Cakes and ale
 g

Calabar ( 5S )
dan

Calabar bean, a „ on the way

Calais cormorant, a „ option
out, to
()
^;
;;
Calamities of war, the
Calamitous times
, year, a
"
„
"
out at, to
over, to ;
over the coals, to t^ffS
Calculate destinies, to
, on, to
„
„
soft
the
names, to
roll, to ^
(; ;
with the eyes, to
Calculated to or for, to be
Oalembour )
„

,
toto
to account, to
to mind, to
;
Caledonia to order, to
Calepin, a " to remembrance, to
Calf love , to supper, dinner, etc. to
Calf's skin, a
California widow, a
Call a bond, to
up, to
upon, to
;; |#
up spirits, to 3
„ a council, to " up spirits from the vasty deep,
,
,,

,
"
a crowd, to
a meeting, to
a spade a spade, to
attention to, to
— to
Called to one's last account
to the ministry, to be ()
„

„
away, or off the attention, to

back, to ;
Caller herrin'
Calliope
Oallipolis, a
(;
, cousins, to
down, to ; Callot; calot; callet
Callous in mind

, for, to ;; „ to suffering
Calm before a storm
,
„
I
forth, to
heaven
iu, to ; ;^
to witness, to
g
Calmneso
caiypso
Ogygia
of
mm
manner

,
^
Ulysses
, into notice, to
,,

"
into play, to
in question, to
Camacho's wedding
Camssna, or Gar ua (
„
,,
loan
money
()
()
Cambays
Camera obscura (;
, names,
off, to ;;
to Camel Driver
Camouflage ; of Mecca, the

( ;
,, off the attention, to Campeachy
„
,,

,
off the dogs, to
of the house
on or upon, to £^
i
Oampo Santo
Campus Martius
Can best spare
( )
 i

( S4 )
Cardinal

Can boast of
but
; and feather days
„ and knee
hardly believe one's own eyes, fits, the
;;
„

Canaille
afford
one

ill
;
hardly reconcile oneself to
something

(; " t
in hand
of fools,
of liberty,
of
the

maintenance
the ^ tB

Canary bird, a the climax, to

Cancan, the
Candidate for election
Oandide et
et
( caute
constanter Capable
the globe, to
verses, to
of improvement

((
Canicular days ft Capacity for mathematics
[
Canidia, a
Candle ends
,,
;;
-holder, a
Oap-a-pie
Oapax
Cape merchant, a
,, -rental Caperdochy, a
Candles of the night, the Capernaite, a
Cannon-fodder
Cannon's mouth
Cannot afford
; Capful of wind, a
Capias ()
Capillary attraction
,,

„
"
afford to laugh
be possible?
bring oneself to ;
Capital crime
Capitilum
Capitol, a
) ( ;;
,, but Capitularies B
, choose but Caporal Violet
„ contain oneself Cappadochio, a
, help Caprice of inclination
, make head or tail of Captain Copperthorne's crew

,,

,,
say
tell
" of the suburbs, a ;

^)
((
Canopy of heaven ,, Podd
Cantatrice (M)W^C Oaptatio benevolentias
Canterbury tale, a Caput mortuum
Car of Phaebus
Canvas city, a Oara sposa
Canvassing agent
Cap to, to
Hlg Caracole, to
Caraway, or carura ;^
,, a person, to
" an anecdote, etc, to £ Carcel-lamp, a
Cardigan; cardigan-jacket, a
Cardinal points
 i M ^

Cardinal ( 55 ) Carrjr

Cardinal principle Carouse a cup, to

„
red
signs ; Carp at, to
Oarpe diem ( ;
;;;
, virtues Oar per e et colligere i

Care about, to
„ for, to
Carpet-bagger, a
, -dance, a ;
„
, for no body, to

for the future, to

,,

,,
knight
kni.u'ht
;(captain; coward) , a
" nothing about, to
;
!
, (Careaway) Sunday , squire, a
Carriage and four, a

((
and

^
Careen in the wind, to pair, a
„ under sail, to , -folk (company)
Careful about one's dress
about, concerning, or in re- " free
,
gard to the matter Carried, to be
"
,
in doing things
of one's money Carronade, a
away (
,, of one's respectability Carrots
Carve out, to
Carry a burden, to
„
„
„
of one's
of oneself
toilet, a
time
;
Careless about one's appearance a
a case, to
a city, to
a fortress, to
^5^
a jest too far, to
happy life, a „ a motion, to
,
, a point, to ^;
in one's work „ a price, to
,
" of one's own safety a resolution, to

" scholar, a
Caressed, with or by the hand
" a town, to
all before one, to
;
Caret ( at court
)
^way, to ()
before one, to
[
anything on one's sleeve, to

Carious tooth, a " captive, to

Cark and care ,, cargo, to
Carlin (Carling; ('arl) Sunday conviction, to
coals to Newcastle, to
Carnal intercours-3
" knowledge everything before one, to
„ mind ' i>
 g H

Carry ( 56 ) Cast

Oarry fruits, to " under the arms, to

in the arms, to " over, to

„
in the bosom, to
in the hand, to
into action, to
;; ,, tales, to
with a high band, to
weight, to (
, into execution, to
it, to Carrying trade mm
(
,,

,,
it fair
it off,
with one, to
to ®
matters with a high hand, to
Carte blanche
de visite,
Carthusian silence
(
„
,,
news, to
off, ;to
Caryatid, a
Casabianca, a ;
Case a brick wall with stone, to

:; ;;;
, offthebellto
„ off the palm, to " in point, a
, of conscience

^
,, on, to
,, on a seige, to „ stands thus, the
, on trade, to i stated or agreed on
on an undertaking, Cash a check, to
"
U
to

;
,, account
balance
( ()
„
,,

,
on in succession, to
on the back, to
on the shoulder, to ; ,,

"
price
purchases
( ()
„ on the head, to ; ,, sales ()
„ one's head high, to ktM Cassandra () Priam Hecuba
„ or wear one's heart upon mApollo

„
,
one's sleeve, to
one's point, to
one's thoughts into futurity,
Oast a block, in one's way, to
„ about, to
, about
;
for, to

,,
to
oneself, to
out, to K;
: ,,

"
a gun, to
a net f to
a mist before one's eyes, to
, out a purpose, to i^f

„
out one's bat, to

sail, to
"
,,

„
a model, to
a shadow, to
a vote, to
@
, atock, to „ an account, to
the day, to „ an eye, or a glance, to ;H
" the prize, o * „ anchor, to
„ the point, to
'vJ^^Mi wind, to ^
;; "
an ill smell, to
an aspersion upon one, to sSW
,,

"
„
through, to
to the utmost, to
too far, to ^ Aft n
,
aside, to
away, to
;
(^)
 S g i i

Cast ( 57 ) Catcb

away one's money, to

behind one's back, to .^^ ,
„
oneself on, to
oneself upon a friend, to
[;
;; ;
buyond the moon, to ,, or throw into prison, to
designs, to ,, out, to ffl

down, to „ out devils, to

down in mind, to be " pearls before swine, to
down one's eyes to „ seed, to
eyes upon, to " sheep's eyes, to

forth, to ;
feathers, to, as birds

in a foundry, to
,
„
,
the blame on one, to
the feathers, to
the first stone, to
in one's mind, to
heat, to
horoscope, so
,,

„
,,
Up, tO ;
the skin, to

up a bank, to
Dg

imputations on another, to „ up earth, to

in a different mold, to be
; ,, with age ;
up one's eyes, to

in one's lots with, to

in one's mind, to
in one's teeth, to
|i ,
Castalides
sus
young, to
) ( Parnas-

in the eye, or of the eye, a Casting bottle

in the same mold " vote
in the teeth, to Gastle Come-down, or of Come-
into a sleep, to down 4
into space, to
into the shade, to ; ,, of
influence
Maidens, the ||
iron, to
loose, to
lots, to ;
Edinburgh
Castles in the air
in Spain
;
lustre, to
of the eye, the
Castor < Jupiter
, Leda
fiMMI
of green, a
of
off, to ;;
thought, a Casus belli ( )
conscientias (ii )
off a servant Cat and dog existence
off a ship, to Cat-and-dog life, a
off copy, to lap
off hunting dogs,
off restraint, to ;to Catain, a
Oatalogue raisonne (
off trammels, to
oil on troubled water, to
one's eyes on anything, to
Oataloon
Catch a ball, to
—
one's nativity, to ,, a crab, to ^^jM.
oneself away, to M a disease, to
 )

Catcd ( Cedant

a glimpse of, to with chaff, to

a nap, to Catchpoll (catchpole), a
a Tartar, to
a
a
train, to
weasel asleep, to
at, to
It
Catechise mutually, to
Catherine wheel, a fi|
—€
; ^ ' A;

away, to
cold, to ; " wheel politicians

fever, to
fire, to :^ Catholicity of spirit

;
Catilinarian existence, a IX
hold
it,

on, to
to ;
of, to Catiline, a
Cat's meat
" paw, to be a
on a nail, to -sleep, a
one by one's word,

one napping, to
to K Caudine forks
Causa causans
, sine qua non
(( )
*

one in a lie, to
one in his own trap, to ,, celebre, a
of causes, the
one in the act of stealing, to „ death, to
gSI ,, dissension, to ijg
one tripping, to ,,
misery, to
one up, to „ of quarrel
one's attention, to „ of trouble
one's death, to ; , the face to shino, to
one's
one's
eight
eye, to
fancy, to
of, to
; „
Caution a
,,
why ()
against, to ^;
smallpox, to „ against error
the air, to ,,
aginst wine, to
the breath, to ,g ,, -money
the ear, to
the eye, to
Cautious of lltS
Oa va sans dire (;^
(
the heart, to
the idea, to
Caveat emptor
Cave canem (
; )

the point, to

^
the smell of flowers, to
the truth, to
Cave
Gavendo tutus ( ^
in, to

Caviare to the general

tRft

^(
the mind with a net, to Cease from work, to
Cecrops )

up, to ^ft;
upon the hip, to ft ('/." arma togx ( Pfll
 R

Ce ( 59 )

Cede deo (( Vest a dire ( (^

( [
)

Cela ra sans dire C'est nne autre chose

(
Cen'est que le premier pas qui coule
)

Celebrated a birthday, to
Chacun a son gout
Chadban(3, a
Chagrined at one's failure
„ a festival, to Chair day
Celebrated for one's ability „ of St. Peter, the
Celerity of movement [ Chalcedony Ohal-
Celestial blessings cedon
, city Chaldean, a ;
dynasty, the ) B Challenge the array, to ()
„ fire ; to the polls, to
,,
globe,
;
;;
„ horizon Chalk for cheese
„ spirits „ up, to
it
Cement friendship, to out, to
„
Censurable for some fault up, to
Chamber of commerce
Cental weight
Oentaurs ( Ixion
Thessaly, Theseus
Chance of fortune, the
„
,,
of life, a
to meet one, to
Chanceller of the exchequer
Center of gravity
,
Centered in ;
one's affections, to

Centigrade thermometer
MSt Chancelleries of Europe, the

Chances are against anything

Centrifugal force Chandra
Centripetal force Change a fly into an elephant, to
Century living crow, the

Cerberus (
of sonnets, a
Pluto
"
„
color, to
for the better, to

Ceres (
Ceremonial dress
Saturn Cvbale
,
"
hands, to
horses while
stream, to
crossing a

Ceres's golden reign

'
Certain of success

.
Certainty about a matter . "
„
,
in a disease, a
of circumstances
of climate, a
Certificate of good conduct of countenance, a
of fortune, a
() !?
Certiorari
Cessation of arms () ^ "
„
of money
of tide ^lM
 M
Cli ange ( 60 Chevalier
)

one's copy, to
one's crown for roses, to
Charles's wain
Charitable institutions [
one's mind, to
one's quarters, to '; Charivari, a
Ciiarley, a
;
Charity that begins at home, the

[
one's tune, to Charming body of voice, a
Charon, a
oneself, to Charter a ship, to
the legs, to Chase of a gun
with every wind, to

Changeable as the moon, as

Chassepot, a
Chastise the dead, to
,, with scorpions, to
;
,,

,
Chant a horsp, to
humor
weather
M Chauvinism
Chaw-bacon, a
Chawed up
;
Chantage
Chaonian bird, the
,,food
Cheap as dirt
,,

,
labor
of anything, to be
[
Chaos of confusion
Chap book
Chapter
,,

Chaqueur )
of accidents

(
of possibilities M
E
E
Cheat
„

Check-mate, a
of, to
the weary night, to
Cheated out of everything

(
^ ||

Character in a play Cheddar

„ of place Chedreux a
Characteristic of a person Cheek by jowl
„ by towl
Chare Thursday Cheeky fellow, a

Charge d'affaires (^ Cheerful as a lark, as

with wine g|} dh [
Charge
,
for, to
of murder
one with his duty, to
Cheese, the
,
^
Cheeryble, a; cheeryble brothers

-toaster, a
() ;
(^
,, it

,, the enemy, to SI Cheeseparing (economy)

-
jbhe people with heavy bur-
;i

dens, to
Chefde cuisine
Chef d'oeuvre (
(
,,

M
to, to IB
with, to ; Chimin defer
Cherry merry
)

( .
,, with murder, to Cheshire-cat
round, a
" ^ ^|?T

Charged
,
to one's account
with a bullet
with a crime
WM^
Cheval de Uitiulle, a
Cftercdigr d'iadmtrin (
 H •

Chevy ( 61 ) Circumbendibus

Chevy (chivy) to " yarns, to

Chew the cud, to Chopped hay
"
Chic (;
up)nto

Chide away, to
)

Jfk^i
Chortle, to
Choose
Chose jugee (
sides, to

„ ;
Chief corner stone, the
rule Chosen people, the
;
Child is father of

fortune
of
Children of the mist
.
man, the Chouse, to
Chrisom child, a
Christ church bells
Christian charity
„ volums
^
„ of the soil, the Christmas Eve M
„ of the West, the
, that have no names ,,
logs

Child's play
Chime in, to
;
;
Christy minstrels
Chronic disease
,,

Chimera, a
in with, to f|
; Chronicle small beer, to

Chinese wall, a
(
Chimney-corner legend, a Chrononhotonthologos, a
Chuck
Chuckle-headed
up,

Chip of the old block Ohuff-headed

Chirping away Chum or pal, a Bg
Chisel into, to l^A , up with, to
„ through, to Church ale, a
Chitty face
; " cession

((
Chloe, a Churchwarden, a
Choice of the troops
,, society * ^ 1
Ci-devant
Ci-git )

Choicest articles
.
spirit [
Cimmerian darkness
Cinchona
Cinderella of the arts, the
Choke damp
, off, to (; Circe, a
Circle of friend, s, a —
„

Choker, a
-pear
up, to
g[
; „
"
of hills
of the sea, the
Circuitus verborum ) If (
Chop and change, to Circulating capital
at, to
into
logic, to
; library

medium
upon, to , Circumbendibus, a
 AP * *

Circomqaaqne ( 62 ) Clear

Circumquaque, a hold of, to

Circumstances alter cases " into, or to, to ^;
Circumstantial evidence
Cirrus clouds
Cita (
()
[ „
,
,
into prison, to
of thunder
on, to
Cite a case, to
from the classics, to I
„
,,
spurs to a horse, to
together, to (
Citizen of nature, a
„ of the world, a
,,

,
-trap speech
up, to ;
City and suburbs
,, editor, a
Clapper dudgeon, a
Clarior et tenebris ((
,,

„
„
father, a
of
of
God, the
Magnificent Distances
01 arum
Clash
,,
of
el venerabile
arms
to one's breast, to
[ nowwn

with, to
,, of the Seven
Civil action or suit
, authorities
( !^
Hills, the Classes, the
Claw another's back, to g||
away, to M;Pt
„ death -back, a
„
„
field
law
me and

;
I'll claw thee
[
,,

„
,,
life
list
power
; ,,

Claw-hammer
Clay cottage
off, to

of
()
coat
the mind
,, service „ creature
„
,,

„ war
state
sword i^jEi
Clean boxer
,,

,,
hand
hands
;
;( ;
„ year
Clack box ()
Claim on some one for a thing
[ ,,

,,

,,
out, to
thing, the
trick
„ one's pound of flesh, to Cleanness of teeth #g ;
„ relationship with, to Cleanse from, to
„ the attention, to ,, the Augean stables, to
Clamor for, to Clear a ship at the customhouse,
Clamorous against
,,

„
for
for better

Clandestine intercourse
pay
,,

,,

,,
«
to
a ship for action, to

as crystal
as daylight, as
; [
«
engagement ,, as noon-day ill

Olftp a writ on one's back, to ,, away, to

„
v
eyes on, to
hands, to £ ,,

,,
cognition
conscience
 S i

Clear ( 63 )
Cock

„ from doubt " of the year, the

,,

,,

,,
of
of
;
blame
off or away, to
"
,,

,
one's peepers, to
out, to
over, to
() ;
,, one's estate, to „ quarters
, out, to „ season
,, out for Guam, to " stretched
.:
„
„
,,
profit
the land, to
the track, to
(( „
„
to
to the
-time
wind (
,,

,
the way, to
thing, the
,,

,,
translation
upon ;
,
,,

"
up, to ;
the voice, to

up a case, to ||
„

„
weather
with, to
writing
;
" up the brows, to Cloth, the ff
Cleave the clouds, to ,, measure
[
Clerkly skill
Clever at talking
:
[ „ of gold
Clothed in the Eoman purple
Climb a hill or mountain, to
" the waves, to
Clinch an argument, to
" with shame

(
Closeted with, to be
Clotho Fates
;
Clincher (deiicher) Clumber, a
Cling to, to Clumsy at cricket
Clink, a Cluster-fist, a
„ glasses, to
Clip the wings of, to
Cloaca, a
; Clutch-fist, a
Cly-fake,t)
Coach and a
six,
() ;
Cloak for, to
the rain, a
for
; ; Coal- car rierly clown, a
Coasting trade
Clod-hopper, a
Close a list, to
,, a bargain, to
; Cobbler
Cobbler's
vessels

punch
[
) Mf
, at hand Cock-a-hoop
"
,
breeding " -a-leekie
aad bull ( ;;
,,

„
„
by
fppf1iii«it
connection
conversation
design, a
^ ,,

"
and bull
-and-hen club
-boat, a
-brained
story if

„ -fisted " is always brave on its dui:g*

"
„
in
]3St
wan,
upon, to

a "
hill
of the
of the roost
loft ;
 H *g H

Cock ( 64 ) Collide

of the walk
on the hoop
one's toes, to
(; comfort
meat
manner
the eye, to news
-robin shop
-sure
( -pig
purse *
up, to -shoulder
Cockaigne; Cockayne spectator, a
Cocker up, to steel
Cockles of one's heart
Cockoloach, a
Cockpit of Europe, the
;; supper
sweat
without
;
(
Cocky Colin Tampon ±A
Code of honor Collar, to
, telegram [ „ one, to
procedure ()
„
„
of criminal
of written
Codle oneself, to
law ( „
,,
work
beef or meat, to
(
Coeval with Collate accounts, to
Cog a die, to ,, a manuscript, to
Cogent arguments
„reasons ; [
„ to, to
Collateral descent
Coggeshall job, a
Cogito ergo sum
Cognate dialects
( )
, security
,,
testimony

Cognizant of
Oogno te ( Collect a debt, to
„ an army,
Jft

to ^
Cohesive attraction
Coiffeur
Coin falsehood, to
( )
,,

„
,
information, to
letters, to
materials, to
„ money, to ,,
money, to
„ words, to ,, news, to
Coincide in opinion, to ,, one's faculties or wits, to
with to
„ [
,,
with one's wishes, to
Cold as a cat's nose
as a key, as
,,

,,

,,
oneself, to
one's thoughts,
specimens, to
to,

& *
;
" as a stone stamps, to
,, as charity ,,
rents, to
, as marble, as ,,
taxes, to
,,

lt
behavior
coal to blow at, a
coffee (
,,

Colleen, a
Collide with, to
votes, to
( )
Collision ( 65 ) Come

Coliision of interests
" of one object with another between, to
by, to
;
before a person, to

" of or between two oppos- Captain Armstrong, to

ing objects
Collusion with, to !^ Captain Stiff over a person,
Color a stranger's goods, to

, guard ()
to
down, a
down a peg, to
; );12
the state, the down in the world, to

; ^
of
,, one's opinions by one's pri- down on or upon, to
vate resentments, to down with, to
first, to
,,

,
too highly, to
up, to
forth, to
forward, to;
;; ;
Colored man high, to
Colors come and go, one's home, to ()
Colporteur, a in, to
( in conflict with, to
Columbia in contact with, to
Columbiad in at one ear and go out at
the other, to J—
Comb a man's head, to
,, of Germany, the in for, to
in its turn, to
off, to in one's way, to
„ one's hair the wrong way, to in sight, to

Combat
Combination
with, to
of ideas ;
in (useufl)to
into, to ; ;
into collision, to
Come a cropper, to

„
,, about, to
across, to
; into force, to
into kingdom, to
^W
into existence, to ^;^;

across one's mind, to

"
„
"
after, to
again, to
;
into one's head, to
into operation, to
into play, to
^
„
„
along
amiss, to
and go, to
; into use, to
into view, to
;
into possession, to

,,

„ at, to ;
and go upon, to it over, to
it strong, to
(
at one's call, to like a deluge, to
,, -at-table low, to
,i
away, to ; near, to ;
 ^ 3

Come 66 Come

…
( )

Come of, to to blows, to

,,

v
of age, io
off, to ; to buckle and bare thong, to

,
,
off
offwpll,to ;
second best, to to close quarters, to
to do anything, to
"
,,

,,
on, to ;
off with flying colors, to

on the carpet, to
[ to grief, to
to hammer,
to hand, to
()
to

,,

„
,
out, to ;
(one) thanks, to

out as expected, to
to know, to
to life, to
to light, to ;^
„ out first, to to loggerheads, to
, out of a business with clean to man's estate, to
hands, to to mind, to fE ;
out in one's true colors, to to naught, to ^
to no good, to
,,

,,

,,
out of, to
out with,
over, to
it
to no good end,
to nothing, to ;to

to one's knowledge, to
,,

,
...over one, to
post, to
to one's sense
to oneself, to - @|

,,

,,

,,
pouring
round
round
;
(a peson), to
to one's level, to

to pass, to S;
| ifij

,, round to, to to points, to

,, short, to to terms, to ^;
„
,,
short of, to
the old soldier over one, to
to the ears of, to
to the front, to
to the gallows, t)
;; ^
,, to, to ||»; to the point, to
"
„
to a bad end,
to crisis, to ^
to to the push, to
to the rescue, to [
,,

„
,
to a determination, to
to a head, to ;^
to a pretty pass, to it
to the same thing, to
to the scratch, to
true, to
under one's notice, to
„ to a resolution, to
" to a standstill, to iH under one's observation, to
„ to an end, to ;
;
to an understanding, to under the head
up, to
of, to fl|

"
,
"
to an untimely end,
to anchor, to
to be4 to |^
^ to up
to
to a person in the street,

up to the chalk, to (ffl)

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Come ( 67 ) Commercial

Come up

"
upon, to
with, to

upon one's track, to

H ; ;
HJt Commanding
,,

,,
intellect
mind
presence ^;
" upon the heels of, to ,, view II—
, upon tbe parish, town, etc.,
to Commendments of the Church

,
,,
upon the stage, to
what may or would
witliin the terms of a treaty,
Comme il faut
Commemorate a
(; victory, to
[
Comedy
,
to
in politics, a
of errors, a
Commemoration
Commemorative
Commencement day
; day, a
of

Comforts of home life, the lg' Commend a person to notice, to

Comfortable circumstances „ me to, to

Commendation of the soul
,, quarters
Commendatory expressions

Coming ages
,
) ^
;
provision
to my mother, be (
Commensurate
;
,,
letter, a
to or with ;
;;;
,, events S

,,
generation Comment on, or upon, to
,, in Commerce between the sexes
„ life " with
out
, „ with the world
year
„ Commercial agent ()
Comity of nations bill ()
Command a high price, to ,,
competition
" at a siege, to , correspondence
„
„
"
a view of, to
influence, to
money, to
,,

„
m
credit
customs
;
, of language, a „ law
, of temper
of words, a
„ letter of credit (
"
"
„ oneself, to
silence, to
;;
one's passions, to drama, a

museum
i

^
''
jJL f .
(
,, „
the army, to ,,
paper
" the respect of others, to , practice

Qommaiider in chief ; ^; v
traveller
treaty
 ^

Commercial ( 68 ) Communion

Commercial usage
, world
Commission merchant
^( of estovers
of pasture
of piscary
Commissioned officer ( of turbary
Commissioner of customs
Commit a bill, to ,,

„
or garden
parentage
;
a crime, to people, the
adultery, to ,, pleas
an error, to ,, prayer
an orphan to charge, to ,, prison

for contempt, to " proof, a

for trial, to ; ,,

,,
saying
run, the
suicide, to
to absurdity, to
to memory, to IE
,,

„
school
sense
sewer
;(
to paper, to
to prison, to ;; "
,,
talent
thief
to the care of, to

—
to the flames, to ; ,,

,,

"
time
to ; ()
to the race
to the earth, to
to the hands of, to
to the winds, to
;
* :^
[ „
,,
track
woman
Commonplace book,
; a
to writing, to Commune with one's own heart, to

(( ;.^
Committee of the whole house
R ti
with oneself, to
on disciplinary punish- Oommune bo n
ment i Communi Consensu !^
Commodity
^
Common among men
of brown paper, a Commonwealth of letters
Communicable disease
" knowledge

Comniunioate a disease, to
,,

,,
bail
carrier
consent
( „
"
a secret, to
ideas, to

,,
doings ( " information, to
instruction, to
,, era "
good " with a friend hy
"
" knowledge mail about a matter, to
,, law
nuisance Communion elements
 - ^

Co union ( 69 ) Complain

,, ofthe eye
Cojnin union in both kinds () ,, of the voice
" one's death, to
"
& 11 one kind ( "
Compassion for
one's desire,

" of the Holy Spirit Compatible with

,, with one's duty
with God " with reason
„ service () Compel assent, to
* Compelled by circumstances
, table ()
Community of interest 'J " into one troop
" of property Compendious discourse, a
Commutation

m
imprisonment
of death penalty to Compendium
;;
Compensary damages
of general work, a

ticket Compensate for crime, to

Commute a sentence, to „ for losses, to |^
Compact between or with indivi- " for trouble, to
duals Compensation for
coal , balance or pendu-
)f
discourse, a lum

Compagnon de voyage
Companion-ladder
style, a
(
^ Complete
,
"
for a prize, to
for honors, to
with, to
#'
Competency for an office
,, of fools, a
-way Competent for
Companions in folly " foran office
Comparable to " knowledge of the world,
Compare accounts, to a
, notes, to " statesmen
" one thing to another, to supply of provision

one thing with another, " witness

to Competition for
„ unfavorably with, to „ for distinctions
Comparison and contrast ( „ for excellence
for superiority
"
hands () [
with

^
" of ,,

„ "th Competitive examination

Compass about, around, or round, " spirit

„
to
tJ j a ^ijisuiqiss^ to ^ Complacent smile
Complain before court, to
Complain Compromise

Complain of delay, to '

" of one's own grievance, „ in appearance, but oppose

to in heart, to
" to an officer, to , with one's request, to
Complaint about
,
Complement
against
of men
,
Component part
with orders, to ;
Complentary to
Complete a task, to
" happiness
; Comport oneself,
"
Compose
with, to
to

a book, to
;
" in number " a difference, to
,,

"
loss,
man,
a
a ; ,,

,,
an essay, to
a poem, to
„
„
one's desires, to
one's promise, to
one's term of office, to
^ „
"
in the mind, to
one's mind, to
oneself to sleep, to
;
"
"
Complex
recovery
set, a ;; Composed
"
in
of,
mind
to be
Composing-machine

^
affair, a
truth -stick
Complexion of the sky, the
Compliant boughs
„ to, or with
;^
;
Composite carriage
" number
Compos mentis ( )
^
Complicate one thing with another, Compound a debt, to
to
" the matter with need-
less additions, to 4
drugs, to
felony, to
;
for one's fault, to
Complicated in structure interest ij

"
Complicity in
mechanism, a
|H
Compliment by flattery, to
larceny
Com pte rendu
Comprehensive argument
( Sjl

"
"
on a birthday, to
on the New Year, to
; knowledge
, i§

" one with presents, to Compromise a difference, to IS

Complimentary letter " a lawsuit, to

„

Compliments of the season

presents
ticket ; K „
„
another, to
oneself, to
or repu-
Comply with, to $ ;
ancient
tation, to
" with usages, to „ the country, to
 M
Compulsory ( 71 ) ConJotenc^

Compulsory contribution
"
Cortcowrs (;
peace, to

Comus
"

Con amore
(( education
)
Conclusive evidence or testimony

Concur in a plan, to
Con by rote in a request, to
,,

" one's lesson, to ft ,with, to

thanks, to Concurrent causes
Conceal from, to " changes
Concealed by the smoke " lines
" weapons remedies
,,

Concede a doubted point, to with

,,

Concurrence in
" to, to Concussion of two ships, a
Conceit of oneself Condemn a ship, to
Conceited in one's own eyes " goods, to
Conceive a dislike, to one's conduct, to
" a jealousy, to to death, to 5^
, a wicked idea, to Condemnation to death
" in the womb, to Condemned building, a
Concentrate an acid, to " man, a
m „ out of one's own
one's energy, to mouth
Condense by cold into a liquid, to
" troops, or forces, to
; , milk by evaporation, to
Concentrated all in self, to be
Concentric circles Condescend to men of low estate,
Concern oneself about, to to
" oneself with commerce, to upon particulars, to

Concerned at Condescending compassion

" for one's safety IK " regard
Condign censure +8
Condite fruit, to
Concert of views, a
Concession of land
to a demand ^ [
Condition, to
Conditional on
„ promise, a
;
Conciliate an enemy, to :^
Concio ad derma ( )
Conditions of sale
Condolatory epistle
Conclude a match, to
"
„
a work, to
an argument,
; to
Condole with a friend on the death
of his father, to
Condolence with ^Df
 * { ^

Con ( 72 ) Confirmation

Con dolore ()
Condone an offense,
; to
,, in a person, to
Confidence in
C5ondottiere, a
Conduce to, to ;^ " man, a

^
Conducive to , trick, game, etc,
to health
Conduct an affair, to Confident of
„ an army, to ,, of success
, an inquiry, to of victory

"
heat, to
oneself, to
*
; ,, talker, a
Confidential communication

Confab, a ;
to, to

Confederacy of states, a
" friend, a
Confiding woman, a
„ to a friend's house, to Configuration of the ground

Confederate for unlawful purposes, Confine a criminal, to

,,
to
in crime, a
,, in prison, to ^
one's passions, to Ij

k 5
,
— states of America ,,

,,
oneself to, to
oneself to the house, to

Confer a degree, to „ within limits, to $1

" favors on or upon a friend, Confined, to be
to ,, in prison
power, to " to one's bed or room, to
" rank, to qe
rewards, to Confinement by sickness in a hos-
,
f
right, to
with a friend about a mat-
ter, to
"
pital
of a woman
Confines of a country, the
;
;
Confess a crime, to |g „ of a river, the
•
„ one's fault, to Confirm a person in belief, to g
oneself to be in the wrong,
to a report, to HE
,, to a priest, to ,, a statement by testimony,
to

^
Confession and avoidance
12
() „
,,
a treaty, to
by an oath, to
by quotations, to
,, of faith " by signature, to
Confide a secret, to ,, one' 8 words by fullilmeut,
a trust to a person, to to Jig-
A Confirmation by evidence j^^Jg
 B ^ f

Confirmsitien ( 73 ) Conjure

Confirmation by signature
Confirmed habit : ^ "
nesses, to
the south, to
,, opium-smoker, a

Confiscate one's property, to

,
„ with, to
Confuse one's mind, to
;
the witnesses, to

Conflict between armies, a

, of opinions
; „ right and wrong, to

Confused at one's errors

,, ofthe mind
" with the enemy „ cognition
Conflicting evidence ^ " in mind

,, views
Confluence of rivers
"
"
style
talk
Confusion in the head
;^
Conform conduct to a rule, to „ of face

,, oneself to other's instruc-

"
, ;
of intellect
on confusion

,,

,
tions, to
to the laws, to
to the
;
sentiments of
" worse confounded

Congenial climate 7jt

n

others, to „ friends
„ to the world, to " with, or to
" theories to facts, to Congenital disease

Conformable to ; +g
to one's will
,,

Conglomerate
syphilis

K
of wisdom and ignor-

„
"
to the model
Conformity with
ance, a
Congratulate on, to
" on a birthday, to
^
Conformity between ideas and sub-

"
stances
in shape
„
^
on the New Year, to

oneself, to
, to the fashion of time Congratulatory Cards S|
" presents
.
-,^3' with established usage usages
Congruous to
Confound a person

„
for another, to

right and wrong, to

Conjugal harmony
"
"
love ^
relations
rights
Confounded fool, a

^
Confront heresy with truth
Conjunction

"
of

of
the five planets

the sun and mooD

3f

,,

.,
danger, to
the accused and wit- Conjure down spirits, to ;
 i

( 74 )

Conjure misery upon one, to of

'
,,

Consign a ship to a person, to

up, to
" up difficulties, to goods, to
to, to
„ up spirits, to to one's care, to |
Connect by marriage, -
to " to the flames, to ;^
,
Connive
with, to
at, to ^ "
,,
to the grave, to
to writing, to B
,, with
crime, to
Connubial pleasure
a criminal in his Consist in, to
"
,
of, to ;;
together, to
Conquer an enemy, to 0^ " with one's duty, to
'
,, in battle, to •
,, oneself, to ^( Consistency of conduct
Conscience money
Conscientious dealings Consistent from beginning to eud
Conscious of, to be
of being right " with good conduct
of one's deficiency
, with one's calling
„ of one's fault
„ power " with reason
Conscript fathers Consistently with
Oonsecrete a bishop, to ^ Consolidate a fracture, to
oneself to the service
of God, to
Consecrated ground
g
,,

,
;
the forces of an army,
to
the lips of a wound, to
Consecutive years
Conml d'etat
Consent to, to
(; Consonance
; of views and feelings

Consensual contract ( Consonant

Conservative party
Conserve a manuscript, to
„ fruits, to
,,
,, with propriety
to or with
4
„ with reason
„ words
m Consort oneself with honest men,

,,
in salt, to
the truth, to
Considerable man, a A'
A>
,,
to
with, to
Conspicuous amid the throng
;
„ property " among one's com-
,, time rades
Considerate in a matter \«\V^K^ ,, by noble bearing pg
,, of others [
Consideration for the poor SI „ for bravery M^kM
 t * ^

Conspicuous ( in ) Contemplative

Conspicuous in war one's own convenience, to

Conspiracy against the govern-
ment, a one's own interest, to K||
Conspire one's death, to
Constant complaints
„
"
,,
intercourse
lover, a
mind, a @
^ one's

with, to
own safety, to

with a friend about a mat-

R

, rain ter, to
revolution with one's pillow, to
supply
Constellation of genius, a I? Consultation of physicians, a

Constellated sky, the Consume by fire, to

Constituent Assembly Cons am mate a marriage, to

,,
„ elements ;
population, the
"
„
,
rascal, a
scholar, a
victory, a
Consummation of bliss, the
Constitute a government, to , of life, the

Constituted authorities
Constitutional bravery,
; or intre- Consumption
„ of marriage, the

of food by the people

pidity
, energy , of merchandise
infirmity
, government Consumptive demand for rice, a

walk ,, patient, a
, weakness " power of a country,
Contrain the limbs, to the
, the winds, to Contact of one object with another
Constrained to speak
Construct a new system, to ,, with
a ship, to Contagious disease, a
, a theory, to ,, example
Constructive faculty Contain one's anger, to ^;
Construe into, to
, one's conduct, to
,,oneself, to ^*
Conteminate food, to
,
;
one's fingers, to
i
Consul-general the principles of the
Consult a dictionary, to youth
,,

„
a doctor, to
a lawysr, to ^ Contemplative faculty, the
 8

Contemplative ( 76 ) Contradictory

Contemplative habit ,, in office

,, mind " of a railroad, the
Contemporary with

Contempt for
"

Contend about the

'

—writers

price, to
,
Continue a family, to
„ in good health,
of a history, the

to fi$

„ against a person, to „ in doing good, to

„ one's father's profession,
„ against fortune, or fate, to

„
"
to
for a trifle, to
for merit, to ;^
Continued annoyance
" prosperity
work, to
' f

,, for superiority, to Contort the face, to

„
„
life,
in a race, 'to
with a robber for
to
one's
„ the limbs, to
Contour lines
Contraband goods
;;
,, with evils, to of war
„ with the enemy, to Contra bonos mores T) (
Contract a disease, to
Content and non-content or not " a marriage, to
content " an alliance, to
,, debts, to
„

Contents
oneself with

of a letter, the
little, to "
,,

„
enmity to
friendship, to
ill habits, to
;
,, of the larder, the „ oneself out of, to

Conterminous with
Contest for freedom, a
^^ , the eyebrows, to
Contracted circumstances
,, the possession of the field, ,,
mind, a
to „ resources
,, with an adversary, to „ space, a .

; „
Contraction of iron by cold
writing

«
Contiguous to
Continent fever
Continental climate Contradict in a dispute, to El
tour, a „ one another, to
Contingent use pjj „ oneself, to
Continual feast, a the bans, to ^tff
,,
fever, a

^^
,, rains Contradictory evidence CI
Continuate goodness Ifi " statements
Continuation-day JH
 *

Contrary ( 77 ) Convey

Contrary child, a Conventional term

Converge to the centre,

;^
" current to
„
,, to ;;
disposition, a Converging lens
,, rays
,,

,,

"
to law
to nature
to one's expectation
Conversant

. ,,
in
with ;
with books
, with one another
" to reason
„ wind Conversation about a matter

^
Contrast one object with another,

(:
to „ between or anion:;
Contravene a law, to guests
Contra vent et maree ) „ on heaven
Contribute to , with friends
to,
to one's comforts, to Comer
Converse a savage into a
'one ( civilized
„ to the government, to man, to
„ from a bad life into a
Contribution for the poor good one, to
to a fund ,, goods into money, to
,, to a magazine, to
,, into, to
Contrite heart, a proposition, a
Contrive a plan, to ,, the heart, to
,, after gain, to ,, the wilderness into a
,, against one's life, to fruitful field, to
„ to each other
Control oneself, to with a person on, upon,
,, one's passions, to lj
or about a matter, to
,, over
Controversy about or on Conversion from darkness to light
, with a person
from heresy
Contumelious language ,, of food into blood, the
Contuse by beating, to
Convalescent hospital S , of public funds into
Convene an assembly, to private use, the
Convenient excuse, a
^
( |i
" of water into ice, the

,, for both Convertible paper

,,

"
harbor, a
situation, a
to
ffc Convey a
„
terms
letter, to
a right, to
:
;
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Convey ( 78 ) Coram

Convey by express, to " breeze, a

ideas, to " by blowing, to
land by deed, to " dress or garment, a
, news, to , falsehood, a ^
oneself out of danger, to „ fisK,a
^; nod, a
, to a friend, to
Conveyance by water
Convicted of a crime, to be
; ,, off,
one's heels, to
,,

„ one's wrath, to
to

MM
" upon evidence, to be fg " oneself by sitting in a cool
place, to
Conviction of an honest mind, the ,, reception, a
,, treatment, a
of oue's own guilt Cooling card, a
Coon, a
Convince a man, to Coon's age, a
. of, to 5S Coop up, to
„ of error, to Co-operate with a person in an
the truth, to
of
Convincing eloquence
Convival gathering or party, a
enterprise, to
Co-operative store
Co-partner in something
]
,, with a person
Convoke Paliament, to Cope with, to
Convulse society, to with adversity, to
„ with laughter, to
Convulsions in children
„ of a state
)^ " with success, to
Copia verborum
Copious explanations
( ^?
,, of the legs ,, notes
of the tendons or ,, showers

;
,,

muscles ,, style of writing

Convulsive fits Copper, a [
Cony-catch, to ^! ,,
captain, a
head, a
Cook accounts, to 8C
a person's goose for him, to copper head

,, a report, to Copy after a person, to 9

from a model, to
^ ^
,,
,, one's goose, to
rice, to „ from nature, to

(
,,
,, out of a work, to i
" the goose of, to
Coq a Vane )

„ to pieces, to Coral master, a

((
;;
Cool answer, a Coram nobis
,, as a cucumber non jvdice
,,

behayior, a
 I #

Corbie ( 79 )

Corbie messenger, a ; Corporal oath

" punishment
Corded ladder, a Corporate property
Cordelia's gift Corporation spiritual
Cordial friendship, a
love
,,
temporal
Corps d'armee ) ();
, waters

((
,, de garde (
(( ,
;(^
welcome is; ,, de reserve )

Cordon bleu ) , diplomatique )

„
Cordovan (
sanitaire
Cordova
Corpse candle, a
light

Cordurov road, a
Corpus Christi
„ delicti (( )
)

Cordwainer, a
,
Cordova
„
(
juris civilis
)

Correct a child with the rod, to

)

g
&.
Coriander seed

Corinth, I ;, Corinth
" a manuscript, to

;;
^;
" a mistake, to
a style, to
,
Corianthian, a ;;
brass
,,

,,
conduct
principles
proofs, to

Corianthianism
Cormorant, to be a
„ time
Correspond to, or with, to
" with a friend,
;
to
Corn crackers |[»
UA Correspondence between two state-
,, -cracker State, the Ken- ments
tucky " by letter
,, in Egypt school
Corned beef
Corner a stock, to ; Corresponding month
Corrigenda T) (
,

„
a witness, to

boy, a
Corroboree, a
Corrupt a voter, to
air
^
, blood
Cornet-a-piston „ disposition, a
Cornice-ring of a cannon i
mind, a
" morals
Cornstalks
, officers

(^
" one's heart, to
Coronation oath „ the morals, to
Coroner's inquest Corrupt to optimi pessirna )
 ' i

Corsican ( 80 ) Counterfeit

Corsican
(the
Ogre, the
Corsica
Counsel war, to
Count
,,
as merit, to
cost, to
^
Cortes,
Corvee ( )

Corybantic religion, the

,,

"
for anything, to
for nothing, to
in, to
Corydon, a iioses, to
Coryphseus, a t " not your chickens till they
Cost dear, or dearly, to
,, ;
are hatched
on, to
,, free
little,
much
to
„ out, to
ft ;
,,

,
„
price
what
(
labor, to

it will
"

,
out the House, to

the chickens before they are

Costly affair, a hatched, to
Costume ball, a
Cotquean, a

Cotswold lion, a Cots-

"
,,

,,
up

upon one's
;
to a hundred, to
upon, to
assistance, to
wold Hills
.
Cotton lord
,, Plantation State, the
"
:
without one's host, to

,
Alabama
to a person, to
(up) to, to
; Countenance a
,,
theft, to
falling ;
Cottonopolis Manchester Counter current, a
„ of a horse

; ^ ^
Couch a cataract in the eve, to ,,
poison, a
,, a spear, to ,,
revolution, a
,, gold embroidery on cloth, „ to
to Counter-caster, a
Couchant lion, a ,, -jumper, a

;
Cough down, to
Counteract baneful influence, to
oneself red in the face, to
" poison, to ;^^
,,
up phlegm,

;^
Couleur-de-rose (
to
$j : :; Counterfeit a name, to

,,
coin, to
crank, a &
umtm
1
""1

mm goods
Coulissee, the

Council of war
^
^'^ '
,,

„
.
grief
money
®#
sickness to
;
 *

Counterfeit ( 81 ) Cover

Counterfeit virtue
Country customs ^; ® jOourland weather
(Courland
, dance

„
Joan, a i||
manners
Court a lady, to
,
;
applause, to
"
County corporate
London, York
-seat, a
; ,,

"
,
card
Christian
-dress ;
court ^^ " -dresser, a g
, palatine etiquette
Durham, Chester , -favor

Coup ((; Lancaster

)
,,

,,
holy water
martial
^
„

( (^;
debec
de hasard
)

)
,, of Claims
of conscience
,,

,, ((
d'essai
d'etat ) "
of error
of requests
„ rfe

((H;
grace
de main
„ of St.
plaster
Jame's

,
,.

,,

" )(; ^
<^ wc^rt; Courteous reply
Courtesy titles
„
,, ( (^
de pied
de plume )
Cousin Betty ;
Courts of admiralty

, (
de pied de Vane

&^a^ (
de soleil
C) " Jacky (Jan)

;
Cornwall

manque
(( ;
de tent
) ,,

,,

(
german
Michael (Michel)
Michael |g

; (
-

Couple of pair, a
Coupled with Coute que coute
Courage of one's convictions

, ;
oozing out, one's
Cove, a ( ; ;(;4
Oouteau de chasse
Courier-dove, U Covenanter, a ||
Course away time, to
" of a man's life ^ Coventry blue
,,

"
of action
of events
(
Coventry
Cover a crime, to ;
,,

,,

,
^ of exchange
of
of
nature
study
"
"
,
a loss, to
a mare, to ;
a retreat, to
"
,,
of things
runs smooth, One's
,,

"
,p
in, to
into, to ;
mmm
one's money, to
Cover ( S2 ) Crank

Cover over, to
" the approach by troops, to
hand, a
-hemp, a
;
in a stone, a !^
,• the robber with a gun, to
doom, the
" twenty miles in two hours,
„
,,
of
on, to (
,,
to
up ;
Covers were laid for so
JP.

many
"

,,
one's invention,

-rope, a
to

Covert attack, a ; "

„
shot, a
trust, to
;
;;
, from storm, a ,, up, to
,
,,
of robbers, a
scheme, a
Covet after riches, to
„ bribes, to
fame, to ^^
Cracked

,,
,

Cracker State, the

pottery
voice ^
in the ring

Georgia
,,

„ pleasure, to
Coveteous of gain
" of knowledge or wisdom
Cracklin
Cracksman, a
Cracowe, a
||
;
Covey, a () ; ;
Cow of the wedding, to be the
Cradle into, to
,,

,,
of freedom, the
-walk

^(
wheat, to
,, with an iron tail, a Cradled in luxury, to be ;
1ft

Cowhide boots
Oow-leech, a
Coxcomb, a ; (
Crag and
Craignez honte )
tall

^
Crab out of an agreement, to
—
Cram a hall with people, to

Crabbed busineas

Crack, a
paragraph, a
()
,

"
—
articles

down
into a

the throat, to
box, to

an examination, to

^
a bottle, to " for
,, a crib, to (^
,, a joke, to , one's pocket, to
,, a tidy crust, to „ poultry, to
,, a whip, to Crambo
,,

,,
anything up, to
-brained ; Cramp one's exertions, to
Cramped in circumstances
,
„
chess-player
credit, to
French, to
,,

mind, a
,,

Crane one's neck,

in space

to
j| ( ffl

, -halter, a Crank, a fiA;

 & g

Crape-nan ( 83 ) Creole

Crape-man, a ;^ Creature comforts

((
Cravat, a ;
Crash with the teeth, to „ , the

Credat Judseus (Apella). )

Crass ignorance
Crave food, to
, ;;
for, to
Crede experto ) (
Credit a purchaser with an amount
,

,
,
indulgence, to
one's help, to
pardon or mercy, to
,,
paid, to
a statement or report, to

„ department ()
Craving appetite, a ,, man ()
„
„
for fame, a
for food, a
for help, a
:
;
,, one with honesty, to

sales (
Craw-thumper, a the amount to the pur-

Crawl into one's hole, to ; „

chaser, to B
to one's family, to be a
„
"
on one's knees, to
into the favor of the king, to Credo, a ;
Credulous superstition
.

Craze one's limbs, to

, one's wits, to
Crazy boat, a ;M# Creep
,,
in, to
into a corner, to ;
"
"
bone, the
house, a
quilt, a
; ,, into a person's bosom, to

into the good graces of, to

—
,,

Creak of crickets
Creaky shoes into people's house, to
Cream
„
butter, to
City, the
,
Milwaukee
,,
out, to ;
up the sleeve of, to

, of fashion
,
with, to ;;
upon one, to

,
of lime
of tartar
of the jest, or joke, the
Cremate a
Crome de la creme (
corpse, to
)

Cremona, a
Creafs a disturbance, to
a new office, to Creole, a
Cremona ,
,
" heaven and earth, to Louisiana

sorrow, to
Creative power
" spirits
State, the

Creole)
^
Louisiana
 A

Crescent ( 84 )
Crop

Crescent, the ,, vegetation

, wine
"

Crescit et eundo
City, the

)( (
New Orleans Crispin, a
,
)
(St.

M ,
Crispin

Crescite et multiplicamini ) Crispin's holiday, St |g

Criss-cross, or criss-crow row
Cresset-light, a
Cressid, or Cressida, a
Cretonne, a
Critical ability
„
„
article
ears
; ^*

)
;(+
Normandy Creton „ evidence
Creve-ccpxir ) ,, issue, a
Crib, to H; „ moment
Crichton, a
, (Crichton „
, situation
philosophy

Criticise a painting, to
Cried, to be „ a poem, to
Crime against nature
" has been brought home
person, a
to a
"
^ one's actions,

upon or on, to
to 12

Crimen falsi
„
mrrmm^
laesx majestatis ( )
Croak, to
,,
„
(
disaster, to
Croakurnshire Northumber-
Criminal action, or suit ( land
( ;
; (;
n Crocus Sniilax

(;,
,, conversation
,, laws Crocodile tears
Criminate oneself, to ft Croesus Lydia
Crimp seamen, to
,, the border of a cap, to Croggeii, a

,,

Crimson
the hair, to
guilt
^ Orokers
Crook-back, a |t
,, in one's lot ;
Cringing hypocrites fg one's finger, to

Cringeling, a
slave, a
|g
|g
,
the elbow
Crooked business
(
Crisp air •
„ generation
,, cakes « ,,
money
,, channels " sixpence |g
" fire, a ,,
temper
,,

,
"
hair
manners
outlines
„
,,

Crop-ear, a
ays
whisky ,
, rejoinder flowers, to
 3

Crop ( 85 j Cruef

Crop of ice, a
out, to ;
the field with rice, to
,,

"
"
star
swords, to
the cudgels, to P

„ up, to " the hand with silver, to

Crosbite, a ,, the legs, to
Cross a check, to , the path of any one, to

and pile ^t$^ "

,, the Rubican, to
words
;
Crossed arms
as a bear, as
as the devil, as check, a ^
-action
-birth
(/
as two sticks " in love, to be
Crouched-friars
Crouching person, a
(
-bones

•breed
"
Crow, a (
tiger, a

about or over, to

^(
,,

cove and molisher (ffi) , -bait, a

Crowd around one, to
crib , in, to
day
examination
,, on sail, to (
eye
fire (
,,

"
"
out, to
sail, to
with, to
(
now Crown in, to
fortune
-grained ; „
of desire
of thorns,
(
a
marriages
or over, to ;, ;
^
off,

" of shame " one's wishes, to

AJ with success, to ^;
one, to Crows' feet
one

one's
s ur °w, to

hand or palm, to
" -nest

^
Crucify the flesh with the affection
and lusts, to

;^ ^
Crude affair,a
one's mind, to " coloring
one's path, to " drugs
one's plan, to " fruit

one's steel with, to

oneself, to ^ "

"
manners
material
notions
or coin
over or out, to
-patch, A
;( , reason er, a
Cruel death, a
„ remark, a #
 g i *

Cruise ( 86 ) Cudgel

Cruise about, t:: mercy, to

Crumb Dread

,
& iit.) u.ilk, to

ot comfort, a ,, off,
murder, to
the
of blood,
to
the table, to ,, on, to
Crumble away, to ^; , oneself sick, to
HHH|
into dust, to
,
to pieces, to
" # „ oneself to sleep, *feo

Crump- footed
-shouldered |t
„
,,

,, out, to ; ;;
one's eyes out, to

Crumple paper, to
"
Crunch a bone, to
up, to ;* ,,

"
out against, to
out before one is hurt, to

,, through the ice (as a out or upon, to

Crusoe, a
ship), to

Crush a cup or glass, to

; "
,
over spilt milk, to
quarter, to
quits, to ;
„ a rebellion, to
„ by despotism, to " roast meat, to
"
,, out, to ;
one's hope, to

to death, to
,, stinking

„ the praises
fish, to

of, to ^;
^;
"
Crux criticorum
, medicorum
) (
under an iron heel, to

(
" thieves, to
„
„
to, to
up, to ^; ft
Crux of a question, the upon, to
" with a loud voice, to
Cry against, to
aim, to
, wolf, to
" you mercy ;;
back, to ;
" at the top of the voice, to Crying evil, a
"
„
shame, a
«in, a
barley in a brulzie, to Crystal spring, a
^;
„ cave, to
clink, to ; Crystalline nky, a
Cube sugar |i
,,

"
cockles, to
creke, to ; Clicking stool, a
Cuckoo storm, a ii #0«
,
„
cupboard,
down, to;; to
Cucumber time
ss *
, for help, to
for joy, to W^f Cuddy, a ;
"
"
goods, to
halves, to
hold, to
Cudgel one's brains,
,, -play
-proof
^ in
 ' W

( 8? j Car«

i"
Cuidne
bono?
((^: ;)
) „
wealth
„
knowledge

Cul-de-sac
Culinary art
" vegetables
() Cumulus-stratus
Cunctator, a
Cuneiform letters
;
Cull flowers, to
honey, to
Culminating' points
^
®;
Cuneus cuneum trudit
Cunning as a fox, as
( ^^
Culpable
Culpam pwna
of a crime
prernit comes ( )

,
blade, a
hunter, a
-man _
Cultivate a person, to " trick ff
" a person's friendship, to „ work
Cup a person with wine, to
"

"
a savage, to
moral conduct, to
one's memory, to ;g „
and can
and gold
;
" brimful of wine
. „ philosophy, to " of blessing, the
, rice, to „ of suffering, the ^
„ the mind, to " that cheers but not inebriates,
"
„
' the soil, to
virtue, to
Cultivation of letters, the
^ "
the
to run over
Cupar justice
oi savages, the Cupboard love
Cultura of the Greeks, the

Cum iiotis variorum (

j

I
Cupel-dust
Cupid ( , ) Mars Veuu8

Cu ruber
priiilegio
li
(
a field, to
) I
j

"
a
Cupid's golden arrow
leaden arrow
" one's movenienr, to
I
Curable disease, a
I
Curb a horse, to
Cumbered with cares, to be ',, a person, to
a well, to m^rm
with heavy burdens, to " oneself, to
be „ oue's lusts or passions, to
Ounibersoine business, a " -roof
;
load, a " -stone
„ machine or contri- ,, -stone broker
vance, a Cure a )> >v ('l' carelessness, to
Cuinber-world, a
Cumulative evidence n , a paticut of consumption, to
force
 g j ^

Cure ( 88 )

Cure fish, to Cnrsory examination, a

,, for asthma, a ., one in his privileges, to
hay, to
, of, to Curtail (cut-tail) dog, a
n Of SOUIS ()
tea, to ,, expenses, to
" the evils of a bad habit, to " one's wages, to
Curtain from or out, to
Gurfew
Curiosa felicitas
'(-bell), a
( )
,,

,
-lecture
-raiser, a
Cushioned on the throne, to be
!
Curiosity to learn
Curious workmanship Custom-house broker (.
Curled darlings
Curling smokes
„
Custos
of merchants
morum ((
Curmudgeon, a
Currant or curranto, a
Currency lass, a
Cut a
„
„

a
rotvlorum
caper, to
capon, to
;
,, of bank

of time,
notes, the

the
,,
a
a
a
comb,
dash, to
dido, to
to

(;
,
Current account (; ,,

" a feather, to ;^
,
,
„
coin, a
custom
events
; ,,

,
a man's comb,
a passage through, to
a person's cla ws, to
to

^;
" expenses
handwriting
month
^ „
a
a
play, to
queer figure, to
" number of a periodical, " a i idiculous figure, to
the " a small figure, to SfcJiit

,, of events „ a sorry figure, to

price a swath, to

„ report
Currente calamo
Curry a horS3, to
(. ,
above
acquaintance, lo
, a
fi^!

,, favor, to |g , across, to
" fowl along, to
, one's hide, to
Curse by bell,
(
book, and candle, to
" an appointment, to
and come again, to
rfti

()
1
j|

of Cain, the " and dried

„ of Canaan " and Ion- tail
" of Scotland
Cursive hand ; „ and run,
fi
to ; if
 '

Cut ( 89 )

Cut and thrust

asunder, to
;
;# one off from the church, to

one short, to
,,

,
away, to
blocks with a razor, to !
1 one's acquaintance, to
one's coat according to the
both ways, to cloth, to
capers, to one's eye teeth, to k

„
„
dead, to
direct
down,
;;
to
one'd own throat, to
one's stick, to ; ;
"
" in or into, to;
expenditures, to

;
one's way through, to
one's wisdom teeth, to
;
"
„
„
in pieces, to
in rates, a
in two, to
open, to
out, to
;;; ;
,, it too fat, to # out a ship, to
,
,
g
jokes, to
loose, to
lots, to
; out for, to be
out work for, to
prayers, to (
"

"
of a garment, the
of beef, a —
of one's face, the
-purse, a
recitation, to
;(
,
,
,
off, to ;; ; ^^
of one's jib, the

off affections, to
short, to
stick, to
;
the acquaintance of a friend, to
I off contentions, to

, off all intercourse, to to —;

the cackle and come the

the coat according to the cloth,

'osses,

" off an army from supplies, to to

-
the first turf, to
" bloom, to
off in its the (Gordian) knot, to
„ off one's nose to spite one's
face, to the grass under one's feet, to
„
„
,
off one's retreat, to
off posterity, to
off with a shilling, to
the ground, to ;
the ground from under one, to

no ice, to the painter, to <g

„ one another's throats, to the record, to
the sea, to
u one, or cut one dead, to
IS
(the) teeth, to
th% throat of, to ^MS
 ) ^

Cut ( 00. Damasetii

Cut throat competition " one's hand in blood, to

to the heart, to
to the quick, to ®;
Daddy-iong-legs
Deedale or daedalian # ^
"
„
under, to
u P; to ;;;; m ()
Daft days, the
Dagger ale
up, to be
up root and branch, to
;
,
Daggle-tail, a
-cheap
; ,
„ up rough,
; to
Dago, a
,
Cutter's poetry
Cutting reply, a
Dagoba, a
Dagon, a ^
„ wind, a
Cutty stool, a

Cycle of Cathay
(
Dahlgren gun
^
Daguerreotype, a
Louis I J. M. Da guerre

,, of indiction John A. Dahlgren

„
the moon, the
of
of the seasons, ^ Daimio, a
Dainty costume

"
of the sun, the
of years, a
Cyclic chorus
"
,,
limbs

viands
of »;
;
" poets
Daisy-cutter, a
,, time (
; )

((
Cyclopean Dakoit
Cyclops ) Dally away one's opportunities, to
Cybele
Saturn
Coelus

Cymerian darkness
Terra
"
"
with, to;
with courtesans, to
Cynosure " with words, to ftH;
Cynthia's lamp
Cyprian, a ; Dalmatian dog Si
Daltonism ; ; ;
„
„
Cyrano, a
Goddess, he
trade, the
t

; Dam
"
in or out, to
;
up, to
g
D
„
Damage
up water,
feasant (&
to

Da
Dab
capo
at, to
( ;-
be a
5; () "
# one's reputation, to

"
„
Dabble
dowD,
it up, to
to
l"j

in politics, to
^ Dama-ed goods
Damascus blade,
M: Damascus, ^
or dauiasco

with music, to ' .

 3

Damask ( 91 ) barbyites

Damask water " the war dance, to

Damasked with
Dcuiui tfhonueur
Dame Earth
() flowers to another tune, to

to another's piping, to
Dammard, a
Dam my; dam my boy, a to the tune of to
&
,

Damn with faint praise, to

„ upon nothing, to
Damnable
Damocles' sword
doctrine

Damon and Pythias

;& ,,with joy, to
Dancing days ;
^; " girl, a
Damp down

>, off, to
a fire or furnace, to

(
Dandie
Dando,
Dandy,
Dinmont, a
a
a
^
" one's ardour, to 19^ " hands ^"
, one's hope, to „ -horse, a
" sweat, a -prat, or dandiprat, a
Dampen one's enthusiasm, to

Damsel, a
Dane's skin
Dangerous
^
affair,
E

a
Damson, a Damascus " animals ^;
Dan ^; fi^g
;^
Cornuto, a ,, disease, a
Danaides or Belides
Danaus ,(" Argos , of favors
of taste

,
Hypermnestra
"
,,
;; place, a
project, a
Danaid's work Dangerously ill
Dance

„
after or to (one's)
whistle, etc, to
attendance on, to
pipe,

J
,,

;
Dangle about or after, to
Daniel come to judgment, a
wounded

„ and pay the piper, to

-, away, to
m Dantesque
Daphne ( , ) Peneus
,,

"
barefoot, to

for joy, to
i
Daphnis (
Apollo

,
Sicily,
Mercury

n of death % Muses

„
(
on a volcano, to A Dapperling, a ;
,,

w
on the rope, to
the back step, to
th% Tjburn
;
Dappled horse, a
Darbies
Darby and Joan
;
to Darbyites (SO Plymouth
 M g ® S

DarJanus ( 92 )

"fe John Nelson Darby, Darkness and the worm %

Dardanus
Troy
(
Jupiter Darling daughter, a
visible

Dart forth rays, or beams, to

Dare everything, to
, one to fight, to , to and fro, to

)
; &;
Dare pondus fumo (' „ to one's feet, to
Daredevil, a Dash against, to
Dares, a
Daring act, a
candor
f^f ;^S?ff
,
-buckler, a
down,
forward, to
;
to

,,

,,

Dark ages
;
imagination
-net, a
,
off, to ;
in pieces, to

off a letter, to
,, as a wolf's mouth, as ,, one's confidence, to
„ as Erebus, as
Erebus ,, out, to ; ;;
one's hopes, to

out a word, to
as midnight, as " the cup from one's lips, to
"
,,
as pitch, as
as pocket, as , through, to ; ?
„

„
and Bloody Ground, the
Kentucky
box
,,

„ with, to
Dashed with blood, to be
;;
wine with water, to

„ conspiracy, a IX Dashing gallantry

,, Continent, the , young woman, a
,, deed, a
horse () ; Date from,
Daub with mud,
to
to
,, house, a Daughter of Eve, a
"
M lantern —
hour, or times "
"
of faith
of the horse- leech, a

„ person, a ,, of the Peneus, the

,, saying, a
superstition
; Peneus
„ of the sphere, the
Darken counsel, to Dauntless courage
,, the door, to Dauphin, the
David, a
,,

,,
the mind, to
the sun, to
Darkened life, a
[J Davy Jones
,,
,
;
and Jonathan

Jone's locker
ij

Darkening sky, the " Jone's natural children

Darkest corner J8I
 H

Davy ( 93 )
Dead

Davy's dust jk ahead

Dawcock, a -alive
Dawdle away, to and gone
Dawn of the and safe, to be
Bay about as a door-nail, as
,,

n
,
after day
after the fair
after tomorrow, the
; as a herring, as
as a log, as
bargain, a
"
,
"
by day
in,
is
day out
done, the Q
as Queen
beat
beat, a
; Anne, as
ffi

() ;
,,

,,
is gaining on the night, the

in court
calm, a
capital
;^
,,

,,
in
of
bank
doom, the ; cert (certainty), a

»
,,
(f grace
of judgment
() ()
color, a
cut
door, a
;
drunk
of rest mnu duck, a
" of wrath, the failure
fire
a

^
& star, the floor,
Days gone by halt, a
(
,,
;
" marked with a white stone

of creation, the
hand

head
()

,, of devotion () heat
„ to be numbered, ont'a horse
E
hour
" that are no more in front
Dazed brain in sin
Dazzle in conversation, to jump

Da audHu ((;
Dazzling triumph y
)
language
law ^;
;;[
n die in diem
facto (
( ; T)JHI^
)
letter
level ;
;;
" j^e
" novo ((; )
Hft
lock
a

(
loss,
" profundi s
propria inotu
^
m^n'a pan ( if

Ooad against (^)^/ march, a

 Dead ( 94 ) Deair

Dead matter ,, sin

„ men's shoes ,f
vapor

;;
,, virulence
„ nuts on, to be „ volcano, a ^,
weapon

,,
,,
of night, the

on ;(
of winter, the
,,

,,
wind
wine
(
„ on end ,, work
" on for the object
pay ( ,,

Deaf as a beetle, as
,, as
wound, a

a door-nail, as ^
pledge () ,, &b a (door) post, as

"
„
-reckoning
ropes
Sea apple
^ ifij
„
„
,,
as
as
as
a
a
a
stone, &s
wave, as
white cat, as
„ secret " as an adder, as

„
"
security
set, a ;
set against, to be [
„
"
"
as
to ;
an ass, as

to advice
"
,
set
shot
upon some one, to "
" nut
to reason
;
"

,,
sleep
soil,
;
silence

a
Deafen a

Deal by, to
floor, to

ift

;^
, sound, a cards, to
„
,
stock

;
-struck; „
,,
ill

in, to
with onf, to -

„
„
"
tired
to ;
to all sense of honor g
"
,,
in politics, to
in wine, to
of time, a ^
;;
„ out, to
to reason , out blessings, to
„ to sin " with, to
with
;
wall difficulties, to
„

„
water
weight
( „

Dealer in flour, a
window Dean and chapter ()
Deaden a ship's lieadwav, to , of a faculty in a universitv,
'-
the ^
the feelings, to '
,, of diplomatic corps
—
Deadly blow, a
„
"
disease, a
hatred
,, of faculty, the ( )

" poison, a " oi guild (^ W)

 c ^i
' g

Dear ( 95 ) Decent

Dear abide it Debate on or upon

„
"
bless us
grief ;^ " on or upon politics, to

,,

,,

"
knows
ine!
ones
; " upon the rights

what course
of man,

to take, to
a

" speed
year, a
Dearth of good men, a
; -

m
with oneself, to

Daath-bed Debauch by lewdness, to

[
,
,, bell, a
-blow
;;
-bed repentance by teaching, to
one's principles, to
^5

,, fire ^ the appetite, to IJ

,,

,
,,
hunter, a
;
of one, to be the
on anything, to be
„
"
to
the soldiery, to
oneself by intemperance,

, on doing anything, to be Debauchery of trusted servants,

the
,,

,,

"
-rate
-rattle
staring one on the face
Debilitate the body by intemper-
ance, to ;
Debit a customer with goods sold, to

,, -stroke
-struggle
^;
; Debouche
;
E
( )
,, -throe Debt of gratitude
„ -token of honor, a
„ -warrant ,, of or to nature, the
,, -watch ,, of record, a
,, -wound, a
Death's door
, head
; Debufe of an actress, the ^cf^|7J^C^

Decay
m
of beauty
,, man
Debar one from entering, to
[ ,, '

Decayed family, a
of fortune

Debase coin, to Deceive oneself, to

"
,
,
one's principles,
oneself, to
style
^ to

by vulgar words, to
* ,,

"
superiors, to
the eye, to

,, the character by crime, to

December and May
„
Decent conduct
of life, the ;
Debasing tendency ,, dress
Debatable land " fortune, a
,, point language
tt
 Decide ( 96 ) Deep

Decide a case, to
a dispute, to
; Decorous behavior

"
in favor of the defendant,
to ()
on the merits, to
Decoy bird, a
duck, a
one into
;evil, to
'

Decided advantage, a ij Decrease of strength

,, change, a Dedicate a book to one's friend, to
„ language .
opinion land to public use, to
,, purpose i^
" superiority ,, oneself to God, to
Decimate captives, to
Decipher a despatch, to
decision of character
,, ofsome dispute
^ ;
#
Decree
,,

heaven of
Deduct from the price,
to
;
God, to

to
" on some case ^; " one's wages, to il

Decisive action Deed of darkness

battle, a of gift ()
,, way, a „ of light
Deck up, to Deeds not words
Declaim a right, to
one's address, to
Declaration of Independence, the
^ „ of arms
Deep calls unto deep
,, color, a ;^
Declare a dividend, to
„ darkness
drinking ;
;
„
,,

,,
off, to
oneself, to
war, to
^^ ,,
gambling
gratitude
hatred ;;
Declension of a state „ in a person's books
of virtue
.
.,,
Declination of a star, the ,, in debt
„ of the head ,, knowledge, a
Decline a present, to
,,

„
in morals, to
in years, to
"
,,

„
mourning
need
note, a
;
„ the
of a fever, ,, of the night, the
,, the
of day, , of
plot, a ;;
the winter, the

^
„ of life, the ,,

"
,,
of strength, the
of literature, the
Decoct medicine, to ^;
"
,,
reflection
sense
sigh, a
;;
Decorate a hero, to
, an edifice, to
Pecoration Day t H ^
,,

,,

„
silence
sleep, a
sorrow
; St!
 H 3g #

Deep ( 97 ) Definable

,
,,

"
study
subject
;
student, a Defer a project, to
,,

„
payment, to
the consideration of a matter
thunder to a person, to
" water or waters „ to next day, to
Deepen grief or sorrow, to to one's wishes, to
Deference to custom
, the sound, to " to the law
Deepening dusk
Deface a bond, to
a monument,
*
^ to
Deferential regard
Deferred annuity
insurance
(^;
(*
„ payment (f55)
lawn

,
,, a
fence, to
writing, to
^by an unsightly „
,,

Defiance of danger
shares
stock ( (^])

Default in an engagement, a
" of appearance
Defeat a deed, to ( ^^ , of the process of nature

Defiant answer, a 8f
, one of an inheritance, to ,, attitude, a

^ , coldness
,,

„
one's end, to
one's hopes, to
Defeated in battle
Kt; Deficiency bills

of a fund
^
"
in one's hopes
in one's plans
Defect in the ear, a
,, of blood, a
Deficient in, to be
, in insight
;1 2«

„ of memory, a *B in politeness
Defective argument, a „ in virtue
,, strength it
" limbs ,, vitality
,, memory B Deficit in an expense fund, a
,, rules JW
Defend a pass, to Defile a woman, to S
, against an enemy, to " one's mind, to
oneself, to
„ by a rampart, to ffl; ,the temple, to
„ from danger, to ,, with mud, to il
!
„

Leo x
with a sword, to
Defender of the Faith
Henry vm
Defiled with the world
Define a boundary, to
" a word, to
^ >RR

Defense against assault
Defensive alliance
" posture, a
one's position, to
+
^ " the powers of an official,

Definable boundaries
to
 ,

Definable ( 98 )
Delicate

Definable terms
Definite arrangement, or measure,
"
Deiphobus (
to regard, to
Priam Hecuba

"
a '
certainties , Paris
Helena
Helena

„
„
"
sum, a
statement, a Si

time or period, a
^: Dejanira (
n ^ Hercules

Definitive decision, a Hercules A

„ statement, a Dejania
Deflect from the right course, to Dejected countenance of mind, a
IE
Deflection of the needle
;
an answer,
Delay to
Deform a book, to creditors, to ()
, a person by injury, to
of an hour, a
the morals, to
,, Del credere ()
Deformed person, a
Defraud of money, to ^! Delectable companions
Defray the expenses, to i' feasts
Deft evasion
,, hand, a
Defy danger, to
;
4
„
,,

things
tale, a

Delegate a minister, to
„ public opinion, to ,,
power or authority, to
„
,,
pursuit, to
the laws, to ^ Deleterious substances
Degenerate age
couise of action, a
"
generation, a
"
(^
Deliberate abnegation
offender, a
insult, a
^^
"
,,
productions
son, a
Degradation from rank
judgment, a
measure, a
on
^
state affairs, to
Degrade a captain to the ranks, to
Deliberative body, a
,
,
oneself, to #
the brightness of colors, to
"
"
speech, a
turn of mind, a
IT
Degrading tendency Delicacy of flavor

,( ,
Degree of relationship ,, of health
Deidamia Sycros Lycomedes of tast'.
Achilles Pyrrhus Delicate butterfly, a fl
" complexion, a
Deify money, to
Deign a favor, to
to grant, to
,,

,
constitution HK;^-1?
discrimination ^;
 g

Delicate ( 99 ) Demarcate

Delicate ear for music, a

,
fingers
flattery
; ,
"
a
a.
jail, to
speech before
ence, to
an audi-

, matter, a , a speech on a platform, to

, mind, a ;
,, music " goods, to
„ question, a ,, of a child, to
„ thermometer, a " one from prison, to

fX,
„
"
thread, a
transaction
viands ; „
"
over, to ;
one's thoughts, to

over the management, to

, wine
Delicious air, a
" food ; ,,
the goods, to
the world, to
;
^
,, fragrance , to the authorities, to

M
fruit
up, to ;
^
.
t
landscape "
water „ up a fortress, to
, weather up arms, to WtW^ t

Delight in doing good, or acts of ,, up stolen property, or

charity, to booty, to

( :^,
,, in flowers, to Delivery from danger
, in study, to " of letters
" in virtue, to Delphi Phocis Apollo
" oneself in, to

;;+ ^;
the eye, to Delphic lines
" the heart, to " sword, n jgd
Delightful affair, a
,,

„
companion, a
conversation, a
Delude
„
,the world, to
oneself, to
search, to ^
ft

music Deluge of tears, a

Delilah, a
prospect, a
reception ; Delusion of the mind
Delusive hopes
notions
;; ^ '

Delirious dance 3 &^ Delve in medieval literature, to

"»4^i^t
„
Delirium ebriosum
.^ecs ta s es
fancies
i

; Demand a debt, to
and supply
,
„
nervosum
tremens
"
,
"
Demarcate the
note, a
respect, to ^
^
Deliver a blow, to frontiers, to
a broadside, to m
„ the sciences, to
 ( 100 ) Departure

Demean oneself like a gentleman, Denounce a as a cheat, to

to
Demijohn, a a sinner, to
Demi-monde, the
Demise and redemise ( ' "
a traitor, to
one's treachery, to
^^
Demission in rank
Democratic party
Demolish a fortress, to ^ , to the horn, to (H
Demonii-cal practices
Demon's penal element Dense clouds
"
;
wrath, to

Dvjmor.strate a proposition, to

Demonstration of joy
"

,,
crowd, a
fog, a
forest, a
;
, of love, a
Demonstrative figure, a ( ,
"
"
ignorance
population
stupidity
*
#
,, person, a understanding, a
,,
^"
with soldiers i
„ reasoning Denude one of clothing, to
;
Demonstrator of anatomy, a H Denunciation of a criminal

"
^
Demoralize a countrv,

an army,
Demosthenes, a ^; to
to
Deny
,
,,
"
a report, to
a request, to
oneself, to
of vengeance

;
Demur to one's vie\\>, to " oneself from a thing, to

Demurrer to evidence " one's master, to

Demy, a Oxford Magdalen

Depart from
,, from
a friend, to
a resolution, to ;[
&:
" from custom, to
Den for thieves, a , from evil, to
" of vice, a 3 " from one's home, to
Denarius Dei ^ ,, from the path of rectitude,
„ St. Petri tj
„ in peace, to ifij

Denial of a fault

,
of one's faith
of oneself
; ,,

,
on one\s journey,

this life, to :
to

Denim Departed, the

Denizens of the air ,,
glories
Denomination of Christians, a Department store
Departure from duty, a
 g iA

Depend ( 101 ) Derive

Depend from, to
; Deprecatory letter, a ;
"
"
on or upon, to
on circumstances, to Depreciate freedom, to
" one's merits, to
K ^
" on food for life, to
" on others for a living, to the market, to
•
Depreciation of fixed capital
upon it
Dependence of children ou their
parents
Depreciative fund (
Dependent on or upon Depredate on one's property, to M
„ on God I
„ state, a Depress one's ardor, to
-,, upon friends the eyes, to
Deplete one's resources, to
^ the mind, to 56
S
"
tha treasury, to
Deplorable condition, a

Deplore a fault, to
stupidity or folly pJ
the people, to
the pole, to
the price, to
the proud, to
Depressed railway, a
^
() *

, one's fate, to
one's misfortune, to Deprive of an office, to
of pleasure, to
the loss of a friend, to of sight, to
, of territory, to
Deport oneself, to Depth of a sail (' )

Deportation for life of night, the

" to a penal colony
Depo3e a king, to
Deposit a pledge, to ;
„
"
of sound
of winter,
Depths of air, the
the ^
" for safe custody
for security (^)
in trust ( ^ Depute an official, to
Derange a machine, to
" an affair, to
^ f

" money in a bank, to Deranged brain, a

Derangement of trade

^ :;
„ vault Derelict children
Depository for goods, to in duty
Deprave the mind, a , lands
Depraved arts Deride religion, to
" mind, a Derisive laughter
morals Derive benefit from, to
Deprecate calamities, to ' , from, to
, one's wratli, to ^ 1 , itself, to
j, poverty, to g „ knowledge from experi-
 im

( 102 )

encp, t->
,, thanks, to
Dernier resort Desiccate iish, to
Derogate a law, to Design evil against a person, to
a man's honor, to

" for, to
„ from, to , for a building, a
Derogatory remark, a Designate an afficial for the post,
Descant on one's merits, to to

" with or on, to

Descend from a horse, to
; Designation to office f
Designs for advertisement
Desire a favor of a person, to
;

"

"
^
from father to son, to

from the same ancestors,

" an object for oneself, to

,,

"
to
from the throne, to
<n or upon the enemy, to
"

,
distinction, to
for vveath, the
instruction, to
;
,,

,,
SI
to baseness, to F "
to particulars, or details,
"
"
long life, to
offame, the
riches, to ;
to Desirous of
Descent of a curse on a race, the
mmm
,,

Desist from, to
of gain
;
" on enemy
the
Describe a circle, to
" in detail, to IB
;; igj
Desobligeant, n
from figlitiivz, to

.
from work, to flT-ff X

Description of a man's person

,, of the goods
Desolate one's heart, to
" village, a
Desolation of soul
^ ;
man

—
Descry a hidden a screen, to
Despair of, to
„ distant land, to of life, t;>

Desecrate a shrine, to Despatch a messenger, to

Desert a friend, to „ a prisoner, to
,,

,
a ship, to

;
one's colors or standard, to
ffii

„
"
,,

note
business, to
monry
()
(
,, to the enemy, to Desperate attack, a
Deserve blame, to ,, conditions

^
credit, to
" death, to ,,
debt, a fC^f
praise, to ; " disease, a
,,
punishment,
reward, to ^^ to "
,,
effort, a
man, a
 i ®

Desperate 103

^
( ) Deticalioil

Desperate measures
Despicable fellow, a
Despite of one'n teeth
;)^ Detect a flaw, to

,
a thief, to
an error, to
Despoil of, to Detective camera
Despotic government
Destination of a ship, the & Deter a person from a thing, to

Deteriorate th ? public morals,

P

to
Destined to, to be
, to misery, to be Deterioration in quality
Destitute family, a Deterred from a crime for fear of
,, of punishment, to be M
,
"
of
of
any support
food and raiment Determinable freeholds (
Destroy a contract, to matter, a
" a government, to
+ Determination of blood (
"
,,

"
9, plan, to

life, to ;
one's reputation, to
„ of the war ih.li!
Determinative energy M^k'^-ttfl
tables (
" oneself, to Determine a case, to ;
Destructive distillation
of or to ; ,,

,
a contract, to
a question, to
"
to property
Desultory notes E;
fpi^ealtli

^
,
,
,,
a will, to
an affair, to ;
on a course of conduct,
Detach a body of troops, to to
" the meaning of a char-
„ a cable, to acter, to
" a ship for a certain service, Determined in mind
to " resolution
„ coupons, to J I
Detest a liar, to
Detail an officer, to I Detestation of crime
"

Details of a plan
^
the facts of history, to
!
Dethroned king, a
Detract from one's merit, to 12

Detain a guest, to

•3S
„ by force, to
from departure
; Detriment
"
to morals
to one's reputation

„
,
for the night, to
in office, to Deucalion ( ,
Detrimental to health
) Prometheus
%^
"
„
one a prisoner, to
one's wages, to
Detained in captivity, to be ^
Thessaly
, ,
Pyrrba
Deucalion
 ( 104 ) Devoted

; ,S
,. cushion, the

, ,
, dozen, a
Deuce, the ,, Island Guiar.a
is

-ace
in

anything
of
;
it, the
,,

"
livery
luck; devil's own luck
)'
,,

Deux ex machina (ife

Devastate rich
Develop
„
an ; fields, to
idea, to
resources, to
the mind, to
S; -?Si
„
„
mass
Parliament, the

play-books, the
—
"
" the muscles, to snuff box
Development theory
Deviate from, to
„
;
from a hair's breadth, not „
,, tattoo
teeth
to Devilish act, a
from established rules, to " sophistries
wickedness

^
,,

,, from rectitude, to $y?^ Devious steps

,, from rule, to , way, a
from the right way, to Devise an engine, to
means or ways, to
„ from virtue, to
Deviation clause ( ^ ,
"
,
mischief, to
revolution, to
^
Detest a liar, to Devoid of ;
of feeling or sympathy
,, of clothing, to "

"
"
Devil, the
and
;
oneself of pride, to

all
„
"
"
of foundation
of selfishness
of shame
,, a bit truth
of
take (or catch) the hind- Devolve authority or power, to
most , on or upon another, to
,, loves apple-dumplinga, as
the Devote oneself to, to
" loves holy water, as the " oneself to literature, to
may care
,, of a temper, a
to pay,
Devil's advocate, the "
^
one's time to study, to

the city to destruction, to

„ Bible, the
" book, the ,, to God, to
the mind to, to ;
,,

,,
bones
booth, the
box, a
„
Devoted admirer, a
„ utUciiinent MtSti &
 ^ i «

D^voteJ ( 105 ) Dictatorial

Devoted to Buddha, to be Diamond cut diamond ;

,

"
^ to one's country, to be

to one's master, to be
„ edition, a

Devotion to a friend
Devotional exercises
to the flames, to be ,,

„
;
field

of
^—^
jubilee, anniversary,

the purest water

etc.

feelings " State, the Delaware

hymns
Devour a book, to
Devoured by fear, to be
Devouring ambition, a
Devout prayer, a
„ thanksgiving
: Diana

Diana's worshippers
(
wedding, a

^
„ wishes for the welfare of Diaper a flower on cloth, to
others
Dew M Diaspora, the Palestine
„
"
of sleep, the
of youth ; Diatonic scale
;
Dewv "
coolness
-dark
Dicing-house, a
Dick-a-Tuesday ; 1

;(;
-gloomy Dick Talbot'ri truths
Dewitt, to Cickey, a
Dexter base
,, chief „ bird, a
Dexterous at or in doing something ,, box
Dicky Sain Liverpool
" hand, a Dictate a letter to tlie stenogra*
, management pher, to
„ sleights of hand orders to the troops, to

„
Dextro tempore (^
workman, a ,
"
peace, to : |fl

the course of government,

Diabolical act, a
,,

"
arts
crime
;^ „
to
the terms of a treaty, to

expression Dictates of one's conscience, the

,,
possession
Diagram of a theatre, a „ of reason, the
Dialectic power Dictator of Letters, the
Diametrically opposed |H Voltaire
., opposite it Dictatorial power £5
 er ( 106 ) Dig

(
Diddler, a^ (
(
infavsins
Dido
, ^*lfri
Bel us
Carthage
Sichaeus HL
"
.,
ndUdis
(((
jm-idicv6

;;
Die a martyr, to
„ a natural death, to
Ifieu avuc

"
nous
(
defend U droit
„ an unnatural death

„ at sea, to Differ
(
torn garde
from another thing, to
" by hanging oneself, to
, by one's own hand, to
" by violence, to
„ doubly, to ^ ,
"
in opinion with one another,

with a person on a subject, to

„ down, to
, dunghill, to Difference between two things
„ for, to
,, for the country, to " in character, a
" game, to
„ hard, to
„ -hards
; „

"
other
of
—
one thing from an-

with a person, a
in agony, to Different from
harness, to pair of shoes, a
in one's bed, to
one's boots, or shoes, to
"
Differential duty
Difficult customer, a
(
,, in the last ditch, to 4§ , man to deal with mm
in the pain, to
is cast, the „ to please
"
.,
like a dog, to
like a rat, to
" of disease, to
^ ;^ Diffuse fragrance, to
,,

,,
information, to
instruction to , ;,
"
„
of starvation, to
on a Fishday, to
on one's enemies, to ft
,,

,,

„
the Gospel, to
writer, a
^
temperance principles,

ff

,,

,,
out, to
poor, to
rich, to
#^
g
Diffusive gas, a 81
style, a
Dig a field, to
„
" up, to ;
to the world, to

with laughing, to
, a foundation, to
, a grave, to
a mine, to
"
;(
with one's boots or shoes on,

Dies Jaustus H
to „
"
a pit, to
a trench, t(
down, to
;'
 ^ '

Dig ( 107 )
Dip

Dig from, to
„
,,

"
in to
out, to
) itii

the grave of ones reputation,

Dime-cheap
" novel
Diminish expenditure, to
, the price, to
- ^
to Diminutive of enjoyment
" the well at the river, to , stature, a

"
n
through, to
up, to
; Din of battle, the
" of carriages, the
,, of market place, the
,,

,,
up the hatchet, to
up the tomahawk, to ; the ear with
Dine a guest, to
„ and wine, to
cries, to #

Digest a scheme, to It*!j off, to

,, a sermon, to §4 „ forth or out, to

,, an affront or insult, to " with Democritus, to ||
,, food, to " with Duke Hum prey, to

&
„medicine, to
„the law, to , with Mohammed, to
Digestive organs „ with Sir Thomas Gresham,

Diggings ;
^^jl^rflietfaghtB It

Dight one's death, to

" with
to
St. Giles
Murray, to ;
and the Earl of

Dignified austerity " with the Cross- Legged

„ bearing, a Knights, to
Dignify a man with a title, to Diner-out, a
mL Ding (any thing) in one's ears, to
Dignity of labor, the
" of patient suffering, the Ding-thrift, a
Dinner is on the table
Digression from the subject Diogenes of the four-legged brutes,
Digressional adventure

Digressive orator, a
Diomedes
the
( :
;
H
, Atolia
Ulysses
Tydeus
vrfnerva
Dike-louper, a Troy
Dilly, a - Diotrepbss, a
Dilapidated house, a
Dilate the story of one's life, to Dip a curtsy,
a wing, to
; to

„ upon one's travels, to candles, to

" in a book, to
Dilatory in doing business " in gall, to
Diligent in study " in politics, to
Dim prospect, a
" remembrance, a
"
" into, to ;
meat into a sauce, to
 ^

Dip ( 108 ) DisburJen

Dip
,
,
of the horizon
of the needle
one's hands into, to
the pen into ink, to
^ Disadvantage
Disaffect the army, to
of time

Disaffirm a judiciiil decision, to

, up or out water, to
" water with a pail, to
Diplomatic body or corps
Disagree ia opinion, to
,
,
with, to
with a person, to
; #;
,,

„
cold,
m
skill
.1

lagemeiit
Disagreeable fellow, a
"
,
news, a
smell, a
i» ,
Direomens

^ Disagreement between two per-

Direct a letter, to sons, a
"
Ira
appeal to the publi

attention to, to Disappear

^
, with another, a

without leaving any

contract * traces, to
fire () Disappoint a blow, to
intercourse " one's designs, to
line, a m
statement, a Disappointed in love
tax " of a thing not obtain-
the affairs of a state, to
^!
ed
;
the eyes to, to
the fire of a battery against
a redoubt, to
Director of a company
||

'
^ „

;
of hope
Disappointment at failure

of expectation $g
Dirty action, a
-cheap
, one's clothes, to
( Disappropriated church (
„
;
ont s reputation, to
, trick, a
weather, a
Disabilities of poverty, the J)isd4rm a
^
Disapproval of
Disapprove of one's measure, to

fangs,
snake by extracting
to
1
its

Disable
v
' a
of

man
a war veteran, the

from inhbritin?
"
.

passion or rage, to
suspicion, to
real estate, lo Disastrous termination
Disavow a crime, to g

Disabled by sickness
one's influence, to

iRi
11 the fact, to
Disband an array, to
Disbanded soldiers
'
,, ship, a %m Disbelief in Christianity
, soldier, a Disburden one's heart or mind, to
 P A

Disburden ( 109 ) Discount

Disburden oneself
Discard a lover, to
Disciplinable offense, a
of, to Discipline children, to
^ ,, the mind, to
troops, to

;^
a servant, to ,,

" an officer, to f| „ with the rod

" erroneous views, to Disclaim a debt, to IS
, a doctrine, to
,, fear, to ,, authority, to
Discarded by heaven Disclose a secret, to ^?
Discern a difference, to
,,

,,
at a glance, to
between good and evil, to
mask, to
one's uiinu, to
;
one's face hy removing i

Discolosure of a face from beliind a

" one thing from another, to veil, the
the
of a fraud,
it ^—
Discerner of men, a Discomfit an opponent, to
Discharge a debt, to
,
"
a pistol, to
a prisoner, to
a servant, to
^ , one's plans, to
Discomfiture of veteran troops, the

Disconcert a speaker, to
" a ship or vessel, to " one's plan, to
Disconsolate darkness of the whiter
" an arrow, to nights, the
,, . from a debt f ,, mother, a
„ from prisoner, to Discon tented mind, a
, from the ears , with one's lot
from the eyes B ,, with oue'i
" from the nose
" goods from a goclown, to Discontinuance of a suit. (
,
"
into, to ;
of duties, the
" of conversation

, of water from a pipe, a " of intercourse

Discontinue a correspondence, to
" one from office, to
" one's conscience, to " a newspaper, to

fjfJ^iiin^W^t. duty, to ; ,
m
work, to
Discord among brothers
f|X

the color from a dyed Discordant notes or sounds

•

,,
fabric, to
Disciples of Christ
of St.
^
Antling
1

! , sentiments
views
Discount a bill 10 per cent from
 * ^

Discount ( HO ) Disentangl<

prompt payment, to between right and

wrong, to
Discount a rumor, to " the good and bad, to
" an expected inheritance,
to Discriminating intellect, a
„ mark, a
" ninetv-day notes, to Discrimination in rates on railways

, pain, to " of (?ood and bad,

Discountenance innovations, to the
Discuss a bottle of wine, to ({!)
a riot, to

Discourage an enthusiast, to
"
,,
a doctrine, to
a fowl, to
a tumor, to
(
Discouraged in an undertaking, to " family affairs, 10
be ,, politics, to
Discouragement to a person Disdainful comment
Diseased hallucinations
Discourse about, to
,, on or upon, to Diseaseiul climate
" on virtue and reason, to to the people
Disembark troops, to
Discourteous language Disembarrass oneself of one's com-
Discover a new element, to panions, to
Disembarrassed of debt, to be jj^M
a new land, to
,, a plan, to * Disembodied spirits of the dead,
" a secret, to ; the
Disembody troops, to
„ an error, to - Disengage a man from the promise
M
; ^^
Discredit a rumor, to of marriage, to tff

,, one's family, to " from a bad friend, to

Discreditable affair, a ^
Discredited statement, a „ gas, to
Discrepancy between appearance , one's hand, to
and manners ^2 one's mind, to
one's mind from lusts, to
" in accounts
Discrete movement of the voice ,, the mind from study, to
IS[
Discretionary authority Disentangle a difficuty, to
Discriminate between colors, to „ false accounts, to
urn
 g

Disenfangfe ( HI ) Dismal

Disentangle yarn, to the spirits, to

Disenthrall a man from evil " to one's country, to
lmbits, to
Disesteeni a former friend, to Dishonorable act, a
in riches
Disgorge stolen goods, to
j
Disgrace oneself, to " submission
" one's ancestors, to
Disillusioned youth
" one's country, to
" one's reputation, to Disinclination to books If

^
to business
to the country, a
Disguise anger, to ; " to the fair sex
"

„
one's feelings or
ments, to ;
one's name, to ;
senti-
Disinclined to food
Disintegrating tendency
Disinterested benevolence —§
,, one's voice, to

,
,
oneself, to ;
oneself as a beggar, to ^
"

„
decision or judge

in an affair

Disgrnnted, to be ,, motives
Disgusted at or with, to be
Disgusting odor, a
Dish, to () ;: 8^ Disjecta membra
Disjected people
(;
" a cardage wheel, to Disjoint a fowl, to

"
„
a person, to
fit for the gods, to
Kt*
Disjointed speech, a
Dislocated bone, a
. ,, joint, a
^
out food, to' Dislocation of the wrist
, up, to Dislodge a fox from the den, to gg
, up the dinner, to
Dished out of, to be
Disheartening facts ,j>
„
Disloyal hnave, a
an enemy, to ;
Dishevelled liair
Dishonest action, a
,, associate, a
^ "
„
sentiments
to the country
wife, a
gain or profit Dismal countenance or look, a
words :
Dishonor a bill
one's parents,
( to ^ „
place, a
science, the
" story, a
Dismanth ( 112 ) Display

Dismantle a
,, a
city, to
fort, to
Disparaging criticism
Disparity of age
^^
Dismayed at a result „ of rank
Dismemberment of a country, the " of tastes between hus-
band and wife
Dismiss a case, to Dispassionate judgment, a
" a courier in haste, to

,,

,,
a meeting, to
a subject, to
Dispatch ;
letter, to
a messenger, to

: business, to

(;
,, from office, to by the sword, to
" one's wife, to on duty, to
the pupils, to money
,
Dismission of prisoners
,, of troops Dispel doubts, to
note (
Dismount cannon, to , fears, to
„ from a car, to , ghostP, to
" from a horse, to " illusions, to
Disobedience to one'a parents

" to the government

" sorrow, to
Dispensation of Providence ;
Dispense laws, to
Disobedient son, a
„ to the laws
wife, a
„

"
medicine, to
with, to
with an oath
;; ; from the
Disobey one's parents, to
,,

„ the laws, to
orders, to ;;^ "
witness, to )X
with an obligation, to

Disorder of mind " with formalities, to

Disordered imagination
Disorderly conduct or behavior " with luxuries, to

house, a ; mi
Disperse a crowd, to IS
„ '
thoughts
^ ,, a rumor, to
)
|$

^
language " a swelling, to

^
" |f

,,
people knowledge, to
Disorganization of society ,, the enemy, to

Disown a claim,
,, of
to
^
troops
Di!>{)lay courage, to
filial piety, to
tiags, to

,, a report, to great talent, to

,
„
a son, to
allegiance, to ;
*
^ merit, to
 * g

Display ( 113 ) Dissipated!

Display one's wit, to " the consequences, to

-stand
" the cloven feet, to " the laws, to
, the red flag, to Disrelish advice, to #
" the wings, to " food, to
" virtue, to , music, to
.
Displeased with a person, to be Disreputable affair or act, a
,, with one's conduct, to be person, a

Disposal of affairs, the Disrespectful language

„ the
of offices, ,, treatment #
of property ffi Disrobed of, to be
" of the pictures on the Disrupt friendship
wall, the Disruption of a stato
of time, the Dissatisfied with, to be
of troops, the ,, with one's fortune, to
Dispose a fleet in the form of a be
crescent, to

;
of, to ; ;^;; Dissect a body, to
a word, to
Disseize of an estate, to
of goods, to Dissemble a sleep, to
Disposed, to be ,, grief, to
, for fight madness, to
"
,
to pride
Disposition in flowers to turn to-
Disseminate discord, to
heat, to
;
,,

^
ward the sun, a 3 , news, to
" to drink, a * Dissension among friends
Dispute a question, a
„ property, to Dissent from, to
„ with a person about some- , from a proposal
thing, to Dissenting from an established
, over a point of law, a church
Dissever friendship, to
Disqualify a man from citizenship, Dissimilar in appearance,
[
,,

"
to
for or from, to
from competing, to
; Dissimilitude in shape
Dissipate calamities, to
" energy, to
;
Disqualified fora post
Disregard advice, to
; „
,.
ignorance, to
one's fortune, to
sorrow, to ;;
|3# [
life, to , the mind, to
,, of the laws of health

one's reputation, to
[ Dissipated fellow, a
mind, a
,,
Dissipation ( 114 ) Distinguish

Dissipation of mankind, the „

,,
from
kindred
;
Dissolute audacity ,, mountains
, life, a ,, reception, a
" resources " resemblance, a
" youth, a thoughts jil

Dissolution of a marriage, the view, a

Distaste for food
„ of a treaty, the ,, for society
of partnership, the Distasteful task, a
truth, a
„ of the blood ( „
„
Distempered feeling
viands

Dissolve a charm or spell, to Distill fresh water from sea water,

to
,, a company, to , molasses in making rum, to
„ a meeting, to * [
„ an injunction, to Distinct articulation, a
" friendship, to ,,
cognition, a
" metals by acids, to from each other j

parliament, to ideas
„ ,,

Dissolved by pleasure, to be ,,
sight, a
statement, a
Dissolving views tune, a
,,

Distinction of right from wrong

^
" years
Dissuade a man from his purpose, ,, of vision

to without a difference ^§
, one from an undertak-
ing, to Distinctions between the rich and
Dissuasive advice the poor
Distaff on the throne, a Distinguish a light in the distance,
-sisters, the to
,,

Distance between two places " between two things, to

good from bad, to

[
, due to authority
oneself by talents, to

" of ten years, a

.p-if oneself in war, to
, one's competitors, to
right from wrong, to
Distant
n
city, a
countries
descendants
; ^M|mv
low, to
sounds into high and
Distorf 115 ) Divert

Distort the laws, to Diurnal birds of prey

the limbs, to
" the meaning of a word, to „ fever
" motion of the heavens
truth, to
Distorted face, a " rotation of the earth
Distract the attention, to
,, the eye, to
Distrain for debt, to
; „
Dive for pearls, to
task B
T
" for rent, to " into a wilderness, to

Distress a city into surrender, to „ into politics

Distribute alms, to ; Dives, a

Diverge from the right path, to
„
„
justice, to
plants into orders, to into branches, to ;
,, type, to ( Divergence in statements
Distribution of climate
, of money in charity Divergent lens
Diverging branches
(;
branches of a family
,,

District court (()

of troops „

; ;
, school
surveyor
Distrustful of a man's motives
^ lines
paths or roads

streaius or rivers
Disturb the mind, to SL
, the peace of the world, to Diverse from
'

,,
ways
Disturbed equanimity Diversification of colors
Disunion between two brothers
of forms

Disunited
of the soul and body, the

from society
Diversion

"
of
channel
a

of the mind from busi-

stream
^
from its

Ditat Deus
Ditch dog, a
( )
ness
Diversions of youth
Diversity of colors
„ in or up, to „ of goods
,, out, to , of opinions

^ Divert a pursuer from the trail, to

Dittoes
Ditty bag, a iE
box, a funds, to
 i .

Divert ( 116 ) Do

Divert commerce from

"
"
course, to
oneself in playing, to
one's attention to another
thing, to
its usual
[
Divulsion of the spirit from the
body, the
Dixie Land
Dizzy ladder, a
multitude, the
^
'
" the enemy to another ,,
precipice, a
point, to Do, to ()
„ to other subjects, to ', a bad turn, to
Divest of clothes, to [ a bill or note, to
, of rank or office, to a bit of stiff, to

„
one of his rights, to

oneself of passions, to
[ a courtesy, to
a (or the) favor, to
a parish (
Divide et im pera
Divide in two, to
(
oneself of pride, to
a person a service, to It
a person brown, to
" the attention, to a person in the eye, to
" the booty, to a sum or sums, to
, the estate, to a thing by fits and starts, to
" the field by ditches, to
a thing off-hand, to
,, the profits, to a thing under the rose, to
„ with a knife, to
" with a pair of scissors, to a thing with a good grace, tr

Dividend warrant [
Divine comforter about, to
„ defeat, to -all nS Z
,, favor on orranrl
so errdiiu, w TP-?£3ii' —
f rv -ft jfeiflj^"
<

inspiration a t>
all ill
i n r n t,n
+niiii, vyj ^^i*3
judgment
master
nature, the
^
1
as
away ;
one pleases,
with, to
battle with, to
to

;;
,, one's meaning, to best one may, to
" power Z brown, to
" scrvico J© " by, to

;^
jtVi 1

;
.

ngnu oi Kings Js^^w^m chores, to

thoughts credit, to
„
,,
woman, a iw damage, to

worship
Diving-bell
death, to
down, to;
,;
" -dress duty, to
Division of labor duty for, to

Divulge a secret, to for, to

 i M

Do ( 117 ) bock

Do
•
for oneself, to
good, to
ft ; "
„
out of, to
over, to ^;
good
grace, to
to, to
:^ "
"
over again, to
reverence, {o

,,

"
homage,
honor, to
honor to, to
to
;^ ,
"
right, to
the business, to
the city, to
(
II

, into, to , the handsome thing by, to %

;
„
;;
justice to, to
the honors, to

;
like, to
-little, a "
the job for a man, to
the right thing by somebody,

"
,,
" little,

;^
much,
no good, to
to
to
'
to
the trick, to ;
things by halves, to
„
" [
nothing but, to
odd jobs, to ,
%
time, to

,
off,

; to
off with, to
one a favor, to
"
"
to or unto, to
to death, to
unto others as we would men
,, one a good turn, to should do unto us, or do as
" one good, to ; P% one would be done by
one in the eye, to

,
"
, one or oneself credit,
one out of money, to
one proud, to
to
,
,
;^
up, to &;
up a room, to
"

„ one right, to
^ 4^
oneself the pleasure

;
of, to ,

,
;;;
up brown, to
well, to
well by, to
()

, (one) to know or understand, " what is done, to

to
one up, to ;; "

;;
^ ; ^: ; ;
what one can
with, to
Fj

"
one's
one's
one's
best, to
bidding, to
business, to
,
"
;^
withal, to
without, to
^;
one's copies, to
one's diligence, to
"
" ;
wonders, to
wroug, to
'
,,

,,
one's duty, to
one's hair, to
one's heart good, to
" you inind?
Dobhash, a
Docile child, a
:
" horse, a
,, one's level best, to
Dock a horse's tail, to
one's office, to
,,
,, a man's wages, to
, one's utmost., to a reckoning, to
 * )

Dock 118

^
( ) Dcggett's

Dock a ship, to ,, of contract

((
,
charges
dues
( Doddy, a
to order
)
" up, to
Docket goods, to
, the case of A vs. B, to ^
Dodipoll (Doddypoll), a
Dodge a blow, to
,, responsibility, to
^
" with one, to i|
Doctor, a Does it lie in one's mouth?
" a broken cart, to ( your mother know you're
„ a sick man, to ( ,,

out?
; i
" accounts, to ( Dog a person's footsteps, to
Brighton,
Brighton
Sussex
,, -bolt, a ;
" election returns, to (
,

,
cheap
days ;
-ear a book, to
•

,, Fell -fall

,the „ in a doublet, a
" whisky, to ( in a pocket

Doctors, " in the manger, a

,,

Doctrinaire, a
Commons
differ
; „ Latin ^
of^God, the
Doctrine of the
Document
Mean
a traveller, to * ,,

,, of Montargis, the

" acceptance bill () -rose, a ^

,, against acceptance () -sleep, a
g
;©
against payment () -tired (
;
;
,,

^
,, -trick
-weary
Documentary acceptance bills () „
Dogberry, a
bills () Dogged determination or resolu-

;
,,

mm
,, drafts
payment
()
bill
;( Doggerel

Doggery, a
tion
expressions

( ; ^^
public debts () Dog^ett's Badge K1
"
IS A —aSJ3
Dogmatic Dominoi

Thomas

^
Dogsjett ,,
products
„ servants
Dogmatic assurance ,, trade
" statement, a ,, use

Dog's age
physician, a „
"
war
work
Domesday-book
;
letter, the
: R
R Domesticate oneself, to

Domicile of choice (
"
"
life
meat ; " of origin
Domiciled at a hotel
(
nose
of the war
„ bill (
Doily Domiciliary visit, a
Dominant chord ( (
Doing well, to be estate ()
Dolce far niente
Dole out, to
( ,, owener
Doleful ditty, a
foreboding party, the

(;(
,, lamentations „ power
look
Doli capax ) Dominate the world, to
incapax Dominating influence
Boll's eyes Domination of the superior over
Dolly shop, a the inferior ability, the
" Vardun, a
Dolphin of the mast, the ( Domineer over servants, to E
Domain
Domestic
of science,
affairs
the Domineering insolence
Dominical letter, the
;#
((
, animals
" bill
economy
()
endearment
; g|
D amine, dirige nos

Dominie Sampson, a
)

Dominion day
establishment, one's
, of a king over his
expenses people
legal person „ over sea and land
Hie
manufactures Do minus vobiscum ( )
 ^ H

Domus ( 120 )

Domus et placens uxor ( ) " claims

(
Don
Piocerum
a cloak, to
( ,,

.,
partner

passions

Donar
Juan, a

'
( f?i ,
Dos-a-do8 )
volcano, a

(
window, a

Donat; doner, a
Donation party
Done brown
^; ^
(( ii
Dose a patient, to
" one with advice

,,
for, to be

in January, 1923
,
out pills, to
" of medicine, a
" of faultfinding, a
—;
S Doss-house, a
, over or up, to be () Dosser-headed
,,

,,
to one's hand
up, to be ; ; Dot and carry on, to
and go one, to ()
(;
, with, to have
Donkey-engine ,, down, to
„ means one thing and the " the i's and cross the t's, to IE
driver another, the
Dote on or upon, to
Donnybrook Fair
Do-nothing fellow, a
" on books, to [
on one's children, to
policy, a Doted wood
Do
"
ie lass, a
old body, a
()
( Doting old age, a
Dotterel, a ;
Don't

,,
hallow
wood
you know?
till you're out of Dotted with, to be
Dotty (to be)
Douay Bible
;
,
" you see?
Doom to death, to
Doomed to misery
^ Douay ( ,
"
ties
to struggle with difficul- Double, a
„ a cape, to
^
Door must be either shut or open a number, to

^
,,
the „ a piece of linen, to ffi
Dor the dotterel, to ale
Dorcas Society, a . aud twist, to
''

Dover la pipule ( '''

' cheese

^ cloth
;
^
Doric lay 4>.^ -dealing
reed, the " down a leaf, to
Doraiaiit animal, sl I>utcb
Double ( 121 ) Down
Double-dyed traitor, a ; "
friend, a
in mind
,, -dyed villain, a ,, loan ()

"
"
edged ;
entendre (entente)
" of the patient's recovery,
to be

„ shade of color
" entry bookkeeping ()
, -faced ; Doubting Thomas, a
Douceur (; )

,, -first,

-)
a Oxford Doudon, a
Dough-face
Doughboy, a
; J3E

()
, garment, a
handed ; Douse sail, to ( (
the colors, to

( ;(
,,

-headed Eagle " the glim, to

Doux yeux
heart, a
-lines, the
; ^ Lloyd
Dover and Calais meet, when
)

,
meaning
one's energies, to
; Doverco (ur) t, a
Dowlas or Mr. Dowlas
Down a person iii an argument, to
:^
, option ,, a person with a club, to
.. over the leaf of a book, to

,
-
-plea
-quick
()
( ,
at heels
-bed, a
brakes!
;([
" standard ,, denial
" star () grade
(
" tariff system " in price
;
in the dumps, to be
"
,
the fist, to
-tongued ; " in the
;
mouth, (to be

(;;
:

up a sheet of paper, to
on, to be
. upon, to " on one's knees
„ use, a , on one's luck, to be ()
Doubles or quits
Ib'jbt of or about a thing

Doubtful battie, a
"

"
;
on one's inarrow-bones

proud hearts, to
pk^ r
case, a
expression, z Hfi^
,/ the country
the sound
.;
J}
 ® j

Down ( 122) Drain

Down the wind

to the ground (; Drag a boat ashore,
„ a field, to ; to

^
,,

" tools policy, a „ a lingering life, to 0i

; (;^
train a net in fishing, to
"
,
"
upon a person
with
„
" anchor, to (
before the public, to
" with the dust
„ with the helm () . " in by the head and shoulders.
to
,. with the tyrant " into an affair, to
Downfall of rain into the open day, to
Downright earnestness
" lie 11 „ into trouble, to
" nonsense its slow length along, to
truth
,,

Downtrodden land " on a lengthening chain, to

" race, a
Downward from the Ming Dynasty " one's brains, to

„
„thoughts
to the sea
„
"
the feet slowly on, to
through the mire, to ;'
Down weighed by care towards, to

Downy
, showers
pillows ;
Draggle-tail (Dratchel,

the dress, to
Drazel) a

„ slumber Draggled with blood

Doze at a sick bed, to Drago doctrine, the
over work, to Luis Drago
Draconian laws Draco

Draft a petition, to
„ -horse, a ; Dragoman, a
Dragon, a blind
; ;
,, men for the war, to Dragon's teeth
Dragonnade, "
^
—
" of a machine, a Dragoon, a |§S4
,, of a treaty, the , ,to It ;
,, of fishes, a Drain a country of its specie, to
tt of laborers for the railroad, a

;^
" a swamp, to
,, on Ald jrate, Pump, a
(
" of specie from a country, the
i
,, on one's strength, a „' Tiff, tO
|

" on one's time, a ^3$ n Qn the treasury, u

plan?, to one's purse, to ift
 ^

Drain ( i2i ) 6raW

Drain one's vitality, a a fowl, to
,, the cup, to a letter from one's pocket, to
, wine from its lees, to

Drainage of a farm, the

a
a
a
likeness, to
line, to
long bow, to
;;
" of the Yangtze River, the , a long face, to
, a man from retirement, to
Draining-engine
,, -plough , a parallel, to

Dramatic art
-tiles

^
^:
"
,
a person, to
a person out, to &
,,

,
Dramatis personx
literature
representation

Dramatize a novel,
(
to
) "
„ a picture, to
a pond, to
a sword from
^ its sheath, to

,, a tooth, to
Dram-drinker, a
,
"
-drinking
-seller, a
; ,, a
a
a
veil over, to
will, to
woman's breast, to
, -shop, a ^; , a wood, to
Drape a bust, to
J^rang nach Osten (
" an inference, to
after, to
aside, to
;
Drastic measures attention, to §I
,, purgatives ()
Draw a bead on, to " away, to

„
. a bill upon one, to

a blank, to
, back, to ;
" a bow, to „ back from danger, to
a bowel, to „ breath, to
"
,,

„
a
a
a
cart, to
cheque, to
circle, to
^
®
"
,.

,
cuts, to
down,
for, to
to ;(
,,

,,
a comparison, to
a conclusion, to ; „
„
from, to
from various sources, to
,

"
a cover, to

a curtain, to ;
,,

„
forth, to
groans, to
;(
,, hard the cords of society, to
„ a deed, to
a figure, to in, to BlAimAimMMM
 U

Dream
Draw
Draw in one's horns, to
( 124 )

,, the long bow, to ^

^ „ the pen through, to
, interest, to „ the teeth of ,to
it fine, to
" H mild (m " the wool over one's eyes, to
„
"
it strong, to
large audience, to , to a close, to ;
;^
„ to a head, to
lights, to to an end, to
, lots, to together, to
" money from the bank, to U - towards, to
, to water from the well, to
moral lessons from history,
to

off, to ; ;;
near or nigh, to
,

,,
^ ;; ,
water with a sieve, to

up, to
f

off blood, to ,, up a petition, to

off
on, to ; ; ;( ;
the attention, to

on or upon, to
"

Drawback
up an agreement,

certificate, a (
to

m friendship, a
on one's imagination, to " to IS

on one's memory, to IS Drawcansir, a

on futurity, to *
one's salary, to Drawing-room
one's screw, to Drawn and quartered
oneself up, to
out, to
;
;;&; ; game or battle, a

over, to
plans, to
;-; %
Dray-horse, a
Drazel, a ,
profect, to Dread misery, to
rein, to
tea, to
tears, to
; „

"
"
of death
of difficulties
punishment, to '
the badger, to
the cloth, to
the curtain, to
the fire, to
;
the first prize, to #
Dreadful monster, a

Dreadnought, a
Dream away, to
" away one's
^
^;
time, to
the king's picture, to
the line, to of home, to « n
 * I

Dream ( 125 )

Dream of
on, to ;
wealth, to ,
,,
the hair, to
the soup, to
;)
.'

Dreamy eye
out, to
the solution of a problem,
to

Dreary conversation
!^ ,
up, to
Dressed in white, to be
up to the locker
Dressing-case
-gown
ttIS ; ^
,,

day, a ,, -room
,, room, a , -table
speech, a Dressy girl, a
"
,,
sounds
style, a
tone, a
" gown, a
Dribble out, to
Dribbling talk
#
;
Dree one's weird, to
Dredge
,,

"
for a
mud,
dead body, to
to
oysters, to
,,

,,
,, water
Drift of a current, the
of cattle, a
of clouds, a
—
,

"
roasting meat with

the channel of a river, to

Dredging-box
flour, to " of the
Drill a hole, to
„ seeds, to
„ in Latin
poem, the

^
grammar, a

" -machine
Dregs of liquor, the
"
^
of the community, or society,
,,

„
instructor

knowledge into one, to

or population
Drink a measure around the table,
Drenched with water to
Dresden shepherdess, a „ at Freeman's Quay, to
Dress a
, a
battalion, to
company, to
.

,, deep, to ;
" a
a garden, to
horse, to
„
,,
down sorrow, to
hard, to ;
,
"
,,
a ship, to
a shop window, to
a wound, to 4
,,

"
„
health
in, to
in air, to
;
to, to

;;
,, bricks, to „ in learning, to
,, -circle ,, like a fish, to
-coat ,, -money
,, food, to ,, off, to
"
"
,
-goods
leather, to
out, to
; ,,

"
one's fill,

oneself drunk, to
oneself out, to
to
 ^

Drink ( 126 ) Driric^

Drink oneself to death, to away the hours, to ;&

u the cup, to " cows to pasture, to
, the cup of life to the bottom,
to dull care away, to
, the others under the table, m
,
to
the whole at a draft, to — "

"
down or feathers, to

in the park, a
„ to, to into a corner, to
" to the health of, ta " into exile, to

" up, to — „ machinery by steam power,

to

; ,—
" vr) the sea, to ,, matters to an extremity, to

Drinking water of cattle, a

Dripping-eaves ( „ off, to

„ -pan

Drive a bargain, to
,,

„
"
on, to Ji
one hard, to ;
one's pigs to market, to
,, a business, to
;
^
" a carriage, to ,, out, to
,, a coach-and-four through „ out of the city,
"
to
any enactment, to „ tandem, to
i'
a good bargain, to " the blame on a person, to
a hard bargain, to if^t
"

,,
to
a
(
a line over to the next page,

man mad
)

or frantic, to
„
„
the nail or cross, to
the nail home or to
head, to ;^;
fe|

the

, to a distance, to
to despair, to
„ a nail, to
" to desperation, to
, a nail in one's coffin, to
,,

,, to the last, to ;
to one's wit's end, to

;
„
,,

"
at, to
away, to
;;
a roaring trade, to ,,

"
to the wall, to
too
Temple
many omnibuses through
Bar, to

;
IfiJ

, away at one's work, to

Drivelling idiot, a
Driving-band ()
„ away calamitie?, to
,, rain or storm ^!
() {9 ^;
„ away evil spirits, to
,
,,
-wheel
wind ^
Drizzling ( 127 ) Drummer

Drizzling rain
Ih'oit au travail
;( j
" the mask, to
the subject, to II

„
des gens
el loyal
(
( )
"
"
the voice, to
to a good thing, to

Drone among the bees, a ,, to the rear, to

,, with perspiration, to 1
Droop one's head, to
of shoulders, a Dropping-bottle
Drooping clouds ,, fire, a ()
wiugs " of the truncheon, the
Drop a brick, to

,
,
, a courtesy, to
a hint, to
a lamp, to
Droughty summer,
Drown
„
care, to
a

one's cries, to
;
a letter, to "^ ,, one's reason in the bottle,
to
>, a sigh, to
. an acquaintance, to the miller, to
„
Drowned :
anchor, to
"
in love, to be
weir or dam, a ^
:(
asleep, to

,,
astern, to
away, to
by drop ;
Drowsy couch, a
,
,
-headed
hours
;
,, dead, to ,, reasoning
„ down, to Drubbing with the heels
, from the clouds, to
Drudge away the hours, to
" in, to
..,

"
in on one, to
in the bucket, to
Drug in the market
Druggerman, a
Drum, a
;;
" in the ocean, a , a lesson into a dull mind,
; to

—
, into the grave, to " for recruits, to
, -letter () -major ()
,, o the Cratur, a , something in one's ears, to

,,

,
off,

one a
to ;;
letter, to
() . „
„
-sticks
up for
mm
customer, to
, out, to
Drumhead court-martial
" out of sight, to
,,

>
-scene
the curtain, to ; Drummer, a () , §
Drunk ( 128 ) Dull

Drunk
"
as a
as a
cobbler, as
fiddler, as
,
Dubbed
up, to ;
a knight, to be
" as a lord, as
Pope, as Dubious
(
" as a battle, a
, as a tinker at Banbury, as „ case, a

„ as Ohloe, as
reply, a
Ducit amor patrise ( )
^

" as David's sow, as

as the Devil, as
with flattery
,,
Buck, a
;
;) ;
Drunken Deddington , one's head, to
Ducked by shower
„ quarrels Ducks and drakes or duck and
,, riot drake

&
Dry as a biscuit, as
;
"
"
„
as a bone, as
as a mummy, as
as a stick, as
Duck's egg, a
Dud, a ;
, as dust, as Dadman and Ramhead meet,
blow, a when
(
,,

,, brain Due bill

„
,,

,,
cow, a
essay, a
goods ()
^ ( ,,

"
ceremony
date
east
,, light proportion
"
" measure
nurse, a ;
(
" reward
" to ;
^
off, to Dag-out, a
„ one's tears, to Dulcarnon, a ^;
" provision
,, reception, to Dulcet creams
() melody
,,

,,
reiit
smoke ( ,
Dulcinea, a
,,

,,

"
speech
town, a
up, to ;
( )
Dull as a stone
" as ditchwater, as
" at classical learning
^;
"
,,
wall
wine
(
„ -brained
,, -browed :;
Dryad
Dryasdust, a
Dub a cock, to
.,

,,
day, a
-disposed
eyea g
;
, cloth, to " fire, a
" out, to ,, -head, a
 * H

Dull ( 129 )

Dull lamp, a Dust beneath one's feet, as

lesson, a , in the balance
, mind, a one's jacket, to
,
,,
occupation, a
of apprehension
,
out
tea
of here! (
., of hearing " the furniture, to
,, of understanding Dutch auction, a
of vision H concert, a
pain, to

^
, ,. • courage
sale, a defence, a
"
„ trade ,, drops
weather , feast, a
work , gleek
,,
yellow , has taken Holland
Dumb as a fish, as
" nightingales ^
„ as a statue ,. uncle
, creatures Dutiable goods ()
,,

,,
dog, a
-show, a
surprise
; Dutiful affection
,
,,
compliance
son, a
-waiter, a
„ Duty free ()
Dum-dum bullet, a
Dum- duui ^ „
on goods
to one's friends

Dumping field
Dun a person, to
( Duties ad valorem
Dwarf tree, a
(
Dungeon charnel Dwell at ease, to
Dupe one by flattery, to " in benevolence, to
in love, to
Duplicate cheque
" copies
( ,
" on a topic, to
on or upon, to
„ sample () , under one's vine and fig-

Durable color
friendship IS
^;
Dwelling-house ]
tree, to
„
,,

Durante vita
impression
T)
Duration of life, the
( ; fit B
Dye
„
„
cloth, to
in the wool, to
scarlet, to
During good behavior Dying body, a
Bm9Si^' s life
f£»asure
;^ couch, a
day or hour, the
g\

;
i}

Dusky brown,
W ; a prayer, a fi
-
"
ai words
^
" lane, a Dynamic equilibrium
valley, a ,,
electricity
f,
 B

Each ( 130 ) Ease

E ,,

,
ripe
spring, an
Each other TfM " studies
Eager air, an ,, to bed
as a tiger Earn a bare living, to
desire , a living or livelihood, to II
eyes
for a decisive battle
;
honors or laurels, to
f

for
for
fame
honor
in the pursuit of science §
,
,.
one's bread, to
money,
Earnest attention
to ;
" in character
to advance ,, in prayer
to study if , in the devotion to one'i
upon food country

(;
Eagle of Brittany Bertrand look, an
,,
du Guexlin ,, money
of Divines, the speech
,,
Thomas Aquinas Earth a fox, to M
Meaux, the Meaux

^
of and her waters
Jacques Benigne le -bred or oarth-fc<l
Bossuet hunger [
of the Doctors of France, one's treasure, to ^:
the Pierre people
d'Ailly. Earthen ware
-sighted or eagle-eyed g Earthly affairs
;watch
Eagles in one's eyes, to have
[ benefit or good

desires or passions
C
1/1

Ear for music, an

,, -mark, to
-shot ;i).
joys
love
witness
Early and late
bird, an
;; an
inded |& ;
crop, an
dawn
fruit
; ,,

Ease a ship
paradise, an
praise
( ^(
grave, an
hour
, away or down or off, to ( l

in life
in the
rice
morning &; & from labor, to
Ease ( 131 ) Eat

Ease from pain

"
"
her!
nature, to
(); "
,,
come, easy go
-going
in mind
;;
"
"
"
of action
of mind
of pain, to
; " life of

manner, an
the tropics, the

,,
of style
off, to ;
one of his purse, to (
"

"
master, an
monarch, an
of attainment
,
, of belief

(;
oneself, to rate of interest, an 2 1
„ ,, T
" the bowels, to
the helm, to „ style, an Hi
Easier said than done „ task, an
, tears
Easily as a fox eats fruit, as Eat a man's salt, to

;
, reconciled to anything, to be

Easop's cock
„ at separate tables,
;
away, to
to

" crow or boiled crow, to

East, the
— Far (
„
,
,
dirt, to
dust, to
humble pie, to (
,, in, to ;
, the Middle ( " into iron, to

, the Near ( ,
"
,,
its head off, to
like anything, to
mutton cold, to
";
Easter dues or offering ,, no fish, to
,, of, to
,, Monday , off the same trencher, to
" Terra Westminster one out of house and home,
^ ,,

" one's cake and have it too, to

to

Eastern gate, the , one's dinners, to

,,

"
,,
dress
hemisphere
rite
^ „
,,
one's fill,

one's heart, to
to
;
Easy
"
"
as A. B. C. as
chair, an
circumstances
; ,
,,
one's mutton, to
one's terms, to
one's words, to
 ' E $
S

Eat ( 182 ) E contrario

Eat out,
stick, to
to ; „
Ecclesiastic courts
of taste

,, the air. to " music

" the bread of idleness, to states, the

„
the calf in the cow's belly,

the leek, to
to*
Echo ( Aer
Air
Narcissus
Tell us

„ the mad cow, to „ a person's opinions, to

"
,,

,,
to satiation, to
up, to
up
;
into the wind, to () !
"
;
answers the voice, as the

,, from a hollow vale, an

,, well, to mm

((;
Eaten up with Eclectic philosophers
Eatiug-house, a Eclipse of faith
Fmu the moon
„
creole,
de Cologne
(
) „
of the
,,
of
sun
( (
,,

,,

,,
de Jevelle
deluce
de vie (( )
Ecliptic limits
Ecole de droit
Economic activity
(;
Eavesdrop one's talk, to class

; ;;
goods
Eavesdropper, an
Ebauche ) (; history
management

;;
Ebb and flow phenomena

^
,, of life, the policy
,, -tide principle
Ebony, an; a son of ebony question gfi

system
Ebullient age unit
,, people Economical administration
,, youth
Ebullition of anger or rage, an ,,
expenditures
, habits
Ecce Homo Pilate
Economics of commerce

,, signum
Eccentric cirolea
( )
Economize strength, to

Economy
„ time, to
in expenditure
,,

,,
person, a
wheel, a
Eccentricity of action
* ^ ,, of nature, the

, of disposition
E
"
contrario
of words
(T) ;
 - ' ) ^#

( m mm
Ecstasy of fear, an Educate children, to
"
Ecstatic joy
of joy,
; an " the eye, to
Educated man, an
Education for the bar, an
Ecumenic
song
council, an
(
Edwin and Angelina
Efface a writing, to
—
Eddy water ( " from the mind, to
;
,, -wind
Eden, an
"
;
of Germany, the Baden
Effect a change, to
" a junction of the armies, to

" a reconciliation, to

^
Edge a garment with lace, to
, a reform, to
a lawn with shrubbery, to
"
great things, to
nothing, to —
;
,

„
a tool, to
along, to
away, to
; Effective army,
"
„
capital
force
an

„
,,

,,
down, to
in, to ;
in a word, to
() remedy, an
"
speech, an
>'

Effectual measures or steps

)} in with, to
"
"
,
of one's appetite,
of sarcasm, the
of the sword
the
^ "

"
remedy, an
Effeminate civilization
man, an
" oneself into, to Effervescing drink, an 1
,, one's way, to
Edged tools [ Efficacious as if divine
Edging the chair forward law, an
"
„
;^
on the borders of garments

Edible bird's nest

Efficacy of a drug, the
of divine grace, the
2
Edinburgh of America, the " of prayer, the
New York Allany Efficient army, an
" cause
Edit a book, to hand, an
„ ^:
„ a newspaper, to
Edition de luxe ( helper, an
,,

leader, an

Editio punceps (; ,,

"
remedy, an
workman, an
Editorial
"
department
remark
writer i ffl ax
^
Effluvium from putrifying bodies

of
H
men's love
 g

Effort ( 134 ) Election

Effort to reform, an " through the natural passage,

Effusion of blood, an to
„ of friendship, an Eke out, to ;
out a scanty supply of one
'
,,

„
„
of joy,
of water,
of
an
an
wrath or anger, an EL dorado
^
kind with some other, to

() ; fff

Elaborate a literary com position, to

Egis of fame, the
Egeria, an
Egg dance, an
^ ,, a painting, to ,0

„ in a person's pocket, to break

^ ,, carving
'
,,
the
-nog ( scheme, an

:
t

,,

,,
on, to ;
to rebellion, to
Elabrately worked
Elastic band
work

Eggs on the spit, to have ,, constitution

Egoistic sentiment ;^
Egregious ass, an ,, curvo
„ blunder or mistake, an spirits
Elate with success, to
,, folly Elated with, to be
" rascal, an " with wine, to be ^
Egyptian, an
,,

,,
bondage
darkness
Elbow-grease
,, one's way, to
;
„ days, the " out, to
"h „ people aside, to
Elder hand ()
" disposition,' an in a village, the «U
.
;:
Eider-down quilt
Eight, an
„ -hour law
„ of a clan, the

statesmen
,,
men ;(
Eldest Daughter of the Church, the
Either side of the river
Kjaculate a prayer, to
Kjaculatory prayer, an
Elect for an office, to

God, the
^
„
Eject a
repentance
man from a society, to
Election auditor
of

^
district Ufi

„ one from an office, to ,, law

througli the mouth, to „ of members of the p&rliA-
 c

Electioneer ( 135 ) Elevate

ment, the
Electioneer, to ,
-engraving
-gilding ^
Elective studies

Electoral college
system
,

,,
-magnetism
-metallurgy
-statics
^
Elegant apartment, an
Electors-at-large
^ , blending of colors

Elector's right
Electra (
Olytemnestra
Agammemnon
,.

„
,,
composition
decorations
form
;
Orestes ,, furnishings
Electric atom
is

,,
aura
battery
^ „
,,

"
garment
movements
sentences
lM
„ circuit or current " society
„ column „ tastes
,, energy ^jj " woman, an
,, generator ^: . Elegantly colored
" glow ,, dressed
, jar „ written
,, lights Elegiac poems
meter Element, the ^
,,

„
„
telegraph
wires
Elemental fire
life
^
Electricity, animal
" , atmospheric ,, rage
„ , chemical , spirits
,, , dynamic , war
,, , free
,, , frictional Elementary instruction
,, knowledge *i
, , galvanic „ schools
„
Mjp|.:
,
:
,

,
latent
magneto-
negative ;
^;
" substances
Elements of study, the
Elephant paper
,
^
,

mht^, t
positive ' Elephantine footsteps
^;
„
Electrify
, statical
voltaic
an audience, to
;« Elevate a citizen to the Presidency,

,,
to
a flagstaff, to
Electro-biology « a statue upon its pedebtal,

J} &
-chemistry
arnica Sb^^t '
,,
to
one's g&z&f to j^H
 '

Elevate ( ^36 ) Emancipate

Elevate the spirits, to waste from the system,

" the standard of public to
morals, to Elite of the army, the ;
,, weight, to
Elevated deportment
; " of the society, the

enjoyment Elixir of life or elixir vitse

„
"
ideas
in spirit
mind, an
^; ,,

"
of vitriol
of worldly delights, the

, mountain, an Elliptic compasses fl|

„plateau Elliptical expression, an

,, railway ,, motion IK
, views Elm City, the Connecticut
, with wine New Haven
Elevation of a man to office
„ of a star
of the Host ( ) Eloge
Elope with another's
(; )

wife, to

of the masses in educa- Eloquence of tears, the

tion Eloquent glance, an
T,
of the mind ,, language

; ;
„ of thought orator, an

(—
,,

,, to a throne Elucidate a disputed point, to

FMve

^
)

Eleven, an the truth, to *

Elgin marbles, the

Elicit a truth, to
Elude a blow,
,,

,,
inquiry, to
pursuit, to
to
^^
:^
T

information by questioning, ,, research, to

to Elusive charm
, testimony, to » " dream of wealth, the
Elide the force of an argument, to

Eligible candidate, an Mft^

[
Elysian
Elysium (
fields, the
)

,,

,,
for
A
;; S
situation for the house, an
Emaciated by disease
Emanation of grace from God, tb«

Elijah's mantle
Eliminate errors, to
tf^tfcf

Emancipate
the ^of light from the sun,

a slave, to

" personal congid«ratioiig. ,, one from error, to Jft

to m»mm
 W i

( W ) Embroiled

Emancipate one from superstition,

'
of art, to
to , a treaty in a law, to
Emancipation from evil associa-
tions " thought in words, to
Emasculate the body, to
,, troops, to
,,

Einathian Conqueror, the

the spirit, to

Si
Embolismic year, an
Embossed leather
Embouchere of a stream
^
E m bowed window, an
Embalm in the memory, to 7^;|E Embowel in the earth, to

Embargo
"
of snow, an
on prosperity, an
Embrace
"
a doctrine, to
a juror or a court, to
;
^
Embark

,,
15
capital in trade, to

colonists, to
" a matter, to
a soldier's life, to ;
" for foreign shores, to ,, an offer, to *;
,, an opinion, to
n
,,
guns, to
in, to ; „ au opportunity, to

^
" in a vessel, to " all the sciences, to
., with others in an enter-
prise, to „ Christianity, to
Embarkation
Enibarras de richesse
Embarrassed among strangers
of troops
( )

Kmbrocate a
with both hands, to

bruise, to
i|

„ before an audience Embroider a flower, to

" a mantle with flowers
" with difficulty in silk, to
" a narrative with fiction,
Embedded in sand, to be to
Ember days " an arm by tattooing, to
,, fast
,, weeks an initial on a hand-

^
,
kerchief, to
Embroidering of the grass with
Embezzle public funds, to Mild flowers
Eui blazon a hero's fame, co '
Embroil others, to
Embroiled in civil war, to be
Embody a conception in the work
 d m B SB

Embryo ( 138 ) Employ

Embryo buds
,,

,,

Emerald
enterprise

, in
the
Isle,
()

:
„ banknotes
Emotion that does honor

Emotional language
r,
heart, an

nature
^ to one's

, -green warmth
Emerge from the sea, to N Emotive eloquence
Empaistic work
,, from poverty to obscurity, Emphasis of fact above that of
to theory K
Emphatic expression, an
:
Emergence
eclipse
Emergency, in
,,
of

an
the

man, an
moon from an

' "
Empire
orator,
City, the
an ^
New York
m Day
Emergent danger
,, ration () l Victoria
of the sea

,,
year , State, the New York
Emeritus
;
Emersion from obscurity
" State of the South, the
Georgia
" the moon from the
of Empiric formula K
shadow of the earth, the ,,
philosophy
,, remedy, an
Emery-cloth Employ a clerk, to
,, -paper „ an agent, to
,, -wheel „ bricks in building, to
Emigrate to another country, to
^
for a purpose, to
Eminent among scholars
,, for bravery „ in one's
,, in war „ means, to
,, services money in trade, to
,,

,, statesmen ^i-

,, station one about, in, on, upon

tower ft work, to HA
Emission of banknotes fH"? one's energy in studying,
"
^
of heat from a fire
to

Emit
_
" of light

a sound, to
an order, to
from the sun
oneself, to

ifiii-. ^
one'ti time, to B;
the pen in writing, to
 g I '

Empower ( 139 ) Encounter

Empower a committee, to J§ Emulous of another's example

Empress of the North, the

;
Emulsive seeds f
Edinburgh Enact a beggar, to
Empty a cup of wine, to
"
,,

„
a pail, to
brains
dreams Sj
,
Enamel-painting
Enamoured of books
a law, to

with a young ladv

* ^
,,

"
fop, an
-handed ;
; ( ;
with study
hope, an En arricere
(
;;
-headed avant
,, -hearted
into, to
,,

» cueros
,, deshabille
(( i;

"
„
labor
of all good ,, Dieu est (
ma fiance ) fE
H
,,
one's glass, to
one's purse, to
;f^g^ „ effet ((; )
"
„
oneself, to
pleasure, an
,, famille
foule (( )&\
)

„
,,
praise
promise, an
grand tenue
„ haut (( )

"
"
protestations
purse, an ;^ to
„ masse
pasmnt (( ;
;
,, )

"
,
show
space,an
pleinjour
regie (
( )
|f

; (;
,,
" stomach, an ^|t ; „ route )
u talk verite )
,,
„ the bag, to Encaustic painting
" the water out of a glass, to
Enceinte
,
(-tile
)
, threats
an
title, ; Enceladus

,
^ Titan Terra

vine, an
words
Emulate one's example,
; to it. Encircle a city, to
Etna
Zeus

,, in the arms, to
n the good and the great, to Encompass a city, to
Encompassed bv dangers
,,
with each other, to Encore a song or
^ singers, to f

Emulation of excellence
£mulatiT« zeal i|
Encounter dangers,
,,
to
dimculties, to ;[
 A m «

Encounter ( 140 ) Enduring

Encounter
, the enemy, to
of wits „ of the world, the ;
Encourage a person in a course of '^fi0i. t%0 year, tbe ^m^'Jl^A
action, to , on
" local manufacturers, to " one's days, to
M
:

" one's earthly career, to

'
I

„ one another, to j
, one's life, to
papers
„

„
to
the cultivation of

to exertion, to ;
fields* „
,
Endanger
to end
up, to
life,
^ to
peace, to
,
Encouragement
„
of arts
to virtue
^^ Endear oneself to all one's friends,
to
Encroach on or upon, to Endeared to a king, to be

,, on a neighbor's land, to Endearing appellation

Endemic disease, an Mi

,,
on one's rights, to

upon liberty g
Ending doom
Endless ages
" chain, an
;
of another, to ;
upon the duty and office „ contentions
happiness
Encumber the mind with

,, trade, to
care, to j

I
«

,,
plot,
praise
an

pursuit, an
i
g
^
g

„ with debts, to I , round of seasons, the

Encumbered by enemies, to be
I ,, tape
with cares, to be j
„ time
,,

S
Encyclical letter of the Pope ? the

End
j

„
,,

Endow
^^ ^
tranquillity
a charitable institution, to
5S
with faculties, to
,,

n
a business, to
a dispute, to
a journey, to
^ J
j
Endowment
Ends of the earth
of a college

Endurance, beyond
,,

„
„
a person, to
a work, to
a speech, to
;; j

I
Endure contempt or

,,
'^
great hardships,
insult, to

to '
for end
„ in nothing, to I
Enduring beauty jtf
„
,
in
of
smoke, to
the chapter, to ,,
-m
patience ;^ 2
Endydffoii ( 141 ) Engineering

Endymion ( Caria " smile, an

, 'a sleep

Eneid or ^Eneid
S
.

Virgil
Engender hatred, to
,,

Engine,
strife, to
beam
;
^Eneas ,, , caloric fft

Enemy oi man, the ,, , compound

, to society " , condensing
" to truth, an " disc
Energetic man, an , , electro-dynamic

Enfant gate ((
measures
)
if „
,
,
expansion
fire

(((;©
,, perdua ,
gas
, terrible )^ ,, , high pressure
,, trouve ) " , horizontal
Enfants de Dint " , hydraulic
Enforce a passage, to 5 " , low pressure
" compliance, to oscillating
" obedience, to ,,
, reversing
" the laws, to " , rotary
Enforcement of a claim " steam
Engage a boat, to vertical
w
,

'-? a servant, to Engineer a person for informa-

()

^^
,, for one's honesty, to tion, to

, in conversation, to a road, to

SmmmAoneself
trade
,,
in public service, to
1 [^
to a young lady, to
>
to ^ "
,,
a scheme, to
, assistant

chief
,
civil
" one's affections, to ,, , military

mir^ f
"
„ one's word, to
the attention, to
the enemy, to
„ , naval
Engineering, aerial
, mining
;
" with the infantry, to , agriculturaJ

Engaged column , chemical

in labor civil
maiden, an
, , electrical
Engagement between two forces ,
gas
, irrigation

of a young couple , mechanical

,

Engaging manner , military

Engineering ( 142 ) Enhance

Engineering, mining , Pindar, the Abraham

,, , municipal Cowley Thos. Gray
,, , railroad $^ , Poussin, the Kichard
sanitary 3 Cooper Nicholas Pous-
, , structural sin E
England's darling Here- ,, Kabelais, the
Wake Laurence
ward the
English Aristophanes
Samuel Foote
^ Jonathan
Sterne,
Swift,
Thomas Amory
Francois Rabelais
,, as she is spoke
Attila, the Oliver Sappho, the
Cromwell Attila Mary Darly Robinson
i
Diana, the Eliza- ,, Seneca, the
,,

beth
'

Joseph Hall (Seneca

Ennius, the Laya-
mon Quintus Ennius , Solomon, the Henry
VII James I
„ Garrison, the Terence, the
Richard Cumberland
, Hobbema, the Terence
John Crome, the Virgil, the Tenny-
,,
Elder Meindert Hob- son
bema Englishman's castle, an
,, Homer, the

;;
Geofferey Chaucer John meal, the
"
Miiton Homer to
Engrave characters,
, figures, to
,,
Justinian, the Edward gems, to
,,
I
,, on or upon stone, to
. ,,
Juvenal, the
John Oldham Juve-
;
" on the memory, to IB
nal
,,
Mersenne, the
" on or in the mind, to
^
John Collins Marin
E
Mersenne
Engross goods, to
„ one's attention on a sub-
Pale, the
ject, to
Dublin Henry II the thoughts, to
,
Enhance beauty, to
,,
Petrarch, tle Sir Philip one & guilt, to
,,

Sidney Francesco ,,
pleasure, to
Petrarch ,t A) ,, the price, to #;
Enjoy ( 143 ) Entail

Enjoy a good reputation, to „ size

Enough and enough
, flowers, to " and to spare
fresh air, to „ for use
„ good health, to „ to make the angels weep
" happiness, to [;
, longevity, to Enquire after one's health, to
,, music, to Enraged at the insult
Bp oneself, to ['! ; " with or against a person
" pleasure to the utmost, to
Enrich a nation, to
the blessing of God, to i
,, land or soil, to
,, oneself at the expense of
,, the comforts of this life, to others, to'
„ the understanding, to
" the moonlight, to
Enkindle one's passions, to Enriched by trade, to be If
,,
experience
Enlarge one's creed, to with illustrations
,, one's power, to
^
,, the field of vision, to Enroll members in a society, to

,, the heart, to „ oneself as a soldier, to

,, upon a topic, to
Enlarged benevolence
,,

,,
mind, an
views
; Enshrine something in the me-
mory, to
Ensign, the blue
Enlighten the ignorant, to

Enlightend views
Enlist a person's efforts,
; to
,,

,
, the red

, the white

Enslave oneself to another person,

to
„ persons of all classes in the Enslaved by lusts
cause of truth, to Ensnared by gain, to be i
,,
by lusts, to be
„ soidies, to
Enliven a fire, to
,, in the toils of a con-
, one's conversation with spiracy, to be
jokes, to ( Ensuing year, the
Enmity to God ^: Ensure success, to If
Enneatical days Entail evil on one's descendants,
,, years
Enormous crime, an ,,
to
upon oneself, to :
 ^ i

Entangl ( 144 ) Entertain

Entangle one's mind, to

" oneself, to
Entangled in a net, to be
into details, to
into one's feelings, to
;
into one's views, to
" with, to be
Entente cord/ale ( i; into public service, to ffi

Enter a bill short, to ( into religion, to

into the composition of, to
a club, to
a horse for a race, to

a
a
judgment, to
name in the list, to
to;
into the ideas or feelings

into the particulars, to

of,

into partnership with some

a new era, to
a profession, to
a protest, to
a society, to ; ijit
one, to
on or upon, to ;;
I ,, on a journey, to
an account, to

;
an action against one, to

at the customhouse, to
4^
,,

,,

„
school, to
the army, to
the mind, to
;
„ the ministry, to W ftW
battle, to ;
; ;;
the lists against, to
by or through the door, to the priesthood, to
,,

,, the world, to
defence, to
upon a business, to

;
,,
for the contest, to
into, to
into a book, to |^
"
upon a career, to
upon a lawsuit, to
.*
into a contract, to IT upon a war, to
,,
Entertain a contest with one, to
into a discussion, to
a proposal, to
into a league, to
into a treaty of peace, to
an angel unawares, to ^

into an alliance, to
an
an
idea, to ;
opinion of one,
ill to
into an engagement, to
an opinion, to
into action, to ^; charitable sentiments, to
into business, to
Enterta in ( 145 ) Eplaribus

Entertain doubt, to Entrench upon another's rights, to

,, friends witl
tion, to
feeling, to
Entrust one with a secret, to %\
,,

„ one with wine, to " to one's care, to

Enthralling charm Entry into
Enthusiastic adherents
'^ a city, the
:i
"
„ of a ship, the.
" poetry of a verdict
Entice one by words, to of free goods
"
Entire affection
confidence
,,
" upon an estate, the
" control of a business
m
Enumerate particulars, to
,, country
flavor
„ population, to
strength
" sway
Enunciate the objects of the meet-
Entitle a book, to
" one to respect, to : R:
Enveloped
ing, to
in mist, to be

Entitled to a designation
Envenomed arrow
" wine
to reward
Enviable post, an
Entrails of the globe, Hie
Envious of a person for his wealth
Entrance examination
from the sea, the " of one's power
„
" of a discourse, the Environed with perils i
m Environing conditions
Fnvirons of a city, the
" on or into office, the ±
; Envy
-money
notice
; ft
Eolian attachment
at another's success

" upon a course of action ,,

Epeus (
harp or lyre
Troy
Entranced in thought
, with ambition
( '; Ephemeral duration ;
Entre ywus
Entreat for a favor, to
,, for another, to
JR g
^ Ephesian, an
,,

Epicurean taste
;
glory rf^

, of a person to do a thing, Epicurus of China; the

to
I well, to
Entree of a house, the
;^ g
Epidemic disease, an
Epigiainmatic sallies
Episcopal Church
!^
m Eplaribus unum
 ( 146 ) Error

Equable temperature Erato(P^)

; ft ^
;
Equal decrement of life Ere long
, now
,,

,,
in value
laws
; ;
"
„ this ;,
that; or ere

,,

,
to,

to
to

anybe
be

trial, to
;.
Erebus
while

[2 Chaos
( [lj
Ncoc
„
"
to one's age, to be
to the occasion
Equality State, the Wyomiiig
; Erect a building, to
" a flagstaff, to
;
" a government, to
Equestrian games ,, a new theory, to
"
"
Equilibrium
order
statue
of the mind, the "
perpendicular, to

_VM«*
(
" a bronze statue, to SS 91
Equinoctial colure

„
flowers
heat
,,

,
,
in person
in spirit
one's mind
;to Heaven, to
,, line
g
points "
"
the ears, to
the hands, to
the spirit, to ^
^
„ time ,,

Fquip a person with money, to Erin

,, an army, to
Equity of redemption (
Erin's ire
Erinyes
Eros )
)

((
Cujid

Equivalent terms
to another object in
Err in words, to
the road, to
Erra Pater, an
;
weight
Equivocal behavior
expression ;'
Errant knave, an
, knight, an
Erratic action
;
^&
" blocks
Era of Good Feeling, the , conduct^ .If
1817 1827 stars 4fJ}\^ ^^^KE^St
" of peace, the
Eradicate an evil, to
Erroneous
r^ir'i^ocUine
"
charijcter,

idea, an
;
an

,, bad habits, to Error by oversight, an

„ error, to , of jtulsment, an

Erase a word, to " in opinion, an E

 E

Error 147 ) Estate

^
Error in the total, an
Erudite accomplishments
" scholar, an
Eruption of a volcano, the
Essence of religion, the
Essential character
oils
part
to
,
;;
" of angry oaths, an Essex man (woman), an

Eruptive force,
fevers
Erythroean Main, the
an " stile, an
Essoin days )# (;
Establish a character for, to …
Escape by or with the skin of one's ,, a colony, to
teeth, to " a constitutional govern-
" from jail or prison, to ment, to
" a customhouse, to
" from oneself, to
"

"
from punishment,
notice, to
sword only to
; to

perish by
"
,
"
a family, to
a good character, to
a new doctrine, to

,,

"
famine, to
the lips, to
the memory, to
,
"
laws, to ;
one's belief, to
, -warrant
, one's health, to
, with bare life, to i , one's merit, to
Esculapius ,, one's reputation, to
Esculent herbs
E sempre ( - ,, oneself in a locality or a
Especial charm
favor, an ; business, to
proof, to

(
,,

Espieglerie
Espouse a cause, to
"

,
;rules and regulations, to

truth, to
" a daughter to one, to virtue, to
"
Established Church of a state, the
„
Esprit de corps (
an opinion, to

( , in life

,,
de lots
fort ( ; Establishment

Estate at will
of

(
the port

Essay after, at, in, on, or to, an

; , by dower ()
Essence of beef ,, for life ()
 ®

Estate ( 148 ) Evade

Estate in coinmon
•

" in expectancy
(( Etesian wind 5 ^
Ethereal world, the
, in free
in severalty
simple
(( Et hoc genus omne
sic de ceteris ((
,,

Esteem
in tail
for a
(
person
„
„ sic de similibus
Euchloric gas
)

lit

honor above life, to Eugenic essence

Eulogistic address, a
" virtue, to Eulogy for the victory, a
"

Esthetic sense
to ^
wealth above reputation,
Eumenidae ) (
Euphorbus {^%) Pant ho us
Estimate in one's mind, to Troy Menelaus

,
one's strength, to
the amount at, to
Euphrosyne, an
Europa ( Agenor

the value, to Euryalus Troy( Jupiter Crete

Pel-
Estimation of distance
"
Jil
of moral qualities
oponnesian
Eurylochus (
Ulysses
^ US

^
Estimative faculty of the animals Euterpe
Evacuate a cup, to
( Circe

losses Kt , a marriage, to
Estrange a person from hib friend, " the contract, to
to m
, oneself from society, to ,, the soldiers from a coun-

Estrangement between friends

38 try, to
the stomach, to ; ft

Estuation of sorrows and joys Evacuation of a custom, the

Eternal City, the " of u fort, the

,,
God

;
happiness
life
of the bowels ;
Evacuation day
, night
, the

truth
Eternalize happiness, to
Eternize the fame, to
& 'M fil
1783

Evade a question, to
„ by an excuse, to
New York

,, wo«, to by night, to
 ( 149 )

Evade from
,
^
sin, to
the enemy's attack, to .,

Even -down nonsense

with, to be ;—^
,, the meshes of the law, to
,,. ^:>;truth
the payment of debt, to Evening dre3s
of life, the ;
;the payment of dutie?, to

Evanescent difference
,
"
Eventful times
prayer
star

Eventilate the custom, to

glories
Evangelical believer " the grain, to
„ principles

Evangelistic adventure
Eventual case, an
"
"
success
Victory
[w: ,|

Ever a
Evan id color, an , and anon
,, light, an , in one
Evaporate clothes in the sunlight, bo
to Everglad state, the Florida
" one's own thought, to
Everlasting God, the
Evaporative liquid
" Power
Evasive answer
„
,
,
life ;
happiness

recurring
i

Even accounts, to ?H " Registrar, the

as , the

" bargain, an
but now ; Eversion of laws
-
;-,i^ih^ bag
,^
(; ;
„ chance
" course of conduct Every bit
„ ground body bidsme good morrow
,,

„
-handed
life, an

;
—
justice M
" cloud has a silver lining

:: ;
„ now
" number, an " cock crows on its own dung-
so hill

, speed
„ temper or disposition, an ,r 4^t*
tenor
with the
— surface of the
,
"
deal
dog has his day
 B £

Every ( 150 ) Exact

Every each
:— accidenti
((;
„ inch
-jack
;
adverso
animo ((
and then
in a while capite ((;
bene placito
)

" one
one present
;^
cone
confesso (( )

,,

,,
other
quarter
(
conseguenti
contractu
( ( )

, which way
Everything considered
curia
dono ( (
Evict a man

Eviction of a ten ant

of his possession, to
( (
debito justilix
delicto
facto jus oritur )

Evident
Evil day, the
facts
fida fortis (
(
„
„
days
deed
hypothesi
improviso (
( ; )

"
"
,,
disposition
eye
-eyed look, an
mero motu
more ( (
)

natura rerum
genius, an (
necessitate rei T) tt

(
,,
,, influences
„
,,
name
one, the
principle, the
officio
parte
(
nihilo nihilo

( (
fit

(((;
,,

,,

„
,
spirit,
thoughts
tidings or
an
;
news
pe.de
post facto
professo
Herculeui

Evince a purpose, to
a truth, to
proprio motu
(
capito

,
to
the sincerity of one's heart,

Evocation of spirits, the

tacito
tempore
((
Evolution of ages, the
, of an animal from au uno disce
(( ^
omnes )

((
egg, the f ffiiM |
utraque parte )

" of civilization from

agery, the
Evolve a plan, to
vi termini
voto
Exact a debt, to
; )

Ex
„
" smoke, to
abrupto
abutidantia
((; )

m
a ransom,
arrival ifti

by beating, to
& to
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(151 ) Excellence

Exact command ,, to the bottom, to

, duties, to
„ man of business, an Exanimate a. person with poison,
to
" obedience, to scholar, an
,, price
" taxation, to soldier, an
, time
,, truth Exanirnous body, an
Exacting labors Exasperate enmity, to
, master, an " one's feeling, to
Exseresis of a tooth ;^
Exaggerate a report, to Exasperation of sickness, the
" one's claims, to
Exauthorate an officer for neglig-
Exaggerative speaker, an ence, to
Excaiibur Arthur

;^
Exalt gold, to Excavate a canoe, to
one to a high office, to , a mine, to

one's horn, to
the hands, to
; Exceed others,
"
to
others in wisdom, to

" the name of the Lord, to the appointed time, to

Exalted by wine, to be ^ '

„ the limit, to

merit
mind
; ,,

Exceeding glory
the rules of propriety, to

poem „ harvest
sentiments ,, riches
tree Excel in good deeds, to

Examination before a magistrate

" in knowledge of the laws, to
" of a chemical solu-
tion ,, in morality, to
of a pupil , in penmanship, to
»
" Paper
" in chief or direct ex- n one in strength, to
amination
Examine a mineral, to " others in wisdom, to
,, a witness, to
goods, to Excellence in study
Mt the accounts, to " of sugar, the
 i

Excellent ( 152 ) Excite

Excellent cheat or deceiver, an Excession loss

Excessive drinking
(
fruit
penmanship
"

Exchange
heat
,, severity
a
;
sheep for a cow, to Xi

Excelsior State,
;
the New
" against us (
York " blows, to
Except against a person, to

against one's opinion, to

„

;
books, to
broker (
,, civilities, to fi§

,, for
,, one from the number, to
for us ()
„ to a statement, to ideas, to
kisses, to
Exception lTst " () money, to
„ to a rule of learning, an
Exceptionable course, an of prisoners, an

Exceptional case, an
experience #^
quotation
silver for cash, to
(
Exceptive rule, an ()
Excern sweat, to
Excerpt a passage from the
.

classics,
'table
transaction (
to Exchangeable goods
Excerpts from philosophy value of silver, the

Excess in lewdness Exchequer bill

" in wine ,,
treasury
of expenditure Excision from the church
,
,.

,,
of export
of generosity
( ,, of a finger
of grief of a nation
,,

,,
of import
of joy
(
SE
Excite a
,,

man
tion, to
from slccpv condi-
Si
,, of pleasure ,, an impression, to
" of provisions ,, attention, to HC
„ of rain electricity by friction, to

if"4£ ^:
 ( m ) Exempi

Excite love, to
,, the people to rebel, to
Excursive fancy
Excusable mistake, an
^ ;
Excuse from attendance ^^RJife
,

Excitement
the stomach, to
jealousy, to
of the people
^ ,,

,,
from the class, :to
one from guilt, to
fil:

oneself to another, to
Exciting scene, an
speech, an Excuss a friend, to

,,
^
Exclaim against interference,

with joy ; to
Exclude a pupil from examina-
,
to "

"
a thought from the mind,
to
the
tablets, to
inscriptions on the

tion, to Excrate one's bad fortune, to ^LM.

, one from the church, to
" the present world, to
" strangers, to
Executable command, an
Exclusion from the country Hi
" criminal, an
Exclusive dealing
" of Execute a law, to
" rights
society "
a plan, to
a will, to
-
Excommunicate a man for bad Execative committee, an
morality, to ffii

" council
Excommunication, the greater Executor ot charitable deeds, an

" the lesser Executory law, an

Exemplary conduct, an
Excrete sweat, to
Excruciating disease " damages
etiquette ^^ H sm pi i gratia ( ;
;^
pain
Excruciation of spirits Exemplify the meaning of a word,
Kxculpate oneself from being the to '
Exempt from
murderer, to i
Kxcuipatory evidence
Kxcursion ticket -
•
"
"
from
;
tend ins:, to
from duty
from military service

., to the lake, an „ from study for sickness

train
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Exempt i 154 ) ExStiat

Exempt from vexation one's abilities, to

Exemption from plague
, from punishment - „ one's means, to
„ oiiv'3's mind, to
, from taxation „ one's patience, to
Exercise a theory, to

,
an office, to
authority, to
health, to
^ „ one's strength, to

-pipe
for" ,
the air of a jar, to
,,

,,
in speaking
in writing
^ "

Exhausted boxer, an
„ one's talents, to well, an
Exhaustive inquiry
,, oneself, to " task, an

t»

"
power, to
soldiers, to ;
the physical power, to
Exhibit a
"
circus, to
a foundation or prize, to

„ a picture in a gallery, to

^
,, theft, to
Exercised about one's owu safety, ,, an example, to $5
to be " one'd cleverness, to

;
flf

„ with bad news, to be

,,
plays, to
'

Exert
" with illness, to

all one,s force, to

be

OH
"
"
talent, to
virtue, to
Exhibition of flowers, an
^
,, one's ability, to Exhort the age, to
,, oneself, to M ;^ , to agriculture, to
,, oneself for the country, to % % *
v
t6 'gFmt tl^rts, to

,, the voice, t ) ,, to repentance, to

Exhalations from the ground Exigent hours
^
Exhaust a
,, of decaying matters
, of rest j%
Exist from eternity, to
on food, to — fl

#^
bottle, to Existing government
a country, to troubles g
,, a doctrine, to Kxit from one's native country

";©
,, a soil, to
,, a subject, to gg.t from the world
„ one by labor, to W^l ,, harbor
of the
•

Exitial wouud, au 1»
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Exonerate ( 15S ) Expiration

Exonerate oneself, to ,, an enemy from the country,

Exorbitance of deportment to
„ phlegm, to
" of demands Expend money, to
much labor and care, to
Exorbitant appetite
,, price " time, to
Exotic flower, an Expenses for the journey :ff

Expand a subject, to Expensive article, an

one's business, to " person, an
Experience bad treatment, to
" the soul, to
the wings, to oneself in seamanship

^
,, .>

Expanse of heaven, the |; to

( ^^
'

„ of ocean, an , misfortune, to
Expansion curb ,,
pain, to
,, engine () s,
pleasure, to

;;
,, gear () religion, to ()
, of commerce, the Experienced hand, an
" in
" of the sea, the Experiment in chemistry, to

Expatiate on a subject, to , the new theory, to

Expatriate oneself, to
Expect a guest, to
; the severe cold of the
"
North, to
" success, to Experimental philosophy
,,

Expectation 01
^^Veek
succour, to
life I

I
Experiuientum or ucis ( )

Expedient for escape, an Expert archer, an

„
"
march
to one's profession, an
,,

„
,
doctor, an
in
in debate
;
Expedite a

,,
"
letter, to
one's return,
road, an
to
g
" i

I
" in painting
Experto crede ( )

S^»^ ^^^^wjth of plants, to Expiate faults by merits, to

. ;
j

mm
Expeditionary force, an „ for a crime,
to
Expeditious piece of work, au ,,one's crime, to
I Expiration of a contract, the
1
Expel a st uden t, to
 |

Expiration ( 156 ) Expre*

Expiration of a year
Expire fragrance, to
; " of coins and bullions ^ jf

"
,
vapor, to
with, calmness, to point
,,
permit (
" trade
Expiring groans Expose a child, to
Expiscatory question, an „ a conspiracy to
Explain away, to a liar, to
to a person, to " goods for sale, to
Explanatory notes
Expletive phrases | " one's life, to
Explicate a mystery, to " one's name to shame, to

„ sentences t'?

Explicit declaration, an ,, one's shortcomings, to

Explode a fashion, to
,,
powder, to the arm, to S
the orator, to " the army to the enemy, to

the plan, to J|
the body, to
with laughter, to ,, the bosom, to
the trick, to
Exploit a field, to , to danger, to

a mine, to " to the weather, to

,,

„ one's talent for specula- Exposed to

tion, to ,, to disease
" to the air
, public opinion, to " to the enemy
" to view JgJS:
Explore a new land, to Exposition of antique curios, an
,, the depth of science, to
'
Expostulate with a friend, to
,, a new theory, to ; of one's life
w&
Exploring expedition
Explosion of a steam boiler

wrath, an
of
Exposure
"
"

,,

"
^ of oneself to ridicule

of secrets
of the body ; #3
3

,,

Explosive consonant , to cold

force to danger
" ,,

;
-
temper, an 'j^blbeat
"
" to the sun SB
((A
Express conipuny fftM
Export bounty
•. consent
M duty
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Express ( 157 ) Extent

Express letter " investigation

"
,,

,,
'messenger
oil, to
oneself in English, to iiiii-
,,

,,

„
judgment
landscape
pain
;
" oneself with pride, to #" ,
,,

taste
,
picture, an
pleasure ^
,,

; one's gratitude, to

one's love, to
Exscriptural doctrines
Extant tooth, au
Exteinporal debate *
„ one's mind, to " shelter, an
" one's sorrow, to
,, one's wishes, to Extend a railroad, to
payet help, to
, purpose, an , influence or power, to
resemblance, an
„ train " kindness, to
,, without reserve, to liquors, to
„ one's fame, to
#
Expressive eyes
,, of ; "
„
one's hand, to
one's knowledge, to
singing
Expropriate the monks by driving
them out of the temple, to
"
„
one's years, to
the time-limit, to
;^; ^
"
It
privilegs or rights, to ,
,,
the wings, to
to others, to
;
Expugn the enemy's camp by ,, trade, to
night, to Extended views
Expulsion of a member from a Extending to [
club A Extension of a boundary, the ^
Expunge a name from a roll, to ,, of loan
m ,, of one's life
„ a mistake with rubber, of time
„
to Extensive acquaintance
,^' the memory of an of- „ knowledge
fense, to
Expurgate a b.x>k to
Expurgatory index
,,

Extensively diffused
trade
views ;
„ ' informed
Exquisite flower, an „ read
,, gentleman, au Extentj in aid ( H^^
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Extent ( 158 ) Extract

Extent of a country, the ft Extinctive prescription

Extinguish a lamp, to ,
Extenuate the crime by honest ,, a right, to
confession, to ii fire, to f^tkMik

Extenuating circumstances
,,

,,

,,
hope, to
life, to
love, to
:•
Exterior appearance opposition, to 5?
,, help
" relations of a country " the flame of war, to
" to
Exteriors of religion ,, thirst, to
Exterminate a heresy, to ^ Extirpate a cancer, to
" a nation, to n a clan, to

,,

„
a tribe, to
bandits, to
by killing, to
, a race, to
,,

„ heresy, to
error, to ,
"

,,
superstitions,

vice, to
to , weeds, to
Extol to the skies, to
virtue, to
>
^
"

External circumstances
wild beasts, to

1
Extort a bribe, to
„
,
a confession, to
a promise, to
, by threats, to

; money, to
payment of

^
, gifts a debt, to
,, disease „ taxes, to
,, Joans or debts Extra demand
,, relations of a state ,, discount

„
"
,,

taxes
senses
surface, the
n
; ,, -judicial

pay ^
judgment

" world ,,
premium ft
Extinct lamp, an fci ,, pull

„ law, an ,, work
,
"
„
,,
nation, an
plant, an
species,an
volcano, an
? i
g|
." ^:
Extract a bullet, to

'
,,

^
a passage from a book, to

a tooth, to
,, an essential oil from flow-
Extinction of a race, the
,,

"
of breath
of hope
; f|

"
ers, to
of beef
salt from the
t

sea, to
 _ ^ ,

Extract ( 159 ) Eyie

Extract the root, to

" weeds, to
( Extremities, the lower
„ ,
the upper
Extraordinary accoiiipliahiiient 4# Extricate from danger, to

an
;
,, affair, " heat or moisture, to
ambassador
" general meeting ,, one from poverty, to

grandeur Extrinsic appearance

, causes
'
^ kindness ,, value

;;
Extrude one from office, to
,, talent
Extravagant acts Exuberance of flowers and grass

expense ;
buyer, an
,, of foliage
language
living ; ,, of

of joy
imagination

praise Exuberant leaves

an
price
son, ;; ,,
mirth
soil

,,
thoughts
Extreme case, an
blasts of wind
E
^ Exulcerate a
words, to
person with evil

Exult in a victory over a rival, to

ifii

,,

,,

"
border or boundary
heat and cold
hour or moment
@
of life,
Exultant crowd
Exuling countenance, an
, heart, an
the
unction ( ) Eye for an eye und tooth for a

^
„ tooth
forthe beautiful, an
, of cruelty, the

,,
penalty
rapidity
reformers
; of a dome, the
of a needle,
of a vol ute, the
the
(
, weakness of day, the
Extremes of fortune of Greece, the
Extremity of bodily paiu, the of heaven, the
of the Baltic, the
of grief, the Gothland
,, of temperature, the of the morning, the
of the night, the
 * U )

Eye ( 160 ) Facilitate

Eye of the storm, the ,, a lie, to ft

, of the world, the ; "

,,
a story, to
a system, to
"

„
one with suspicion, to

-opener, an
„
,
,,
accounts, to
coins, to
rumor, to
; ®
,,

,
„
parley
-servant
-service
;; ,,

Fabulous a^e, the

toys, to
woollens, to
;
" -sore, an @
" wash biography ®fE
Eyes and ears of an army, the " description
Face about, to

(;
and ears of the state, the danger, to
"
; down,
itout, to
to

„ draw straws, one's

of a fleet, the out, to
of a ship, the the door with iron, to
, of Greece, the
" the enemy in the field, to

„
,
of heaven, the
of night, the £ ,, the music, to ( IS

,,

,,

,,
of prey
of the
, the almond
master ;
,
,, to face
value
with, to
()
;
,, , the king's
Facetious saying, a
"
,,
to the blind
to, to close the ; Facial angle, the
Fades non omnibus una ( )

F Facile disposition ;
Fabian tactics ;
Fabius Maxiinua
, pen
Facile, princeps ( ^(
Faber fortwias suse (
Facilis

"
est

est
^
descensus Aierai

(
inventh adders )

Fabric of society, the it

„ of the universe, the Facilitate one in a task, to
" plowing by using ma-
Fabricate a bridge, to chines to take the place of
"
m a government, to
,,
man, to
the execution of a task,
 ^ *

Facilities ( 161 ) FaSf

to
Facilities for travel
„
"
of one's word, to
one in time of
;
danger, to
" of transportation
" to make, to
Facility of movement Failing sight
Facing-both-way, Mr. Failure in duty
,, in estimation
'
,, of a city wall, the ,, in life
m
tr
Facsimile autograph
i
-

S
"
,
of crops
of issue ;
Fact of the matter, the
Facta non verba (^ ,, tC> keep a promise

Factious controversy
Fain, to be
Faint away, to
,, color, a
;
Factitious jewels ,, exertion, a Hi
Factory charges ,, -hearted, to ;^
inspector ,, in color *
,, legislation ^^ ,, in death, to be
;^
Factum
system
est

Faculty of Advocates, the

( )

J|
"
,,

,,
of heart
resistance
voice, a ;
# " with exertion
" of speech, the
Faculties of the soul, the ; , with hunger
Fair and fairer than that word
;
Fade away, to
, in color, to
; ,,

,,
and
aDd
free
softly go far in a day
,,

Faex populi
Fag-end, the
(
from the memory, to

;( )
ffi

,,

,,
and square
city, the Perth
IE

,, out, to () " chance

Fagged out, to be day
Fahrenheit's thermometer ,, day's work

Fail in an undertaking, .to

,
,,
dealing
field

,, in business, to
in one's design,
;;
to
,
,,

"
hair
hemisphere
in sight

in one's duty, to ;!^ ,, maid of February, the

;^
,,
Snow-drop
,, in one's study, to „ name
of, to one or lady
,,
" HA;
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Fair ( 162 ) Fall

Fair play
„ play
;
is a jewel
IS
iS
to one's country

to one's engagement
„
,,
price
quality, a & ; to one's
; ;
word—
,,

„
,,
question
sex, the
skin
; Fall a, to
wife,

; a

„
„
,,
speech, a
tongue, a
view, a
; fg!
•
a cursing, to %M.
a laughing, to
a prey to, to
"
,,

"
way, a
weather ;;
weather friends
flg

Slit
a tear, to
a tree, to
aboard, to ;;
,,

,,
wind, a
world ;; aboard of, to (^)
about one's ears, to 91
„ writ
Faire bonne mine
,,
( (
Vhomme ^importance
abreast of, to
across, to
among, to
i

((
and tackle
mon devoir ) II asleep, to
,,

,, mm dire astern, to
Fairest jewel in the Imperial at, to ……
Crown, the
Fairy circle or ring at hand, to
away, to
; ;
at another's feet, to

;;
,, -isle away into nothing, to
,,

,,
-land
-tale
Fait accompli ( back, to
back, fall
;;
edge, to
Faith in a friend
,, in God back on or upon, to
,, in one's advice
Faithful Adam behind or behindhand, to
advice between two stools, to
„
,,
conviction
description by, to ;
,,

,,
in Christ
sayings ; calm, to j^nf;
dead, to

,
,,
servant, a
, the
to death
; (doing something), to

down, to * ft)
„ todxity 01
 Z

Pall ( 165 )

Fall down before, to ,, into a custom, to

due, to
flat, to
flat on the
;
ear, to
,,

,,

,
into
into
into
a
a
a
passion, to
trance, to
trap or snare, to
ffi

;;
forth, to
foul or afoul of, to ) ,, into company with, to

from to ; ; ,, into conversation, to

from
from
from
an agreement,
allegiance, to
former excellence, to
to
"
,,
into decay, to
into difficulties, to
;
from glory, to
from grace, to ;
,,

,,

,,
into
into
into
disuse, to
error, to
line with, to
^
from one's high estate, to „ into oblivion, to
; ,, into one's clutchen, to
from ons's lips, to
from one's word, to ,, into one's hands, to
from Scylla into Chary bdis, to ,, into one's power, to

goods
heavy on,
home, to
to ;( ,,

,
"
into
into
into
poverty, to
rapture, to
ruins, to ;^
ill, to ; into temptation, to
j
in, to ()
( ,,

,,

"
into the ranks, to
into the shade, to
of a state
in battle, to ,, of Adams, the ffii

;
in for, to
in love with,
to
in one's way, to
;; „

,,
of
of
of
day
lambs, the
man, the
in price, to
,,
of the leaf, the
of the tide, the ^
in the way of, to ,

;; ; ;
of the wind, a

) () ; (
in upon, to off, to
;; (
,

in with, to

, from
off religion, to
;
in with a friend, to
in with one's views, to
,

; ;;
on, to

;;
; ; ;^
into, to
,

.
;
on or upon one's

on one's koees, to
feet, to
 M #

Fall ( 164 ) Faliiffcation

Fall on or upon one's legs, to Fallow field, a ;

; ;;)
Falls city, the Kentucky
,, on the ear, to Louisville
,, out, to ffi; False alarm
,, as a fox, as
,, out of, to „ as a Greek, as
,, over, to " as God is true, as
" short, to ; " as hell, as
,, sick, to ,, as the wind, as
,,

,,
still
the voice, to ;
born, to

;
"
„
as Waghorn,
cadence ) ( as

,,

,,
through, to
to, to ; ;; " charge against a person, a Dfi

„
,,
to blows, to
to do something, to colouring ;
;;;; ;,
" to loggerheads, to , -conception, a &
" to one's lot, to „ construction t
,, to pieces, to
, to the ground, to " expectation

,, to work, to
-faced ; ^
" fire

,,

,,
together by the ears, to
under, to
under one's notice, to „
-hearted
imprisoument
;^^
. light
under suspicion, to ,,
lover, a
under the bondage of, to „ oath, a

;;; pretenses

;;;^
,, upon, to ,,
quarters
,, victim to, to ., religion, a
,, within, to report, a
Fallacious arguments " statement, .1

discourse, a
; " step, a
tehtimony

( ^
,,
hopes ,,

promises " to promises

,,

Fallen angel WtfU. Falsi Crimea

,, heroes Falsify a blow, to
" woman, a ,, a record, to
;
:^
Falling evil " one's faith, to
, sickness Falsification of accounts ® [
" star
stone ; " of a statement, the
„
,, weather (
 c

Falsification ( ^5 ) Fantastic

Falsification of wine
Falsus in uno, falms in omnibus ( „ a man of bread, to

Falter in one'd answer, to Famous beauty, a

city, a
;
Faltering limbs of age, the

Fama ( )
,,

,
for virtue
,,
dinner, a
for ; ()

claraosa general, a
„

Fama nihil est celarius ( ) "

physician, a
,
statsemaD, a
Fan a flame, to ^ ^ >

Famed for bravery ,, away flies, to

Familiar, a :, chaff, to
feuds " one's face, to
illustration ,, out, to
spirits
with ;
with bad people
„

"
passions to a flame, to
*h
the air into a current, to
with the classics
" the coals into a blaze, to
Familiarities of comrades

^;
" wheat, to

„
;
Familiarize oneself with a thing, to

the Bible, to
Fanatic notions
,,

Fanciful costume
zeal

Family affairs
" Bible
circle ;
" distinctions
ideas
,, schemes
;
coach Fancy ball
,, connection „ embroidery
" discipline ,, fair
it economy
-man, a ; ,,

„
-free
goods
-monger, a

!( ^
,,
„ name „ my thinking such a thing
,, skeleton
, tie

tree
-way ()
;; ,,

,,
price

store;
stocks

Famish a tnvn into surrender, to

Fantastic clown, a
a prisoner to death, to , costume ^
 B £

Fantastic ( 166 ) Patter

Fantastic fears
,, imagination
world
; man, a
,
pulleys
,,

sleep, a ;;
Far advanced in life or years Fasten a bargain, to
,,

,,
and away
and near ;; [; ,, a crime on a person, to
[
" and wide
,,

,,
apart
away
;
;
„
,,

,,
a quarrel on a person, to
in one's mind, to
on astern, to
E

,,

"
be from
between
cry, a
it

; me "

„
one's eyes upon, to
with a bolt, to
with a button, to
R

,,
distant past, the
-fetched ; "
with a clasp, to
with a cord, to *
,, from or off
; )t with a hook, to

(( ;
,, from „ with a lock, to
,, from it Fasti annates IE
„ off or afar off sacri
,, other Fat and mean
,, side of the horse, the " as a hen's forehead

Fare
,,
sight
ill,

very
to ;
much like, to
"
4
as a porpoise, as
job, a
of the land, the
BE

,, well, to
Farewell audience
"
office,
page, a
a ;
of the people, the

,,

Farm out an
"
dinner, a

out taxes, to
estate, to
,
"
pasture, a
salary
soil, a
,
;
Fash one's beard, to
Fast and fast; faster

;
and faster
to be in the
Fatal blow, a — fire, the

,,

,,

,,
and loose
as a Kentish oyster, as
as one's legs cancarry one, as
'
„
.,
Sisters
to a person
wound, a
^
,
„
asleep
beside or by
Fata morgana
Fates ) ((
Clotho, LacliesisA Atropos
,, colours Nox Erebus Clotho
,, -day, a Lachesi8
"
,,

,,
for a day, to
friend, a
knot, a
; Father, the
,,
Atrop-os

Abraham Nil

life, a M Adam
 )

t^afier ( let

Father Neptune Xepture of French histoiy, the

Andre Duchesne
,, Nile of French prose, the
,, of America, tlie Geoffroi de Villehard-
Samuel Adams ouin
,, of angling, the lij French satire, the
of
Izaak Walton Mathurin Regnier
of believers, the ift of French Sculpture, the
Mohamet Jean Goujon
,, of botany, tha Germain Pilon
Joseph Pittou de of French surgery, the
Tournefort Ambrose Pare
" of British inland naviga- of Freneh tragedy, the
tion, the m Rob. Gamier
Frances Egerton, Duke of Pierre Corncille
Bridge water of geology, the ^
" of business efficiency, the

Winslow Taylor
Fre^ierick
(1 )

Nicolas
Wm.
Avicenna (ffi

Smith(
Steno ( , (2)
(3)

of chemistry, the of German literature, the

Arnauld de Villeneuve Gottold Ephraim
,, of comedy, the Lessing
Aristophanes of good works, the
,, of criticism, the Mahomet
Aristole of Greek drama, the
„ of Dutch poetry, the Ischylu8 Thespia
Jakob Maerlant
,, of ecclesiastical (church) Greek music, the
of
history, the Terpander
£usebius of Cserea of Greek prose, the

,, of English botany, the Herodotus

William Turner of Greek tragedy

of English cathedral mus-

^schylus
of his people, the
ic, the
Thomas Tellis Louis XII Christion
III
of English printing, the
William Caxton of historic painting, the

of English prose, the

Polygnotos of Thaos
„
Wycliffe Koger
Aacharn Homer [ of history,
Herodotus
the
of epic poetry, the
of French drama, the of iambic verrse, the
,,

Etienne Jodelle Archilochus o!

Fatter ( 168 ) Fatuitous

Paros Orpheus, (2) Homer

Father of inductive philosophy, , of reform, the

"
the
Bacon
ofinternational law, the
Francis
„
John Cartwright
of ridicule, the
Francois Rabelais
'
Hugo Grotius ,, of rivers, the Thames
" of Israel or of the Hebrews,
the ffi " of Roman philosophy, the
,, of jests, the |R Cicero
Joseph miller " of Roman satire, the
„ of jurisprudence, the Caius Lucilius
Eanulph de Glanville " of Swedish eloquence, the
„ of letters, the Francis Nordenhjelin
I ,, of symphony, the
„ of Lies, the Francis Joseph Hay den
,, of medicine, the „ of spring fSMi
Aretfieos of Cappadocia „ of the faithful, the Si
Hippocrates ofCos
modern oil painting
;
"

,
of

of
Jan van Eyck
modern prose fiction,
„

v
of the

of
^
the
human

slain,
race, the

the (
the Daniel Defoe Wodin Odin
„ of moral philosphy, the
Thomas , of the Spanish drama, the
Aqumas Lope Felix de
of music, the
,,
Vega Carpio
Giovanni Pierluigi da of waters, the
,, (l)Irrawady
Palestrina
of musicians, the
, 2) Mississippi 3)

,,
Jubal
the
of navigation,
Don Henrique, Duke
"
Nile
on a person, to ;
„ Thames Thames
of Visco
,, Tiber Tiber
„ of ornithology, the
, time
George Edwards
,, of Parody, the
Hipponax
n
^to the people, to be a

upon or on, to IB ; ft
, of peace, the Genoa
# AndreaDoria Father's son, to be one's
" of philosophy
Roger Bacon
brecht von Haller
(( (2)
(1)
Al- Fatigue-duty
„ oneself, to
S§
( ;0
of poetry, the (1) Fatuitous iireg >Ac
 B - H

169 )
Feei
fauna (

Fauna and
Faux pas (
(;
flora
)
" -brained
-glory
(-

;
Favonius IE
Favor one with custom, to ; ,
in one's cap,
in one's wing, the
s i

,,

"
with a call, to
with an answer, to
; „
(
in the scale
one's nest, to ,
Favorable current
„
,,
opportunity, a
to
,,
spray
,
the oar, to
Feathered arrow, a
;
,, to health , death
" to one's wishes , hours
„ wind )
,, tribes
Favorite child, to

"
occupation, a
passion ;^
Feature of character
February face, a
,, fill-dike
;
with, to be a on the 30th of
,,

Fawn on the
;rich, to
Tf
,,
,

Federal government, a U ^ 15

Fear babes
,, enough
Federate City
, states ;
, judgment, to
no colors, to ( Fee a waiter in a restaurant, to

;
( ^
.,

Fearful death, a -estate ffl

,, of defeat
or fearfully
Fearless of cousequences
(; „ simple
Feeble argument, a
constitution, a M%
"
„ of danger cry, a
„
, of death
Feast among curiosities, to
[ ,
defense, a
minded ;;
,
,,
at the tombs
-day ; motion, a
supports
;
"
,,

"
of Alcinous, a
of lanterns
of reason and flow of soul
; „ voice, a
Feed a boiler with water, to
a child with a spoon, to
ifd: "
, on a novel, to Q
a cow, to
one's eyes on , to * "

'
,,

-rite " a horse, to

,,

" the ear with music, to , a stove with coal /c

,, fat, to ;
,, the imagination, to
Feat of arms
of strength
;; "
,,
on hope,
on, to
on
;
rice, to
to

feather an arrow, to ^ f
"
" oueseli on something, io
Feed ( 170 ) Fertill

Feed paper to a printing press, to ,, ignorance, to

, madness, to

,,
-pump
the desires, to
,, sickness, to
sleep, to ;;
,,

,,
the eyes, to
the fishes, to ; Feigned attack, a
Felicitous event, a
,. omens #^
word, a
" to market, to
Feel a delicacy, to
Felicity in writing
Feline nature, a
Fell
()
^
"
,, after, to ;
above work, to
,,
of hair
Hquor
& @
,,

,,
allalong, to
assured, to ;; ,,

,,
purpose
tortures
()
gg
,,

"
at home, to
,
Fellow feeling
wit

(;
;( .
blue, to
Felo de se ft
,, cheap, to
,, for, to
Female occupations
for all mankind, to propriety
n
„ -screw

M
interested in, to

;
;
it in one's bones, to
Feme
,, virtue
coverte ( ;
M like, to
,, sole () ;(
(
of, to

H one's legs, to ( Femme

,
de chambre
de charge )
)

Fen nightingale, a
„ one's oats, to Fence with a question, to
,, oneself, to
oneself guilty, to
Fend off a blow, to
oneself sick, to danger from, to
or grope one's way, to Ferse naturae
off
(
"
,,

,,
out, to
pleasure, to
sick, to
Feral beasts
,,
plants
Ferial use
.
sorry for a person, to Ferment disturbances, to Slli;^

,, the pulse of, to ; ,, in the mind, to SB

,,

,,
the want of, to
the helm, to ()
Feeling heart, a
I*
,,

Ferret out, to
Ferry over, to
;
spirits, to
ffi

,, story, a Fertile genius, a

Feet of the clay, the
Feign compliance, to ; ®lt
,, in expedients
soil ;^
 f

( 171 ) fhry
Fertility of invention Feverish ambition, a
Fervent in love
in prayer Few, the
spirits " and far between
„
,,
summer,
zeal
Fervid desires
a Fiacre, a
Fictitious character, a ^
Fescennine verses Fiddle away one's time, to
[
Festal use
Fetch a compass, to
,, a high price, to
,,

,,

,
-de-dee
-faddle ;
one's M ay, to

,,
a leap, to
"
"
a man again, to
a pump, to
„
;
while Rome is burning, to

,,

n
a sigh, to
about, to
again, to ;
Fiddler's fare
, green ;
.,

,, and carry, to
away, to ( "
,,
money
news
(
^; ;
Fiddlestick or fiddlesticks

,,

n
-candle
down, to
(
Fidelity to a friend
Fide, noa arr"h (
"
"
headway,
in, to , to
" (
cid vide

(
, )

|| '^
,,

,,
land, to
off, to
one from a
; faint, to
Fides Aunica
Fie upon such people! xlfa

,,

„
,,
one's breath, to

out, to ; ;(
one's round, to Field-day
,,
;
of a picture, the
,, stern way, to
the harbor, to ^ of battle, a
of ice, a

^
,, ^ "
:,

,,

,,
to, to

up, to
up
;; (
mm
all standing, to
„ of viRion, or
Fields of ocean, the
of science
view

Fettered in one's movement

Fiends below, the
Fierce anger ;
Feudal system, the
Feu de joie (
"
,,

,, tempest, a
look, a ;;
disposition, a

Fever within one

Fevered fancies
Fiery cross (^
iy
 S ^

fiery ( 172 )

Fiery eyes
„
,,

"
fever, a
furnace, a
-hot }Ac
^ "

).
with shadows, to

witli the gloves off, to (

,, indignation „ with the gloves on, to (
,, steed, a )
,, sun, the
Fifth act
EJ

:^ with windmills, to

, day
^ (^ Fighting tight

^^
,, estate, the j
Fij s end, a

„ Monarchy man, tlw i Figure-liead

Cromwell
i „ in the Gazette, to
,, wheel of the coach, the
, out, to
Fig for any one, a I
,, up, to
Sunday I
File a petition, to
Fight against, to [
off, to
„ against destiny, to
away to, to
I .
"
off corners, to
With, tO ;
„
,,

,,
cocks, to
down, to
for liberty, to
; j
Filial
love
piety
,,
conduct

#(
„ for one's own hand, to Filtus mullius
(
I

populi T)
,, itout, to Fill a bill, petition, or claim, to
„ like Kilkenny cats, to
a glass, to
,,

„
man to njan, to

-
one's battle over again, to
"
" a vacancy, to ;
a man's shoes, to

;
one's way, to ; .
,,
an
in, to
out, to
;
office, to

;
shy
the
till
of, to
tiger, to
death, to
H ,

,
the air with fragrance, to

the heart with joy, to

to a finish, to (
under false colors, to fji
,,

,,
the mind, to
the ranks, to ^
with foot and hor.?e, to

[
,
„
,,
up, to
up the cup,
;
to the brim, to

to
IPS

with one another, to " up time, to

Fi!! ( 173 ) Fine

Fill with air, to ,, leisure, to

" with wine, to " means, to
Fille de chain bre

„
de joie
d'honneur
(( (

)
,,

,,

,,
one a false prophet, to
one in, to
one's ;
account, to
S|

Film over the eyes ,, one's legs, to

Filled gold
Filthy abuse
;
,, one's
one's
;
way, to;;
tongue, to

Fin de
„
,,
language
lucre
siecle (;
"
„
,,
oneself, to
out, to
pleasure, to
;
Final aim, the " the bean in the cake, to
„ cause
,, examination " the defendant guilty, to
, fight or struggle, a
" the key of, to
,, issue ,, time, to
judgment " to one's cost, to
„
"
„
Financial
stroke or touch
utility
crisis
"
,,

,,
up, to
vent, to
;;
to one's surprise, to

organ " wings on every wind, to

resources Finding store, a
"
year Fine arts
,
Find a bill, to () ,, as a fiddle ()
,,

,,
a clue to, to
a mare's nest, to ,,

,,
as a fivepence, a
away, to
countenance, a
;
a market, to " by degrees and
(^
,, beautifully
,,

„
a ship's trim, to

acceptance, to
,,

,,
less
down,
dress
to ;
^;
,, bail, to ,, ear for music, a
„ courage, to " for disorderly conduct, a

„ credence, to
fault, to ;# gold

^
,, ,,

;;
,, favor in the eyes, to ,, goods
" food for workmen, to idea, a
„
T >, off, to
„
"
M
in, to
(it)

its
in one's heart, to
way into other hands, to
"
,,

,,
parts
plan, a ;
point in an argument, to
iibA
 cc A

Fine ( 174 )

Fine powder
" sand
,, scenery
&; ,
"
n
distance
period, a
relations
silk Fir-framed

,,
-spoken
stuff
time
, -in-bond
-wrought
Fire a cannon, to
'
,, way of jesting, a ,, a house, to tfCikjMJM
; „ a
a
mine, to
,, weather salute, to
,, with, to () a stone, to
,, words butter no parsnips a volley, to
a work man, to
" workmanship alarm

"
;
Finger and glove with one,

and thumb — to be and faggot

and fury
at, to
^
,,

,
and toe
in the pie, a ; at will, to
away, to ; ;()
,, of God
on the lips, with drake, a ;
„ on the wall, the ^ -eater, a
from heaven ^:
in one hand and water
ft

in the
„
"
,,
the lute, to
, the index

, the marriage
; other, to carry
in section
of a
(
diamond, the ®
, the medical

,, , ring of genius, the

,,

Fingle-fangle
,

Fining-forge, a
;
with a wet of hate, the
of love, the
of passion, the ^'M'M'h
^
,, -pot, a
Finish an enemy, to
,, life's journey, to
;; i
of the eye
off, to
out the intruder, to SB
of a football match, the J£
porcelain, to
of a statue, the the genius of a youth, to
Finishing coat
" touch or stroke the blood, to
the soul with anger, to
Finite being, a
concern! ^ up, to ;
 W

Firebrand ( 175 ) Fiscal

Firebrand, a ,, cost ()
" of the universe,
Timur Tamerlane
the ,, -day
;
^ ,, decade, the

Fires of death
,, of heaven
"
,
excess
fiddle, to
floor or story,
; the
Fireside stories floor d )wn the chimney, the
Firk of law
Firm and inflexible disposition, a ,, -foot (^ )
,,

"
as a rock, as
as hodge-wife, as S
fruits ;;;
,, belief K; gentleman of Europe, the
,, endurance George IV
,, foundation, a " importance
,, friend, a impression
„

; —
,, hold , man, the
,, in one's purpose " mate or officer, the ()
,, land gl]

,,

,,
muscle
name
offer
(;
()
,
"
meridian
month
iJ;
after confinement, the

" order () mortgage

persuasion,
" a ,, nighter ()
"
,,
resolution, a
wood
First aid
7fc; ,,

,
of all
of
;(
exchange
,,

,,

,,
and chiefest
and foremost
and last
:
; ;^ '
,,

,,

,,
opportunity
or last
process, the
;
blush of the morning, the
,,
quality
" quarter of the moon, the

"
,

^
born of Egypt, the
catch your hare X:

„
-rate
stone
;
,, cause, the
stage

,, chop
Christian
;
cause, the great

Kingdom, the '

"
„
,
watch
water
year of a reign, the
Fiscal ag - nt k
„
,
"
-class ticket
cock, the
come,
; ;
first served Jfc^
"

„
insurance
system It
year
 ^

Pish ( 176 ) Fii

Fish a coin out of one's pocket, to " lachrymalis ()

g Fit a ship for sea, to
" a mast, to
,
,,
a stream, to
broad, to
, a shoe to the
^ foot, "to

m fine, to
for, to ; „ as a fiddle, as
,, as a fiddler, as #
,
"
for
for
compliments, to
gain under the cloak
virtue to
of
" as a

,,
pudding
mouth, as
for a

; friar's

conduct to circumstances, to
" for praise, to
in the air, to ; " for university, a (
^
)

, in troubled waters, to
,, for work

"
out, to
out a stream, to
;
" in'o, to
like a glove, to ;
it out of water, a ,,

„ of ague
of a *».oat, the
;
,

,
pearls, to
story, a
that comes to his net, all is
, of anger, a

..
of couching,
of laziness, a
a ,
,
, too big, to
well and catch a frog, to
„ of laughter, a
out, to
to a nicety, to
; g*:

,
ii
up, to ( . to a T, to

" up, to ;
,, up an anchor,
with a golden hook, to
with a hook, to
to
' " up a room for a guest, to

Fitful fever
„ with a net, to ,, gusts
Fishday, a Fitness for the post
Fisher of men, a " for the purpose
Fisherman of souls, the great Fitting answer |j
,, the , Five-act play
Fisherman's luck
,,

W
Sunday
Pennsylvania
ij

( ) "
,,

.
and twenty
Classics
gateways, the
'

New York
,,

Fishy statement, a
weight
, Points

" senses or wits, the

^
,, stream, a Fiver, a
Fix a criminal charge on a man, to
Fist, to be brought to
Fistula in auo (^) ^
 B ^

( 177 ) Flaming

Fix a jury, to " stars @

„
(
„ a photographic

a statue
)

upon a
negative,

pedestal, to
to Fixture and furniture
Fizzle out, to
Flabbergasted, to be
( :
(^)
Flag a train, to
,, another flint for him, to an order to troops at a

"
"
on, to ;
one's abode or residence, to "
distance,

at half mast
to

" > black

" one's affection upon, to -fallen
tt of distress
^
„ one's attention, to of truce
,,

„
one's hair, to
out, to ;
the books on the shelf, to
"
"
,,
, red

the wings, to
white ,
^
" , yellow
"
„
,
the clothes, to
the eyes on, to
the eyes on heaven, to
; Flaggy apple, a
arm, a
Flagitious crime of parenticide,the

the foundation to ,
life
, the furniture of a room, to Flagrant affections

"
,,
the memory, to
the mind, to ;
" desires
Flagrante btllo
" delicto
((
^:

,, the mind on, to ;

—
,,

tt

,,

,
the oil, to
the thoughts on, to
the time, to
up, to
" upon, to
;;
Flake of
,
„
„
of
fire,
fish,
of ice,
of snow, a
Flamboyant architecture, the
a
a
a
—;
Fixed air
,,

„
assets
bodies
bond
Flame, a
„
;
of love
capital () of passion ^'X;M'A
"
,, deposit (
idea or opinion
,,

„
;
up, forth, or out, to

,,

,,

,,
liabilities
oils
periods
; Flamed with indignation,

Flaming exhortation
A
to be

price , Sky A
 Flaminian < 178 ) Flea

Fiaminian Way, the

Ariminum

(^
Flat, a
Flanders babies » a cake, to
Flank company (^) " as a board, as
, en potence " as a flounder, as *
,,

„
fichant
files ()
( "
"
,,
as a pancake, as
book, a
denial or refusal, a
;
razant (i
,,

Flanked with trees, to be

) ,
"
discourse, a
lie, a —
, market, a
Flannel, a " on the ground fBg^
Flap of a garment, the out, to
„ of the ear, the Flatten a sail, to

, the wings, to ,, in, to ()

Flapper, a ,, the enemy to the ground,
Flare up, to to
Flash a message over a wire, to Flatter a person in the face, to

,, a roll of bank notes, to ({§) „ . a pupil of his diligence, to

"
,,
across one, to
fire, to the palate, to
,
oneself, to ;
„ gentry, the Flatulency of one's speech
,, in the pan, a
light with a mirror, to Flatulent essay, a
"
Flaunt through the streets, to
,, notes @ Flavor of a book, the
of fire, a
„ of light, a „ Bohemia, a of

" of lightning, a Flaw in a gem, a

„ of memory " in an argument, a
,. ofthe eyes, a
" on the mind, to ,, in reputation
,,
pearl, a Flawy harbor, a
,,

„
up, to
upon one,
Flashy dress, a
to
Flax
Flay
to the fire
a flint, to ;
lightning

^
,,
,, the face, to

»
,,

temper
poem, a

Flask has flowed, the

„
Flea-bite, a
the fox, to

-bitten action
;+ Pjg^i:
rrea ( 179 )

Flea-bitten mind
in the ear, a
Flibbertigibbet
Flight of fancy or imagination, the
;
Fledgeling poet, a
Flee from, to ; ,, of stairs
,, from danger, to
from evil, to ;^ ,,
,,

of time
of the saul, the

„ from the bottle, to

Fleece the people, to Ij
Flighty youth, a
Flim flam ;
;
,,

Fleecy clouds
wool
;— Flimsy, a
,, argument, a
„ flock, a
Fleer at, to
Fleet aft, to
; ()
,,

„
essay, a
excuse, a

Flinch at pain, to
, book evidence

ofthe desert, a
" from battle, to
, one's glass, to ^
;;;
,, marriages Fling about, to
" prison , at a person, to
, away, to fg

;;
,, Street back the head, to
Fleeter fame ,, dirt at, to
Flemish account, a " down, to
Flesh, after the
, and blood ;; ; ,,

,
from, to
in one's face, to

" one's sword, to

„ in, to ;
,,

,,
, to be one

Fleshly bondage
desire
„
,,

"
of a horse, the
off, to ;
one into prison, to
,, eye , one's argument, to
,, food Bffl

" wisdom ,, oneself into a chair, to

Fleshed with riches
Freshpots of Egypt, the ,,

,,

,,
open, to
out, to ; ;
out hard words against, an-
Freshy lust other, to
„ nook
Fleur-de-lysdis) ( )
,,

„
out of, to
out of doora, to
;
,,
d'eau
Flexible language
( ,,

"
over, to
the hair from the forehead,
to
Fling ( 180 ) Flouri'sb

Fling to the winds, to

>, up, to ;
up a design, to
,, timber, a
Flog a dead horse, to
"
^ Flood of banknotes, a
^
^(
Flint and steel c

,, -hearted fe ,, of light, a
„ implements , of tears, a
, the Noah
,, , to bleed the
" tide
„ to skin, a Floor a house with pine boards, to
[
,

Flip a dollar, to
,, ashes from a cigar, to " an opponent, to
Flirt a fan, to
„ water in one's face, to ,,

"
keeper
of a bridge,
( the
Flit across the view, to , ofheaven
„ away, to the examination paper, to
,, to and fro, to
Flitting air, the
,,

Floorwalker ()
(
Float a company, to Flop down into a chair, to
about, to

,,

M
before the eyes, to
bonds, to
in one's cups, to
,,

Flora (
oneself down, to

Flore and Blanchflor ~*

)

,, in the air, to Florence flask

, in the mind, to of the North, the
„
,, up, to Dresden
up the ends of tin cans ,, oils Flor-
ence
with the current, to
,, Florentine fresco H
" mosaic ^cX
Floating assets Florid countenance a Jftt ;
„ battery

,,

„
bridge, a
capital
debts
dock, a
^ ,,
essay, a

Florimel's girdle
Flotsam and jets?.m
style, the

(
,,
Z
,, harbor, a Flounce down, io
,, liabilities Flourish a sword, to
,,
light, a a wall, to
mortgage on little incidents, to

^
,, &i
„ pier, a

„ policy 3 of a whip, the |MK

Flourish ( 181 ) Fly

Flourish of trumpets Fluctuate between hope and fear,

Flout
Flow
at, to
a table
;
with varnish, to
,,
to
in price, to
Fluctuation of tho exchange, the

from, to " of the market, the

of animal spirits, the
of the sea, the
of ideas, a

^^
of soul, the Fluency of speech
the
of spirits, ife Fluent answer, a
of time, the „ speaker, a
of words, the
in or into, to Fluids of the human body, the Jj
out, to IB
over, to Flunkey world, the
with the tide, to
Flower of age or life, the
Fluor albus
Flush as May, as
( |g

deck, a ()
,,

„
,,
of chivalry
of kings,
of
the
the army, the
Arthur „
"
of ;
of cash or money
,, of the flock, the i „ of grass, the
,, of joy, a
of the Levant, the Zante , of youth, the
" on the clouds at sunset
„ of the poets, the S

,
Geoffrey Chaucer
Flowers of rhetoric
of speech
; "
,,
one's anger, to
the race with wine, to

" that blow

Flowery Kingdom, the ,, with money
" with, the banks, (as a river
Flowing bowl, a
gait, a
(
Flushed with rage
,, garment, to „ with success
hope ,, with victory
„ penmanship Flutter of a fan, tho
,, periods ,, one's inind, to
„ speech the wings, to

;^
,,

,, tears J^D Flux de boucke (

,, water Fly a kite, to

^ wit
 «

( 182 ) Folding

Fly about, to
" around or round, to ; "
,,

,,
the blue peter, to
the country, to
the flag, to ' iS

"
"
"
asunder, to
at, to
away, to
; ,
,,
the white feather, to

to arms, to
„ away before the enemy, to " to one's aid, to *
" away from danger, to ; ,
Flying-army
to one's srms, to
()
" away from the world, to
,, -artillery
-bridge ()
()
;
,
,,
back, to
-by-night, a
,,

,,
-colors
-party
-rumor
() ;
^
,, from justice, to "
"

"
high, to
in amber, a
in the face of, to
'; Foam
„
,
at the sight, to
curses, to
with rage, to *
3
ifij

W
„

"
in the face of Providence, to

into fragments or pieces, to

Fob
Focal distance
off,

Foe to health, a
to
^
,, to religion, a
" into a rage or passion,

low, to ;;
to Foeman worthy

Fog
^of one's steel, to

&
,, off, to

„
off, to

^
off at a tangent, to
m
Fogey, an old
Foggy atmosphere
ideas 1
W
^^
„
,
,
off the
on or upon, to
one's kite
;M[
handle, to

at, to
() Fogruin, an old
Foil of a fox, the
„ ono'd .sonse, to ^&
j^imt

, on the coach wheel, a (] the enoiny, to

, the t isi';Ji of a defvi.'tted coun-
,, on tlio wheel, to crush a £ try, to'
„ the plan, to

,,
open, to
out, to ;; l^g ;^
Foist upon, to
Fold a fault, to
,, one's haiicb, to
^)J'^^m
^^-^i^—^
" pleasures and they'll follow " in one's arms, to
you ffii ^^ „ the neck, to
" up, to
^^
,^^
" the black flag, to Folding bed , a
" the face of tbo eiiumy, to ,,
chair, a
-doors
 #

( 1S8 )

Folding- joints Follies of young women, the

„ -machine
„ -screen, a Foment ambition, to
„ star „ discords, to
,, sedition, to fiL

Foliate gold, to Fond lovers » t«

Foliated coal ,, mother, a
Folks at home, the ,, of ;; fft;

„ of flattery
Follow a business or trade, to
of learning
; ,

with
,,

" of speaking about other

a departing vessel
people

"
one's eyes, to
a good advice, to
a good example, to
Fons
Food
„
et
for
of the table
origo
Acheron
( )

,, for powder
,, a track, to „ for worms
„ at one's heel, to Fool away, to g;
" home, to " away money, to ffi

,, in one's tracks, to away time, to

" for one's pains, to be a
,, in the footsteps, to

" one of one's money, to

,, in the wake of another, to

" one with promises, to

,, law, to
,,

,,
on, to
one's example, to & ,

" with, to
to the top of one's bent, to

( )

, out, to ^^ Fool's chair, a

" suit, to errand, a
,,
, the dictates of, to
" mate ;
" paradise
„ the hounds, to Fools' day, all

,, the lights, to
the lead of, to ^*
Foolish as a daw, as
"
Foot a
as a woodcock, as
bill, to
@
the multitude, to , a new land, to
" the sea, to ,, and mouth disease CI
,,

„
,,
the trail, to
up, to
virtue, to ,,
by foot
it,to
;
Following day, the EJ ,, of a doctrine, the
 5

Foot ( 184 ) For

Foot of a hill, the , certain ; ;

;^
,, to foot ,, choice
Football of fortune, a " conscience' sake
effect
Foothold in business, a " ever!
" ever
Footstool, God's ; , ever and ever
Footlights, the „ example
,, , to appear before the ,, form's sake

,, , to smell of the
„ God's sake
good
good and
; ; all 7
to smell the goodness' sake
Footman's inn
For a blast
„ a dead certainty
— ; goodness gracious' sake
Heaven's sake
his sake
„ a minute or moment , instance

;;
" a song or a mere song " it

" keep
" a space " life
" a time or season „ long
,,

,,

,,
a
a
truth
while
a wonder
;; "
love
love or money
H

" account of , many a long day

all
many
& ;
,,
, miles around
all me
,
"
all
all
that
the world
all waters, to be
; "
mercy!
mercy's sake!
;
"
,,
an age
anything
,,

,,
my part
(nine)'v-3spers
nothing
(
;
" anything one knows old sake's sake
;
"
,,
as
as
;
much as
"
"
„
once
one's life
pity's sake
;
,
,
aught
aught one knows ; ,,

,,

"
sale
shame
;
eake's sake

" aye ; short

,, because „ shortness' sake
,. Bedfordshire, to be " Swine reason or other
„ better or for worse time
 HA B

F or ( 185 ) Force

For that " the son from the house, to

,, that matter
"
,,
that reason
the benefit of
the best
; " the use

Forbidden City, the

of firearms, to

,,

,
the better

the convenience of ij; ,,

; fruit

goods
1

,,

,,
the Heaven
the main ;; , Land, the
lore
( )
,,

,,
the most part
the
the
nonce
present
; g Forbidding coast, a
time

„ the purpose of % " countenance, a

„ the reason that
„ the sake of day, a
tt the sake of Heavenly Father , sight, a
Force a bill through the house, to
,,

,,

"
the soul of me
the time being
the welfare of society
;W a city to submit, to

,,

,,
the world
the worse
; a laugh, to
a lock, to
a man's hand, to
" this once
" this reason a passage through the
,, what you (or I) care mountain, to

,
,
why ()
years together
; a virgin's chastity,

away, to
to

" years without end 7 back, to ® ;

Forage cap back the current, to

Forbear bad company, to
,, from evil, to conviction on the mind, to
one another as brothers, to
down, to f;
Forbearance of offense down the throat, to

;:
,, of pain forward, to
" toward the weak from, to
in, to
Forbearing in any action
Forbid a man to talk, to
it, Heaven!
"
f of a treaty,
of
of
arms
the

the argument, the

[
 )

Porce ( 186 )

Force one to keep silence, to „ an oppert unity, to

,, oue's opinion on another, t . worldly pleasure, to

,
,,
out, to ; .;
one's way, to

plants, to
Foregoing statement, the
Foregone conclusion, a
" event, a
Foreign attachment
, r

the gates of a city, to

,,
,, bill [
the sense, to " bill of exchange
, wine, to ?'Hi bond
Forced by circumstances, to be ,,
exchange calculation

„ gaiety ,, exchange contract

into submission!, to be

.
" laugh, a
march, a ()
5

ifii
,
,,

„
goods
Office, the
;
going vessels

sale by auction parcel post

,,

,, to be, to be
Forcible argument, a
,,

"
plea () ^
f|g
registered mail matter
arrest
,, blow, a , to be
the purpose »
^
,,
entry >

" entry and detainer ()

,, trade
" purchase
Forcing-house
„ quotation
Forensic eloquence
"

Foremost captain
medicine
terms
of his
^ U
time
Fordo the euemy by stratagem, lo
Fore promised seat, a
Fore and aft ( Forest City, the
Cleveland
?fi
Ohio

-^
Forebode death, to fg
Forecast provision in winter, to g( „ green
,, of fools, the
,, the weather, to ,, walk
Foreclose a mortgager, to (^) Forestall criticism, to fdfUjnftm
" the market, to
Foredoomed fate ffi 35 Forever and aye
Forego a place, to gjj K-
g'
,, and a day 4: K W
„ advice, to " and ever
 B ^@ ~ H *

Forfeit ( 1^ )

company

^
Forfeit in a barber shop the in a square, to
VI S-
^fr ' „ the habit of, to

, of money Formal analogy

,, of one's life, to pay the
' ,, change
„ courtesy
" of salary " discussion
" one's good opinion, to ,, meeting

P'orcje a
"
name,
a will, to
to ; „
Former ages
"
obedience
;
days or times
coins, to life or existence
, news, to Formidable foe, a
Forget favors, to , by or in numbers
" -me-nots of the angels, the

,
"
oneself, to
injury, to
; ,,

.,
in strength
to the enemy

Forgetful of
wine
Forms of action
of ages
(
Forgive one's enemies, to Forsake a vice, to

" sins, to
Forgotten by the world
; ,,
one's colors, to
"
one's friends, to
one's wife, to
Fork out or over, to
Forked radish, a
( "
Forswear one's religion, to

, road, a " oneself, to

,, tongue, a
Forlorn children
;;
Forthcoming book, a
Fortify oneself, to ;;
„
;
hope, a

;
() the mind, to
,,

Fortis cadere, cedere non potest

)
(
((
Form a company, to
„ a lane, to Fortiter et recte
,,

"
a party, to
a resolution, to
an estimate, to
; ,, in re
Fortuitous concourse of atoms
)

,,

(
"
an opinion, to
ideas, to
©; Fortuna
Fortuna favet fatuis
IS)

(
"
,,

,,
in line
of prayer
of production
,, favet foreibu» (
h Pl*a«i to JOft w muiti$ dot nimium, nuUi
 B J gi

( 188 )
F our

satis ( )
" feeding

Fortnna Virgo ( "

"
Fiend, the
language

Fortunate career, a
)

^ ,
"
odors
play
(IE

"
„
„
day, a
event ;
Islands or Islands of the ,
proof
weather
weather Jack
Blest (
John Byron
Canary
" weed s 5

Fortunatus' purse i( Found a country, to

Fortune,
„
(
Dame
wishing
^
cap
"
Foundation
„

,,
a family, to
of a state,
of the world,

school
the
the

,, hunter, a
Forty thousand " stone
,, winks Founded on
Forward a letter, Founder of a country, the

„
contract
child, a
to
^ Founder's dust
sand
,, delivery () ,, shares ()
„ fruit Foundling hospital
,, one's views, to Fountain of human liberty, the

,,
spring, a
,, thinker, a ,, of life, the
Forwarding agency Alexander of Hales
,, commission m
Foster brother of Youth, the
daughter
-earth Four Books, the
father -bottle man, a
forlorn children, to
limbs or extremities of the
nurse body, the
talent, to in hand, a
Foul-anchor points on the com pass, the
bill of
copy, a ;
health
quarters of the earth, the
craven
disease, a , seas, the ;
Four ( 189 ) Frai

Four seasons, the

Frantic ardor
winds, the Fraud in fact ()
„
Fourth-day
,, estate
" in equity
Fraudulent bankruptcy
(
,, , the Jg „ disposition
B ,, means
Fowl of the air
Fowling piece,
Fox and geese
a
Fraught with danger
Freak of nature
Freakish humor
;^
,, , an old Freckled-faced
-ship Free a prisoner, to
,, -sleep
" agency
" that has lost its tail, a ,, along side ()
Fractional currency
Fractious steed, a
Fragment from an ancient ruin, a
;^
,, and easy
as air, as
;;
,, as the "sun, as

Fragmental rocks
Fragmentary discourse
;; ,,

,,

"
bench
church, a
competition S
,, facts
^!
,, export (
Fragrant reminiscence
Frail constitution, a
„ craft a ;^
,,

,
,
favor
fight ;
from annoyance
,, woman, a " from business
,, weed from care
Fraise a battalion, to „ from pain
from restraint
Frame a story, to " gift, a
" for a building, the ,,
goods
,, aouse, a ,, heart
"
, Of
of government,
mind
a import (
,, in action
timbers ^" , in communication

Framed
,, up, to
of, to

Francis's distemper, St.

be
issue
lance, a
life, a
;
Frank a letter, to ,, list fcj

^;
, confession, a
-hearted
" , -liver, a
trade
,, ,, of charges
Frankum's night of heart
 g

Free ( 190 ) Fresh

Free on board (F. O. B.)

overside ()
to collect
trade
( Jft jig
train A
,,

„
port
school, a
seats
; French Aristides,
Albert Grevy
the
(
^'
Aristides

,, sky
States, the Aristophanes, the
Moliere (
Aristophanes
,, style
, town, a ,, cream
trade Jfc

wind crown
" with one's money, to be
,, disease, the
" with one's servants, to
,, Ennius, the Guil-
with one's tongue, to be laume di Lorris Jehan
de Meung (Ennius
Freedom from disease
" from sorrow ,, leave
of industry Lycophron, the
,,

,,

,
Freehand drawing
of
of

Freestone State, the

speech
trade

Con-
„

,, Ovid, the
de Bellay (Ovki
Pliilias, the
^
Jean Dorat
Toachim .
,,
necticut
Freeze on to or to, to (; Jean Goujon Jean B;iptiste
Pigalle (Phidias

„ out, to
Freezing point
(; )
,, Pindar, the

Freight by measurement ( Jean Dinemandy

Denis Lebrun
Ponce
(Pindar
Thebes ^
by weight ()
,
,
"
out and home
payable at destination (
„ Raphael, the
Eustache Lo Sueur (Rail"i'l
da Urbino ^
" payable in advance () Tibullus, the ,d
g Evariste Desire Duforges(Al-
,, payable on delivery ( bius Tibullus ,3
[
,, release () * Fresh as flowers in May, as
 ^ c

Fresh ( 191 ) Frort

Fresh as paint
"
„
breeze, a
complexion, a
^ |t
Friends with, to be
Friendly breeze or gale
„ game
" for a combat power or state, a
,, relations IS
,, goods ft , to each other, to be
, hand, a
,, in society, to be jft Frighten the French, to
,, in the mind Frightened out of one's senses
» news mmim
"

,,
supply
water
-water soldier, a
out of one's wits
to death
Frightful appearance
,,

,, ;
, way ,, chasm, a
" woods and pastures new tempest

" young men

,,

Frigid climate
friend, a
^^
"
Freshen ballast, to „ indifference
,, look, a
one's spirits, to
„
,,

Freshman
the way, to
class
( if
Frisk
„
,,
style, a
zone
away opportunities, to
Fret and fume, to
in, to Fritter away, to
" away influence, to
;
,, one's fortune, to
,, one's gizzard, to (^ " away money, to
,, away time, to S
,, the surface of the water, to

Friar of gray orders St. Francis

Fritz,a
Frog, a
„ eater, a
;•
,,
f>
^Rush
Friars's lantern
:^ ^ A;
Frolic fairies
From
,,
a child
above
Friday, a ,, afar
,,

,,
-faced
tree, a
Friend at or in court, a
; .,

„
,,
after
age to age
among
" bad to worse
,, in need, a . , bed and board
of God, the ffi „ "
behind
,, below ^"
,, of men, the ; ,, beneath
 ®

From ( 192 ) Frozen

From beginning to end ,, this out

, Ceca to Mecca „ this time
, day to day ,, time immemorial

.
"
"
„
door to door
end to end
first to last
"
,,

,,
time to time
top to toe
whence
; Alt

,, good hands ,, within

„
,
hand
hand
to
to
hand
mouth ; ,,

,,
without
year's end to year's end

,,

,,
head
high ;
to foot ,, youth to age
Front-box
;
„
,,
home,
nature (
to be
)
,,

"
„
danger, to
of an army, the
of operations (
" now on " -room
,, of old
off
" the north, to ; lb
,, ,, to front
,,

,,
on high
one year to another
one's heart
" view, a
Fronti milla fides (
,, oneself Frontier garrisons S
pHlar to post ,,
post, a
,, pole to pole ,, town, a
"

,,
shore to shore of the Atlantic

side to side
Frosty head, a
,,

„
reception
weather
#
,, stem to stern ,,
years of age, the
" the bottom of one's heart Froth up, to
Frothy speaker, a
,, the cradle Frown one into silence, to

,,
the creation of the world

the egg to the apple

,, down, to ;
" the first or beginning ,, on, to
" the heart „ on the deed, to

„
,
"
the house-top
the jump
the purpose
Frowning brows
Frowns of fortune
;
„ the teeth outward I^IRL Frozen ear, a
, heart, a
,, the time of
the world go (;[;
1g
,,

,,
music
north, the
 n

Frozen ( 193 ) Fall

Frozen river, a
,,

Frugal fare
wonder

;
zones, the
,,

"
,
butt
chisel
cry, in
(; ;
()
)

"
„
home
of time
Frugality of praise
,
,,
dress
drive
fragrance
():
;^
Fruit of hard labor, the ,, harvest

" of paradise
,,

"
-hearted
house ; ;
Fruitful genius
in expedients
"
jump ;
in the belly (^)

"
u
,,
indignation
season, a
showers
;^ ,,

,,

,,
knowledge
liberty
man, a
[^
" soil, a ,, many a time
Fruitless attempt, a ,, measure, a
H;
,,

,
labor
repentance
Frustrate a contract, to ^
,,

,,

,,
moon
of anger
of business
;; i
ones hopes, to " of cares i
"

Fugithora
one's plans, to
search
( )
^AltiX
,
,,
of ideas
of incident
of joy
;
Fugitive compositions , of meaning
" of meat as an egg, as fit

,, colors
" of sorrow
,, impression of sport
"
slave, a
,,
,, of whims
Fulfil a dream, to
powers
;
:;^
,,
" a term of office, to
sail
one's desire, to sailor
^*
"
" one's duty, to satisfaction
"
" one's promise, to
" prophecies, to
Full age
,,

,
scope
stomach, a ^
"
and by
assembly
( ,, supply
swing
bagged ">
,, table, a
,, band or orchestra filj ,, tilt

"
bloom ;
brother o f sister ^^ >
,,

ff
time
view, a
year, a
 .

Fulluess 194 ) Cain

Fullness of age Furrow, to draw a straight

of heart

;
'

Furrowed cheeks
Fulminating powder
George IV Furtive look, a
Fum the Fourth
Fusible metal, a
Fussy as a hen that has one chick,
Fumble for an excuse, to
as
" in one's pocket, to
Futile attempt, a

Fumigate clothes, to
'
Futtock plates (
Functions of the five senses
shrouds (
Functional disease, a
Fut ire day, a
Funding system
event
generations or age
Fundamental base () fit

„ colors ; happiness ;
,
,,
learning
laws
life
state ;
Funded debt
" principles
G
Gaberlunzie man, a
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,,
pace, at a Gad about, to
,,

„
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pall
pile
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,, business
(;
(
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to blow the
,

,, man, a () a public speaker, to

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,,
onslaught or attack, a -law
„
the press, to
(.
„

,,
torrent, a
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aid, to
its quota, to
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, a
a
footing, to
living, to
^
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1

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with powers, to J ^ an ascendency Cv^r^tD
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^
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ground, to
 ^ *

( 195 )
Garble
Gain
Gallic cock, the
Gain ground on, to
, head, to ; Gallows-bird, a
-tree
. , in health, to
Gamble away, to
„
„
,,
into, to
laurels, to
learning, to
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on, to 1g :^ : Game at cards, a
which two can play, a
" one's cause, to , at
,, one's ends, to * '

,,

,,
one's feet, to
one's heart, to
over, to ;;
„
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-cock, a
for
m
anything ;
,, the confidence of, to ,, is not worth the candle, the
„ the day, to
, the full play, to ; ,, is up, the
,, the start, to " leg, a () ;
• the top of the mountain, to " to the backbone
„ to the last
the upper hand, to Game's afoot, the H
the wind, to .. of chance
"
„
,,
time, to
upon, to ;i of skill

;;;
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Gala day Gaming house, a If
Galaxy, a
Galen, a (
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Galen Gammon
Gamp, a
„
;
table, a

„ says no and Hippocrates Gamps and Harrises

*
says yes, when
Hippocrates Gang
,,
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-board
(;
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Galena

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,,
of robbers, a
one's own gait, to
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,,
Monday

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„ ,
full of Gaol bird, a
,, of bitterness, the Gape at, to
" after, to
Gallant a fan, to , for, to

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Garcias " of the West, the
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,,
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la foi
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of
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;
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,, of
(2)
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Worcestershire,
1) Kent,
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Gas, to ()
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Gasconade, a
;
;
Isle ofwight
Gasp for or after, to
,, of Erin, the
„ out, to
Oarlow
Gaspipe cyclists
,, of Europe, the
Gastric juice
" fever
of France, the
Gate money
Touraine Ainboise in Indre
of horn
et Loire
„ of ivory
of Helvetia, the
,, of Tears, the jjff
Thurgau
ttffi
of India, the Oude
of Ireland, the of the mind, the
Oarlow ,, , the ft (
of Italy, the
Sicily Gates of death
of South Wales, the Gather a fortune, to
South Glamorganshire " breath, to ' ik

of Spain, the ,,
dust, to
flesh, to JE
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of the Gods Colo- ,,

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rado $ Colorado Springs ,, fruit, to

ft ,,
ground, to
,, bead, to
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,
,,
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on, to
;
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weather- (
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;
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^
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,,

,,
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speed, to U
Gavelkind
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,, strength, to
to a head, to; " as the king's candle, as

"
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together, to colors
deceiver, a
,
,,
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way, to ;
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dog, a
dress

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to one's fathers, to be
"
,,
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science, the
company
society or
ff to one's people, to be " woman, a *
„ young man, a !^
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i
,, clouds '; on, to
; Gazing stock, a
song Gear down, to ()
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Gaucho, a
; Gehenna
Gelert, as faithful
(Gelert
as ;
Oaudium
SI
certaminis ( )
Gem of the ocean, the
Genealogical records of a family

Gaudy as a butterbly, as „ records of clans

„ as a peacock, as General acceptance (
,,

,,
days or nights

embellishments II
,
,,

,,
account, a
agent ()
assembly ;j
,
^
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„
"
average
body of citizens, the
,,

,,

,
,

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narrow
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()
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,,
budget
cargo
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,, iipbon-
General ( 198 ) Gentle

General coffer Generative organ

" course Generous as Hatirn, as
Court „ color, a
" custom ,, diet or fare, a
" damages ,, disposition or nature
„ delivery
, description fields
"
,,
election
history, a ; "
,,
steed, a
table, a

„
idea, a
income tax — treatment
wine"
,,

,
index
indorsement
Janvier and
(General[
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Geneva bands
" Bible, the
Geneva
—
Jevrier (
courage
Cross, the
„ laws Genial dews
ledger ()
"
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disposition, a
showers
IS

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of
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for poetry, a

the shore, the

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orders , of the time, the
„ peace Gens—d'affaires )

, phraseology " d'armes )

posto
practice
ce , de condition
de langues
((;^ )

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,,
practitioner
public [
„
„
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de loi (( ; )

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„
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run
staff !^
de peu
du monde ( ; )

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,,
store, a
meme famille
,
,
tariff
term, a
welfare, the
(3 ,,
de

Genteel carriage or person

)

Generally speaking
Generality of
Generation after generation ; [
,
,
,
manners
dress
family, a ; SS

„ of crime Gentle and simple fl5

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Gebtle ( 199 i Cerma^

Gentle breeze, a
,,

,,
craft, the
disposition, a
;^ „
,
the old
usher, a
Gentlemen-at-arms
,

, horse, a Gentlemen's agreement

,, medicine, a
,,

"
music, a
passion, the
people, the
„
Genuine breed
"
gentleman, a

goods or
; articles
•

^;
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n reproof, a "
^
letter, a
,, sex, the Geocentric latitude
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^'
George Grenville " parallax *
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„
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voice, a
at large, a
m
" , mathematical
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Oxford Cambridge * physical

;
,

,
political
" in black, a Geological survey
,, in black, the Geology, astronomical ^
" in
velvet, the
black (brown) " ,
dynamic
historical :^
„
,,
in red, a
of fortune, a ; ,,
,, physical
structural,

Geometry, analytical
, of paper and wax , descriptive *
" of the four outs, a Sa determinate
,,

m
" of the jacket, a 7 , indeterminate

;
,,
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; of the order of the rag
„ of three dimensions
,,

,, ,
plane
,, of the pad, a
„ , solid
,, of the press, a Georgium sidus
Herschel
,, of the road, a George III
,, of the short staff, a German comb, the
,, Florence, the
of the three outs, a S> Dresden
„ Plato, the Fre-
 | B K B

German ( 200 )

German
drich Heinrich Jacobi
Pliny, the
a broad, to
access to, to
;
Konrad von Gesner (Pliny, admission to, to
the Elder afoot, to (
,,

"
Silver
Voltaire, the
Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann
aground, to
ahead, to
ahead
; ^
a mile, to
Christoph Martin Wielainl ahead in business, to
(Voltaire
ahead of, ;;
to

Geryon (
Germinate from, to
=
Hercules
air, to
along, to
*
;; ;
along in learning, to
Gestic lore
Get a bad fall, to along in one's affairs, to

,, a child, to
,, a clue, to along with you!
,, a cold, to among, to
,, a conclusion or solution, to an advancement, to
an aversion to, to
„ a fair profit, to an idea, of, to
, a fall, to an opportunity, to
,, a footing, to asleep, to
" a good night's rest, to astray, to
at, to

,, a lesson, to at the bottom of, to

,,

,,
a living or livelihood, to

a
;man in an argument, to
at the truth, to
away, to
aw ay from,
;to
() away with, to
"
"
,,
a man's ear, to
a mile, to
a pardon, to
back, to
before, to
behind, to
;
,, a person his gruel, to f better, to

"
„
,,
a place, to
a sat-dowu, to
a sight of, to
; between, to
beyond, to
beyond control,
; to
,, a thief, to bottom, to J?J

„ a victory, to by heart, to
a wegging, to by rote, to
(
,,

„
aboard
about, to
above, to
of, to

;
;
n
;
cheated, to
clear., to ;
clear of danger, to
 S

Gel ( 201 j (Ut

-- --" -' -

Set clear of debt, to into the good graces of, to

down, to

„
drink, to
drunk, to §i
even with, to
"
into harbor, to
into trouble, to
in with, to
^
, experience, to „ in with influential people, to
,,

,
favor, to

;
for one's pains, to it, to ; ()
,,

,,
forward, to
free, to ; left, (;
knowlege, to
to
,,
friends, to
from, to : „
loose, to
low, to ;;
glory, to

;;
groats in kail, to
money,
near, to ;
;;
to ||

ground, to
ground of,
it
to „
of, to
off,

;;
to ; ; STtft; JR

„
hand, to
head, to
his
;;
company "
off a car, to
off a horse, to

" hold ;
of, to off a joke, to

, home,
in, to
to
;;; off by heart, to
off the cargo, to
ffi

S£
,,

,,

,
in by the door, to

;;;;
in the harvest, to
into, to
off to sleep, to
on, to
on
;; ;
for or to, or towards, to
„ into a passion or rage, to
„ on horseback, to
into a mess, to on in the world, to
"
,
,,
into a muddle, to
into a row, to
into a scrape, to
L;
on
on
on
in years, to
one's legs, to
one's nerves, to
;^
,,
into a snare, to 4j on one's way, to
, into another's shoes, to on the brain, to
on swimmingly, to
into
into
into
art, to
business, to
danger, to ;^
on with, to
one down with wine, to
; SI
into
into
despair, to
difficulty, to
into fashion, to
one's back up, to
one's dander up, to
;(
into favor, to one's feet wet, to JS
into harness, to one's gruel, to
into hot water, to i@ »» one's hand in, to
 W

Gei ( 202 ) Get

Get one's monkey up, to the small-pox, to

one's way or ways, to the spoon, to
one's wind, to
out, to
out of, to
;;;;;; the start, to
tho upper hand, to
out
out
of a scrape, to
of
^
attending school, to ;
the wind of, to

the worst of it, to

()
;
out of bed on the wrong side, the wrong sow by the ear, to
to
out of danger, to thee gone
out of one's depth, to
there, to( ;(
thee hence

out of sight, to
out of the way, to ( ; ^;
(three months), to

out of this!
over, to ;^
over the ground, to
through, to
through an examination, to

possession, to ; through hands, to

quit of, to
ready, to ; to, to ;;
through with, to

religion, to
rid of, to ;; to be friends, to
^;
to high words, to
; [
round, to
scent, to
shut of, to () ;
()
;
to like (it), to
to the bottom of, to
to the root of, to
square with, to ^L; to sleep, to
spliced, to
the best of, to ; to the
;
windward of, to

the
the
better of, to
boot, to ;; {ft
to work, to
too big for one's shoes, to

; ;;;( ;
the blues, to
the day, to together, to
the devil, to up, to
the drop, to up and get, to
the
the
bulge on, to
hang of, to
(
; used to
to
it like a skinned eel,

the
the
heels of, to
mitten or mittens, to
wealth, to
well, to ;
;;;
;;
wind, to
the needle, to wind of, to
the sack, to with child or young, to
the shoes on, to within, to mimAM^n
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Get ( 20* ) Cive

Get you gone „ refined gold, to

Ghastly crime, a
, face, a the pill, to ;
,,

,,

Ghost, a
light,
wounds
a Gilded arms
„
,,
chamber, the
rooster, a
(
u book, a spur ,,

youth, a
,
,, of a chance, the Gilding-metal

^
" of a smile, the ,, -size
word, a Gillian of Brentford
Ghoul, a Gilt-edged securities
Giant gooseberry, a
of literature, the Gimlet eye, a
Dr Samuel Johnson Gin gin"* Geneva 3K)
Giant's Causeway „ palace, a
Ginger
Gib, the cat of one's , -beer
" to hang one's
, -bread work
" to play fy
to play the Gingham, a
Gibberish
Gibeonite, a
Gibeonite's work, to do
; Gird oneself, to
,, up the loins, to
Girl at ease, a
Gibier do potence ( of all work, a
Gibraltar of.. .the Gibraltar Gist of the matter, the

" of America, the

Give a back, to
baker's dozen, to
;
" a
Quebec , a basket to, to
„ of the New World, :the " a black eye, to

Giddy- brained ; a blank cheque to, to

height, a
Gift of eloquence, the
of heaven, the
"
;
a broadside, to

„
,,
speech
of
of the Danai
,
,,

„
a
a call, to ;
bow and a scrape, to

a challenge, to
BJJ

,, of the gab
Gig-lamps
()
(; a daughter in marriage, to

Gigantomacby
Giggle away, to
Gigmanity
—E .
,,
a deaf ear, to
a death-blow, to ;
GUd a lie, to ,, a description, to
 ( 204 >

ve a disease to another, to

a false coloring, to
a finishing touch, to
; a Rowland

a say at, to
for an Oliver, to

a flap with a fox-tail, to a shout, to

;. ;
a good account of another, io
a speech, to
a spread, to Si
a thing or person a
;; trial, to

a guess, to
a handle, to a turn to, to
a hearing, to ; a thought to, to
verbal account, to
a helping hand, to a i4

a
a
hint, to
horse his head, to
a
advice, to
again, to
^
wide berth, to

;
a keener point, to aid, to
a leg, to
a lesson
a lift, to ;
in, to
alarm, to
alms, to
an account of, to
;
a loose to the fancy, to an actor his role, to B

a lurch, to an answer, to
a party, to
a pat on the back
i
'01 ahoul-
an ear, to ;
an entertainment, to
der, to an exhibition, to
a person a bit of one's mind, an eye to, to
to an impression, to
a person away, to an inkling of, to
an invitation, to
a person beans, to
a person his own, to
;person
an opinion, to
and take, to
-and-take policy
; &
a rope, to
a person the cold shoulder, applause, to
to apples to Alcinous, to
a piece of one's mind,

a rap on the knuckles, to ()

to
as good as one gets, to —
; assent by nodding, to
a rebuke, to
a reply, to
a rogue rope
;
enough and he
audience,

away, to
to

;; ;;
ifii

will hang himself, to back, to ii

Give ( 205 )
Give

Give battle, to
" best, to () ; ,,

,,

,,
instructions, to
it to one, to ( ; ;?
judgment for or against, to

—;;
birth to, to
bridle to, to [ ,
,
leg-bail, to
liberty, to
cause of suspicion, to
chapter
thing, to
and verse for a ,,

,,
line to, to
loose to, to ;
chase, to
color, to ,, me ; ……
comfort, to
consent, to ; ,,

,,
me leave
medicine, to
to say

counsel, to
countenance to, to
„
,,
milk, to
mouth, to (
credit, to
,
,,
mouth
notice, to ;;
to, to

credit to, to
currency to, to
death to, to
; ,,

,
,,
occasion
off, to
offense, to
;
for, to

;
diligence, to ,, on, to
directions, to
down, to ( ,,

,,
one a black eye, to
one a dressing, to ;()
ear to, to
effect to, to ; ,, one a good or bad character,
to
evidence, to
exit to, to
expression, to
; "
,,
one an idea, to
one credit for (some merit), to

fire,
fits,
to
to ;;; ,, one his carritch, to (
;
;—
forth, to . one hir gruel, to
free rein, to ; ,, one his revenge, to

fullswing to, to ; ,,

,,
one
one
Jessie, to
the creeps, to
()
ground, to
hard measure, to ; ,,

,,
one
one
the
the
lie,
lie
to
in bis throat, to
head, to
heed
into, to ;; ;
to, to

ii
,,

,
one the sack, to
one the slip, to
:
into, to ;;; , one the time of day, to
^
in charge or custody, to

information, to
'
,,

"
one
to
one up,
;
to know

to
or understand,
Give ( m ) Give

Give one's blessing for another, to security, to

" one's child suck, to

sentence, to *
H
straw to one's do^ and bones
,, one's consent, to 9fc to one's ass, to
" one's custom, to strength, to
,, one's hand, to * thanks, to
" one's hand to, to 1
;^ the bucket, to
, one's hang upon anything, to the bucklers, to

"
one's
one's
life,
life for
to ;
one's country, to
the cue, to
the cut direct, to
;® MM
the cold shoulder, to

"
,,
one's word, to
oneself, to ;
; the back, to
the bob, to ;;
,, oneself a figure, to the butt (to), to fl
"
"
oneself airs, to
oneself away, to & the devil his due, to

;
"
; ;
oneself no concern, to the go-by to, to
the hand, to ;
^[
,, oneself over to sensuality, to

"
"
oneself over to vice, to
oneself to pleasure, to
the
the
the
hand
head
of, to
to, to
knee, to
;
the last finish, to

; ; ; ;;
„ oneself to study, to
" oneself up, to the lie to, to
; ;; the mitten to, to
"

"
out, to

over, to ;;
permission,
; ;;
to
the nod, to
the refusal, to
the reins to, to ^;
"
„
"
place, to
play, to
points, to ();
the slip, to
time, to
tit-for-tat, to
;—
,, possession, to to one's account, to

„
praise, to
precedence, to
!^
; to the dogs, to
to the world, to
;
"
:
preference to, to
quarter, to ;; f^;
tongue, to
trouble, to
;;;
,,

,,
rein to, to
rise to, to ; up, to
up the ghost, to
,,
room, to
scope, to ; f|»
vent to, to
warning, to ; If
 «

Give ( 207 ) Glow

Give way, to
, way
;;
to display, to
; Glimmering idea
Glimpse of the eye, a
„ welcome, to Glistening dewdrop
,, with force of expression, to Glittering gold
,, sword, a
, you good night S Globe-trotter, a
Globular chart
Given over
time
,,

Gloomy countenance
sailing (;
„ to, tobe 41 ; " musing
Glad at, tobe ,, prospects
,,

„
,,
bag, a
countenance, to
eye, the
; Gloriana
Glorify oneself, to
weather
Elizabeth

,, of one's assistance Glorious deeds

,,

,
,,
stone
tidings, a
voice, a
; ,, first of

Ushant
June, the
Lord Howe
"—

Gladden one's heart, to

;;
Gladonize, to ,, freedom
Glance about, to ,, John
,, at, to John Dryden
,, of the eye, a —; manifestation
,,
, over, to time, a
,,
Glare of the sun, the Gloriously drunk
Glaring color, a
,,

,,

,,
crime, a
eyes
light
Glory demon, the
,,

,,
in, to ;
in adversity, to
in one's strength, to
Qlasglow capon, a ,,

magistrate, a
,,

Glassy diamond, a

stream, a
smoothness
„ of the sun, the
Gloss over an affair, to
,,
over. faults, to
B
^
Glossed faults
Glaucus, a second
Glazed paper
Gleam of hope, a —
—
Glossy deceit
,, hair
Glove money or silver
ffi

;^
,, of light, a
Glean news, to Glow of a sunset sky, the
Gleeful spirit
Glib tongue, a
Gliding measure
;
^ " of health in the cheeks, the

Glim ()
Glimmer of hope, a — ,, with ardor or zeal, to
Clow ( 208 ) Go

Glow with
,
love, to
with patriotism, to ;
along! go about your business!

along with, to
„ with rage or auger, to amiss, to
Slowing envy an easy pace, to
„ eyes an errand, to
Slue chalk, to and seek
alut one's appetite, to
,,

„
one's eyes, to
one's revenge, to
aside, to
astern, to
;(;
as best one can, to

^ ;;;
" the market, to
3naw one's nail, to astray, to
Snawing thoughts at, to

Snome (;
Ernawings of hunger
)
at one's ease, to
away, to ;
Snoniiometrical microscope
back, to
back on, to
backward in
() ;;
one's circum-
18

" telescope stances, to

Snoinonic projection IBI

bad, to
bail for
II;
another, to
;
;
3o a-begging, to
a journey, to
; before, to
behind, to
between, to
beyond, to
a long way, to
a very little way with, to
beyond the boundary, to
big with a project, to "'t

;; ;
a wool-gathering, to
about, to

; ;;;
about one's business,

abroad, to
()
to
blind, to
bung, to
by, to
by a name, to
^(;);;;
tf

by beggar's bush, to
;
across, to
by the board, to
. t;

;; ;
after, to
against, to by the name of, to
; [
; ;
against the grain, to by the worst, to
daft, to
against the stomach, to deep into, to
dinnerless, to

,all
;
ahead, to
all lengths, to
the
directly to one's point, to

down, to ; ;^ ;
rM

1|
Go ( 209 ) Go

Go down in the world, to , near to, to

,, down on one's knees, to If , netting for fish in the middle
of the ocean, to
"

"
downstairs, to
far, to
farther and
;
fare worse, to
,,

,,
off, to ;;
off at a tangent, to
ffi;

,, for, to
for a walk, to
() ;; "
,,
off one's head, to
off the hooks, to ;
,,

,,
for nofcbiii}?, to
forth, to
,
"
off to sleep, to
on, to ; ;
" forward, to
; on a fool's errand, to

;[
from one's word, to
^
,,

,
,,
full speed, to
great lengths, to ; ,,

,,

,,
on a train, to
on all fours, to
on board, to
c

"
„
halves, to
hand
;
in hand with, to ; ,
,,
on foot, to
on ill, to
on one's way, to
, hard with, to SS „ on strike, to

"
, heels over head, to
hence
„
,,
on the road, to
on the stage, to [
;;
" home to, to |^ , on to the bitter end, to
, ill with, to on wheels, to
;; ,,
,
,
in, to
in and out, to
;;
„
„
on with a work, to
one better, to ;
;;;;
,, in for, to
,, in pursuit of, to
„ out, to ffi
, in with, to
,, out into service, to
,, into, to A;im&
„ out of, to ffi
,,

,,
into a question, to
into liquidation, to ; , out of one's way, to

; ;;
, out God's blessing into the
,,

,
,,
it, to ;
into operation, to

it alone, to
,,

,,
warm
over, to
sun, to

over the range, to

,, it blind, to , over to the majority, to

;;
, it hammer and tongs, to
" post haste, to
, round and round, to
lame, to ,, shares, to

,
large, to
like clock work, to
, snacks, to [
,, the entire animal, to
,, mad, to ,, the length, to
 g

Go ( 210 ) Go

Go the pace,

„
the
the
round, to
to

rounds, to
; to one's account, to
to one's heart, to
to pie, to

,,

"
the
the
the
way
way
way
of all flesh, to
of all the earth, to
of nature, to
to pieces, to
to pigs and whistles, to
;
;
,, the whole figure, to () to press, to
; ;
^
to pot, to
the whole hog, to ( to rack, to ;
,, the whole length, to ^; to sea, to
to school, to
s

,, through, to ; ;; to sleep, to
to smash, to ^;
(;
(^
to the bad, to ffl

" through fire and water for an- .

other, to to the bar, to

,, through one, to to the devil, to
to the dogs, to ;
,,

,,

,
through the mill, to
through with, to
tick, to
; to the ground, to
to the length of, to

, to to the scrape-heap, to
„
,,
to all length, to
to a, or one's long account, to
to the seaside, to
to the wall, to
to the winds, to
;;^;
,, to Bath
to bed to the world, to

;;(
,,

,, to bed in one's boots, to to thunder!

,, to Bedfordshire, to to war, to
,,

,
to
to
Birgham!
extremes, to $!l
to work, to
to wreck, to ;^
,,

,,
to glory, to
to grass
(;
(;
too far, to
together, to
under, to
;
; ;^
,, to grass, to under an assumed name, to
,, to.ground, to
); ; ;
up, to ( ;;
(;
to Heaven, to up and down, to
to law, to up the spout,
( to

;?
" to market, to up to, to ;
, -to-meeting (air or clothes) upon, to ft

;
to naught, to ; well, to
whistle, to
Go ( 211 ) Golden

Go

,,

,,
with, to ;; [
wild with terror, to

with the stream, to

without, to
^ C;
,,

,,

"
,
Godsend, a
salvation
Sunday
truth
way

,
wrong, to
without saying, to
i
Going about
,, forth ;
Goal of one's ambition, the

Goat's wool
"
,,

,
on, to be
out
to, to
;;
be
Gobelin Goings on
Jean Gobelin Golconda, a

Gobemouches, a
God be

"
praised or thanked

bless or save the mark!

Gola-fever
Gold key
,,

,,
mine, a
of Nibelungen, the
,,
^
purse of Spain, the
; Andalusia
,, bless you " stick in waiting
,, buy you
( ,,

Goldbugs
of Tolosa, the

,,
„

,,

,,

,,
-fearing
forbid
grant not
grant that
in the machine, the
Golden
,,
age, a
age, the
;age
^
" of China, the
,, knows why (626 — 684)
„ tempers the wind to the shorn „ age Egypt, the
of
lamb —
1336 1224 B.C.)
,, to speed! , age of England, the
„ yield you ( 1558—1603)
)
Goddeiu, a
, age of France, the
1640—1740)
Goddess of Beauty, the age of Germany, the
Venus (1519— 1558)
God's acre
„
,,
day
good Angel
; " age of Portugal, the

age of Prussia, the @

1383— 1578)

„ house 1740—1786)

,,
,,
image cut
penny
road
in ebony
; " age of Russia, the
1672— 1725)
age of Spain, the
 i A

Golden ( 212 )

1474— 1516) Goliath, a

Golden age of Sweden, the Gombeen m^n, a
1523—1632)
,, apple, a Gondola of London
„ Ball, the Ball Gone, to be

,,

"
Hughes
book, a
bowl is
;'
broken
,,

„
by, to be
case
COOU
;
;
„
,,

"
bridge, a
calf,
circlet
the ; „
,
"
in drink, to
on, to be
out of one's head iSM
,, Citv, the San Fran- " out of one's recollection ;
,,

,,
cisco
dream
Fleece
; "

,,
to
( Davy Jone's

to grass
locker, to be

^ Phryxus
Colchis
Argos
Jason
„
,
„
to Jericho
to one's rest, to
under ( have

^
Colchis up the country
,,
„ fleece of the North, the Goiieril, a

flood
Good acta $;
,,
M ad vice, a
"
; hind among adventures, a

^ "
,
archer, a
as a play, as
,,

,,
kite,

mean, the
the ,

,,
as dead, as
as done, as
as gold, as
;( tf)

„ medicine, the " as one's word, as

" number, the ,, as new, as
;opportunity, „ at anything
"

( rule, the
a
; .,

'"
berth, a
breeding

;
,,
cheap
, cheer
shoe, a " commons
,,
" company, to be
„ shower, a
slumber ,, condition f|
,
,, State, the

time, the
California "
,
conscienco
consideration ^ li:

,,
wedding, a ,, constitution, to
,,
,, dame |&
world, the deal, a
 ^B

Good ( m)
Good deeds
,,

,,
effect, a
faith ;
;
#ff soul!
-speed
spirits
;;
,, fame table, a

,,
family, a
fellow ; temper
tide
thrashing, a
,,

,,
fellowship
for
for nothing
turn, a
view, a
while, a
;
,,

,,

,,
for use
form
Friday
wife
will ;
wine needs no bush
„ government
"
,,
,,
graciousness
graces
hand at
;;, IS ,, word
words
hard kick works
(
,,

,,
harvest, a Goods afloat
„
,,

,,
health
Heavens!
lack!
; ,
„
"
and chattels
in bond
in stock
(
()
" laugh, a Goose, a
,, living, a " among swans, a
,,

,,
Lord!
luck ; ,, -cap, a

,
„
„
man
medium
morning to anything
file
hangs high, the (
,, mother ; quill, a
Gooseberry, old
,,

,,
nature
occasion, a
office
; Gordian knot, a
Gorgon, a
Gorgon's head, a
old times, the Goshen, a
"
|"^\ opinion
„
„
pleasure
round sum
;;
^; Gosling, a
Gospel truth
Gossip about people, to
, Samaritan, a Goths and Vandals

Gotham ^ew York .

shepherd, the
sort, £ Gothamites ,
0olleag(3
Coug< ( 214 ) Grand

Gouge one's eye with the thumb,

to ,, into, to
Gourd and fullam ® the heat, to
Gourds " the speed of a train, to
Govern a family, to
" a state, to Graduating class
" one's passions, to Graduation at a college
Government affairs
bill by evaporation
"
„ bond El
" despatches ,, exercises
, issue
„ monopoly (I ,, in color

^
note ,, of a barometer, the
" of the people by the
people and for tlie people Graft a fortune, to

, office, a
,
Grain
by approach, to
for food
;
Gowk
railway, a
(gouk) storm, a
[
„
„
Grains
of allowance, a

paradise
of
of
wood ;
Grace another's heels, to
before meat
cup, the
^ Grand army, a
,
,,
Canal, the
days
of God
of medicine, the
pardon
of ' design, a ^;
„ duke, a
Graced with virtue and talent, to ,,
entertainment, a
be " figure in history, a
Graceful aa a swan, as ^!
" carriage

Gracious drop
mannera
,,

,,

,,
general, a
idea, a
jury, a
;
me! ,, masters
" reward mistake, a |g
"
Gradual accumulation " monarch, a
advance „ oration, a
,, changes „ palace, a

" improvement ,,
question, a gg
" increase of knovedge Seignior J':i

Graduate
fl

frojn a school, to
,,

,, stand, a
total, a itkc
^^
 I 2iS firatukoiil
)

Grand tour, a . ,,

,,
one's hand, to
the nettle, to
" the power of government, to
Grandisonian
Grandmother's child, a " with the arms, to
Grasping as a raiser, as
Grangerize, to M
spirit, a
"
Granite City (Capital), the Grass from under a persons feet, to
Aberdeen cut the
State, the 89 New to cut one's own
, If
Hampshire „ , to give
Grant
"
„
a
a pension, to
that
^
general amnesty, to

„
know where
pluck the
widow, a
the wind

(
sits, to

3S
Granulated sugar
Grape juice Grassy ring
„ shot ()
Graphic account, a Grate on the ear, to
" arts, the " on the feelings, to
,, delineation MM „ on the nerves, to
,,
granite
Grapple one ship to another with
hooks of steel, to
Grateful for, to be
"
,,
for a favor
odor, a
^
receptioD, a
,, with a di culty, to ,, sleep

with a question, to
„
to the palate
Gratification of lusts, the
;^
to one's feelings

" with an antagonist, to " of one's appetite, the

Grappling-iron
Grasp a handle,
;
to
Gratify one's appetite, to
„ one's curiosity, to

„
a sword, to ^L^iJ
all the profits, to SI ,,

,,
one's desire, to
one's lusts, to jffit^
;
,, an idea, to ,, one's revenge, to
,,

,,
at, to
by the neck, to
,, one's wishes, to
Gratuitous advice ^
,

,,
by the throat, to
of the mind
one by the arm, to
; ; " aid or practice

assertion
. attack, a
 4

fireedy

Gratuitous criticism, a hand at anything, a

;
"

; ^
Grave accent, a
,
,
"
as a judge, as
as an owl, as
countenance, a
deportment
"
,/
,
"
happiness
Heavens!
hundred
idea, a
Diana
— I

of the Ephesians
" is

,, in the memory, to E
,, malady, a ,, king, the Cyrus
" matter, a
,, reason ,, liking for
Gravitate toward the centre, to „ a
loss,
" master
Gray experience ,, matter
mare, a

" , million, a
,,

,, of morning, the ,, mind

Grease a wheel, to ,, moralist, the Dr.
,, the palm of, to Samuel Johnson
the wheels, to mother, the

^
,,
„ (1) *if'

Greaser, a
Great care
I'

,,

"
Demeter;
Powers, the
readiness
. (2)

" catch, a & , perhaps, the

chain of literature, the " ruling principle, the

"
"
coat, a ; Samuel Johnson

cry and little wool

„
,
Sea, the
seal, the
spirit,the
;H ^
crime, a " to do, there was a
„
"
,,
deal, a
defeat, a
distance, a ;
,,

„
unwashed, the
variety, a
victory, a
;
"
"
,,
event, a
favor, a
fear
; "
"
,,
waste
wealth, a
while, a
,, flood,the ,,
wind, a
, Frederick, the *@ ,,
world, the
Frederick II Greatheart, a
,,
gain Grecian fire
general, a
"
„
go
God!
( Greco, the
bear the
Gre'e, to
Greece and Rome
;
,
„
gulf fixed, a
gun () «; Greedy as a cow

,. as a dog, zb
in a clovertieid, as

$
 * X

Greedy ( 217 )

Greedy as a hawk, as
„as a wolf, as
Greenbag, a
Greener, a ;
,,

Greek, a
,
-guts, a

Calends
Greenlander's galley
Greenwich time
Greet the eye, to
^ 1J

, ease Grego, a i
,, gift, a Gregorian, a
, life, the
" Calendar, the i?3
„ meets Greek, the Gregory XIII

trust
orders
Green as grass, as
,, dogs
() ^ ,

„
„
gory I
chant

telescope
tones
Gre~

„ eye, the trees

„ -eyed monster, the water

,,

,,
fuel
goose, a
hand, a
; ,
,
Gregory, a
knights
year, a

, head, a
,, horii, a ( ,, powder
Grieve at, for or over, to
, in remembrance Grieved at heart
" at one's shortcomings, to
„ Island (Isle), the
" margin of one's life, the Grievous affair, a
• complaints
meat " cry, a
, raemoribb g „ fault or mistake, a
men
" Mountain
Vermont
State, the

;
„
,,
offense, a
punishment ;
,>

,
,
old age
room, the
rashes for strangers Grim
„ suffering
wound, a
king, the ^iji
;
purpose
„^ Sea, the " smile, a
tale

^
,, sickness
,, sleeves, a var U;
,, winter, a
wound, a
Greenback, a
; Grin and bear it, to
" like a Cheshire cat, to

"^ 1g Grind a knife, to

 j

( 218 ) (Wing
Grind a person down, to " profit
for an examination, to ,, receipt
,, sum
„ one's teeth, to , tonnage
,,

„
the face of, to
to powder, to
Gringo, a
; "

Grosse
vegetation
weight
peu de sens
tete et ([
Griquas Grotesque painting

Griselda; Grisilda, a
Ground floor ;
of the sea, the
"
Grisette, a Groundless fear

Grit ;
Grisly troop
()
„ the teeth, to
Groundling, a
,,
'
report

Group persons lor a photograph, to

Groaning
; cake, a
together, to

S
chair, the

malt ' ;
Grout-head, a
Grow angry, to
cold, to
^
" cold towards one, to
Grobian, a
Grocer's itch double, to
' , down, to
Grog blossom , fast to the earth, to

Sroggy
Groined arch
; ; "
high, to
into a habit, to
;
Grolier, a " into fashion, to
Grope for, to into favor, to §1
,,

Grosbec
one's way, to

Grross air
,,

,,

"
low, to
on, to
out of, to
;;
iHft
amount „ out of fashion, to
" conduct out of kind, to
, ,

"
error, a
features
,,

,,
out of use, to
tired of, to ;;
^
,, food or diet ,, together, to
S:
,,

..,
freight
income
iniquity
"
,,

„
up, to
upon,
wild, to
to ;;
, language
price
proceeds
Growing discontent
,,

mm
prosperity ^ fl fl
 n :

Grown ( 219 )

Grown over with

up ^; ,, .against evil, to
-up child ,,
against lewdness, to
, -up people „ against mistakes, to
Growth of a disease, the
,, of a state, the , against robbers, to
" of an estate, the * of honor
„
, of the soil, the ±.M Gudgeon, a bait to catch a
Grub
and bub
for a living, to
Street ? Ji:
^ .
,,

to swallow a
,,

Gudgeons, to bite the

,
to play the

„ to gape for ,

-street Guelph or Ghibelline, either

'

11 p, to
up grass, to
up the root of sin, to
Guerra al cue ft ill o
Guerre a mort (( ()

Gruff as a bear, as
countenance, a
"
Guess
,,
a outrance
at, to ;
at a riddle, te
)

,, at the meaning, to
" right, to
Gruelling, a Guevarist, a
Grumble at, to Guide a traveller, to
,, at one's lot, to ,, -book, a
Grumbling thunder one's hand in writing, to
r ,,

t^: winds
Grundy, Mrs.
Guarantee for a man's honesty
,,

"
p ost, a ;
the affair's of state, to

,,

payment,
of a bill

to
; Guild-brother
Guiltless of fire
Guaranteed bonds " of practical work
,,
capital

;;;;
, share Guilty behavior
Guard a frontier, to „ of death
" a pass, to ,, of murder
,. against, to of theft
"
,,
against accident, to Gules of August, the
Guinever, a
,, against danger, to Gulf between, a great
m
igainst disturbances, to K
„ States, the
^ Florida, Alabama
 ^g m *

Gulf ( Hallowed

;
Mississippi,

Gulf or gulf below, the

Luisiana, Texas Had
"
as lief
better ;
for the asking, to be
Gulp down, to
„
Gum
up, to
together, to
,
"
I
like
but …… ;
Gun carriage ,, rather
, -cotton " sooner
„ -fire () Haddock to Paddock, to bring
mm
Gunny bags
Gurgling stream
Hades ;
Hail fellow well met, a ;
Gush out in tears, to " from, to ^
Gushing enthusiasm Hail! Hail to thee!
Gust of anger, a Hair and hide
,, of rugged wings
Gusty clamor
,,

,,
and hoof
-breadth ; &
^
wind -breadth escape
,,

Gutter-blood, a
,, snipe, a
^ „
,,

,,
in disorder
in one's neck, a
i
Guy, a or Guy Fawkes, a ,, of the dog that bit, a
;
Gymnastic exercises ft^ " standing
on end
Gymnosophist Halcyon days ( ^
ffi

Half all hour

Hab or nab
H ,,

,,
-and-half
;
bible
;
;;
„ -breeds
Habit-shirt
Habitual criminal, a
drunkard, a ^
„
,,
-brother
hearted ^
(
,,

liar, a ,, hour's march

,,

,,

,,
skill
to or with tR ; "
„
-seas over
the battle
(
—;
,, work
Habitue of a theatre, an Halifax law
Hack a tree, to Hallmark, a
,, for a living, to Hallow Mass Day
Hackney coach ^carriage) tft B)

,, woman,
Hackii«yed expression
a ; ,, Mass Eve
Hallowed creed, the *
 t

Halt ( 221 ) Hang

;;
Halt an army, to „ to hand
" between two opinions, to » ,, to mouth
Handful of, a
Halter one's conscience, to Handgrips with, to be at

Halting foot of justice, the

Handle (;
a young colt, to
f{

Ufl

Harn, a child of
Hammer and tongs ;!K
,,

,,

„
cotton, to
the ribbons, to
to one's name, a
,
,, away at, to

of the Scots, the

,,

to ;; #
without mittens or gloves,

Hand and
Edward I
treachery, to
foot, to be bound
Hands down
,,

,,
off!

up
;
|2
" and foot, to wait on a person Handsome Englishman, the
John Churchill, Duke
and glove of Marlborough
„ and heart, to offer one's ,, is as (or that) handsome
does

^;
" and seal, uuder present, a
,,

„ down, to reward, a
,,
" down a saying, to ,,
sum, a
" down an example, to Handwriting on the wall, the

, down one's name to pos- Handy man,r a

terity, to Hang a coat on a hook, to
to
in glove with ,, a leg, to

in
hand
hand
; hand,
with, to be or to go
„
„
"
a nose, to
about one, to
around or round,
; to
;
in
is
to join
always open, one's
„
,
„
back, to
behind, to
between
^
life and death, to
is in
over, to
over hand
it, his
;^ 1
,,

,,
by a thread, to
by the eyelids, to
—
over head
out, to
round or around,
{ft

to
„ by the wall, to
m
;
" down the head, to
 •

Hang ( 222 ) Happy

Hang fire, to (; „
Hangman's day
sleeves

in doubt, to H

;
,,

" in effigy, to IS
Hank for hank
Hanker after, to
after fame, to
" in the balance, to ,,

after liberty, to
" in the bell-ropes, to ,,

in the hedge, to ; Hannibal, a

for food, to

(
,,

;
,,

,,
off, to
on, to ^; ; Hans
„ is at the gates

en kelder
"
,,
on one's sleeve, to
on the lips, words etc, to Hans von Rippach () /
,, on the ;
skirts of, to
Hansard
Hansard
"
,,

„
oneself, to
out, to
out a flag, to
;;; Hans Towns; the Hanseatic Lea-
gue, the
, oat the besom, to
Hansel
Hansom
; hansom, a

;;; ^
out the red flag, to cab, a
,,

" out the white flag, to

,, over, to Hap what hap
Happen

^
over the bank of a river, to in, to
,
,. on, to
,, the flag at half mast, to ,
,,
to one, to
to say, to
^- B!'

the head in shame, to ,. what may

Happy among one's children
, to, to
together, to —; " as a clam at high tide, as
,, up, to
" up by the heels, to " as a king, as
"
;
up one's axe, to

up one's hat, to
,,

"
"
as the day
at retort
countenance or
is lou"' as

face, a
Hangdog
Hanger-on, a
Hanging gardens
,, guard
look, a
^.;
^ ,,

"
,,
couple, a
death
despatch, the H U
„ judge, a " dream, a
,, look, a " expedient, a '" l'
matter, a ,, family, a
 • H

223 Hardf
Happy ( )

Happy feeling cash

,,
-go-lucky cider
" 1mnting grounds, the coal
-faced; hard-favored; hard-
heart, a featured
, in one's home fare
laughter frost
" moments grinder
,, omen, a handa
,, smile, a heart
,, tears knock, a
Harangue the troops, to knot, a
,,

Harassing anxiety
,, thoughts
^
to a crowd, to labor
lines
lot, a
(
Harbor bar master, a A
,

,,
evil intentions, to

ill-feelings or resentment,
money
names
nut to
;
crack, a
to
,, malice, to of belief
;
;^
,,

,,
thieves, to
to, to give ; of hearing
of heart
pan ()
§|

"
Hard-a-lee (
vindictive feelings, to
pressed
problem, a

((
-a-port («t)
-a-starboard put to it, to be
-a- weather
and fast
at hand
at work
; road to travel, a

struggle ;
as a stone, as student, a
as flint, as style
as iron, as
as
as
marble, as
slain, as
times
to deal with ;
as steel, as to please
as the nether millstone, as

bestead, to
tone, a
up
up to
;; it, to be
-bitted h; upon
-boild egg, a
by ^; ^ ;
upon, to be
water
 i g

Hard ( 224 ) Harvest

Hard winter, a
„
,,

,
with, to be
wood
woods
;; ,,

Harp on the same

with anything
string, to

,, worker, a „ upon one's woes, to

Harden of itself, to
,,

„
one's heart, to
oneself, to ; Harpagon, a
Harpocrates, to be a
„the neck, to
Hardened against pity
,, in sin
Harpocrates
Harpy, a ;;
Hardly any
,,
„

anything
to
;;
misfortune II Harridan, a
Harrington, a farthing (
"
"
Hark
enongh
ever
back, to
^& Harrow (haro),

Harry
,,

of
, under the
the West
to cry
;
"
Harley Street
Harm
thee

to the character
; „ ,old
Henry Clay
&; Henry VIII

,, to the feelings sovereign, a Henry VII

"
,, to the health Henry VIII
"

Harmful
to the interest

the brain to
,, with , to play old ;
Harmless animal, a ^ Harrys
" as a dove, as Harsh cloth
,, drug, a " fruit
to men ,, government, a
Harmonia's necklace " precept, a
Harmonize a melody, to medicines
, style, a
conflicting interest, vO treatment
,, "
, tune, a
^
tl contradictory reports, „ voice

,,
to

II
hostile parties, to „
,,

words
winter, a

Hart that the hounds have

;^ lost, a
Harmony among brothers
Harum-scarum SI
,, of the Gospels, a IB Harvest home, the * ^.
IG
" of the univere, the ,, moon, the !^
 f I

Hash ( 225 ) Have

Hash, to settle one's ( ,, the wind, to

,
Hasten along,
up, to ;^
to
Haunches of an arch
Haunt about a place,
Haunted house, a
to
i
to, to

„ with good news, to Haussmannize,

Haut ton ( to

Hasty
,,

,,
crisis
decision
disposition
Have

"
to ;
a bee in the head or bonnet,

a bend sinister, to
, a bone in one's throat, to
fruit
„ retreat
it

"
Words
putting
"

,
() ;
a bone to pick with one, to

a book in hand, to
Hat covers his family, his

;
„
,,

"
a brush with, to
a care, to
a claim, to
;
» in
money
hand, to go
( ,
"
a cold, to ^^
a colt's tooth, to
Hatch a plot, to
,, a crow to pick up with one
" match and despatch co-
to
lumn, the
„ a desire, to
,, a difference with a person, to
" mischief, to
out, to
,, a dip, to
sealing
, a drop too much, to
survey
" a famous bow up at the
Hatred of a thing
castle, a
, of or for a person
„ a finger in, to
" a finger in the pie, to
Hatted dame, a
Haiti-sheriff
IgJ
;
, a fling at, to ffi
Haughty airs
„
,,
manners
mind, a ^ . a free hand, to ;
,,
spirit, a , a good eye to anything, to
Haul in one's horns, to
in with, to () a good start in
„
,,

,
off, ;
to
over the
) a
a
good time, to
great mind
life, to

(
coals, to to, to i$
, ronnd, to
W)
jffi
a
a
green bonnet, to
hand in, to ; Hfc
Have 226 Hav<
( )
' ' •

Have a hard time oi it, to a way of ,to

a way of one's own, to IS]

,, a head on one's shoulder, to

a wish, to
, a hearing, to a wolf in one's fitomach, to38
[
,,

"
a heart, to
a high opinion of, to
lit a word with, to
about one, to ;
,,

"
a keen eye for, to
a large harvest for a little
admittance, to
aim, to ;
,,

,
corn, to
a living, to
a long head, to
;
allone's eyes about one, to

all to oneself, to ;
,, a look at, to an audience with a king, to
" a mind to, to
, a person, to an axe to grind, to
,, a person into, to an end in view, to
" a person's ear, to an eye for, to
,, a person up, to an eye to, to
" a proper sense of, to an eye to the main chance,

" a rat in one's garret, to

to
an eye upon, to
an interest iu, to
;;
„ a real good time, to an itch for, to
,, a regard for, to an oar in another's boot, to

"
,
a
a
a
run, to ;
rod in pickle, to

second string to one's bow,

another face put upon, to
;
to anything upon one, to
(
, a sense of shame, to as many dogs as you have

a set-to, to
a short memory, to
; bones to pick, to

;; [
" at a person, to
" a shot at, to
at a thing, to
„ a sport with, to at heart, to
" a
a
taste for, to
thing done, to [ at the finger's end, to
at the tongue's end, to
,
"
a
a
touch of old Lawrence,
tough time of it, to
to
,
at vantage, to :;
,, a treat in Stafford Court, to •away, to
been in, to
, a turn for, to been in the sunshine, to
,, a voice in, to been persuaded, to
 t

Have ( 227 ) Have

Have been
,
,,
to, to
before one's eyes, to
bellows to mend, to (
in one's .sleeve, to
in prospect, to
in the heart, to
^
1^1^
in view, to ;; "
, cast anchor, to St itching ears, to
,, cause, to itout with a person, to
" cold feet, to ||
, concern, to i it to say, to
clean hands, to kissed the Blarney stone, to
h cut one's eye-teeth, to
larks, to
v dealings with, to Lawrence on one's back, to

"
designs on, to
done! ;;
leisure, to
long ears, to ;
„
,
,,
done, to
done nothing, to
done with, to ;
' —
many

mercy on,
irons in the fire, to

to
,, eagles in one's eyes, to mind upon, to
no backbone, to
" eggs on the spit, to no bearing upon, to

eyes at the
head, to
back of one's
no bowels, to
no business, to
no business there,
^ to
„ eyes to drawstraws, to
; [
,,

,,

"
full hands, to
full relations to, to
full swing, to
grace to read, to
guts in the brain, to
no choice, to
no choice but to,
no coppers, to
no dealings with,
^ to

to

"
; ; ;
had or seen its day, to no ear for music, to

;
,,

,,

,, hemp
^
half a mind, to
hard measure, to
in one's pocket, to
no
no
no
heart, to
humor, to
idea of, to
^t^t^W

,,

,,
;^
high words, to
hold on one, to
no sympathy, to
not a ghost of a chance, to
urn
;

" ;
in contemplation, to
not a leg to stand on, to

not the least idea, to

,,

, in
in
;
influence with, to

;
hand, to
mind, to
not to
nothing for it but, to
 M w W S

Have ( 228 ) Have

Have occasion (to go), to

occasion for, to onp's wflv to SliH
on, to ; nn a>q w iah tO
on the brain, to
on mo nip; 125

one iooi in me grave,

one on the string, to

iu
;
(all) one's wits about one, to

only something to dine upon,

to
one's back to the wall, to

^ other fish to fry, to

2 out, to
one's doubts, to pa.ss6u tH6 scnooi ox cA-pcn
ence, to
one

one
8

s eyes
^
ear Durn, to

optjiij a
viwpH

'u*;
patience, to
plaC6 9 tO j^pt>ii*

-ft
7J
one's fling, to ' possession of, to
one s full, to &, rather, to 3C;
one's hands iuii, to tc recourse to, to
one's head in the clouds, to regftrci ior a pcrboii o uu"uaj
to Z
one's head level, to

one a head turned, to l til uiits a \^yj lii i i7Li

one's heart in a nutshell, to

43T Uf>6 #K
tt p
0116 s Ii6&r v ID OIlc o UOOio, to seen ones best days, to
58 5fc

one,s heart in one 8 mouth. seen the elephant, to ()

to Jl n,
one's light in ashes, to
( ff?3SJSC ^ /5w w W ZsAc^^mWS
IK/fe
one s
5^
nose 111 vim »ir, to
^NU|
something left, to ;
one's own way, to ; ftd vtiiitdgs^ to
the advantage of any one, to
^
one's own way to make, to the ball at one's feet, to

one's play, to ffU; the best of it, to

the better end of the
; staff, to

one'f say to anything, to

 '

Have ( m ) Hay

Have the black dog on one's the start, to

shoulder or back, to the sun in one's eyes, to
the true or right ring, to iK
" the black ox tread on one's

,
foot, to
the blues, to
the call, to
;
;;
the upper hand, to
the worst of it, to
ff

the cheek to do it, ( the wrong sow by the ear, to

mm .
time on one's hands, to
the confidence, to ; -

the courage of one's opini- to, to [

ons, to to do a thing, to B
the day, to to do with, to
the face to, to
the field before one, to
;
too high an opinion

too many irons in the

of, to

fire, to
the floor, to

the game in one's hands,

the goodness or kindness, to

to to oneself, to
two faces, to ;
two strings to one's bow, to
;
the gronnd cut from under weight with, to
one's feet-,

the hand tied, to

to
;
with you
the heels of, to words with, to
the key upon one's shoulder, Haves and the have-nots, the
to

;
the key of the street, to

the last word, to

Having

Hawk
a lump

about, to
in one's throat

" and buzzard, between

the laugh on one's side, to '

at flies, to
the law of, to ,Eye State, the knva
the malt above the wheat or
" up phlegm, to
meal, to
the mouth water, to ^M;M
Hawk's meat
Hawker's news ^
the power, to
Hawse
&
hole, to creep
^ through the

the speed of one, to

A ^
Hay and gra& between
 ^

Hay ( m ) Heart

Hay on the horns, to carry ,, up, to

,,

,,
seed ;
,to dance the ;
up riches, to
"
Hear a bird sing, to (
Hazard a conjecture, to
an investment, to
; "
,,

„
a cause, to
a concert, to
about, to
,, an opinion, to ,, a speech out, to
" one's life, to ,, a thing both sides of the
Head a nail, to ears, to
„ a person, to PJJI " as a hog in harvest, to jg
„ a procession, to
"
,
a subscription, to
an army, to ;
; ^ „
,,
him
ill,
talk!
to |LV
„ -and-ears
and front ; ,
„
of mercy, to
of one's
;
name, to
"
„
and points
and shoulders
;
; ,,

,,

,
out, to
reason, to
say, to ;*
cook and bottle washer " something done, to

down, tell of, to () ;

^
to
,, for washing, to give one's " the evidence of both parties,
to
,,

"
forward
of a river, the ^
;
,, the last of anything,

(;
to

;;
of a table, the to, to

„ off, to ,, well, to
office " with attention, to
,. or tail Hearken to me
" over heels ,, to reason
,, , to fly at the Hearsay evidence
;;
;;—
Heads I win, tails you lose !; Heart and hand
, and mind, one
Heal dissensions, to |0 ,. and soul
„ the breach, to " beating high, the
,
Healing
: ,
up, to
art,
plaster
the
"
"
,,
bleeding for, one's
failing one, the
going pit-a-pat, the
;
„ remedies
Heap, a
"
()
coals of fire on the head, to „
„ in hand
in the right place ;
T^'SI
 g

( m ) Heavy

Heart leaping into one's mouth, to „ and set, to

"
„
leaping with joy, the
of a message, the
,,
at, to
away, to
; () (
" of adamant "
,
down,
ho!
to ;
, of England,
Warwickshire
the
in sight, to (
,,

,,
of fire

;
of flint (stone), to
of grace
n
,,

„
out, to
the gorge, to
;
one into honor, to

D
, the lead, to
of hare
„ of hearts
m
, of oak " to, to

,, sinks within him, his up, to

,,

up the anchor, to
;
" strings, one's
throbbing or thumping, the Heaved with joy, to be
„
Heaven and earth
,, to be full, the
" to heart talk, a be praised
Hearth money
Heart's blood
,, content
; j£ ,,

"
-daring
grant
-kissing ;
"
core
,,

ease
Hearty as a buck
; "
,heavens
on earth, a
,,
knows
of

eater, a i Heavenly bliss

,, food ,, bodies
„

"
ment
in
^
supporting the govern-

meal, to eat a ,,
salem
City, the

fruit
il
New Jeru-

,, tears ,, music
timber Heaviness of mind
welcome &
,,

,,

,,
,,

Heat lightning
of animals, the
of the mind, the
up, to
&^ Heavy
„
"
"
affliction
artillery
as a log, as
as a lead, as
„ as sand or a bag of sand, as
Heave a ship ahead,

„ a ship
(
to, to
to

" burden, a ;
a sigb, to & 10
„
„
,,
clouds
cavalry
eyes
i
 H J

Heavy ( m Help

Heavy failure writer

,, fire, a
friend, a ;
;
Heel of Italy, the

,
»
„
hand, a
heart, a
in hand
; " tap
Heels over head
Height of glory, the
;
interest ,, of summer, the 31
" Hquer Heighten one's courage, to
v man, the ,, the beauty, to
" the spirits, to
" night
" responsibility, a Heinous crime, a
,,

"
,,
road
sea
shower, a —
Heir apparent
,,

,
-loom
of the Republic,
#
; the
sleep

(
rt

,, storm Heeler, a
, taxes Helena or Helen Menelans
thunder *
„
,,

Hebe (^:
with booty
Zeus
Paris • Troyan

Hera Hercules ,, , a
Hebrew poet, the David „ of one's Troy, the
Hecate Hecatee

Hector ( Priam
Troy
Hecuba
Helen nus ( Priam Hecuba

Achilles
,a ; ; Helicon
Boeotia
Helicon

" to ;;
of Germany, the Joa-
Heliogabalus, a
Hell broke loose
-hag, a
;
Hecuba (
chim II of Brandenburg
Priam
,, of a time, to have a

Hedge a
,
bet, to
alehouse
,
Helle (
on earth, a
Athamas
,,

"
-marriage
-note
Helm
iifc ^
fO: Ino Pontic
Hellespont
of a state, the
" one, to ' the midships or right the
"
"
one
-school
up, to
in, to
helm SUt^
Help a lame dog over a
; ^ g|
stile, to %
 $

Help ( m ) Hero

Help

,,
a

catch, to
his work, to "
Hercules (
task
) Jupiter Alcmena

forward, to
,, off,to ,, , a
,, on, to „ of music, the
„ one cut down the wheat, to Christopher Gliick
,, Secundus Corn-
" one in difficulty or need, to mod us
„ , the pillars of
one into the carriage, to Gibraltar Gibraltar
"
Ceuta
, one of his blindness, to Herd cattle, to

„ one out, to ; Here and there

„ below
"
"
one over, to
one up, to ;
;
,,

,
is

;
my leg
there and everywhere

" ;
„ oneself, to
oneself to, to , today and gone tomorrow
;
(.
yourself
Helter-skelter
He in about, to
;^ Here's
you are
how
to you
J*

,,

,
"
and haw,
around, to
in, to
;
to Hereditary disease
„ estate
,,
office, a

„
Hemmed
Hempen
out, to
in, to be
candle, a
; Herefordshire kindness, a
property
titles K;
" collar or cravat or tie, the

,, fever
(
Hermaphrodite, a
Hermes, a [
Hence
m
window Hermetic art or science, the
Hermetically sealed
Hermit nation, the
;
" it is (that) Hermits of the solemn wood
Hen-pecked husband, a
Hero of a hundred fights, the
Heptarchy, the

Herald of the sea, the

[
Triton ,,
i
of the age, the
Duke of Wellington

,
Herb
Herculean
of grace
; ;; ,, of
Nelson
the Nile, the
 S

Heroic ( m )

Heroic agi

,, medicine (
one's head, to
oneself, to
the face, to
;;
,, poetry the face from, to
,, remedies
,, treatment
Herrhig-pond Hii
under a bushel
napkin, to ; or in a

Herrings in a barrel, like

deous face, a
,, noise, a ^;
Hesitate about accepting a gift, to
ggledy-piggledy
gb and dry ;
,
Hesperia
in deciding, to
(
and low
and mighty ;
Hesperides ( antiquity

^ blood
)

color, a
Hesperus ;: crime, a

(;
Hessian, a day
Hessians falutin
Hew blocks with a razor, to
"
"
;
in pieces, to
fare
flier
flight, a
;
oflf or down or away, to -flown stomach
Hewers
water
of
; wood and drawers

'
Hexameter and pentameter
of hand
handed,
licat
or
;arm
to be

in price
Hibernia
Hie et ubique ((;W in
jinks ;;;
the instep

finis
Hie jacet, a
Hie sepultus
Sandi

(;
life
living
look, a
;
Hid under a bushel
Hidden meaning
Hide, to ( ;
-men
mind
uoon
;
%tf

and hair

;
-and-seek
bound
note
old time, a
pressure
(
fox and
;
from view, to
all after price ^m^'itii
-principled ;,
;;
one's dirnimished head, to
It
pulse
road
 ) - t

ttigl, (

High school, a " on or upon, to 5V

sea, a
seas, tiio
soul
mts^mm^m
195
Hint
,
at, to
at one
;
s wishes, to mMJi'L*
sounding words
spirit
steam or high pressure
^]
steam
Hip and thigh
Hipped, to be
;
Eff 1-fP -V 3*je=s
Hippocras ? Hippocrates
stomach
street
talk
; Hippodrome, a ;
'tea
thicket Hippolith

;;
tide or water XT i t»ci
XlirtJ r\f\ cxackl f + /\
OUcacIi lo
vU tlUUl ^".d
vyJ
fad "1
ifB

time His bark is worse than his bite

treason
triumphs
up
-way robber
"
"
bowels yearned
countenance fell ^
""
wind

words
^;

k m; ; ,,

"
cup runs over
Excellency
geese are swans
(
Higher orders ,, heart is in the right place
"

Higblanlers
sphere
Highland bail ; ,,

,,
Holiness
holy name
Hilck-brand, a ifij
„ Imperial Majesty
Hill and down dale, up " life is not worth a year's pur-
" not to be commanded chase
" star is in the ascendant
Hilt to hilt
Bine illae lacrymae ( ,, ways above
Hiss an actor ofi* the stage, to
Hinder by opposition, to

one from doing a thing, to

Historical accounts
excerpta
;
„ "
,,
piece
one in his progress, to „ sense
Hit a man when down, to
Hinderance to anything

Hinge of a state, the |fi

,, below the belt, to ;
 i|

Hit ( 236 ) Hold

; ;- ;; ;
Hit hard, to " tide
it off together, to i
Hocus-pocus
off, to
off with, to
on a way, to
on or upon, to ;; |
Hod, a
Hodge
"
;;
-podge
on the cushion, to Hodman, a

one's idea or fancy, to Hog and hominy

out, to
the bull's eye, to
„
in armour, a
to go the whole ;
;
,

the mark, to
the nail, to |
Hogs to a fine market, to bring
the nail no the bead, to
;
the point, to ^!
Hogan Mogan
one's

Hogsdon cask, over

;; a

Hitch
upon
up, to ;;
a friend, to Hoi polloi
Hoigh, on the
(
Hither and thither \ Hoist the blue flag, to
Hoar frost
, with one's own petard, to
„
Hoard
"
locks
up, to
up
;
for future use, to ^t>@
Hold ;
a brief, to
a candle to the devil, to

Hoary
,, up wealth,
foe of the Muse, the
to

a candle to, to ;
,,

,,

„
;
old man, a
past, the
relics
# a chapel, to
a close wind
a court, to
(M
"
Hob and nob
tower, a
;; a discourse, to H
a looking glass to a mole, to
Hobson's choice
Hob age (( a meeting, to

(( (
anno ) a person's back-hand, to
,,
genus in votis )

,,

,,

Hock day
loco
tempore ; ) a post or office, to
a sword by the hilt, to

a wager, to
aloof, to
an eel
;
by the tail, to

,, Monday
at arm's loagth, to ^^'^
 - .

Hold ( 237 )
Hold

one in hand, to
Hold an examination, to.
one responsible, to
m ,
one to his word, to
,,

,,
back, to
by, to
by button, to
; Sie's breath, to ;
by the button, to
,,

, by the ears, to ^ l;
one's
one's
day, to
eyes open, to

^; ^
" by the wrist, to one's ground, to
cheap, to one's hand, to
fast, to
one's head, to
„ fast to the truth, to head high, to
one's

„
forth, to .;
forth an opinion, to
one's
to ; nose to the griudstone,

one's opinion, to

,, good, to ;; one's owu, to

„
hand!
in, to
in check, to
;ih
one's own against, to

one's peace, to
A
" in estimation, to one's tongue, to
,, in hand, to oneself in readiness, to
in
in
play, to
pledge, to ; ; ;
;
;
opinion with, to
out, to
#.

"
,,

,,
in remembrane,
in rivalry, to
in solution, to
; to '!B
out a helping hand, to
out a prize, to Hi
out the olive branch, to

"
"
in the arms, to
in the bosom, to
•

over, to
pace, to
:
, . in the horse, to power, to
, no kindred with, to stocks for a rise, to

„
"
of, to
of a vessel, the
tack, to ;
the affections of the people,
„
"
off,

off
on, to
to

;;;
your hands!
to
the belt, to :
the attention, to
" one in contempt, to the enemy at bay, to
" one in discourse, to
the market, to fH
„ one in esteem, to
 & g @

Hold ( 238 ) Home

Hold the serpent by the tail, to -hearted ®; ;

„ of the hand, the
, the reins of government, to ,, -square ()
,, vessel, a
the tongue, to victory
,,

"
"
the wind, to
thy peace
( ,,

,,

,,-ware
voice, a

,, to, to Holy Book, the

,, to bail, to City, the Fez;
*;
,,

,
together, to
true, to
the eel
;
of science by the Cuzco;
Jerusalem;
Benares; Incas
Jerusalem;

,,
tail, to
trumps, to ; S
Mecca, Medina;
Allahabad;
Kief, Moscow
"
,,

,,
under, to
up
up, to

up
;;;
a train, to
"
,,

,,

"
communion
crosses
Ghost or
Isle,
^;
Spirit
the ill Lindisfarne
,,

^;
Ireland
up one's hands, to ,, Land, the Pa-
„ up the dress, to lestine
,, up your head " Land of the mountain adven-
,, water, to ture, the
, with, to ^; ,, Mother of the Russians, the
" with the hare and hunt with Moscow
the hounds, to "
; ()
of the holies, the

"
,,

,,
your hand
jour horses
your jaw
( „
,,

"
One ;
Office .

Orthodox Church, the

„ your tongue
Hole and corner ()
,, in one's coat, a
; " rood or rod
Saturday
" in the water, to make a "
"
Thursday
Wars, the ~f ^ ;
" pick a
in, to
„ to crawl out of, a
Holiday liking, a If #
; „

,,
Water

week
|g

,,
speeches (words) (terms) „ Writ
Home

^^
affairs
Holiest name blow or thrust, a
Bollow eyeo M
Home ( 239 ) Honof

Home-bound by domestic duties , the British l)Geof,

frey Chaucer (2) John Milton
commodities
consumption ,, , the Celtic Ossian
Counties, the Middlesex,
Surrey Kent, Essex, Hertford , the oriental Fir-
Sussex dusi
Department ,, , the prose Byrom
farm Henry Fielding
for the blind, a
,, the Scottish WiUian
industry Wilkie
life Homeric laughter
made " question, the Homer
market
of lost causes, the Oxford ,, verse
. Homespun lass, a
Office
production ; ^ Homeward bound
Homicide by misadventure
(
ship, a

rule
Secretary, the
Homme
,,

,,
d'affaires
de Urn
de cour
(
((;
)

(( ;
-sickness de lettres
"
trade
, d esprit )

Homely
n
Homer
person, a
style
of
;
dramatic poets, the
,,

Honest Abe
d'etat

Lincoln
)

Abraham

Dryden Shakespeare „ Broker, the Prince

,, of Ferrara, the IpTasso Otto von Bismarck
,, dealings
of history,
Herodotus
of human
the

nature, the prose

,,

,,

Honey Island
words ;
servant, an

Britain
Byron Henry Field- ,, -moon
ing
Honeyed shower
of philosophers, the speech (words)
,
Plato tongue, a
,
of the Franks, the Hong merchant, a
Charlemagne

Sir Walter Scott

Corneille
Angilbert
of the French drama, the
Peter
Honor

,,
a bill, to
bright ;
one's parents, to
" superiors, to
sometimes nods " to the country, to be an
 A S

Hoisorabfe ( 240 ) Horrors

Honorable feeling
, family
;;
Hoopping
" mad ) (
Giles, a

(
,,

Honorary degrees
„
traffic

member of a society
Bora e sem pre
„ fugit )

Horace of England, the

( BeD
Jonsom Abraham Cowley
, secretary IE
; ( Horace
Hoodman-blind
(
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
,, of France, the
Macrinus &
Jean
Pierre Jean de

Hoodlums
Honors are easy
( ,,
Beranger
of Portugal An-
tonis Ferreira
„ of Spain, the
,, of war Lupercio Argensola Bar-
„ rested with hi in, the tolme Argensola
Horn and corn
Hoodwink, to „ book, a
Hook it,to ,, gate, the E
,, up, to ,, mad
Hooligan, a nor hoof, neither
Hooping-cough
Hoosier, a
(
Indiana
,,

,, of plenty

„ State, the Indiana , of salvation, the

,, thumb, a *
Hoot after one, to " , to be squeezed through a
"
„
Hop
at a person, to
away, to
about, to
; Pt
,, ,

end
to come out
of the
at the
; little

" o my thumb, a
,

Hope
the twig, to
to and fro, to
against hope, to
Hornet's nest, to
Hornie auld
Horns of
( )
stir

the altar, to the

up a

,, for, to
for success, to " the dilemma
of
,,

,
"
in God
in vain, to
of or for better tuck
; Horny skins
Horrible dictu
Horrible look, a
T) (
;
Horrid affair, a
Hopeful, a young „ crime, a
„
„
fo success
outlook, a
monster, a
„
reproach, a
,, ;
Hopeless case, a
atate
Horrors of death, the
f
the () ;
 .

Hors ( 241 )
House

Hors de combat (( ) Hortus Siccus

,, de concours
de lui (( )
Hosanna
Host in himself
, de propos
" de saison ( ;; )
" of heaven
Hostia humani generis ( T)
Horse and foot

" and harness, to come for "

2
Hospitable house, a
to strangers
^
Hospitably entertained
,, away, to Hostile army, a
„ face „ to one
„• guards, the Hot as fire, as
,
„
,,
it,

laugh
to

latitudes, the
;
() „
"
"
as pepper, as
as toast, as ^
-bed of thieves and robbers ft

, cakes, to sell like 5f

, coppers
, foot
„ licks his ear, before a ,, haste
; , for, to get too
" marines, the , shot, a
,
„
night-cap, a
of another color, a
,,

;;
(and strong),
li
to give a person

,, on one, a ;; ,, water
Hotch-potch
(:
, play

^
Hotel Dieu
( (^
„
,
"
"
power
sense
tails,

a
()
the
that was foaled of an acorn,
„
,,

Hotspur, a
de
des Invalides

Hound a person, to
,,
ville

of hell
^
)

C)

"

,
to an

to go
ass, to come from

from an ass to a
a Hounds
Houndsfoot
Hour
of war, the
trick, to
for confidence, the
;
,, of death, the
to market, to run before of prime
one's Hours, the
" , to ride the wooden House, atop of the
,, to the pond, to lead a " divided against itself, a
t g
, to work on the dead " in order, to set one's
 3

Pousc ( 242 ) Huckle

House is

the
goins; out of the

of assignation
windows,

How
,,

,,
over, to
round, to
are you?
;
of call IT ,, can that be? ;'3
of cards, a
of Commons, the
of correction
of death
„
,,

"
chance?
comes it?
comes it about
;
, do affairs go with you?
of detention
of ease
" do you do?
of God, the ,, do you find that?
of ill or evil fame do you find yourself?

of Lords, the „ goes the day?

of mercy
of office
of prayer
; "
,
goes the enemy?
he
is it?
talks!

of
in the
of
^
Rimmon,

the Lord, the

to bow down

'
,,

,,
is it

is it
with him?
that for high? (
of worship it can be?
on one's head, to pull a " kind of you
, matters stand *B
out of the windows,
throw the
to ,
„
much more
so?
^1;
to house visitation , the land lies E
, the wind blows or lies ^;
to let, a
to sell or for sale, a things are going
" to do
Houses of Parliament, the „ was that?
Household bread Howe of the night, in the
gods However that be
goods Howl away or down or out, to
stuff
troops
word, a
Howling success
,, wilderness
(
Housewarming, a ji Hub of the Universe, the
( H
Hover about,
"
to
between doubt and
; fear, to Hubble-bubble
-
Boston

Huckleberry, above one's

 ' j i

Huckle ( 243 ) Hungfef

;
Huckle above one's persimmon, a Humanities, the
relations

#
Huddle on one's clothes, to Humanizing effect of music, the

…
; Humble apology, a
f

" over one's work, to

, together, to ;; "
,,
cottage, a
cow, a
„ upon huddle
; ,, income, a

^ (;
Hue and cry ,, mind, a
Huff

Hug
and ding, to
, to take
foolish beliefs, to
; ,,

,,
oneself, to
Pie

" in one's arms, to " the proud, to

"
„
of affection, a
one's chains, to ; Humbug, a ;
„
"
oneself, to
the shore, to
;; Humdrum
Humming
" cup
life,
beer
a

of sack, a
?
Huge distance
Humor
"
,,
eater, a
evil,
folly
a ; ,,
Humoral pathology
a person, to
of the eye
(
" mountain m
, rock Humorous as the wind
Huggins and muggins ,, story, a
;
Hull, as strong as
„
,,

Hum
cheese, to eat
down,
a verse, to
to
;
Humpty Dumpty

Hundred Days, the

Elba
——
Waterloo
,, and haw, to
,, of men, the busy " miles away (off), not a
Human beings
,,
clay ,, Year's War, the
,,
feelings
„ frame
„ ideas Hungary water
" life (

" raeans of estimation .

,
,,
nature
race All
Hung-beef
,,

Hunger and
,to be ;
thirst after righteous-
 .

Hungry ( 244 ) Hymen

uesa, to Hurly-burly, a
Hungry as a hawk, as Hurrah for

"
as a horse, as
as a hunter, as
Hurry a business,
„ about, to
to ^
as a wolf, as
for applause ^
"
u
along, to
away, to ;
;;
look, a dinner
"
soil over a business, to
"
HunKers ; '

Hunks, an old
Hunt a pack of dogs, to
,,

Hurt by a blow,
a
up, to ():
to
WL "one's feelings, to '

after, to
after
;;
wealth, to
Hurtful to health
to society
,,

at force, to Husband one's resources, to

change, to ffii time, to
,,

counter, to ; Husband's boat

Margate

down,
down
to ; Hush-money
" tea
;
;
down
a criminal, a
robbers, to
in couples, to
^^ ,
Husk from the
up, to
up an affair, to
grain, to separate
itup, the
out or up, to ;; Hussar, a
Hustle one out
out proofs, to of doors, to
up evidence, to
upon the stop, to
with the hounds and run
Hyacinthus
Apollo
)

Zephyrus R
(
with the hare, to Zephyrua Apollo
FT
Hunter, the mightg Xiinrod Hyades («
Atlas
Jupiter
(hyacinth)
^Ethra

Hunter's mass, a
„ moon, the
Hunting ground
^ 1
Hyblean

Hydra-headed
^ Hybla Sicily

„
"
„
reserves
season
watch
Huntingdon sturgeon, a
^
"
;
Hydm
multitude, the

Hurdle race
Hurl down tyranny,
„ invective, to ^ to
Hyena laugh
Hvmen ( ) Bacchus Venus
 ^
I
Hyperion

Hyperion
Terra
( Cselus
am
honor
greatly indebted to you
'^
am happy to be with you
I

I always delight to think

am in favor of -

am inclined to think
I am a great admirer am in sympathy with
..
I am a little at a loss to know am not a true man
am not altogether clear
I am afraid
I am alarmed, indeed, when I see ara not at liberty to discuss
......

I am also bound to say am not bold enough, to

…-" am not certain about that
I am also satisfied
I am apprehensive *; am not defending myself
I am assured and fully believe
am not insensible
I am bold to say * am not unaware
I
I
I
am bound
am but saying
am by no means certain *
beg pardon
believe
believe from
; my personal experi-
ence ......

I am certain that you will give

credit
me bethink myself ;
can not hesitate to say
I am certainly in earnest sympa-
thy
I am conscious of the fact
can
…
can not be responsible because^

not away with &

I am convinced by what I have can not away with it
seen can not but reflect
I am determined can not give you a better illus-
I am exceedingly glad of this op- tration g£
portunity
I am extremely obliged to you can not help myself
can not here go into details
I am familiar with
I am filled with admiration can not say

^
can tell you
I am firmly convinced can walk a chalk as well as yon
I am grateful to yon for this
 3

( 246 ) 1

chanced to meet him

I
I
I
cheerfully
come next
own
to the question of
^ have already stated
repeat
have been young
and now

…… have but one more word to add

I cry

I deem
yon mercy
I dare say
it
;
both necessary and just
hvae generally observed
have it
have no doubt whatever
I deny, once and for all

have not the least idea

I desire to be brief
have not to declare
I did not scotch my mind have nothing more to say
I don't know if
I don't know what to do next have something given to me
I don't want to discourage you have sometimes asked myself

I entertain great apprehension for have sometimes fancied

I expect.
I
;
expect him to recover *S
have sometimes wondered whe-
ther!
have the confident hope
……
have thought it incumbent on
I expect him to succeed me ......

have thought it right on this day

I fancy
I fear
have thus stated the reason
I fear me
I feel constrained to declare have to confess with a feeling of
melancholy f\ ifii

1 feel I have a right to say have watched with some atten-

tion
I feel some explanation is due have yet a more cogent reason*

my
I feel the task
power
I generally find that
far
#&
heyond hear it sometimes said

hold this to be a truth 9

I give you my word
1 go further hold to the principle
have a profound pity

^
I for those
hope by this time we are all con-
1 have a strong belief vinced
I have already alluded to hope I have expressed mjseii
 ' 3

( 247 )

explicitly know perfectly well

know that it is impossible for
hope I shall not be told me to ......

know that what I may say is

hope it is no disparagement true
know there are some who think
hope most sincerely and truly ......

know too well

hope none who hear me know very well the difference
......
between
hope not know you are all impatient to
hope that I shall not be so un- hear
fortunate know you will do all in your
power
hope the day may be far distant
ay it down as a principle
hope the time may come again
eavo hiscory to judge
hope to be excused (forgiven) if ......

...... eave it to you

hope we may forget eave to others to speak
-…"
imagine that no one ong speak a word or two
disposed
will be
"to

insist upon it ook hopefully to

intend to propose make no extravagant demand
know from experience how
marvel that
know full well may add, speaking for my own
know I am treading on thin ice part
m
know it has been questioned may be allowed to make one re-
mark
know it is said may be permitted to add
know many reason why
...... may for all I know
know not how

know not in
else to express

what direction to
may
:
say to you calmly

may take
i?
as an instance

^
look
know not where else to find
by this
know not vviij mean something more than that
 ^ M

( 248 )

I mention these facts because must fairly tell you

......

I mention this, not by way of com- must for want of time omit
plaint ife

must here admit

I might deny that must not overlook
I might enter into such detail must pause a moment to

I might go further must proceed

I might go on to illustrate must return to the subject

I might of course first point must speak plainly

……
I might try to explain must take occasion to say

I might well have desired nust thauk you once more

I must ask an abrupt question must try to describe to you

I
must bo careful about

must be contented with

what I say myself must
faith

need not dwell

^ have boundless

I
I
^
must be excused

must beg to ask

must bow in reverence
if I say

I
3

you

you
^
need not, I am certain, assure

^ ^^
It
need not say liow much [ thank

need not specially recommend

i must call your attention for a to you g('
moment
need not wander far in search
must conclude abruptly

#
1

need say nothing in praise

I must confess
must confess became neither affirm nor deny *.
^
I that I
rather alarmed A
note with particular pleasure U
I jjinst consider this as
…-. now address you on a question^
I must crave your indulgence ' ^US^;
now have the pleasure of pre-
i m ust express to you again senting to you
 • % j•

I ( 249 ) I

I
now pass to the question of

now proceed
I object
......

to inquire
strongly to the use
I regret that

I
remember
regret that
me
I

it is
a in
^
not

not possible
……
able to

for

I regret that time limits me

I ouly marvel ffi .

I
^^
only wish you to recognize

open the all-important question

I rejoice in an occasion like

I rejoice that events

this

have occurred

I ought to give an illustration I remember full well fB

I remember to have heard
I own I can not help feeling ……
I repeat my statement in another
I particularly allude to form
-…. I respectfully counsel
I pass on from that .… I respectfully submit
I pause for a moment t ) say I rest my opinion on
...... X return you my most gratefull
I personally know that it is so thanks
^
I pray I rise to thank you IS
I pray God I may never
...... I said that I thought
I predict that you will % …."
-…" I sanction with all my heart
1 promise or protest
I really can not think it necessary I say frankly
to I say it is extremely important
I really do not know
I really thought that you would I say no more of these things
excuse me W
I say not one syllable against
I recall another historical fact
I say, then, my first point is
i recollect hearing a sagacious ……
remark I say this the more gladly H
I refer especially
I refuse to believe I say to myself
I regard as

I regard
^
it
an erreoneous view

as a great honor
'
I gay without fear of contradiction

I see around me
 '

( 250 ) I

I see as clearly ns any man possib- I do

ly can I shall never believe
I shall never cease to be grateful
I see little hope of

I see no exception I shall not acknowledge

I see no possibility of U
1 shall not attempt a detailed
for doubting narrative
I shall not go so far as to say

see in to hear you say ® ......

I shall not hesitate to say some-

seize upon this opportunity thing
I shall not tax your patience
seriously desire
shall add a few words I shall not undertake to prophesy

shall ask you to look very closely I shall now give you some instan-
ces i

shall be told I shall now proceed to show

shall best attain my object
I shall pass by all this
shall bestow a little attention
upon I shall presently show
shall certainly admit
I shall proceed without further
[
;
shall consider myself privileged

shall desist from

i
1
preface

shall show that

it

I am not
shall endeavor to be guided ……
I shall speak first about
shall give it in the words of -…"
…… I shall take a broader view of the
shall here briofiv recite subject

shall here use tlie word to denote I shall take it for granted
()
shall hope to interest you I shall touch upon one or two
questions
shall invite you to follow me
ill I shame me ft
shall just give the summary of I should be surprised if )
…."
shall never be my own man till I should be the last man to deny
 ' '

( 251 ) t

I
!i
should fail in mv duty if
I speak with the utmost sincerity

… -.. I still view with respect

I should find it hard to discover
I submit this proposition
I should have forfeited my own
self-respect I suppose it to be entirely— true
S:

I
I should have

blioiild
(
left it

have known that!

undone I

I
suppose most

suppose there
men

is
will
IG
no one here
recollect
......

I should like to emphasize I suppose we are all of one opinion

I should like to go a step farther I sympathize most heartily

I should like tobay to examine I take one picture as an illustra-

briefly tion H
should much prefer I take pleasure in saying
I

I
self
should think it
^
should not be satisfied with my-

too absurd
I tell
1 tender rny
……
you, gentlemen
thanks to you lit

I simply pause here to think I thank yon for having allowed

.… me ......
I sincerely regret the absence I thank you for the honor

^
t
I sincerely wish it were 111 my I thank you from the bottom of
Power my heart
1 solemnly declare g
I sorrowfully call to mind ^ I thank you very gratefully
K
I speak forth my sentiment I think I am correct in saying

1 speak from no little personal I think I am not the first to utter

observation i^B .

I think I need not say more

1 speak of this to show

^ think much
...... I it is not too to say
i speak the fact when I tell you
my
I
^
speak wliat I know when
K ^ ^ I gay
•
'
I

I thin k
think it is

it
duty to
......

will astonish you

 252 J
1 ( )

I verily believe
I think no wise man can ba in- I want to say just a few words

^
different
1 want to say one word more
I think that all will agree
I \yant to say to you seriously
X think I can venture to sa v
...... I was astonished to learn
I think that none of us will deny I was constantly watchful to

I think thero is no better evidence 1 I was not without some anxiety

15
I think we can hardly hope
'

I will ask vou to bear witness

……
I thin k

I think we
we may

may
all easily see

well be proud cf
;

I
'
I
I
will be
will

I will
bound
not argue this

not attempt to note

^ Jfe

I think we may well congratulate

each other : I will not be content until
......

think we must draw £ distinction condescend

I

I think we need neither doubt nor

] I will not

I will
m ……
not enumerate at present
to

fear
I think we take too narrow a view I will not hang all liiv bells on
one horse 1—
I thin k you will pardon my saying
i I will uot positively say *
I tremble at the task Jit
I will dow leave this question ^
I trust

I trust
that as the years roll on
......

that this will not be re

garded as ^
X will

I will
only take
express
thank you for
wish to confine what
^
an occasion

have
.…
to

…… I L to

^:
I use

I use

I
the word advisedly

very plain language

value very much the honor

I

I
I

I would
^
say
wish you success and happincbs

^ I know not what

|
[ would just as soon as not
I venture to my it^Lu \
I vvould'nt do that if I wore yon^ -
 ^
B i ^

Icariias ( 253 )

Icarius ( Oebalus
Attica
Bacchus
Idol of the people
Idols of the cave or den --
" of the forum or market-place

Icarus (Crete
Icarius
Dfedalus
Sicily W
,
,,
of the theatre
of the tribe
If I can help it [
Ic— bound liarbor
Icarian , I know it ;
„ I recollect aright fE
, vessel 151
it be so
"
it be true
Ich Men () ( , itcomes to that
Icy reception , itwere not for him
Ideal beauty my name be A
conduct ,, not ;
excellence
happiness
home
not for
" so were that
;
not Bran it is Bran's brother
mm
theory " the cap fits, wear it
world
Identical spot
with
Identify a prisoner, to
,,

,, you rather
;
the worst comes to the worst

" one's interests with those ,, we are rightly informed

of another, to

" what has been said is true

, stolen property, to
" you think for a moment
Identity with a person or thing '
you wish to get at the bottom of
Ides of March, the
Idle away, to
,, away the time, to
; Ignis Fatuus
facts

Ignoble action
;^
bed ,, of descent
"
,,

"
brain
deserts
hours
Ignorant look
of ;
of letters
rage of the world
„
,,
rumor, an
stories
;
; of truth
people
,,

„
talk
thoughts @ Iliad, an
of ills (woe), a
 S

Iliad ( 254 ) Immerg6

Iliad of old English literature, the Illuminate one's mind, to

Chaucer Can"
terbury Tales ,, the world, to
,, the French Guil- Illustrate a doctrine, to
laume di Lorris Jean de
Meung The Romance ,, by examples, to
of the Rose
" , the Portuguese The Lu- Illustrative of a subject , §S
siad of Camoens Illustrious conduct
, , the Scotch The Epigoniad ,, deeds

I'll
William Wilkie
of
be hanged if I do
do for him
,,

„
Imaginary line
name
virtue ;
„ tell you what „ quantity
,
III
warrant
at ease ;; Imaginative faculty
Imbecility from age
Imbue the hands in blood, to
" example, an
,, fitted for use
, for ill
^ *

Imbued with, to be
-gotten gain , with bad habits, to be
off ;
-office MM "with favor, to "be
repute or name "with virtue, to be
" spoken of Imitate a bad example, to

; ;
" -starred " a fashion, to
taken, to be #6 „ a pattern, to
, -turn Imitative arts
,, will of a master
Illegal associations Immaterial to the matter Jte

books
, decision Immature death, an
intercourse ,, fruit
, proceedings ,,
judgment
„ trade
Illegitimate child, a
Illicit connection
" intercourse
;
;
,,

Immediate cause
,,
plans

contact
,,

,,
intercourse with another's
wife
sale of intoxicants
,,

,
,,
duty
truth
vicinity
—
m Immense distance
Illimitable capacity ,, in extent i^rB
Illiterate rudeness Immerge into water, to
 g

Immers6 ( 255 ) Impervious

Immerse in water, to Impair one's health, to

" oneself in vice, to ,, one's reputation, to

Immersed in sin Impalpable distinctions

,, thoughtin JB'J

in wine ;^ powder
,,

Immersion into water

Imminent danger or peril
„
Imparlance
Impart knowledge, to
(
secret, to
Imminently dangerous Impartial decision, an
Immoderate ambition ^ ^F " view j an
Impassable roads
,, demand Impatient at the delay
,,

„
desires
expenses ; „ for the
friend
arrival of a

"
,,
grief
laughter ; "
,,
of restraint

;
under a yoke
Immodest picture, an
Immoral conduct
" dissipation
; Impede progress, to Efljt
Impediment in speech, an
Immortal fame Impelled by circumstances, to be
" Four of Italy, the
Dante, Petrarch, Impending danger
Ariosto, Tasso Impenetrable conscience
,, honor
,, life
, mystery

.
tflj

" maids, the

Three, the
m
" Impenetrably obstinate &' i

Homer, Dante,

^ Impenitent heart, an
Milton
Tinker, the Imperative language
,,

John Bunyaii,
The Pilgrim's Prog, ess
,, law
Imperial City, the
(
Immortalize one's name, to

Immovable estate
foundation
(
J

Imperium
" tea
in imperio ( )

Imperious need or want

^
,,

" in purpose spirit

immunity from disease Impertinent answer, an
from paying taxes
„ youth, an
Immure oneself, to Imperturbable as Bertolde
" oneself for study, tj p| Impervious minds
to air
 g &

fmpervious ( 256 ) In

Impervious to light Impregnable fort, an

„ to reason ^5 ,, honor
"
"
to the
to water
;
view
Impregnate with, to ;
Impetuous anger
"
stream
,,
haste ^ Impress favorably, to
" on the mind,
men
to
into service, to
„ wind
Implacable enmity
Implant in one's heart, to
; Impressive discourse, an

„
' love into the heart, to
&
virtue into the heart, to
Imprisoned
" scene
in
sonality, to be
one's afflicted per-

Implements of husbandry ; Imprisonment for life

Improper conduct

,, of
Implicated in a crime, to be
war ; " connection'
,
Improve « victory, to
language

„ an opportunity, to
Implicit assent ,, in trade, to
„ belief „ on or upon, to
„
Implied meaning
obedience

Implore mercy from God, to

^« „
,
" one's mind, to
the appearance, to
the occasion, to H

Imply anything,
Iinpondeiable agents
to ; #
" the flavor, to
Improvident of harm

Important
( office, an
Impulse of the moment, the :
to Impulsive force
Importunate suitor, an Impure air
Importune a friend for a loan, to desires
" ideas
Impose a task, to of heart
" duties, to Impute blame to a person, to
,, heavy taxes on the people,
to In ix bad way
,,

,,
penalty, to
silence, to
;
,, a bee line
„ a blaze ;
,
Impossible for
upon or on, to
man
„ a body
„ a box
»;
; ifi
Impotent
„
in one's feet
of tongue
" a brace of sliakea
,, a breath ; »ZCii;fiP^1
in ( 257 ) In

In a brown study, to be , a position

,,a condition ,, a posture of defense, to be

,, a crack ;
" a course of physic, to be
, a rage
;
" a fair way
" a fashion
" a few hours
;
*
a round-about
" a
" a
row
second
; t;
way fit

" a few words ., a short time ,

, a fit

" a fright
„ a fume, to be
il ; , a
,,

" a
a
small compass
small degree
small way
; ;
;
,, a funk, to be ,, a sort ^-M
,, a general way a state of nature
„ a glow, to be
" a good way
,, a greater degree
; a stew
a study, to be
a tale, to be
), a great fright , a temper
;
( ,; ;
" a heat „ a trice
,, a high degree ,, a twinkling
a horn „ a way ;
,,

,,
a
a
huddle, all
huff, to be

u a hungry case, to be t/l

,, a whole skin
„ a word
,, a world which
;
,, a hury ft; „ abeyance
, a jiffy ,, accordance with

, a kind ; ,, account with

,, a line

" a manner
;
}i a laughing mood

, addition
,, advance ;
to

" a marked degree

,, a maze ; , advance
all ages
of
;
" a measure
,, a melting mood
, all conscience
all directions ;
, a moment
a mouthful
, all manner
;
of ways

^;*
,,
, all likelihood
" a muse , all probability
,, a nutshell
,, all respects

,,
a passion
a pickle, to be ; „ alliance with
alt, to be
an agony of grief S
a Pickwickian sense , an evil hour
ff

" an instant ^; ^
 W B
t W

In ( 258 )
m
In an unguarded moment ; bondage of Satan, to be

and in borrowed plumes

,,

,,
and out {ii

another guess manner ; Bristol fashion

brief

, anticipation ;
;
broad or open daylight

„
,,
any case
any hand
, any sort
bud, to be
buff ()
bulk
;
case
, any way
,, any wise

, arms ; case to
cash
character
charge, to be
fi;

, arrears
„ at the death, to be
cold blood ;;
clover, to be

„ attendance
,, autumn prime
" bad circumstances
collar
common
common
;
parlance
v

; ; ;
company with
bad odor compliance with ®^
" bad order,
,,

,,
bad part
bad taste
;;
to be concert
conclusion
conformity to or with ; ft;

,, ballast, to be K ;—
conformity to the fashion
bank
„ bar of
,,
;
bass or low relief
conscience
consequence
; of
,, battle array consideration of
, behalf of ; …… contact
,, birthday suit
,, bitter terms ; contemplation, to be or haye

black
„ black and white
,, blank
; contempt of
cauntenance
course ;
Hfi
;
course of time
,, blood court
„ blue funk, to be
,, bold relief

bond
; cuerpo
danger
danger
j|;£tt

of life
danger of robbery tfl
 W «

fa ( 259 ) tn

In deed ; form
,, deep water or waters
;
front of
full

,
default of
deference, to
defiance of
;
;; full cry;
full blast

full diess
„ demand , full feather

;; ;
,, deputation ,, full uniform
,, deposit , full view
detail ., fun
,, disfavor, to be fund
,, disgrace, to be future
, dispute
; gaze

;;
, driblets garrison
,,drink @^5T gear
" due course
,, due time ; ; general
general audience
, duty bound, to be
earnest
;; ;
,

,
good
good
case
circumstances ; flffi
, effect
embryo
;
good
good faith ;
earnest

,, equilibrio
" eternity, to be
every one's mouth
good
good
good
part ;;
order, to be

season
" every qnarter
, every respect ;
„ everv sense of the word, to be
good time
great demand
great passion
;
;
,,

,,
evidence ;
existence, to be
great straits
half a jiffy
hall
;
„ eye
„ fact ;; hand
;;
hall and bower

, fashion
fault ;; happy time

^
harmony with
,,favor of
; haste

;;
„ favor with hiding
, few
line

" fine feather

; ;; & high feather
high relief
high spirits
() Hob's pound, to be
, ior a buster
" for a thing, to be
;( …
„ ior it, to be
,. i'orce ; ff hot blood ;
 in ( 2G0 ) In

In hot haste
hot water,
ill part
to be ; no way
no wise
nubibus ( ) K
" irons
issue
itself one
obedience, to
office ;; ;
,, proper place
its one respect

,,
jest
joke
;
" jeopardy of life one sense
one's absence
one's best of time
:
" joy 's book, to be
,, justice to
v keeping with
; ; es born days —
,,

"
,,labor
kind
King Cam byses' vein
; ; one's
e's
's
bosom, to be
cause
cups, to be
" leading strings, to be one's day
;
,, league, to be
one's
one's
debt
element ^^
" less than no time
" lieu of
,, life ;(
one's
'seye
employ
; ,
,, limbo ; glory, to be
, liquor ^ s

;
II
long clothes
" lots
, love
; s

b
hands

hearing
, low spirits, to be s heart of hearts
luck, to be I
lug Jt s mind's eye
" merry pin 3 own way
, middle courses a power
, mind i presence
" motion quiet way
, my choice

,,
my judgment
name ;^ '
3 right mind ;
,, nature I
sense
,,

,,no
need
degree , I
shirt-sleeves
shoes or boots, to be
,,no
„ no
no
respect
sense
time ; sober senses
I

one's sore need

;
^lisjijl
In ( %i ) In

one's tandrum
question ;
one's teens
;; Queer street, to be
'
(;
order .
, quick succession
order to ; „ quiet
re
ordinary
2
other words reason ^
pain
part ;
particular ;
, regard of
regard to;
" relation to
partnership
passing
passion
^; " relief
request
, reserve
;
pawn " respect
person
respect to or of ……
round numbers
peril of
petticoats ;
death i
" sackcloth and ashes
, sad case, to be ;
,;
petto
safety
place
place of " search of
" season
plain English
, season and out of season
plain terms, words or language

pocket, to be
secret
" service
;
point , session ^
point of 0, " seven league boots
point of fact ,, sheets
possession of *;
possession of the house, to .be
„ short
sight
sight of
;
post haSfce
powder
„ silence
, snuff ; ;
power
practice ; ,, sober earnest
some degree ;
print
private
;; ;
presence of some measure
some sort
" some such way
;
profusion ;;
process of time some taste

;
„ something of a pet

;;;
proportion sort as
prospect
Public
„ special
" spirits :
pursuance
quest of ; of , spite of
„ spite of one's teeth 4S
 ^i j

In ( 262 ) In

In sport
, state ;
;
, the course of conversation

,,

,,
stock
store ;
store for, to be
„ the course of nature
, the course of tlie day
,, the course of two years
,,

,,
strictconfidence
strong relief ; " the dark ;
,,

,,
subdued tones
succession
such a case or contingency f
the distance
, the dumps
the edge of evening
,
;
,,

, sum
such good time
, the egg
the end
,, the event of
;
;
" snnder
" suspense
,, taste
; ,, the extreme

,, the eyes of

,, the eyes of the wind

, terms
,, that

that light ;;
„ the face of
the face of day
,, the face of the world
;;
the abstract ;
,, the absence of „ the falling afternoon
" the family way, to be
^;
,, the air ;
„ the act of, to be jjf

, the arms of Morpheus

„ the fashion
,, the fashion of one

, the article of death „ the field, to be

„ the ascendant
„ the background ;
" the bad or black books
"
„
"
the first place
the flesh ;^
the fullness of age
•

" the bees , the fullness of one's heart

" the blues ;

, the bighes, to be
,, the fullness of time
" the books of
,, the bosom of
" the bottom of the bag
,,

,,
the
the
glout ;
good books of
,,

„ the bud
,,
;
the briars, to be

the capacity of ZW^

" the
„ the
,, the
graces
grain
gross
of, to

;
be

" the character of ,, the hand or hands of

" the circumstances
the clouds, to be ;
, the compass of two days
,, the hearing
^
&
,, the heat
the heat of action
,, the course of ,, the height of fashion
f, ( 26S )
In

In the highest
„ the humor
; the rough ;
, the idea that
" the interest of
" the kindness of one's heart
" the roundest way
„ the same boat
" the same box
;'
m „ the same breath
the land of nod the second place
" the laud of the living " the sight of Heaven
"
,,
the
the
last degree
least
; „ the straw
n
;
I
,,

,,
the
the
the
long run
lump
main
;
;^
, the style of oracle
„ the substance
,, the suds, to be

,, the
the
making
;
;
market, to be Jft
the sum
" the sun
,

,,
the
the
the
market-place
meantime
mercy ;
of, to be
, the sunshine, to be
, the teeth
" the teeth of the wind
;;
„ the middle
" the midst of
; ,, the thick of

" the third place

" the tide of time
......

n the most worldly sense the time of

, the train of Pg ;
the mould „ the twinkling of a bed- post
;
,,

,,
the name of
the natural course of things g " the van ;
;
v the nick of
" the nick of time
; ,, the

" the
" the
vein
very act of, to
very nick of time
be

,,the oldway ., the wake of^;

„ the
I the
a the
open air
opinion
order of things
……
, the
„ the way of
, the weather
way
;
the wind, to be
" the ordinary course of things the wind's eye
..,

,, the world

,, the pay of , the wrong, to be

,,

,,
the place of
the pride of one's heart
, the wrong box
time ;;
,,the ranks
:;
token of
toto (: )

,,the right
„ the right nick of time
" touch with
triumph ;
 ^ S

in ( 264 ) fnclSnatiotl

In truth Inappropriate to the season

„ tune
turn ; Inarticulate pronunciation
A
,, two
, two minds
,, two two's
Inasmuch as
Inaugural address, an
;
ff:

„ unison
use
„ vain
;,— ,

'
ceremony
Inaugurate a new method, to M
various ways Inbred affection
" very deed Inburning anger
" view Incapable of comprehension
" view of ;
„ virtue of : , of falsehood
of injury
" vogue sllr "
white and black ; ; SS „ of pain
" with, to be ^; of reform
word Incessant stream of carriages, an
years
Inability to walk talk
Inaccessible as A baton, as S Inch and he will take an ell, give
him an
, document, an " by inch
, of candle
height, an „ of cold iron, an
Incident in a play, an
" person, an
„ to ;
Inaccuracy in copying, an
Inactive life
"
fi
medicine, an
i
Incidental expenses
Incipient affairs
„ stage of
; ^£
fever

Inadequacy
^
Inadaptability to new duties, one's

for one's work

Incisive weapon, an
Inciter to action
Inclasp with arms, to
;
I
Inclement season, the
Inadequate compensation " weather

, ideas
Inadmissible proposal, an
in
I

I
Inclinable to drink
,, to truth
Inclination of the mind
^
Inanimate objects of nature
Iuapprehepsive of wrong 13 of the will
,, to learning i£ ^(
 *

( m )

Incline one's steps towards home, " statement

..

"
to
the body, to
the head, to
;^ Incorrigible by
mination
one's
K
criminal, an
own deter-

, to evil, to
, to laziness, to " mistake, an
" to one side
, to study, to Incorrupt body, the
, to virtue , officer, an
Inclined plane
" to, to be
to sleep
;
^
Increase in evil, to
" in knowledge, to

Inclose an account, to " in numbers, to

" in an euvelope, to in speed, to
in virtue, to ,;
Include a contract, to " of happiness
Inclusive of of honor
everything of „ of taxes n
Incoherent speech of trade
f ,
style „ one's influence, to
Incoming profit, the
" tenant, an Incredible story, an
Incomparable beauty Incredulous smile, an
Incongruous language
Inconsistent condact Incumbent on ' 3

reasoning S Incur a penalty, to

,, with
„
"
heavy debts, to
heavy expenses, to
^
;
(+
, with truth
Inconstant moon, the ,,
mischief, to
Incontinence in women „ one's censure, to
^\ - of urine " one's displeasure, to
In conversant with a law
Inconvertible banknotes Incurable disease, an
, hostility, an
Incorporate a club, to Indebted to a person for his kind-
'^^j copper with silver, to ness, to
Indecent dress
, new matter into a , gambols
book, to language
Indecisive battle
pauies, to " in the mind
„ territory, to Indefatigable in doing good
ncorrect conduct
Indefatigable ( 266 } hi nee
men m Indication of danger, an
Indefatigable in teaching

Indefinite growth
, period
Indelible impression on the
- mind
"
Indicative of
Indifferent beauty, an
of fair weather

,, ink
Indelicate behavior 5'&
"
,,

Indigenous plants
to ;
spectator, a« |lj

Indent a young man to a shoe- " to a country

maker, to |a
Indigested schemes
" goods Indignant at something done
" the edge of paper, to
" feelings
,, wax with a stamp, to " with a person
Indirect accusation
Indented certificate ,, attack, an
, dealings
,,
coast-line, a " evidence

Indenture the brow, to

Independent day
g
,,

"
,,tax
exchange
route, an —
Indiscriminate slaughter
,, income Indispensable to success

Indestructible by
of
Indeterminate in mind
" number, an
;^
fire
Indisposed to eat
Indisposition to work
Indissoluble friendship

Index finger
„ number
; knot
"
,,

union
Indistinct idea, an
, of a book, the " recollection 'lli

of a globe,the " vision

of a logarithm, the () Individual economy
,, effort
of refraction () " enterprise
Indian club ,, peculiarities
, corn indomitable courage .
drug ,, purpose
„ file Induce a person to laugh, to
„ fire

" gift, a IS „
to U
a person to stop drinking,
fnd uce ( 267 ) Infested

Induce calamities, to ; Inexhaustible riches

the ;
Induction of a person into an

Inductive method, the

office, ,

Inexorable destiny
supply of water, an

Indnige children, to

u
in leisure, to
in one's passions,
^;
to
" justice
Inexperienced hand, an ;
Inexpiable crime, an
" in reverie, to Inexpressible pleasure
. in sensuality, to Inexpressibles
,,

,,
in wine, to
one's fancy, to ; Inexpressive face
Inextinguishable fire

" oneself, to
Indulgence in vice
: tk
,,
laughter, an

,, to the multitude Inextricable knot, an

Indulgent considerations
,, in wine
Infallibility,
Infallible proofs
remedy, an
,
His
;
" mother., an Infamous act, an
to children Infancy of art, the
, to other's faults Infant colonies i
" industries
Industrial bank ,,
prodigy, an
credit infatuated with gambling, to be
crisis
, evolution Infected with poison, to be
" exhibition, an " with the plague, to be

" partnership Infectious disease

policy Infelicitous omen, an
„ products Infer one fact from another, to
Industrious in pleasure

Inaflfable joys of heaven, the

Inferior goods
" knowledge ^
remedy
Ineffectual attempt
M
„
quality
talent
to none
;5£
)i
measures
Inefficient
Inestimable privileges
Infernal machine, an
„ regions
„ spirits
;
Inevitable conflict, an Infertile soil, an
Infested with robbers, to be jgg
Inexhaustible happiness
 *

[lit

Infinite happiness Infuse tea, to

" knowledge Ingenious at contriving ^Lt^j

, misery
Infirm of purpose
merey

;
" contrivance
plan
Ingrafted love
;
Inflame one's ambition, to Ingrained habit, an

,' the passions, to

Inflamed with lust, to be
; Ingratiate oneself, to
Inhabited regions

" with rage, to be

Inflammable substances
^ ^ is
Inhale fresh air, to
Inherent principle
" qualities
,, right
Inflammation of the eyes Inherit a property, to
, of the heart a title, to
of the passions Inherited disease
tk Inhuman heart, an
Inflammatory oration , punishments
Inflate a baloon, to Inimitable style
,, the currency, to
with pride, to
Inflexibility of faith
; Initial letter
"
,,
sound
velocity
•

Inflexible mind Initiate a new era, to IE

Inflict a fine, to ,, a pupil into every branch
,, a wound, to of science, to i
punishment on a man, to
" reforms, to
Influence by example, to Initiation into a society
,. '

"
of a civil war, the

on a man's action |^
into an office
Inject with a sy inge, to
Injection pipe }t ; " [
,,
•A
passions, to ; Injure one's reputation, to

Influential statesman, an
Influx oi light, an
,, of merchandise
^ ,,

,,

,,
oneself, to
the constitution, to
the health, to
,, of wealth into a country, Injurious to
the ,, to credit fll^
Inform against, to ,, to the body t5
Informed of a fact, to be to the mind
Informal dinner Inland trade
„
Infra dig
meeting
(
Infraction of a treaty
)
Inlaid with gold and silver
' work
Inlay with gold, to 4^p|
" oi the Ia\v£ tl with flowers, to j^ai
Inlet ( 269 ) Insight

Inlet pipe, an Inquisitive person, an

Inmost thoughts ^;
Innate ideas
love
Inner council
Ins and outs
Insalubrious climate, an
;
.
"
,,
garments
man, the ; ; Insane asylum, an
Insatiable of learning
M
&
parts, the Inscribe a book to, to
Innocent as a dove, as " a stone, to
child, an ,, on the memory or mind,
,,

"
,,
games
medicine, au
of clothes, to be
to
Inscription on a tablet
Inscrutable pit, an
;
Insensibility to human suffering
of the crime charged
Insensible decay
of wrong intentions motion
of beauty
,, 8UOW of danger
trade to fear
Innocents' day to grief
to pain
Innocuous creature, an to shame -
to smell
Inns of chancery Inseparable from each other
,, of Court
Inoculate a man with the cow-pox, Inseparably attached
to
Inoffensive joke, an
Inordinate appetite
Insert a word, to
"
„
in a book, to
in a newspaper, to
;
„ desires Insertion by dovetailing
Inorganic acid ,,
by mortising
„ chemistry Inshore fisheries
Inquire after one's health, 1.0 ,, of m
m

,
after the right way, to

for
into, to ;;
a person, to

of a person about some-

Inside decoration

,,
,,

,,

„
track
of
of a
out
week, the

() ^;
—
thing, to Insidious attempts
Inquiry into the laws of chemistry disease
,, foe, an [
& office Insight into cliaracter, an
 '

Insignificant ( 270 ) Insnli

Insignificant person, an
,,

Insincere of heart
words ; Instance a recent occurrence, to

Instant business, an
Insinuate against, to Instantaneous effect
„ ideas, to Instate in an office, to

favor,
oneself
to
into
;
another's Instead of
Instigate one to a crime, to

" oneself into the good ,, one to rebellion, to '

grace of, to
Insinuating language
Inspid drink
,, food ^
Instil
into, to ;
good principles, to

Instinct for field-sports, an

,, style
,, talk or conversation , of liberty, the
Institute a comparison, to ^ tfc

"
Insist
,
taste
on or upon, to
on going, to
; ,, a court, to
a government, to

Iiisnared by lusts, to be „ a law, to

Insolent answer, an a society, to
Insoluble difficulty, an ,, a suit, to
,, an inquiry, to
,, doubt, an Instruct in manual labor, to
" in water
"
mm
Insolvent debtor, an
question, an ,, the youth, to
Instruction by example
Instructive ease
^
,, speech
„ law Instrument for debt #
Inspect an account, to ,, of instruments, the
,, goods, to ,, of pledge

(;
,, schools, to Instrumental in attaining an object
" troops, to
Inspecting order , music
Inspector-general
-General of Customs Insufferable pain
Insufficient for use
of police , in quantity
,,

Inspire mirth, to !^ [
Insular climate
,,

,,
with hope, to
with new life, to ; Insult over others, to
,, over other's calamity, to

j?ole ^
Inspired Idiot, the IP Horace Wal-
Oliver Goldsmith the weak, to
 I| S J

Insnlt ( 271 ) Intense

insult to injury, to add without dividend

Insupportable pain jK Insure against loss by fire, to

Insurable interest ^
" value „ against loss by water, to
Insurance act
,, against sickness ,, safety, to

m ,, success, to
a against suspension of Insurmountable difficulties
work
agent Insusceptible of sorrow
,,

,,
block
broker
business
Intangible dreams
,,

Integral calculus
hopes ;
, commission " excellence of character Sa
" company
,, for adult ,, number
for impaired lives ,,part
Integrant parts
,, for marriage Integrity of a country, the "
, for risk m
,, money ,, an ancientof manus-
of rent the cript,
,, on cargo Intellectual powers
on
,,

,,

,
on
on
goods
freight
hull
,, readiness
Intelligence department
" office
i ^
" on imaginary profit Intelligent being, au
,, eyes
on last surviver Intemperate ambition "
policy ,, living
policy on block , weather
Intense application
policy on goods
wm
policy on hull
i
" bitterness
cold ^
,, color
^ig

g^^
" desire
premium ,, hate
reserve fund
surveyor
with dividend
|
-,
,
,,
heat
light
pain
^
gSg

IJ

thought
 H

Intensify ( 272 ) Intermediate

Intensify colors, to bill of exchange

,, efforts, to : ii; n charge for carrying
ij

,, hatred, to
Intensity of light, the
" '- of pressure, the
^i for delay
of public loan
,, of sound, the on deposit J« ij

Intent on business oneself in state affairs, to

" on improvement
,, ou pleasure ^ payable
Intentional injury Interested in a novel, to be
offence
Iutercalary day MB Interesting anecdote, an -

Inter
,
canem
month
et lupum ( ) ,
]
problem, an

Intercede with the judge for or on " witness, an

behalf of the prisoner, to

Intercept communication, to
Interfere with, to
"
;
with people's quarrels, to

,, on the road, to " with progress, to

the enemy, to ^:
„ trade, to „ with the political affairs,

^
Interchange civilities, to to
commodities, to Interim dividend
,,

„ receipt
glances, to Interior city, an
„
places, to ,, of the earth, the
„
, labor and repose, to
Interlacing arches n
of seasons, the
—
Interline Chinese and English,

;
to

;
Intercourse between friends

of friends
Interlined comments
Interlinear translations
Interlocutory judgment () *
,, of friend with friend Intermarriage of blacks with

" of nations
Interest a capitalist iu ship-build-
whites
Intermeddle with, to
^,^ with other's affairs, to
;
ing, to
Intermediary commence
account on deposit Intermediate hour
rank
 L

Intermediate ( 273 ) Into

Intermediate sort, an
space Z Interposing hills
" wall, an vmm Interpret a dream, to f'T
xnterrainaDie tire w^i^^tK " an English speeh into
, question HMZraSi Chinese, to Jlf 5t5CmHxH¥w
sky
, woods Z> Interrogate about, to
Intermittent fever
pains
Internal commodities
"
Interrupt an
"
face to face, to
affair, to
harmony, to
P ;
" debts „ motion, to RalO
t) disease ,, one in a speech, to
neat
,, injury " one in his work, to
,, peace
, purity Interrupted in motion
" trouDie , pulse, an itm^wK
International bimetallism thoughts
Interruption of labor
n congress " of time
,, Court of Arbitration " to one^ mediations EB,
HI IK
, crisis 1 Intersect at right angles, to
,,
m1a"
exchange ' t-Pi rr^/C^Wt

" exhibition " in oblique angles, to

" lQdebtedness Intersperse a book with pictures,

"
merce
"
intermediary

law
| ^ com-
'

,,

Interstices
to
picture in a boot, to

between doors, the

^
1

" Maritime Conference Interview with an officer, an

" poat b Inter weaye truth with fiction,

mrt AM. JUift
tojBt
radiotelegraph

Xll tCl
"

,
pUSc
t

I
telegraph
trade
W ell
%m%Mf
L i.l
t

t3
^
LOIXlUd. IciXI VD^
Intestine feud
•
" wars
Intimate friendship 55

to , one's intention, to
ii) the matter, to
:;
^
with
„ the hand between the Into the bargain
eye and the light, to " the breach
 ( 274 ) Invtigh

Intolerable anguish „ of an affair

,, bore, an " to chemistry
Intolerance of beat „ to physics
Intolerant government, an Introductory letter, an

,, of „ note, pn
Intonate the liturgy, to Introverted toes
Intoxicated with an idea Intrude into one's house, to
Intractable lad, an
, temper on one's leisure, to
Intrench upon, to
,,

" upon truth,

upon others' rights, to

to
"
; one's opinion or views, to

oneself into a business

Intrenched camp, an
Intrepid soldier, an Intrust a person with a thing, to
Intrigue with a virgin, to
,, a thing to a person, to"

;—
Intrinsic value
Introduce a new fashion, to Intuitive evidence
faculty
" a person to another, to Inundate the market with coun-
terfeit money, to
" a person into an im-
perial audience, to Inundation of false rumors
,, a person into society, to
of tears, an "F
a probe into a wound, to of tourists, an

" a quotation from Scrip- Inure oneself to hard labor, to

ture, to
-,, European civilization, to , the body to cold, to

,,

"
tries, to
good a freer,

illustrations into a
speech, to ^
foreign coun-

-
Invade a country,
,,

"
a territory, to
one's right, to
Invalid argument, an
to
&
^[
!^

" plants from a foreign

coimtry, to Invalidate a contract, to
" the subject, to * a will, to
Introduction of a key into a door, Invariable temperature ?S
the
" of a man into a house, Invasion of disease II
the Inveigh against, to J|
 - *

Inveigfa ( 275 ) Involve

Inveigh against injustice, to

proof
,,

,,
power
;
Inveigle one into a trap, to

Invent a falsehood, to
Inviolable chastity
„ law, an
,, place, an
^
an accusation, to |$ Invisible God, the

;[ ;
an excuse, to ,, King, the
,, stories, to Invitation card
Inventive skill ,, to dinner
Inverse proportion (^) Invite a man to dinner, to
Invert justice, to
" the order of things, to " a teacher, to
, by presents, to
Inverted arch () criticism, to
,, cup, an " sleep, to
Invest a city, to ^; Inviting repast, an
" a man with authority, to ,, spot, an g
Invoice book
„ money in business, to n cost
, duplicate
money by purchasing land- inward book
ed property, to ledger
" money in loans, to M outward book
„
,,
with power, to
with rank, to
Invested capital
# „
,,
weight
Invoke aid, to
price

" with full power ,, God for protection, to IPJ

8

Investigate a doctrine, to
Involuntary emissions
the laws of nature, to obedience
I
:
w -. ,
,
,,

'
r

the nature of things, to ,, service

„ shudder
to the bottom, to
mm „ work
Investment of money in land, the Involution of the uterus after preg-
nancy, the (§0
Inveterate disease, an
foes Involve a man in crime, to
,, habit, an
" smoker, an ,, a man in debt, to
Invigorating exercises
man
Invincible
',

army
medicine ,,

m a in misery, to
Involve ( 276 ) Irreconcilable

Involve a man in ruin, to ^'p' -bound habits

a man in troubles, to " Chancellor, the , Prince
Otto von Bismarck
a nation in war, to " cl.ud agreement *
" a place in darkness, to constitution
, City, the Pittsburg
W
,, oneself, to
Involved in a deep study ,, cross, the ^
Invulnerable argument, an

" fortress, an
„ discipline (
,, dogs of the air, the

;;;
Inward evil, an
feelinga , Duke, the Duke of
,, friends Wellington
parts, the Emperor, the Nicholas

Io (
Inwardly moved, to be
Inachus Jupiter ,
I
enters into his soul, the

Isis „ gripe ;
Iphigenia ) ^
Ionic accoraplishmeiits
{

Clytemnestra
Aoamemnon
S "

„
hand

-handed
in a velvet glove,

ruler, an
an

Diana „ horse, the

( ,, in the fire

(((
Ipse dixit )

Ipso facto ) " necessity

,, jure ) or gold
Ipssima verba
Ira furor brevis ( est „
pigs
rule ;
Iris ( Thaumas
Juno
Electra
,
"
sway
will
works
Irish Agitator, the IflDaniel O'Con- Ironical expression, an

„
,,
nell
apricots
bulls
Irradiate the mind, to
Irrational brute
quantity
; ()
, of the East, the Irreclaimable pledges
Iron age, an
age, the ; " rugue

,, -bound coast, an Irreconcilable doctrine

„ eamity -
 ( 277 ) IS

Irreconcilable statements Irresistible power

, torrent, an
Irrecoverable debt, a
Irresolute person, an
injury, an Irrespective judgment
„ of ; ;;
& loss, ar i

loss in trade jft Irrespectively of

of consequences

;'

Irresponsible monarch, au
,, time
Irredeemable crime, an Irretrievable loss, an
m
, notes , mistake, an

" scoundrel, an , ruin

Irreverence towards the
— Supreme
Irreducible formula, an *
^ Being

Irrefragable proof
Irrefutable argument, an
; Irreverent conduct
„ towards God
Irreversible case, an *
Irregular coast-line '
" movement of progress

,,

,
,,
conduct
desires
flower
; Irrevocable deed, an

,, fate
,, life word, an
„ shape, an Irrevocably lost
troops Irrigable land '

Irrelevant illustration Irritable drain, an

"
,,
disposition
, to the question muscles

Irremediable disease
,,

Irreparable paet, the

evil

wrong, an
^
id ^
Irritate the spirits, to
Irritated at a person, to be
Irruption into a city
Is it not legitimate to recognize...?
12 ......
^
" it not marvelous
Irrepressible conflict ,, it not obvious …...

^
-

,, joy ,, it not universally recognized -..

&
,, laughter ...?
Irreproachable character „ it possible?
, i" then, any wonder
 M i )

( m it

. lssachar's ears 6i
Is it well with him? It affordsme gratification
,, there any reason in the world...
… also pleases me very much
,, to be ;,
,, to blame always seemed to me impossible
',, to one's credit ......

"

;w
(
your father a glazier?
m
appears
said
from what has been

Ishmaelite, an
Island City, the
;: ^ Montreal
appears to

behoves one to
me, on the contrary
......

......

of Saints, the being no object

, of the Seven Cities, the can rightly be said if

Islands of the
(
Blest, the
certainly follows,

comeS to this
.^ …-.
then

could not be otherwise

Isle of Death, the Norfolk
depends on how you look at it
,, of Lanterns, the >ri
depends upon circu instances
" of Mist, the Isle of skye j

doas not answer or do

the ;
^^
of Saints,
Isms do33 not necessarily follow Ah
Isocheiraal lines .,..
Isolated peak, an does not sound plausible to me
Isometric projection
Isothermal lines falls to one's lot jit

Issue a certificate, to ^" fared ill with him :

a decree, to follows as a matter of course '

,, a license, to
a proclamation, to j
follows inevitably
" a warrant, to ......

, from, to ...... grieves me to relate

" notes from a bank, to has amused me greatly

" of a book, the has at all times been a just re-

" of blood from a wound, the proach
has been a relief to talk to you
,, orders, to S
provisions, to has been a verj great pleasure
 ) B

h ( m
for me …… ......

It has been an immense privilege is a most extraordinary thing

to see you

" has been generally assumed

is a
^most pertinent question

,, has been justly objected

„ has never occurred to

......

me
ifc
is

is
^
a most unfortunate affair

a peculiar pleasure to me jHj

® a perfectly plain proposition

" has struck me very forcibly
a pity ;
"

"

„
is

is

is
a
a circumstance
augury
common

a curious fact
Jlfc

orror
of

#happy a popular idea

a question

a rare privilege
it ;
^ jHj

,, is a fact well known

a rather melancholy thought
,, is a falsehood to say
-.… a recognized principle lit

" is a good augury of success jit

a regular do ^:
,, is a great pleasure to me a remarkable and striking fact

,, is a huge undertaking " is a strange fact

a sure sign
,, is a living truth a theme too familiar
" is a matter of absorbing interest
a thing commonly said
,, is a matter of amusement jlfc

a true saying
, is a matter of fact a truth universally acknow-
,, is a matter of just pride ledged
it /d
is a very significant fact
'
,, is a melancholy story
a vision which still inspires
„ is a memory I cherish us

,,

„
is
is
a mercy that
a mischievous notion
; a

is all
wholesome symptom

one to one
all o\et or up with him
mm
 ^ H& jiI S

It ( 280 ) It

It is, all things considered, a fact s entirely clear to me

" is all very fine to think s foryou to decide
s frequently the case that
" is all very inexcusable s Greek or Hebrew to me

,, is all very well to say s not my intention to enter into

, is almost proverbial ......

,,

,,

,,
is
is
is
also possible
also probably true
an easy matter
s

3
not my
.purpose to discuss
.....

not necessarily true

, is an egregious mistake s not necessary for me to sketch

,, is an established rule s not out of place to remind you

„ is an incredible thing

,, is an interesting fact it . s
s not possible to recount

not the hood that makes the

,, is an unforgivable offense monk
s not to be thought or believed
„ is an unquestionable truth
3 not too much to say
, is appropriate that we should [
is

is
celebrate
asserted
assumed as an
; axiom
s

3
not unknown to you
not withiu the scope of this
address

,, is blowing a gale is nothing for me If

nought me

^ to
but too true is
„ is
,, is by no means my design 3
is now high time for me

, is comparatively easy is dow perfectly plain

is objectively so Jit
,, is cnrious to observe is obvious
, is decreed is of course difficult
,, is difficult to avoid saying M
is of great importance to show
, is diiiicalt to describe ......

, is cliflicult to put a limit i is of very little importance Ub

^
,
,,
is

is
difficult to surmise
easy to instance cases
i
is
is
often remarked
ou ihese grounds ?
, is easy to uuderstand . is one ot the burning questions
'

ft ( m ) it

It is
of the day

one of the most significant

is the doctrine of &
things life is the old story of a power upon
is onl v a few short years since its last legs
$
is our duty to examine is the universal testimony it
If
' is ours to bear witness is to be expected
is to be remembered IE
is owing to this truth is told traditionally

is peculiarly befitting at this is too plain to be argued 1$

time jlfc

is pitiable to reflect , is unnecessary for me to remind

is rather a pleasant coincidence you
^ is very far from being a fiction
is rather an arduous task itoJh
IS il is within the memory of men

"
is
is
is
;
rather startling
related
ridiculous to say is
now
B
living

worth while to notice

is said
is said, and I think said truly A likes me ill ifc

in matters much or little R

is said to be impossible
, may appear absurd at first sight
is satisfactory to notice
*
may at first sight seem straiige
is scarcely necessary to insist
may be
is scarcely questioned may be had for asking
is seldom the case that %
is sometimes hard to determine

—
is still

is still
an open question

more surprising
rosy indeed be uiih void &bl6

may
M
not bo altogether certain
6k

may or may not be true

is subjectively so jlfc
is substantially true may, perhaps, seem wonderful
me
is

is
.
surely necessary for

the clear duty of jtfa

j

^
may seem a strange
•
 )

It
( m
It must be born in mind ^ Ti kB , will go hard

, must be confessed that ; " will go hard but I shall or will

,,

,t
must create astonish ment

must never be forgotten

jit
" wijl not
snm up

would appear or seem

take
^
many words to

Italian Froebel, the

needs scarcely be said Antonis Rosmini-Serbati
" Moliere, the
" never rains but pours Carlo Goldoni (.Tean
only remains now to speak Baptiste Moliere

proves a great deal

......

ilb ,,
Pindar, the
Gabriel Chiabrera ( 1
^
Pindar
" remains only to speak briefly Thebes
...... warehouseman ;'
remains that I should say a few
words Itch for gold, an
, reminds me of an anecdote jlfc ,, for novelty, an
Itching palm, an
" repents me of Itinerant actor, an
seems almost incredible jrfj Itinerary notes IB ^!
It's a gone goose with any one
,, seems to me idle to ask
" an ill wind that blows nobody
,,serves you right jlfc
good
, shall go hard but

„ shames me
go hard if I
I will; it
do not
shall ,
,,
all
is
Ivan Ivanovitch
the same
done ;
,, should always be borne hi mind Ivory, black

, signifies much or little

Ixion
,,
gate, the
-turner
(
; ^
Thessaly
"

,,
still

strikes
remains

me
to be

with wonder
observed
Ixion's wheel ;
, takes a long spoon to sup with
J
"
him
will be seen at a glance Jack, a ; (
, will carry out
fully
my meaning more
"
Adams,
-a.l>andj
a
;
 )

Jack ( m hntii

Jack -a-dreams ,, of the clock-bouse

,, -a-drognes W
" -a-Lent „ out of office
pudding, a
•

" among the maids, a " -sauce

,, and Gill (Jill) ,, -snip
,, sprat
• ass a , straw
\',
at a' pinch ffi
,, tar, a
,, with a lantern %'hM'h
,,

,,
-boots
-boy, a ; Jackanapes, a
Jacobin, a
;
,, Brag Jacobite, a James II
,, by the hedge

, cousin Cornwall
Jacob's ladder
, staff
(:;
,,

, Drum's entertain ment „ Stone

, every man ; Jacquard loom, a

Jacquerie, la

(®
,

,. Fletcher and his bolt, as like

as +11
Jacques Bonhomme
, Frost ( Jactitation of marriage
Jade, the
,, -gentlewoman, a
" the mind, to
,, -hold-my-ataff Jaded horse, a
,, in a box Jaeger

,, in offica, a
Jail bird, a
, -delivery
:
G. Jaeger

,, -fever
,, in the green Jam a finger, to
a street, to
in the low cellar, a , in a theatre, a
"

" -in-the- water

Jammed on the wind (
,,

,
,,
ketch
-meddler, a
-o' -Lantern
;
^.
Jamie Duff

Jamrach, a
— Jamie Duff

Johann
, of all trades * Christian Carl Jamrach
,, of both sides, a
Janus ( ^:
of the bowl
-
— Ja u n ary
 *

J anus ( m )

Janus-faced Jerk a person with the ellow, to &.

-headed
Jar on the ears, to
Jaquemart, a Jeroboam, a
a stone, to ;
Jaquemart
Q
of Dijon )
Jean Jerry-builder, a

Jarkman, a
Jarndyce suit, a
Jaundiced eye, a 13
I
"

Jerrysneak, a
-shop
a ^ (Tom and Jerry shop), '

Jaunting-car I Jerusalem (Jew's) letters j|

Jaws of death
Jay, a
" Hawker
; State, the
"
Jesse, to give a person
pony; jerusalem, a

Kansas Jest at a person, to

Jealous mind, a
,, ;
of
Jesting-stock, a
jesuit's bark
"
(;
of one's honor , drops

(;; (
Jeames , nuts
Jedburgh justice Jet out, to
Jet d'eau
Jeddart justice Jim de main, jeu de vilain )

Jed wood justice

Jeer at, to
Jeffries, as
;
bad as
, de mots
d, esprit
(
((. )

Jehoiada box, a Jeunesse doree )

^^
Jehu, a Jewish Plato, the Philo
Jejune employment Judseus
, story " Socrates, the
Hyde Moses Mendelssohn

^^
Jekyll and
Jew's ears
Jellyby, a Mrs, ,, eye, to be worth a
,,
-frankincense
Jeramie Duff (M Jamie ,, -harp
Duff letters
Eucalyptus

—
Jemmy jessamy (jessamine) i „ tree

Jenneting
Jenny, a
; I

' Jezebel, a
„ a painted,
i!!:

; ^
H Palestine

agS a Jill, a Juliana

'
I .
l'davriete
Jeremiad, a f
Jeremy Diddler, a
Jermiab, a
^
t'iiT
\

'
Jim Crow, u
-flirt,

, Crow car, a
a

^ f
 C -

285 Join
Jim

^—
( )

Jim Dandy, a ;
Jimson weed

Jingo g
Jamestown ,,

„
—
Roberts, a

Sir
Tamson's mau
"
,,
, by
Jis, by Thomas, a
Job a carriage, to ,, Thomson's man
,, -master, a
; ;;
;©
,, out, to Ulti Trot
„ -printer Johnny, a
Job's comforter , Crapaud

„ news ,, ;
Darby, a
„

,,
post
pound
tears
; „
,, raw, a;;
newcome, a

Joe, a
„ Manton
Joseph Manton
Join a club, to
,, a party, to
,, battle, to
;
Miller, a „ end to end, to
^;
Jog along, to
, the elbow, to ; for bad purpose, to

,,

,,

„
the memory, to
to the memory,
-trot man
a
fE „
,
"
forces, to
hands, to
hands with,
;
to'
S;

John-a-dreains ideas, to
-a-napes, a ^fe „ in battle, to

,,

,,
-a-No(a)kes, a
-a-nods
Barleycorn
^; ±A
,,

,,

"
in partnership, to
in the chorus, to
in the management of an
,, Blunt
Bull
;( ,,
affair, to
issue, to ;;
,,

,,

,,
Cheese
Company
dory, a —; ;
,,

"
,,
issue with, to
the church, to
the
;
colors, to
,, Drawlatch the enemy, to
, the greater number, to
" Drum's entertainment " the majority, to
, with the yicious, to
,, -hold-my- staff
in the wad, a A;
o'Groats to Land's End, from
^ " together in a league, to ; .
 A

Joinder ( 286 )

Joinder in action
in demurrer ( ^
()
lloger, the
"
, in issue ( ,,

, song, a
Joint account

„
adventure
and several
; ,,

Jonathan and David

time, a
; Ij

" and several note (bond) , brother

commission
,, Wild ^;
,

^ Jonathan's arrows
clai'Tis if

„ Commission Joseph, a
, Surface,
;
„
,
Committee
concern
R Jot down, to
Jour de fete
H;
(
(
„
,,
bonds
debtors
heir
,,

,,
de lan
gras
maigre
((
insurance Journal cash book (^)
,,

,
„
labor
meeting
" day book
Journalizing of closing
( ifeg

accounts
" obligation () EA
, resolution Journey about, to
" select committee „ across the continent

" speculation " among savages, a

" standing committee

„
"
standing rules
stock bank
, „

,,
by land, a
by water, a
for health, a
" stock company
" stock company limited " into Asia, a S£
,
, to a foreign country, to
, tenancy
, undertaking
Jointing plane
,,

Journeyman
-work ;;
carpenter, a 31
,, rule
Joie de vivre
Joking apart
( )

Jove (
"
)
tailor, a

Jolly as a sandboy, as Jove's bird (houud) ^

"
,,
-boat, a
face, a ;:^ servant in ordinary
Joyeuse science, the
"
"
god, the
nuisance or bore, a
Bacchus
( Joyous heart, a
" news ;
 B

JuJas ( 287 ) Jury

Judas, a ;;
-colored hair
,,

,,
at, to
down, to
;;;
" kiss, a ,, from object to object, to

"
Judge a criminal,
"
slits (holes)

-advocate ; to
„ from the frying-pan into the
fire, to ;
"
Judgment by
crimes, to
(
default
"
,,
land, to
on one, to () ;
" "day ; one's bail, to
"

"
-debt

of God
,,

,,
out, to
over, to
;;
„ of the world, the ,, over the broomstick (two

" -seat
Judicative power
;;; ,,

,
sticks)
-seat
the besom, to
,, through, to
Judicial confession " to a conclusion, to
" mind, a ; one's
" murder ,, to
up or upon ;
feet, to

;
(( ,(
" power ,, with, to ()
Juge de paix )
Junction of heaven and earth
Jug-bitten
Juggernaut of the armies S»
,,

station—

"
Juggins, a
^; of fashion
, Tuggins Juno
„
Junior clerk, a

Junker, a
officer,

(
a

Saturn Ops
Jupiter
Julian calendar Julius

,,
C^sar B
epoch or era Jupiter (
Juno's (Junonian) bird
Saturn Ops

•Jumbo, a Scapiou
"
Jump a claim, to Jupiter's bird
,, a horse over a creek, to ,, fools
Juristic action
" a wall, t'''

a bo vi t for joy, to
Jury, of inquest
^ Iff
Jos ( 288 ) Keep

Jus civile
(
("P Jut out, to ; ftffl
" divinum
,,

,,
gentium
gladii
(
(( )
jji Juteopolis

Juvenile literature
Duiulee

proprietatis , sports
Jusqu'au boutiste, a
K
Just about
" above the norizo.n

,, alike ; Kaiser Klas

Kalerfelto, a
^;; —
Kail thro' the reek, to give a person
the

;; ( ;;
,, as Kedar's tents, in
" as it is
Keel over, to )

,, barely Keen air

,, cause, a
,, as a hawk, as
,, claim, a
" appetite, a
,, conceptions

;
cold
;
;;
,, distance, the delight
„
, enough ,, edge, a
impression

^
„ ,, eyes
,,

,, in time
; ;
in dealing ,,

,,
hunger
of a job
,
,,
like
now ;; ,,

,,
of mind
of sight H

„
price
so ; ; "
Keenness
sarcasm
of desire ; ®
, then ;
the thing
Keep a
of
fast, to
understanding

to say
to the ;
word
, a festival, to
a garden, to |I

Juste milieu
weight
)
Justice of the peace
( ^ ,,

„
a good heart, to
a good house, to

Justifiable homicide ,, a great retinue, to

Justification by faith
, a horse, to
,, of a man's conduct " a jealous eye on, to
,, a law, to
Justify a deed, to " a loose rein, to
, oneself, to a meeting, to Hi'lt^ lB|H
Justinian, a Justinian , a promise, to
a register, to ^iffl-
-
^ '

,,
the English Ed- a, school, to

ward I " a secret, to

 |l

Keep

Keep a sharp lookout, to „ counsel, to

;;
;shop, " cut with, to
(
"
,.
a
a stiff
;
to
upper lip to ; "
"
dark, to
down,
down the
to
price, to

, a strict watch, to , down the rebellion, to

" a terra at the university, to , early hours, to |R
fair with the world, to

,, a thing in miud, to E
,, a tight rein, to „ faith, to

;;
a town blockaded, to " firm, to i^;
,,

;;
„'
A VOW, tO
abreast of, to ; ,,

"
from, to
going, to

ado, to
aloof, to
;;; ,
"
"
good, to
good hours, to
goods in stock, to

^;;;;;
an army on foot, to , hold of, to
, an account with, to „ house, to
" in, to

;
I

,, an eye to or upon, to „ in check, to

;&^
j

apart, to in countenance
„ at a respectful distance in hand, to
;arm's length,
, at to ; "
,
in memory, to
in mind, to
,, at bay, to
at it, to ;
;
"
,
in one's grief, to
in one's anger, to
,
,,
away, to
away from,
; ; to •
,
,
in prison, to
in restraint, to ;
„ back, to in sight, to
in subjection, to ;
,
bad company, to
bad hours, to
boarding students
;! in
mm
the backgroand, to

,,

" body and soul together,

li

to
"
„
in view, to
in with, to )
"
"
books, to IE
Bayard in the stable, to
,
"
money, to
off,
off
to ;
the enemy, to ;
clear of, to ;. off the wind and rain, to

"
close, to
company with, to ; "
,
on, to
on
;;
foot, to
 _ J

Keep ( 290 ) Keep

Keep one advised oneself afloat, to

" one a living soul, to oneself cleanly, to ;i
oneself to oneself to *
, one at a distance, to

„ one at his duty, to

open account, to (£
"
"
one at work, to
one company, to
opeu house,
out, to ;
out of reach, to
to

;
" one in ignorance, to
out of the way, to
" one in suspense, to out the cold, to
,. one in the dark as to a pace with, to E^g;
thing, to
„ one within one's compass, to

one's balance, to
;^
possession of, to
quarter, to
quiet, to
M saying, to
one's bed, to
„
„

"
one's birthday, to
B
one's counsel, to
silence, to
shady, to
step, to
; feS

terms with, to ^
,,

„
;
one's countenance, to

one's eyes, to
the ball up or rolling, to

the breath to cool

one's eyes down, to one's
porridge, to
„ one's eyes open, to
one's footing or ground, to the commandments, to

;; ;
,,

" one's hand in, to the field, to

,, one's head, to the gauge of, to t
,,

;
one's head above water, to
the house, to

u
,,
one's legs, to
one's nose to
stone, to
the grind-
the New Year, to
the peace, to
the not boiling, to
; ^^
one's powder dry, to *
the room, io 6\
, one's state, to
the stage, to mmM
the tail in the water, to
„ one's temper, to
one's weather eye open, to
; the weather, to
one's word, to m
 S

( 291 ) Kilf

Keep the wolf from the door> to B$ „ of Russia, the Smolensk

,, of Spain, the Ciudad
time, to
to, to
to one's
;own business, to
,,

"
Rodrigo
of the Gulf, the
of the Mediterranean, the

^
Gibraltar
to oneself, to Keynote of a speech, the IS:

to ths house, to ft
Keystone State, the Penn-
touch, to sylvania
true, to
under, to ; Kick against,
,,
to
against the pricks, to

up, to ;;
under control, to

up correspondence, to
IS "
"
downstairs, to
down the ladder, to
W
up courage, to
up one's credit,
up one's spirits,
;;
to
to ^ ,,

,
one out, to
over the traces, to 518
up with^ to
wake, to
;
,,

„
the beam, to
the bucket, to (
watch, to
watch and ward, to
,,

"
the heels, to
up a dust, to
up a row, to
;
within doors, to ,, up a spindy, to
within bounds, to i , up the heels, to
Kicked upstairs, to be
Keeper. of the Great Seal
" of the national archives Kidd, Captain
Kidderminster poetry
Keepsake given at death Kill a chapter in a book, to

" given at parting

Kemp; kempery man, a ; „

,,

,,
by inches, to
off, to
one's man, to
:
Kental green , one's mandarin, to
Kennedy, a „ one's name, to
Kettle of fish, a ^; " one's rage, to

( ;;^
Key cold oneself, to

„ of a position the fattest calf, to

" of Christendom, the

Bud a " the goose that laid the golden
of India, the Herat eggs, to

m time, to
 4 £

Kill ( 202 ) Kiss

Kill two birds with one stone, to— of shadows, the

Oberon
„ with intent, to " of shreds and patches, a
Kilmarnock cowls
Kind deeds
,,

,,
feelings
heart, a
;
;
"
"
of Spain's
of terrors,
trumpeter, the
the
of the forest, the
:
@

,,

,,
of
office
(;
nurse of man
) ,
. of tho jungle, the
of the sea, the
herring
,, reception, a ,, of the world, the
" to strangers, t) be
Kindheart, a of waters, the Amazon
Kindle anger, to
,, love, to ,, of wisdom, the
" the passions, to - Omar Khayyam
Kinetic energy Petaud
King
,,
at
cotton
arms
"
Kingdom come
„ of God, the
(
Log and King Stork " of heaven, the

mob
King's English, the
^
,,

,
never
( Bark,
of
dies,

the
Christopher III
^ ^ the
evidence

,, evil

eyes, the
( ^
"

"
of beasts, the
of birds, the
highway, the
Kings, the game of
friends
.
,, of fresh-water fish, the " the sport of

,, of kings, the
Salmon
;; Agamem-
Kings wood lions
Kiss and be friends, to
,, away, to
non; Artaxexes ,, hands, to
men, the

^
of Jupitsi;
Mycenae Agamemnon ,, of peace
" of metals, the ,, the book, to
„ of painters, the .
Parrahasioa the cup, to
,,

" of preachers, the the dust, to

,,

,
Jesuit
daloue
of roads, the
l.ouis Bour- ,,

,,
the ground, to
the hand, to
rA^|Htb^;post. to
"
John LouUon Macatlam ihy rod ; to It ft!
 ( 293 ) Knock

Kissing comfits " of the green cloth, a

Kit-cat size " of the handcuff, a
Kitchen fee " of the knife, a
-garden „ of the needle, a IS
" love " of the pen, a IE:

Kite-flying
(^ )'
-physic „
,,

,
of the pencil, a

of
of the pestle, a
the post, a
Kith and kin of the quill, a
Kittle cargo, a
cattle to
(
shoe
"
" of the
of
rainbow, a
the road, a
Knave in grain " of the shears, a
of hearts, a " of the shire, a
Knee to , to bow (bend) the
JK „ of the spigot, a
to , to give (offer) the of the stick, a
" of the tar-brush, a
^
^
" tribute , of the thimble, a
Kneel before God, to " of the vapor, a
down, to of the wheel, a
Knickerbocker City, the of the whip, a
New York " of the yardstick, a ()
'

Knicker bockera

;
Knife at the throat
a
of
AJ^f
, to hold
Knipper-doling, a
Knit friendship, to
, bands, to
;*
Knight of industry, a " stockings, to
"
,,
of St. Crispin, a
of St. Nicholas, a
the blade, a
of
" the brows, to
up, to
Knitting needle
;
" of the brush, a Knock a ball with a bat, to
" of the cleaver, a
" of the cloak, the lp Sir " a lamp off t-lie table, to ^
„
Walter Raleigh
of the collar, a
of the cue, a
"
"
about, to
asunder, to
;#
" of the dice-box, a " at one's breast, to
„ of the elbow, a " at the door, to

„ of the field, a
,,

,
away, to
down, to ;;
„ the forked order (order
of
of the fork), a ; "

"
down for a song, to

-down argument, to

n of the grammar, a
 T

knock ( 294 ) Labor

Knock
"
in, to
in the head, to ; ,,
buttered, to
one's distance, to
one's own mind, to
;
" into a cocked- hat, to ,, right from wrong, to

,, off, to ; ;; „ the ropes, to

;
, on the head, to ,,

;
what o'clock, to

„
,,
open, to
out, to ;
,,

;
what one is about, to

„ out one's brains, to

spots out of, to ( )
,, what
;
to make of, not to

;
,,
the bottom out of, to

the head against the wall, "

,,

;
what's what, to

wher.i the shoe pinches, to

to
to pieces, to
;[ where to, to

;;;
,, together, to Knowing man, a
under, to wink, a
,,

Knotty
up, to
affair,
point, a
a

^;
Knowledge
,,
of
of
ife
the sea
a
^
,
Know a
timber
hawk from
(hernshaw), to
a handsaw
Knuckle down,

"
,,

under,
to, to ;;;
to

to
Kohinoor
a thing or two, to Krupp gun
an author, to Ku Klus Klan K
better, to H
by or from experience, to

chalk from cheese, to

;
for certain, to Label a book, to
how, to M ,, articles of merchandise, to
how many beans go to make
five, to Labor by day
no bounds, to „ by the job
nothing of Diss, to for the public good, to

in
: ifii

mind, to
of, to "
of or about a matter, to ,, in the fields, to
" in vain, to
on which side one's bread is ,, of di culty, a ^|
 * ** ,

Labor ( 205 ) L'amour

l abor of love ( Laetare Sunday

,,

,,
under, to ;
under a mistake, to
Lag behind, to
Laid by the heels
„ with child, to " in ashes
„ with difficulties, to ^; " on one's back, to be
,, on the shelf
,, with mighty projects, to Vk
,, ;;
paper
Laboring
„
classes, the
days
hours
„

,,
^ ;
up, to be

waste
,,

,, men Lais, a ( Lais

oar ,,

Laborious task or work Laissez-faire (

Labyrinth, a
Lace another's jacket, to
; fift
Lake State, the

Huron,
g
Erie, Superior
Michigan
Michigan,
St.
Lacerate the heart, to Clair
Lacerated wound, a ,,the Great
Lachrymse Christi A Lamb God, the of
. Lambent flame, a
Lack knowledge, to Lame account, a

;^
,, -Latin, a ,, as St. Giles Gripplegate

;; " comparison, a

,
,
,,

,,

Laconic answer, a
expression
of
of food
of wisdom ^ ^
,,

„
„
„
duck

endeavor, a
excuse, a
of leg
i
Lad o wax, a ,, post, to come by the
Ladder behind one's back, to kick „ verses
down Lament the loss of a friend, to
" after oneself, to draw up
Lamentable tone, a
Lady
"
of Babylon, ths
of easy virtue, a ;^ Lamina of gold, a
Lammas, at latter
,,

"
"
of Kingdoms, the
of pleasure, a
of the broom, a
, "
"
day
lands

" of the frying-pan, sx Lamiiiermoor lion, a

,,

"
Lsesa majestas
of the lake, a
of Rome, the
( cacher (
JJ amour et la fumee ne peuvent
)
se
 g *

amouretfe ( 296 ) Large

Lamourette
Lamp-iron
" of
;
kiss

heaven, the
"
"
"
place or pier
process
report
Ji

" of Phoebus, the " surveyors or waiters

)
„
Land
-post ;
flowing with milk and
Landscape gardening
Lane without a thoroughfare, a
honey, a
"
,,
o cakes, the
o the Leal, the ( ) Language master
" of the fish market

„ of Beulah, the Languid day, a

" of bondage, the limbs
,, of Cockaigne, the Languishing lover, a
„ of inverted order, the Lank purse, a
" of myrrh, the , with fasting
Azab Saba Lantern face, a
,, of nod, the jaws
„
, of promise,
(Palestine); ;
the "
Laocoon (
of the night, the
Priam Hecuba
" of roasted pigs, the
of shadows, the ; Apollo
Troy

"
of stars and stripes, the

of steady habits, the

Laomedon (
Hesione
Troy
Here ules
Connecticut Hercules
" of the golden fleece, the Hercules ^

„
of the living, the
of the midnight sun, the
Laodicean
Lapses ling tix
Lapse in conduct, a
( )

of the nymphs, the ,, in fulness, to

" of the two-legged mare, the
into burlesque
on one's feet, to ,, into barbarity, to
,, troops, to * „ of ages, the
Landed in the mud, to be „ of memory
of the pen
„
„
property
terms
Landing certificate
, „
„
,
of the
of
tongue
time
to the king, to
" charges Lapsed legacy
,, order
permit
Lares and Penates
Large as life ;
 B S

Larrikin Laugl

Larrikin, a in the day

Lascivious thoughts „ in the night
Lash a person with the tongue, to „ in the year
, news
" at vice, to - " period of life, a
into fury, to revels
„
„
out, to
the waves, to ; , ripe
Latent crime
„ heat
Last account has been account ,, period (SOM
.
Lateral branches ^
" argument of kings, the " curvature of the body %
, cast
day, the „motion
„ days, the „view
„ -ditcher, a Lathe painted to look like iron
"
finish ;
extremity, the
Cecil
Robert

;
"
;
for ever, to Latin Church

, — ,,
„ gasp cross
" honors " Union
infirmity of the noble mind, ,
"

,,
the
man, the.
Charles I
f ^ Latona's son
Latter age, the

,
, days ;;i
day saints
Apollo)

(Mor-
,,
minstrel of the English stage, mons)

„
„
the
resort
sleep
^;
;
James Shirley „
Laud
end
to the slry (skies), to
Laudable deeds
„ straw, the

stroke
Laugh and grow

"
, at, to ;
at a feather, to
fat JIB

„ things, the four (1) 2) „ at one's bsard, to

„ touch
Lasting happiness
3)
; 4)
"
„
at the idea of, to
at the thought of, to

,,
peace
material ; ,,
,,
away, to
down, to
in one's face, to

;;^
Late and early ,, in one's sleeve, to
author, a #
„
,
events
hour of the day
,, off, to
…
 i

'3U ( 298 ) Lay

Laugh on the wrong

,,
face, to
one out
;
of, to
side of one's Lax government
l a
"
; a cable, to
a charge against, to
;
"

,,
;oneself into convulsions, to

oneself into fits, to ;

"
"
a crime to one, to
a dawk, to

" a duty on wine, to

" oneself red in the face, to ,, a foundation, to •

; " % flattering unction to the

^
,, out, to soul, to
,, out of the other corner of ,, a gun, to
the mouth, to „ a mine, to
„ out of the wrong side of the ,, a plan before one, to
mouth, to
, to scorn, to ,, a plot
Laughing matter, no ,, a report before a meeting, to
,,
philosopher, the
Democritus of Abdera a tax on imports, to
„ -stock a thing to heart, to f
Launch a new enterprise, to a thousand dollars, to

a youth in his profession, a wager, to ^

,,

,,
to
forth, to
into, to
;; a wall, to
aboard, to
about, to ;^
;
,
"
„
into eternity, to
out, to
out against, to
about one,
aft, to
along, to
(;.to

Laurence bids wages

Laverna
Lavish gifts
( ) an ambusn, to
an anchor to the windward, to
,, of one's means
„ one's money, to an evil spirit, to

„
,
upon, to
vegetation
apart, to
aside, to ;
^;
;
Law-abiding people
of arms, the
of , to
;
have the (
aside doubts, to
aside resentment, to

of nations
of the
of the
land
Medes and Persians
aside study, to
asleep, to
at, to
;
at one's door, to
Lawful claims
Laws of hojior
-…"
away, to ;
 £

Lay ( 299 ) Lay

r,ay bare, to
before, to
;; on oneself, to
on the shelf, to
bricks, to
by, to
by arms, to
;^ 5 on the table, to
on with a trowel, to
one's fault on others, to
by the heels, to
by the lee, to
claim, to
commands, to
one's fears, to
one's finger on, to
one's hand on (upon), to
;
damages, to one's head on the block, to
-day
down,
down arms, to
()
to ; ;;; one's heart open, to
oneself down, to
down one's life for another, to oneself open to, to

down the
eggs, to
law, to ; -…"

;
oneself out, to
open, to
eyes on, to out, to
figure
for, to ( ;; over, to ;;
hands on,
heads together, to
hold of, to
to

;;
paint, to
past, to
salt on the
; tail of, to
hold on, to
in, to ;
in a store (stock), to
seige to, to
stresson upon, to
the ax at the root of, to

(;; (
in ashes, to
in balance, to
in for, to
the course, to ^
in lavender, to
in one's dish, to
injunctions on one, to 1©
the dust, to
the first stone, to ;
into, to
it ;
on, to
it on thick, to |@
the foundation of, to
the hand on the heart, to

;;
one's account with, on, or for,
to
low, to
the land, to

the storm, to , i»

off,

;)
; ;)
of the land
to
the table, to
to, to ;;;
;;;
to one's charge, to
on, to
on
ou ;
color, to
load, to together, to
;
to the heart, to ffi
 B

Lay ( 300 ) Lean

Lay under, to
, under hatches, to
;^ by the nose, to ;
under military contribution, to by the sleeve, to

, under obligation, to
captive, to
in or into, to ;
"
"
„
up, to ;
under restraint, to

up against a rainy day, to ;

prayer, to
the path of education, to

" off, to
„ violent hands on, to , off water through ditches, to

;;;
wait for, to " one a dance, to
" waste, to
Layer out
up
,,

"
out, to ;
out of danger, to
Lazar-house ,. the army into battle, to
Lazaroni Naples
Lazarus and Dives , the life of a dog, to
Lazy as David Laurence's dog, as

,, as Ludlams* dog, as
"
"
"
the officers, to
the way, to
to a result, to
;
-back chair, a ,, to ruin, to
,, bed , up to, to
„ bones up to a conclusion, to
stream, a
n tongs
weight
( Leading articles
idea, a
fft

"
Lead a cat-and-dog
;happy
life, to
,,

"
„
man, a
question, a
^ ^
" a life, to
,,

,,

„
a horse, to
a person a life, to
a person into error, to
strings
strings, to be in ;
League together, to
„ a person wrong, to with , to be in

„ a pretty dance, to Leakout, to ;

,,

"
an army, to
an easy life,
;^
to ffii
Leaky house, a
,,

,,
ship, a
woman, a
[^
;
an insurrection, to Lean against, to .
^
„ - astray, to as a rake, as
,, away, to „ on a railing, to
,, by^he hand, to „ purse, a i
 J

( 301 ) Lecture

Lean soil ,, foot prints on tbe sands of

" the head against the wall, to time, to
,, him to sink or swim
,, customs, to
to old
Leap a horse across a ditch, to @ in the dark, to
„ in the lurch, to
,, a wall, to
,, about, to
for joy, to ; ,,

,,
me alone to do it
much to be desired, to

; :^
,, in the dark, a
i
,, into water, to no stone unturned, to
,, over, to
„

„
over a wall, to
the pale, to
upon a rock, to
; ji
,, no trace of, to
nothing to be desired, to

„ -year K „ of absence
Learn by hear-say, to ,, off, to ;
,, by heart, to ,, off drinking, to
" by experience, to „ offsmoking, to
,, one alone for, to ()
,, by imitation, to ; one the bag to hold, to
,, by rote, to
,, from a book, to ,, one to oneself, to
„ the luxury of doing good, to one's cards, to

,, to glow, to ; ,,

„
out, to
out a word, to
(
Learned Blacksmith, the

„
Elihu Burritt
fool in Christendom, the
,,

,,
; ; ;
oat in the cold,

school, to
to

most James I " the beaten track, to

„ Painter, the Charles
Lebrun " the choice to one, to
,, profession
,,

35. ^
Tailor, the
Henry Wild
,,

,,

,
the world, to
to one's option,
;
the public service, to

to 31
Leather and pruuellar ;
Leave a bad name, to
a door ajar, to
a good name, to
;^' „
„
"
to posterity, to
town, to
well alone
a thing undone, to i Leaves without figs
alone, to Lecture on morals, to
behind, to , on the laws of nature, to
complaining, to
 i g

Lecture ( 302 ) Lenson

Lecture, to give one a severe

Legislative body
Led captain,
Lee-board
-gage (()
a
() : , power
Legiinate act or course, a

-lurch child, a
-shore
-side
(
()
g
,,

" consequences

-tide
Leek, to eat the
Leet-ale
()
; ,,

,,

"
drama
goods ;
government, a
Left bank of a river, the
„ hand Leipsic, to be one's jft
" hand of friendship, to give Leisure hours or time i
the Lemnian deed, a
-handed compliment !? Lend a hand, to
,, an ear, to
-handed marriage, a assistance, to

,,
(
-handed oath, a
,,

,,

•
at interest, to
color to, to
countenance, to
; iit

,, in the basket, to be ;
money at interest
"
„ in the cold, to be (pJ± ,, one's strength to an enter-
" shoulder, to go over the
side of a deliberative body, ,,
prise, to
oneself to, to ;
,,
the
to oneself, to be ; "
Length and breadth
,
wings

of a
to, to

dynasty, the
;
to shift for oneself, to bo |)
, of a person's foot, to know
,, wing of an army, the the ;
,, of
;
an illness, the

^
Leg it, to , of days
Legacy duty ; ,
of time
Legal adviser Lengthen one's life, to

„ interest one's stay for a few

, proof days, to
,,
representatives Lengthwise and crosswise
„ tender Lenient of grief
,, to other's faults
Legerdemain Hill to PUsen

^
Lenaon Pin, as
much
Legible handwriting
Legion of honor ^ ;
akin, as
 I

303

^
Lent Let

-
( )

Lent, a Zl ner rip, to (11)

Lenten dinner, a
" lover, a ^fff^i^^u ^rm^ ner suae, to 11) A
ijeoiiiiie con tract; a -r* w i^^-=*c^* J
1 ti o 01
i^crnal* ilia &
f\T ins, t%
B
|—
111, lO
m or into, to ,
xjt?sbcn iriencisnip, \o iudo, to fg^Q
" one, 8 reputation, to into tne secret, 10 tSc«ABP^4
it oe done ys^^l
a
" the price, to it be elderly understood, I re-
lesser light, the peat it Z t
Lessian diet J& it be remembered Jlfc

Lessons are apt to go oTer the P

nU
heads of his scholar, one's i* so ft/^3UI
it go, to

ijet
"
aione, to
W
EDy one imagine
WEtsW
1± , ,to himself
iEZSL
^fs
it not ue o DjGCieQ

loose, to
U

"
"
OQl
be
RBStf/ST-tt-
sSl pJ A
, i£t BI -V
me

me
4trt
un —
add another thing
-^r

add my final word

" blood, to
" bygones be bygones, to *' me also say a word in regard
to
n down, to Z

^
down a sail, to me answer these questions
" down

drive, to
easy, to
me
#;
ask you to imagine !
" every one consider me a8k your leave to propose
m
ii
fail, to Dtffl me be allowed to devote a few
ii fall a word, to words mwi^PwL^
" fl y, to jsh; me call attention to another
,, fly an arrow, to fact
,, go, to ^MjMM
" go a bird, to me direct your attention now
" go a prisoner, to _ tjkt ^li- t3 rvfce zs. » -jdH> 4-A.

ffn hv thp run to riS me entreat you to ox^miuo

„ go one's hand, to me give one more instance

,, go of, to
,, Heaven be my witness me give 'one parting word
(^
 ^

Let

^
( 304 ) Let

Let me give you an illustration that question be answered by

……
„ me here make one remark the cat out or out ot the bag,
to
" me here say the grass grow under one's
" me hope that I have said feet, to
enough the matter stand over, to
,, me make use of an illustration
these instances suffice
,, me not be thought offensive
up, to
" me once more urge upon you us approach the subject from
another side
, me rather make the supposi-

,,

,,

"
me
^
tion

me see
say a practical word

me simply declare …
us attempt a survey

us be perfectly just

us bear perpetually in mind

" me tell you
" me tell you an interesting re- us begin at the beginning
minisce uce
^ us briefly review
„ do man congratulate himself

,
"
off, to
off"
im;
fireworks, to
; "^ .
us brush aside once for all

us conform our opinion

" off from punishment, to
us confirm for a moment
„
,,

on, to
one know,
(
off water, to

to us devote ourselves
one's tongue run, to ……
„
"
,
out, to ;;;
oneself loose, to

out a house, to
us discard all prejudice

us do all we can
, out a secret, to ^
,, out horses, to
pass, to
run, to
; *
g
us draw an illustration

us endeavor to understand
" sleeping dogs lie

„
,,

„
slide, to
slip, to
slip
; S;S
an opportunity, to
us enumerate
us figure to ourselves

us for the moment put aside

 Z I S

Let ( 305 ) Letter

s us scrutinize the facts

Let us get a clear understanding

"
"
^ft

us home
1
#
H-
tit]

us hope and believe

Z
DlV -*r tijt

;
-A-
"

„
1

\
is try to

us
form a mental picture

turn to the contemplation

of … ...

" us hope that future genera" „ well enough alone, to

tions
, us imitate „ you know
„ us inquire also ,, your imagination realize H
,, us labor and pray * Lethe ( (1)
2)
„ us likewise remember
e Lethean draft, a
" us look briefly at a few parti- Letterand the spirit, the
culars * 5f
copying book
, us not be misled by letter
DlUlllg jf
" us not be misunderstood ot advice

" us not flatter ourselves

of attorney
" us not for a moment forget of credit
of credence
" us not limit our view
of guarantee
,.. us now see the results
^ of hypothecation ( Iff

"

„
,^
us pass on to another fact

us pause a
4 - XX. -M
moment
of indemnity

of indication
of instruction
" us push the inquiry yet further of marque
of recommendation MM'^
" us rather to
listoii
of renunciation (
...... of safe conduct
remember

^
„ us this
,. us remiud ourselves of the law

,, say ; of Uriah
 *

Letter ( m ) Liberty

Letter opening mechins Samuel Johnson

record () Levitical degrees
" reference number () Levity in actions *
Levy a fine, to
Letters advocatory ,, dutv on landed property, to

, of
of administration

Bellerophon
()
,, troops, to ;
Bellerophon ,, war, to
Proetos Lycia Lewd buffoonery
Bellerophon „ passions
Lex non scripta
,, legitimation ( )# " talionis
Leyden-jar
T) (
(ti

overt () Liabilities account

.

„ patent ( Liable to censure

lettre de cachet
secret
( to punishment
Libel from a lupine, not to know

" de change ( , maliciously, to : §8

%^^Simnce'
„ de jerusalem
'

( <
^;
Liberal allowance

,
arts,the
education, a
Levant, the ,, feelings
I'evel a gun at the foe, to forbearance

;^
„ gift, or present, a J^jfiS

, a mountain, to , government, a
a road, to „ party, the ;
at, to „ praise !^

^;
, best, to do one's , repast, a
brine (sea) „ reward, a
down, to „ science, the eighth

"
head, a
of the sea
; „
sciences, the
treatment f?^F;S^
Liberator of the New World, the HI
-,

premium Ben jam iu Franklin

"
„
,,
tone
up, to ^; Libertine principles
,,

^
life, a tf
i
1

„
with
with the ground Ifl; ^ Liberty, equality, fraternity

Lever de rideau
Lever -watch
Leviaihau of literature, the
( ) IE
,, Hall
man
^
^
 H S

Uterty (
307 tie
)

T .? Hof^TT r\r ^rw\ af*\a\\ no c\t* rPi i ori All S

"
libertv
r\{ i ifFprpnpA
Hpcecii ppi t±l
tb bv to
down
uuw
^;
to
i^yj
'
ffiS-HA
tori "fEBA
IKSiyV
ll*'

bown flat to flSffJf

Dole down prostrate, to

to fish M^k^f^%\\ down on ones back, to
1 .iopnsp <yam hlino^ to >£BMffiE"PS down to, to
,, for sale of goods # fallow, to
RS for the whetstone, to
Licensed victualler II
;
;&
rt hard on or upon, to @S
/pi

Licentious conduct
talk v*|* heavy at one's heart, to
Lick
"
b, person, to
a person s feet, to ; f@ heavy on or upon, to
,
"
,
"
"
into shape, to
one's finger, to
-soittle, a
the dust, to
i@

the fat from one's

;;^ lips, to
=t
heavy on the stomach, to

in
; to

in a nutshell, to
' ^' ^
yv^c b in Cv mhnflh
11 n LIU U \M OXJ • to W ffifffr
JCfg|/^

the snittle of to *M in one to • M,1^

-trencher a

un to Jff^" ffl
it in rmps
in one's
orift

hands, to
to "/l

; SS

vm drv to Jt[f $5^ in odg's power, to

Lie abroad, to ®>S^BB in state, to BB^

in the bed one has made, to

a loii flip sliorp to ( ) id S ffn in the wav. to SUlS

in wait, to iSik
(;
#* *
aronnrl lnnsp to fiS-^ low, to
at an inn tn ^yjS?f tfe^* on op iiDOn. to
on hand to 'teJA
of otip'q door to A ' 99 on onfi'a oars, to •

,,

„
at the heart, to
at the mercy of one
; IB on the head of, to
on the point of death, to
on the surface, to
„ at the root of, to out in length, to
,, awake, to out of the whole cloth, a
„ back, to n^ 'Mn ®
 S S

tie ( 308 ) Lighl

Lie over, to
" to, to ( ; affair, a
as a feather, as
„
„
to one's work, to
under, to
under a necessity, to
; ; as a kex (kyx), as
as air, as
as butterfly, as
,, under obligation, to || as gossamer, as
, under restraint, to ;^ as the wind, as
up, to as thistledown, as

&
,, IS
, upon one's arms, to

,,

„
with, to ;;
with one's father, to
bread
breaks in upon one, a

Life and health cavalry

v annuity character
assurance coin
,, assurance policy -dues
,, below stairs duties

,,

,,
, in death
insurance
of an execution ( error ;^
entertainment, a

fashions and gaudy shows %

,, of hand to month -fingered gentry
-fingered pianist
;;
^
Life's meridian
" morning march ground of a picture
Lift an anxiety from one, to in hand
-infantry
„
,
,
off, to
one's hair, to
up one's dress, to
( knowledge
literature
meal, a ;
,, up the eyes, to o'love
,, up the face, to
: ; of belief
of heel

^
up the feet, to ti
up the hand, to i of the
life,
„

„ up the nead, to ;; of nature, the

of one's eyes, the H

,, up the heel against,

up the horn, to $?
"
to of reason, the
of spirits
of the
;
countenance
np the voiv.e, to
Lifted up in spirit, to be
,, with pride, to be
;;
i
of
of the heavens, the
of the word, the i*
Light a fire, to Jikk'Mh ou notions, to JgJL
 :

Light ( 309 ) Limited

Light purse ;(; ;

" draws to like

"
"
,, out, to
railway
sleeper, a
ifii
,,

,,

„
for like
mad
master like ruan
;
„
"
„
soil,
silk.
touch, a
a
; „
„
old boots
one possessed ill

„ troops ,, smoke
,,

"
up, to
upon, to ; , the cat in the adage

;
,

„
upon one's

went out
feet, to

of one's blue eyes,

tinder
two eggs
unto ;
;
wind
the " winking
Likely enough
;
,,

, work " to happen

,, wound, a
Lighted up ; Likes and dislikes
Liliputian
;
Lighter element, the
Lightning-glance
,, -rod
; Lily-livered
" of the valley
Limb of the law, a (
,, strike, a
Ligurian arts, the
Like a blast from Astolpho's horn

,,

,,
a
a
book
brick
;
;
"
,, of Satan, a
Li in bo of fools
of the fathers

Limbus fatuorum
^^
,,

,,

„
a
a
a
cow's
deer
hen on
;
tail

a hot girdle
, of the moon
Lime-juicer
Limit a working day
; to eight
hours, to
„ a house on fire „ of hours
,, a tansy , oneself, to
„ a thousand cf bricks Limited amount
, a Trojan ^; " company (^
,
„
au auatomy
an owl in an ivy bush
^ „
»
,,
issue method
knowledge
liability
;
()
,,

,,
angels' visits, few
tween
as two beans, as
and far be- „
"
legal tender
means ;
"

m
as two drops of water, as

as two peas, as
" monarchy
number
order ()
;
 3

Limited ( 310 ) LiquiJ

Limited Partnership jiit Linear arch

,,

"
,,
period, a
recognition
train ^( „ perspective (
" views , velocity
Limpid air Lineral descent
,, stream, a Linger at a place, to
Lincolnshire bagpipes ,, in pain, to
Lindabrides „ out one's days, to
Line a coat, to
" a garment with silk, to Lingering disease, a
„ look, a
, a house with pictures, to , poison
Lingua Franca
"
,,
a hymn, to
a purse with money, to
Liusey-woolsy million, the
Lion, a ;
a street with soldiers, to
,,

,,
-hunter, a
in the way, a ;
„ an actor to certain parts, to ,, of Cots wold, a
a „ of the North, the
,, bees, to Gustavus Adolphus
„ of ascent
(; ,, of 'Sweden, the
Johan Von Bauer

"
,
"
of battle
of beauty
of business
of centre of gravity
of conduct
,,
,,

Lion's Heart, the

on the gate
, the British

provider, the
^
Richard
(^
I

„
of
of
cousanguinity
defense ( ; ,, share, the ;
-, of demarkation
;^
(;
of descendants Lions of a place, the
„ of duty, the
the Western World, the
,
"
of tire,
of
the
march, the ( "

Lip homage
of

,,

"
of motion
of operations
of sight %m
( "
,,
-wisdom
work mu,wa
;
,,

.,
one's jacket, to
one's nest, to ft
T
Liquid air
„ assets
measuro
( ill

" with marble, to "

Linenopolis Wffl Bsllaet ,, song
weight ISSfi
 i g

Liquidation ( 311 ) Live

Liquidation business ones

^^
Liquor up, to Paris (1) Brussels,
List of equipment (2) Milan
I of shareholders Parliament, the .

price () Cromwell
,
,
shoes
to port, to
Listen to, to
( „
Pedlington
short of
thought of
;
„ to advice, to " to the purpose
" to an address, to „ Van Martin van
„ with all one's ears, to Buren
,, Venice Arendal
Listless spectator, a
Literal contract
,, explanation
Live a bad life, to

"
a clean life, to
a new life, to
—
" profession ijfe " above one's means, to
„ sensa
" translation " an idle life, to
u truth and let live
Literary character, a „ at heck and manger, to
„ essays
examination „ at rack aud manger, to
property
„
reputation
„ " by one's labor, to
warfare
" " by one's wits, to k
Litmus paper it
Little bird told

"
to
by
me)
little
me ( or whispered ,,

„
,,
coal, a
compass, to
close, to
;
Corporal, the ,, down, to
„ ease „ down slander, to |J

„ Father, the
Giant, the Step« ,, fast, to
hen Armold Douglas , feathers
" go Cambridge „ for, to ……
from hand to mouth, to
" god, the Cupid)
" Mac George Brinton hammer and tongs, to

"
McClellau
Magician, the , in Bermudas, to ;
"
Martin van Buren
Marlborough Kurt
Christoph, Count Schwerin
"

,
in clover, to
in ease, to
in hope, to
!
a Mary ; " in retirement to, iS^;B^St
 U B

Live ( .^12 ) Loan

Live in solitude, to Liver white and pale

„ in the memory, to IE Livid complexion, a
like a fighting-cock, to Living being, a
, creatures
„ man of business, a „ faith, a
, gale
„

,,
Oak

on, to
State, the

B ;
Florida ,
,,
memory
pictures ; IE

on air,

^
,, to ,, soul, a
„

,,
^
on the

on the
fat of the land, to

cross, to ,,
stone or rock
„
wage, a
water

;;
Lloyd's agent
,, out, to
„ single, to „ form of marine insurance
,, stock
the Gospel, to , list

„ to a great age, to ,, Morning Sheet

,, under a cloud, to ,, news
,, under the cat's foot, to ,, policy
" shipping index
„ up to, to Lo and behold
up to one's income, to Load a gun, to
a ship, to
,
"
upon charity, to
upon one's wits, to © coal on a boat, to
-line ()
of guilt, the
;
„ upon one's income, to of life, the 51
one with favors, to flS

,, upon or on a vegetable diet, to

" oneself with stock, to
" unworthy of one's Higher

,,

,
self, to
with, to ;
within one's income, to
Loaded
,,
pistol, a
ship, a
Loaf one's time away, to
^
, sugar
Lively colors S Loan account
„ faith, a ,, agreement, a
hope, a ,, bank
,, iiuage of one'd father, the „ for conversion of exchequer
bond
„ imagination, a ,, for a short time
pace, a „ for consumption
Loan ( 31S )
L

Loan
,,
office
on bottomry
; ,,

;
, stock and barrel

,, on security " the stable door when the

,, society steed (horse) is stolen, to
Loans on collateral security
^
„ up in prison, to

()
„ without collateral security Locksmith's daughter, a

Loath to ;;^ Loci communes

Loco citatato
(-

Loathe food,
Loathsome
to

,;
disease, a
Loco-foco
(
Loavea and
Lobby-number
fishes ^
i Locum-tenens (( ;
(((
Loom classicus )

Loblolly-boy () A ,, criminis
Lobster, a
Local affection — ,,

,,
in quo
penitentix
)

" attraction ( „
Lodge a
(
standi
fear, to
authorities , a person, to
bandits a person over night, to
brogue •

consumption ft an arrow in a tree, to

deity
demand , an information, to
government ^
idiom
manners
press
;
zfc „
,,

,,
arms, to
in the mind, to
money in the bank, to
remittance
time
transaction
Lodging house, a
Lofty character
;
Located in, to be
Lock a woman in one's arms, to
„
,,

,,
ideas
mien or bearing
mountain, a
,
„ hand in hand, to ' " pagoda, a
„
,,

„
hospital
in or up, to
of carriages, a
; „
„
station, a
soul, a
strain
„ one out, to . style, a
„ one in the

-out, a
room, to Log book
, -rolling A ^
 H B I||
|
|

( 314 ) Loo^

Loins, to gird up one's

Loll on a couch, to
,, home
-hundred
;—
^ i\ "
Lolling tongue, a , in time
Lombard, a

,
Street
Street to a China orange I
,,

"
,,
innings
last sleep,
light, the
^;
the ;
g " long

London
,, Street man, a
season, the ,
•
"
"
,,
measure
odds
of yore
smoke pull, a strong pull, and a
„

„
-super-mare
,,

Brighton
white
London's dormitories
^ ,

„
,,
pull altogether, a
purse
roll
;
Lone
,,
isle, a
Star State, the Texas
"
,,

,,
room
-shore man
-sighted
since
^;;
Lonely situation, a
i ; "
„
,, •
view ahead, a
wait, a
way off
Long after virtue, to " winded, to be %^
,,

,,

,,
ago
and short, the
as a law-suit, as
; Longitudinal elasticity
„ section
Longs -and shorts
"
,,
cloth
clothes ^
continued prosperity
Longshanks Edward I

"
„
day, a ;
debate or discussion
Look

,,
a gift- horse in the

a person up, to
mouth, to

"
" dozen

;
established usage
,, about, to mm-M'M
about one, to ;;
"
,,

n
face
figure
firm, a
,
„
above, to
after, to ;; fl

" after one's own interest, toVk

for, to ;
„ Friday ,, after the children, to
,'

,,
for food, to
head, a ffi ;^ A -, after the house, to
 i

Look ( 315 ) Look

Look aghast,
, alive, to
to
; ;
for gape seed, to
,, as if butter would not melt
in one's mouth, to
for trouble, to
forward
forward
to, to
with
;^
hope, to
" as if one came out of band ;
box, to frightened, to
,, askance at, to full in (into) the face of, to

„ at, to ;;; green, to

" at. a play, to
"
,,
at aloof, to
at attentively, to ; jftj
in, to

; ;
in the face, td
"
,,
at angrily, to
at by stealth, to ; into, to
like, to ;
"
,,

"
at coldly, to
at disdainfully, to
at from a distance, to
; love, to

;;;;
nine ways, to
on, to
on anything coldly, to
" at with an evil eye, to ;
on the dark side, to S;
,
"
"
at with
back, to ^
one eye, to

back from the plough, to

on the sunny or bright
to
side,

one out of countenance, to

" back upon, to
before you leap, to one's best, to

,,
between the lines, to

big, to ; out!
out, to
;; ;;
one's wish, to

" big

black, to
upon others, to
over, to ;; !^
out for thieves, to

over books, to 1g
,,

,,

„
black at one, to
blank, to
blue, to
; round, to
sharp, to ;;
sharp after, to
blue upon one, to shy at (on), to
,,

,
daggers, to
down on or upon, to
m
; sour, to
strange, to
:
straight forward, to
down opposition, to

; that
;;
^
through, to
, for, to

„ for needle in a
a bottle through an emerald, to
(bundle) of hay, to
 S 8

Look ( 316 )

Look through colored spectacles, „ lieutenant of Ireland

to
,, through the deed of another, ,, Mayor
to
to, to
to
;
with fixed eye, to
"
"
"
of creation, the
of heaven
of lies, the
" spiritual (
, ; :
„ to your footing " temporal ft)
up, to Lord's anointed, the
, up a thing, to " Day
„ up to, to ,, Prayer, the
„

,,
up

up
to

to
heaven for help, to

with reverence, to
„ Supper, the
Lordly air, a
Lore of the village, the
;
;
you! Lose a battle, to
,,

Loom in the distance, to a fever, to

Loose a horse, to , a friend by death, to
„ a knot, to „ a time to
„ a rope, to „ an appointment, to
" a wound, to " an engagement, to
discourse, a „ an office, to
" earth ,, an opportunity, to
,, fish, a ,, blood, to
,,

,
,,
liver, a
one's bonds, to
one's purse strings, to ,,
caste, to
color, to
confidence, to
;
" consciousness, to ilg;
,, robe, a
" the bowels, to
thoughts
;
,, courage, to
credit, to ;
,, woman,
Loosed from a wife, to be
Loosen one's hands, to
a "
"
faith, to
ground, to ;;
" the ground, to g " heart, to
" the sails, to ,, in hake but gain in herring,
Lop a tree, to to
" -eared ,, money in trade, to J|§
the head, to
Loquacious woman, a ,, no time, to ;
Lord high chancellor of England

,, it over, to ;;
,,

„
^
one's case in a court of law, to

one's countenance, to
M knows why ; ifiA
 ( 817 ) Lore's

Lose one's chance, to ,, sight of, to be

,, one's
„ one's
" one's
footing, to
head, to
labor, to
; ,,
to
to shame
to virtue
;
;
" one's life, to Lot of money
" one's memory, to Loth bury, to go by way of

i ;:
" one's mind, to Lots of people
„

,
one's presence of mind, to

one's reckoning, to ;
Lotus-eater, a
Loud as a hog in a gate, as
as thunder, as
,
" as Tom of Lincoln, as
"

"
one's self-possession, to

one's sight, to
,,

,,
dress, a
woman, a
() ;
one's temper, to Louis d'or
,,

,
one's
one's
time, to
tongue, to ; Lounge about,

Loup the
,,

dike, to
to
on the couch, to

„
,,

,,
one's voice, to
one's way, to
one's wits, to
;
;
Louvre window, a
Love-affair
,, -apple
" patience, to " -cause
, self-control, to ± ,, child, a
,,

„
,,
self-respect,
sight to
of,
the bell, to
:
to "
,,

,,
-favor
in a cottage
knot
,, the day, to ,, -letter
,, the number of one's mess, to " -lies-bleeding
() „ of benevolence

,,
the rose, to
time, to
Losing game, a
;i "
"
of
of
of
complacency
fame
wealth
Loss by trade J|§ ,, others as oneself, to
,, of oppetite " sickness
" of duties ,, with compassion, to
Lost battle, a f§
„ for ever Lovely face, a
in a fog " flowers
,,

,,
in

in
envy
in oblivion
thought
; Lover
„
,,
friends
time
of charity, a *
"
"
in the wood
in wonder
opportunity, a
; i"
,,

Love's springs
,, tale ,;
of his country, a
 B g W^

Loving ( S18 ) Lunisolar

Loving
Low
as a dove, a
business, a St
Church
,,

„
opportunity
shilling
words
;
Countries, the Lucrative post, a
, trade
classes of people, the Luculent proof
, stream
-country
diet, a
Dutch; low
men

German
Lucullous banquet, a
Lucus a non htcendo
Lug in, to
(
Luggage of war, the ^;
dwelling -train ;41
language
Latin
latitude
Luke's bird, as light as
" summer, St. ;
life Lukewarm patriots
pulse Lull into a state of security, to
Sunday

; ;
tide or water
"
Lumber
to sleep, to
State, the Maine

Lower
trick, a
wine ^;
a flag, to
Luminous
,,
body, a
mind, a
,, House, the ,, room, a
,, one's pride, to „ statement, a
the eyes, to
; Lump-sngar

^ ( ;
„ the head, to , sum
" the price, to , together
,, the sail, to Luna Hyperion
Lowly in heart Terra
,,

"
roof
thoughts
Loyal to the country
Lunar calendar
,,

,
;
caustic
cycle
j|

Lubber's hole ,, month

Lubberland
Lubricity of fortune rainbow jj W
Lucid explanations year ffii
,, moments SI
,, water Lunatic asylum
Luck go with you
,,

Lucky day,
of a nigger,
a
the ^ Lundyite, a
Lungs of London, the ffl

»
,,

„
hit, a
man, 4 ^
Lunisolar period or year,
(
t.lio H
 S

Lurking ( 819 )

Lurking-place ', , after books

Luscious peaches ,, after money
Tiust after lucre, to „ after women
" after women, to as a hatter
of gain, the as a March hare-
of the eyes and ears, the " as Orestes, as
, at
" of the flesh, the ,, -doctor
Lustre of the eyes, the ,, liquor
Lustrous gems
Luxuriant fancy
; , on gambling
policy, a
,,

„ vegetation „ promise, a
Luxurious city „ upon idols
,, ease " wind, a
,,
feasting ,, with disappointment

,,
living
table, a ; "with grief
Lycaonian tables
Lyceum, a
it
; with joy
,,

Madder-lake

Lycurgus, a Made for ......

Lyddite ,, for a teacher

Lydian airs
Lynceua' eyed
Lynch law
Lynx-eyed
;
^ 3^ ,
,,

,,
ground
hat, a
into
Lyric poets, the flHt Pindar, ,,
man, a
Alcseus, Sappho, Stesidorus, of
Ibycus, Bacchylides, Simon- ,, of iron
ides, Alcman, Anacreon " out of ……
M
,
„
soldiers
to order ; ;
((( -
,, up of
Ma chert )

, foi Madeira work

Macte animo ) Made-up complexion, a
Machiaval, a " face
Macedonia's Madman
MacFarlanes's buat
Machinery of State, the S
,,

,,
garment, a
story, a
villain, a
;;
Mackeral gale Madman of the North, the
,, sky Charles XII
Mackintosh, a Maecenas, a
Mad after ( Gaius Oil u us Maecenas
Maecenas ( 320 ) Mali

Magnae spes altera Romae ( )

Maecenas, the

Maeonian
last E'iglish
Samuel Rogers
Swan, the
Magnesium lamp, a
Magnetic bearing
,, induction
:^
Homer ,, needle
Mag to bJess oneself with, not a ,,
sleep, a
—;
Magazine advertising storm
„
,,

„
"
camera
flat
gun or rifle
telegraph
,,

Magni nominio umbra ( )

Magdalen; Magdalene, a Magnificient appearance, a

" hospital, a ,, heroism

Magdeburg Hemispheres „ idea, a
(
Magic
,,
art,
books
the
Magnify a
,
,,
pearl, a
plan, a
difficulty, to
;
car, the ; ,, a loss, to

,,

,,
land
lantern
music
; Magnitude
„
,,
oneself, to
oneself against, to
of one's designs, the ft

" of the crisis, the

,, skill
,, square
Magical wand, a
, words Magnum bonum
; ( of the mind, the

Magician, the Great IT est vectigal parsimonia (

,,
Walter Scott
of the North, the
) opus ($ )

Magister artium; artium ma gist er ( ,,

Mahogamy, the

,,

Magna Charta

Magna
T)

ci vitas,
—(
M.A.
ceremoniarum

magna solitudo
)

(
Mahomet's coffin

Maid
,,

„
of all
pigeon
tomb
work
n
honor ;;
^
of
,, est Veritas et prsevalebit (
)
„ est vis con8ultudini8 ( )S
,,
of Norway,
Margaret
of Orleans,
the

the
 i

Maiden ( 321 ) Maintain

Joan of Arc (
—•

, branch ;
^— ,>^,..

Maiden
Orleans
assize
,,

,,

"
building
chance
drift
:
, aunt, a land
„ dignity
flowers
innocence
; : ,,

„
,,
line
men
object ;
" of cocks, a
King, the Mc- office j|i
Colm IV part, the
knight " point
name , sea
pride " -spring
Queen, the
beth
rent
Eliza- „
„
"
-stay
stock
street
;
" strength
speech |gi Maintain a conversation, to
" a correspondence, to
stake
" a family, to
Town, the „ a proper conduct, to
Edinburgh
sword ;
trip or voyage
„ a righteous course, to

truth
Maigre food
Mail a letter,
;
to
„
"
,,
an attack,
as true, to
chastity, to
to

;
^
-cart " integrity, to
catcher one's course, to

chute one's ground, to

„ one's innocence, to
-coach ;
day one's life, to
order business „ one's opinion, to
Mailed fist, the
Mailing machine „ one's post, to
„ reputation, to li
" right principles, to
;
Main abyss
body ,; ,,
silence, to ;
 * g

Maintain ( 322 ) Make

Maintain talk with one, to

,
;
a clean sweep, to
the even tenor of one's ', a comparison, to
way, to ; a complaint, to
the digestive powers of
"
the stomach, to
"

"
^
a considerable profit, to

a convention, to
,, the equilibrium of for- , a copy, to W%
ces, to " a dead set at, to

the law, to
,,

the truth, to
"
Maintenance of peace
,, of possession
.,

,
a deduction, to
a deed, to
a deposit, to
a
"
descent upon, to

Uaintien
Maison de campagne
le droit (( „
"
a
a
a
display, to
disturbance, to
draft, to

,, deacmk (( ;; )
,, a dape of another, to S;

,,

'Maitre d'hotel
de ville
( )
) „
,
,,
a fair weather, to
a feast, to
a figure, to
Major axis, the
„ bridges
part of the book, the
.,

„
a fire, to
a fool of, to
a fool of one's
;; self, to

Majority of death
Make a back, to
,, a
a
fortune, to
fuss, to ;
,
,,
a
a
bargain, to
bed, to
. ,,

;
,
a
a
a
good board, to
good of, to itll;
good thing of it, to '

, a beginning, to ; . a great ado about tirfles, to

"
„
a
a
a
boast of, to
bolt of
call, to
it, to ; ,,

4}
a
a
great dash, to
grimace, to
" a canal, to „ a horse, to
"

,
a cat's

a change, to
paw
;;
|£
of, to „
,,

"
a jest of, to
a journey, to
a large forture, to
#;
,, a Charge, to ', a law, to
•
" a choice between, to , a league, to
„ a leg, to j|;
a circuit, to a light, to ;
a cieap bre»@t of, to !^ a lion's meal of, to 81
 I' *

Make ( 323 ) Make

J a lip, to a port, a country, the land,
a living, to etc., to ,
a long face, to a practice of, to

;;
a present of, to .

a man bleed, to a pretext of, to

a man bleed freely, to 1
a price of, to
a man of, to a promise, to Mit
a market of, to a proposal, to
a matter of conscience, to a purse, to
;
a mess, to
a
a
record, to
request, to
if

a mess of it, to a remark, to

a minute or note of, to IE 1
a row, to
a silk purse out of a sow's
a mock of, to ear, to
a molehill into a mountain,
to
a motion, to — a sketch, to
a special study of, to
;
;
a speech, to
a mountain of a mole-hill, to a speech to, to

:
|

a spoon or spoil a horn, to

a mouth,

a move, to
to

j
;

a sport of, to
a stand, to
;
a move against the enemy, to a strenuous effort, to #
h
a name for oneself, to
a noise, to ,
a noise in the world, to
1
a
a
a
study of, to
suggestion, to
thing true, to
;
a pas3 at, to
a tool of, to ij

a trial, to
a person's hair curl, to a very good end, to
^
a person open his eyes, to
a virtue of necessity, to
a pile, to
a plan of a house, to a voyage, to

a plunge, to
a will, to
a wound, to
a wry face, to
;
a poem, to
a point, to

;
^;
^;
abode, to
a point of,
;
to account, to
account of, to ;
 ^ g f

'

Make ( 324 Make

Make acquaintance, to an offer at auction, to

acquainted with, to
; an offer in private, to
advance, to
again, to
against, to ; ;; an onset, to
an out, to ()
allowance for,

allowance for the inexperi-

to
an outline, to
and break (electric
; circuit) cto
ence of youth, to
and break
allusion to, to answer, to
amends, to H; anything true, to -

an ado, to

an agreement, to f]
as if, to ;;
application, to

as though, to
I

an
an
an
appearance, to
appointment, to
arrangement, to ^ ;
assurance doubly sur©, to

at, to ;
an ass of oneself, to atonement, to R|
away, to ^;
an assault upon, to away with, to ;
an assault upon a citv, to away with oneself, to

au assertion, to ( ;;
bad weather, to

an
an
attack upon, to
attempt, to ;
believe, to
bold, to
au
an
an
effort, to
end of, to
engagement,
; to
bones of or about, to

boot of, to
an errand, to both ends meet, to ffi

an error, to :
an evening of it,to bricks without straw, to
an example of, to
an
an
excuse, to
experiment, to lit ' capital out, to
certain, to
chalk of one and cheese of
an honest woman of, to '
another, to

an impression on, to
choice of, to
clothes for lishes, to ;
an objection, to common cause with, to
an otier, to
conditions, to ttt
 i| i| S

Make ( 325 ) Make

Make confusion, to
conscience of; make a matter
; j
;.
bay while the sun shiiiea, to

of conscience, to head, to
;
dainty, to
default, to
; ^; head against,
headway, to
hence, to
to

;
derision
her number, to E
of, to ft
„ do, to impression upon, to
interest, (for any one) to %
„ dole, to

to ;
ducks and drakes with or

^
ducks and drakes with pro-
perty, to
of,

j
……
it
it

it
a condition, to
do, to
one's business, tc
&
Ti>U*Vfi
' A'
ends meet, ;
^
to
enough of, to it one's study, to

„
even, to
eyes at, to
faces, to
;( it

it
pay, to

up, to ; ,
.
ii

;
;;
„ fair weather, to !
its appearance, to

, known, to
fast, to ; ( 1

land, to
fish, to
fish of
other, to
one and flesh of an- i

a
light of, to
little account
; of, to
fool of, to ;
for, to ; little or nothing of, to
foul water, to km
„ free with, to ; little way, to

;'
London on the way to Rome,

friends, to
fun to
;; . to
love, to
matter of, to
; ;
game
of,
of, to (; i

meat, to - IfO
go down, to
good, to ;; ; ; »»
merchandise
merry, to
mince-meat
;; of, to

of, to
-;

good one's running, to ;

mirtn, to
good one's word, to mischief, to

(
good weather, to

haste, to
i'
j
mock or mocks at, to

money, to ;
IS

hay, to 2&SL most of, to

 c A i &

Make ( 326 ) Make

Make mouth at, to nnp nf to "fin 31 4h

much account of, to onp onpn Vi is pv6S to fa* y lift

much ado about nothing, to onp shnddpr

uu^id , to
vV/ ?5tWi
1*1*

much of, to ;;; V^llC it

one's appearance, to
onp'a hlooH boil to
UUU.C 111^ it\J /CiVtl

?^
St $J) A.
much way, to *d >^*c.

neither head nor tail of, to oriels blood creep, to fi^^^SS

VP

;
nice or

no account, to
make it nice, to one's blood run cold,

ones bow, to 15
to

;
no bones of, to (ffi)
on p'ci hnsinpsq to (IS) tftfl*

;
no difference or matter,
jTTN TTTT

no doubt, to
—v> t% l

W XO» — / till
to rr
yJllK^ a Jill^ LLiGXi b v\Jf v\J J

no hand of, to rmps t^p ,a

no secret of, to
no sign, to
nothing for,
; ^:to
: (take) one's cxit y to

one's hand to WM ^M^

1

ones hair stand on end, to^

nothing of, to
oath, to k it on p ;
ti 1 n o\z v tn -rfe^fc

r^n p ?
TYi an n prs to MffiM^* ^ rSiT"

obeisance, to
of, to ,) fil;
p'fl mark to ^» ~y th ^jkilc

of a furnace,
off, to
old bones, to
; the
nnp'si nin^li
ones
to
inoutii water, to
on, to
» on a fire, to '/ nnp's n out of to JV^jST; JM.

one a compliment, to \

one a consideration, to
one apologize, to Z nnft'^i npiPP witll to jHlfr-P* >fefl

one believe, to
one's soul, to
one feel at home, to
one's way, to %
one his ape, to one's way home, to

(
one marble, to
19
one's way in the world, to
v
 ii * *

Make ( 327 ) Make

Make oneself
;
at

oneself cheap, to
home, to sail, to
scriple, to
sheep & eyes, to
;
oneself known, to
;;
oneself master of, to

oneself merry, to
oneself other's, to
oneself scarce, to ;;
shift, to
shipwreck
short work

8 pace for, to
^
of, to
of, to

speed, to If
oneself strange, to

oneself understood, to
stay, to
stem way,
stock, to
to (;
out, to ;; ; strange, to
suit, to
sure, to &;
out an account, to sure of, to
over, to terms, to
pace, to in the best of, to ij

partaker of the bed, to the best of a bad bargain, to

;
peace, to
place, to
claces. to
;
' SS:

" ^"R " J?

the best of a bad job, to

the best of its strength, to

play, to the best of one's way, to

practice of, to
Drice of. to
; the bull's eye, to IE;

nrofit. on
progress, to
public, to
;
trftHp tn id; the doors, to
the ends meet, to
the face shine, to
DurDartv to () ^yjg/^tfi
ready, to ths feathers fly, to
.
record of, to gE
reverence, to
the
the
flesh creep, to
fur fly, to ;
to ;
rich the blood of the world, the hair stand on end, to
(
the height twenty feet, to
room, to
room for, to
ropes of sand, to
, the land, to
the mare to go, to
;
sad work of, to
the most of, to ;
 )

( 328 ) Malignant

Make the mouth water, to

,
Making up day
words, to ; ()
; B

(
.

„ things hum, to , up price

'„

" time, to ;
thirty miles, to

;
1- Mai apropos
de dents (
(
„ too much of, to ,, de mer
(
(((
„ de tele
„ towards, to
tracks, to
trial of, to
(; ; ,,

Mala fide
entendre

Maladie du pays
)

,, trouble, to Male choir, a

,, two bites of a cherry, to " courage, a
,, features
two ends meet, to ,, organ 3i
up Male parta, male dilabuntur (
T)
up a face, to " rhymes

( ^, (
up a lip, to Malevolent disposition, a
up a loss, to ,, heart, a
up a prescription, to Malgre nous ) ffl

up
tip
a story, to
accounts, to
; Malheur ne vient jamais

Mali exempli ( ( )
teal

up for, to , principu malus finis )

up leeway, to
up one's mind, to
up one's mouth for,
^
to
Malice aforethought or prepense or
implied malice ,
up to, to
up with,
;;
up the balance, to
Malicious
; abandonment (
use of, to
to
„ mischief (
use of one's credit, to
verses, to
very good use

void, to
of, to
,,

Malign aspect, a
spirits
; ^
prosecution () v

,,

war upon, to ulcer, a

,,

;;
war with, to Malignancy of a tumor, the
water, to
way, to , of fate, the

;;
way for, to fjM; „ of heart, the
wings, to
with, to 1^ Maligiiant church
Malignant ( 329 j
Mao

;
of
Malignant diphtheria
Rome
the Church
of business
of color, a
;
, star, a of compliments
Malts avibus T) ( of conscience
Mall, the St. James park
St. James park ;
of craft HI*

of Italy, the Carthage

of credit, a
of death, a ; ;
„
Malo modo
supper, a
(( ofDecember, the
(Napoleon III)
Malum
,,
in se
prohibitum (
Malus pudor
Mammon of
(
unrighteousness
of Destiny,

of family
the

*
Man about town ; of feeling
of
of
God
Gath, a
;;
"
„
at, or of arms
before the mast, a
of great worth
of high birth ;
,,

,,

„
child
Friday
in black
; of his
of his
of
hand
word
humble birth
;
"
„
in blue ^%
in the cars, to ;
in the iron mask, the
of iron, a
of letters
ifil

Louis XIV

„ in the moon, the ; of light

of lore, a
and leading

,,

„
in the oak
in the streets
of account tH
of
of ;mark, a
men
of mettle, a

;;
„ of action, a of mold or mould
,,

,,
of affairs
of all work of ;motley
"
.„

,,
of ample means
of Belial
of blood
; of parts, a
of pleasure, a ;
ofBlood and Iron of position, a
Bismarch of principle, a
Wf iiUW of property
 J
'j
|
i
i

Man ( m ) Manful

Man of quality, a ; ; ,, the yards, to

, of rank, a
" of remnants, a IS to act honestly, a
" of Rome, the
" of salt, a Manage a business, to
,, of Sedan, the S " a chariot, to
Seniau " a family, to
, of sense, a ,, a horse, to

,,
of sin, a

of silence,the
„
„
„
a school, to
an affair, to
an engine, to
;
„ of Sorrows, the another, to
,,

,,

(
of Spy

Spy ,
1
"the affairs of the govern-
ment, to
Mangeable horse, a
,, of Straw, a Mangeinent of a disease, the
of labor, the
,, of strong minds, a " of pablic revenue, the

,, of taste, a ; „ of shipping

,, of the church „ on large scale

,, of the People, the ,, on small scale
Charles James Fox Managing agent
, body
,, of the Third Republic, the directors

,, of the world, a ; ,,

,,
editor
house keeper
partner
" of the woods, a ,,
shipowner ^iA

;:
mighty Manana

^
,, of valor, a EJ

,, of war, a \ Manchester goods

,, of wax, a j
, of America, the
of weak character Massachusetts Lowell

" of whipcord, a of Belgium, the

" of wit and sense, a Ghent
i
„ of Japan, the
on Horseback, the
Boulanger ,, of Prussia, the
Elberfeld
,, oneself, to Maneuver troops, to
., strong in principle W 1
Manful resistance, a H
 ( 331 ) Many

Mandarin dialect Manly exercise

duck ;
yellow
Mandeville, a
Mandrabul's offering, like
; Manner
"

;
pride
of going on, one's

Man- ,, of thinking
drabul Mannerly conduct
Juno „ youth, a
Manoa
Mandrake, to have eaten the
Manor-seat
Mangle a corpse, to Manorial accounts
„ the sense, to , extents ft
Mangled essay Man's estate
Manheim
Maniaapotu
gold
( )
, good star
Mantalini, a
; )«
Manibus pedibusque ( )
Mantrap
Mantuan Swan(Swain)
()
(Bard), the

Manifest abroad, to Manu forti ( ;

Virgil
)

,,

„
destiny

of shipment ( „
Manual alphabet
propria (
one's sentiments, to Ijg
"

Manifestation of a purpose, the

"
"
,,
laborer
exercise
of arms, the
(
Manifold a letter,
,, -paper
to
*
,
„
of the sword, the
training ;
pipe, a ,, method

" transgressions Manufacturing community, a

,, wisdom of God, the

&
projects
, -writer
Manipular work town, a
Manipulate figures, to
voters, to g Manufacturer's invoice
the keys of a piano, to
#
Manliau orders
Manlius Torquatus
; "^ ^ Manure the
Many
,,
a
land, to

a mickle makes a muckle

a one
Many ( 332 ) Marked

Many a time „ of action, a

,, many ,, of cultivation
„ souls were in eternity T

"
Map out,
times over
to ( ;; Marginal land
notes
(
#( )

(((
Ma rah ,, utility )

Marble book- cover, a Mariage a la mode

conscience

:^
„
,, heart, a ,, de convenance )

,,

March forward,
silk
to Marine, a dead (
,,

,,
in, to
in file, to
;
boldly forward, to
"
acid
insurance on hull ()
,, in procession, to || , products school 7
" railway
,, -mad
,, of affairs, the
,, of time, the
off, to ;
;
" rainbow

„
,,
OB, tO
past (
„
,,

;
recruit
store ;( )

„ soldiers, to Maritime customs

„ soldiers back, to
with a boundary, to
m
; , insurance
lifeinsurance

,, with the times, to Mark down, to IB

Marching-money ,, me

,,

( order
)
() ; ,,

"
,,
of
on, a
mouth,

one's words, to
to

regiment ()
:
,,

; " out, to
()
March's moody day BBS „ time, to
'
Mare clausum
Mareotic luxury
( )
"
„
up, to
with a white stone, to

Margarine substitute
Mare's nest ; Marked cheque
B)
(
Margin

„
for unforeseen expenses,

money (^
a ,, man, a

^ trauster ()
 I>

Market ( 333 ) Masked

Market-court , ,
, cross
-farming Mars
Marsh
(
Marseillaise, the
)

City, the Petrograd

" horse ,, feter
,, overt ,, -gna
„ price
rate Marshal at arms
,, value Marsupial frog
Marl-brick
Maroon party, a Martial law
, music
Marriage-favor ,, spirit
Martin chain, a ^i^M
" fund insurance , drunk
" of Cambray, girt like
,, flight
Martin's summer, St.
lines
of convenience ij Martin me s
H)
Martyr for religian, a
, or wedding of the Adria- " King, the Charles I
tic ,, of, to make a
Venice " of oneself, to make a

,, portion " to rheumatism

, prayer
" -settlement Marvel at, to

Marrow- bones (@) ; ; Marvellous, the

" Boy, ||1 Thomas chatter-
, and cleaner
Marry a fortune, to ; ton

story, a
again, to ) Mary mas
(
into the purple, to
0)
', Masculine church, a
,, defence
and old (
^
yeast, to \
,, face, a
Masked ball, a
one's danghtes to another, " battery
to " diver
over a broomstick, to M maneuver, a It
 ^ g+ T

Masking ( 334 ) Mate

Masking- piece

Masonic lodge H „
; of oneself, to be

of oratorical art, a
Masquerade as a millionaire, to
,, of the mint, the
Mass book ,, of the Buckhounds S?J^
„ day
,, the horse
of
,, for the dead „ the Revels
of or Revel

,,
(
meeting ,,
master
of the Robes
" of the andience, the
„ of the Roll.
,, priest

,
Massacre of the innocents, the „ of those who know,
Aristotle
the

;(; ;
one's temper, to
Masses and classes

^
,,
-piece i

,, the ,, play, a
Massive rock

Master, the "

"
,,
-spring
-stroke ;
stroke of policy
;
,
,,

,,
a shop, to
-at-arms
builder

greek, to
'
; ;^ Masters,
„
,,
.
-work
workman
little ^; ,
Diirer)

" gunner , ,
the great
-hand " , the old ££
,, -key ;1
,, Leonard Match another, to
,, mason ,, -board
„ -cloth
,, mater mariner , for, a

,, horses, to SB
, mechanic ,, one's daughter with an-
" mind
, to be
ceremonies
; „
Mate account
other, to
-safe

Love, the Ovid ,, ,

first
one's purse , , for, a
one's time, to bo „ one's words with deeds, to
Jt
Mate ( 335 ) May

Mate second gij of necessity

(^
Mater Dolorosa
„ familias ( of notorious fact
of prudence
;
Materia medica
Materiam super ab at opus
M^'M^^
( )
of surprise

of taste ;
Material capital
„

,,
circumstance, a

evidence
; of that,

Matters that return not

for the

^
,, pleasures of life
Mature affection
,, sulstance ,, an abscess, to
Maternal inheritance „ river, a

„ relatives " scheme, a

„ tenderness i Maudlin
Mathematical conclusions poetess, a

(
,,

" instruments Maul and wedges

„ science Maundy coins or

, S,
money ,
,,
unity
Mathematics applied , Maundy Thursday,
Mathurin, the malady of, St.
Maundy Thursday ^^ (good
Mating-time

Matriculate student, a IE
MauvaUlgout
,,
Friday)

sujet
(
((;
Mauvaise horde )

Matrimonial alliance, a Maxim gun

Matted glass Maxima and minima
Matter, dead (
„ in hand ; Maximum
,,
freight rate
issue method

,, , live
of, inthe
(; [ May and December
as well
,, „
„ of choice be or it may be; may hap
,, of course
of courtesy ; ,
,,
blossoms
day I
,,

,,
of dispute
of fact ; .

dew ^#
 B• i

May ( 336 ) Meat

;;;
,, distance, the
dress
make ..
"
…
May game of

God reward you

, to

for it
a ,,

,,

>,
fare
fellow
foes
,, he rest in peace „ solar time
(
,,

,,
-hill

his tomb lie heavily on him

,
,,

"
stature
velocity
well or kindly by, to
^
,, I add? Means of exchange
I ask? ,, of grace

" it be?
„

"
it please you

-lady or May queen

please you ,,

"
Measure
of
to an
support

for
end ;
measure
, noses, to j||

" meetings , of capacity

,, -morn " of one's days
" of one's years, the off, to
one's ability, to
, -pole " one's ' expenditure by
the turf lie gently on his one's income, to
tomb one's length, to
,, this glass suffocate me " other people's corn by
m one's own bushel, to
Mayor of the Palace
; „ others after oneself, to
Mazarine blue
Me judice
Mea culpa
(
( ; ) ,,

,,
out, to
out food, to
;;
Meager account, a ,, strength, to ^
;
day
looks
Pay
^# & „
„
swords, to
the wind, to

purse, a g Measured steps

soil terms

Meal Monday
treatise
S8 Meat-earth
,, tread
(
, of salt,
Mealy-mouthed
a
; ,, from the graves, to carry

,, of an egg, the
off

Mean actions ft ^ tohang up W

^
,

a buiiuoss, to f
Mechanical ( 337 ) Meei

Mechanical arts
, drawing
; l^fi
Medio tutissitnus ibis ( )

,, engineer Mediocrity of talent

" implements ,, of wit
,, nature Meditate an attack upon a city, to

„ operations
philosophy ,
'
on or upon, to
, precision IS Medium, circulating
" of exchange
,,
profession ,, of light, a
" singing
Mechanics, applied
,
pure
.
Medley
Medusa (
of noises, a
Gorgon)
Per-
Mechanism of credit seus *
of society, the iit Meek as a medcock, as

Medea
Jason
( ^tes Meet
as Moses, as

^
a difficulty (troubles)
way, to
half

" a repulse, to
Medea's kettle S „ a storm, to
•

Meddle by words,
with, to
to CI
"
,,

,
an enemy, to
face to face, to
for food, to be
;;
;
,,

" with other's affairs, to

Mediate between two hostile

to
cause
states,
,,

,,
—
for prayer, to
half way, to
;
one's approval, to
one's death, to
"
, strife, to „ one's expectations, to
Median
stone, the one's expense, to
Medic (
Medical jurisprudence ©
,
"
"
one's wishes, to
the demand, to
„ practitioner ,, the ear, to
, profession ,, the eye, to
„ science
Medicate vinegar, to "
„

,,
the meed, to
with, to
up
with, to
(*
;; ;;
;
Medicinal herbs „ with a change, to

,,
liquor
powder
springs
,, with a failure, to
with a fall, to
;
^
,, ,,

Medicine-lodgo with a favorable opportun*

ity, to S
 g

Meet ( 338 ) Mental

Meet with a logs, to

" with an accident, to
,, pot, the ^
,, tribe, the
with calamities, to " with compassion W
" with success, to
Meeting-house
;
( )
Members
Memento mori
Memo
(
of association ft

Memorandum book

,, of creditors
,,

"mem"
check (,
,, of the committee .

Meg
,, -post
of Westminster, as long as
Memoria in aeterna ( )

Megsera ( )
Furies)
Memorial Day

Megara (
Hercules
Meissonier-like exactness
Memory of
tablet
man, beyond the SB

Melancholy as a hare, as Meu-folk (

,,

"
long vacation
occurrence, a
^
as Fleet Street in the "
,,

Mend
in the ranks
of lawn
one's
one's
draught, to ^
„ vale, the , faults, to
Meliboean dye , one's
fortune, to n
Mellow color, a „ one's
pace, to
„ fruit Mendicant orders, g Dominicans,
,, soil Franciscans, Carmelites,
,, tones Angustinians, Servites
,, wine Jte^
Mellowing year
Melodious ringing of birds Jit Mene Tekel
Menochmians '
Melpomene
,,
f

(
tears
Menial offices
( m^M^
Melt at a certain temperature, to Mem agitat
(
molem )

;^ ( ((
,,
conscia recti fll

•
,, away, to ,,
invicta manet ) JS

"-
,
',,
down coin, to
in the fire, to ^
^
,,

,,
legis
sa»a in corport sano T)^
,,

''«'°18^
Melting point
into tears, to
l»eat, to » • Mental arithmetic
„ derange uiejH f^i£
 S

Mental ( 339 )

Mental funds ,, fiction

philosophy ,, form
„ leservation Meretricious dress
temperament ,, traffic

„ science Merge private affairs into public, to

Mention, honorable
" as an example, to W ,, in or into, to ;;
Meo periculo
,, voto
Mephistophelian
(( )
) Meridian, celestial
„
„
,

,
magnetic
prime
Mephitic air
Mercantile agency
'

; ,, of one's fame, the

of one's glory, the

,, bill

,, law of one's happiness, tho

system
,, Meridional customs
world ,,
journey
Mercenary ends Merit, in order of
" standing army

Merchandise in company
„

,,
-roll
(
praise, to
)
Merchant captain ,,
reward, to
,, of eel skins, to become Merits of the book
„ of the question or case
ti prince
Meritorious services
,, tailor , statesman, a
Mercurial ointment Merops, a son of
,, gauge Phaeton Merops
preparations B Phoebus
,, temperament ^ '

(
Mercury fig, a ; Merry as a
,, as
cricket, as
a grasshopper, as

Mercy, Fathers of — ,
,,
&s
as
as
a Greek, as
a grig, as
a marriage- bell, as
, as a pie, as
,, on me! " as a popinjay, as
,, -seat " as maids, as
,, -stroke ,, as the day is long, as
Mere child's play ,, dancers, the
" excuse ,, drinking «| ;«
 U .

Merry ( 340 ) Midnight

Merry Greek, a

,, i
grip, a
jest, a
;
; Michaelmas Day
stoph von Gluck
Johann Chri-

(
;;
,, life, a
-making Microscopic eye, a
,, -man
Monarch, the Charles
Mid (
,, , -age or midlife
II
-thought ,, air, in
,, wind and weather -angle
, -galley
with wine
,,

Mersenne, the English

John Collins Mersenne (
,,

„
,,
morn (
-hour or mid-noon
ft
-watch or middle watch
ih

Marin Mersenne
" -winter
Mesne lord Middle Ages, the
,, process

,,
,,

Metal a road,
profits
to
a ship's bottom, to
class ^
distance or ground

Metallic lustre East, the

" oxide Kingdom, the
,,

„
sound, a
vein
Meteoric showers
-man
States, the
; |SLA
New York,
Meteorological cycle, the New Jersey, Pennsylvania,

Method

Methuselah, a
in one's madness
Delaware
term
weight
( ^
Western States, the
Metric system, the ,,

Metropolis of humidity, the West Virginia, Kentucky,

Mettle of youth, the i TeneBsee, Missouri, Kansas,
Mettlesome horse, a S Arkansas
Meum and trum • Middling ability
Mezzo relievo „ classes
Michael Angelo of battle
the : scenes,
Vlichael
,,
goods
,, size ;
Angelo Cerquozzi Midland towns
;
Angelo of France, the
Jean Cousin
Angelo of Music, the
Midnight plottings
,, sun, the
^ Ibffi
 m *

Mid summer ( S41 ) Milk

" taste, a
Midsummer Ale
Day H; ( ,, tea
wine
Milesian fable (story) , a f|
" madness
Eve Republic, the
"
Miliary fever (
Midwife of
, to have but a mile to

men's'thoughts, the
Military ardor
"
"
art ;^
arsenal
Socrates " classes
" of the Muses, the , contributions

,,
•

Might and main

is right
; ,,

"
despotism
discipline
dress ;^
Mighty famine, a „ engineering

;; ;
,, Hunter the Nimrod , harbor, a
,, implements
„ in strength „ law
man man
^ of valor, a
march
"
„
nation, a
works
Migrate to a foreign oountry, to
; "
marine
merit ;
operations or affairs

Migratory birds

habits
Migration, bathic
cell ^ ,,

"
,,
power
profession
railway ^(
, equatorial , regulations

Milch cow, a
cura futuri ( secretariat, the
service insurance

spirit
woman, a

&
" " stores
Mild aperient, a ,, supplies
,,

„
as a dove, as
as a lamb, as ^ ,, tenure

;
Milk a he-goat into a sieve, to
"
"
„
climate, a
counienance, a
disposition or temper, a
; „ again, to kick all one's

" and water

" medicine, a " -cure
mm steei -livered
 ^

Milk ( 342 ) Minstrel

Milk of human

-ranch
kindness, the
your eye
your health
;
(;
„
,, -shake ( „
Mindful of the danger
of the poor
i

the market, to Mine-captain

,, the street, to ( ,
Mineral acids
-pig
rights

,, -walk „ black
,, -warm " caoutchouc

(; ;
Milksop, a , kingdom
Milky Way, the ,, pitch
Mill " salt
,,

,,
corn, to
-hand
„
Minerva
waters
( f

,, -money

Millinery store
() Minerva's bird
Mingle iu a dance, to
" with a crowd, to
^
Millinery of bibliography, the
Miniature likeness
Milling in the darkman's Minimum fare

Million, the ;
MiJlstone about one's neck, to have
"
"
freight
reserve method

sensible
a
to look (see) into a

to look through a Mining engineering

visible H ^
Mim ()
Minco matters,
; to ;
" -machine
Minister to, to
" to one's w ants, to
Mincing gait, a
of
steps
words
Ministerial benches

; i
^
^^
„ terms „ garments II
Minced oath, a , to intellectual culture
Mind-day
" one's own business,

„ one's parents, a jjl

to Miuor canon

,,
coins
key (;
if

^
„

,
one's P's and Q's, to

\\ha,t you are about ; ,,

Minstrel raptures
office
poets ^
^
 a B D *

Mins(rel (

Minstrel of the Border ight (

Mint-drop
Sir WaJt-r Scott
( g ;
, -mark
,,

"
of
of
money ;
phrases in one's brain, a
Misconstrue one's intent, to '
Misemploy a person, to
" par of exchange " money, to

^
,, prica of gold " one's time, to
,, -stick
,, -warden El
Miserable land

Minute account,
,, bell
a
„
»
talent
work
Miserabile vulgus
;
( ( ^0
book Miser is succurrere disco

^
,,

,,
-glass
,, -gun Misplace one's confidence, to

„
„
-hand
-men ; Misprision of felony
of treason
(()
A
-padding
;
( Miss a lesson, to
" a step, to
Minutes of a meeting, the , an opportunity, to

" of an agreement, the

,,

"
fire,
as
to
good
(
as a mile, a
g')

Mirabile dicta
" risu
Miracle itself, to
(( )
,,

"
Nancy

one's aim, to
() ;
;
" -monger , one's figure, to
„

,,
of Nature, the
Christina
play
"
"
„
out, to
stays, to
;
one's object, to gfl3

" -worker
Miraculous good fortune, a
"
,,
the appointed time, to
the mark, to ;
Mirror writing ,, the right way, to ;
Misapply public money, to

Miscellaneous goods or articles

time, to
Missing ring, the
Mission school
;
" records
Mischief contriving ; !^
Miat-bow
" -rick
Mists of error
( )

ffl
 g t M

Mistak< ( 344 ) Molly

Mistake and no ( ;; ,,

,
one's passions, to
one's temper, to
"
; one thing

Mistress of the Adriatic, the

for another, to ,,

,
Moderation in all things
price, a
wind, a

,,
Venice
Roper
of the aeas
; Modern Athens, the

,
Edinburgh, (2)
.

Babylon, the
(1 )
Boston

" of the world, the „ Carthage, the

fashion
Mitred abbot ,, inventions
Mix in politics, to , writers
,,

,,

,,
right
up, to ;
and wrong,

with the crowd, to

to |g Modest appellation
,,

Modesty-piece
request, a
M;
M
Mixed breed Modify demands, to

„
,, marriage
up with, to be ; „ one's views,
Modo et forma (( to

Mizzen-mast ()
Mob law ; Modus operandi
,,

Moghul, the Great

Vivendi ( )

„
,,
-story
, the
Mobile countenance, a
; Moghuls
Mohammedan era

Mobsman, a Moire-antique
Mobtown Baltimore Moist brain
color

Mock at, to
auction
; eyes
star,
vow
the

dignity with sorrow

-fight or skirmish Moisten one's clay, to

-shadow
-trial
(
one's expectation, to
„ the lips or throat,
Moistened with rain SI
to |Jc

Mocking marriage with a woman Molar tooth, a

Molecular attraction
,, -stock „ forces
Mode
„
of satisfaction
of thinking "^
Moll (/utpurse, a
Mollia tempora fandi ( )

Model after, to
doll H « Molly Coddle, a ;
Moderate i . eating and drinking
-grubs ;
Molly ( 345 ) Moot

Molly Thomson's mark

Moloch Palestine Monster ship, a

Molten calf, the ; Monstrous belief

" birth, a
Moment
,,
ago, a
to spare Mont
,
de piete (
world, the
)

Momentary
" —
glance, a
joy
Montague and Capulet

Montezuma's realm
Momentous
Momus
" pain

;
affair, a Month of Sundays
Monthly nurse
|^ ^^
,
,,

Monarch
,

of
daughter

of
;
the Mace
(disciple) (son)

Thor
,
,,
payment

Month's mind,
time —
a
Monument on a grave, a

Monastic
Monday
life,
in
a;
Whitaum-\reek
Monuments of antiquity
Monumental City, the
Baltimore ^
(
Monetary conference K Moon is made of green (cream)
,, reform cheese, to believe that the
,,

,,
system
Union
unit
minions of the
the Island of the
;^
Money burning one's pocket Madagascar

,,

,
„ order
in circulation
market

transaction
^ ,

,
to cry for the

to find
( Sir
an elephant
Paul Neal
in the

W—
Mon gruel dog JH
Monitory hint
Monkey sitting
have the black
to
Monkey's allowance
on one's shoulder,

$ .
„

Moonlight
^
, to level at the
to shoot the

Hitting, a
Monmouth cap, a
Monnaie de basoche ( ) Moonraker, a ;
Monroe doctrine
^ ^ the; Monroism
,,

Moon's men ;
shroud, the

Momieur
(
^ (^de Paris
ITri
Moonshine, a matter

Moot
,,

,,
,all
, bottled

a question, to
case or point, a
of

I 1;
 i »

Moot ( 346 ) Mother

Moot
;
court, .1 ^.
Morpheus (
in the arms of
Moral actions Mortal care
,, agent, a disease, a
" foe or enemy, a
,, blindness , garment
" carta inty , hatred or enmity
.. hazards
law " hour, the
„ philosophy " kind
play ; knowledge
,, sense , poison
" strength , power
,
,,
tales
victory ; „ remains
sin, a
Morbid state of
Morbus Gallicus ((
mind, a „
,
soil
weapon

More
, Neapolitanus
and less, the ;;
; Mortality
,, wound,
life
a
insurance

,,
and more
by token
dead than
, table
Mortgage bond »
,,

"
alive
frightened or scared than
hurt
Mosaic gold
deed

Most Christian Kingdom, the

^ ;® «

" kicks than ha'pence

;; „ High, the

(((^;
or less ,, of all
" than a match for, to be Mos pro lege
; Mot a mot
" than all ; d'ordre
,,

„
than enough
than flesh and blood can bear
"
Mother Carey

„
; is

Carey's chickens
plucking her geese

" than meets the eye g

country, the
" than satisfy ; ,, Hubbard
Hussiau
Morganatic marriage, a " of all the cities, tbe
'

Morning glory oi the sky gg Kiev

Books, the
„
,,
hours
-land, the
of life, the ,
" of
dria ^
R Alexan-

„ star of the reformation, " of Cities, the

the John Wy. Balkh
uliffe „ of dreams, the
w
Mother ( 347 ) Mov^

Mother of God high horse, to

" of mischief ,, on a hobby, to ^
" of months, the
,, of Parliaments, the „ the air, to

„
„
of pearl
of Presidents,
Virginia
the

Washington,
„
Mountain dew
,,
the cockade, to
the throne, to

mouse, the
in labor
^
brought forth a

Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,

Tyler, Harrison Taylor
(
" of the South- Western Sta- of light, the
tesmen, thh Ten-
nessee
Mountebank, a g;
,, of States, the Virginia Mounted police ^
" picture, a
" of the gods, the Cybele Mourn for a friend, to

,, wit
Mothering Sunday
Saturn
; Mournful

Mouth
,,
loss, a
thoughts
friend, a ©
ft

Mother's apron strings

son Movable
„
„
honor
to mouth
CI

festivals
;
,

^
Motion in court ( "
,,
property
types ; It

, one to a seat, to
Move an army,
"
"
forward, to
grace, to
to
;
Motive force
" power
Motley assortment,
; a
,

,,
heaven and earth,

in a grove, to
to

,, coat, a ,, in a rut, to fift

,,
Mound
,

Citv, the
men of ilA
St. Louis
" off, to
on, to
one's mind, to
;
Mount a breach, to „ out of, to
" the eye, to
"
,,
a diamond, to
a horse, to ; the feet, to
the previous question, to
„
"
,,
a map, to
a piece, to
guard, to
; ( ,,
to action, to
to anger, to
;
to sedition, to «L
 R H

Move ( US ) Munificent

Move to tears, to
Movement maker, a
Mufti, in
Mug, a
;;
(M)
,, -up, to
„ of heavenly bodies, the Muggletonians Mug-
gleton
of machinery
Muggle-
tonians)

^
,, of the bowels
Moving force Mugwump, a
» pictures " press, a 3S

Mow
,,
„
down,
down
isles of
to ;
winter

the enemy's ranks, to

Multa gemens
Multifarious affairs
( )

Moxa punk
Mozart the English
Multiple fruit
values
Multiplication table
(;
Sir Henry Bishop Wolf- ( Multiply words, to
gang Amadeus Mozart Multitude of business, a
,, of sins, a
, the Italian „ of years, a
Oherubini Multitudinous tongue, the
Mr. What's-his-name

;(
Mra. Grundy " waves
Huch about the matter Multum in parvo )

m Mum budget
,, as ^; ,, -chance
" as one's life is worth, as Mumble a prayer, to 1£

— ^( ^+ +
-news
"
,,
beforehand, to be
cryand little wool
,
Mumbo-jumbo
Mumping day
^
;
,,

,,
given to joking
more, to be
of a muchness
Mum'a the word!
Mundane egg, the ^ ((^
sphere, the
,T

„
the same ,,
things
was theirs to say Municipal administration
,, council
Mucous membrane
Muddle-headed ;( ,, land
organization
Muet comme un poissoa

Muff, a ; &;
) " power
Municipality authorities ,
Muffle up, to |L Munificent gift, a £f
 :

Muniment ( 349 ) My

Muslin de Laine
Mural crown

Murder
^
Muniment-house

in the first degree ;

Muster strong, to
"

,,
troops into service, to

troops out of service, to

t

„
;
in the second degree
,, up, to ;
"
,
,,
one's breath, to
one's parents, to
the king's English, to
^ ,,

Mutatis mutandis
up courage,

Mute as a fish, as
„ as a mouse, as
(
to
)

Mutiny act
" preceded or accompanied Mutton-eating King, the
with barbarity charles II
, will out
,, -monger, a
, with poison Mutual acceptance
Murderous intent " assistance
, spirit, a
,, benefit
" weapon, a confidence
"
Muriate of soda consent
,,
Muriatic acid election SM
Murky atmosphere " exchange of commodities
Murmur against heaven, to
" against one's fate, to eyes
,, .

Murmuring labors „ insurance

streams
"
Muscse volitantes
of
( „
.
intercourse
life insurance
Muscular strength
Muse on with delight, to ; ,
,
love
regard
,,

Muses (
to oneself aloud, to

2) Clio
(l)Calliope
3) Erato
„ relief
Muzzle the ox that treadeth the
corn, to
(4) Euterpe My all that's mine
5) Melpome-
ne 6) Polyhymnia " attitude would be ODe of dis-
7) Terpsichore approval
8) Thalia (9)
Urania " belief, therefore, is

Muse's flame …-"

Mushroom gentleman, a ,, cake is dough ©

£
,,
-spawn „ confidence in you is absolute
Musical box m
,, instrument ,, dearest dread
 K

My ( S50 ) MalceJ

My dearest foe point of view is different, but

,, deed upon my head! 1 I shall not insist upon it

,, duty is endeavor to show present business is

,, experience tells me „ regret is intensified by the

thought
,, ©ye!
,, eyes draw straws tongue failed me
,, faith
,, first duty is to express to you ,, uncle
…… views are altered in many re-
,, friends, do you really believe spects
,, word
" friends, I propose Mynheer Closh
…… Myrmidons of the law
,, gracious! Rf
hands are full
ff ( Mysteries of woods and rivers, the
„
,, heart failed nie Mysterious doctrine
, heart tells me ' G
, idea, therefore,
…-.
is
N
idea of it is quite the reverse Nab a man, to
Naboth's vineyard
,, information is rather scanty Nadir, from zenith down to

Lady Nicotine
upon
last criticism
Naiad, a
Nail a lie, to
;
…… " a lie to the counter, to
„ leisure serves me not " in one's coffin, a

,,

„
life
life for it
meaning is quite the contrary Naked apartments
one's colors
to ; (flag) to the ruast,

,, mind is

......
not moved by
,,
belief
body
character
;
„ mind most perfectly acquiesces . eye, the
...... ,, fields
,, name is Legion ,, hiUs
,, next objection is , of comforts
Tit "-… ,, statement, a |||

own
"
M private opinion
•••••
is " sword, a
truth ^
 S

Namby ( 351 ) Native

Nam by- pa in by
Name a day, to
: principles
seas
,, a day for a wedding, to way
views
,, after, to ...... Narrowdale noon, till

,
day
from, to
Nasty bore, a
idea, a ;
"
;
in or on the same day, to injury, a
language
,
,
of honor
the day, to
medicine
rain ;^ g
" the name of Christ, to
Natal day ;
to a person, to be
'

Nameless book j& ,,

Matale solum
hour
(
,
,,
City, the
death
horror
; Natatorial birds
,,

Nation of gentlemen,
skill
the
life George IV
„ star *
Naphthalic acid of poets and thinkers, the
Napolean of Oratory, the
Ewart Gladstone of shopkeepers, the
" of Peace, the Louis
Philippe National assembly
, of the Drama, the (1) , bank

Elliston
^ Alfred Bunn,(2)
Robert William
+
,

,
character
debt
economy

Nappy
,,

Narcissus
ale
the Little

( ,
expediture
flag
Guard
; ft

Narcotic medicine
,

,
language
seal
university
;
" poison Nati' genius
Narrate ancient stories, to
Narrow circumstances
" cloths
goods
language
law
;®
,, escape, a liberty
,, gauge place
,,

„
h
goods
inspection
-minded ^ produce
rights
SOU
 *

Native ( 352 ) Near

Native tongue Naughty pack, a ;

" village
Natura lo fece,
( e poi ruppe la stampa
world
,,

Nauseous hypocrisy
odor
©
Natural affection Nautical almanac
„ child, a ,, chart
"
,
classifioation
complexion
consepuences
';^ Jig ,, inHtruments
,,

,,
law
mile
,
,
"
death
disposition;
endowments
Naval action, a
,,

,,
base, a
engagement, a
.
" food , officers
fool, a ,, yard
,
,,

,
fruit
gifts
guiltiness
; Navel string
Navigable river, a
Navigate the sea, to
,, history Navigation on inland rivers
" idiot, a
" instincts
law 3;
Navvy, a
Ne cedas malis
((
,,

,,
man, a
monopoly
obligations
exeat regno
fronti crede (
Jupiter guidem omnibus placet (14
,,

)
„ parts
phenomena nimium (( p
philosophy

;
obliviscart8
plus ultra ( )
lK
HJ»;
,
,,

„
" portrait
productions
repose
puero gladium (
,
,,

,,
rights
science
selection
capiat ) ( (
quid respubliea detrimenti

tempora perde precando

ac-

,, talents
(
,,

Nature
theology
of medicine, the
vile
vile velis
fano
(
;
T)
)

,,

,,
printing
worship
Neaera, a
Neap tide ;
Nature's Darling
peare)
'<£ (Shakes- Near at hand,
,, by ; to be

,,

,,
forest
tear-drops
walks ^i&Z^M
,,

,,

„
cut
death ;&
escape, a ft
Near ( 353 )

Near friend, a teriorem domium fuisse (

" leg, the
,, one's end ; sibi
(
non obstatur, propter ca etiam
,,

,,

"
relation
side
the mark
$1
—
peruiittiiur

spes ulla fugx (

, Ll

Neat as a pin, as
pOll
sum adeo informis ( )

aswax,
honey
as
|g temper e nec tirnide( t

"
,,

,,
stylo
thief, a
wine ; ( timeo nec sperno ( )

Nec aspera terrent Necessary articles

. capias nec metuas ( )

„ hou3e
Necessaries for the army

caput nec
;
( pedes )
„ of life,

vi habet legem
the

( 55

nodus (
dens inter sit, nisi dignus vindice
Neck and branch ^tj^

.; ;
" and crop
diris
(
homines componier sequum
)
,,

.
and
and
heels
neck ;(
me
( pudet, utistos fateri
quod nesciant )
nescire, of th& woods
or naught (nothing)

mora ( nec requies ) ,

;
verse

(
nimium
miai^tr^
vobis forrnosa ancilla Needful, the
Needle and thread, from
(
( (
obolum habet unde restim
)

pluribus impar
W
ernat
Needless expense
,, labor
quxrere nee spemere honorem ( Ne'er' do weel, a
Negative and positive
regi, nec populo, sed vtrique ( answer, a
)
scire fas est omnia ( argument
electricity
)

opinion
semper feriet
b"ur arc us (
quoclcunque mina-
Hlfii
pole, the
pregnanta (
9enum mdiortm ullma t nec de- proposition (
 * R )

Neglect ( 354 ) Net

Neglect an occasion, to „ dissentiente ('

"
„
,,
of health
one's business, to
one's duty, to
Nemo

„
(
bis punitnr pro tod em delicto
)

lieditur nisi (
a seipso )

,,
oneself, to
strangers, to
the main thing, to
^6
, me impune (
lacessit )

„
"
the proper time, to

ces, to ;
to consider the consequen-
"

"
(
mortal turn omnibus horis sapit
)

reclamot, nullus obsistit (

Neglectful of politeness
Negligent in everything
Negotiable paper
„ solus satis sapit (
Negotiate a bill of exchange, to Nepenthe
Nephelo-coccvgia ;
,,
a commercial treaty,

a treaty, to
to
Neptune ( Jupiter
Saturn Ops

" for the purchase of a

house, to , a son of
" peace, to
Neiges d'ontan ( ; Neptunian plain
Nereids
Nero, a
(
Neighboring house, a „ of the North, the
,, state, a Christian II
Neither chick nor child Nervous arnia
"
red herring
fish nor flesh
;i
fish, flesh, nor fowl or good ,, excitement
,,

force
fever, a

" here nor there „ writer, a

more nor ; Nessus, the shirt of

( Pylos
II
Messenia
Nestor

^
,, less
Neleus Chloris
,, one thing nor another Troy
;rhyme , a
„ nor reason Net amount
,, cash ffm
, to sing nor to say „ freight ^
,,
gain ff?

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ,, income

Nemesis
()
( )

(
,,

„
interest
loss
Nemine contradicente
m
) ,,

„
price
proceeds ;
 i B

Net ( 355 ) Nicb

Net
,,
profit
receipt
learning
member, a if &
,, weight
Nether limbs
,, world, the
; method, a
moon, the
Testament
Neutral tint to the plough

Neutrality, the
Never a
,
,,
a one
a whit
^ armed
world, the
Year's Day
Year's Eve
wine in old bottles

^
, mind Year's gifts

"
say die
since
so
^ Newcastle hospitality
Newgate, a Newgate

„ tell me „ calendar, the

"
"
.,
the wiser
to be done ;
was there a greater mistake
,, fashion, to march
Newgate

;;
„ yet ;; Next door
,,
to, to
in order
be

New
,
arrival, a
birth ; ,, of kin

,
"
"
broom, a
College
convert, a
Newgate
,,

,,

"
to
to
; ;
one's heart

nothing
,, departure, a
England Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
,,

Nibble
ways
at, to
at the bait, to
,,
: ;
chusetts, Connecticut Nice application
Rhode Island " as a nun's hen, as
;
, England of the West, the „ as ninepence, as
Minnesota , judgment
New England , point, a
,, question, a
;T;
"
,
„
fashion ;
fangled expression

from one's sickness

" workmanship
Niche in the Temple of Fame, a

.,

"
from school
Hampshire Giants
Nicholas's clerks
„ clerks, St. ;
,,

ti
Vermont
hand, a
Jerusalem, the
; Nick a horse,
,,

,,
a nick, to
to

a train, to A
land " an apportunity, to
 * ) S

Nick ( 356 )

Nick of time
old m
; ,, sanantibus litter is (
(
,
,,

the Bear ,, scire est vita jucundissima

,,

Nicodemical
,

) (
Nigh at hand ; , simile est idem
,, kinsmen i
unto death
Night after night
"
(
simul inven turn
)
est et perfectum

„
,, and day
by night
;
" sub sole ( novum J

,, hideous, to make
Nil admirari ((
((
" of it, to make a " conscire sibi )

Nightingale, an Arcadian " desperandum )

, the Cambridgeshire , dicit )

„ the Liege
Nightmare of Europe, the
,
"
imperat (
peccant oculi, si oculis
)
animus

(
Nihil ad Andromachen ( )
"

"
similius insano
)
tarn difficile est
quam e&ri'tw

quin quaerendo
()
ad rem
)( ( intestigari possiet

,
,,

,, debet
1
est annis velocius )

Nile, the hero of the

"

„
(
at sanitati multo vino nocentius

est tarn
) i
populare quam bonitas
^ Nimble
Nimrod, a
Nelson
as a tailor, as

—
"
(&)
hie nisi carmina desunt ( Nine days' wonder, a
, gods, the (1) [of the Etrus-
cans] Juno, Minerva, Tinia,
,,

(
homini
amicus
amico
)
est opportuno Vulcan, Mars, Saturn, Her-
cules, Summanus, Vedius;
the Sabines] Hercules,
(2) [of
"
(
largiundo gloriarn adeptvs
)
est Kom ulua, iEscula piua,
Bacchus, ^noas, Vesta,
,,

(
non acerbum prim quam ma-
turum fuit ) "
,,
Santa, Fortuna, Fides
Ladies, the
lives like a cat i
"

,,
^(
pretio parco, amico
lor

prodest
(ii )
'•
)

mprobam
dum opitu-

viercem emere
"
(SR
orders of augels,
Seraphim, Cherubim,
Thrones, Dominions, Virtues,
Powers, Principalities, Ax-
the
 "

Nine ( 357 ) No

Nine
channels, angels
Sisters,the
,, alternative but
, better than, to be
ft
;
.
spheres, the
Fl,^ , ffi
H ,7K ,, better th.in a begga r, to be

" chance

;:-
„ , the Tuneful " chicken, to be
" choice but

^
, Virgins, the
ways, to look " doubt
, worthies, the " , eiul of
$ff: Joshua, David, Judas , end of a fellow

(;
Maccabseus, Hector, Alexan- , fire without smoke '

der the Great, Julius Oesar, "go

King Arthur, Charlemagne, , great shakes
Godfrey of Bouillon joke
" Worthies of London, the later than ;;
Sir William Wal- laughing matter
worth, Sir Henry Pritcbard ,, less
Sir William Sevenoke, Sir " less than
Thomas White, Sir John " longer
Bonbam, Christopher Cro- „ longer do we believe
ker, Sir John Hawk wood, Sir "…-
Hugh Caverley, Sir Henry
'^
love lost between
Maleverer " man regrets more than I do
Nines, to the
Ninth degree, to the
" part of a man, a
; .
matter
match for
.

Niobe, a Niobe matter how much

: Tantalus
i
of nations, the
" matter when
„ matter which MmW~"B
means of escape
,, ,,

;
Nip and tuck
and tuck
;
contest, a
more
mistake

" more than

; ;;
in the bud, to ; occasion
„ offense ;
one can see the end :
in
(the head, to ( one, I suppose, would sav
H:

^^
,,

one's plan, to ......

the cable, to
;- one, I think, can fail to observe

^
iSitoucbe, a St. ......

Nizolian paper-books , one, I think, will dispute the

2?oargument enn overwhelm a fact statement
 H A

No ( 358 ) N on

No one need

,,
other
to
1¥
exaggerate the head, to
Nodding acquaintance, a —
room to swing a cat " grass
" small Nodal lines
, sooner but
,, sooner said than done 1 , points
, sooner than
„ stranger to, to be
,, such thing
; Noggin-staves, to beat to

,, talking in class Noise abroad, to

?( Noiseless foot of time, the ^^

„ ,thank you
" thorough faro
„ time for trifling
use
; Noisome pestilence
Noisy god, the
Nomadic tribe, a
Bacchus

" use trying Nomenclature of a science, the

" wonder
Nob of the first man, a Norn de guerre
& plume
(( )

) JSJiJ

Noble blood or birth Nominal capital

damages
,, bloods
,, countenance , exchange
„ courage „ horse power

„
,,
deeds
edifice, a
family, a
; wages
person
price

,, metals ( Nomination to a post, the

., sentiments
science, the ; Non-acceptance ;
Nominee to an office, the

-accepted bill
souls -business day

(
,,

,, stem -commissioned office

., to ninepence, to bring a " compos mentis

Nobody (being) the wiser constat ( )

-
Ifc
>*c3turnal birds
emissions "
ens (
-dutiable goods

generan* aqailae columbas (

" rambles ) bearing bonds

^
visits " -interest
Xo(l approbation, to
assent, to* n libct ( ) ^^
 ) •

Nod ( 3^0 ) Not

Non
,,
nit recordo
mult a, sed mid turn
( ( )
ducnplinf;, a Norfolk.

tumbler, ns active as a
"
„
-negotiable
obstante ( ( bill
Normal pressure
>, omnia possutnus omnes " right
?
((
" school
„ passibua xquis ,, year, a
„
"
possumux
progredi est
.
(
regredi
' )
North country compliment, a

,, semper erunt Saturnalia ( ,, star

Star State, the Min-

,, sequitur ( nesota

sibi, sed omnibus ( Northern Bear, the

„ glance

, sibi, sed pair ( "

,,
Harlot, the infamous
Elizabeth Petrovna
Herodotus, the
, specific things Snorre Sturleson
None
"
at all
else
of the clearest
; Herodotus
,,

"
lights
Semiramis, the Cath-
" of the heaviest arine II
,, the less ,, Victor, the Gustavus
the worse for Adolphua
Nose of wax, a
Noon night
of Nosey
Nooning, to take a
Nor can I forget either Nostradamus, a
Not a bit ;;
"

,,
can it

can we afford
justly be said

to lose time
a bit of
a button
a few
;; ; it

cau we now
......
ask g ; a hundred miles off (from)

a
;
;;
jot
,, do I believe a little
„ do I doubt a patch on
,, do pretend
I ...... a pin to choose
,

"
does it matter

must it
much

be forgotten ili
a
a
a
soul
whit
wink
;
of sleep
itiE above asking advice, to be
 , ^ K

Not ( 360 ) Not

;
Not an once

"
at all ;;:
better than, to be
to be

to be
mistaken
to be sneezed at
spoken of ;^
13
l

" born yesterday to breathe a eyllabje about

,, but to care a brass farthing

" but what *

" by any manner

Gharioted by Bacchus
of means to care a
to care a
damn
Gy
to care a pin for
for ; ^- *

to care a rush for

cricket to care a snap for

„
„
,,

,,
ever
far
for
from
nothing
; to care a straw for
to care to
to care which end goes first

" for the world :

" gloomy (about something), to to feel ashamed for telling a.

„
"
be
half () :
having a leg to stand on
He
to go above the balance g
;
having a moment one calls
to have all one's buttons
,
one's own ; /to know a B from a bull's foot
" in nature
„
"
in sight
in the least ;; to
to
know what- to do
know what to make of

"

"
.,

much
in eluded in
more than
to choose
; between
to leave a rack behind :
" much to one's honor, to be to mention
to part with the parings of

„
"
„
necessary
of the earth
only but also
; fig
one's nails
to say
to scruple to do something
seldom ;
,,

-,
slow to discover, to be

so good as ;
to sleep a
to speak
to stir a peg
of
wink
;
" so much as to stir a step
,, that to strike hard upon the anvil
,,

,,
that I know of
that least ;
to be had for love or motley ^
to turn a hair
to want for parts ^M^tM
 M

Not ( 361 ) Now

Not to yield
unwise
an inch
^;
to be done ;
„ willing to hear of ,, to do
„

,,
—
worth a farthing

worth a fig
ffi
,
,,

to speak of
Notice strangers, to
to fear

,, worth a pin " with pleasure, to ITri

"
, worth
worth
a straw Notional man, a
Notorious for #;
^
inquiring into
" worth powder and shot " robber, a
'
Nourish infants, to 1

" worth troubling one's mind one's parents, to

about
„ yet at the worst, to be „ rebellion, to
,, the heart, to
Notable affair,a ,, the soul, to
,,

"
" law, a
favor, a
housekeeper, a
^
„
Nouveau riche
Now and again
(; ;
the virtues, to

liar, a „ and then

Notary public, a „ , bear with me when I say
Note for a term
" me * k ,, comes the question
,, ofhand, a
payable at bank
\ ; ......

, ,, , comparing these instances

together
,, to order from these instances it is
Noted for ...... plain
, for generosity
Nothing beyond this ,, ,1 admit
" but
but this
; " I am far from denying
„ ife;

,, comes amiss to him . I am justified in calling this

......

"

,,
^daunted
else
for it
"

,
,

I
lam obliged to say

do not wish you to believe

Tf^,,
„ ;; less
like
than
,
.....
I have a closing sentence or

^;
,,

" loathe two

; of tlie kind, to be " , I shall not occupy your time

^^
"
„ ^ over
to „
,

,
I think of it
I wish to call your attention
 S

N ow ( 362 ) Oatli

Now it is not nt all strange U

Nunquam non paratus
Nuptial ceremonies
(#
or
)

rites
jit

unquestioned &
;
,, it is Naremburg eggs

„ ,

,
let me
est care
let me
speak with

stop a
^
moment
tlie great-
jfli
Nurembarg
Nurse the national resources, to

Nursery tale
Nurture a belief, to
,,
let me consider

. . Nut
„

"
an idea, to
to crack, a li ;
has no shell, to prove that a

,,

Nox
Noxious
that
(; air or vapors
Nutcrack Night

books

"
"
,,

influence
ic86CtS
herbs
;
^!
Nutmeg

cut
„
butter
State, the Connecti-

Nth, to the Nutritious food

Nucleus of a political party, the Nuts aside, to lay one's

Nudis ( ;
verbis ,, on oneself, to be
Nul bien sans peine

Null and void, to be

(ii
"
Nymph
on or upon, to be

(
to or for, to be
)
(() ;
Nulli secundus ( o
Nullum numen
() (
Nullus dies sine linea
abest si sit prudentia

)
for!
OGod!
1 that
(
•

Kuinb hand

Number one
with cold
;
misery!
Othat
well for me!
; ^
Bj|

of times, a Oyes
,, the waves, to Oar in every man's barge, to have
;
Numerical difference Oaten flute
an
ffi

Numerous progeny
Nunc aut nunquain ( Oath of allegiance
of supremacy ^ W
^
,,

Nuncupative will, a D
SS
Nunky pays on oatli
 *

Obadiah ( 363 ) Obtuse

Obadiah, an /' spectator, an

Obdurate pinner, an
Obedience to parents ! ill
-f
Observation of ceremonies
" to the law Observe civility, to
Obedient child, in ,, commands, to
,,
disposition, an ,, one's conduct, to
,, to comin'ands
" to government " the laws, to

Obey
will,
orders, to ;,
an
Observed
,, the Sabbath, to
of all observers, the
,,

Obiter dictum
Object lesson
the laws, to
( Obsolete word, an
Obstinate adherence to one's opini-
„ of fear on
,, of love, the " as a mule, as
,, of reproach " defence, an
„ of sight fever

;5
,,

of thought " in everything, to be

,, to, to
Objective point
Obliged, to be ; Obstruct a passage, to
" one's progress, to
;
Oblique direction, an Obstruction in the bowels
, hint, an
an Obtain a hearing, to
,,

,,

„
line,
projection, an
section, an
( ,,

"
by chance, to
by improper means, te
,, ways
Obliterate all traces, to ^J^; , by mere luck, to
the conscience, to " deliverance, to [
" forgiveness of sin, to
Obnoxious to laws
Obs and sols
Obscure bird g|
"
,
freedom, to
happiness, to
^
„ corners of the earth, the " one's wish, to

,,

,,
language
persoD, an
',
„
pardon, to
the ear of, to ;
" the merit of another man, the victory, to
to under false pretences, to
Obscurum per obscurius (T) ,,

Observance of duties, the

Observant of one's word
Obtrude one's opinion,

Obtuse senses
oneself, to ^ to
B0

of rules sound, an
 B

Obviate ( 864 ) Of
Obviate difficulties, to „ smell, an
,, future calamities, to
Odium modicum
truth, nn
(
Obvious defect, an
,,

,,
meaning
to all
„
^
theologicum (
Occasion anxiety, to Odoriferous ingredients
,, joy, to „ vapor
,, one's death, to Odessey Homer
" the loss of life, to #^cOdys?eus Ulvsses
Troy
„ trouble, to
Occasional cause, the Odou-r of sanctity, in the
;
Occult cause
,,
„ visits

sciences
OEdipus ( Thebes

Occupy a
,,a post, to
fort, to

;; Of a certain age
, an

,, oneself with, to
Occur to one, to
Occurrence of life
ft
, a certainty
,, a child
; W
Ocean gre-yhound, a , a
,, a
fact
piece ;;;
5i;

„ of sorrows, an " a sudden

;
;;
(
„ Shepherd, the " a truth
Walter Raleigh
Sir account
Oceanides
Ocean us
Oceanus mW
adamant
" age, to be ;
;^
" all sorts and kinds
Ocnus, the rope of . " all things ;;
Ocular
"
,
deception, an
intercourse, an
witness, an
©* ,,

, blood
another make
birth

;;
Odd day, an „ celestial birth
,, ends ,, character
,, fellow, an ,, consequence
,, job, an course
,,
number, au „ daily occurrence B
,, volume, an
Odda and ends
,, and evens, to be
; at
„ deep or
,, degree
, distinction
dark dye

;
Odious measure, an B^il ,, flesh and blood
sight, an g " force
 BE L 8

Of ( 365 ) Offend

Of good heart, to bo ; II state ;

" great note
, heavenly origin
,, itself
" steady habits, to be
,,the first water
" the opinion, to be
—; ^
jet ,, the same flesh and blood
„ kin
, late
life
1

;
and death
, the same kidney
" the same mind, to be
,, this statement I will only say
,,

„
long duration
long standing
my own
;
]^
, two minds
, use
necessity yore
,,

,,
no
no
account
avail ;;M Off and on
" at a tangent
" no
" no effect ; :^
consequence „
"
by heart
color
„ no
, no use
manner
ffl;
of use ,,

„
day, an
duty ;
:;
" noble blood
, old ;
one kind or another
,
„
from
-hands
'8 chump, to be
,, one mind

" one thing however, I am certain

one 's guard,

one
s
d
;
haad
head
to be

" one's bosom s mind

. one's doing 's nut
one's own
, one's own accord
„ one's own making "
one ,s oats

or on
's own bat ;
" one's own motion ,, side
one's stamp
oneself ;; ,
„
the hinges.
the hooks

,
opinion, to be
passage ; ,
the reel
the wind ()

^
, prime with him!
,,
purpose iAM ., with you
rank year in business, an
, right
,, royal blood Offence against propriety, an ij§

" service ^ to, to be an

"set purpose Offend against heaven, to
, small consequence or account,
to be
" sound mind
„
"
reason, to
the eye, to ;
 H ) S H

( m Old

Offend the rules of propriety, to dear! Oh dear me

m , for
Offensive and defensive weapons , Lord!
me!
( W)
" ,

,, breath my!
, smell, an ,, that ……
,, sound, an ,, ,to be a king W
"
,,
to the stomach
words ,, yes ;;
Offer a bribe, to
" a price, to
ijg Oil of palms
„ on troubled waters ; ;
,
"
a reward, to
an opinion, to n one's old wig, to ( fi?
,,

"
battle, to
for sale, to
Old a be
, age ^i
Abraham Lincoln

,
„
presents, to
resistance, to ; " acquaintance, an
t,
as a crow, as
,,

„
„
the knee, to
to one's view, to
tribute, to MM
; "

"
as an eagle, as
as Methuselah, as
as the hills, as
„ up a request, to ,• bachelor
, up a sacrifice, to ,, Bay State, the Massa-
„ up prayers, to WrM chusetts
"
,
up taxes, to
violence to one, to
,,

"
,,
bendy
blade, an
Bona Fide
; Louis XIV
" violence to a woman, to ,, boy
,, buffer, an
Office expenses
,, furniture ,, Bullion Thomas
,, hours Hart Benton
Offices of love
Official attendants
ffi ,,

,,
Catholics
Colony, the ' Massachusetts
,,

,,
authority
circles ; " Country, the
,,

"
,,
dignity
document, an
duties
; ,,

„
Dominion, the

driver 5E
Virginia

,,
residence, an ,, ephraim
" situntion,
Officiate as a teacher, to
an
4
,,

,,
faithful, the
fashioned ; 3^
Offset a charge against another, to

Oh, come!
,,

,,

,,
fellow!
flame
Fox
; B
Soult
 S
g

Old ( 367 ) Omnipotence

Old Fritz Frederick the Great Zachary Taylor

,,

,,

,
Gentleman, the
Glorious
Glory ((
William III
)
Rowley
salt, an
Charles
; II

,
,,
Gooseberry
hand, an ;; ,,

,,
school
Scratch

"
Harry
hunks ;
head on young shoulders, an
I
"
screw
Serpent, the
sod, the

„
„

Lady of Threadneedle Street,

„

,,
sol
song
(
the , style Julian
" law, the [
,, Line State, the Maryland
" maid '
„ Testament
"

"
maid's children
man, the
man Eloquent, the (1) Socrates,
„
"
thief, an
times
-wife
; ;^
^
(2)S. T. Coleridge,
Quincy Adams,
Gladstone
(4)
(3) John
W. E.
,,
wine ;
wives' tale
, man of eighty winters woman, an
, woman
of Brentford, the
,, Morality Willian " world, the

,
Henry Smith
mustache
N"ick
" Zach James Buchanan
Olfactory sense, the P
Olibriue, an
;
'I Noll Oliver Olive branch, to hold out the
Cromwell
,, North State, the North branches
"
Carolina of peace f
,, Pom Lord Palmer- Oliver asking for more, like
ston Oliver
,, Poker ,, Twist, an
Pretender, the James II
,,

,,
James Edward Stuart
Public Functionary, the
OUa podrida (
James Buchanan Olympic games
,, Put IsraelPutiuan
Reliable George Henry Ominous dread
,,

Thomas
Roman luxury ; , of evil ^
», Bough and Beady
Omnibus-box
Omnipotence
" of good

of
^
money
 g ^

Omnipotent ( 368 ) On

Om nipotent God,
Omnium gatherum
Omnivorous animals
the
( )
good behaviour, to be

good terms ;
A» a
a
blow, to be
general review
guard
hand ; (
a
_
&
large scale
„ „„
par f3 ah; ^tf jjs.
.

mJlH>/J^T^»
. Bfl ^ifr
|pj ^> Rl t&
ipJ^vL high
his
;
her beam ends

own showing
M

a small scale
a smoKe
a spree
,^ its account .
a auciaen m^t^m its legs
account TT^JiVS^K leave
account of mortal stage
all account my soul W S
all fours
-11
all V»rt"/lo
nanas
all sides
^
w&i
^&S2IA "V

mm]
ft

mm
no account
occasion
one side
^
an average ^p^j one's account
and ott one's back, to be
, and on one s charge S
any or every account one's ear H) (
any consideration
D£ta
bail
terms, to oe W
,,

,,
one's foot, to be
one s
one's hand
guard ;
beoali 01 one's high horse
"— -

one s 1honor pi Jtf kX^WMm

^
^SSl
board
both sides of the Atlantic " one's last legs
" call ' one's legs, to
, credit ,, one's life W
'
,
,
j
demand
deposit
duty
i

; 1s tff« Art i
BP
u
,,

,,
one's own accord
one's own account |S

n "k 1 ^ J
each nana S -/ , one's own bat
end !&44^44 one's own hook
equal terms , one's own ground, to be
every account
one s pins miLymW^
ever side
tile
fire
,

, \
one's side
one's way
|t ?
foot one's way back (home)
foot, to be ; pain of
y;
ior anything penalty of
 ji -

On ( 369 ) Od

On purpose ;
"
,,

,,
purpose to
sale
second thought
the
the
the
eve
eve of
face of
;;
it

,,

,,
Shanks' mare
short commons ; fl
the fair way (road) to anything

;
,, sleep
sure ground ;; the
the
fall
fence, to be ;
"
,,

,,
tap
tenterhooks ;;
terms with, to be ;^
the
the
the
flow
gale
ground
; of (that)
,,

"
that account
that ground
;; the go ;
"
the alert
the anxious bench
the guard
the high horse, to be ;
"
,,

,,
the
the
the
back of
berth
bowhand
; the high road

the high rope

to,

;
to b«

the bowhand
"
,,

„
the
the
brain
brink of
(of justice the high seas
the horns of a dilemma, to be

,,
the
the
the
briny
cards ;
carpet, to be
the
the
the
increase
instant
im

jack of. to be

" the cheap

the
the
jar
;; n3

^
jee
^;
;;
,, the-condition that the jump
,,

,,

"
the contrary
the
the
cross
decline
the
the
the
line
look-out
march 1
'
" the decrease the mending hand, to be
" the defensive, to be m >

;( ;
the distaff side (the) motion of

,, tho docket ( )
the
the
the
move
nail
neck of
,, the dust the nose ()
,, the east the offensive, to be
" the ebb j

" the edge (brink) of a precipice, i the other hand

,,
to be
the edge of winter
the European plan .
the
the
the
part of
pin ;;, ^
point of
 ^

On ( 370 ) One
Oi) the quiet " this wise
the qui vive
the rack
the racket
; "
" time ;
tick (ticket)

',

.
the rampage, to be
the right
( "
i)
tiptoe, to be
too
trial ;
many for, to be

, the road
the rocks ; "
"
your charge
your ;
^;; ^
life
,; the same bottom
,,. the score of Once again
the sea and again
„
"
the sick list
the side of the angels, to be
" and away
and for all
for all
; ^:
^
,,

•
, the sly " in a blue moon
" the spot " in a way ()
,, the spur of the moment u in a while
;
,,

,,
the square ;
the square with any one, to be
.,

„
more
or twice
upon (on) a time
li o after another
n
,
,,
the stab
the stage
the stocks
;^ ,,

-
after the other
and all
and one
the strength of , ,ai)d the same
the stretch
the supposition
the tapis
; , another
becomes more a man

,,
,

the tip of one's tongue belongs to himself

by one ~s
^
,, the trail of can hardly reconcile oneself
;
,, the verge
;
of to anything

;;
, the wane
', the watch cannot choose but be
,. the way ;
,,

,
,.
the
the
the
whole
wing
wrong
;^:
side of the blanket
c ui.es to
comes
(lay
to
know
think
-^
hfe
favored with the visits of
the wrong side of (thirty) 3 queen Mab
further word
this side idolatory has cut up well .
,. this side of the grave has his nose in the air
t) this side the grave
 * B )

One ( 371. Only

One has oneself to blame head does not ache

,,

,,
-horse
Mr. A
; ; heart aches
heart failing him
heart sinks with him -
,, of ten thousand hi-liar self f

hour (time) is come

,
,,
of these davs
or other
;
; life was cut short
Ion r home

"
or two
-sided view ; money's worth
mouth waters
^; & for anyiln'ng

"
"
single bit
square meal
swallow does
summer — not make a
native heaven
to be
i, to be
^ !^
tmu
„ way
;
or another be
pecker
^ if
r

,^
or mistress, to

who makes
"

,,
31
wields a caustic pen
a God of his belly ,
.
"
plea
prime
proper c-re
is

¥
east fl

# .

;:
^ ^(
" second self
with , self
with another
,, „ spiritis with God

,, year with another sweet wilt

One's after life MM)
. " bad (worse) angel " temper is severely tried
,, better half
, better part " tribute to another
,, blood beats high truth ^;
„
,,
blood cries
blood is up
boat sails in smooth waters Only
"
"
ways
world
a child,
: he is

, bottom dollar
,
.
a farmer, he
a step ; i

,,

,,
bonnden duty
bowels yearn upon his son
"
.,
child, an
—
from day to day

,,
business, to be
crest falls
,,

,,

>,
one
so-so
;
listen to ine li

doom
,,

,,

,,
is

fancied sight
golden cloud
sealed
& il ti ,,

,,

"
that
too
wonder
;
is ,the
[^
,
"
good(better)angel
hand is always opeji ^ ,,
75r

yesterday ;
 * K9 g

Ouward ( 372 ) Open

Onward movement, an guilt

heart, an
Ooze awav to SSfr land
out. to M library, an
Open a bargain, to '!?M nature
a boil, to one's purse strings, to
a book, to
a case in court, to
one's eyes, to
one's mind, to ^A^
a el ison 99inn to Rt1f^f»hWm
a door to. to
a door with. En axe, to
^^ oneself, to
order
out, to ;
• port
a knot, to question
a letter to mm
a ITlPPtill^ to robbery H
a nort. to rupture
a bIiod to 1£ sale
,
a vien tn KHMifti sea
a wav to Baig-gasi season,an
^ ft
a
C*

acts
wa v
TT C* J" of
V/ fiscane. to
^5**^/%^ VV/ |7f5
Sft
ALTAI i*-U secret,an
sesame, an ;
air
an account, to
^>W-'f5^?
5l5 sky ;
an umbrella, to
and. above board
arms
space
;
the ball, to
the budget, to
as the day
bottle, an
Kv forrft tr> fif^M9
bv Duahine? to j#.B3
;
the campaign, to
the eye of, to

parriflcyp an 4tt M the eyes, to

/•on nt.rv ^Pifb the eyes of a person, to W
uayxigut
dififirrflop

•door nolirv
•UUUi pulley
an
1
BBSM'iBfr?^
4/^ \fri^KifsS\}JR
the
the
the
lips, to
lock, to
mouth, to
;
Mf^A
ear,
enemy
fire, to
an
^ ;^ the
the
to
question, to

;;
trenches, to Pfl
Itfft
Sll^i

fire upon an enemy, to to danger

to discussion
for an engagement to suspicion &^.^tW

flower, an 99
to the view, to
tract, »n ^
 j
i H

Open
,,
up, to
world, the
; "
.,
occasion
price
;
Opening for an engagement ,, run
Operations of nature sailor
Operative poison
Opportune death
Oppose a bill in parliament, to
* "
share
telegram
Ordinance survey, the
' iHlii

,, an enemy,
right principles, to
to
*

Ore rotundo
teaus ( (
,,

,, the authorities, to
,,

Orestes ( )

Agamemnon
Oppressive government

,,
laws
taxes
; ,,

Organic bodies
,,
and Pylades

disease
•

;
Opprobrious fame, an
Optical delusions
Optional studies
Or
,,perhaps
else
^ , law or laws
remains
Organize a society, to
an army,
Organized hypocricy, an
to
^f"tfc

,,the like
Oracle of God, the Orient floods
Oriflamme, the B
Orange blossoms, to gather, Original appearance of things

Orator of the

Orbs of light
human race, the
Jean Baptiste Oloots
M
J

'
"

-,
draft
element ;
facts of a case, the
Order a carriage, to
,, arras () ,, genius
blank , manuscript, an
,, book " process, an
,, by example ,,
proprietor, the
,, of battle " sin
„ of payment
of the day, the ; state,
text
the

^
,, : ,

an
thief,
Orderly book
child,
()
an
„ thought ;
„
,,
officer
room ((); „ virtue
Originate with a person, to
Ordinary capacity
,,

"
clothes
days
; Ornament with virtue,
Ornamented with gold
to

" meeting Ornamental style, an

 ^ W | i '

plieus ( 374 ) Out

Orpheus
^^^ ^
^^ ) Ju pitor^Oalliope -Herod Herod, to ;
in one's reckoning
, of
tury, the ^
the L ghtecnth cen-
iiaud^l of
;
; ;;
;
in the cold

O'CaroIiin
" of the Green Isle, the
furlough ;.
of all cess
......

of Hiyh way men, the of all patience, to be

Jolm Gay
Orthodox religion, an
Orthographic projection
Osier-holt [
of all scotch
of blue
of breath
; ^{{

Ossa, to heap Pel ion upon

Ostend, to hold out as long as
of
^
breath witii running

Ostrich policy, an if-'^ ^ of ca ,h

of
:

character ^ ^:
r
eb
ff;

stom ach, an
Other day, the B ^ of collar
of common ; .

,
"
fish to fry

^
side of the river, the
of conceit
of countenance ;;'
with
4:

side of the shield, the

^
-^ :
^^ V
of course
of thui.^er
of date
of design
;
,^
. iVl^it^ittSCji

s
i£

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of
of
doors
doubt
i-i ploy
^
,
'jj^j

^^^^jmgMjdiM
^;
„
,
Our Lady
than
years
of fashion
of favor
of frame
^
" time .
mortal heiuisphere
'^.i

un wrung
of
of -ear
hand
:^
gathers
^^
^; ^
.,

^
witli-urf ar^ j
of
of harm's way
^
£11;

IE

;
i

Out Ami nway of harness

„ and out ^
5j of hearing
;
^'
a no outer, an :g of health
hope
^'^
^ I
of
at elbows UnilM of heart

-;,
.:
., at heels of humor ^tJaM^fC
., at present, to hs of joint, to be
at sea, to be of keeping ['H

at servico, to be JSli^c of kilter

 |

Out Over

Out
„
of level
of luck
j
"
, ;
ot the
of time ;
world

"
"
"
of
of
of
measure
mere curiosity
mind
i ,
of
of
of
touch
touch with time
tune
-
,, of one's knowledge ,, o: twist, wind, or winding

"
„
of one's
of one's
mind
own head f4
of use
of work
on or upon
;
„ of one's senses

^
,,

,, of one's teens , -patient

,,

"
,
of
of
of
order
place
pocket
,; 31
}

j
with
»pon you
West
;
,,

„
„
of
of
of
print
question
quiet
; I

j
. with any one, to be
„ with it
Outbreak of a volcano, an <
'

„ of reach m
; ^^
,, of reason , of rebellion, an
, of repair, to be S j
Outgrow an intirmity^ to
" of season • " usefulness, to 4^?

,
,
of sight
of sorts ;; ^ Outlandish behavior
,, dress
„
"
„
of spirits
of
of
temper
the common
; i

'
Outpour one's heart,
Outrage decency, to
„ one's feelings, to
to

of the common run j

Outrageous weeping
, of the corners of one's eyes, to j
Outrun the constable, to
watch I Outside passenger, an /^
, of the frying-pan into the fire
A Outstanding account or

^ j
bill
of the gutter
" of the pale )f . … j

j
Outstrip the wind, to
Outward appearance
.

;-
" of the perpendicular „ bound
of the question ^
^^
n

,, of the race, to be
"
,
,
favor
form
man, the
parts
, of the solar walk , worth
Z Outwatch the B,«ar, to
,, of the sphere of |?

m
„
of the way ; ;
of the woods (wood)
'
Over a glass
"
"
again
against
of wine

; W
Ove ( 376 ) Own
Over and above
, and again :;
; '.
Overrun the constable,
Oversee an opportunity, to
Overset a government, to
to

,, and over ,, a plot, to

, and over again Overshoot oneself, to K;
, head and ears :
" head and ears in debt |
the mark, to
,, night the truth, to
Overshot- wheel, an
,, the chimney ' Overslip an opportunity, to
;
;;
,. the ears Overstep a limit, to

"
,,
the
the
the
left
nick of
(;
fixed time "
,
one's duty, to
the boundary of proprie-
ty, to mm
„ the people, (o be Overtaken by rain, to be
" waythe Overthrow a country, to
Overcharge an account, to " a man at law, to

" the memory, to " an army, to

,, justice, to

Overcome a
" the stomach, to

disease, to
Overthwart
Overtop the
,,
age, to
the
clouds, to
neighbors
;^
,,

"
an enemy,
difficulties, to
evil, to BW>
to
^ Overturn anenemy, to
Overwhelmed with favors, to be

, oneself, to " with horror, to be

,, people with virtue, to [
,, with sorrow, to be S
,,with joy, to be Overworked horse, an
Owe a grudge, to ;
^
, with sorrow, to be
Overgrown with weeds [ " another a day in harvest, to
Overhaul a ship, to
" an account, to " gratitude, to
Overland journey, an , it to, to ^;
Overlook a book, to „ one a spite, to
" a valley from a hill, to Owing to
Owl light
-
it other's fnults to , shall match the nightingale,
,,workmen, to when the
Overplus in money, an Own one's crime, to
Overpower a hostile army,

Overreach oneself, to
to ,,

,, up, to ^
the soft impeachment, to
Ox ( 377 ) Pall

Ox goeth to the slaughter, as an Pain oneself, to

[ Painful blow, a
,, on one's tongue, tc have " service, a
thought, a
,,
P Paint a landscape, to
P. and q, to be „ a likeness, to
Palmhtm Acherontis
Pace a piece of
(—T)
ground, to
„
,,
black, to
bright colors, tc ;
......

to
,
and fro, to
to go the [ "
,,
in oil, to
the dead, to
the lily, to
;
(
,,

Pacific blockade
nature
,, ,, the town red, to
words
, W Painted sepulchre, a ;
Pacify contending partler, to sheath, a
, wrath, to MM ,, wings
Pack a
„
„
jury, to
cards, to ;
goods in a box, to
Painter's colic
Pair of spectacles, a
" of stairs, a
,; of hounds, a ,, off, to A
,,

" out, to ;
off or away, to
,, royal
, up, to
up one's awls and be
to
gone,
Pairing-time
Paladin, a
Palatable advice, a
;
,,
up one's traps, to food
Packing case
,, -needle, a L

-sheet, a
^ Palaver, the National
Falamedes, a
Pale as a corpse, as
Pacolet's horse; a horse of Pacolet „ as a ghost, as
" as a lily, as
Pactolian " as death, as
Pactolus, as rich aa
Pactum illicitum ( ,,

"
face, a
glory of the northern sky

Pad in the straw, a

, the hoof, to
Paddle one's own canoe, to
( .,

"
-hearted
light of the
md
moon, the

Paddy
,,-wliack, a
, with fright
Palinody, a
Palinurus, a $tX
;
Pfean, to sing the ng Palingeuesia of heaven and earth,
Paid-up capital the
policy Pall one's ardour, to 1^41
 % ) - g

Pall (m Pat

Pall the appetite, to ter

^
;^
Palladio, the English
.Tnigo Jones ( Andrea P.il- Pangs death, the
of
ladio of despair, the
Palladium, a

^(
ladium Troy
^ Pal- Panliandle State, the
Virginia
Panjandrum, the Great
West

Pallas
Pallas' bird ^ Pnnt after, to
Pantfigruelian herb, the
;
Palliate a disease, to Pantheon, the English |i
„ an offence, t Westminster Abbey
pain, to Panther a bone, to wear a comb of
Palm new

"
,,
of
off, to
for old, to

gallantry

;
^ Panting
Pan urge
the heart, the
of
asked if he
marry, as
should
[fii

"
Sunday
oil

Palma non site pulvere ( )

Pap with
^
Paper house, a
money
a hatchet, to give

Palmette State, the

Carolina
Palmyra of the North, the
South ,,

"
"ar
,,
of tobacco, a —R
Petrograd Paphian qaeen (goddess) the
Palpable proof Venus

^
Palsy, ths gentleman's Papillae ofthe tongue, the
Paltock's inn Par of exchange
Paltry fellow, a
Pamper the body, to
Par acces (
accident
uvance
(
( M(
Pan
" the imaginatiou, to

(, ^Mercury ^ ,,

., complaisance
depit (( ^
(
) 4 S
& $ *: '\
^ ,,
excellence .

out, to : exemple
,, ,,

(
Panacea, a
acea
fig Pan-
Wscalapius
. favevr
force (( (4,. n

Pandean pipes ^LM

husard
noblle frotrum ( ^
^ ('
,,

Pancake Tuesday (Day) BB

( ^^^^
|||
omn-i (

Pandaras, to play Sir, to ,

pari ref>fro > fjH
Pandora )

Bn^ltl^'Mim'Sn
Vulcan
Jupi- } /n-ecaufion (
 @ ^

Fr.r ( 370 )

Par pr>nh:ge,
,, ^'OM de
((
vvipris $S
Pars an Runo, a
Parson's nose, the H
I'ariulise of exiles,
Paragon
,,
of beauty, a
of virtue, a
the
"
ij
Part a cable, to
"
"
and parcel
company, to
;
I'n/allel case, a " from, to
, force gold from silver, to
" motion
"
"
ruler
standard
"
,,
of
with, to ;;
P..rbLus, tho
iMrc" tlie ( Clotho
,
"
with a friend, to

(
with one's own, to
Lschesis,
Parcel blind
„
"
of ground, a
of rogues, a
+A 1 ropos

—
—
Parti pris
Partial lo ve
,, mother, a
tothe youngest son
,
,,

"
of
out, to
woes, to
merchandise,
— a

I
" view, a
Particular account, « ;
Parched ground
Pj^^fcps'
J)iU-d:m a crime, to
^^ "
,, friend, one's
in one's conduct, to be

"
Pardonnble crime, a
me „ in one's dress, to bo -
"J
Pare one's nails, to '..
,, news
" one's privilege, to K- , order, a
(
(
lj

Pares cw:) paribus

Pari passu
Paris ( ^
; T) H'

Prhun
; I

j
Parting day
"
"
foast, a
gift, a
;
II ' u ba ( 'Menelaus^.
" sorrow
m Helen |Tij Troy L , speech, a
„ words
,, garden, a rai'tition of a state, the
I

Dame

^
of J.ip.nn, the Partlet,
j

Parliamentary train, to $ j
Fartridcr-'s Day, St.
Parnassus
„ to climb

^( ^
,

Parol les in a pedagogue's wig, a

ifij
'
Party spirit
Parvenu, a
rnsch 3«:g, a
;
laroxysm of rage Pascal's gulf

m^m^ ( ; ^
Pars adiersa ,) Pass a dividend, to
„ magna
(irr ,, an examination, to
Parsloy, to need noilung but ,t au opinion, to ,^JL
 i

( 380 )

obedience
^
Pass a person into a theatre, to
,
,,

spectator

,
,,
away,
by, to
current, to
;;
to

;
Past ages

"
„ all belief
endurance ifij

,, for, to feeling
, from mouth to mouth, to ,, injury
" in mind, to
„
,,

"
in review, to
into, to ;
into other hands, to
" offences
Pastoral duties

;:
,, into stillness, to ,, poem, a
"
,,
muster, to
of arms, a
;; Pat on the back, to
Patch up, to
,,

,,
off,
on, to
to
; ,, up a business, to
up an old house, to
"
"
,,
on or upon, to
oneself off, to
one's eye, to .
„
Paternal care
estate
,,
^
upon it, not a

, one's word, to Path of righteousness, the

,,

„
ordera
over, to
over the bridge, to
;; ,, of rectitude, the
Pathetic song, a
Patient as Job, as
,, round the hat, to " as Griselda, as
" sentence, to „ endeavor
the business, to ,,of hardship
, the chair, to ,, of heat and cold
Patriarch of Ferney, the
,,

,,

,,
the day of time, to
the gauntlet, to
the Rubican, to
" the time, to ;;
- *
Ferney
Patrimony of
Voltaire

St. Peter, the

" understanding, to
" water, to Patron of art, a f

Passable beauty, a , saint

Passage of arms
,, of time, the
Pattering rain
Pattern after, to ;;
Passenger car, a
,, station, a
,, for needle work, a
Faucis verbis SE (
Passing bell (knell)
,, notice
soul
Passionate love
" nature
Paul Pry, a
Paul's man, a

,,

,,
pigeons
Tide, St.
walkers IB
^
Passive commerce
Pause ( S81 ) Pel

Pause upon, to Jtt

Pave a road with stone, to out, to

, t

„ round, to (
„
,,

Pax, to cry
the meadow, to
the way for, to ; „
,,
the 'lebt of nature, to
the fiddler, to
the forfeit, to S3
;
( T)
,,

,,
in hello
cwm!
u> ) ( ,,

,
the penalty, to
the pipper, to If ;
Pay a poor compliment
,, a visit, to
" attention, to
; to, to
[
" through the nose, to

up, to
,, by instalments, to „ with the roll of the drum, to
" cash, to
" compliments to, to li IS Payable at fixed time
„ court to, to on a fixed day
,,
,, dear (dearly) , to ifk
to bearer
„ dear for the whistle, to
Peace of God
"
dt
deference ;
#
to, to
Peaceful end, a
,, time, a jfc
,,

,,
double debt, to
down, to ^;
i
" words
Peal of thunder, a
,,

,,

,,
for, to
good, to
homage,
;:
to
„
Pear
one's ears, to
of confession —
home, to
,,
Pearl in price, above a
,,

,,

"
in advance, to
in full, to ;
in one's own coin, to
,

Peck
of the West Indies, the

at, to ;I
,,

,,

,,
in the
no regard,
off, to
same
;; ;
coin, to
to
,,

Peckham,
of troubles, a

Peculiar friend, a
to

to a person, to
go to

"
off old scores, to
on, to Pecuniary difficulty
„ one by the job, to Pedantic 3tyle, a
one's address to, to Peep forth, to
" one's duty, to " through one's eyes, to
,, one's duty at court, to
., one's footing, to
one's respects to, to ; „
Peeping Tom, a
of day, the

Peevish answer, a
&
^
^
,, one's tribute to, to
,, one's way, to Peg a person back, to
" one's way as one goes, to away, to
 " ^ R

Peg c m ) Pere

-
Pegasus
out, to
; )
Pe:mv-H-liner, a
' ,
,,

Peine forte et dure

Pelican State, the
, to ride
( g^fU
Louisiana
"

"
-fatter, a
gaflf,

to bless
a
himself with, not a

Pellean Conqueror, the 35 ,. to cost a pretty

Pelt with atones, to

Pella

Pen and iukhorn clerk, a

; "

,
, to give one's life for a

wedding, a

Penal act, a 2 " wise and pound foolish

„ code, a .

;
,
„ colony, a Pennyworth, to get one's
„ laws ih
Penang lawyer, a People of condition
Pepper a person, to
" and salt
Pendant branches , to Hindustan, to send
,, fruits
Pending question,
Penelope
Icarus
( a

Ulysses ^ R:
Per
,,
annum
bearer
with shot,

;
to

" centum (cent)

Penelope
. contante
conto
(
((
" the web of
,
" contra
curiam (
(Penelope ,,

"
diem

((
fas et nefas
m
Penetrate a doctrine, to
B
gradus
interim ( (
per terras
„ no deeper than one's

,,
senses, to

^ " the secrets of nature, to ,,

saltum
(
(()

„ the soul, to
to one's marrow, to
,, u
viam ( ;
T)

Perceive beforehand, to
"^ ^
Perceptible by the eye ML
yVto the bottom, to
JVnetrating wind, a
"
;
by tlie uuderataniiing

^.
Peninsnla State, the
*
Florida
+
W "W;
Perdu, to lie
JJere dejamille (; ^
 ^

Peremptory ( 883 ) Personal

Peremptory commandB
Perfect in the use of arms ,, to land, a g
to open hatches, to
„

"
"
knowledge
man, a
victim, a
; ,,

"
to reexport, a
to ship, a
to tranship, a
„ number, a Perpetrate a crime, to
Perform a ceremony, to T,f " a wicked act, to
,, a part, to Perpetual existence
,., a religious service, to |§ ,, Jease, a
,, line
„ at a theatre, to motion ffiiS

,, one's duties, to " peace and friendship

one's promise, to
„ the offiee of nature, to possession 1g
,,

repose
,
Performance on the stage Perpetuity of fame, the
^«
()
Perfumed terms of the time Perplexed business, a
in mind

( ^
Peri „
Persecute one for the sake of re-
ligion, to
Perilous action fi^ff Perseus Jupiter Dainae
" precipice, a Athene Hermes
, undertaking, a Medusa Andro-
Period of plenty, a [ meda
Periodic stars Perseverance in good ®
" variation , in sin
Periodical epidemics Persevere in virtue, to t
,, return ,, to the end, to tg
, - wind Persian Alexander, the
Perish by the sword, to Sandjar
,, with cold, to , apple
,, with hunger, to ,, blinds
Perk the ears, to ,,
powdar
up the head, to ,, Horace, the
Permanent investment
,, way
Permit for mooring alongside, a
Persona grata
„
Omai,

gratissim%
((
Khayyam

, for sea transportation, a Personal appearance

„ attendants
.^
;
"

n
for ship's store, a

for warehouse in bond, a

.,

„
,,
charms
conflict
estate £;^
 &

Personal ( 384 ) Philosopher

Personal esteem
" feeling
,,

,,
maitre
treason
) (
interview Mjt Petition against, to
,, practice ,, for furlough, to f
" statement Petrarch of spain Gar-
Personated devotion, a cilass de la Vega
Persuasive eloquence , the English Sir
Pert as a pyet, as Philip Sidney
„ as a sparrow, as Petrified feelings
" as a tailor at a wedding, as " with astonishment, to be

Pertain to, to |g ; Petticoat government

Pertinacious beggar, a S
,, study 1g ,, influence
Pertinent discourse Petty a
affair,
„
,,
evidence

Perturbation
illustration
of the heavenly
„
"
cases
dislike
expenses
^
bodies ,, gains
Peru, that is not i " kingdom, a
,, to long for
, ^ „ resentment
Peruvian bark || " spirit, a
Pervade the soul, to Phaeton, a
„ the whole world, to Phaeton's bird
" car g
Perverse conduct Pharoah, a
world, a
Perve/t a maid, to
the law, to g
Pharoah's chicken
Pharian fields, the
Phases of the moon, the
^ J©
tl the manners, to Philadelphia lawyer, a .J^
,, the truth, to
Pervious to winds Philander, to
Pestilential disease Philemon and Baucis
" exhalations
,, vapor
Petard, hoist in one's own
Philippic, a
Philistine, a ;
^
Philosopher of China, the
Petaud, the court of King ,, of Feruey, the
King Petaud Voltaire

Peter out, to
Peter man, a
; Ferney
Malmesbury, the
of
Thos, Hobbes
Petit jury ,, of Persia, the

„ larceoy Abou ibu of SUiras

Philosopher ( 385 ) Picturedf

Philosopher of Samosata, the

Lucan a lock, to
-, ofSan Souci, the a person's procket, to
Frederick the Great " a quarrel, to
of Wimbledon, the a thank, to
John Home Tooke ,, acquaintance with, to

the
with the golden thigb,
,
Pythagoras
"
,
and choose, to
at or on, to ;
Philosopher's game
,, stone
Philosophic care
; "
,,
fault, to
holes, to ;
^
,. -me- up
rhlegrian size, of of the basket, the
Phocensian despair
Phoebus as fair, as
"
off, to ;
of the flock, the

"
Phoenix, a
' lamp ;
;^ "
"
one's company, to }f ji*
one's crumbs, to

"
,,
among, a
period (cycle), a
… ,,

,,
one's way or steps, to
mm
out, to ;^
^ t

Phosphoric sea, a
"
"
straws, to
to pieces, to;;
;;[ .'
Photograph a view, to the ear, to
Photographic picture „ the nose, to
Phylactery, a
" up, to ;
the teeth, to J

,,

Phyllis, a
Pbyllise the fair, to
,

;
to make broad the
,,

Picked out
up information, to
up the thread of, to StT^lfi

Physic to a dead man, to bring " soldiers

Picket-guard
Physical constitution Pickle fish, to
,
,
,,
education
examination
herbs
^ ,,

"
,ina
in or out of one's ain poke
nook or pock nock, to ^
,, laws

,,
„
strength
point
science ; Pickwickian sense, in a

Pictorial imagination
Physicians, the prince of
Avicenna
Pick a bone with one, to
a fowl, to
Picture ai full length

"
,, -gallery
one's future, to
!
" a hole iu one's coat, to Pictured scene, a Sti^
 W ) ^

( Pilot

Picluresque scene a poke, a () K;

Pie, in spite of the
powder, a
,,

Piebaltllanguages
; ^|.M;!S]^

, louj?
Piece by piece
"
,
-goods
of artillery
of eight
[)
" loves marjoram, as a
-skin
Pigeon English
(
;
„ of Eve's flesh ( ,
"
-hearted
-hole a letter, to g
,,

,,

,,
of flesh
of goods, a

of knowledge, a
"
,,
-live red
pair, a —
"

,
of information or news
3 .

of one's inind, a
Pigmental degeneration
Pig's whisper
Pike, to trail a
; .
(180

!f of rpli'srion, to be a |§ Pikes, to pass tho .

„ out, to ;;^;
Pile, a
" arms or muskets, to (
. . . together,, to
up, to ;
;
,

" of building, a

Pied a
work
terre (( ,
,, up, to
to
.
make one's

^
,, de la lettre Pilgrim fathers
Piedmont, a May fi )wer
Pierce a mystery, to
„ the enemy's line, to 15 Pillar of fire ;
;
.

" of the state, a

Pierced hand « " to post, from
. with grief Pillars oi Heaven, the Atlas
Piercing. cold
,, ' eloquence
instrument
'J
Pilled beard
Pillow bier or case
(
"
" sound
penniless, a — ,,

,,
lace
ot a pillow

Pie's nest., to be in a
„ nest, to look for a
slip
sham
^^
,, the head, to
Piety toward friends 5i' Pilot balloon
toward God
,, , boat
, toward parents Ml bread
Pig bed cloth ( *
 '

Pilot ( 387 ) Placed

Pilot engine ( ) of peace, tho sf:

jack
jacket
nut
Pique oneself, to
Piratical publishers
;
snake
who weathered the storm, the
William Pitt
Piscatory eclogues
Pisgah sight, a ;
Pistol in the air, to discharge one's

Pit against, to
Pin money
, on the sleeve, to
,, one down, to |ft
; Pitch a ball, to
"
"
a camp, to
a tent, to
,, one's faith, to a yarn, to
,, one's faith upon, to " and pay, to
„ one's faith upon another's " and toss
sleeve, to
,, to choose between, not a " black
;
Pinch of snuff, a
Pinchbeck
— Chris-
,,

„
from a precipice, to

hay, to
.

topher Pinchbeck
throne, a
Pinched for money, to be
; ®^ ,

"
in, to
into, to
it
()
()
strong, to
;( ; ;
Pinching cold #
,, parsimony " of abject fortune, the lowest
Pindar of English, the
George,
ham ( Pindar
Duke of Bucking- ,,

,,
one's tent, to
over the bar, to
;
Pindaric verses
Pine away, to
„ -tree State, the
;; Maine
,
"
,,
quoits, to
upon or on,
upon a day,
to
to
Pitched battle
,, wool Pith of a book, the
Pinion wire Pity on, to have
Pinioned up by laws, to be Place confidence ou a friend, to

Pink of perfection, the

stera
Pins and needle?
( .,

"
of interment, a
of resort, a ;
Pious fraud, a
, sentiment
' "
,
to account, to
to one's credit, to
Placebo, to sing

Piping hot '

Pi pe one's eye, to ' Placed at a desk, to be
,,
IB
iu the back ground, to be
 j * ®f 1

Placid Play

-
„ talk
Placid sleep I'h'.y a double game, to
Plr.guo on you! "J a joke 011, to
Plnguy sight, .1 , a march, to #?3^?f ffl
Plain r.s the nose on one's face, as ,, a most desperate game, to

"

,
mm
as a pikestaff, aa L; , a p. rt, to ig;
m " a perilous game, to
,, as print, as ., at chesd, to

,,

"
dealing
dress ;^ ,, at dice, to
away one's time to
^
food
fool,
language
h
.,

„
booty, to
Bjli^arius, to
b Atom, to
^
w silk ,, c'le (cold) prophet, to
" woman, a
Plaintive notes * , couch-quail, to
Plan mischief, to " ducks and drakes, to
rebellion, to mjZ falae, to ! ||;
Plane chart ,, fast and loose, to
sailing
Planetary nebula 1 „ first fiddle, to

" system , for money, to

Plank a room, to ,, hell (and Tommy) wltb, to
" '
money in gambling, to f
hide-and-seek with one, to

^
"
m
Plans of proceedings
Plant a cannon, to
„ a colony, to ? i
,
„
,
hob, to
hob w ith, to
into the hauda of, to
;
,, a garden, to
„ a standard, to ., of colors
,
,,
anger, to
one's feet ou solid ground, to
,

...
of fancy
off, to ;
Plaster of Paris
,,

& ^#'^^»»*_
1
old gooseberry with, to
^"
Plastic clay
,,

Platine States
element ( Plate
,
,
,
on a fife, to
on or upon, to II;
on the still pipes, to ^
Argentino, Uruguay, ,, one a trick, to ||
Paraguay , one false, to
Platonic love ,, one off against another, to
„ year (
,, one's cards Ladly, to
PUusibl© story jfij ts
 || H g ^

Pfay ( ^ )

Play one's car is well, to

" oue's hand for all it is
^^
worth, " dry, m
nation
11;
;
to " pnspects ffe

" one's trumn circl, to . tr.ste, a

"to the taste I]

" one's last card, to ", " upon, to be

Please the eye, to
" opossum, to ,, the heart, to
„ prizes, to „ the pigs ft
maimers

^
,, second fiddle, to J 'leasing jhi

" the bear with, to ,, i

r "pect ffe

the bonnet, to , souiul

„ the deuce with, to % " ' temper

"
-nmm
the devil with, to
m
( ,, eye
Pleased with, to be
to fQ;i
!^
j

"
,
the
the
fool, to
hvpocrite, to ; Pledge a guest, to
-trip H
the part of, to ^: " n Lost, to W
" the role of, to , one's neighbor, to
the very deuce with, to

"
mm ,im
the woman, to
„ one's word, to
onesalf, to ^;
, wine cup, to
, to the gods, to Pier. nary powers
truant, to ^; Plenteous crop, a i&
" up old goosebeiry with one, „ in «oods, to b, a
to supply, a
upon words, a " year, to

riaved out
Plea in bar
:^
with edge-tools, to Plentiful as blackber' ies
• ^,
,
r-,

harvest, a
- entertainment, r

, of or in abateir.em ; defence in , land, a i

abatement
|

Piiant leather *
5* ,, man, a giE
th(» aciiou Plod at one's books, to -
Plead at the bar, to Plot a murder, to t^M
, excuse for another, to , mischief, to tll^
for the life of a criminal, to , rebellion, to ViM
3| riou<rh a lonely furrow, io S^llU:
„ sickness, to
Pleasant j'ffair, a ^ : a rock, to ;
" breeze, a
mm
, the air, to
tbe sand, to ; S
 g

( 390 ) Po«t

Plough the seas, to W j , oneself into, to

„ the
Ploughed, to be
wav «• ,

^
to
'
Plunging
Plurality of votes
fire

Plover, to live on
Pi uck a fowl, to
, a pigeon, to
IS-

Piute )

Plutonian shore
( ;
" a person's goose for hi in, to Plutonic rocks
Ply a person with questions, to
, at straws, to
"
,,
away, to
off, to
out, to
;
;
"
"
"
one with drink, to
one's book, to
one's plight, to
" out the eyes, to , one's thrift, to
" the berries of laurels, myr- Plymouth Brethren
tles and ivy, to Plymouth .

up, to
" up by the root, to
" up one's courage, to H; Pnematic engine
tire
" up one's heart, to Poach eggs, to
, up one's spirits, to " game, to
Plucked, to be Pocket an affront, to
Plum, a
bed, a " an insult, to
Plumb a man's knowledge, to :
dibs, to
" edition
Plume oneself, to -money
Plumment line, a
Plump a stone into water, to ' ,
„
Poco a poco (k)
piece
store
f»

into a chair, to Poet laureate

Plums of office, the ,, of France, the Pierre

out of the pudding, to pick Ronsard
t he oi Greta Hall, the
Robert Sjuthey ^
Plunge

"
©^a dagger into the heart, to

a nation inlo misery, to ,

Keswick

of
Greta Hall

Haslemere, the
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
,

,,
m
-bath mym
into difficulties, to

into error, to
^ "

,
Haslemere
of Poets, the
Bysshe Shelly
of Ihe Poor, the M
Percy
 f *

Poet'i ( 391 ) Pooh

Poet's Poet, the

George Crabbe
Edmund
"
Poker talk
fuu at, to ;
Spenser Polar circles "
'
,, toil star, the
Poets, the Prince of Ed- " zones
Spenser m u nd Poles asauder
the Prince of .Spanish Police force
" ,

Garcilaso de la Vega Polish a person, to

Poetry of motion, the Polished discourse
Poignant words Polite intercourse
Point a cannon at a fort, to ,, literature

, a moral, to ; Politic treaty

Political arithmetic
'
;^
,
„
,
a pencil, to
at, to
blank
;; „
,, economy
prisoner, a
Politics of the parish puinp, the
-—
.,

"
by point
for point ;
or matter in dispute
Poll a tree, to
„ deed, a
, -tax
of action
of contact
of equi-distance
()
(.
,,

"
the hair, to
the jury, to :
honor Pollute oneself, to
" of
((
;— (
" of inflection Polyphemus of Literature, the
" of intersection Dr. Samuel Johnson
, of time, a ( Polyphemus
, of view
, of war Pomp and vanity of the world, the
"
,
out, to
out errors, to ;
ffi;

Pompous dress
,,

"
out the way, to
to be solved
Pointed admonition or warning
^ "
language
,,

Ponder on or over, to
on the future, to

" irony
Ponderous blow, a
joke, a ^
;^
" remonstrance ,, load, a
wit , project, a
words Pontifex niaximus

(;
Pointing-stock
Poisonous arrow, a

"
preparation, a
,

wine
Pontoon-bridge
Pony up,
Pooh! pooh!
to ;
oke fun, to rooh-pooh, to
 ^ #

Poor

Poor as

,
a church mouse, as —
( 392 )

„
" of call
of entry
Postal

,,

„
as Job, as
-box
business, a
"
,,
discharge
the helm
Port, the
of
(
the Sublime
"
"
„
,
chance
clothes
excuse, a
fare
fate, a
- ^ ,, ,

Portend a stormy day,

Portuguese Horace, the

Antonio Ferreira
to

fool, a Positive advantage ^$

,, goods , electricity
„
"
,,
hand, a
health
night, a
"

„
instructions
knowledge
laws
;^! IS

" presents ,, philosophy

" soil ,, pole, the ^%
,, stick " promise
Pop chestnuts,
to ()
to

^ ^^
proof
possess a purpose, to g

^
,, off,
" out a word, to ,, the soul, to
" the question, to
Pope of Philosophy, the
Possess^ 1 of, to be ,d
with devil ^
Poplin
Popular belief
^^
Aristotle
— I
" with lust
Post a letter, to
" accounts, to
^ f

"

"
Chamber,
customs
demonstration, a
H t:ie
"
and pair
back, to
books, to

(
I
,,

, entry
„ government „ factum
„ novel, a cl ,, factum nullum consilium (t^T)
, opinion 1
,, prices ,, haste i&m
saying mortem examination
()
,
:
sen ti men's
voice
Popularize education, to
^ , :
obit, a

of death
if! ifij^

oneself up in, to
Populous city, a U playbills, to
Pore over, to
Po copolis ^ 1) Chicago, (2
Postal
"
agency
district ^
Cincinnati
Port arms, to )^ ^ " g :ide
order 2
 n g ^

Postal ( m ) breath

Postal savings
,

Poste restante
VV union

^
^ idf "

,
,,
one's throat, soul,
to
out, to
out the vails of one's wrath,
or heart,

,; ((
Posthumous son, a to
work , passer Ie temps
Possum, to play " prendre conge )

Postulate conclusion, to Poverty of blood jfaM

Pot calling the kettle black fiS ,, of ideas
,, of soil
companion, a Powder baef, to
"
"
,,
luck
pourri
quarrel, a
( Powerful
"
"
-magazine
the face, to
foe, a
^
^
to the roses, to betray the

;
,, robber, a
state, a ^
,,

„
valiant
Potato bogle, a
-trap
Potatoes and point
Potent argument, a
( Practicable breach
statesman,
Powers that ba, the

Practical economics
joke, a
a

^
" IKj

, medicine, a " knowledge

nations " man, a
Potential energy WVi^J " matters
share ,, skill
Pothooks , wisdom
Pots, brazen and earthen Practise medicine, to
, music, to
Potter, tki Great , on one's credulity, to
Potter's field
Pounce upon

^
to , on or upon, to ||
Pound away, to severity, to

„
,.
,, covert
overt
up, to mm
"
the piano, to
with the pen, to ;
^
, "water (in a mortar), to Prairie State, the Illinois

Pour a broad; : ie, to ?^ Praise from Sir Hubert

„ from, to , to the skies, to

tf

,,
in, to
into, tc
oil
^;
on the troubled w aters, to
Pray in aid, to
Preach down, to t
, gooJ tidings, to ^
» up, to ^;
 - * |

( 394 j Present

PrecarioVis fortunes
Precatory words
Precautionary measure, a
;£ Pre meditate a draft, to
Premeditated injury
„ murder ;
Precedent condition Premium note
,, payment 5t
Precious metals system
,,

Premonitory symptoms '

of disease

Precipitate a conflict, to
mm
$ Preoccupy the mind, to
Preparative to one's departure
, a journey, to
" a person into a well, to Prepare a feast, to
„ a medicine, to
act, a , against, to

'
,,

„ oneself, to -
" for a journey, to
Percipitous bank, a " for war, to
„ fall, a " oneself for anything, to
Precisa in promise- keeping
" the ground or way, to
Preclude the blood from entering.
to Prepared for death
„ the objections, to , for emergency
Precocious -child, a Pj*epoi)deraiit importance
Predisposition to disease Prepossess the people, to
Prefer a complaint against one, to Prepossessing manners fft
Preposterous regulations
,
"
death to life, to
to a high office, to
Preferential shares ^ ^
Pre Raphaelits, the ;
Preferred stock Prequisites of freedom, the
Pregnant brevity, a
from illicit intercourse
[
Prerogative-court
Prejudice a business, to IHI^jMi^ ,, -office
" a person, to Presage of victory, a
Perliminary arrangement

, consultation
Prescribed course, the
Presence of mind
Present a fine appearance, to
;
" examinations Jrt
Premature birth, a /J „ a formidable front, to
M &
"
^ conclusion, a

death, a
" a pistol
another, to
to the breast of
"

t>
report, a
n ^ "
;
a striking contrast, to
 j

Present ( 395 ) Pretty

Present age or world, the

arms, to ( ; , with hunger, to be

in a new light, to " in the mind, to be

oneself, to ;; Pressure of business, the
life, the
sacrifices, to " of danger, the
to the mind ,, of poverty, the
to the view, to , of the hand, a
value on money market
wit, a
PresUUion-money
Presentation copy, a
" for acceptance (
" for payment ( i
Prestige of an army, the
Presume on or upon, to
" on one's power, to
,, of bill ()
,, to an office on one's talent, to
„
on wealth, to
Preserve appearances, to
from injury,
game, to
to M
,
Presumptive evidence ( If

health, to heir
in salr, to Presumptuous hope
in vinegar, to
life, to
silence, to
, pride
, transgression '
Preside at a meeting, to
over, to ,
Press a horse in a race, to
Pretend ignorance, to
•

"
madness, to
sickness, to
f

l£ Pretended devotion
against the door, to ,, zeal
clothes, to Pretender of a crown, a
copying Pretorian bands or guards
divine truth on an audience,
to
forward, to
into service, to
,' . Pretty fortune, a

" good trot

life out from oae's heart, to .. much
,,
penny, a
of business state of things, a
of sail (
; I} thing, a
on, to
one hard, to
one's lips against, to
; J
„
"
time of
trick, a
well
it, a

Pressed for time, to be >t

while, a
 )

Prevail ( m Princi

Prevail on, to
, on by words, tc
; ^ CDSt
„ oneself of, (o ,, entry
Prevalence of a custom, the fi&lf forests
, in manhood
„ of fever „ meridian |/j

„
Prevailing over time
of pestilence

Prevent a prisoner from escaping,

H
,
„
,,
minister
morning
mover, the
;:
t^ll;

to of life, the
" censure, to " of masters
trouble, to ,. of the moon, the
Preventive check

,
„
"

Previous appointment
inetisures
medicine
service
^ "
"
pieces of flesh, the
quality
vertical
Priinoval darkness
innocence
^
of man, the
, to
Prey on or upon, to ; „ virtue

(;
to anarchy, to be a Priming wire
,, to, to be a Primitive cause
Priapus , colors ^
Price card g form, the U^.
current Primrose Day Lord
"
free on board ( Beaconsfield

,,
list
Prick of tobacco, a
up oneself, to
up the ears, to
—; Primvm
"

"
"
path of dalliance, the

seasou, the
way, the
mobile ((
"
Prickly-heat () Primus interpares :^
Pricks of conscience, the Prince of Alchemy, the
Pride of the desert, the |t Rudolph II
,,
onesalf, to f4 ,, of Angels, the Michael
Priest of Nature, the
Sir Isaac Newton ,,
Apostles, the (St.

, of the blue bag, a Peter)

Prim donna ,, of Celestial Armies, the |p
Prima facie Michael
, facie fivi^^nce of Darkness, the
Primary colors ,, of Destruction, the |||g'^
Timur Tamerlane

^
schools
„ studies , of Hall, the
Priiiie witness, to nr: „ of Hypocrites, the
 ( 397 ) tt6t€€4

Tiberius
Prince of learning, a
Prismatic colors
Prisoner at the bar, the
;
of Liars, the ,, of the state, a

•
Fernando Mendes Piuto
of Light, the
of Music, the "
„ of war, a
Pristine dignity
glory
^"
"
Palestrina Private act ()
,, of Painter, the ,, discourse
Parrhasius Apelles ,, effects
,, of Peace, the ,, ends
" of Physicians, the " from the ranks it
Avicenna " nuisance or wrong
-
t,
of Poets, the Virgil; parts, the
Edmund Spenser treaty, a
of Princes, the " understanding, a
,, of Soot, the Privileged communication
,, of Spanish Poetry, the ,, debts
Garcillasso de U Vega Privy chair
„
„
of
of
the air, the
the blood, a
"
,.
chambers
council ;
„
"
of
of
the
the devils, the ^
the Kings of the Earth,
; ,

to a crime
„
purse
to ;;
of the ode,
Pierre de Ronsard
the Pro and con
" arts et focis (
"
S
of the power of the

of
air,

the vegetable kingdom,

the
,
"
bone publico
Deo et
((
ecclesia

(( (
the
,, of this world, the hac vice
of Wales ,, patria )

Prince's-feather rege, luge, et grege

( ((
,..

" -metal
, re nata )

Principal offender, the ,, salute am t, ne

„
"
seat
robber

Principle of nature, the

, tempore
Probate court
(;
.,

,,
of right
of the mind
Printed or print goods
Probity oi mind
Proceed against, to
,,
from, to
^.
Printer's devil , on a journey, to
Prior engagement, a
„ to ^ , with n story, to
-
 '

Procttiingi ( 308 ) Prohibit^

Proceedings of a society, the other, to

„ oneself a physician, to Irgt
Process of reasoning
,. of time, the ^
Proclaim throughout the world, to
Professional dignity
,, physicians
Proffer assistance, to
*
" for sale, to
, with honor, to „ of marriage, a
Proclamation of war, a Proficiency in mathematics
Procrastinate beyond the time, to
Proficient in ;
"
•
Procrustean bed,
repentance, to

a; a bed of Pro-
Profit by, to
,
" in business

on the sale of goods, a

crustes ( Pro-
crustes oneself at other's expense, to
S
to the seller
Profitable to an investor
Procure a livelihood, the
,, by purchase, to ' Profligate rake, a
Prodigal of expenditure
son, a
Prodigious error, a
; Profound doctrine, a

"
knowledge
reverence
Prodigy of learning, a sigh, a
Produce a man's life, to ,,
sleep SB ;
" an instance, an ,, wisdom
„ evidence, to Profuse expenditure
Products of the soil
•Production of the brain
,, of the land
"

"
in the use of
,,

perspiration
of gaiety ,
Productive author, a Profusion of commodities, a
enterprises
„
,,

„
labor
be
of, to ;
Prog (
Prognostic by dreams, a
,, of wealth ^" rognosticate evil, to
Profane a temple, a " one's fate, to

" history
„ man, a Program of a play, the
the name of God, to , of a procession, the
Prohibit gambling, to
" the precious time, to asportation of goods,

Profanum
Profess one
vulgus (
thing but mean an-
Prohibited by law
to

city, the
 g . . . S

( 399 ) PtcphUtUn
Prohibited goods Pronounce sentence of deatb, to
Prohibitive laws
,, prices Proof against, to be ;
Project shadows, to
Proletariat, the
Prolific brain, a
; against
reading ;
all assaults

Prolix style
(' " -sheet
^
Prometheus

^
Prominent forehead,
,,
Zeus

a
post or situation, a
Proofs of efficac7
,,

,, strength
Prop oneself upon another,
^^
of fulfillment
of possession

to
; Propagate children, to
„ scholar, a " religion, to
Promiscuous intercourse ,, rumors, to
goods „ species, to
" sense, a , sound, to
Promise a visit, to |^ truth, to
" aid or assistance, to Propense to evil
,,

,
in marriage, to
oneself, to
the payment of money, to
. '
Propensity to gambling
Proper deportment
" improvement of time

" to be successful, to instinct

f) owner, a
Promising day, a
youth, a
,,

,,

Properly considered
time, the
to oneself ; &@
Promissory note ,, speaking
Promote

„
arts and

commerce,
sciences, to

to „
cestors
left at
;
Property inherited from one's an-

death
,, industry, to " -man
" virtue, to Prophesy of disaster, to
Prompt eloquence Prophet, the Mohtun-
,, payment
Prompted by resentment Prophet's
"
med)
fire
gourd
;
Promulgate a doctrine*, to Jonah
,, an order, to " mantle, the
,, secrets, to ifc " week
Prone in
,,

,,
flight
to anger
to evil
Prophetic enthusiasm
" writings
Propitiation of sin, the
^" gfi
 g g

Propitiatory ( 400 ) Proud

Propitiatory sacrifice, a " law, to

Propitious breeze, a

,
,
season, a
circumstances ,,
,,

strength
Protect from harm, to
oneself, to
;
Proportion of three to two S
" one's life, to
,, expenditures
one's to Protective tariff, a *
one's income, to Protest a bill or note, to

il3
the size of a building to
height, to ,,

,,
against, to
fee
;
Proportionate punishments to " for non-acceptance
crimes, to
Propose a 'person for an offlca, to „ for non-payment
.

„ a plan, to Protestant Duke, the Mon-

,, a question for discussion, mouth i
to
" terms of peace, to Hero, the

,, to oneself, to
Propound a measure, to
; Frederick the Great
Martyr, the
Edmundbury Godfrey
Sir

" a question, to
Propriety of manners h " Pope, the Clement
Prosecute a claim, to
,
"
a design, to
a man for stealing, to
Proteus
XIV
(
Tethys
Ooanus

„ a war, to Proto Martyr, the

, an investigation, to Stephen
, one's studies with dili- Protract a duty, to
gence, to WiW. %a meeting, to

Proserpine
to the end, to

Prospects in crayon
(Pluto
>
„
a war, to
from day to day, to

Prospective mind, a " payment, to

,, scheme, a Protuberance on a tree, a
Prosperous in trade Protuberant swelling, a
" wind, a Proud as a paacock, as
" year, a " bird of the mouutaiu, the
Prostitute ona's talents, to m
„ feeling S
Prostrate a government,
m to ,,

,
flesh
look, a
 |

( 401 ) Puff

Proud of
^ Prune an essay, to

,
,
,,
palace, a
riches
steed, a
Prove a person, to
" great woes, to
*
Prussian blue
Dies bach

Pry into every nook and corner, to

^
, one's chance, to
" the truth, to " into other's affairs, to
" useful, to
Provido against, to 1^ ; Prytaneum
" against danger, to Psaphon's birds g
"
"
"
against hunger, to
against robbers, to
against the inclemency of
Pseudo form
Psyche ( (Venus)
the weather, to Cupid |g
, for, to Psyche
" for one's children, to Psyches task

,, for the future, to

Public accounts
affairs
amusement
;
%, on all sides, to chair
,, one with funds, to conveyance
^
Provided that ; credit
debt
Provident for one's children

of one's money
"
house
law
;
expenditure

opinion
Providential meeting

^
person, a
Province of Brick, the spirit ifr
Provisional arrangement virtue
war
" government welfare
Provoke appetite, to works
, laughter, to writer
"
„
,
to anger, to
to battle, to
to insurrection, to
^ Publish baans of marriage, to

Pucker up the eyebrows, to

Proximate cause
Proxy ii a lawsuit, a
Prudent conduct t Puerile
(
Padding time, to come in

amusement
Prudhomine, a Monsieur

Prudhommes, a council of
Puerperal disease
Puff a thing, to ;
" oneself out like a frog, to
 J . ^

402 )
Fush
Puffed (

Puffed up
Puissant nations
; Purchase favor with

of or
flattery, to

from n person, to
M
m
,,
Pull a crow, to
a face, to A
, a finch, to Pure gold

;:
" mind, a
, a long face, to
,, about one's ears, to K reason ^ •

,, and haul, to
, apart, to
" caps, to
; „
Pureness of living
religion
virgin, a
IE

,, down, to
Purge away the sins, to
, for, to
off, to ;
ftili
Purify a language, to

- "
one through, to
oneself together, to ; by fire, to
"
the blood, to
the heart, to
i

Boston
one's leg, to Paritian City, the
'
,, or draw the wool— over one's

"
eyes, to
out, to ;
out a revolver, to
Purple deeds
" flood, a
of cassius
, to assume the
.

" the dead horse, to

, the laboring oai' t
, tyrants
f
, the long bow, to
the strings or wires, to Purse-proud
"
I " up the mouth, to
through, to :
pursuant to one's request
,

up, to
"
together, to

up
stake, to
; ;(; Pursue

"
a new policy, to
a new route, to
one's design, to
one's own way, to
Pump a person, to I ,,

pleasure, to
ship, to "
„
studies abroad, to
Pumped, to be [[

war, to
Pumps
Purvey a wife, to
Punctual payment
Punch's advice to those about to Push'against, to
marry " aside or away, to

Pandit, a
Pungent pains
" remarks
" at all, to
back, to ;
,
Punic treachery
Punish with stripes,
taste, a
; to ;
"
"
clown, to
for an answer, to
forward, to
S
Puppet-?how on. to
Push Pat

away
Push
,
one's business, to
one's way, to away
a wife, to
for, to (
,,

"
open the door, to
to an end, to
^
away
back, to ;;
lying, to

"
„
to the utmost, to
to the wall, to
between, to
by, to ;
Pushed for mone^, to be
Put a bold face on or upon, to
case
down, to ; ^; ;
,, a case, to ;; down one's foot, to
, a construction upon, to down the rebels, to

" a damper on
its, to ®'
one's good spir-
for, to
forth, to
forth a book, to
;;
"
"
,
a
a
a
false construction, to
girdle round, to
good face upon, to
; forward, to ;
forth one's strength, to

forward one's mind, to

a hat on a hen, to hand to hand, to
„ a limit to one's outlay, to heads together, to
g n or into, to
, a person's beard ablaze, to n a funk, to
; n a word, to
„ a question, to f n an appearance, to (
„ a riddle, to n for, to ;
,
„
a rod in pickle, to
a rope to the eye of a needle, to
n
n
n
force, to
hand, to
iron?, to
;
, a ship into commission, to n mind, to

;;
+
n motion, to

,
,
a spoke on one's wheel, to
a stop to, to
a supposition, to
; n
n
one's oar, to
operation, to
n order, to
,, about, to ( ) n pledge, to

,
"
;
across, to
all eggs in one basket, to
n practice, to
n quod, to
n requisition,
; to

an ape in one's hood, to

n soak, to
n shape, to
(;
" an end to, to
an enemy to flight, to
n stays, to
the chair, to
(
ii

K
;;;
" another face upon, to :^
aside, to in t he wrong, to |$
; away, to into another's trusty to ^
 |i ^" R S

Put ( 404 ) Fut

Put in tune, to
"1 >V riiniii, LO jf^; one in a passion, to
1 n f.n Avannfimi t* 'Wr^i^r one in fear, to
i ii w "igu gouu iiu inor; to one in hope, to
one in mind, to
' w XiOCiM f v\J "p /\ n one in possession of, to
in to thp wfl v nf f ,> Uh one in tlie way, to S

:
one off one's guard, to ^
one on a level with,
off to US 'iS I [
ODe on hie mottle, to
to

IAJOT,Gi: hi K.»3lal^ '

'
off a h 'At
off
uii
oflP
<xchin tn
a qui tu
bad monpv to
to
i
43
BiitoH'i^
i |
SHJH
one on short commons, to

off f j'oiyi oiii^s^l f to 'A ii otlit^r to 1

one out of conceit with, to

>^
off t he old to ,
one out countenans^ to
nfF
u J_i till
till MV^n XXi a
c Vc 11 in >
tt\
tu 5^3^BflS
j£ciEH7C
3tis

on to
\J" \j\J ^* IcilJ//^ trie )
iiUifiH
/Jc 1
1
. one out of heart, to
/HUS^JDt one out of temper, to

on ci haughty air, to ; one out of the way, to ',

one to charges, to
Uli <t t5*Jlt; III Ii CJllXlLUiiall ^ t J
j
»r.l one to his purgation, to
TP one to shame, to
nn ui r ^ to ffe**'!^ one upon, to

,
r\n Hi a nlr

lire, tu y TintfSi
i

(
one's finger to his fore head, to
"^

;^ ^
uii one
r\ t-> n£i,a \j()ou r^^lia
s rrrtr\/S ucua \7I/ai*
vior, r\
to
"t tfO?
one's back into, tr>
jog \AlSA^i^t one's foot in it, to II
on one s guaru, 10 w >C - TKfdi ;
/
ou biior t aiicej
51
to mUrJsc^T^ one's hand in one's pocket, to

on the balmy stick, to () Si" one's hand to the plough, to

on the rack, to one's head into a hornet's nest,

on the screw, to to
on the shelf, to )g ; one's head into the lion's
on the war-paint, to
on trial, to
one beside his tenor, to
; mouth, to
one's nose into, to
one's uose out of joint, to
one ia a hole, to (ffi)PrlA^®
 g | ,

put ( 405 )
Put

the boot on the other leg, to

Put one's nose
to ^ to

one's pipe out, to

the grindstone,

the cart before the horse, to

,,

,, one's pride in one's pocket, to the

^^ case
the charge on, to
one's shoulder to the wheel, to the doctor on, to
the hand between the bark
" oneself forward, to tft and the tree, to
„ oneself in the place of others,

^
to the finger in the eye, to
" oneself on one's country, to the great seal into commis-

;;
;;;
out; to ;^
sion, to
the saddle
to
ori
a
the right horse,

nit a flag, to the screw on, to

out a lamp, to this and that together, to
out leaves, to
out of court, to through, to
through one's
; facings, to
a

;;
;^;
out of g.-ar, to gL to, to
out of humor, to to, to be {J

out of j)int, to to a stand, to

out of office, to to bed, to
out of one's head, to to confusion, to
to death, to
out
out
of order, to
of sight, to ;; ^
to flight, to
to inconvenience;" to
w
out
out
out
of the way, to
strength, to
the eyes, to
% to it, to be
to one's account, to
g
.

out to apprenticeship^ to

over, to :; '

t)
to press, to be 4
to rights, to
to rout, to ; ;
pan to paper, to to sea, to ;
question, to to shame, to
salt on the
seal to, to ;
tail, to

that in one's pipe and smoke

to the blush, to
to the proof, to
to ihe rack, to
it, to to the sword, to
the axe on the helve, to to the test, to
mm to the touch, to
Uio best foot forward or fore- to tho tram p.s, to
most, to to trial, co
 ( 406 ) Quarral
Put

„ to vote, to Quadragesima Sunday

" together, to
two and two together, to Quadrilateral, the 4b
"
"
, up, to ; ^;^;^;
under the screw, to Peschiera,
Legnago, Verona
Mantua,

„
'
up claim
a ;
to, to
" , the Bulgaria

Varna, Silibtria,

, up
" up
, up
a horse, to
a house, to
h job, to txHt
Kustchuk, Schumla
, , the Prussian
Luxemburg, Cob-
#
up a motion, to le ntz, Sarrelouis, Mayence
" up a notice, to Quai d'Orsay, the
,, up a person, to () Quake with cold, to
, up a tent, to Quaker City, the Philadel-
up goods for sale, to phia ^
,,

.
up
-up job, a (^
indignities, to
„
-colored
gun
Qualifications for entering univer-
up prayer, to
'" up the back, to sity
.,

[]

"
up the sword, to
up to, to
up svith, to
:; Qualified fee
,
"
for the post
indorsement
" upon a fixed allowance, to
" negative
,
,, up travellers, to
Putrid flesh " physician, a
a
'^;^
1

sro ell
Puzzle out, to

,,
over, to ;
over a problem, to
"

Qualify a sound, to
property

'
oneself for the examiua-
Puzzled skein tion, to
Puzzling one's head " oneself for the public
rygmseus, as small as service, to
Pygmseus i
Qualitative analysis
Pylades and Oreste3 Quality, the
Pyrrhic dance, the Quantitative analysis
Quarantine station, a Cl

Pythagoras, as silent as
Pythagorean silenco SfeS Quarrel about the price, to
about trifles, to
Q
Quack doctor, a
medicine fi^!
; ,,

"
at law, to #fii
over a bishop's cope, to
^^
 3

Quarrel ( 407 ) Queeh

Quarrel with obedience, to of Heaven, the (1)

.,
'
with one's bread and but- in Phenicia, Astarte; (2) in
ter Greece, Hera; (3) in Rome,
Juno; (4) in Egypt, Isis; (5)

" with one's

Quarter-day
lot, to
B ( H
Among Roman Catholics, the
Virgin Mary

,
-master ()
B, of Love, the
of Queens, the
Cleopatra
Ven us

Quarters of assembly
Quash the rebellion, to
Queshee, a
+ of Sheba, a
of Shepherds, the
Elizabeth
Queasy conscience, a of Song, the

„ question, a Angelica Catalini

Queen Anne is dead of Tears, the James II
City of the Lakes, the May of Modeua
Buffalo ofthe Antilles, the
Erie Canal Lake Erie o^the dripping-pan, a
City of the Mississippi, the m
St. Louis of the East, the (1) ffi

City of the Mountains, the (Syria) Antioch 2)^

Tennessee Knoxville Batavia
of the Eastern Archipelago,
City of the Plains the the Java)
Regina of the May, the
City of the South, the
Sydney of the Mississippi Valley,
City of the West, the mm the St. Louis
Cincinnati of the Night, the
consort of thelNorth, the
Dick, that happened ii the Edinburgh
reign of of the Northern Seas, the
-dowager Elizabeth
Fortune
Mab hath been with you of the Sciences, the
of the Sea, the
-mother ^ic (Tyre)
ol Cities, the (1) 2) of the suds, a
Bagdad of watering-places, the
of Festivals, the Scarborough
(Easter Day) passion, the great
of Hearts, the James Square Hermit, the
I Elizabeth of Bohemia i Jeremy Bentham
No. 1, Queen Square,
 g EB )

ueen s ( 408 ) Quis

Bloomsburv
Queen's bench
bus, the
counsel
^ ,,

,,
of time, to be a
tbe truth
,to be a
of, to ^
" English, the IE Quick air
,
„
evidence
heads . ,
"
"
as a stag, as
as fire, as
as lightning, as
©
., own, the , as possible, as A
" ware " as thought, as
weather as tinder, as
,
Queer a flat, to ( „

"
at argument
eye ;
,, bluffer, a " of hearing
„
„
business, a
card, a
cole-fencer, a
,

"
of scent
of sight
parts
; P

"
, cole-inaker, a
cove, a
-cuffin, a
,
"
stroke, a
,
wit, a
with child
;^
" cull, a Quicken one's appetite, to
,, fish, a ,, one's pace or steps, to
,, one's pitch, to
story, a Quid faciendum?
;
((
"
, Street
taste, a
,
,,
hoc
pro quo (
si hi tult^

( ; )
IIK

Quell a revolt, to
,,

,,
anger, to
grief, to
MM
,
„
„
prodestl
rides?
times?
(
(;
pain, to
Quelque chose
Quench a candle, to
(; Quid nunc, a
Quiescent fluid, a
Quiet air ^
,, hate, to

Quenchless
thirst, to
fir.i
^ ,
„
as a lamb, r.s
colora
conscience, a

Querelle d'Allemand ( .,

"
"
disorders, to
grief, to
life,a
Querulous tone

Query the fact, to

of voice, a fR?Sf; ,,

"
.,
pain, to
retirement
sea, a
;
,, the items, to
Question at or in issue
of privilege
*
^
Quill-driver, a
Quis cu»todlet ipsos
'
custodes'.' (
 W

Q U1S ( m ) Racking

Quis foiler I posset amantem': ( " scrips i, scripsi (

s^/xirabiH (
if
)
.,
$
semper,
(
quod ubique, quod
, talia-fado
mis?
Quit a post, to
( )
iemperel a lacri-

Quot
' ab omnibus.

homines tot sententix (

" a siege, to
coat, to mt^ Quote a ^passage, to
, one's ground, to ,, from the classics, to

„
,,

,,
onesalf, to
scores, to
the world, to
;; , from the laws, to

R
Quite a different pair of shoes
m R months, the W
a few R
a while R8, the three reading)
„ another thing (riting=writing) rith-
,, so metic=arithmeti-c)
" the contrary
Quits, to be #;^ Rabbet-plane
Rabelais of Germany, the
Johann Mentzer Fischart
Quiver from cold, to ,,
the Modern
,, full of them, to have one's William Maginn
Rabid dog, a
Quixote, a " flight of winds, the
,, of the North, the
Charles XII RabsLakle, a ^^
Qaizzing-glass
Quocunque modo
nomine
(( Kacine of Italy, the
Pietro Antonio Metastasio
„ of Music, the

Quod
,,
( (
avertat Deusl )
Antonio Gaspare Sacchini
Rack and ruin
" one's brain, to
;:
„ bene notandum t

,
( (
erat demonstrandum [Q. E. D.]
) If
,
, rail (
one's wits, to

hoc sibi vultl

,, non opus est, asse carum est ,, rent

( Racked with deep despair, to be

^
(&
vide [q. v.]
Qnodam friend, a Racket, to make (kick up) an
,,
pet is hie est Racking clouds
„ -pace ;; g
 g

Racy ( 410 ) Rais^

Racy wine chaser, a

Radial curves
Radiant face, a
( ^
"
"
,,
-tinted
touckes theground, where
, sun, the the
Radiate heat, to Rainy day, a

^(
Radical party, a Raise a bell, to
, reform . a blockade, to
Radius of vision „ a blush, to
Raff-merchant „ a botbery, to Bl ;
Rag-bolt „ a check or note, to
, ,

;
shago or tag, and bobtail (®)
, a cry or shout, to 1
^
, -wheel
Ragamuffin, a
Rage
; ,
„
a dust, to f^il
a false report, to
a family, to
^
,

Ragged school
of grief, a
of hunger ^ ,
,,
a flagstaff, to
a hornet's nest about one's
ears, to
sheep
"
Raging sea, the
"
, a purchase, to (
a lofty structure, to

,,

Ragman's-roll
winds, the

i
fB(l|
,
,
"
a question, to
a row, to
a rumpus, to
(;
(;
Rail at one another, to a siege, to
„ -car " a smile, to
„ Splitter, the Abraham , an objection, to
Lincoln ;
blood, to ()
,, bread, to
Railroad City, the Indiano- ,, Cain, the devil hell, the
polis ^ ischief, etc, to

" corn, to
Rails, off the , money, to
Railway King, the „ money on, to S4^f
George Hudson ., Ned, to ®
-plant one's back, to ;
"
Raiu blows upon a person, to
,,

,
„
one's bristles, to
one's dander, to
PI
(
" cats and dogs or pitchforks, ,, one's hair, to
ffe ,, one's hand to God, to
,, favors, to
, -gauge " one's self, to
,, in torrents, to M " one's thought in doing aomo-
,, or shine thing, to
Kainbow chase, a ,, one's voices against, to inM
 H

( 411 ) Rat

( m
Raiso phlo-m, to
, the courage, to
the dead, to
the dust, to (
Random
Range along the
shot
coast, to ^
,, the heat of a furnace , the fields, to
„ with, to
the land, to () Rank
,,
and fashion
and ;
file

,,

"
the market upon, to

the price, to
"

"
grass
and
nonsense
;
" the standard of rebellion, to ,, ' smell, a
Rankling wound, a
the temperature of the body, Rankle in the breast, to
to Ransom oneself, to
,, the waters, to , the world, to
" the wind, to Ranz-des-vaches
,,

Raison d'etre
Rake
troops, to

a ;^
( Rap on
"
the table, to
over the knuckles, to
,,

"
hay, to K
together wealth, to ; "
„
the door, to
out, to IT

"
'M
up, to
Raknhell, a
; ;^
Kapacious
Rapid
,,
growth
bird, a
flight, a

Kakes, to carry heavy

Kikshasa
Rally one's courage, to
( ); " improvement

„
Rama
Ramble about
()
one's strength, to

idly, to
Raphael
fried
of Cats,
Mind
of Holland, the
the Gott-

" about for pleasure, to Martin van Heniskerck

„ abroad, to Rnpparee, a
Rambling discourse, a Rapport with another, to be in ,£

,
thoughts
of fancy, the
Rara avis (
;'
,, )

Kaminagobris ll': : Rare as a white crow, as

Ramp, „ atmosphere

^
a i

Ranipancy of vice beef

I

Ram's horn, a „ commodity, a

Maiii.shackle Empire, the

I

|
,
Rase
workmanship
to the ground, to ;
, house, a # ! Rash words
Kat, to play the
 B S

Rate ( m ) Reason

;
Rate a chronometer,
„ a ship, to
, of exchange
^
to 5^
Keading community
of bill
;
„ of interest
Rather better than
" doubt it
Ready answer

"
apprehension
at argument
;
j^^UKtf^h % •
not
Ratify a treaty, to
Rational creatures
f4
for
raan, a
the journey
'

#"
j^fl
^
„ minds ... mart, a
Rave oneself out, to memory bE
Ravelled silk •
-, money '

Ravish a woman, to .. sale

" the eye, to - to, to be ;;
Raw-boned „ to bur-st
day, a
hand, a
lobster, a
;^ Real action
to drop
writer, a
^2.

() ^
materials !i? , estate
spirits facts
wind, a " Simon Pure, the
Ray miles, to
Rayless eyes
,
^
presence

„ sky
Razzia, a
Razzle-dazzle, on the
; ;; Realize a fortune,"to
" large profits, to
the truth of, to
Reach after, to Reap as one sows, to ill &;
" at, to
, into, to
-me-downs , " one's reward, to
Rear a government, to
,, -admiral
" one's ears, to ^! ,, children, to
, out, to # \\\ „ -guard

Read
"
&the end of one's tether, to

a lecture, to it
yank
,,

Reason a matter
-line

., a sermon, to "
^ down a passion, to
between the

&
SJ
lines, to
, one into, to
in, to , one out of, ih

" up for a:i eK.aininatio:], to

whilo »ue runs, to H .

,,

i,
^^
0;
one out of a plan,

or argue in n circle, to $|
to
 ^ S

Reason ( 413 )

" taxes, to
Reason out the cause, to the Gospel, to
,, with, to the truth, to
Reasonable being, a " with open arms, to
claim, a Receptacle for thieves, a

) ,
person, a Receiving office
price, a
quantity, of
" ship (
swiftness, with Kechabite, a ft
terms Reciprocity treat v, treaty of re-
Reasoning life ciprocity i
Rebec face, a Reck one's own rede, to
Rebeccaites Reckless fellow; reckless dare-devil
Rebellious heart
bandits of consequences
people „ of money or labor

;; ;
Kecall a decree, to
„ an officer, to Reckon for, to

" by-gone days, to - on, to

, one's words, to , with, to
to life, to " without one's host, to
,, to memory, to
" to mind, to Reckoning, the day of
' troops, to
Recant a faith, to ; ,, book
Recollect one self, to
„ one self after a burst of
Receive a blow, to
"
:J
a command, to
a ransom, to
. . Recommend
anger, to
a person, to
oue self, to ;
" a reward, to
,, a visitor, to Reconnaisance in force
, a wound, to
^
,

"
„
an inheritance,
baptism, to
bribes, to
favor, to ^^
from heaven, to
to Record breaker
R cover from a swoon, to
-,

„
lost time, to
one's office, to
one's liberty, to
^;
,
"
injury, to
instruction or counsel, to " oneself, to ; (/
, into, to
order, to
^
Redder pour mieux sauter

Recumbentibus, to give a person a

>

,,

,,

,
pay, to
stolen property, to ^ Recur at a stated interval,
[
to
 '

R ( 414 ) Reduce

Recur to in conversation, to " -lattic3 phrases

Recurrent pains ih
,,

Recurring decimal
'
fever

series
" laws, the (
Red as a turkey cock, as
as fire, as : A ,,
letter day, a
-liquor
;
. as
(Rotherham College, as ^ft „

,,
man; redskin,

neck, a
a |I

,
blood
book, a ;( rag
, button, a

coat, a
"
Republicans
right
roof
hand
3C
of Jove, the ^
„ ruddocks
cock will crow in his house, Shanks
the
Cresent, the d

^^
,> Shirt, a
Shirts, the
,, Cross, the 1 Giuseppe Garibaldi
„ Cross Knights Squadron, the
4
,, Cross Society, the „ Sultan, the Abdul
,,

,,
cup
Eagle, the
ensign, the
^ ,,
-tape
-tapery;
Ha mid

'
; II

red tapisoi
flag, the
-tapiat
,, flannel „ , white and blue, the

"
Friar, a
Gown, a ^ St. Anderw's Redeem
,,
a nation, to
a pledge, to
;
W

,
-gum
hand-
handed
(i?)

ff
;
; ^«{ K ,,

"
" an
one's promises, to
the world, to
error, to R

, hat, a Redress a grievance, to

., hat, the ,, oneself, to ft
,, hot Reduce a design, figure, draught,
>
,,
house
king, the 5$3E William Rufua
or draft, to
a city, to ^ ^
^
, a dislocation, to
" Lane a fortification, or fort, tc
Lane,' down the
 H i

Roduce ( 415 )

Reduce a fracture, to m
a hernia, to Beflecting mind, a

„
,, a sail, to
a state, to
" reproach
Reflex influence j ;
,, an equation, to
in size or bulk, to ; „
Reflux action
Reform by example,
picture, a

to

„ one's expenses cyie's misdeeds, to

,,

„
; several into one, to

several sections into one,

,,

school
"
oneself, to

,
to
the price, to
the scale, to
;
g
the manners, to
"
Reformation, the Luther)

" to a level, to Refractory horse, a |H1

,, to a skeleton, or a shadow, ,, metal

to , mind
, to ashes, to Refrain from, to ;
to one rule, to , from lusts, to
" to order, to " from wine, to
,, to poverty, to , one's mouth, to
to powder, to oneself, to •

Refresh the memory, to

;
;^
, to straits, to E
the mind, to
,,

„
to subjection, to
to the ranks, to ( ,
,, with food, to

Reed, a broken
,, , a bruised
; Refreshing breeze, a
Refreshment Sunday

" shaken by the wind, a Refrigerator car, a

Refrigeratory drink, a
Reel in opinion, to Refuse a present, to
" to and fro, to

;;
Re-eligible to office
Refer, to
SI
,
an office, to
the people, the
Regale the ear, to
of ;
,, to dictionary, to Regalia of a church
Reference to a recent event, a
Regard one's reputation, to
Refine language, to
, oneself, to " with affection, to ;
Reflect on, to ;;
the heart, to
" with contempt, to
" on one's character, to

Reflected
K
glory ;^ ^ ,,

"
^^
with pity, to
with veneraion, to
;
 J *S
J

Kegardi ess ( 416 ) Remind

Relapse into a crime, to

Regardless of admonition
,,

„
of life
of reputation
[
j ,,

Relate to, to
Kelative ideas
;^
into error, to

„ of truth
things ; „ duties
truth
,,

Regenerate a
,,
state, to
the heart, to ,,
„
Relax a bow, to
a law, to ^
&
,, in study, to
Register of a clan, a " one's mind, to
„ of names, a ,, the bowels, to

;
of the population, a ,
Kelay
the nerve
of horses, a
of, to

Regium-donum

Regius professor, a
^" t
Relic Sunday
Relics of youthful days
g
'if

Relief of an army, the

Regret all one's life, to Believe nature, to
Regular as clockwork

,, brick ;;
"
"
pain, to
the mind, to
Religious tenets
:
,, course Relinquish a right, to
do, it is a Relish for books, a
v-
troops u one's words, to
Regularly screwed
Regulate a family, to
Reluctant consent
Rely on influence, to ^^
,
,
,,
a state, to
a watch, to
by laws, to
^ " on one's merit, to
,, on one's wealth, to
" on others, to
" one's own conduct, to Remain a widow, to

" the mind, to

Regulation cap
,,

,,

,,
at a distance, to
in office, to
over, to ;
;
„ uniform , with, to
Regulations for the army Remainder of one's life, the
Rehearsal in public * ,, -man ()
,, of a dream, the
Rehearse a ceremony, to Remarkable event,
„ talent ^
a
*;

Rein
,,
in, to
up, to
;^;
a play, to

1
Remedy

"
against an evil

for cholera, a
Rains of government, the Remember me to
Reiterated crimes ji^: Remind one of his former promise,
 M

Remind ( 417 ) Render

.
"
a capital, to

^
to |5

Remind one where he is, to a difficulty, to

Remiss in
government
the affairs of the
a plant, to
an enemy, to
an evil, to
;
Remission of a disease food, to
,, of sins sickness
, of taxes Remunerate one for his trouble, to

,, Thursday
Remunerative investment, a
Remit a sin or a fault, to
" by mail, to labor, a
„ in close attention, to
Renaissance, the
the punishment, to
, the taxes Renard, or Reynard
,,
vigilance, to
Remittent fever Rend one's way, to
Uemnaiit of an old palace, the one's garment, to
Render a child to cry, to '
„ of fire, a
, of people, the a person safe, to
Remonstrance of a minister to a a reason, to
king aid to the poor, to
Remonstrate before the parents, to
assistance, to
Remorseful conscience English into Chinese, to
Reinoreeless criminal, a
judgment, to
Remote ancestors
"
"
country, a
cause, a
; lard, to
money
;?
to the poor, to

difference, a null, to
.

"
history
likeness, a
period, a
; one's lost forture, to

oneself disagreeable, to
,. relation
Remotely or distantlv related thanks, to
;' the Bible, to
Removal of pain, the the rights to the oppon-
" of sickness, the ent party, to
of sin m
to a new house vengeance to the enemy,
Remove a calamity, to j^; to
Rendezvous ( Republic

Rendezvous for thieves, a „ the enemy, to

Renew a treaty, to i , the hostile army, to '
, an engagement, to
Repent of error, to
,, oneself, to ,, of sin, to ^!
g
"
,,
the attack, to
the heart, to
the lease, to
;
Repenter curls
Repine at fate, to
,, at heaven, to
^
,, the song, to Replenish the wine cup, to
Renewed remembrance
Reniteuce to temptation

Renounce allegiance, to ;
Reply
,,

"
in writing, a
to a letter, to
to the enemy's
&
firing, to g
,, the throne, to
Report a uews, to
,,the world, to an employee for miscon-
Renovate the people, to duct, to
Renowned scholar, a ,, for the press, to
Kentier, a
Repair a loss, to , in person, to
health, to „ oneself, to
" former intimacy, to ,, the annual expense, to

one's dropping head, to Repose confidence in a friend, to

,, to the country, to " on or upon, to ;

Repay
"
,.
a loan, to
a visit, to
an injury, to
^ Represent in words, to
Representative government, a

" kindness, to Repress anger, to

Repeal doubs, to , rebellion, to
,, laws, to , sensuality, to
Repeat a reckoning, to Reproach one's ehamefal actions,
a signal, to to
„
,

,,
,
a visit, to
a work, to
an offence, to
as a parrot, to
Reproaching conduct
,, words
Reprobate character, a
J»

morality ig :
&
,,

,,
oneself, to " person, a

;
Repel an assault, or an argument,
to
Repove a person for fault, to

" their eutreaties, to Reptile person, a

Kepublic of Letters, the ;
 # | i

Repttblfcan ( 410 ) ResohtioH

Republican Party, the

Rescue the fallen, to
Queen, the Resemble each other, to
Frederick I Sophie " one's father, to *;
Charlotte
Repudiate a knowledge of. to ,, in sound, to
Reserve a portion, to
„ one's debts, to ,, fund

"
„
Repugnant
to reason
to :
servitude, to "
,,
money,
to one's
troops, to
to
own use, to
.

Repulsive countenance, a Residence of the emperor, tho

,. force ; Resident tutor, a

" to the feelings ,, minister at a capital, the
„ to the mind
Reputable person, a Residuary legatee
Reputation for benevolence Resign a lawsuit, to
of a family, the ,, a throne in favor of an-
Request a person to do something other, to
for one, to an office for old age, to
[
"
,,

"
an audience, to
forgiveness, to
leave to retire, to
,
„
Resin-extractive
office, to
oneself, to ;
,, mineral
, ,
one to be seated, to Resinous electricity fg;;

one to dinner, to f
[ Resist
M
an attack,
" to
" one to subscribe, to „ an enemy, to ^:
,, government troops, to
"
"
the loan of, to
the persence, to ^ ,, legal authority, to
Require money, to
"

"
money by
law, to
taxation, to
Requisites of an army
^ the force of "
,, reproof, to
the government, to
Resolute endurance
,,

"
person, a
to take revenge, to be
Requite evil for good, to
" favors, to Resolution of a youth, the
,, injury with kindness, to
of an equation
one's parents, to

Bes angusta do mi ( " of

of
an idea
becoming a famous
 * B S

Resolution
_
(
„420 )
— ~— —— ^ '- -
Restrain
, .

physician, the Rest assured

Resolution
,
„
of
of fever
of forces
^
difficulties
[
,,
assured, to
dt old a^e, to
Jay
„ cf inflammation , for pens, a
Resolve a difficult question, to from work, to
house
„ a riddle, to in, to ;:
,, doubts, to on one's arms, to
" into, to on one's oars, to
,, lines in a spectrum, to on one's laurels, to
on one's words, to g
,, on remaining, to ones«)f, to
, the ;
,,

"
-io have war, to
to study, to
upon leaving, to
;^ the mind from trouble, to

with, to ;;
Resolved your fair
Rasonant eloquencs Rastive horse, a SIX
Eesort of mirth, a Rostless nd venturer, a ii
, to, 10 ;
',

Resource,
to violence, to

,
full of
last
; child, a
dream, a
night, a
" , no times
, , the only Restoration of friendship, the
„ of the country, the ;^
„ of health, or strength
Resources are all cut off
Respect one's parents, to " of peace after w«r,the
,, one's reputation, to
lieetore a king, to g
one's privacy, to a lost thing to its master,
to ^:
"
"
"
the aged, to
the laws, to
the person, to
+ painting, to
passage, to
harmony, to
Respectable audience one to liberty, to
Respecter of pardon, a . one to office, to
to health, to fUM
Responsible for one's action to life, to
ft Restrain a horse, to
" position, a ,
commerce, to PR SlIS
ministry ,,
desire, to
 t #

Restrain ( m ) Return

Restrain men by law, to spot, a !

[ Retiring peusion
Retract from an engagement, to
M#
, one of liberty, to
" one's lu3ts, to ;
" oneself, to ^ „ . one's words, to
„ the people from rebellion, verbal evidence, to
to
Result from, to
,, in evil, to
; Rstrench expenses,
Retributive punishment
to

in good, to Retrieve customers, to

Resulting use „ one from danger, to
Resume a discourse, to
„ one's duty, to " one's honor, to
,, one's seat, to " one's liberty, to -
Resurrection man, a ;
[
pie
,,

@
Retroactive law or statue
;
Resuscitate a quarrel, to
Retail goods
,, trade
^; Retrograde people, a
,,

Retrospective law, a
planet, a iit^

Retain a counsellor, to Return a list of killed and wound,

,
,,
a visitor, to
by force, to ;; .,
to
a list of stores, to
,,

,,

Retaining wall
in service, to
in the mind, to
lk;
#^ ,
"
a visit, to
an answer, to
Retaliate an injury, to „ back, to ;
,,

Retard the progress, to

evil for evil, to ,, ball (
,, the rupture of two nations, by Weeping Cross, to
to ;-day
^^
Retching and reaming ,,

Retentive meuory $ " home, to

Retire a note, to , kindness or a favor, to
" from active life, to
„
"
,,
from service, to
from the world, to
on furlough, to
^ J% "
,,
of accounts, a
of the population,
'
the

" troops, to , of the seasons, the

Retired apartment, a
" life, a ,, ofthe year, the
, list thanks, to
"
n merchant, a ,, the compliment, to
officer, a )t the eyes, to
 L5

Return ( 422 ) Revo! ve

Return the
"
,,
lie,
-ticket
to
^^
to a former state, to
„
"
of a coin, the
of fortune
shell, a
" to former rules, to „ the distinctions of good
"

"
to one's first love, to

to one's native village, to

"
and evil, to
the state, to ;
Revert a series, to
i
" to one's muttons, to " to n former state, to
, to the original, to
to one's owu duty, to " to the original form, to

legiance, to ;
to right principles or al- " to the
to
original proprietor,

, swords, to
Returning-officer '
*7J Review of troops, a
Revise a manuscript, to
^
Reveal a
Revel-rout
Revels, master of the
;;;
secret, to
S'l
, a proof sheet, to
a treaty, to
,,

Revive learning, to
Kevenge an affront, to , old thoughts, to
" the death of one's father, Revocable convenaut, a
to Revocation of a deed
Revenue derived from the customs ,, of a law, the i;
[ " of an edict, the
" derived from the field W
" derived from the ground Revoke a law, to

Jievenons a nos moutons ( )

„
"
"
a license, to
a privilege, to fly
verbal evidence, to
i
U
Keverent behaviour Revolt against the government, to

,, " words ,, at cruelty, to

Reverential deportment " from religion, to [
,,

Reversal of a judgment, the

fear of, in „
Revolution
,,
the feelings of, to
of a state,
in thought
the ,
, of objects by a lens „ of a year, the
,, of the clay, the
Ke verse a decree, to
a judgment, to of the seasons, the
, a motion, to
, a /sentence, to ?^ Revolutionary &pirit, a
" an engine, to g| Kevolve and plan, to
., curve, a in the mind, to ft<J&
Reward ( m ) Ride

Reward a victorious army, to as Croesus, as

,, as Plutus, as
" services, to
Rex, to play ; "
color, a ;
character, a

Reynard, a

—
Reynard's ring, to have posses- ,,
" crop, a
dress, a ;
entertainment, a £
^
sion of ,
Rhadamanthine; Rhadamanthean

Rhadamanthus
.,

,.
flavor
food
gems
;
;;
Rhetorical question, a " landscape, to
» mine
Rheumatic affections " music
" fever ,, presents
,, ophthalmia , soil or land
pain MMM ,, soup WM
Kheumatism

Rhine, the
in the
in the leg
Irish
back
;Black-
,,

" wine
voice

Riches and honor

water Richmonds in the field
Rhodoinontade; Rodmonfcade
; Richness of imagination
;
Rhone of Christian
IP St. Hilary
of
Eloquence, the

Latin Eloquence, the

Rid of care, to
of trouble, to
;
Rhumb-line, a "of trouble, to be
Rhyme or reason "oneself of, to
„ or reason, without ,, oneself of dress, to .

;
Rib
,, a crooked
,
()
Ride a
—
Riddance from all adversity

race, to
Ribbon dodge, the ,, about, to
„ society, the , abroad with St. George, but
Orange As- at home with St. Michael to

Ribbonism
) and tie, to

Ribbon-men ft at anchor, to |£
Ribbons
,
Rice Christians
, to take the ; at the ring, to

bodkin, to
« )?
Rich
"
as a Griffin, as
as a Jew, as
down, to ;
easy, to
" as a new-shorn sheep, as errands, to JSJ
 t *

( 424 ) Right

Hide for n. fnll io CSF^^SS^s^ Ki;'ht a grievous wrong, to

., hard, to yHJ:Hfi -about, to send to the
i li a carriage or sedan chair,
about wheel ()
" in the ma rrow-bon6 coach, to

(;
ahead
" on the black donkey, to along ( W *5
/ and duty
nnp '
q h r»hHrr r*r 1 1 ^hhv-li o r RP and left
angle
" one's lio bb v to dGfitli, to arm
as a glove
as a line, as
as a trivet, as
ovpr to

^ ^;
ftll ascension f.I
nri«it to -^-S|h away or off
,
,
hj
shanks' nnrG, to
cj irr
olll^ t*»
ii-c liu vi, i^j

£i o q rl
it! Oil +"it? SHUU
1 " f 1 1
I
$
1 p r

+t^)
i

H& -Tt^
*PC^/v
Boys

foot foremost
Right

"li a
ftile: o* }-» a g ^ ttu
r» ifti 4y: t^v" rn/.i glorious
" ] i
ii 1 1 i\yJit* &t?i 1h. r^Jw I'w
1

" tile? 111 <H L llUS, tU -tV>>i J T2T.Hm hand, to be a person's

XVI M ^
to
^
Ridicule, the Father
hound

1 , * ^ ! Hit -,
to

«j
^^3$^ W,^W
f^L.

of
ffVl
haud know what the left
hand doeth, not to let the

ha ml man ;
liid iculous n 11 i r
fi'

i
Francois Rabelais
n, §^
honorable
humble
^^
taik
RiJi n r. h a bi t a
litrht
^ 1
fe "£r IS 8^
"'
}i

:
man

noble
in a right place, the

ilOUtl, H now
" a t.C/ 1
^ff 3< *>J i^tf
#

Av? VW <KX m'H of appeal

autonomy ft
(
^
of
school fe^fri^fiff of eminent domain
ill p, a i^v to 'fff
U\fo with ^fe-JU^ honor
of legal defence
;'
gfi

f
Ki- a ship, to
out, to
the market, to
Veda, the
"V!

^
of
of
mandate.

^^ ^^
search

of sovereignty
of way
^
one's honor, to
 tI M o A

Risk
( 425 )

Right oneself, to
"
"
or wrong
or wrong s'uie
man,
-

to get the '

„
"
\\
out, to
one's praise, to
the changes on, to
^
^ mw«r
side oi a the changes upon, to
"
,, smart
the helm,
; to IA +
,
; have the true
,to ;,
^-.

, the innocent, 10
fo make a

'
,

Rights and
valiant t§M
w:fe, a ;
lefts
w4>J ^ "
(
il^^f^
)
((^ );
4
°

Ri;rht30U3 act, q ^I'U;^

' angor
Ringing Island, the
) (1) ; 2)

"
K'urhtly served, to be
man, a

^ Riot, to
of or in
run ;
the ears

;
•

Rigid adherence ISl^l

Kip off, to
adherence to truth "f
" open, to
discripline
}) out, to
:, in death Ifii
Van Winkle,
a
n one's opinion
;
!^
'

Ripaille, to live at
i

laws
Rigmarole, a
Rigorous execution of law, a
^ mm
Ripe for marriage

" lips
# scholar, a
,,
measures, to take
-winter, a
of discipline, ti>e
M
^ ,

', wants
wine ;
(^^
Rigour
° the
Riph^an vocks
of law,
Ripon rowels, as true steel as
Mortis )

^
',,

of the winter, the

!

Ri se from the ranks' to

Ring change, to
" down, to
linger
( );
i

'
in the world, to ;
for the neck, the
I

" i
, out of totakea
;
hollow, to
in, to
;^ '

"
to the
occasion, to;
emergency or to the

,,

"
leader, a
of Eastern
Amurath
story,
^
^ the

; ;
Rising aaainst the authorities,
a
.

,,
^
one's own bell, to
generation, the
sun, the EJ

"
;1 iWk a battle, to 'g
 i

Risk ( 426 )

Risk .lander, to
" of life, to do at the
,, one's person in battle, to
Rob
"
,,

of time, to
-jack

on the highroads, to
;
,.. one's good uame, to

^
Risorial muscles, the " soldiers' of their pay, to
Risorgimento, the
,. Peter to pay Paul, to
Ritsonism
River of Paradise, tlie
Barnard de Chairvaux Robe
roy, a
of
—
ceremony |§

;;
,, of Sw«ns, the Potomac " of honor

Rivers, the
Tagus
King of the
Robert Macaire, a
Robert's men
Robespierre's weavers
^—
of blood
,,

Rivet friendship, to
Road-agent ;^ (
Parisian
Robin goodfellow
, Hood, a
; ;
tale of
Z

,,
-bed
-book
; "
Hood wind,
Hood's penny worth,
a
to sell
Roam about over the world, to
" Mutton, a
Roar, to set in a Redbreasts
,, for anguish, to
of laughter, a Robinson Crusoe, a
Roaring applause
"

,
boys; Roarers

forties, the
II Robust body,
,,

,,
health
work
a
^
; W Roc's egg, a
Roche, men of La Vieille

W mey
game, the ^ (
.

Kock, to plough a

,,
"
trade, to drive (do) a
,,

Rocket and come

a child, to

stick, to go up like a
down
^
like a

;#
, with laughter, to Rocks
Roast a person, to „ ahead
,, ,to rule the Rococo jt vdery
,, beef stomach & Rod and spoil the child, to spare
" snow in a furnace, to

Boasting
ifii

to give a ; for one's

Pi IS
own back, to make a
Rod ( i2i ) Roof

Rod in pickle, to keep a ,, fire

Rogation days

„
0)
week
bl „
„
"
land
mill ;
mountains
jgi

Rogatory commission A ., -pin

Roger Bon temps „ -press
Roger, the Jolly ,, stock or plant
Rogue elephant
Rogues' march n^li

^
stone, 3
" stone gathers no moss, a
„ twist

Roi Bourgeois, le Louis Phi- Rolly-poly —;

.,
lippe
Citoyen, le
Roman
„
birds
candle. —
—
"
"
,,
des Barricades, le
Fainteant, a ;
de Prusse, to work for the
"
,,
cement
indiction
letters
nose
„ du Roi, le Card „ nieal
Richelieu Romantic landscape, a
„ Parade, le Louis XVIII ,,
person, a Jit

,, Soleil, le Louis XIV „ place, a

Roland's horn Rolaiid

Roll away reproach, to

-call
Rome

„
;
doe=<,

of
when

the North, the

at Rome do as

clay into a ball, to

forth or out, to
in riches or wealth, to
; ,,
Cologne
of the West, the
Aix la Chapplle

into a ball, to
of cloth, a — "

„ -penny
;
was not built in a day

—^
of fame
of honor Romeo, a
of thunder, the liornulu3 to account for Koine, to
on, to need no
one's r.: to r
oneself, to Rood-loft
over, to Kooden Lane, all on one sida like
the eye, to ( 4
Herefordshire
-, up, to H'joden
Rolling chair, i
circle ^) Roof of the world, the ^]
 * @

Rcok ( 428 ) Rougb

Pnmir Rascian or Eoscius, a

Rook, a m± Roscius, the African Ira
, ic Aldridge
Rookie,
Room and
a " Britannicus; the Enprlish
^
^
to spare (British) Roscius
„ for doubt, no S'»7H^1^ Richard TaTlton;
,, to his compnnv, t;> preler a Thomas Betterton;
person's
together, t>
Rooms above
^ ifri ,,
David Garrick
of France
Boyron
Michel

Roomy mansion,
, place, a ^
a ,, the
Spranger Barry
Irish

Roorbr.ck, a
Root and branch
" an branch man,
1
;;
a ';
„ the Young
Henry West Betty
Rose, the Little Black ^
William
[
Ireland
(
,, of nil evil,the ; ,
"
to mount the
-colored anticipations
M
"
„
,
of a disease, the
of bitterness
of hell, the
; Rosatta-stone
Sunday
Rouss&rd

of virtue ;
of the matter, the Bosetta

,,

,.
out, to
up, to
Booted custom
j:
Rosicruciaii, a
Rostrum
Rot or all
;rot
dislike Rotary engine,
Kope a bale of goods, to „ motion
, in, to Rother-nails
, in :\ plot of ground, to Rothschild, a
Rotten borough
„ in customers, to
, in the house of one who has

^
been hanged, to talk of a , bones

; ;^^
, breath ^
" of Ocnus, the ,, ice
" of sand, a K ,, fish
out a crowd, to Hilffi flesh

, throw a
to, to
maker, to play the
;S ,,
grass
trick, a
wood
;^
" "
(
-walk
Rope's end, to give a person the

Roquelaure, a
,,

Roue, a
Rouge-et-noir
Rough
play, a
;
a horse, to
^;
 B^ K

( 829 ) Royal

and ready
and Ready, old
,, on to
price, a
^;
,,

Zachary Taylor
and tumble
board, a
; „ robin, a

customer, a
diamond, a ^ ; ,
, sum,
tl:o
a
edge of anything, to

draft, a ; ,, to, to
estimate, a
guess, a
it, to ;
„
,,

,,
trip
trot, a
up, to
:(
it out, to " voice, a [
on one, to be Roundabout sense, a
out a carving, to , way, a
a Bouse an enemy,
" from a bed,
to ^
to
5; fit'

„ retort, a " indignation, anger, or one's

„ road, a passions, to
,, sea, a ,, one's spirits, to
,, sounds „ the attention of the people,
" visage, a * to

,,
weather
wind, a ; "
"
the sea, to
to fight, to
" wine
; Rousing fire, a

;;;
Round a period, to ,, speech
,, about Rout out, to
,,

,, ;
.answer, a
dealing
Rover, at g
Eow, to hoe one's own
,, head
a
[
„
; ;
in the same boat, to

; (:
,, of pins, a
,, house " royal
, to hoe; to have a hard (long)

,,

,,
in, to
Number,
;
a ,'
Howdy ;
together, to ;
,, oath, a Rowland for an Oliver, a
" of beef, a
off, to
;
Rowton House, a
Roxburgh —)^
"
"
,, on
pace, a
a person, to

pes in a square hole, a

Royal assent
"
"
game of goose
Martyr, the
—Charles I

" merchant, a
 i

Royal ( 4,^0 ) Raftttg

Royal Oak, the Boscobei of the blood, a

Charles II the foe, to

,, road
Navy, the
;
,,

Rugby —
the mind, to
Ri^'by

Rub a dub Rugged beard, a 4L

,, along or on, to „ brow
;;
;;
,, down, to ,, hills
„ elbows, to
off, to ,
,,
Hue, a
looks ;
,.
one's eyes, to
out, to ;;
shoulders with, to
„ school
Ruin a family, to
,, an affair, to
;
;
,, the wrong way, to „ an estate, to ^
,,

,
through life, to
up or over, to ; ^; .,

„
^
of a good face, the

oneself, to
upon, to ISIL „ virtue, to fii
,, up the wrong way,
welcome, a
Aubicon, Napoleon's
to

Moscow
I
Ruined family, a
„ man, to be
Rule a family, to
a ^
Rubbish! ;; ; „
,,
a state, to
all the people, to
;
Rubric, a
^ ( H
,
,,
of a family
of the road, the

( ;
,, of three J:
Ruddy countenance, a " of thumb
,, cup " one's affections, to
;
,,

Rude abode
„
„
„
flame, a

cloth
hand
in speech f&
,.

„
"
the roast, to
the roost, to
with a rod of iron, to
ge
Rules of a country
^;
^
, nation, a " or by-laws of a guild
,, shock of armies " of a society

„
,, work
strength
wind, a ; ,,

„
of etiquette
of life
of learning ;^
m^i

Rudiments of nature, the of longevity &

^;
:^
of docility ,, of nature
Rudimental doctrine
,,

Rudolphine
legs ;
tables, th»i
„
.
of navigation
of state
Ruling passion SS^T-
Ruffle a person's feathers, to ; ^; " prices tS( '^jp
 ii ) *

( 431 )

Rum go li away witu e notion; w^ixx «s ju

start oeiore, to gij j& » f3.us» > m/w
Buminate on anything, to UIOOU, 10 (QiUL7

Rump
one's sins, to
and a dozen, a — Duiiets, to
counter to, to
aeep, io

^
irjctj
WUbW-tu

,
gi*-
^hsw

MM' l^ffill:

Parliament SBt"( nvl Kfmna

Run, to ;;
a blockade, tp
aown d coa&b,

ary, to
to to ^SK^

Kfm r)

a career, to
a church, to
; each other through with
tneir s words, to ^ij^c
lor En a^Raa 4-g\ -^'^'ft-^ it£^
omce, xo ^wk> ipc3ss j

' a foil, to ior it, to

a line, to IOr OU6 S JfO JZS^c., Jl>uiq

n a match, to
a race, to , ji
for Congress, to
nr iHii
or fnnl or, in
foil ioui to W^S
isjtctIfji W
a rig, to nara, to l%,xB»xtl 77) Vc lazuli
a risk, to "Ifl ,
a rope through a block, to lllgn^ LO ,
a shop,
a sword into the body, to
in or hi to io
in h circle^ w*j
y f ,,
vS^S^T^ioS

a tilt,

across, to
to ; ff^yj
in b grove, to
in utjuv, to
in one o ue&ci, to tm^^ffilSi n*y
after, to
after, to be
against, to
;
;;
IE
in tiie oiooa, to^]^,iiiif7Cj^sl?u
in i ruaty IO T^IH^
against the point of a spear, in wit n, to 7Cvti SXifHlxjiK
to
against time, to into, to
along, to into debt, to
amuck,
at, to
away,
;;
to
to
SI
into tlio ground, to

into trust, to
away, to into evil practices, to
away from one's own guns,to
into with, to —;
away
;
or off with, to ifli like anything, to
low, to
Rim ( 432 ) Rush

Run, or go mad, to up a score, to ;

,,

,
or
of
of
p;o mad
bad luck, a
good luck, a
after, to ,,

"
up to to,
upon, to ;
upon the rocks, to

off, to ;;
of people, the ,,

,,
wild, to
with, to ,;|§
(( ;
off with, to Rnnaway horse, a
;
,, on or upon, to M n ; Runic-knot
,

Running days
marriagt-, a

"
, on wheels, to
one's changes or the chances,
to
„
„
,,
hand, a
horse, a
;
explanation, a

,> one's face, to fight

one's fortune, to ,, fire, a

,, Parliament, the M
., one's godly race, to
"
:; ; ; ;;
one's ship on the sands, to ,,

,,
rigging
title

;;
" out, to Rupert of Debate, t!ie

; ;; —
Edward, 14th Enrl of D^rby
,, over, to Rupert's balls
;
riot, to
Rupture of a blood-vessel, the
,, „ of friendship, a

„
rusty, to
short
tandem,
of, to
to
; ,,

Rural economy
betwaen two nations, a

" the chance, to „ excursion

(;(
, the eye over, to „ pleasure
" the gauntlet, to ,, dean

„
,,
;
the guard, to
the hazard of, to
Rus in urbe
Ruse de centre ruse
de guerre (
W

, +
the rig upon, to Rush against, to
„
,,

,,
;;;;
the risk of, to

;
the show, to
through, to
"
,
,,
forth, to;
against, and upset, to

headlong, to
iH;
@j

"

,,
;;
through with,
to seed, to

;;^;
to waste, to
to
,,

"
^
into a net, to
into an agreement, to

into battle, to
,,

,
^( ;
together, to
up, to ,,

"
into danger, to
of work, a
 ( 433 )

Ri!h on an enemy,
,, on certain death,
to
to
Sacrifice nt the tombs, to
" every thing, to
: tj/;

" on heedlessly, to ,, of duty to pleasure, the

" on mining shares, to mi

!: ^
-

" reputation, to
, the season, to ,, oneself, to
" up a defence, to " oneself for the state, tc
"
,
upwards, to
with great haste, to ; "
. to the ancestors, to '
" with violent, haste, to the Graces, to ;
^
to ,,

„ work, to
Russel, Dan Sacripant, a ;r ;
^;
Russian Byron, the
xander's. Puschkin
Rustic dwelling
Ale- Sad business,
.' colour, a
countenance, a
n
^ .
.

manners
y,
dog ^^
;
^
-

" phrases , news

, work Saddle, to be in t ho
,• gall
Rusticated, to be girth, a
, horse

one's
S, to cross
S "

Sadducee, a
roof
with, to ; ^
Sabbath day's journey, a

Sabbatical year, a
Safe and sound
,,

Sage Hens
at home ^ Xevada
Sabbelllan song, a ofAuburn/ the
,, Wra.
Sabiue bard, the Horace Hy. Saward
Sabres
Sackclothoa and ashes ;- , cf Ciiappaqua, the
Horace Greeley

Sacred
,
fire
fire;
;
altar fire
ol Chelsea, the
Thomas
Chelsea
^
Carlyle (
, flame; altar flnme " of Concord, the
" Isle, the (1) Ireland Ralph Waldo Emer-
(2) Athos
3jGuemsey (
0^
"
son
of Monticello, tlu

"
m
Ni ue, the ; , of
Thomas Jefferson
Samos, the
Pythagoras (
^
Samoa
 | :

Sage ( 434 ) Saint

Elmo's fire or Saint Hemes'

Bngcbrush State, the fire

Nevada
Francis' distemper

„ in, to
than
;
Sail close to the wind, to

ballast, more
(
Geoffrey's Day
George's Cross
George's Day
7jc

" under false colors, to ; SB

George's ensign
George's flag
" with the wind, to :
Sailing order [ Grouse's Day
Sailor King, the William IV B
SI Helen's fire

Suilors card James Tide (Day)

" Friend, the Samuel St. James
Plimsoll
Home John's evil
,,

^
Saint Agnes' Eve ^ Johnstone's tippet
St. Johnstone

,,
^
Andrew's Cross X Julian was he deemed
„ Andrew's Day
St. Andrew Lawrence's Day
SL Lawrence
,. Anthony's Cross T
,,

,,
Anthony's fire
Anthony's pig — Lawrence's" tears

Lubbock'3 Day; St. Lubbock,

,, Augustin's summer, a the feast of

Luke's
1;

—
Barnabas Day

;
bird, as light as

Bernard
Bermard ^ St Luke's
JJ (
Market's ale
little summer

»
I^rK

;
^ ^g
" Catherine's tresses, to braid Martin's bird St.
Martin
"
(
Crispin's nolit! :iy

Crispin's lance
jg§^f-— H Martin le Grand

Martin le Grand
St.

^
,
" Cuthbert's duck
Domingo fever Martin's beads
"
$amt ( 435 ) Salt

St. Martin le fl St. Vincent

Grand
;
Martin's evil

^
Martin's Jewellery

tin le Grand
Martin's lace
( St.

;
Mar-
,, Vitus' dance
Saint's-bell
Sainte, the
Sakes alive!
Sal marits
^
Salad days
Martin's ring, a
Martin's summer " -oil

; ;
Salamander's hair or wool

Mathurin's malady

Monday
Salamis of Britain, the
Sale by the candle —
Nicholas's
men)
Partridge's
clerka

Day
(clergy- Salic Law, the
Salient traits
Saliferous rocks
;^:^
B Sallust of France, the St. Real
Patrick's Day Cesar Vichard

Koch and his dog

Sally forth, to
Lunn, a —
Roche
St. Roch ,, of wit
Salmacis ;
Salmis
Halicarimssus

Simonian;
Simonist
St.

;
Simonite; St.
Salmagundi —
Siinouiom, St. Simonianism ;
Comte Claude de St. Salon
Simon
Stephen's
St. Stephen
( Salt

„
,an old
,a convenant of

Stephen's loaves (bread) " ,a mine, to g

Swithin's Day

Tib's Eve, on
Valentines Day
;^^ "

„
an invoice, to

as brine
B ( Valentina , away or down, to MWt
" eel, a
„ gabel

Vincent's Day
,
" water ;
of the earth, the
 gR

Salted

Salted, to be ^^ ^
( 436 )

" ,

;
to count the ^
Sardanapafus

Snlvation Army, a
Sal vat or R)sa, the English
IS John Hamilton M^rii-
, Sandwich, a
,
Sandwichman,
, to; a
€L

iner
Salve a score, to
Samaritan, a
SamLenito, the ^
Sandy,
Sang-froid
Sanguinary James, a
a
( ;; )

(
Sambo Sanhedrim; Sanhedrin, the
Same... as, the
,, as before, the ;^ Jerusalem
Sanitary science
„
"
as brothers, the
...that, or which, the
Sanjian earth ;^ Samos ^ ;
Sans Culottes, the

M ) (
,,
06<,1116811110111(163 , Gene, Madame Dantzig
(
,,
Samos

(#
sage, the Pytha- peur et aans reproche ( )

„
goras
stone
Samiel wind, the
Samos)

S
Samos souci ( ;^; ; )

;
Sammy, a ;
Samosatian philosopher, the
„

Sauta
Souci, the
Castile, Leon
Claus
Philosopher
Gilicia
Father
of

Lucian of Samosuta Christmas

Sampson, a Dominie Sap the foundation
; ; of, to

^
Samson, a
, , the British Thomas Sappho, a icUA ( Sappho of
Topham Lesbos
San-benito; Santo-benito ,,
, the English
Mary Robinson
the French

Sancho Panza, a
Sanctuary
^;
Sance-bell; sanctus bell, the

men
51
,,

Magdalen de Scuderi'
the Scottish
Catherine Cockburu
Saracen wheat
Sanctum sanctorum
Sanctus sanctorum
Sand lias run out, the
; J^iJ Sarah Gamp; Sarey Gamp, a
* «

Sandals, a man without

Sanded floor
Sands of a inaa's
fij;

life A#
Saratoga trunk, a
SarUau^palus, a ;
 ^

SarJIin!an ( 4S7 ) Scandal

Sardinian herb, the ;; Saving clause

grace
Sardonic laugh, (Smile), (grin), a

Satisfaction for injury ^;

Savoir fairs
, vivre
"
(;
one's presence

( Ell

,, of the desires II Savour of politics, to

; ,, of the frying pan, to
Satisfactory apology, a 1
Satisfy a claim, to ,, of pan, to

" all demands, to S.iwbones, a

Sawdust parlance
,, guilt, to mn S^vney, a
„ hunger, to Saxon comp'exion H
„ one for an offence, to Say or sueak a good word for, to
" oneself by inquiry, to ;
,, ?wny II
;
„the mind, to
Saturnalia

Saturnian days
times
^; [
„
"
,,

,
"
boo to a goose, to
evil thinos of, to
good by, to
grace, to
how
J?IJ

thin?3 are, to
mnmm
y;

Saturnine
„
; year, the ,,

,
internally, to
neither buff nor stye, to
Satyr, a
Sauce
„
( ;;
-box, a "
" one ma v,
one's sav, to
to

" for the goose is sauce for the " over again, to
gander „ over or tall one's beads, to

Saucer eyes to, to

Saucy boy, a ,, to oneself, to

((
Saut Lairds of Dunscore Scab

Sauve qui peut

Save appearances, to
( ;
1^
Scala Coeli
Scalawag
Scale or scale d «w i, a. debt, wa^o-,

:
,,
onei's bacon, to fl
one's face, to
, one's skin, to
^ ;
to etc.,
Scales even, to hold the
" of justice, to hold the
iE ;
^^ ^ ;^
" the hide, to •

,, the mail, to S jail. .wag; Sea Ha way, a

,, the mark! Scimbling liouse
" the time, to : Scandal-broth
.

Saviour of the Nations, the " in the family, a

Wellington „ to the country, a 4;
 Z

( 438 ) Scoot

Scandal was noised abroad, the ,, in all directions

„ thoughts or ideas
Scandalous affair, a
,, libel, a Scavenger's Daughter the
Scant one in provisions, to Skeffington

, oneself in food and clothes,

to Scene, to make a :
Scanty of words ,, of action
,, wages " of m a n
Scape-goat, a i
^
Scent of smell, the
( ,, the morning air, to ft

,, -grace, a ; Sceptered pall

Scheme after fame, to
Scaphoid bone
Scarab
Scaramouch, a
; Schiedam
,,

"
after gain, to
destruction, to
ij

Holland Schiedam
Scarborough warning, a Schism, the
; Scarborough
Thoraas Stafford ,, , the Great

Scholastic learning
Scarcely any ; philosophy
; Schomburgk
,,

Line, the ^£®Guiana

;: … …
,, ever
" ...when or before Venezuela m
Scare up, to (fig) Schoolmaster is abroad, the
Scarecrow, a

;;
Schoolmaster's language
Scarlet-dved, to be ;
fever SchoolTtlio
, Lady, the Science, the diama.

;
letter

runners
iii
A
B^w Street Scio'a
,,

blind
the gay
the noble
old bard Uf

^«M* ^);M(»
3( Homer
, Whore, the Scissors and paste
, W nan: Scarlet Woman 7J
(Lady) of Babylon, the H Jft«« (
Scatter hope:-, to
,, to the winds, to
I

S;
; Scold away!
; II

.^ SI
Scattered about
,,
family, a „
„

Scoot, to
Lke

(;
roundly, to ^
a fishwife, to
 R ) *

( m Scufciimg

Scorching sun, a „ of Scotland, the Ed-

,, wither wird I
;
(
Score a point, to

Sorn with the heels, to

l;—

;
,

&o\vl at, to
of the human race

Scornful of winter's frost and sum-

mer's sun : Scrape acquaintance with, to
;
.^
together, to
Sot and
, free
Sc )tch answer, a
lot ', Scraps of history
Scratch along, to
, out, to
; [
, fiddle, the , race
, Hobbema, the
Pdter Nasmyth " team or pack
" Marriage, a
,, through, to ;
Scotland Yard
Scots Greys, the
(
Scream of death, a
Screen a fault, to ;
Scottish Auacreon, the
Alexander Scott 2 Screw
,, or keep
in, to
loose, a
;;off,

;;
to

;;; ;
Hogarth, the „ one's courage to the sticking
David Allen place, to

" Homer, the The ,, out, to ffl;

"
Epigoniad
Wilkie
mist, a
William
,
"
up, to
up courage,
; ; to
„ Novels, the Wnverley Screwed
" Solomon, the James I , on the right way, head
James VI
Tenier, the
David Ramsay
Sir Scribble down, to
Scribbler, a
;
, the
Theocritors, Scrupulous in language
Allan Ramsay
Scour away, or with, to ; ,, performance of duties

Scourge and reins @ Scrutinize to the utmost, to

,
,,
and
of
steel
God, the (1)
Sculpture's
Scum
dream
of society ;
Attila;
seric;
Tamerlane
(2)
(3)
Vandals Gen-
Timur
Scurvy affairs

"
,,

terms
custom ; •
„ of Princes, the Scutching machine; batting ma-
chiue
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Scutclieon ( 440 ) Secrete

Scutcheon ^: (
^ ;
^
of honor Saclude oneself, to
;^
, of pretence Second best
, Ch.arlemagne
V
^ Charles

of reversed ^ ,,

,
childhood
childishness
" coming (of Christ), the
Scythe-bear?rg, the
,, cousin
Saa-blue bird of March, the " day Friend
. -born City, tho Venice ff Second day)
, -circle * EI " estate
,.-dog, a
-Girt Isle,.tlie
, -green Incorruptible, the
; ,, girl
-hand knowledge
Hogarth, the ^
^;
( -
Robespierre Henry Willian Bun bury

;;;
,. "King ,, hero, a
-le?s, to get one's Ullft nature

, -letter

-room
n

^^
1 K)
„
,,
thought
none
sight

to
Washington, the
Henry Clay
^—
Sial anything

, the
.
lips, to
vitli blood,

n;
to Secondary evidence
,,

,,
importance
planet, a
ig'

M;
^
' up, to , power, a
Sealed book, a i Secret arts or formulas

Seamy side, the

w
as the night, as
de Polichinelle
&
(
S ones consek'nc;?,
„ up, to ;; to
foe ^
Search after, to

,
for, to ; ;^
into secrets, to
injury
merits
plot mk
;
, into the nature of thing3, soul
to Secretary of Heaven |g
" out, to ,, of Nature, the (!)
" the shnde, to Francis Bacon,
5^
,,
,,

of authority
-warrant
Siat oneself, to; seato.l, to be

Secede from fellowship, to

^ Lord

Secrete oneself, to
Verulam;
Plato;
Aristotle; (4)
(3)
(2)
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Secular ( 441 ) Seek

Secular disposition, a
Secure arms, to 'M
^ , one's way clear, to f;

,, out, to
" from danger, to , out of the corners of one's
,, of soul eyes, to ^;
,, oneself against anything, " service, to
to that (a thing is done) , to
Sadan, a
Sedentary occupation,

Seductive language
soul, a
;
a " the
thing,
back
to
of any person or
;
look, a ; " the ast of anything, to
;
See about, to
offer, a
;; "
,,
the light, to
the point, to
;;
; ;
; ;; ;;
after, to
,, anything done, to through, to
;
"

,,

,,
^
anything in its true

at a glance, to
daylight, to
—
light, to
to, to

with a glance, to ;*
well and good, to

with half an eye, to

Seed down, to Ififi

;
I

, double, to „ -field
" eye to eye,"
fair play, to
I
Seedy coat, a
;
^
1
,, look, a
„ for the first lime, to Seeing or seeing that
j

,, ir.^m a distance, to S 3 8k a clew, to

;
I

^
green in one's eya, to ,, a gape's nest, to
how
I

or which vny t lie cat after, to

jumps, to M I „ figs where only brambles
how the land lies, to
;
grow, to
for, to ;
"
£
,,
in one's mind, to
it, to

it out, to
;
;
"

,,
^
others and lose oneself, to

safety in flight, to
laud, to
,. mora days, to shelter from one, to
off, to the life of, to
, one at York first,
one paid, to
one through, to
io
"

,
;
the spirts of one's paddle, to

water in the sea, to

" one to (a place), to w ol on .in ass, to

Scenis ( 442 ) Sens«

Seems good
, that ^
to oneself

;^
Sell out a man, to
Seen srvie, to liave

Seian (Sejin) Horse, the

Se is mnl vertical (I;
^
)
short, to

;
it m " under the hammer, to

Sei/3 r.n idea, to

on or upon, to J^.Jifl
^ Siller's option

Semiramis of the North, the (1)

ih- nisnnin^:, t: '; Margaret
Seldom if ev^r $4 (2) Catherine II
„ or ever Senatorical dignity
" or nover
Select from, to duties ^
" persons for intercourse, to Sand a mitten, to
: ,, about one's business, to

,,
troops
Selenious acid , down, to Oxbord
Self-made man, n
^;
Selfish acts

,
;
desiras
lusts .
,,

,
„
for, to
forth and out, to
in one's papers, to

"
Sell, a ; ;;
man,
()
a
,, one'mad, to

"
a person, to

^;
.in ox to catch a hare, to
,,

,,

,,
packing, to
respects, to
(;
one's compliments, to

to a or one's long account, to

,

„
and
ike hot
off,
sell, to

to
cakes, to
,;
^ "

to Coventry, to *g
„ one, to
one out, to |U " to one's account, to
;
one up, to fii]
,
,
to the dogs, to
to the right-about, to ;
;
,
one's bac^n, to

pottage, to
||
one's birthright for a mess of u P to
„
word, to
, ;
Seneca, t he Christisn i
., one's hens on a rainy day, to Joseph Hall
Senior Wrangler, a
, one's

' it to
lifa

^ ^^ ^^
a^nrly, to
^i^j Sanse oi propriety ffi
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Sensibility ( 443 j Service

Sensibility to pain Serve a sentence, to

" to shame " a term in prison, to
Sensible person, a
„
,,
of, to be
kindness
to
,

"
a writ, a
cess, to ( ;
warrantor a pro-

an apprenticeship, to
1
Sensitive faculties, the
„ person, a " an attachment, or writ of

,,
wound, a attachment, to
Sensual person, a ,, an end or object, to
,,
powers
Sentimental music , as a substitute, to ;
Seuussi, the
Separate estate
Z „
,,

,,
dinner, to ;;
before the mast, to

in the rank, to
„ spirit, a „ one a trick, to;
, the good from the bad, to "
,, one out, to ;
one a scurvy trick, to

Sepoy
,
to
the sheep from the goats, ,,

,
(
one right, to

one the same sauce, to ()

September Laws, the
, one's apprenticeship, to
Massacres, the

,
„
„ one's country, to
Septembriaeurs, the Septem- " one's own end, to ij

ber [ " one's time, to ;

Saptuagint, the
Sequester oneself, to ifr; one's turn, to ;;
Seraphic Doctor, the

"
Bonaventura
Saint, the St. Francis
St.

"
„
out, to ; §B
out one's time for , to
Aseisi
Serbonian bog, a ,, the purpose of, to ;
8ere (Sear) and yellow
;
" month, the
leaf, the

"
time, to
up, to
;
Sorgant-Bt-arm Served, to be
;
Serious affairs
„
,
illness, a
injury, a
Service,
"
book
line (^
Serpentine ver.e " of a writ, process, etc. ()
Serpent'd het d, to love a '

Servant of God, or the Lord, the

"
of aa attachment
of an execution ()
( .
 W

Service ( 444 ) Set

Service pipe
;( [ countenance, a
;;; ^
; [;
Servile flattery. ,, down, to
Servvs servo -urn Dei ;:
Sessions of tin Peace " li , down, to

Sat a broken bone, to

a case or sot case, to
;^ , down, to be
„ eye on, to
" fire to, to in'X
;
;
a fine on anyone, to , foot on, to
;;
!^
p. groat v.i 1 lib on, to ,, forth, to
" a price on, to ,. forth a book, to
" a rr.zor, to 7J J „ forth a plan, to
, a resolution, to Iff , forth an order, to
. a sail, to ,, forth one's merits, to
" a saw, to ., forth one's praises, to
a table, to
a
a
thing on foot, to
time for, to
; ,, forth one's wrong, to f
forth oneself, to
, forward, to
;
'"
a irap or snare, to

;
,,

"
L'es, to
hand to, to ;
„ a value on, t)
,, about, to
„
,
hand
in, to ;^
to fist, to

abroach, to
" acr."s or over, to
afloat, to ;
,,

„
,
in a row, to
in
in
comparisons, to
motion, to
;
.

"
aforn, to
against, to
a%Tng, to ;:; „

,,
in one's dish, to
in order, to
Iffht by, to ;
,, an example, to iS; ,, milk, to
, anysme out, to " milk for cheese, to
" anyone up, to
" apart, to :;; , much by, to
,, naught by, to

" aside, to ,, off, a

.; ;
& JMi

;;;^;;
aside or lers, to ,, off, to
„ at defiance, to
, at ease, to
at lib3rty, to
„ on, to
„ on fire, to
;
" off one's charm, to

A;
"
,,
at naught, to
at r:st, to ,; .. , on or up in, to
,, on or upon, to be
;
" at variance, to
" before, to ^; ;
,, on edge, to
„ on foot, to :
,, by, b S;
" by the compass, to
;; [
" bafore onc'j eyes, to ,,

,,
one forth, to
one forward, to
„ one his supper, to
j, by the ear, to it one laughing, to
 Set ( 445 )
Settltf

Set one's cap for or at, to „ the law at defiance, to

,, one's face against, to , the mind on, to

,, the price down at, to
;
;
v
,, one's face like a flint, to ,, the river on fire, to
,, one's face to, to „ the table in the roar, to
,, one's hand and seal, to
; " the Thames or river on fire, to
" one's hand to, to
.
, one's heart, to
, one's heart on, to
" one's hand to, to
; „

,
the teeth on edge, to
;
the world in a blaze, to
„ one's hope in God, to
one's life at a pin's fee, to ,
,,
-ba ;
to rights, to
, one's life upon a cast, to ,,to work, to
, together by the ears, to
,, one's seal to, to
, one's seal upon, to ;
^;
.,

;;;;;;
up, to ;
,,oneself against, to
, oneself to, to ;
" oneself up in business, to
,, up, to be
up an affair, to
" up for, to

;
" one's shoulder to the wheel, to

„ one's teeth, to
" up for a merchant,

up for oneself, to
to

,, one's w;t3 to work, to " up one's rest, to

^; ; ;;
;^;
,, orinions •" up the back,
to ^[
;;
I out, to

„ out a meal, to HxtH

SB " wrong, to tr^;iL
Setter forth, a
„ off, a
" out on, to
„ over, to ^ „
,,

up, a
on, a

,,

,
rank, to
„ right, to
sail, to ^
" or settled purpose
-speech i1i
II
Setting coat
,,

,,

,,
do -
pole
sun
Settle by deliberation, to ;
,,
store by, to
straight, tJ ;; ||
m
,,
the
the
fashion, to
hand ;
to, to
,
„
differences, to
difficulties and quarrels, to

" the
" the
heart at rear, to
hvjart upon, to do W n,to ;;
 K

Settle ( 446 ) Seven

SetUe in
sion,to ;;
an employment,or profes-
Ken, Lake, Lloyd,
Saucroft

,,

,,

,,
&^;
ou or upon, to
one's hash, to
oneself, to
Trelawney,
White)
leagued boots
Turner aud

,, the question, to
Settling day league
Seven arts, the

,
, Sages (Wise Men) of Greece,
the (Anacharsis,
Bias, Chilo, Oleobulus, Pit-
, Bibles., the tacus, Solon and Tbales)
sciences, the the seven
^,
"
^
Bishops, the (
arts
Seas, the ,A
,
Sancroft, Ken, Lake,
Lloyd, Trelavvney, Turner,
White) ,
senses, the
,
,
n bodies in alchemy, the -shooter

,, Champions
(, , , ,
of
,,
Christendom,
Sleepers of Ephesus, the
Ephesua Cms-
the St. tantine, Cionysius, John,

&
Maximian, Malchus, Marti-
George, Denis, St.
Anthony, St, James, nian, Serapiou
St. Andrew, St. Celion
Patrick, St. David)
, Churches of Asia, the
Ephesus, Smurna, Per. ,
spirits of
(,
God, the

, , ,;,^,
gainos, Thyatira, Sardis, K
Philadelphia, Laodicea) virtues, the 1U
Days' Battle, the

&
„
James Stars, the,
„ Day, 8 Campaign, the

mia
Bohe- ^
Weeks' War, the
-
^
wise Masters, the
,,

, ,,, ,,
deadly Bins, the
"Wise Men of Greece, the

, -hilled City, the wonders of the world, the

Palatine, CapitolinH Quiri-
nal, Aventine, Coelian, . Pharos Baby-
Esquiline Viminal lon
Jupitar
. Phidias
: phesus
Lamps of the Church, the Diana Caria
 i - •

Seven ( 447 ) Sliabe

Rhodes

&
Apollo
Vespasian
Shadows of night
Shady, to keep :
bury
, ,
Alexandria

Pisa
Salis-
,,

"
business
side of on the (
Constantinople Shaft or a bolt of it, to make either

— St.
Seven Years' War, the
Sophia
Shaggy top of a hill ;
Shake a foot, to ;
Seventh Heaven, to be in the , a leg, to ;
Sever an estate, to " a loose leg, to
, friendship, to „ backwards and forwards,
Several days running to
Severe cold, a " by the hand, or shake
,
„
government
hunger, a
bands, to
hands with, to —; ;
,,

,,
injury, a
look, a
torture, a
; SffiJ
,,

,, off, to ;
in one's shoes, to

,, towards others and lenient „ off the dust, to

towards oneself , off the dust from one's feet,

,,

„
virtues
words
; ,
to
off the yoke, to ;
Severn capon, a , off this mortal ;
coil, to
Sew up one's stocking,
Sewn up
Sexagenary cycle
;
to
,, one's ears, to ;
Sexual desires „ one's hand, to
" diseases
Shabby dress
Shade or degree of difference
,,

;one's hands of a thing, to

Shades
;
of departed heroes, the
"
"
one's sides, to
oneself together, to ;
Shadow,

;
to
with one's own
"
;
or stagger one's faith or be-

(^
" , to quarrel lief,to
the dust from one's feet, to
,, figure, a *
,, for the substances, to mis- the dust of a place off one's

,
take
of death ; ^;; "
feet, to
the elbow, to
the head, to
 l

Shake ( 448 ) Sliere

Shake the pagoda-tree, to ( J{i „ upon (with) one, to be

„
, with tear, to
together, to ; ,,

"
wit
words !^
Shakes, the
-Shaking all over
Shakespeare
:
of Divines, the
" visage, a
Sharpen a
skil!, to
di.
c
ea83, to n:5

Jeremy Taylor ,, the appetite, to

"

quetti,
)quenc<, tho
of E!
Honore Gabriel Ri-
Oomte dii Mirabeau
,,

Shave, a close
^ t
the wits, to

a note, to
: ^^
, of Germany, the
August Friedrich ,, an ass, to

,,
Ferdinand von Kot y>ebue
of Prose Ficti tho
Samuel Richard-
Sheathe the sword,
Shed blood,
Sheeney, a
to
( ; (-
ic
to

eon
Shallow learning
" scholar, a
^ Sheep among wo! ves,

,, and donkeyd
a

Sham Abraham, to t^i'MM , -walk

Shame on or upon Sheer off, to [
"
Shamefal

Shanghai,
.
,,

;;
on you
itself!
lucre
to
^ ,
„
Thursday
up, to
Sheet anchor, one's

,,in the wind, a

Shape

"
faults tlmt are not, to

one's course, to
,,in the wind's eye, to be a
Sheets in the wind, both
,, in the wind, to be three
g^SI ;
Shakes of polar flame jh® Sheffield, the Bard of
Share one's fortune, to
,, one's joy, to Shekels ;(
sB James Montgomery

; ; ;; (; ^
one's sorrow, to Shell
,, with, to ,, out, to
Shark, a Shepherd Kings
Sharp as a razor, as
attack, a
^^
,
blade, a ij
of the Ocean, the
,, cold, a Sir Walter Raleigh
„ desire, a

;,
Sliepherd's reed
; MT\

— ;
„ pain, a - ,,trade
,,

,,
sight, a
practice
Sheppard, a Jack
Slieration
Sbere Thursday
g^
 g

449

^^
( )

Sherlock Holmes, a ,, paper ^

She- wolf of France, the
Shipwrech a business, to
Shirk living from others, to ^
Shiah
Isabella of France
ward II
^ ^ Ed-
,, of Negsus,
(Nospus
the ^
Hercules
^)
Shibboleth, a
Shift about, to
au argument,
; [

to
,, to one'n
; or
off
back,

out, to
not.

;
a

"
,,

any one off, to Shirt-sleeves diplomacy ^^

"
for oneself, to
off, to ;; ; ^"5; Shock one's feeling, to

^
,,

.
off

the blame, to
from oneself,
oneself, to
to

Shoe
"
,, -headed
after
^.
one's will, to

to cast (fling)
a3
an old.
,, the scene, to
" upon another one, to on the right foot, to put the
S

A €'" .-.
:

ttn^ :

Shiite
Shillalah (Shillelagh), a
Shillelagh
Shiah
,,

"
the goose, to
the gosling, to
the grey goose, to
:[
Shillibeer, a the horse, to
Shilling, the King's

Shilly-shally
B
(or Queen's)
(
Shall I, Shall I " the mockish (wild) mare, to
Shindy
Shine in conversation, to
,, in the world, to ; Shoot a long bow, to
,,

,
ahead, to
along, to
;
MA:

Shining hour, to improve the " at rovers, to

, tiying, to

Ship
"
,
of State
light, a

of the des3rt,
; the
"

,,
folly as it flies,

oneself down, to
to

;;
„ of the line out the lips, to

-
,,

,,
off,
b

the oar, to
to : „
,,
the cat, to
the moon, to

Shipping articles ,, the pit, tj

y. to death, the
Ship's husbftiid " up, to mj^iM^
 g I i

tShoot ( 450 ) Shrink

Shoot up into the air, to " a person the door, to

wide, to ,, another the door, to
, wide of the mark, to H cause, to
[
Shop
,,
bill
of war
,, fight, to
forth, to ;;
Shopkeepers, a nation of
Shoplifting
Shore dinner
,,

,,

„
bis paces, to
into, to
kindness, to
; ,^
n Thursday " of, to
'

, of anger, a
Short allowance ,, of friendship, a
,, and and &) of hands
and long
"
"
,,
commons
cut, or way, a
(^ ,, of love
of reason
day by, a

^
off, to
horse is soon curried, a ', off
one up,
one's beauty,
to ; to

,,

,,

„
memory
of, to
of breath
bj ;; "
,,
one's cards, to
one's colors, to
m
^
,, of the truth " one's face, to
" of to the mark oue's hand, to ft
sea „ one's horns, to

;]
,,

;;
,, shrift, to give , one's ivories, to
-spoken ,, one's teeth, to
,, time " quarter, to
„ time ago " the cloven foot, to
„ views ,, the cold shoulder, to iS;
Shorten sail, to
Shot in the locker,

„ of, to be ;
a "
"
"
the heels to, to
the white feather, to
to a room, to A
;
,, one's bolt, to have ,, to the door, to
Shotten herring, a
Shoulder to shoulder ;' up, to
"
the' ;^
-knot, a gentleman of Shrapnel
Shrewd blow
Shouts of joy
Shove by, to ; g;
,,
question, a
Shrieking Sisterhood, the W
Show
"

;
the queer, to
a bold front, to ; Shrink at the thought of, to

" a cloftn pair of heels, to itom, tQ ;

 f

( m ) Sigttat

Shrink on, to Sic im non vobi3 ^

Sicilian dishes |||

,, Muses, the

Shroud
,,

Shrovetide
Shrub about, to
up, to
oneself, to ,, Vespers, the
S> ^
^
i Sick as a hofdJ, aa
Shrug the soldiers, to
,, bay
Shuffle off, to ^; ,, headache
"
; ;
off this mortal coil, to ,,

,
in mind and body,to be
leave, to aslr for [
"

np, to
,,
the blame on another, to

;
" Man, or Sick
(the JEast), the
man
^( of Europe

" up a business, to ,, of, to be

Shun misfortune, to ,, or sorry
" the world, to , wind, a
Shunamite woman, like the Sickels of claws

Shutdown, to
;( ; -
Side-bar rule
by side ;;
^
„
in, to ; ,, with, to
"
,
,
of, to be,
off, to
one up, to
; or to get Sidereal day
year
1

"
:i
one's eyes to, to
til

(
[
"
,,

"
out, to ;;
oneself up, to

the door and keep at home,

Sidetrack, to
Sidouian tincture, the
Sidon
to Siege-train
the door in one's face, to Sift out, to
Sigh away, to
,,

"
the door upon, to
the stable-door when
$g
the
Sight of money, a
Sign away, to ;
"
steed
up, to
;
;; ;
is

;;
stolen, to ,,

,,
forth, to
manual '
up shop, to
Shuttlecock, a
^ Off, 13

out, to
(
Shyldbk, a
,, the cross, to
^
Sibyl, a
Sic transit, gloria inund (^ the pledge, to
,,

Signal post or staff, a

" service
 * H

Signal ( m ) Sinn

Signal telegraph Simon-pure (^

Sikes, a Bill
Silence gives consent
„ , the great ; ,,
^
Simple-contract

life, the
Silent as a mouse, as " manners
,, as Pythagoras, as ,, obligation
,,

,,
as the grave
assent
,

Sine qua non

Simon
( ;
„ ,
sleeping or dormant part-
ner ( Sinecure, a
Sinews of war, the
; ;
Silenua, a Sing another song or tune, to
Silhouette
Silk Gown, a
"
out, to
small, to
(^;;
Street
J1U

^^ " the Magnificat at Matins, to

Silken tie, the ,, to string, to

Silly Billy Victoria Singe one's beard, to
William IV Singed cat »
Silurist, the S Henry Single blessedness ; Jg
Vaughan , combat
Silvan shed "speech Hamilton
"
,
Silver
sport
war
William Gerard Hamilton
Singular phenomenon, a :
,, age of literature, the Sink or succeed
( " in destitution and misery, to
,, Fork

Grays
«(
School,

! il
the 151

,,

"
into oblivion, to
into or penetrate the
; mind,

"
Latin
Augustan
pheasant, a
sphere &
»
"

,,
into perdition, to
into vice, to
noney, to
jj^^ one's reputation, to
^^
R
|J;

^[
j

State, the Nevada " under the weight of, to

PU
,,

„
Streak, the
trumpet, a ^ Sinkhole the East, the
T
of
Port Said
h

,, wedding

Silver.tick iril
K & Sinking fund

Sinn Fein StWM W

ft

*W
bimnel Sunday
 U '

Sinon ( 45S ) Sit

Sinon, a ^ alone, to @
^
Sins are sure to find one out, One's

Sion.
astride, to
at meat, to
at table, to
;
Sir Bovle Roche's bird at the head, to
A Boyle Roches
,, Walter Scott of Belgium, thej-t
m
Flanders
drik Conscience
Hen-
at the side table, to
below the salt, to
S ^
Siren
,, song, a
Sirocco to one'a flowers,
; to let in
below the gangway, to ^ ^

Sister arts
the

, ( , bodkin, to
close one's work, to

the
close to, to
down, ;;;;
^
,, Isle, to
" Kingdom, the
Kingdoms, the
: down ;
with, to

Sisters, cousin 3

„
-land

of the
and aunts, one's

Bank, the
M
eggs, to
for a fellowship, to
ffi
heavy on, to
^
(Thames in a formal manner, to

of charity
—
in a leaning posture, to
in judgment, to ;
"
" of mercy
Dublin
the sacred well that
of
,,

,
in order, to
in pairs, to
;
;
doth spring from beneath ,, in parliament, lo
the seat of Jove in prison, to
, in the posture of meditation, to
,, Nine, the
^:
Sisyphus
^ f,i

,,
it out, to
light, or easy oil, to

; :(
,, loose, or loosely, to
Si vis pGcmn, pcra bellum ) • on or upon, to
,, on one's heels, to

m ( ;
Sit abovo the salt, to ^. on tho fence, to (^)

; a sii
, on the rail, to
; ;[
,, all
tV
other guests out, to
mm
^3?^
, on thorns, to
„ out, io
out anything, to
;;^
 S B

Sit ( 454 ) Slave

Sit
,,
the whole play, to
under, to
" up, to
;;
;, ;
_4
Skilligalee, not worth, a

Skilly ;
(Skilligalee

, up for any one, to Skim the surface, to SI

;
upon, to ; Skin a flea for its hide, to &
, with the feet under one, to

^
,, -flint
one out of money, to ||
„ without thought, to Skip over, to
Six and eightpence Skulk about, to
( one's
t,
feet in boots ,
,, after one, to
away, to ;
"

,,
feet
( of

Months' War, the

English ground Skull and crossbones, the
Sky
„ a picture, to
[
i

„ of
the
one and
other
half-a-dozen of
,,

Skylarking
pilot, a

Skyscraper, a
; jfi

Slack away, to
shooter, a ,, in stays, to
Sixes and sevens, at ^; off, to
Sizar, a
Size roll
, up, to
,
„
out, to
up, to
Slacken on&'s giit or pace,
; to
Skedaddle, to ;
Skeffin Eton's daughter
Skeffingtou
—
# „
"
one's speed, to
one's hand, to
Slake one's ire, to
.
" one's thirst, to

(
^ ^
Skeleton or death's head at the Slant of wind, a
feast Slap bang shop, a

; !
S
„ in'the face, a £fl
" in the cupboard, house, -up

^:;
,,

or closet; family skeleton Slapdash

Sketch boik
t

^ S
Slate, to
Slating, a ;;
;&
Sksvin^on'fl iron Slave it, to
#H ,, o the lamp
Skibberocn and Cjnnemara Aladin
W ,. over, to
Skies (Sky heaven power, the
IB) " States, the Virginia, tbe
Slavophil ( 455 ) Sly

;;;
two Carolinas, Georgia, „ probability, a
Florida, Alabama, Mississip- Slick-tongued
pi, Louisiana, Texas, Ark- Slide into, to
ansas, Tenne see, Missouri, Slight acquaintance, a

;;; ; ^
Kentucky, Maryland and „ figure, a
Delaware

^ ,, ground, a
Slavophil, a Slav ,, off, to
over, to
Sledge-hammer argument, a
Sleep a dog's sleep, to ;
;
Slighting treatment

;
Sling ono's hook or one's Daniel,
,,

,,
a wink, not to
away, to ; to
Slip a cable, to
;
away „ away, to

^;
, ;
one's life, to
,, away one's sorrow, to " into a man, to
" of glass, a
,. in one's clothes, to , of the pen, a
,

.
like a dog, to
like a top, to
off, to
',

"
"
of
off,
off
to ;
the tongue, a

the hooks, to
,, off a headache, to ,, on, to
,,one's breath, to ;
" on back of saffron, to , one's cable, to
„ one's wind, to
" the final sleep, or the sleep „ out, to
that knows no waking, to j|. out a word, to
;
upon....... to ; „ out of the memory, to HP,;

,, upon both
Sleeping partner, a ^(
ears, to
"

„
the collar, halter, etc, to

; ;
through the fingers, to

,,

Sleepsin-by
—;
Sleeve, to have
sickness, the

up one's
Slippery as an
Sloop of war
Slop clothing
up, to
eel, as

,, the hand and look on, to|A

,,

Slough
over, to
of
(
Despond, the ;
" off, to
Sleevlesa errand, a
Sleight of hand #;
Slow coach
„ of wit ^;
fli

Slender abilities or parts

" comfort, a
Slug-abed
Sluice off, to ;
; ; ft
,, dinner, a
hope, a — Slur over, to
Sly blade, a ;
Sly ( 456 ) Snuff

Sly-boots, a
Smack one's lips, to ^ Smithfield bargain, to

Siuoke for something, to

make

^
a

" one's lipe over, to " one, to

Small account ^fl r the pipe of peace, to
-
Kl;
" arms
, 3
beer (all)
" -beer chronicle fE Smoker's heart
Smoky City, the

^(
„ births Pittsburg
, chance Smollett of the stagj, the
coin George Farquhar
, fruits ,J Smooth as oil, as
,, fry

,,
hours
man, a
matters for one,to
,,

over a fault, to
"
;; if

,,

,,
still
talk
wares
voice
^m.mn
#a
the way, to
"
Snail's pace
Snake in the gras3, a
; :
,
,,

work
;^ „ oat, to ( m
Smart
,,
for, to
set, the Snap () ;
Snakes in ono's boots, to have

,,
society
•Smell a rat, to ; „
,, off, to
one up, to
-^mrn
,,

"
of, to
of inkhorn, to
of the shop, to ,,
,,

"
one up short,
one's finger?- at, to
one's noso off, to
: to

e
(

out, to ; tf
fH
„ the fingers at one, to
Snapped by death, to be
,,
powder, to
Smile at secretly, to
v,
at something,
;
to
ft Snarling impudence
Sn atoh a club from Hercules, to

.,

,,

„
of contempt
on, to
one dead, to
; ^^fSf^MI^ spear a&d^ltwve: tbe

Sneak away, or
shield, to
off, to
:
,, one's face into, to Sneeze at, to
Smiling face Sneezed at, not to ba IS
, year Snib, a
Smite hip-and-thigh, to Snore like a tinker, to #TiF 3j
,, off, to ^; Snow King, the Guatuvus
,, with love, to AdolphuS ^ ba."
"
Smith
with the tongue, to
of Nottingham ;& ,,Qaeeu, the
Snub, or snubbing, post
Christira

Smithereens ; Snuff out, to ; ,

r ,,f .
 )

Snuff ( 45? Soiomot:

;:
Snuff pepper, to Society verses ;
'
So
„ ;^; ; ; Sock
(; ;
;^
am I Sockdologer
„ and so
as Socrates, the English
be it Dr. Samuel Johnson
, called
far
" far as
; „

,,
,The Jewish
Mosses Mendelssohn
, The Mad
,, far as anything goes Diogenes
, far as concerns , The Koman

,,
far as I can see
far forth
forth ;; Soft!
„
;;
Sapiens Laelius

collar
,, I am , job, a
, long #
" long as; as long as
"
" ;
sawder
sex, the
,,

,,

,,
many
much
much as
,

,,
(;
money
-soap
spot
much so " water
, much the better ,, weather
,,

,
much
on to
the worse Softy
Soi-distant ; ^(
,,

-so ;
please you | Soil a horse, to

„ soon as
,,that ; Solar system
cattle, to

„ that he

E then
;
;^
who runs may read " year
Sold, to be ;
Soldier of fortune, a
,, to spjak

Soak one's pocket, to S ; Soldier's heart

Solecism ;
Soapy

Sober brow
Sam
beriorce
Samuel Wil-
—
Solemn League, and Oovenent,the

Charles
,, down, to Solicitthe baud of a lady, to
,, reality
Social duties ^" Solid South, the
Solitary Monk, the
„
,,

„
ease
evil,the
opinions
; Martin Luther
Solomon, a
Israel
(Solomon TJr
 £^ H

Solomon ( 458 ) Sos!a

Solomon of England, the Son of Adam \

Henry James " of Belial, a
> of dripping, a

,,

,,
of France, the

,
Charles
the second
Louis

Henry
,,

"
of earth, a
of
of
gun ;
Jupiter Am mom, the

Solon, a ; James
Solon „
„ of
S
of lather, a
Mars, a
,, of French Prose, the of memory, a
Balzac
Solon'8 happiness ,, of Mercury, a ;
Some
,,
better
certain Some t —
( ,
"
,
of
of
Neptune, a
parchment,
of Siant Crispin, a
a

day or other " of the Last Man, the

" foundation Charles
„ muse ,, of the morning, a
,, or one of these days " of the Nine, a

,,
one
time
;( ; [
);
,,

„
of the rock, a
of toil
of trade

" time or other „ of traffic

,, tired "of wealth

,, year ; Sons and daughters of inkpot It

Somebody, to be E
Somehow or other , of morning, the
Something considerable
" else ; „ of Phidias
Soon nfter this
^
,,

,,
like
more
;
for choice " as may be, as
„ at night jlis
Sooner or later, ;^
nothing
...... ,, the better, the
„ of the sort Sooth to say, or to tell

Sometime ago
mark

Somewhat loudly
Somewhere about
r'/'ten in the state Den-

i ;
Sop in the pan, a
"
Sophomore

Sorbonne, the
to Cerberus, a
class ^^
5§
&
*ig

Son, the
) Sore subject
Sorry for th3 trouble
" by order of law
of a sea cook, a
m
; Sortes Biblicae

Soaia, a H^$f
E li
 g H M

Sotadics ( m ) Speak

Sotadics;
Sotto voce
Soul
(
SMadic Ver.e

Ma 89 Day (
Span-built
Spanish castle
,, coin, a
Ennius, the
" of honor Juan de Mena
of Pedro Garcias, the
" of this world, the
Soulless clod
,,

^
gout
Main, the ^ 1^
Sound a person, to ,, Moliere, the
,, as a bell, ss Laandro Fernandez de
, as a roach, as Mora tin
roony
w
as a rock, as
currency
"
„ Phoenix, the
Lope de Vega-Car pio
^
in damages, to , pipe, the
Shakespeare
" the alarm, to Calderon'
,, the trumpet before victory, Spanking breeze, a
to S youth, a
,,

,,

Soupe Maigre
Sour adversity
to horse!
( Spare at the Spigot and
the bang, to
horses ; ;;
spill at

,, countenance, a moments
grapes
Sovereign remedy, a ,
one trouble,
one's self, to
to

oneself trouble, to
,, state room
Sow

,,
broadcast, to
discord, to ;
dragon's teeth, to fi
fi; Spark it, to
Sparks of life
" of nature
, in tears and reap in joy, to Spartacist, a
Spartan, a
„ on the sand, to
,, one's wild oat, to ,, dog, a
" playing on a trump, to look ,, restraint
likaS Spasmodic School, the
„

,,

,,
tares amongst the
night, to
the seeds of, to
the wind, to
;
wheat by
Spatchcock, to
Speak a ship, to
" about one's
^
fault, to
" the wind and reap the whirl-
wind, to
" wild oats, to
Spadish language
; "
about one's

again, to
abilities' *o

|S
 & n

Speak ( 460 ) Spirit

Speak by the book,

^; to Special sense
,, by the card, to , session
fair, to „ stat ute, or Special law

^
for itself, to
,, in high terms of, to „ verdict ()
in terras, to §g Specific character |4(
,. in the ear, to „ (1 aty U
" of, to P
of things more ancient t ha , gravity ill®;
chaos, to „ heat ^;
ono's mind, to " legacy

,,
out, to
the word, to
;
" name
Specious reasoning i^' ; .
to, to ; Speechless mespa^e

; ^; ;;
^
;
, up, to Spell backward, to
*

volumes, to
,, baker, to
.. well, to
; Spelling bee

;;
well for, to Spend on, or upon, to
, with, to ,, one thought, to
, with one's tongue in one's Spent ball
ace, to mmMm Spenser of English Prose, the
Jeremy Taylor
,,without book, to
Speaker, Spenser to Fleeknoe, from ifii

Speaking acquaintance, a
(
Special administration
;agency
(
Sphere of duty
" of influence, a
Sphinx, a ^ "^
bail, bail
the action
above, or bail,
( ; to Spick and span
Spike the guns, to ; |J

deposit Spin a yarn, to (&

,.

,, injuuction ( ,, out, to ;§
( ^
^^^
issue () ,, street-yarn, to
4,

^;
injury () |?A Spindle City, the Lou.-II Mass
.,

orders
partner
( Spinning Jenny, a
,
, partnership Spirit and the letter, the fej t5
( ^^ ;
. ,
.
,,
plet, in
pleader
pleading
property
(^ ^
bar

i
,,

,
"
away, to
farm }}r
|^
of a yon tie man
of a people, the
^^
^
 ' i

Spirit ( 461 ) Spring

Spirit of benevolence
" of this age, the Spoke in one's wheel, to put a
Spiritual father
Spit on, or upon, to ; Sponge a breakfast, to
,, vinegar, to
Spite and spurn, to
Splay-mouth, a
; " money, to
,,

Sponging house
on, to

Splendid reputation, a ^ Spongy man, a

( ^
robes Spontaneous growth
Slice the main brace, to () ,, motion
Sponte sua
Splint armour Spooney lovers
Splinter a broken arm, to Spoons
,, on, to be
Split, to » Sporadic disease, a #
t, hairs, or straws, to Sport new clothes, to
" of … ... to be the
^^
……
„

,,
in the ranks, a

on a friend, to (; „
,,
of kings, the
one's door, to
;(
, ;^ [
on a rock, to
"
,
one's oak, to
with one's life, to
,
" ;
on one's sides,

^
the difference, to
to
Sporting men ;
,

"
ticket
up, to ; 44
Spotted dog (duff)
• thoughts
;
( ;;;;
upon to Spout, to
Spray upon, to
Splunge
with, to

Spoil a child by indulgence, to

Spread a disease, to
,, a report, to
^ BR

, a sail, to
, an affair, to ,, a table, to ^

,/
for. a fight, to
one's reputation, to
the Egyptians, to (
"
"
"
a tent, to
"broad, to ;
like wild fire, to A
,, the morals, to " one's hands, to
Spoiled child, a oneself, to g
Spoils of the forest

^ " -eagle orator, a

" of the parting day
system, the Sprightly air, a
„
( Andrew Jackson Spree it, lo
Spring a fence, to
(
Z iWf „ a leak, to (
Sprirg ( 462 ) Stand

Spring

"
"
£ light, to
a maet, to
a mine, to
Square up,

, with, to
) ; to

,
a rattle, to
an arch, to ( Squeers, a
Squeeze out, to ; {H
r. at, to
; ,,

;;;
through

;;
back, to Squirarchy, the
• forth, to Squire of the Body, a
,, in, to of dames, a
,, of life, the Squireen, a
,,

,, on, to ;(
of nature, the Stab a person's reputation, to

"
"
,,
the
-tide
up, to
;; ;
luff, to Stack of arms, a
Staff oflife, the
Stag of ten
^(
" up in the heart, to Stage fright
(
" up like a mushroom, to whisper
Stagnation of trade ;
,, the day
Springy land
of
^
Sprinkle inceuce on a dunghill, to
Stagyrite, a Aristotle

Stain on conduct, a
Sprint race " one's name, to
Spur of the moment, on the ,, with vice, to
Spurious coin ®; Stale demand

Spy out, to
Wednesday
;
tales Stalking-horse
Stall your
Stamp
mug
Act, the —
(
Square a person, to
,' an account, to
,, anything to, or with, to " duty
;
,,

.,
by, to
dealing
; ,,

"
mania, the
out, to
Stand a chance, to
; ^
, meal, a " a good chance, to
,, peg in a round hole, a ,, against, to
,,
aguinst poverty, to
,, one's action, to ,,
aghast, to
„ the circle, to ,,
aloof, to
,, and deliver, to
the yard, to " at bay, to
,, at ease, io
-toes, old at the hand, to
 I

Stand ( 463 ) Standi

Stand buff,
,, by, to
;
to
; ;; Stand on one's defence, to
,, on one's own bottom, to
;
,, close, to
confessed, to
; ,,

"
"
on one's own
on one's own
leg?, to
feet, to

; ^^
,,

,,

,,
fair with, to
fast, to i$ one in, to ; ;
, fire, to
firmly on, to ; "
,,
one's friend, to It
one's ground, to ^r^^iSL
„
"
first,
for, to
to
;;; ,, one's trial, to
or fall, to
;; ;
^
,,

" for a good cause, to out, to

,, for one's right, to i

,, for the harbour, to () ,, out a crisis, to

,, out against, to |g$g

;; ;
,, from, to over, to
,, high in one's account, to ,, Sam, to
,, still, to

;; ,
,, in awe of, to " the racket, to
" in fear of, to „ thereto, to
,,

,,
;
in

in
good stead,

hand, to
to ,,

,,
to, to
to one's gun, to

,, in one's own light, to " one's resolution, to

a
,, in the gap, to " one's word, to
"
,,
in need, to
in the way of, to ; "
„
to reason, to
to sea, to ( ^
it the light of

;
to ,
,,
to the arms
together, to
; ; —(
„
"
it, to
or be, in one'a shoes, to
',
treat, to
trial, to
under, to
;;
" of ammunition ,,
up, to

,,

,,
of arms
of colors ( ;^
glj
-,,

„
,
up against, to
up for, to
up to, to
;; ^
;
,,
neutral, to
off!
off, to
,,

,
up with,
upon, to ;;
to

upou compliment, to

( (
,,

" off and on, to upon etiqutte, to

,, on, to ,; upon form, to
on ceremony, to |g " upon one's defence, to
„ on end :
 *

Stand ( 464 ) Steal

Stand upon one's guard,

Tm^toC
upon
ev»c ^ to

one's point of honor, to

Start
,
Or ~
aame to^ffi—
of Dassjon. a
/5^V

US
Stan i'mg dish, a
•
,,
of soleen. a
off, to ; 4^SHfe

off ( ,
forces, or army ,, on a joarney,
one in life, to
to
ft
ladder
on
orders
(; ; up. to
Startle at death, to
State at an audience, to
rules
; " in order, to Kfiift

Stapl e
Star,
water
commodity
a

Chamber,
^^ a
"

"
,
"
of a nation, the
" one's grievance, to

H
one's idfiaa. to 5ft^t*$P^
paper —
policy or constitution
prisoner, a
-crossed State's evidence
it,to
of the North, the
of matter
Stat pro ratione t'oZimtos (
EH rrtfi

(
j

Gustavus Adolphus it jSSrtl

-spangled banner, the Status quo

Stare at, to
" quo ante bellurn
Ifi

(15
on, to Statute of imitfttionq ^S^SJE^ttHBB.
one in the face, to
W Stave off. of M JC 'SEB
one out of his wits, to StflV. or loit Ar ahnn t in *H iS
,,
& WAV
a >K^t*
ty <kj f tn y\\ >jn rtiM.
|X| / p
j

one out of countenance, to for onp to

Stark naked
»» nonsense
; ,,

,,
OD^'s hand to ll*
one's hunger, to
out, to
;
Stars and Bars, the the stninap h t o ^filt

and Stripes, the

of diadem
^ Steadfast blue, the
in faith
look, a
|j
to be ^-fs tSfaf

Start a rumor, to f$ Steady &s the Pol h r Star, as l&J^

after, to
against, to ; ,, weathercock, the
Steal a glance, to ^;
^
for, to
for work, to
; '
„
,,
„••
a march on, to
a sigh, to
a Bight of, to
from a dreadful dream, to " along, to
Steal ( 465 ) Stiff

Steal another's work, to

,,

,,
away, to ;
away another's heart, to
[
Stephen's bread,
Steppinoj-atona to official
St.
life, the

(
" one's hearts, to ; }f|
Sterile laud
., mind, a

"
,,
oneself away, to
up:)n the heart, to
; ,,

year, a
,,

Stern chase, a
woman, a

Stealthy School of Criticism, the ,, heart, a

,,or sterner sex, the
Steel jacket
,, one's sword, to ; Stew in one's own juice, to
Stick () [
;(^ ;
, at, to
,, the heart, to „ at it, to
Steely weed by, to
Steep price, a „ close together, to
Steer clear
,, for, to
Steerage pasaanger
of, to
,
,,
in, to ;
in a discourse, to;
; ;
Stem the tide or torrent

" the current, to

of, to " in oiie's
( croD or gizzard, to

in or to one's fingers, to

^ ;[
Stentorian in the throat, to
Step after one, to
aside, to ;;
;
„
,,
-in-the-mud
of eels, a
u
,,
back, to
by step ; „
"
on, to ^;
one'3 spoou in the well, to
(;
"
,,
down,
forth, to
in, to
;
to

;;
,,

"
,,
onos8lf up. to
out, to
to, to 1^ ;-^ *0
"

u
in the right direction, a JEiU;

into, to :;
,
,
to an opinion, to
to one's colors, to "i
[Si

, into another's shoes, to " to one's guns, to

^"
"
off, to
into anything, to
,
^ :
to one's heart, to

up, to
, up for, to
(
^
" out, to >
upon, to
,

,,

"
out the way, to
over or cross, to
,,

Sticking-plaster -
upon trifles, to

>
short, to
to any one,
( to ,
Stickit minister, a
(
Stiff as u pokei', as
giji
 W

466 )

^
ti: (

Stiff breeze Stock in trade

,, in opinion
.. language ,, -poetry
t)
man, a
;^ ,, taking
Stocks and stones ^; ^
"
,
'

Stiggins, a
neck
temper
un (®
;
Stoic, a
Stolen fruit
Stomach an
#;
insult, to
Still
"
and anon
as a mouse, as ; " at, to
Stolypin's necktie
t

,,
as a rock, as
as a stone, as
.
Stone age, the
„ bottle ^
;;
,, in existance ,, broke
it ig so ,, -dead
less ,, -throwing
,, more 1£ Stone's threw or cast, a &
,, one's desire, to
,, -repeated circle Stonemason of Cromarty, the Hf
,, -room maid, a Hugh
„ (two) Miller
Sting in the tail, the Stonewall Jackson Thomas

to the quick, to ; Jonathan Jackson

Stony hearted
if

^
,,

Stool of repentance
Stink in the nostrils, to
Stint in thy prate -

^;
, one's anger, to
Stir in one's behali, to ^ Stoop in walking, to
„ to the very ground, to

"
,,
one's stumps, to
out, to {ft
Stop a gap, to
a thief, to
;:
„
,, up, to ; ; ;'
out of doors, to "
,,
for the night, to
from working, to
,,

,,
up of one's bed, to
-up Sunday
,,

,, over, to :
one's mouth, to

Stirring events
Stirrup-cup, a
,,
payment,
short, to
to ; ffl

Stitch in time, a
,, up, to ;; ,,

,,
the market, to

;
the mouth, to
f|

Stock and block

" company, a
down, to
— i ,, up
your jaw
,, ; ^" ^
a crevice, to

• -excb*Dg« Stoppage of commerce

Stoppage ( 467 ) Strike

Stoppage of the nose " woman, &

,.

( in transitu
B
Stranger to respect, to be a

(
; ((^ ;
Strategic line
Store of (ladies) ,, point f

,, up, to Straw bail

Storks' law bid
Strawberry leaves fE (
Storm in a teacup, a
Stormy petrel, a ,, preacher, a
Story
" -teller
Stout champion, a
Streak
Street Arabs
it, to (;
,, heart „ walker, a
Stove-pipe hat, a
Btradivarius (Strad), a
Z
— Strengthen one's

,,
faith,

one's will, to
to

Straight as a die, as
face, a
Stress of
Stretch a point, to
,, of
weather

imagination
;
„ 'ticket IE
on the bed of Procrustes,
„ tip, the to
Strain or stretch a point, to one's length, to
„
the truth, to
„
" at a gnat and swallow a Stretched, to be

,,
camel, to
a petition, to ;4§ Stricken field, the

"
,,
every nerve, to
one's credit, to % Strict
"
charge ^
in years, or age

,,
„
one's ears, to
one's eyes, to
one's dimmed eyesight, to
,,

,,

Strictly
friendship
necessity
speaking
;^^"
Striko a balance, to
,

.,
;
one's throat, to
one's voice in calling, to „
a bargain, to
a docket, to (^
„ to succeed, to ^ . a jury, to
Strait decrees
,
,,
degree of favor, a
jacket or waistcoat
$Ji

,
a sail, to
all of a
; ;;
heap, to

;; ^^
,, at, to
Strange fish, a u dumb, to
n to say „ fire, to
 w S S

Sirike ( 468 ) Stump

Strike for, to : '

M%7 f.r victory or mastery, to

noine, to ^ s sf/ m
;
^
*"i 10

lu witni to
rim ifiM yf^Iximmh ,, to bo the
Stroke a person
first, to
thtt right way, to

^ fg
''

in with old c us to in s ; to Strong argument, a

" as a lion
into, to
into a run, to
me ugly
5

piftnfiOT
f)

,,

"
as death, as
-box
drink
;;
in one'a purse, to be

(
,,

"
nil to ffit 77^h , in principle IS]
'L*
nn
one; fr\
to £9
WJSI,®
' 1
}^
"
,
parts
point ;
onea* o c Jiuro,
r\Y> rti«a
1 +n
ic"

(take) one's fancy, to

i
ITS-
Ji
nn
p ;ju
.,

,,
proDfs
taste
terms
; IS
one s nag, to {wpaa, Struck all of a heap, to be ()
one s tr utn, to }0 ?S^B i

" dead, to be
out, to iTU ^ is ffi.wr Stubborn fact
M
root, to
mT
ji
or lower the flag, to
, jSi r Stuck on, to be
-up
Studde i with,
( ^ !^to be
Studied insult, a
»
tne excess on to
the eye, to
tne first Dlow, to ^ r'
Stuff!
,,

,,
, to
gown, a
( ;;
>>
the tent, to
up, to
up the
; ' e;
neels of, to
^
" the ballot-box,
Stultify oneself, to
to ®
while the iron is ho l, to ii
;with ,
Stumble over a straw and leap
fear, to over a block, to ,
with terror, to
with the cause of, to at (on) the threshold, to

with a straw, to ; ,, upon, to ;

work, to
Strip oneself, to
Slfl
Stump orator
speech
Dt
;^ ^
Strive' against the stream, to thy couutry, to
 1

469 Suffolk
Stump ( )

;
( ; ^; ^
Sub«ist"on, to
Stump
Stunner
up, to " on charity, to
Substantial dish ;
Stunning ( ;; Subtle as a serpent, as
Doctor, the
Stunt, a
Stupid Bey, the !^ ^ Duns Scot us
Subversion of order, the
Thomas Aquinas
Sua cuigue voluptaa (
( T)
.
;
Succeed fast behind anything, to

((( ,
,, si bona norint Succession duty
Sub juciice Such a
rosa [ a pitch

; ;;;;
,, silentio , a one
Subdue
,, ;
a rebellion, to
one's fear, to
"
,
and such
as
,
"
one's lusts, to
one's passion, to
„
;
being the case

"
„
oneself, to
people by love, to
"
„
is

;^
like
the case

Subject at large, the ; "

(
or such

(
Succes d'estvme, a )

,,

"
;one to bad

one to sufferings, to
to ,,

Suck
de scandale

;
into, to
out, to
, to anger ,, up, to
, to another, to ,, the monkey, to
„
test to ;
to examination, trial, or
Sucker State, the Illinois
Sublime bard

"
, genius
Porte, the^
^ Sudden clap of thunder, a
,,
flight of heroism

,, view,, a [ Suds, Mrs.

Submarine telegraph sue out, to iMnim
Submerged tenth, the Suffer calamity, to
„ death, to
Submit oneself
,
"
to, to ; ;[
to anything, to

to disgrace, to
,,

,,
from swollen head,

law, to
to

" to [
puniahment, to
to your decision, to
, mockery, to
waste, to
,, ,
Subordinate oppression
Suborn a person's death, to
Suffice it

Sufficient reason
to say
—
Subscription paper Suffolk Punch, a Suffolk
 ^

Sugar ( 470 ) Support

Sugar loaf hat, a — ( Summing up, a

of the world, the
solstice K
,, one, to Summit level (
,, -plum
, reproof, to
Sugared words, or speech
^ !^ Summon
Sumptuary law
resolution, to

Suggest itself, to
Sui generis ( ;
Suicide by catting one's throat
Sumptuous meal,

Sun, a
"
— presents
a

" stretches out all the hill, the

by hanging or strangling
,
^ Sunday go-to-meeting
; clothes jfi

,,

Suit of dittos, a
by poisoning
— Sundowner, a ;
(
( ;
Suns cuique mos )

one's book, to

;
one's fancy, to
Sunset; setting suu
„
"
of life ;
of one's days, the
one's mind, to " Land Arizona
,, one's purpose or views, to Sunshine the breast of

,, or fit ;
to a T, to
Sup with Pluto, to
Supercilious air, a
" the action to the word to
ff; IB
the caprice of others, to
Superficial knowledge
„ person, a
,, show
^^
;one another, ,, view
"

,
to
with, to
with one's place,
; to

to
Superior cunning
"
Supped
to, to be
all one's porridge, to hare
;
Sulphurous canopy
Sum and
"
substance
of one's speech,
; the
Supple

Supplemental bill
a person's will, to

;;
Supply one's place, to
,,

,,
total
up, to
Summa suminarum
;;( ) fif;
„ one's urgent need,
,,

;
the want of the poor, to
to ^:
Summer birds Support a good object, to
,, friend arms, to g
,, King, the H one another, to
^
—Amadeus one's argument, to
?
.

,, of All Saints, a
H oneself, to 3
Suppose ( 471)
Suppose
„
" that ;
it to be so Suspend payment,
Suspension bridge
to (
, then; suppose now ,, of arms

" you try

Supposed friend Suum cuique
; (
Sustain one in difficulty, to

Supposing that Swaddler, a

Suppress a smile, to
anger, to
Swag ()
Swallow an insult, to
;
„
, one's lusts, to , -tails
(
Suppressio veri, suggestio falsi
)
Supreme contempt Swan
,, the leek, to
up, to
of Avon, the
; Shake-
Sure as gun, as 151 speare
as death, as of Cambray, the
,, as Demoivre, as
, as eggs is eggs, as
?i ; i
,,

Franois de Salignac
de la Mo the Fenelon
as fate, as ^; of Lichfield, the
, as four and four make eight, Anna Seward
as ,, of Mantua, the #
"
as I
card, a
am
;;
so and so
,,
Virgil
of Meander, the

^
,, enough Horner
" it canuot be ,, of Padua, the
Surpass all understanding, to Francesco Algarotti
,, of the Thames, the
" conception, to John Taylor

,
,,

,,
oneself, to
the age, to ;
the common people, to
Swap

;
horses when
stream, to
crossing a

; party
Surprise
Surrender at discretion, to
; '

Swarm
;
Swashbuckler
like locusts or bees, to

;
'

Swathing-clothes
"

"
oneself to anger, to

oneself to sleep, to
Swathy vest
Sway over, to
,, up the yards, to
; ;
to
Sursum corda
;(
oneself up in prisoner, Swear black is white,
"
,,
by, to
^
by one's beard, to
to
[
Survival of the fittest ; in, to
Survive ibrough difficulties, to " like trooper, to
 ^

( 472 ) Tabh

Swear off, to () Swim about, to }0

off drinking, to
aganist the stream, to
,.,

mM ^
':,

,
"
^
iu,

^ ^
to
treason against one, to
^
the peace against one,
^

^
tom
"

,
with the stream, to

without cork, to ffi

Sweat^C,
"

brow
of one's
to E
Swimming
"
Swibs admiral,

Switzerland
(
eyes
with tears

of
a

America, the
^
Swedenborgian, a
Z
Emanuel Swedenborg

^
West Virginia
Sword and Cloak plays
(arm, the
—
Swedish Nightingale, the
Jenny Lincl
Sweep away, to ; „
in hand

"
,,
f or the anchor, to

the board, to ;
)dmm „

,,
;
of Damocles, the

spiritual and sword tem-

"
"
^the deck, to
the string, to
^( ,,
poral, the

of God, the ffi

Khaled Muta
"
;
Sweeping assertion IS.
Sweet as eglantine, as
as hai v:shorii, as
.
„
Sworn brothers
„ enemies
;
dispenser of justice
i^^as^Ubney, as
,

,
as methe^lyn, as
on, to be
Singer of Israel, a
Sylvan shed
Sympathetic ink
Symmetry
Sympathies
of
of
mould
our common
^ nature
King David
tooth, to have a £ Synodical month ;
;^
,

;^
uoou, to be
Synoptical Gospels
,wkttor i:!
Matthew, Mark, Luke
Swell mob, the
,, mobsman, a
Syphiiis
SyrcA of Antiquity, the I&Mk4I
, the ranks, to Xenophon
^i^litf^^, to
Syrens of the ditch
Swelled head fl

Swelling words
Bwift as a pudding can creep, as^5
]m
as the wind, as tii
Tabh d'hote
-money
(( C
)
S)':^
Tall ( 473 ) Take

a name in vain, to
Table of contents ;
"
„
of descent
of rates, a ;
a new or fresh lease of life, to

-talk
Tabula rasa
Tacit consent
( a paper, to f
a percentage, to
a person at his word, to
W
Tadpoles and Tapers, the

Taffeta phrases ; a picture of a person, to

;
'

Taffy Wales
Tag after one, to ; a real liking, to

;;
a resolution, to

^
-rag and bobtail,

(
the a rids, to
a rise out of, to
Tail of the trenches
Tailor's hull, a
" sword (dagger), a
a risk, a
a seat, to
;
Tainted with adultery aH^ a shine to, to (
Take
"
a bath, to
a course,to
a cursory view
; of, to jl;
a shoot,
;
a side, to
to

;
bi:

a -nack, to
,, a delight in, to
„ a disease, to a post to kill a bee, to
,, a double-first, to

"
g
a drop too much, to
a faucy of, to ^ ^
a spear to kill a fly, to

^
a step or dteps, to ; S(,

;;
„ a fancy to, to a thing for granted, to §i
"

"
;
a favorable turn, to

a general oversight, to
a telling, to
MM.
ifc

;;
; a tenth, to
,
;
a hair to draw a waggon, to a town by starving

;;
it, to

"

"
a hammer
ter, to ^ to spread & plas-

a leaf out of another's book,

a turn, to
a voyage, to
a walk, to
;
•g,:

^'
,,
to ^m-Mm
;;
a liberty, or take liberties, to
aback, to
action, to
advantage
;;
of, to ',
-
"
„
a likeness, to tgj
a liking, to
a look, to —gg;—
i
advice, to ;ft
affection to one, to
 ( 474 ) Take

Take
„
after, to
afm, lo ;;!^ exception against or
;
;;
to, to

,, air, to
along, to
amiss, to
;;; fire, to
flight, to
for, to ; ;
;,
,,

" an account of, to for granted, to

;; *
„ ail affront from one, to French leave, to ;
;;;
, an airing, to
,, an oath, to fright, to
, arms, to ; from, to
,,

; ;;
at one's word, to good or great care of, to

,,

,,

,,
,
away,
mn
back, to
to

bread and a&lt, to

bread out of one's month, to
ground, to
heart, to
heed, to
heed of or to, to
^;
bold of or on, to ;;
„
,,
breath, to
by force, to ; home to oneself, to

, by storm, to
captive, to ;
horse, to

&;; ; ;
ill, to
" care, to
care of, to
;
; ;; in, to
;—
in an idea, to

cold, to ; —
in at a glance, to H

,, complete possession of one,

to
in

;;;
dudgeon, to
in -ood part, to
,,

,
counsel, to
counsel of one's pillow, to ;[
in hand, to
in ill p&rt, to

^;
courage, to in sail, to
credit to oneself for, to in snuff, to
; in two, to
K
^ ; ;;;;
;
,, delight, to in with, to
,, down, to in with a faction, to
into account, to M&im&;
,, down a peg, to

,,

,,
;
down a sail,
down one's
to
pride; to
into consideration, to
mm
into custody, to ;
„ ;; ;
effect, to K
:
one's head, to

^
o
„ eggs for money, to , to ^;
; UK amiss, to
 g* HS

( 4t5 > Take

Take I
,, it
coolly, to
easy, to
;; one to be, to
" it ill, to '; one to do a thine, to
"
"
,,
it

it

it
in dungeon,
in snuff, to
out, to (
to

;
one up sharply, to
one's breath away, to
;
"
,.

"
it out
its rise, to
journey, to
of one, to
; one's chance, to

one's choice, to
kindly to,

;
to one's departure, to

;;
" leave, to one's ease, to
,, liberties with a woman, to one's eye, to
m one's fancy, to
" measures, to one's flight, to
,,

,,
my word

;
no account
for it

of, to ; il;
one's
one's
foot, to
measure, to

"
" ;
no part in, to
note of, to
one's own course, t® '
" notice, to one's part, to
„ ;
notice of, to f; one's seat, to

" ;
notes of
oath, to
it, to one's stand, to

;; ;
" occasion, to one's time, to
„ off, to one's word, to [
v off a copy, to ;
one's word for, to
oneself off, to
.,

„
off one's hand, to
off the edge of, to 5 to ;;
opportunity by the forelock

;;;
, off the odium, to order, to
„
"
off the taxes, to
offence, to ; orders, to
out, to
,,

;; ; ; ;
oil to extinguish the fire, to over, to

;; ;
owl, to
,, on, to pains, to
; part, to
" on or upon trust, to part with, to
;
"
; (
one behind the counter, to passage in, to
pepper in the nose, to
„
„
"
one by the hand, to
one napping, to
one off his guard, to
place, to
pleasure, to
;;
pity upon or on, to

pleasure in, to
„ one out of himself, to possession, to ;
Tak. ( 476 ) Take

Take possession of one, to , the greatest of pains with, to

mm
;
-

,, pot-luck, to the hint, to

" precedence, to the huff, to
, pride in, to the initiative, to

„
"
rank of, to
rank with,
refuge, to
to
,

,,
the
;
laboring oar, to

the law into one's own

„ revenge, to hands, to
,
,,
rise, to
root, to
service, to ;;
„
"
the law of, to
the lead, to
the liberty, to
IS
;;;
„ shape or form, to the measure of, to
"
"
shame, to
shelter, to ; the
;
name of God in vain, to
,
sides, to ;
ship or shipping, to
, the offensive, to ;
,,

"
,,
sight, to
soil, to ;
something, to
,

„
the
the
the
palm, the
place of, to
part of, to ;
„ steps, to the pledge, to
,,

u
"
stock, to
stock in, to
stock of, to
( ;;
;
,
the
the
the
precedence
reins, to
ribbons, to
; of, to
[
„ the road, to
v the air, to ,, the road to the right, to
„ the average, to ;
, the shilling or the queen's
, the bit in one's teeth, to or king's shilling, to

the
mouth,
bread
to
out of one's , the shine off from, to
;
(
the breath from one, to , the shine out of, to
,, the spring the year, to
w
;;
the bull by the horns, to

the car (boat, stage), to ,..

the atump, to
the sun, to Itl
|>t

^
( ' ; w '^th© trouble, to.

; ^
+
^ the chair, to "iV*'^ftt^
,, the chill, to the wall, to

„
the cross, to
the evil, to
;
ti
^fgk.^ia\\\
m (S5 .:
tor^e deed,
ir^
• «»

,,

M
the field, to
the first steps, to ,
„
; ^ IW
the wiiid out of one's sails, to
 '

Take (4 77 ) Talk

Take the wings of morning, to up the cross, to

;
,, the word, to ; up the cudgel, to
"
;
things as they come, to up the gauntlet or glove, to

„
"
thought, to
or take up time, to
time by the forelock, to
"
,,
up the hatchet,
up the mind, to ;
to

,, to, to ;;;
to a place, to
,

" up
;;
up the running,
[
the thread of, to
to

,, to be, to „ up the whole, to

"
,, to do, to ;
to busying one's self, to

to drinking, to
[ "
"
,,
up
up
;; ; ;
upon,
the word, to
with, to
to
,, to heart, to , upon oneself, to Hf
;
,,

"
to heart sorely, to
to one's bed, to
; ,, ;;;
vent, to
,, to one's bosom, to ,,

,,

;(;
warning, to
water, to
"
„
,,
to task, to ;
to one's heels, to

to the gallows, to
,
,
Taken aback,
;;
wing, to
with, to
to be
, to the heels, to ;^
by surprise

"
,

,,
to the road, to

;;;
to the stage, to
turns, to ,
,, ill

;or sick, to be
in, to be
off, to be
, umbrage, to , off one's feet, to be

;; ;; ; ;
, under one's wing, to

;; ; ;
,, up, to short, to be

'

" up a challenge, to together

„ ;
,,

,,

,,
;^ ;
up a quarrel, to
up a trade, to
up arms, to tH
up with, to be
Taking all things together

m " everythihg into considera-

,, up arms for, to tion
,, up money, to " one thing with another
" up one's abode, to ; Tub,
,, up one's cause, to !, Tale of a a
,, up one's quarters at, to Talk about every thing, to
; ;
" up the ball, to about
up th« buckler, to ^ " one's shortcomings, to
 H

Talk ( 478 ) Tear

Talk against time, to

,, nway, to Tarred with the same brush or
„ away a whole day, to stick, to be

" big, to
down, to
; Taste for, a
, of, to
Tattooed Man, the
; James
, from the point, to Gillespie Blaine
-

" Greek, to Tavern-haunter, a '

, like a book, to , of Europe, the Paris
, like a Dutch unole ; to
politician
, of, to
the
; ,,

Tawny Tribe, the Gypsies

„ of market-place, the '
Tax one of delay, to

" one with injustice, to

„ one into (submission or com-
pliance), to (
" one with pride, to
Te Dettm )

..,

,,
one out of,
one up, to
one's head
; ;
to

off,
fg
to
Tea fight
Teach a bull to roar, to ;
a cock to crow, to
oneself hoarse, to a dog to bark, to
,.. oneself out of breath, to fish to bite, to
a hen to cluck, to
,,

,,
over, to
round, to
;;
oneself weary, to a pig to play on a flute, to

a serpent to hiss, to
,,

"
shop, to
to, to ;
thirteen to the dozen, to
an old woman to dance, to

iron to swim, to
one a lesson, to
up, to one's grandmother to suck
turkey to, to eggs, to
Talking mill (shop), the the young idea how to
( ,,

,
Tall
of
man
; (or fellow) of his hand Luther
shoot, to
Teacher of Germany, the
PMlip
Jl Melanchthon
,, talk „ of the Word
Tar and feather S Teague, a

Tardiness of speech
(^
Teanlay Night
Tear a cat, to ;;
; ;
Tare and tret () asunder, to
,,

,, Christ's body, to

Xarhed, a South Carolina from, U>

 « t

479
Tear

Tear
,,

,,
off, to

out, to ;;
one's hair, to
( )

Tenant
„ to one

in capite,
A;
or
^ Terrible

tenant
;
in
"
,,

Tears of Eos
piecemeal, to
up, toijS;
; "
chief
Tender mercies
of the
;
minutest things
,,
wept in Helicon; melodious
tears " one's assistance, to
Tease one out of thought, to " one's resignation, to

Teeth outwards, from the

Teetotaler, a
Teian Muse, the
fig;

Ana-
,
,,

Tenderfoot, a
years ;
passion, the

creon
Telpere, telfils
Telegraph money order
( )

(
Tenderloin
Tenement housj

Tell it not in Gath, to

,, its own tale, to

it
Teniers,
of clay
English
the
George Mori and
:
,
,
not
of, to
me
;;
K;
;;
,, ,the Scotch
David Wilkie
Sir

,,
off,
on, to
to
; ;
on or upon, to
|g
,, of Comedy, the
Flo rent Carton Dancourt
,,

.,

,,
out, to
tales, to
; ;!^
one's beads, to Tennis Ball of Fortune, the
Pertinax
Tenterhooks, to be on the
'
Tenth Muse, the Mad-
,, tales out of school, to ffr ame Antoinette du Ligler de
la Garde Deshoulieres
,, volumes, to Terence of England, the
Temper the wind to the shorn Richard Cumberlaud

,,
lamb, to
together, to ;; Term
"
fee
in gross, to
(
Terms and tides
Tempest in a teapot, a of a proportion
Tempora mutantur
( (^ M
,
(
Tempori parendom )

((;
of ratio

((
Terra ftrma
Tempm
,,
edax rerum
fugil
-,, incognita
Terrae jilius )

Terrestial sun, the

(
Ten in the Hundred, Old Terrible Cornet of Horse, the
WfUMi Pitt
 H u

Terror ( 480 ) The

Terror of the World, the Thatched head, a

Attila ^. i:

( S The adversary

(^
Tntium quid, a
Ter/,a rirua Almighty
Tesserarian art almighty dollar
Test one's ability, to " ansrle of the village spire H
Tete a tete

Text and sermon

(
, one's fltness, to
;? " arm of the law ;
Thank Heaven „ Bacmian method
" one's stars, to " balm of hurt minds
Thanks be to God ,, bench IT
,, to ; better
(
" to oneself, to

Thanksgiving Day
have "
,,

,,
bird
biter bit
blind wall of night
;
,, blosoms are oi;t
That accounts for the milk in the Book of God; the Holy Book

„
,,
cocoa-nut
beats the Dutch
being so
;; " bottom of
^m^i
Fortune's wheel

" brief is boru of th.3 wish

" cannot be
,, cock won't fight broad belt of the world
,, day year , bulk of
does not suit my book case

^
,,
"
" children of the soil
, ever this should be! circle of sea 9?

,,
(
far
" city of the violet crown
, is for others
is the way with you boy a Jlfc
Athens
;;
^
„ cloth

„
,,

„
is
is
to be
to say ;
loves the ground "
cloven foot
coast is clear
coat tits
;
"
"
„
may wall be
much
our family may be preserved
"
"
common good
eommon people
common run *
;
,, country
,,

•,

,,
serves
time
will do
him

;^
right "
,,

,'
day ;
crowing point

day goes against us

.

f bat's tho ticket „ day is at band FJli

 nR H A s ' K M
—

Tlie ( 481 ) Th€

The day of doom last days, the last times

B
dav of reqt last importance
*'

dead of night last stroke ;

death of, to be least said the soonest mended
deuce of e thing
die is cast R R length and breadth of the
A ^ff/^ p m n n <yp r land
nor in

(
i
Vt *LX t.Vi W JJ.4 ci 11 i£ 1 tfr^!l
pj </\
y

v u v& u wwo u v/ v

ovil dfi\r
j uo 1. 1 1 y v ii c ui v c« u

,
;
light-fingered gentry

light of countenance

ptta
eye nf
ui Viaa
iit?a vpti
vtjn
fair (or fair sex)
US ^PT^n/flpfjy
rh

,r
lion's share
man
;
fat is all in the fire ,. man in the moon (
'
fire is
flas at
ont ^F'.^l
half-mast ,,

,,
many
Master
march
'
of intellect ;
forkfl of ri vftr nr rnarl
meridian of life

nccuuui
typnt.lpmfl.n nf
m
ui a city
t lift
wrp
1 n nr vrvKa
m1«
^
milk of

mischief
human

is
kindness

gi cater pd rt y^uUyj jj>"Sx ……

orppn

Wn
&TCi
gl nH
U LXKX
ma rori ti

q! ifl n1^
OllUl 5 or
r\i an o

f
11 rnm
U 111
' a 1 \ f^

11 11 tl t5 r
i
t,
more

nature
;
hast'3

of
the ess speed

things

xicai
one ^stcfe-x^
l *ii tn v x IJ b pi rtCtJ 7*, '', t
z:
near side of a horse
one and the other
.
order of the day &^ B

( ,
nor3e-guaias JtM^^-l^oJ

infernal regions
tj nU . othor day B
other side of the shield
;
inspired penmen
Jolly Roger
lamp Phoebus ^(
i patriot
picture of
pink of perfectiou
;
^
of ISI

l.ind of the L?al

las^ day ,: ^
poet of the age $•
poor
 J S *

( 482 ) Thick

The pressure of the times () There!

about
,,

"
,,
prime
ready
race of
;&
of life
(Adam are only father
OH:
and
me
me

, rage, to be away

;;&
rather " is a wide gulf fixed
,, republic of letters , ismany a slip between the
., rising generation cup and the lip
river is out is no help 4
,

r
same thing as
sh&kss
shorts
"

"
is
them
is
;
no love lost between
5
no reason why he should

,,
„ signs of the times

smiles oi fortune
"
do so
is no saying ;
,,

,,
sport of, to be
sport of fortune 1^ ;
"
milk ;
is no use crying over split

is nothing done for him

, staff of life B
" thin or small end of the usdge „ is nothing for it but for one

,,
«1
tliinif
to
m
do

,,

^
top of the morning to you: ,, is nothing in the way

tug
ii])S
ofwar
and downs
was a great to-do
Thereby hangs a tale ;
very thing
weed (
wliole bag of tricks "—
There's the rub
These and these
;
why and wherefore " are all to me

,, wicked Theseus aud Pirithous

,
witching time of night

.„

.,
world
worse
to
for drink, to be
Thesp'.an Maids, the

They
,,

live
rage, a
hammer and
; tongs

,,
, worse
worse
for liquor., to be
for wear, to be
The ban and Thracian Orgies ,
say
,,

that creep 8t
;^
Thebes
ft
Thrace that fly
Thick as hail, as ;
Then I a\s\

« :a Dutchman
S
"
"
as herrings, as
as hops, as
 •

Thick ( 483 )
Thorn

Thick as two inkle- wravers, as ,,

,,
scorn, to
seriously, to
;
„ of hearing
the action
of
;
,,

,,
the worse
to oneself, to
of>

;
to

„
-skinned
utterance
Thicken one's blood, to
^ Third Estate, the
„ House, the
Senate House of
Thieves' Latin Representatives)

Thin out, to ( )
,, Section, the

;^
IS

,,

,,
-skinned
span life ^
Thing of naught, or nothing
Thirst for, to
Thirty eoul, ft
Thirteen States, the Sfll
R (Connecticut, Delaware,
„ upon one's mind, a Georgia, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire,
Things would come to this NewJersey,New Yark, North
Thingumbob, Thingummy
Think a great deal of, to
,, aloud, to
; Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Caroli-
na and Virginia)
Thirteenth juryman, the
„
„
and
better of
®
die, to
;
it, to Thirty-nine Articles, the

" good or well, to; ,, Years' War, the

,, fondly
hard of, to
to
of,

: This and that

,,

,
light of, to
little
much,
mM
;;
that
to
, to
tfi
.....
,, day week, fortnight or mon-
th
— ,
,, much of, to |i , here gp this
„
,
no end of one,
no more of, to ;; to ,,

,
,
is not all
much
once
; jHj

, no small beer of anything, " sword never failed me

r
to
nothing
; ;
of, ; to to
S
my face!

"
„
of,
on, to
to
;;
one's penny silver, to
Thomas,
„
a ;
(Tommy) Atkins; Tom,
my, a
,, one's farthing (halfpenny) Thomasite, a John
good silver, to Thomas
v over, to Thom in the side (flesb)
 j

( 484 )

Iborough know!edg3 of, a Thrice blessed

" acquaintance
ters, a
with let-
Throbbing pain
Throne of
Through,
grace, tho
to be %m
;
Those who dance must play the
piper ; „

il^;
-and-through

( ^;
fare (ticket or train;

" who wed above |g fireand water

Thou scoundrel! bands
, vile thing! the care oi one
Thought struck him, a
Thousand and one ; the roedium of
thick and thin

" yeara of peace, the Throw a sop to Cerberus, to

(» ill
Tbracian art, the „ a sprat to catch a mackerel,
Thread and thrum to
Threadbare friend, a ,, a tub to the whale, to
Threaded steel
Three- bottle man S(9
,,

;a wet blanket over, to

an old shoe after one, to

u cheers for (
" estates
S
of
, the realm, the ,,

„
,
aside, to
away, to
away a good
; ^g;
offer, to

,, golden or brass balls

H,,
,, parts ,,' away oneself, to $1;
„ K's, the , away time, to
, Kings of Cologne, the . back, to ,
Melchior, Balthazar, „ by, to m^YM^
,,
]k Gaspar
King's Day S
,,

.,
;cold water on, to

daylight upon, to
pair back, a „ dirt or mud at, to SS , 14
Rs, the
sheets in the wind
, ( „ dirt
down,
on one, to
to ; ;^
mm „ down right, to JR
Sisters, the R] ,, down the gauntlet, to
(gp Clotlio, Lachesis St Atro- ft
pos)
-decker, a ;dust in or into the eyes, to

;$
(,
tongues the
1,
" in, to
in one's disb, to
IS;
 _ #

Throw ( m ) Thu«

Throw in one's teeth, to j the handle after the blade,

" in prison . .. to
,,

"
• into confusion, to
into the shade/to ;
the hatchet, to
to the (logs, to
;;
;
,,

"
off, to ;; ^
off a responsibility, to
' up. to B

up one's cap, to
up the sponge, to

„
,,
off
off the
an acquaintance,
mask, to
to Thrown on
( ;
one's beam -ends, to be

; ; ;
.
:
on one's resources, to be
" off the scent, to
on, to - ,. oneself into, to be
" on some one else, to
;
, ©negeif away, to
Thrum
Thrust aside, to ;
;
$
oneJa cap, to

I
; ;;oneself on or upon, to

oneself on the mercy of, to

.,
away, to
down, to
forth, to ;
, ;
;;open, to
S; in, to
off, to ;
;
5

;;
" out, to jib ; on, to
one by force, to
,, out a feeler, to
;
one's nose into, to
oneself, to

,,

,,
out a hint, to
out of gear, to
over, to ; out, to ;;
oneself forward, to

through, to
„ over a friend in difficulties, together, to
to
overboard, to ; Thumbs

Thump-cuabion, a
up; thumbs down Pf;

"
,

;
ailk, to
somersault, to
stones, to : Thunder
and Lightning
"
;
"
;
straws agaiiit the wind, to Stephen
Thunderbolt of Italy, the
"

„
(
the fat in the

the grove to, to

fire, to A
Thunderer, the
Gaston
Nemours
do Foix, Due de

„ the great cast, to W^cfn~' Homer

Thundering (
I
"
g
the handkerchief, to
;
Thursdays nieer, when
Thus far ;
 H i| )

(
Ttwart "486 ) Tip

Thwart
"
one's plans, to
one's wishes, to ^ Till
now; until now
,,
doomsday ;
then
;
Thy salvation
Thyestean banquet, a
Time about
"
"
after time
and again
;
" revenge
Ticket of leave ( "

,
does not wait for us

flies like an arrow

Tickle the ears of, to gone by

;^ ;
,, has been when the
the palm, to
Ticklish limes
Tidal basin
Tide over, to ,,
,,
immemorial
is
of
up, the
day
;(
„ turned, the ft

,
waiter
what tide
Tidings of salvation „
,,
of life
on one's hands
of war, in
;
Tie down, to ; ;
" oneself up by a vow, to
„
,,

,
out of memory
out of mind
.table
,, to sport
,
, the hands, to ;
the hair into knot, to

" the nuptial knot, to worn

,,
well spent
; ;(
;;
„ the wedding knot, to Times Danaos et dona ferentes
, to, to
up, to
()
Tied hand and foot, to be
Times, the
" are changed 3|
;
.., to n woman's apron-string, to ,
Tin
be Tinckled to death
" to«rether in bo:ids of love " Tincture the mind with, to
^:
J

Tinker's budget,
Tier etat ,, of Switzerland,
Tiger of France, the Geo:-- i
Jean Haber
gss Cleineuceau Tintoretto of England
Tight as the top of a dr"ni, as . William Dobson

" hand on, to keep a : Tip a stave, to

" off, to ()
off liquor, to
;^
one's fin, to (^)

^
" place, to be ia a ti^S , ;

Tile () ; over, to
loose, a ^mfi , one the wink, to g ;
Tip ( 487 ) to

Tip quality ( a turn

a wonder
-staff, a
( Z||
,, the
" the
" the
" the
, -top
double, to
scale, to

( (;
traveller, to
wink, to
mrw^—^
H
^ be
and fro
arm!

be brief
be frank
JIt

g
, up, to be oneself again
" us your fin t>3 short

Tire one out, to *' be sincere

Tired out, to be , be sure; be sure
Tiresome omce, a
„ person,
„
jet.
reiteration
a ^ , begin with
blame
boot
j
pj
"
cap the climax
Tipperary rifle, a come
Tironian sign, the and come to nothing

^
(&)
conceal nothing ^£
Tirynthian Swain, the , conclude ^^'
» confess the truth
n% * v. 4>n, riff -v aoc /ttti / -w >wp ~w* \ttc
Tissue ballots cover, hark!
crown all
Tithanus, a
Titian of France, the
Jacques Blaochard
death
;
( ;;
distraction
-do Hf
„ or Jrortugal, toe do one justice
Alonzo Sancbez Ooello little purpose
Tit for tat taw make a long story abort
Title deeds ;
Tityre lus, a -morrow come never
my bond
Tityrus, a my knowledge
To a certain degree or extent my mind
' >> my thinking
a certainty :»
no other end
, a day
degree ;; '•,

;;
no purpose
no effect
^;
a f an lt -JU^'4-?a
; once j^gp
;
„ a hair
u a large extent
, a
1 1 miracle
, a nicety
man ;;
;
one's beard
one s confusion
one's cost
one's face
one's band or hands
^ B;
M i t wmsmm one's heart's content ^
 ^

To ( 488 ) Toil

To one's heart's desire

one's horror , the end of the time
one's knowledge , the end that ^:
one's liking tfe ; " the eye
one's mind
one's own cheek
one's taste
" the face
,, the fore

,, the full
M;
;
oneself " the four winds of heaven
perfection the heart ;
pieces the last
rights ,, the last drop of one's blood

;;
say nothing of
say the least , the last degree
;; ;
;; ;
say the truth #ffij "
the
the
letter
life ; ;
seek
small purpose
,,

"
the
the minute ;
manner born g IS
m
some degree
,
,,
the
the nines ;;
neglect of

;
some purpose
sura up
"
,
the
the
purpose
quick
tellthe truth
that effect
the acompaniment of
„
,,
the
the
the
skies
teeth
tune of
;; g
the backbone
the bad ;
the best of one's abilities
"
„
the
the
utmost
utmost of one's abilities

the best of one's knowledge „ the very last

" the very marrow
the best of one's power

the bitter end

,, this end

, wit ;
Toad-eater; a toady ;
the bone Toast-and-butter
the bottom Toby- man, a
the
the
cause of
charge M^C;U^
Toe the mark,
Toga proetexta
to (, ,
the
the
the
contrary
death
drains
^&; ,, virilis

east Toga'd nation, the

the echo
the end of one's tether
the end of the chapter '^ G
Together by the ears

Toil
„ with
aud moil,
;^%( #
to
tR
 | |I i|Ii )

Toll ( m Touch

,;
; !^; ;
Toil out, to Ferry
Token of remembrance sB Tony Lumpkin, a
Told, to be Too fargone
Toledo, a #; Toledo ,, good to be true

Toll-bar , many, by half

Tom Bowling, a , many, to be :^
Coney (C^nney), a many irons in the have

^;
" fire, to
"
"
Dick, and
double, a
Harry

I
"
much
of a
;
for, to be
good thing
Drum's entertainment
;
^ .
,, too
;
; ;&
Farthing, a " well in case
„ Folio Thomas Raw- Tooley Street tailor
linson
fool, a ;
fool's colours
Tooth and nail
Top
"
off, to
one's boom, to ()
Long, a
Lony .
,, -sawyer
" up with, to
Topiarian art, the
;
Noddy
,,

Noodle
o
Topsy-turvy (
, Bedlam
Pepper
Topple over, to
Torquemada, a ^ fij;

" Tailor
Thumb, ; Torrens system, the
^
^ Torrent of eloquence, a
a 1

*
^^
" Tiddler's ground Torsion balance
;
Tiller (Tiler), a ; Tory, a
„
Toss
democracy
for, to
ft

, Titivil

^;
,, Towly " off, to
„ Tram |
,, the oars ^
Tug, a " up, to
,, Tyley
Tommy; Tommy ; Total abstinence
( ;
Ton ^(
Tone down, 10
Atkins, a

;
K- ! Toto coe'o

Touch ami
"
,
m
T)

-aiid-go
at, to
; ;
;
go, to

;
„ up, to " bottom, to
Tonic spasm H " of raillery, a MhHJ
Tonkinois, le Tuk's ol the tar-brusli, to have
 ) g

Toucli ( m frea*

Touch off, to
;; Traveller between life and death

,, on or upon, to " on a person, to put the

,
one off, to ;
one for money, to
[
^ I
Traveller's license ;
,,

,
one with pity, to
one's feelings, to
the shore, to
; I
,,

Travelling lamp, the

Treacherous hops
tale

„
,,

the wind, to
;( ( I

„ smile
words

^
,, up, to
Toujours perdrix Treacle Town Bristol;

Tour deforce ( ; Tread a measure, to

Macclesfield

Tout ensemble (
( ; ,
"
close upon, to
in another's footsteps, to
; the
,, h monde
Touter ; , in steps of. to
Tow on the distaff,
Tower
,,
of London
of strength, a ;;
to have "
"
on
on
on
air, to
or upon, to
one's corns, to
;^
„ on one's toes, to
Towering passion, in a on the heels of, to
Town and gown row, a Oxford , on the tail of one's coat, to
Cambridge
:€
talk i"; ^ „
4;
out, to
the
:
board, to
35

Toyshop of the world, the ., the neck of, to

Trace back, to
"
Birmingham

up and down, to
" the
the
shoe away,
shoes straight, to
to
^
Trade-dollar

(H
" on the stage,
upon eggs, to
to
;
" sale
Trade's train
Traffic return
; "
mm
upon the heels, to ;
Tragic play
Train brmds ; James
Treasure-trove ^;

Tramp steamer,
up, to ; a
"

Treasury bench, the

up ia memory, to

^iUft
B^I2;^

Transmogrify, to
Traps
Tra^ el T )ost
; (^to
J
Treat one
„
with, to
to, to
others Uki onesell, to
…… [
 ) j

treat ( m
Treat with ill language, to ^ 2) — f3)
-
Treaty of commerce, a
"
,,
of peace, a
ports ^ crown
Tremble
,,

"
all over, to
tor, to ;
in the balance, to
,,

,,
-time (
tyrant, the
Triton among minnows, a
;
Trench upon, to
Trencher friend, a
Trespass upon another's conveni-
, Triumph
"
over, to
over Death, Chance, and

"
;
ence, to
upon one's time, to Triumphal arches
Time, to
;
',
Triumvirate of Italian Poets, the
Trestle work (IP Dante,
Trial at bar
„ by record
Tribune of the People, the
B^ccacio
Trojan, a
Trojan horse
Petrarch
;^
Trick out, to
Tried in the balance
; John Bright

and found
Trot out, to ( ; m

;
wanting
Trifle with, to
Tropic of Cancer
,, of Capricorn #
(
Trigonometrical survey Trouble one for, to
oneself
" or one's
;
^" ^ ;
head
Trilbies
Trim a lamp, to
,, in, to
; "
"
about, to
oneself with, to
the water, to L

,,

,, up, to
Trimmer, a
the
;;' sails, to Trough of the sea

Trouillogan's advice
Trinity House Henrry VII
Trus as a cur ran to, as

Trink-geld ) ( ,,

"
as a turtle-dove, as

; ^§
as fate, as M5t;
*;
Trip along, to
„ in talking, to
„ it, to
; "
„
as steel, as
as the needle to the pole,
mm
as

it on the light fantastic toe,to

;
an the pole-star to the north,

,, the course of law,

Triple Alliance, the
/^
to

^ (1)
J}
as
as touch, as
bill ^
 X ' )

trn€ ( m
;
;^;
True blue Trying affair, a
colors
time
to nature
Tu
, moment
quoque (
to one's salt Tuck in, to

(; ;
to oneself into, to

be
Trump card (; , ^
to the last of one's blond, to
,
of drum
on, to
-out, tuck-in
;
,, up, to -shop, to
,
; up a cause against one, to
„ up, to ;( ;
, up a
nocent, to IS
charge against in- Tuckered out
Tug of war, a ;
"

Trumpet
; up a sto»y or au excuse, to

one's own deeds, to

Tulcan Bishops

Tumultuous brer. st
James I

;
me
Turk and Tartar
Turn a cat in tlic pan, to
Trust
„ on or in, to : ;
,
,,
one's heels, to
oneself to another, to ^ ,, a cold shoulder, to

;
„
to, to
to a
;
broken reed, to
„
,
a
a
a
corner, to
deaf ear
flange, to
to, to
( (
" a hastile array, to
,, to one's care, to f£ |

Truth is ...... ,the ...... a penny, to 'j

;
\

,, to tell " a person's head, to

Try a case, to ;
a horse's paces, to , a tippot, to
" a man's paces, to

;
and do something, to
, about, to
adrift, to ;;;
Ul^U^

,,
anything on, to
conclusions, to „ again, to :
,,

,,
it on, to
on, to ;;
(H

one's best, to
81i
"
,,
against, to
an honest penny,
;
tU;
to

,,

,,
one's luck, to
the chance, to
;
one's hands, to ,
"
„
and turn about
and twist, to
another's flank, to
^;
$fi

;^
..
)[/

„
the eyes, to
to
;;
M
run before one can walk
"

„
; ^
arouud one's liu^yr,

aside, to
to J5f
 M S

Turn ( 493 ) Turn

Turn attention to, to

m;
;;
; ;out;;
"

„
away, to
;
away from, to
•

out
out
i|i

a sack, to
in the cold, to
;*
" away from office, to out of office, to
,, away in disgust, to out to be a failure, to
; ;
,,

,,
away the
back, to ;
eyes, to out well, to
over, to ;;
i;

,,
bankrupt, to
battle, to ; over a new leaf, to

,,

,
down,
down, to
free, to
to
riot, to
round, to
;; ;
over the account, to '

,,
good
in, to ; ;; ;
to evil, to round one's

round the corner,

finger, to

to
,,

,
"
in the
into, to
mind
;
mind, to

to, to
short, to
something into money,
;
to

,,

"
,,
0dd8, tO
of fate
of
;
the tide, the
tail, to
the arguments of an oppo-
nent upon himself, to
, of mind, a

;; ;;;
of words, the the attention to or from
, off, to something, to

,, ;
off one's wife, to
the back, to
the back upon, to
"
,,

one's
; ;;
off the thoughts, to
on, to
arguments against
the battle's tide, to
the cold shoulder, to
]&

,;^ ;
himself, to
,, one's back on, to the corner, to
,, one's coat, to
one's feet outside, to
;
the dice, or die, to
the edge of, to
,

,,

,,
one's goods or money, to
;.W
one's hand to, to
one's head or brain, to
;;
the enemy's flank, to

the head, to
^;
^;
()

;
oneself into, to
the laugh against one, to
,
,, on one's heel, to the matter aside, to f|
out, to m^mn'Mmmi^ ;
Turn ( 494 ) Tyrannical

Turn the occasion to account, to Twelve goo J rules, the Charles

I
, the point of, to ,, moonshines
,,

,
the
the
scale,
stomach, to
to
Hg;
,
— Tables, the

the

; ;;
the
tables, to
wrong side out, to Twenty and twenty
" and twenty times
;;
, to, to

" to account, to " to one

"

"
to

to
advantage or

good account, to
profit, to Twice and once

Twickenham
-told table, a
Bard,
; the
"
;,
to the best account, to
turtle, to
Alexander Pope
Twickenham fti )
(
;
Turk, to Twiddle one's fingers, to
Twin brother

—
of sleep
"

,,
; ;;
under, to
up, to
up one's nose at, to
relics of

Twist a rope of sand, to

barbarism

;
;;
„ round one's fingers, to

;;
upon or on, to
, together, to
" upside down, to Two, to be

Turned
;[
Turnbull Street rogue, a
of, to be "
can play at the game
;
extremes meet
on one's back, to be ,, -legged mare, the 511

;
Turning point
"
,
,,
-legged wolf
minds, to be of
of a trade
;
Turpentine State, the North ,, sides to a story
Carolina flii

upon two pun' ten

^ " ten, or
Tutelary saint ;K
Twas g He was
Tweed comes to Melrose, as the Twopenny-damn, not worth a

Twelfth, the
^
Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Bft
» Tyburn
,,

,,
-halfpenny
face, a
tippet, a
^^
,, Night (^ if ,, tree
Typhoid fever
Tyrannical government, a
 i

Under
Tyrannical )

Tyrannical person, a
" ruler, a
Uncalled for
Uncertain in mind
;;
Tyrian hue ,, weather XM^f'M
Uncial letters
u
Ubi Uberias ibi patria (T) to ^
Unclasp the purple leaves of war,

,, (
Mel, ibi apes
^ Uncle Sam
„ Sam's
Alaska
icebox

Ugly affair, an Vnco guild (

,, customer ;
" as the devil, as fil Unconcerned about
Uncrowned King, the
Ulterior

(
(
Ultima ratio regum
aim or object
) Under
.,
a cloud, to be
a mistake, to be
;
Charles Stewart Parnell

,,

Ultimum ( (
Thule
vale
(feT) "
"
age
amazement
;
Ultimus
; Romanorum
1)
Horace Wal-
"
arms
ban
bare poles
pole; (2) Samuel
.,

' canvas ( Jft

;
|*

Ultra vires
Johnsou

Ultramontane doctrines
( "

..,
cloud
colour of
cover ;
B

" cover of
Ulysses of the Highlands, the

Un
II
bienfait n
Sir
f
est
Evan Cameron
jamais perdu (
,
,
„
easy sail
fire
;
cover of night

,,
eabello haze sombra () •

,
ground
hatches ;;,
Unable to call mind, to be ,.
lock and key
:
obligation, to be

Una scopa
,
)
nuova. spa 22a bene ( one's breath
one's cross, to be
one's eye g
"
(
volta furfanle, e sempre fur/ante
"
,

,.
one's nose
one's signature
(
Unacquainted with,
Unalterable fate ;
to be
, one's thumb

Unburden
,,
purpose
one's mind, to
,.

,
pain of
press of sail
sail
seal
', ^ '
Under ( 496 ) United

Under sentence ^
,, the apprehension, to be
;the®
…;
Canada
Underhand profit ;
,'

M
…the
the
auspices of

belt
breath
;
Understand one another,

,,
trap, to
Undiscovered country from whose
;
to %

'

, the care of bourn uo traveller returns,

,,
the circumstances
;the cloak
of
the
Unequal to, to be
Unfathomable mystery, an
;
….
"
,..

,,
the
the
the
control of
colour of
date of
;
^
Unfavourable aspect, an
,

"
,

,,
the
the
the
direction of
disguise of ;….
favour of the night ,,
"

report, an
circumstances tt^
1

" sign, an
"
;
the frown of power
;;
Unfurl the black flag, to
Unheard-of
W6k

,, the hand and seal

the head of ; Unhoped
Uninspired
( the
for
man
,, the lee ( …[ Union by first intention
,,

,,

,,
the mask of
the name of
;
the management of

^ ,,

,,
down
Jack
(
" the pretence of ,,
joint ()
,,

,,
the pretext of
the protection of
the rose jfc
… Unite with, to
United Brotherhood, the

(
;^
the seal of secrecy

^^ :
„ ,, Brethren
„ the shadow of
,, the sun „ Irishmen, the
the thumb of S
,,

,,
the weather
the wing
water
; 1 ;
„1
^(
Presbyterians ^
„
,
weigh
,,
'way (( tt; ,, Provinces, the KM
(tPHol-
land,Z3eland, Utrecht, Fries-
Undercurrent
;
of woe
of dissatisfaction, an land Groningen, Gelderland,
Oberyssel
Netherlands)
£
Underground railroad f9
States, the
 S K

Universal ( 497 ) Up

Universal Doctor, the

Thomas Aquinas;
(1)
(2)
Unworthy
"
of ;;
of being mentioned
Alain de
Lille ,, of belief

,nature ,, of much thought

Unknown, the Great
(
Sir Walter Scott
Wavereley
,,

Unwritten law
,be
to be trusted
;
—
Unlearned Parliament, tbe

Unlicked cub, an
Up!
,,

" a tree
, to

Unload, to (
Unmerciful Parliament, the
, and about
and at them!

Richard II
;
,,

,,
and doing, to be
and down :; ;
Unmercifully
Unnamoable, the
(
,, grade
;(
Uno animo
Unpaid for
T)

Unparliamentary language
,, be
in, to
, in arms
" stairs
;;
"
,, steam _h
Unplaced expectant an the country
officer, ,,

„ the spout ( ;;
Unpleasant
"
„
affair,
features
news
an

ik
,, to a thing or two
" to
to date
anything ;
;
Unpractical parson, an to now

^^;
Unprovided for • to one's ears
,, with " to one's instruction
Unsatiate as the barren womb ,. to snuff II:
,. to something
Unser Fritz
Unship the oars, to
Frederick
;:1? " to the elbows, to be (.
Unstable as water, as
ITnsuccessful in life ;
,, the eyes
to
" to the hub ( ;
;
,

Untimely birth
in the examination to the lip in an v thing without
tasting it ^
, death
Unwarrantable arrest
Unw ashed, the great
- '

,
to the
to the pre-sent
to this day
mark
M;
Unwilling to call the king one's ,, to thistime Ip] _h
cousin, to be ,S ^; ^^ ., two pairs of siairs S
 t J

Up

Up
,
with
with him,
; ^ it is all
n
which
„
trust
;
Upas
Uphill work
tree

Uphold one at any

; rate, to
Upper Benjamin
,,

„
circles,
hand
the

„ House, the

Upon
,, one in evil-doing, to

a d ay's notice
f1n^
^( "
...

works
story
ten ();(
()

^^
:; ;;
,, a heap Uppermost in the mind
a thought J Uppertendom
, all fours Ups and downs
mature thought Upset the apple-cart, to t

,, my soul
; Upside down
15
;
,,
my word
pain of death Upward
,,

of ;(;
with, to be

.,
pretence of
second thought
Urbi Orbi
Urge or, to
ei )

;
,
Bight
square
,,

"
to exertion, to
to make peace, to ;
terms
the alert ; Uriah Heep, an
Urn
;;
|« Ij

,
.,

.,
the books, to be
the credit of
the footing
; Use despatch,
"
to

;
or execise one's discretion,
£
to

th« gad ;; "

,,•
oneself, to
the company, to
-,

.,
,
the matter
the recipt of
(or on) the spot ;;
"
,,

Used to
up, to ;
the question, to

Usher in,
., the spur of the
;
moment Uevs tyrannu8
est
to
( T )

,,

,,
the subject of
the surface, to be
;; Utasof afeast, the
Uti detis (
„ the table

; ^
" (or on the whole
,,
)

tho whole mailer

V
the wing Vacant eye U;
^
,,

the wing or the wind succession

.,

,
,

^
the world it large

thia side the grav^j

Vade i n pace
(( )
 M ^

Vade ( 499 )

;(' ,
Vade mecum, a Vengeance, witli a
Vagrant train Veni, i':di rici
Vain glory Venial eiu IS
T
Vale of tears and trials, the V enico of the East, the
Valiant as an Essex lion, as Bangkok
Valley of the Shadow of Death, of the North, the (1)
the Stockholm (2)
Valuable consideration Amsterdam
Value much, to
,,

„
none of,
oneself upon, to
received
Vandyck, the English
to

( ^ ,, of the

Venom of the spleen

;
West, the
Glasgow

Ventilate a question or subject, to

William Dobson Ventre a terre ) (^

,, of France, the Venture at, on, or upon, to
Hyacinth Rigandy
Roa Venus de Medici Florence
of Sculpture, the Uffizi
A n to i ne Coy se vox
Vanity Fair
Vantage ground ; ^ |
Venus lap
Verbatim et literatim (; )

,, theloaf,
Variation of the needle
Varnish one's fault, to
It
f$
Verdant Green, a
¥
;
;(
" one's words, to youth
Veer and haul, to Veritas adium par it ( T)
,,

,,
away, to
out, to
Vegetable-earth
;: g;
,,

Versed in
Verai Berueschi
;
praeoalebit (i

-ivory
Very badly ;
,, " best, the
,,

Vendt'dit
-kingdom
hie auro pair i am
*i
( "
"
green
likely; moat likely ;
Venereal disease
" poison p ^ "
,,
little
thing,,
^;
the worse
the
Venetian Addition, the
Gaspare Gozzi
,, blind
„
Vest
,,
tyranny
in, to
with, to
;;
chalk )
Vested legacy, a

^
,, (

" door (
, window (
Vexatioua suit
1$ !)5
( S5;

Vexed question UQffi;

Vi ( 500 ) Voluntary

* Robert Louis Stevenson

Viaet armis ( T) Virgin, the Mary
Via Dolorosa
media (
() ,, City; Virgin Fortresa, a
,,

Vicar Jesus Christ " honor

of Bray ;
a ', „ Mary's Body guard

Vienersa
Vicious circle, a
( ;^
of Christ, the
)
,' Quvfen, the
Virgins in Vauxh«il
Virtuoso; pi.
;
((Virtuosi
Elizabeth

Vicissitude of a state, the Virtus laudatur et alget

„ of forture, the Vis-a-vis

inert iae
((;; ; )

[
,, of life, the
^ Visible horizon

('
Victim be of, to 1
church
Victory after victory
Vuux Renard Visit the sins, to
Nicholas Jean Soult
Villainous saltpeter
Visiting book (
Ville Lumiere, la committee
Vincent's law
Vinci t qui se vincit & „
,,
physician
Visited the cave of Trophouios, to
have
S

Violate a promise, to Vital air

(
,,

',

"
a rule, to
an agreement, to
au oath, to
one's deep sleep, to
„
"
principle

Vitrified fort
statistics
^ '^ )

.. one's meditation, to
Viva voce
Vive la rejubliquel
i

(
Violtttton of the
Violent death ;
marriage bed
Vocal transport
Voce di pe'to
„ di testa
(
(
Viv mpit qui pauca loquitur ( Voice ft pipe, to
)
Virgil a lid Horace of the Christi-
of God and man, the

ans, the Aureliua ,, of the temper

Clemens Prudentius " cf thunder k
" of Dramatic Poets, the
Bsn Jonson
o£ Lhe French Drama, the
Void one's rheum, to
Voir le dessovs des cartes '
( )

^ (
,
Jean Kacino Voluntary conveyance
, of Frose, the
 B

Voluntary ( 501 ) Walk

Voluntary escape
Vote down, to ; Wales
(:
of a ship
Vowel a debt, to (
'Mr
1. 0 Walk a breast or shoulder to
shoulder, to ; M
XL) i.-:"'
Vulnerable point
Vox et praeterea nihil ( ) ifri
about, to
according to the customs, to

populi vox Dei ( > ., after the flesh, to (^ )

'

Vulnus 7 >ni)te(hcabile ( ) .,
Ji

^
aitsr the spirit, to (
Vultuts est index animi ( " backwards and forwards, to

by faith, to
for recreation or amuse-
YY
Wag
Wager
one's tongue, to
of battle
; "
>
ment, to
hand
in, to
in
.
hand, to 1?

( 0)
,,

^
(Wagerifig) policy ,, in darkness, to

Wages of sin, the

Waggon Boy, the
Thomas Cor win
in
to
in
^
golden (silver) slipper?.

the light, to (
Wait

"
at, to
for, to
for an opportunity, to
„ in the flesh, to (
. into, to ( ;
,, for an appointment, to ,
„
it, to
lame, to ;
"
for
to
for
;
John Long, the

one another, to
carrier, „
"
of life
off a headache, to

„ for the proper moment, to ,. off on one's ear, to ( H) ^ 1

„ in suspense, to : - on all fours, to #3^0; ifitff

; ;
on or upon, to 11

the clouds roll by, to

„ one about, to
;
,, till '

-.
one's chalks, to
over, to (^
^ ^ _i

;;;
Waiting for one's shoes , -over, a
hours
,, ., over the course, to lh ^'$SP
Wake of, in the ;
,,

"
the lyre, to
up the wrong passe-iger, to
Spanish, to
iTii

^
Walk ( 502 ) Wash
Walk straight on, to
(; tS of words, a

^ :;;
" tlie clialk, to " -paint
„ the hospitals, to to the knife
^? Ward off, to
the plank, to Warden of a college
W«.rders of the Tower of London

" through the fire, to ( Ward our

^( Street English
Wardour
to Jericho, to tir i:
" with long steps, to Warehousing system

I with a wide step, to

(
11

,, your chalks Wares of shop

Walking delegate, a Warm as toast
" encyclopaedia, a " colours
„ -engagement, a
„ gentleman, a fortunes
reception, a
it;
;
-papers
Wall oi flesh, the
Walls have ears
,

„
; ;
reception, to give a

the cockles of one's heart,

(
—
Walpurgis-Night

Wander where one will

,,

Warming
to
the heart, to
pan, a
Wandering Jew ( .,
'
pans, the James II

Warn of danger, to |ji

„ of the ensuing fi(jht, to

^ ;
" scars
talk
wood
; Warrant
"
,,
of arrest
of attorney
of distress i
:
,, .

Wahi anything without difficulty, you, I'll

„
to Warring conscience, a #?(||
"
.
^.
twop,*uce in the shilling, to
^; ;
Wash an Ethiop white, to

.
:
"
War
-wit
; „ ofl" disgrace, to

^^ ^
one's dirty linen in public,

^
agaiust, to ,,

" against war, the to

„ -breached locks
^tm IM
•
one's hand :
of, to
,, >clouds
deoartmeni ^ 1 " one's ivories, to ik
 |I|
j $ H

Wash ( 503 ) Weatd er

Wash one's sheep with scalding

water, to ^;
in the ban is of one, to be

,
,,

,,
oneself, to
the crow, to
the Ethiopion, to
; Way
u
,
of ;
of life
thinking
the wind blows, the
fl^

Washed or weeping eyes' ;

Washing " train
Washington of Colombia, the
Colombia
Ways and means
" of God ; jjg

Simon Bolivar
Wasp's nest ; [
We
of.'seeing
will give a
things
good account of
Waste in woods
,, land
one's labour, to
; Weak
,
them
as a cat, as
as water, as
^(
;(
.,

„ time, to
Watch against, to
and ward
; market, a
side
stomach, a
,,

>}
and watch ( ,.

Weaker
"
sex, the
vessel, the
for, to [ Wealth
^ of Orinuz, and of nd " '
,,
for
is
an opportunity,
going, a
;;
to
WeaVand tear ;
;
„
"
over, to
-words, the
out of the corners of one's
"
away, to
off, to
oi] , to
;(;
Water
eyes, to
a stock (capital), to
" one's heart
ve, to
out, tog
;
; ;;
upon one*s sle*1 -

,, on ons's mill, to be , the breeches, to ^ ;^

,,

,,
privilege
-proof ; ,,

"
the white sheet, to
the willow, to
; |g

,,

,
pumps, the
pumps work, the the yellow, to ;
;
"

Waterloo, a
-sheep, the

;
roacL \

Weary memory,
through, to
well, to ; to
Watery
Wave
floor
off,to
"
,
of pleasure
of waiting
^
Waves rolling alona: in succession out, to
ilj^; .
" with, not to be
Wax fat and kick, to

in the edrs, to have ; i

"
)
Weather a point, to

'a storm, to ( ;[
 U B W

Weather ( 504 )

Weather eye Welcome as flowers in May, as &

, out, to ffri

Weavii-i' leather aprons

teite Wei kin -eye
Well,
,,

sir
;
to, to

Pn'
be

Web and pin ,, dons! f ft

;;
,, of life " -earned bargains
Wedded to an opinion enough
Wee
,,ones
bit
; ,
founded
met!
„ things
Weed of Worcester, the
^
"
»
-niah
off ^; .

; ;
Worcestershire ,, -oiled dispositions fS

; ,, -regulated
,,

Weeds
Week
,,
out, to
of
in,
is up,
peace
week out
the—
— "
"
said!
to do, to be; well off, to be
1%
up );
, Sundays, a
of ;^ -worn
,,

Weekly tenant HI Welsh ambassador, the cuckoo

Weep for fashion, to cousin, a : ^

,
"
"
one's life away, toja
one's spirit, to
tears of joy, to
?| ,,

,..

,,
liook
main, a
mortgage, a
;
Weeping Philosopher, the
Heraclitus
, rnbbit (
,,

B
St. Swithin
^
Saint, the IH St. Swithiu ,
Edva" William
Wen, the Monstrous
Shakespeare, the

London
„ skies
fi Wertherism Si
Weigh anchor,
,, down, to ; ;®
to

on or upon one's mind, to

West, to go
-end
MM; 9i
ffi ( &
Western Church, the
oue's words, to t5« Empire, the
Weighed in the balance and found ,, States, the Al-
wauting, to be leghany

; !
Weight of age Wet as a drowned rat
"
,,
of business, the
of care
^ bargain, a
blanket ;
Vv'eird appearance " ,, day
bister^ i he „ one's clay, to ik
 & * n

Wet ( 505.) Wdat

Wet one's whistle, to is

,, quacker jfii is amiss?

to the skin is it like/
Whack away, to is more
;
Whacking
Whacker
Whale's bone
; is
for
sauce for the goose
the gander ;
is sauce

What ,what (followed by a

preposition— as with, by,
is that to ine?
is (lie damage? ;
,,
through),
a pity! & ...... …-" is
is
the reason?
there to say?

"
,
about something?
ails you?
are you about,
is

is
this for?
to be done? ;
are you doing there?
is up?
are you up to?

"
can (you or he) do to me?

comes of it?
"
it is

it
about
will fetch or ;
bring

,
\,
comes of it in the end?
did he see but ...... ^ makes one do somethfng?

makes you say that?

"
,
„
did do but went?
difficulty is there?
do you say to?
does it benefit him?
metal one is made of ^
money had was taken away
,,

"
does that signify,
-dye-call,-it,-em
;
4
I

need of vexation?
"
„
ever is it?
fear is there?
need one
not ;
^
"
"
"
further can be done?
for a
has become of?
-not
of that? ^; ;
„

„
has possessed you to do sucn
a thing?
he is into her? ,
oue has
one is ;
one is about
one is made of

,,

lt
h.
if … say you to?
says the enemy?
„ in the world; what on earth;
what the deckers; what the
devil; what the plague
signifies
though ,;« 'J

AVhat. do for a living

What ( 506 } White

What
"
to
we
do with
call
;
time enough, always
way
Wherein is he good? ;
proves little enough
Wherewith, where withal, the
, you will take for?
„ with Whether or no
" wouldst thou more? Which, the Which
" you are made of

What's the figure?

,, is which

" of us has not? ;

„ the matter? While or whiles, the
VVboei about, to ,, away time, to
,, of fortune ,, that, the
Wheels within wheels
When
,,
all is
as
done
Whip
"
about, to
and spur
-dog Day
^
"

-,
at Rome do as the Romans
do or as the Pope does
extremities run high "
from, to
hand
in, to
; ;
^
Greek meets Greek then
comes the tug of war ,,
into, to
out, to
round, to
;
„ one gets on in life " the cat, to
"
;
one's ship comes in , the devil round the stump,
to () ;
" Sundays come together
;7 „
.

up, to ;
,
„
the earth was young
the maggot bites
Whisk aloi.g, to
away, to ;^
, the oak shall bear olives
Whisper about,
„ against, to
to
^;
„
;
the sky falls \\g shall catch "
m
in the ear, to ^
,,
larks
(
the World grows honest
;two Fridays come together
^
Whistle down the wind, to'gf^;^

as a lily, as
as a sheet, as fin

as a fcwan, "
Where away! as milk, as
one lies as the sun, as
,, the shoe pinches bird, tilt;

' there is a will there is a -boy

 Wholesale

? &
Whft< ( 507 )

,t
lie,a
White Caps „ -livered ()
choker magic
, clergy " man, to be a
, coat, a moments of life, the

;
^
,, Company, the (1) " night, a
Toulouse Folquet „ of an egg

—
^
(2) .,

',,
of the eye
paper, a Blue

^ ;
Bsrtrand book
du Guesclin 3) ... Prop
I
Sir Queen, the IB Mary
John Hawk wood (
^;
Cross Knights
„ „ rent
slave, a
" tie, a
crow, a " wings
„ Czar, the W hi ted or whitened sepulchre, a
day, a

^
H;
elephant, a
g
whitewash, to (;;
Wither bound?
Elephant, the Land of the Who, the who
„ besides me can do it?
ensign, the , but he

„
Fast, the
feather, to show the ; ,
can?
does not hope?
(
„
,,
the
flag,
Fria,^ the
; "
,
goes there
knows?
more diligent than he, or so
(-handed diligent as he who
v
" harvest, a ; ^
so
to be

,,

,,
-hearted
horse
;^ „
shall?
shall say?
should it be but... ."
,, Horse, the " would not?

,,
horses
House, tho Whole
team
blood ;
would have thoght

(;
it?

in the gills
Lady of Ireland, the
„
Wholesale price (
Wholesale ( 508 ) Wing

Wholesale slaughter ; William Tell, a

" the Silent Orange
Wholesome laws William
tongue „ the Talkative Wil-
Whopping
"

Whore of Babylon,
( the billing feet
Ji«m
^ .

Why
"
,,
not?
should one ......
take ......
; , lands
Willy nilly
Win a person's ear, to
Wicked uncle, a an enemy, to
Wide apart
„ awake, to be ;; ,, at a canter, to
laurels, to
;;
„
,
bench
from the truth ; on or upon, to

,
,,

„
of
of the
Widow bewitched
mark ;; of, to
one's daily bread, to
; n
,, of Windsor, the Vic- one's favour, to
toria one's spurs, to ;k
Widow's Chamber

weeds
>;

,>

"
. one's way, to
over, to
the day, to
;BM
Wield the sceptre, to : the hand of, to
„ the trident, t© " the horse or to lose the saddle
Wife's equity to
the rubber
Wild cats
Ge,r,e Sarsfield Wind a ship, to (
„ goose chase ; .
and weather permitting

off, to ^;
land
Wilful crime
,, murder
; ,,
oneself into oiie's favour, to
1
out, to
;
;
Will, our William Shake- , the
stirs fair,
speare „ up, to
,,

,
do
he, nill he ; ,
"
,,
up a case, to
up a discourse, to
up an account, to ^;
" not fail to do ,up a?i affair, to
,
„
not have to
not work ; Windmill in one's h-ail, to have

" -o- the wisp called glory

#
Wine
Win-
tuoiith, the
n Hi -lit, to ;
 ¥

Wing ( 509 ) Witfi

Wing and winp: ( ,, Men

( Magi
of the East, the
Winged Boy, the

,, rooks
Wiser, to be ;;
Wisest, brightest, meanest of man-
,,

Wink at, to
Winnow the
;
with speed

truth from falsehood,

kiadrthe
Francis Bacon, Lord Veru-
lam
to Fool in Christendom, the
Winter King, the Bohemia James I
the Elector Frederick Wish iu silence, to

,,
Queen, the Bohemia
the Elector Frederick
,,

„
„
one joy of, to
one well, to
to goodness, to
;
,

,,
of

of
anything, the

one's life (age) , the

^ Wit ;
Wished-for

Witching hour of midnight, the

;-
Wipe away, to; With a bad grace
,
,
off, to

off old scores, to

, a brick in one's hat
a clean slate ;
,, off
;(
the slate, to " a clearview
a gaping mouth

^
,, out, to "
WireAge, the
Wirepuller, a
Wisdom tooth
" a good grace
a grain of salt 4
;;
Wise as a goat, as " a great deal of salt
heavy hand ;
;;
"

,
as a woodcock, as
as Doctor Dodipoll, as
as Solomon, as'
as the Mayor ^
o Banbury, as
„

"
a
a heavy heart
a high hand ^
a high opinion of %M\W-M
a large pinch of salt
"
-.
as the
as
in
women
Walka m'a
one's ow a conceit
of
calf, as &
Mungret, as

^ft; ,,
a light
a rope
heart ;
round one's neck

., Man (King), the Solomon a safe conscience

,, Men of Gieece, the a strong purse ft

I Athens
Cliilo,
Solon, Sparta
Miletos Z
Tbales,
a
a
thought
vengeance;^
; .^
Priene Bias, Lindos a view to
Cleobulos, Mitylene Pit- a wbole skin
ta cos Corinth Periau- u will
all expedition A
 ) g

With ( Witd

—
With
"
"
all one's heart
all one's
all
might #6;
one's might and main
;
one's legs doubled under him

oue's life in hand

one's nose at the grind-stone
all ill grace

; ,
all speed one's service to another
:, an effort
an evil eye
an eye or view to
one's whole heart
oneself
;
open arras
anything before one open doors
pain
child
closed doors ;; IS ragard to
reference to
;
rapid strides

" confusion relation to

,,

"
dry eyes ; ^"
desperation

each a wound
respect to
some concern
some degree of warmth

,,
effect
;
:
flying colors
some reservatiou n
submission to you
;
,,

,,

"
;
good grace
grace
great facility
teeth and all
that
the best intentions
,, heart and soul
" indulgence the best taste S|
;
,,

"
,,
love
might and main
mouth wide open
;
; if
the
the
the
colors& ;
best temper

exception of
,

,,
no moderate hand
one
one accord —;
g| the
the
the
idea of
lark ;
intent of
, one consent the purposo of
"
"
one
one
one
shoulder
voice
—
fooc in the grave the tail between the legs

the same view

r

,
;
one's brows against the wall

one's eyes open ;

the tongue in the che'k

the whole heart

„ one's eyes shut thirteen at table
,

"
or by one's favour

one's fingers all thumbs ®

)
this under3tanding
!S

unwashed hand
 «

With ( 511 )

With weeping eyes

"hat wings
;
number
price ;
;;
whole skin recourse
winged feet
young reserve
your pardon
ithin a while ;; respect
rhyme or reason

; ^;
.., an ace of
bounds
call
cry of
SJ
shuffling
stint ;
striking a blow
,.

doors taking any notice '

., ear-shot there!
" hearing vanity
,, measure Witness, you powers

,
one's danger

one's reach
Witty as a haddock, as
Wizard of Menlo Park, the
;
,,

,,
oneself
range of ; Edison
Thomas Alva

,, ;
reach
,, of the North, the
Sir Walter Scott
„

,,
; ;
the bounds of possibility

the reach
Woe
,,
betide
is me, woe
becomes me ;
befits me, woe

Without a leg to stand ou the while! Alas the while!

" ;;
a parallel
any long story
„ to
worth the day
„
me
;
,, ;
book fE Wolf among lambs, a

;;
" ceremony " in sheep's clothing
,, colour
" day „ Land
-scaring fagot A
,, degree Wol ve8 of woman born
"

,,
end ;;
encumbrance

exception
Wolverine State, the

Woman
gan
of
^
the town
|^ Michi-

, fail ;; ;
Woman's accomplish inents
( ,
,, judgment
Wonder
, year, a
at, to ,
limit
measure ; III;
of the
(2)
World, the
Frederick
Otto
H
Wonder ( 512 ) Worse

Wonder what it can be, to of art

off, to
Wonderful Doctor, the on, to
Roger Bacon on the dead horae, to
Won't do
Wood up, to (); one out of an error, to
Wooden
„
leg
nutmegs li Cbnec- one to, to ;
,,
ticut
spoon ;
Cambridge
one woe, to
one's way, to
oneself up into a passion, to

„
„
wall
wedding
out, to ; ;
out one' design, to
„ wedge, the Cambrid- ont one's task, to ||
ge out one's term, to

Word, the ;
Wool-gathering, to be round, to
the ropes, to ;
„
"
"
for word
of honor
of power ;
windward,
up, to
upon, to
; -( to

Words

Work
stick to one's throat, the

a passage, to (
Working account
, towards
World of eye and ear
,:
,,
against, to
at, to
; „ of sighs, a
of waters, the ;^
,, at arm's length, to " ofwood, the
, the tiesh and the devil, the

"
"
at both tides, to
away, to
by rock of eye, to
1 , without end
Worldly wav^3
:;^
" by the day, to ,, wiye, the

„
X
double tides, to ( World's end i/l ;
Worm
^in one's tongue, to have a

; ,^;
,, for one's living, to
" for the Roi de Prusse, to ,, oneself into, to

"
,, into, to
into, tv
; ;;
; i
" out, to

Worms, food for ;^|(^

like a hgrae, to Worse for wear, the
 '

Worse
„
"
for drink, to be
half,
off ;the
,

;i
; in cipher, to
ju the sand, to
/153
^ |

Worth I groat, not in water, to Jf^.fe,

*;
,, a haddock, not
its weight in gold ; .,

,,

"
like an angel,
off-hand, to
to

on the surface of the sea, to

one's salt
"
while
,,

Worthiest of blood
;(
the trouble " one, to
up, to
Writer to tho signet
m
^
Worthy of
;;
ijotice
Would-be

"
.,

mind
be loath
God! Would Heaven!
(
…...
ft Writing on the wall, the

Written laws
Wrong
,,
box, in the
shop, the
^ ^: ^^
;'
,,

„
„
not have to
not bear
rather; had rather
„
,,
©
skle ;…… ;
Bide' of
that I vi&h that , side out

Wound the fselings, to

Wove paper A ;,
,, sow by the
get the ; ear, to have or

Wrap round, to
,, up, to
;
Wrought on
" to;
Wrapped up

Wreak
,,
in, to
up in oneself
one's vengeance, to
be
(J
Wry
,,

face ;
velvet

„ one's vengeance up:n one,

X
,
to
upon an innocent person,
to
Xantippe ; Socrates
Xantippe

Wreathed smiles
Wretched fate ;
;;
Wretchness itself, to be
Wring from, to Y
,, off, to Yankee H
,
„
one's hand, to
out, to ;; doodle
Wrinkle
at, to ; '
n paradise, the Paris

Write after a copy, to

down, to ; Yawn
Year
at, to
after year
;;
;
 * »

Year ( 514 ) ZoiiMl

Year by year
in year out — grow exceeding strange '

Yearn
,,

,,
of grace
of scarcity, a
for or towards, to
;^ ,,

„
may
may
be sure
not go
;
Years of discretion may rest assured
( ^
,,

Yellow Jack k
rni^ht a 3 well that
,,. journal " might as well make a cat
„ Peril, the Sft swim as make that man
Yeoman's service drinlj
Yeomanry cavalry
Yeomen of the guard ; as
Might as
ft
well

Yes, to be sure
Yet a little longer
" a while
,, after all
Yield one's request, to
; ,,

,,

,
m)
see
should hay« goo 9
llyou know

will catch or get it

^
) If
f j

[
to ;
(up) the breath or the life, were best
,, ft
Young Adventurer, the
,,

,,

,,
the hand, to
to, to ;
to customs, to
; ; Charles Edward Stuart
Your blessing
,, grace S
" to no one in charitable
action, to ,, honor A

Yoke
"
up, to
up the ghost, to
fellows IS (
,,

"
humble
;
hum tie
( or obedient servant

servant S (
You
"
;
foxes to the plough,

are a cool hand

to
,, lady' that is to be

,, are in for it Yours faithfully, truly, sincerely,

,, are out there etc., yours to command, etc v
" are to be congratulated on
having ….. . Youthful season, the
" are too hard for mo Yule log

'
bet
z
',
"
,,
deceive yourself
don't mean it!
don't say so?
Zeitung
ZolUertin
(( ^
H
„
, >
iellowa
a kite
^ (
^
Zeuxis' grapes

Zodiacal light
•
PART II
 PART II.
LITERARY EXPRESSIONS

A
Abandoned like the waves we Abortive as the first-born bloom
leave behind us.
cML
Donald G* Mit-

Abate
.
of spring.— AA7«o?i.

Abound
Bfijft

like a flame grown Abound, like blades of grasi

^
Abate,

^
moderate.
.
Bo&ert Herrick.

Abiue
which clothe the pregnant ground.

.
-George Sandys. Sf ' ^
The sweet-laden thoughts Abrupt
come, like bees, to abide in his heart Abrupt as a sultry little thunder
as a hive— D.F. MaCarthy.

Ability
. .
shower.— ^my Leslie..

Abruptly as string that snapa

Native ability without educa-
tion is like a tree without fruit.
Aristippus.
.
b meath the bow.— i?. W. Hornung.

Natural abilities are like natu- Abs 'nee makes the heart grow
ral plants, that

,
Btudj.-Bacon.
need pruning by

. .
fonder- r. II. Bayly.

Absence, like death, sets a goal

S «f

The abilities of man must fall on the image of those we have

short on one side or the other, like loved.— GoJd.^vj.th, ^,
too scanty a blanket when you are .
abed. Sir William Temple. Absena ia to lova what ..ind i*

All ablaze like poppies in the

aan.—OwrJa, B f
to fire; it puts
kindles

is
thti

^ out the little and

great.— Z/wssy.

That out of sight is out of mind

true of most we leave bahind. 4»
.
 . • *

^. 11. dough. ^ ( 2 )

Absurd as if you took a divorce

Anton
Acbe

Absan^e from
worse than death.— Cot'-Z^v.
$.
whom we 1<>\^
^ is', petition
^^Moh
to a chemist's.

. ^ q Abundant as air and water.

and days for years; and every little Anon: '
B
absence

The
is

; ^
"n a^e.—Drydm.

farther off the more desi-

It -
Abundant
sun.-Carlyle^
as the light of the

As the sycamore trees are in

thus lovers
red; tie their knot — the vale for Abundance. Old Tes-
4
I^nry Howard. :.
tament.
Abuse
Absolute If Abuse, like a weed, be cut
down by the Scythe of neglect, it

^' ^
...
Absolute, jsure, as the sundial's
gnamon, compassing all the world's \vill die of itseli.— Thomas Brydson.
^.—XU Beedy. #B 7J

k^.~MacauJa , ;

abstemious
.
Absolute r» the Saltan of Tur-
Feverishly accelerated like the
lnovements we see in a cinema-
tograph.— William Archer.. .
Abiiieiuiovh, at
hermit.— C.
^^ v^il^rM
C.
the banquigt
Colton.

HM-^K
a.-

^ a

Accumulate
Accumidate.. ..like acorns be
Absurd
neath the trees of a modern forest*
Anon.
.
Absurd ns an excuse.
,( .
-Thomas H. Huxley. ….
.

man
Absurd as to ask a

^
if he'll
— Accurate
have snlt on bii ice cream.
Could tell the hour by his m(>
id.
vements as accurately as .by a sun-
dial. Washington Irviug.
Absurd as to ask if the flowers
f

"love the dew.-Ibid.

^^^btwni^ to e^p^q^ ^ j^ea^y to

search for her likeness in the
of a looking-glas? k Ibid. —
f

back
As

^
accurately a« a bugler
the notes of the reveille.

Ache
His full heart acfied with love's
knows
Ouida,

io: f 2

$ sweet pain
>u epic poet to
As, Absurd as ior Like a sealed fountain, charged
disdain the composition of a per- with rain,
fect epigram, or a cons u inmate That longs to sing in the suru-

son^.^ Bui werrLytton.

^ ^
musician the melody of a faultless

despair.
Yet faints
T
in the
Buchanan Read
caverns oi
 B . I)

Acidity ( 3 ) Adhere

I
Let every action be clireqted to
soma definite object, and perfect
Ifii : ^. B
j

its way.— Mnvcvn Aur.-'Jii's.

g
in
5?

Acidity Active
She
"CWA/. —
had
)
an undercurrent of
during
^ctivt
a

^ as a
confiagration.—
fire

(
department

but the
Cowley
Acquaintanceship
Acquaintance I would have, but
when't depends not on the number
choice, of friends. A.
i
( Active as a

Ar.fi'e
^ pea ou a griddle.-

as quicksilver.

iffii As active as the roe. Nathaniel

To meet, to know, to love Cotton.
1 then to part, is the sad tale of Petite as an ape. Sir A. Conan
manv a human heart. Coleridge. ^oyle: [^ !
i Active as a griffin. Hoo<j.
H SS Actire as light. Henry Vaugh- —
Action an.
Like i squirrel in a cage, Actkff as the sun.—Tsaac Watts.
always in action. A phra Behn.
HIS ActiTity
Actions of the last age are like
almanacs of the last year.
John Dunham..
Sir
^ ( Startled into perilbus actiyity.
ifn

Actor
An actor is like a cigar; the
Reprehensible actions are like
overstrong brandies; you cannot
swallow them at a draught.
)

'
more yon puff
gets — ( hira the smaller he

Hugo. Actors are like pet birds. Max

Beerbohm.
]

Our actions are like the ter- Actors are like burglars: .they
mination of verses, which we always change their names foe
rhyme
cauld.
as we please. Rochefou- business purposes.
ardson. - Frank Rich-

No more

^ Acute
action than a stalled
hearse in a snow storm William Acute iike the glow of hope.
Winter. Thomas Taraloj.
The only things in life in w hich Addition
we can be said to have any proper- Additional, like the cipher on
ty are our actions. 0. C. Uulton. the i (> it. (hiuaiil i Pro verb.
pJ
Adhere
 ) m '

A citer e ( 4 ) Adversity

Adhere like burrs.— ( Adrift as a pinnace in

Swinburne.
peril.

Adhering shipwrecked

…
like
M. Barrie.

^
mariners on a rock. ./. AiJrdncinq, as the chorus to the
footlights.- i

Adhere like ticks to a slw!>'s

back. - Maurice JhwJett. |?N Advancing, like the shadow of
death. —Rmlcin.
Adherence A rj ranee, like sheep before the
Rigid adherence td convention- v.oM.-Soythey.
alities. (^ )

A<J venturous
Adventure
as a paladin of
Adhesive
Willi am

( AdJiesive as a postage

Adhesive as fly-paper.
stamp.

(
romance.—

Adventures
hunting,
are
they bring you into the
>
II. Prescott.

like leaps m
chase sooner, bnt jnav chance to
Admiration
cost you a fall. Jo rues Puckle.

( A tone of ard uona admiralioa, '- m w

tion.-
The buzz
( of idolizing

_A fool always finds a greater

admira-

sworth.
Adtentvrova as a bee.

Adversity
Word'

fool to admire him.

It seems
^
to
Boileau.

me
that men do
The storms

ties, and excite the

of odrersitf/,
those of the ocean, rouse the facul-
invention,
like

not love what they are compelled

to admire— Dvxilos. ^ prudence, skill and fortitude of the
vovasjer. Captain Marry <11. g !
*
Admonition
Admonish your friends in pri-
Sweot are
m
uses of adrers/'f;/,
tlie
^
vate, praise them in public. Pub- which, like the toad, ugly and
lilius Syrvs. Hf

^
Ttinomou^, wears y.- h precious t'

jewel in liis head. Shakes nuare.

Adorable
Adorable as a dazzling and in-
?ifPJH "^
Itt
nocent creature who walks along, X<^ greater grief than to le-
holding in her hand the key to pa-

\t.-lluoo. ^
radise without being conscious of

Adrift
IE
at

ful,
mem ber
hand
^^
days
— //.
of joy
h.
fii

In the day of prosperity be joy-

but in the day of nthersitrj
^
Cary
when misery
^
is

— (
He set bis imagination adrift. consider.
^
Ecclesiastes,
 -

• Adversity ( 5 )

Thegreatest object in the uni-

verse, says a certain philosopher, It is easier to give advice than
is a good man struggling with to bear sufferings manfully. Evri-
adversity, yet there is a still greater, pid^.
which is the good man that comes
to relieve \L— Goldsmith. The worst men give oft the best
tmm adra-e.- P, J. Bailey.

We
ask advice, but we are not
Advertising particular about its being good.
Doing business without adterti- Quite the reverse. Good advice is of-
»ingis like winking at a girl in the ten annoying; bad advice never is.
dark. You know what you are —E. GondienU
doing, but nobody else does. (
ifii

One gives nothing so liberally

Great advertisment with little
is as advice. La Rochefoucauld"
man. Sir Owea Seaiium.

A man is badly in need of

Advice when be has many
Advice after mischief
medicine after death.

Advice is like kissing:

( is

it
)
like

costs
advice
-BnhUlhu
^ Syrus

An angry man
advice as a crime.
advisers.

regards even
Bublilius Syrvs.
nothing and is a pleasant thin» to
do.— Josh Billings.
j

Advice gratis seldom great is. —

Advice is like snow; the softer
C II. Spurgeon k
it falls, and the longer it dwells
upon, the deeper it sinks into the
j

He had only one vanity; he

mind.— Colerid,je. thought he 3ould give advice better
'i

than any other person. Mark

To listen to the addce of a Ttnnn.
treacherous friend, is like drinking
poison from a golden cup. Demo- Women's counsels are often
fatal.— Icelandic prov. .

Advice all the world over is

like wind in a cage. In the case of Advice most needed

^
is least
lovers, like water in a sieve. -
heeded.- Prov.
Pilpay.
A woman seldom asks advice
Woman's adwee
dear or too cheap.—
Brescia.
is

^
either too
Albertans of
1
clothes.- (
before she has bought her wedding

^
 u ij "

A*vice ( 6 ) Affr nti

Advice is seldom welcome, and

those who want it the most, alvvay.s
like it the least. (
'

&
. Advocacy
solar
Tli. 3 human
lieat,
affections, like
lose their intensity as
they depart from the centre, and
the

A certain lawyer, on being become languid in proportion to

asked why he defended so many the expansion of the circle on
bad causes, replied that he did so whicli they act. Alexander Hamil-
because he had lost so many good ton.
on os. C. O. Colton.

melancholy, ma-
Affection, like
gnifies but the magnifying
trifles;
of the one is like looking through
Affable as a wet dog. Alfred a telescope at heavenly object;
He'r V Lewis. that of the other, like enlarging
Affairs monsters with a telescope.—* Leigh
Affairs, like a salt fish, ought Th'M. '
(
to be a good while

Affectation
a-soaking.

Affectation is as necessary to The world has little to bestow,

the mind as dress isto the body. where two fond hearts in equal
William HazlitL love are joined. Mrs. BarbaulcL
jl

Affection
Affection, like spring flowt'is, Affinity
freaks through the ijiost frozen No more affinity for each other
ground at last, and the heart thau a robin for a goldfish .

which aska but for another h'?:rt Eleanor Kirk. Jtb§g

to make it happy, will never seek
vab.—
in
^ tfe
ft Affliction,
shapes as it
Affliction
like the iron-smith,
smites. C N. Bovee.
Affection, like the nut within
the .
shell, wants freedom. Dion Afflictiom are like lightning:
where they will
you can not

^
Bouciault. tell
strike until they have fallen.
The affections t like conscioiu- (.
are rather to bo ied than dri'i.
Those who marry w here they do
, Lacordaire.

Affronts
not love, will be likely t' love Young men soon give and soon
where tliey do not uiariy. Thoma.-i forget affronts, old age is slow in
itfraM ( 7 ) res

^—
\Mnh. .hhli^n. ^ Ageless
Ageless as the sun. Sivinburne.
Afraid g
Aj'rai'd a.s a grasshopper. Old Aghast
Tedament:
Age
Aghast, like beaten
dare not whine.— ( hounds that

The
withered a^.
Alonzo
slow, dull

of
— ( sin king

Arm go n wa s wont to
into

.H'/'V'asa
Agile
cat,- (
say in commendation of a<?e "that
age appeared to be best in four
things, old wood best to burn; old
Agile as a leopard,
'
( ) '

wine to drink; old friends to trust Agile as a monkey. Dumas.

'
and old authors to read".
Alonzo of Arragon
Bacon,
- Agitation

S mental
Subtle

;
indications
agitation. ( of
)
great

Age, like a double-faced Janus,

looks all ways, and ponders wisely fits of
Her strength was
agitation.— ( scattered in

^)
on the past.

*
The
Janus

agn of
(
Barry Cornwall

man
resembles' a
.
^ The clamorous ap^aieon
bellious passions.—

Aglow
( oi. re-

book; infancy and old age are the

Aglow, like fruit when it

blank pages, youth the preface,

colors.— M^mm Canton.
and man the body or most import-
ant part of life's volume. E. P.
Day. ^ Thy lips are aglow as a lover's
that kindle with kissing.— Swin'
burne.
Agony
Blind agony, like a scorpion,
Age, like woman, requires fit
stung by his owu rage. Shdley.
surroundings- Emerson.
Agree
Like mist upon the lea, and
like night upou the,plain, old age
comes o'er the
NtcoL
heart. Robert
( Agree like finger and thumb.

Agree like pikes in a pond,

ready to eat up one another.—
Thomas Adams.
Aqe like winter bare. Shake-
speare. Agree together as harp and
Age like winter weather. ( harrow. —
Thomas Bacon.
 Agree ( 8 ) Aim

Agree like a bell and its clap- Of all things from which gain
per —Bulwei'-Li/ttoa. is obtained, nothing is better than
j
agriculturii, nothing more produc-
Agree like the note with its tive, more delightful, more worthy
me-d8\ire.— Dante. of a man or of a freeman. Cicero.

Agree together like bells.

*i
Agree like the wax and the
( IT
.
)[m do not like hard work,
ft

but every man has an exceptional

wick of the candle.— Richard Per-
respect for tillage, and a feeling
cival.
that this is the original calling
Agree like pickpockets in a
fair.— John Ray. ( of his race. Emerson,

Agree like married music in

Love's answering air. C.
Agriculture is the foundation of
RossettL manufactures, since the produc-
mm tions of nature are the materials of
Agree as wasp doth with be 3. art.- Gibbon.
—Thomas Tusser.
.
Arree as Angels do
Edmund. Waller.
above. All taxes must,
upon agriculture.— ( at last, fall
)

Agreement In every way agriculture is the

By agreement small things firstcalling of mankind; it is the
grow; by diseord great things go to most honest, the most useful, and
pieces .— Sallust. consequently the noblest which he

Ah! don't say that you agree

with me. When people agree with
me I always feel that I must be
can exercise. Rousseau.

Hops
^
sustains the husband-
wrong.— Oscar Wilde.
Q ^ man.— Latin prov.

Can two walk together, except Ailments

they be agreed?— ^4wjs. % We
are so fond of each other,
because our ailments are the same.
Agreement is like the uniting of Snljt. IfH
two halves of a seal. Mencim.
Aim
Agriculture A noble aim, faithfully kept,
 ) ) I

( 9 ) Afoae

is

^
as a noble

Aimlm
deed.— Wordsworth.

Aimless
an autumn leaf
as
' Alarm
Full of alarm she stood, like a
young bird quitting its nest. Dora
Sigerson. ,
borne in November's idle winda^ There are more things to alarm
afar.-P. H. Hayne. than to injure us; and we are more
often afflicted by fancy than by
Air fact. — Seneca, i
There is an
the air that folds a star.—
air
(
about you like

fury,
8he had an
—
air of restrained
Alert
Alert as a chamois. ( )

An
explicit.
ft
—
air
( of being meticulously Alert as
UmQ.—George Moore^
a bird in the spring-.

An air of stern, deep, and irre- Alike

deemable gloom hung over and Alike as two peas. — )

—
pervaded all.

An
$
deferential.-
m
(
air half quizzical
SS

and half
Alike as my fingers
fingers.— Shakespeare.

Allure
is

&
to my

ing,
An air of inimitable, scrutiniz-
superb impertinence. ( ant
One of those beautiful, brilli-
enigmas, which irresistibly

aweet
&
( All the place
air*. —
is peopled with
+
allure everyone like a sphinx.—
Guy De Maupassant.

( ;^
An air
critical.-
which was distinctly Alluring as a ripe peach. (
( An

(
air of uncanny familiarity. Allured all hearts as ocean
lures the land.— bayard Taylor.

;® An
IS
The
air of affected civility.

solid air around me there

Alone
Like to the moon am 1, that
heaved like a roaring ocean. ( cannot shine alone. Micfielangelo.

Alone, like a leper. —

Alacrity
Expressed their alacrity, like The old man proceeded alone
horses full of fire and neighing for into the waste, like a bold vessel
the race.— Plvtarch. leaving its haven lo enter on the
»J trackless field of the ocean.-— J.
 . . - .
. •

Alone ( 10 ) Ambition

Fenimors Cooper.
in ^ re
I

I
^|||| Alternate
But hope and fear
my
Jl: . ——
alternate
'

Edward

^ and shade
Alone, like Crusoe. S« 9w«iy soul, like light
Martin. U^pon a waving field.— John Home,
Stands alone like a rock in a fife €
sardy val&.—Ossian. j

Alternate moon,

…(
like the'
Alone... like an owl in an ivy- Pope.
bush.—,/. R. Planche. - Amateurs
Every artist was . first an
I go alone like a lonely dragon, amateur —Emerson.
that hig fen makes fear'd and,
talk'd of more than geen. Shake- Amazed
mare. Ainazed, as one that unaware
hath dropped a precious "jewel iii
Alone, like one that had the the flood.— Shakespeare.
pestilence.- +

—Hayard
J:)

Alone like some.deserted world

Taylor.
%
The eyes
fire.- ( ..burnt
S
Ambigaity
with an amaz^
'
Stand alone like a substantive.
-Sir Henry Wotton.

The strange
Aloofness
cold sense of aloof-
tlier

^
Obscurity illustritod hv a fur-
obscuritv.— 7?w/7^.

Ambition
. .
.

ness
sudden l5
that had
r
gave
inciting in the spring.
numbed
way
her senses
like snow ( A gay exuberance

Ambition and love nre' the

of

.
ambit ('o.n.

ift:
Wings of great actions;— ^<o^.

Altering like one who waits

an ague lit.—Vryden, lidl n
>;
far
ments.- (
^mbition shivered Into frag-

'Ambit i on, in a
.

privnte
•

man
-
-

a
Alteration ' of Religion is dan- yice, is, iu a prince, the vir'ti3ev
goruus, because we know not where Massinaer.
it 'will .stay: 'tis like a millstone MIJ

that
stairs;
but if
lies
'tis

once
upon the top
liard
be thrust off the
it
to
of a pair of
remove it,
Ambition like a torrent ne'er

"*
Icoks back.— Ben Jonson. ^
first stair, it never stays till it Ambitious as th^ devil. Beait.
moid and lletchsr. . .
^
comes to the hottoni.— ,/a'm Sal den
^^
^ ^^^
l>

3 T r . Anibitioa \m liko luin^er; it

i
]^>/1 M
oljtft
BWinqs.
law but its ajipetitQ.r-
 ^ — . ^
'

Ambition

^
( 11 ) Ambi'tiofl

bition, when it is found in a posi-

Let not ambition mock their tion where it is absolutely impossi-
La

^
useful toil, ble to realise its aspirations.
Their homely joys and destiny Rochefocould, .

obscure;
Xor grandeur hear with a dis- Yet peace begins just where
dainful smile, am&i7?:0M ends. — rbi
The short and simple annals
of the poor.
H
Thomas Gray.
^ Ambition powerful
good and illl— Young.

The trape
1
,

to the highborn
source of

is
%
• ambition. Welsh prov,
He would have been greater to
posterity if he had been willing to To reach the height of our
be smaller. Aubrotm Mirteu%. ambition like trying to reach the
is
rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

The same sun which gilds all

nature, and exhilarates the whole
creation,does not shine upon dis-
—W.
^
T. Burke.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in

a cage or squirrels in a chain,
appointed ambition. Burke. — ambitious men still climb and

.
Ambition can creep as well as
climb, with great labor and inces-
sant anxiety, but never reach the
top.— Henry Burton.
soar. — Burke.

Ambition the only power that Ambition is like love, impatient

combats love.— C.
is
Cibber. both of delays and rivals. Sir -
ft
John Denham.

^
Ambition is but Avarice on
Ambition, like a seeled (blind)-
stilts and masked. W> S. Landor,
dove mounts upward, higher and
higher still, to perch on clouds, but
The verysubstance of the
tumbles headlong down with
ambitious merely the shadow of a
is -

heavier ruin. John Ford.

dreRm.—Shake8peare. R
I hold ambition of so airy and As ambitious as Lady Macbeth
light a

^
shadow's shadow.— (
quality that it is but a

(
—James Huneker.

Ambilion, like a torrent, never

If

The greatest ambition has not looka back. Ben Jon son. -
the least appearance of being am- •
••
Amtiblfi'oQ ( n )

like love, can abide Ahiusement is the happiness of

no lingering; and ever urgeth on U.ir»se that cannot think.— Pojt>d.
his own successes, hating nothing
but what may
^'^P Sidmy..
iff!
stop them.
^ S'r AmumneaU are to religion like
breezes of air to the flame, gentlo
ones will fan it, but strong ones
will put David. Thomas.

^
it out.
Ambition is like the sea wave,
which the more you drink the ifii

more you thirst— yea— drink too Anarchy

much, as men have done on rafts I am his juind that said,
of
of wreck—it
Tennyson,
drives
? you
K
mad.— "Better it is to live where nothing
of lawful than where all things are

Amiable
Amiable as the surface of par-
lawful."- Bacon.

Ancestors
The man who has not any-
^
chment.— ^or^<? Meredith. thing to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors is like a potato,— the only
Amorous good belonging to him is under
Amorous as a pair of love-birds. ground Sir Thomas Overbury.
15
Amorous as a parrakeet. (
/HI Ancient
Amorous as an Arcadian. Ancient as the sun. — WWZ"
Oeorge Colman, the Younger. Cullen Bryant.
ffi Ancient as the spot on which
Ample the bricks of Babylon .are found.
Ample as the largest winding- ./. Penimore Ooop^r.
sheet. -Keats.
Ample as the wants of man. As ancient as the world. '
Longfellow. Georqe Granville.
Amused Ancient as the stars.— Voltaire.
Unbending their minds, and
amused with every trifle; like birds, Ancient as the sen.— Waller.
which, after the serious and import-
ant business of preparing nests for
their young, fly sportfully about,
free and disengaged, as if to relieve
spected.- (
Everything ancient is to be re-

themselves from their toils. Anecdote

Cicero.

^ Her mind was a storehouse

innocuous anecdote. ( )
of

Amusement Angel
 - A

Anger Auger

Like angeJMsita, few and

between .—Cam pbdl.
far ^
Beware the fury
^ i&
of a patient
man, —Drydm.
He dances like an angel... He is
always laughing, for lie has an in- Anger short madness.

…
is
finite deal of wit. Horace.
As bodies through a mist so
Anger actions through anger, seem greater
When most angry and vexed than they are.— Plutarch
remember that life lasts but a mo-
ment and that we .sliail be soon all To be a nary is to revenge the
in our graves Marcus Aurelim. fault of others upon ourselves.—
Pope. t;fr

Few men can afford to be He who conquers his wrath

angry. — A Birrell. overcomes his greatest enemy.
Pvblilh^ Syrus.
A
anger.
I
(
gentle sarcasm raffled her
)

was angry with my friend: 1

The law sees the angry
the anqry m—an does not see the
told my wrath, my wrath did end. law.— Publiliun Syrus
I was angry with my foe: I told it
not, my wrath did grow. ]\'m. Envy and wrath shorten the
'
^
Blake. Uie.—Ecclesiasticus

When an angry man comes to

The thing most in men
I pity himself, then he is angry Avith
is action prompted by surprise of himselt.—Publiiius Syrus.
anger.— Browning.
ifii Dvilav is the best remedy for
He who quells an angry anger -Seneca.
thought is greater than a King. Think when you are enraged .

Eliza Cook. ftij with anyone; what would probably

become your sentiments should he
Of all Dad things by which die during the dispute. tSkenstone*
mankind are cursed, their own bad
tempers surely ire th ? worst. R. .

Cum berland. Anger in our mirth is like poi-

son in a perfume. Addison
Call for the grandest of all
human sentiments, what is that?
It is that a man should forget liis
anger before he lies down to sleep.
away
Like fragile
in time.— (ice, anger passes

Quincey. A fit of anger is as fatal to

Anger ( 14 ) Antiqoiiiet

diguitv as a. dose of arsenic to

,/• G. HoUand.

«t
Watch against anger;
life.

neither
Milton. ^
asked .have seldom understood.

Had I as many mouths as

m
^:^^
speak of it nor act it; for, like Hydrii, sucli an ansuer would stop
drunkenness, it makes a man a
teasfc, and throws people into de-
them all
[
—
Shakespeare. ^^^
WUlimu
sperate
Penn. ^ inconvenience.

^ .

tude.—.
^12

(
An answering glow, of gratL

Antagonist

—k
Anger
itself whereon
is like rain
it
which breaks
falls.— Sen^ra. ( Our
)
antagonist is our helper.

Anticipation
Anger it, like a full-hot liorse,
who being allowed his way, self- in rose. — (
Anticipaiion painted the world

^—
mettle tires him. Shakespeare. i

3 Nothing is so good as it seems

Our angle* are like money put

^
b 'forehand.— 6>o.

Antique
Eliot.

to usury; they may thrive, though Antiquity is like fame... her

head m u filed
we sit still and do nothing but tnlk
and enjoy one an itlu;: —— Izaak
is

…
from our sight.

^ ^&^^
1
.
Bacon.
Walton.
Antique as the statues of the
Greeks.— Buhcer-Lt/tton. n
Angling is somewhat like

(
Poetry, men are to be born

^ i
so. Antique as if I had been pre-
served in the ark. Mrs. Cenllitre.
Noah

Tense
spiritual struggle.—
with the
( anguish of

or
Antiquities
AiUiguities are history defaced
some remnants of history which

Answer like a book.

Answer
( )
have casually escaped the ship-
wreck of time.— Bacon.
[
Answer like a parrot..— ( )

genial
N'eneration of antiquity
to the
a
human mind.
is con-

If

breeze.— (
Answered like a

Ambi^uouy, and with double

sail taking a Burke.

is
Nothing can be preserved that
not good.— Et/ier»on
ifc

sense deluding, which tliey who

 1

Anxiety ( 15 ) Applaud

I love everything that's old:

old friends, oI( time3, old manner?,

^
old books, old wine.— Goldsm ith.

^ as
Appalled
Appall 'd, children
cover'd bugbears- —Byron.
4.
: dis-

Everything ancient
spected.— Greek prov. —
is to be re- &

Appealing

Anxiety
Expectation darkened into an-
(
She was demure and xiinily
ap/^a'^. —
Appearance
iffi .
xietfj. —— Washington Irving. ifd The world that never sets
II esteem on what things are, but
Anxious what they seem. Butler.
Anxious as hind towards her
Tj^^g^l^j^&ii old woman,
hidd ii fawn.— Z^afs.
'
As Anxious as a maid
a decent dress.
to
George Meredith.
show
and mistakes any

^
a gold coin —Carlyle.
)
Things are seldom what they
gilt

^
farthing for

seem; skim milk masquerades as

Apart
cruRm.— Sir .W. S. Gilbert.
arch above.— (
Far apart as the earth and the

Men are valued not for what

Blown apart

^
like a rose that
they are, but for what they seem
ready the aun's perfecting
is for
to be.— Lord Lytion.
k\$s— Charles L, Moore.
An almost pathptic appearance
Lips apart, like monument of
Grecian art.— 'S»'r* Walter Scott.
of ephemeral
§
fragility. )
Appetite
Apathy Appetite and reason are com-
^ Full_ of apathy as a:territorial monly like two buckets; when one
delegate during the chaplain's is at the top, the other is at the
prayer.— 0. Henry.

Aphorism
bottom.
' Jeremy

Applause
Collier. '

Aphorism, like vinegar, should

be used with discretion.
fil
) ( Applause is the spur of noble
minds, the end and aim of weak
ones— C. C. Colton. ^
The aphorism* of wise and ex- fri

cellent men are of great value, He only is a great man who

like the dust of gold, or the least I can naglect the applause of the
sparkle of diamoads.— Z>r. Johnson. !

aiuititude aud enjjy himself in

 )

Apples ( 16 ) Argument

depe ndpnt
^ of its

Apples
favour. Steele.
I. ail
Arched like a mule's back
storm. —
in a

fire, — (
The yellow apples glowed

Appreciate
like Arch'd like the crescent moon.
Edivia Ather stone.
Arches like a giant's bow,—
Poorly appreciated— like a fine B. Browning, [fll
landscape in dull weather or in Arched like the leaf of a peach-
the reflection of a bad camera obs-
cura Schopenhrver.
--
^
tree.— Edward Heron- Allen,

Arched like the bow of Cupid.

—Lewis Horris. 1
^
Apprehension Architecture
All things are less dreadful How reverend is the face of the
than they seem. —' Wordsworth. whose ancient pillar rear
tall pile,
their marble beads to bear aloft ita

'
finite
He writhed in the grip of a de-
apprehension.— t ) arched and ponderous roof, by its
own weight made steadfast and
immovable, looking tranquillity!
g
Present fears are less than -Congreve.
horrible misgivings. Shakespeare
£
What you fear happens sooner
than what vou hope. Pubhlius No architecture is so haughty as

Syrus. that which is pimple.— Jo/in Ruskin.

Approaches his lighter topics as

a humming bird approaches flo-
Ardent as a boy.
Ardent
— (^
wers. — Donald 0. Mitchell. Ardent as the lips of love. P'
II.Hayne.
April Ardent in the search as the
April
like a child that smiles
is Argonauts of forty-nine.— Brander
in waking.— i/«^o. Matthens.

Apt Ardent as the sun. 0. J. Wells.

ftny
As apt as new-fall'n
dint.— Shakespeare. ^
snow takes
Argument
is like an arrow from
Argument
Arch a crossbow,which has equal force
Ar citing, l
;
ke a fish-hook. ( though drawn bv a child. Robert

Arched, like a horn. ( Boyle.

Arguments, like children,

 —

Argument ( H ) Artist

should be like the subject that be* Around

gets them.— Thomas Dukk-'.r. , Around hiin like a sun of a
system.— Washington Irving.

tend,
end.-
For
we
still

Butler.
the longer we con-
are but further off the
^ my
She walked in flowers around
fields as June herself around
the sphere.— Emerson. 4f

In overmuch disputation the

^
truth is lost,— Publilius Syrus.

All argument will perish before

one touch of nature. (r. Colman.
An
Arrogant
arrogant person, is like un-
to a goodly tall tree, that groweth
and mounteth very high, but

Arid
Arid as the sands of Sahara,
iH^^
brin geth forth no fruit. A nthonie

without restful shade, wichout re- Art

^
freshing water.— Joseph Conrad. Without favor, art is like a
wind-mill without wind. JutenaU

Arise Oaks, like arts,a length of

Arise as the spring out of tem-
pest and snow. Swinburne.
B
^
years demand.

Art is
William Whitehead.

the child of nature.

Saw the moon ariaa like Venus Longfelloa:
from the sea. Robert K. Weehs. The
ease in writing comes from
n art,not chance, as those move eaai-
Aristocracy ist \vh ve learned to dance.
> 1 1 '.

racy.—
A
( ]
brave but turbulent a.U

Arm
S^g
f

^^^
Poin.

Artifice
Behold mine arm \< like a Shallow artifice begets suspi-
blasted
^hak^pean.
sapling,
^ withered up. cion, and like a cobweb veil, but

^
thinly shades the face of thy de-

An
Army
sl^u-Congrere.
^
^
army, like a serpent, goes Artificial
upon its bel 1 y Frederick the Gnai.
.

g . Artificial as clockwork.

made
C'o/t-

Aromatic, like the perfume of

faded leaves in a china jar.— Alfred
DaU ^
Arti ficial as

Artificial as a trellis*
ice. Alan

Lowell.
A—er.
Artist
Artist ( 18 ) Ashamed

The p honey-bee is A
^^
ntiou of tha
the artist's jealousy.— IWi. Blake. Artless as the air Francis
mmim Thompson.
The artist who is t.) prod ace a Art, The
work which is to be admired by All liberal and humane
studies
all men, .must disindiviiualize are linked together by a certain
himself, and bd a man of no party,
and no manner, and no age but
one through whom the soul of all
bond of
?
union,— Cicero.
ifri

men circulates, as the common air The arts are sisters; languages
through his lungs. Emersoi. are close kindred; science are fellow
workmen.— /Sir A. Helps.

ifii
1
All the arts are brothers, each
i of them lights up another, and
Every artist has got to be a thence results a universal light.
man, woman, and chiid rolled into Voltaire.
one.— Eden Phillpotts.
M Those who love the arts are all
A not satisfied
great painter is fellowcitizens. Voltaire. Smfflf
with being sought after and admir-
ed because his hands can do more Ascend
than ordinary bands but he Lowliness is young ambition's
wants to be fed as if his stomach ladder, whereto the climber-up-
needed mire food than ordinary ward turns his face; but when he
stomachs... a day's work is a day's once attains the upmost round, he
work, neither more nor less, and then unto the ladder turns his
the man who does it needs a back, looking in th3 clouds, scorn-
day's sustenance, a night's repose, ing the base degrees by which he
and due leisure, whether he be did asceiid. Shakespeare. ^|
painter
Shaw.
or ploughman. (i. B.

^ ;& iiii
|

^^ Ascended as the smoke of a

^
...... furnace.— OZd Testament.
......

B Ashamed
Nothing is so damned aud
Artless shameful as to be ashamed.
Artless, as Eve yet unbeguiled. Butler. ft
-C. S. Calverley. iE She that inaketh you ashamed
mm
Artless
birds untaught.
as nature's
Congreve. —
notes in
is

M
as a rottenness in the bones.
Old Testamen'.
 *

kchamti ( ^ ) Attack

Ashamed, like a guilty thing.—

Theodore Watts Dunton.
^ Aspire
Aspire; as all the sea's iifo

Askew toward the sun. Swinburne.

Askew, like sheep through a
hurdle.— 12. D. Blachnorn. IUn Aspires as a flame. ()
Aslant Association
like
Aslant, the angels
Jacob's dream.— Dickens. & in
useful
Things worthless
collectively.
singly
Ovid,
are

Asleep
Lay asleep like green waves on "Astray
the sea.— .R. B. Skendan. Gone
astray like a lost sheep.—
Old Testament.
Aspiration Assurance
We ought to live with the
gods. This a man does whose soul
is always content with the appoint-
tinued l ove .
— (
Luke-warm assurance
«
of con-

ments of Providence.— 3f. Aurelius. Asunder

Asunder like the arches of a
bridge— Robert Burton.
Byaspiring to a similitude of (Hi
God in goodness or love, neither Atheism
man nor angel ever transgressed or Atheism is rather in the lip

^ ^
shall transgress. Bacon. than in the heart of man. Bacon.

God never wrought miracle to

Hitch your waggon to a star. convince atheism, because iis ordi-
Emerson.

home
Our heart
is not here.
is in heaven, our
Bishop Heber.
^
nary works convince it. Bacon.

II
Virtue in distress and vice in

Milton
Long the way and hard, that
is

out of hell leads up to light.

Higher, higher will we climb

^ triumph, make atheists of man-
kiiul.- Dryden.
^ \
3f

up the mount of glory, that our Xo skill in swordsmanship,

names may live through time in
our country's story.
^ oore ^\ M
^
h^weTer
a madman's
just, can be secure against
thrust. Cow per. S
 &

Attainment ( 20 )

He- was- qi>ak iug on the |ire-

(
'

cipice of a bad bilious aftach. without wisdom is

Authority
ifH like an axe without an edge, fitter
Attaimneiit to bruise than polish. Anne Brad-
^t-
Giir
Wliat at a distance charmed
eyes, upon attainment droops ^
and
"J &.
dies.

,
,/,

U
Canniag'tam.

Attempts
. Authority is a disease and cure,
which men can neither want nor
well endure.— 5. Butler.

Ludicrou's attempt a of clumsy

(
j)l ay fulness and tavvdrv eloquence.
Authors
Indeed. I should doubt if my
drama throughout, exhibit an in-
:

it^.; Attend ^ bK>

stance of woman in love.— Aris-
Atlendiag, as if their lives were
tojjhanes.
his words dependinir.
on
^
7';x.so.

m; m Time which
•iuthors.-/?acort.
is the author of

Attention
All speech, written or spoken, Authors, like privateers, are al-
is a dead language until it finds a

^ "^ ^
ways fair game for one another.
willing and pivpa.i'ed hearer. R. Joh^on.
L. ^eoe,iso,u
^^ 11 Authors, like maids at fifteen
Audacious years, are full of wishes, full of
Audacious as the day. CharUs fears.— A*o?^r« Llo'jd.
L. Moore.
Authors I have named are like
Audacity
certain workers in metal, who try
"To dare" is the secret of suc-
a hundred different compounds to
cess in literature, as iu revolu-
it is
take the place of gold the only
tions and in love. Heine. '(
can never have any

&'^-
metal vv liich

s u b3 tit u te. Schopenhauer .

-,i «r;i-:;V 3^
Austere
^^ttf^f^ius;^ tree full of owls.
Chay^6 L. Moore. The character of a good writer
Austere as the dawn. Blias wherever he is to be found, is this,
Carman. namely, that he writes so as to
Austen an so many weather- please and serve at the same time.
beaten ascetics from tho desert — -Defoe.
.SVr

^
A. Cotmn DoyU. K iftlt^ Ifc'^
Authof ( 21 )
Autumn

L tliiiik the author who speaks tried to unsettle no man's faith to

about his own books is almost ay corrupt no man's principle and

bad .is a mother who talks about that I have written nothing which
her own children.— (Disraeli) on my death-bed I should wish
n # U blotted.-(Scott)
3
Talent alone cannot make a
writer. There must be a man be-
hind the book. —(Emerson)
Learii to write well, or not to
write at all. - (I. Sheffield)

Authors aud readers are separ-

ated by a great gulf of which hap- An author may be good in
pily neither is conscious. spite of some faults, but not in
(Goethe) spite of many faults.— (Voltaire)

The pen of a man of genius is The chief glory of every people

always greater than himself; it ex- arises from its authors.— (Johnson)
tends far beyond his temporary
purpose— (Heine) Choose an Author as you choose

flee
41

from
+
All writers love the groves and
cities. —
(Horace)
a friend.—

There are three

(Wentworth

Authorship
difficulties
Dillion)

in
authorship — to write anything
A man will turn over half a worth the publishing to find
library to make one book. (John- honest men to publish it—and to
son) get sensible men to read it. (C. C.
my being
It is not a question of Colton)
an author but it seems to me that
a man of the world may have
thoughts and record them in a
little notebook. (Labliche)
Automatic
Rose automatically as the sap
in the twigs. (Thomas Hardy) $i
There two kinds
of authors
those who
write for the subject's Autumn
sake and those who write for the

^
Of seasons of the year the
sake of writing.— (Schopenhauer) autumn is the most melancholy.
(Robert Burton)

I have perhaps been the most

voluminous author of the day; and
it is comfort to me to think
Swift
flowed.—
Autumn
(summer

is
into the

the
S
best period of
autumn
 )

A&fumii ( 22 )

(
the year.- (Ovid)

Autumn gives us fruit.

oi'enge
^ themselves on nature.—

Awake
B , Nowautumn's fire burns slow-
A o aken,
tempest shaken.
like seas by a mighty

'
(Barry Corn-
ly along the woods, and day by day wall)
the dead leaves fall and melt. Away
(W. Alling})am)
n ^ Auxty like a ghost at break of
day.— (Robert Browning)

Int.) th:i iight away they go

Avarice
He lives poor, to die richand like a bolt that's launched from a
isthe mere jailor of his house, and steel crossbow. (Gotteried A.
the turnkey of his wealth. (0. C. Burger)
Chiton) i Away like a glance oi thought.
It is evident insanity to live in -(Joseph 11. Drake.)
penury in order that you may die
rich. — (Juvenal) -J " ay, like wild pigeons startl-
ed in the wood.— (Euripides) '

Manythings are wanting to

, —
poverty, all things to avarice. Away, with never a look be'
(Publiliua Syrua) hind like an eagle before the
wind.— (George H. Miles)
The name of the servant of ……
Mammon is Miser, that is misera- Away, like mists that flee from
ble. — (C. H. Spurgeon)

Avarice is like a graveyard; it

summer
! sea.
^3
(Thomas Moore)

Chased away as the vision of

takes all that it can get and gives
rlie niglit —
(Old Testament)
nothing back. (Joseph Billings)
Away like mists when winds
A arise.— (T. Buchanan Keid)
Avaricious
t
The avaricious man
barren, sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks In all the rain and
is like the
( -Uvay as with a whirlwind.—

Awe
dews with eagerness, but yields no An nu-n crept over me. —
fruitful herbs or plants for the be-
II
nefit of others.— (Zen o)
A>v fill

woe.—
Av Jul
(
Auful as the negligence

as justice.— (George
of

H.
Djforined persons want to Boker)
 5

( 23 ) Back

AwJul as the last trump that Baby

shall proclaim to mankind the end Every baby born into the world
of the world. ( Anatole France) is a finer one than the last.
5 (Dickens)

Awful as clouds that nurse the Bachelor

glowing storm. (Goldsmith) The bachelor who passes
tbrongh wiihout marrying, is
life
Awful as the thunder.— (John like a fair mansion left by the
M. Mason) builder unfinished; the half that
Awful as a villain in a domestic is finished runs to decay from
melodrama.— (Charles Selby) neglecfc, or becomes at best but a
sorry tenement, wanting the addi-
Awful as silence. (Shelley) tion of that which makes the
whole both useful, comfortable,
and ornanientol.

^;
Awkward (A. P. Morris)

Awkward
meat shop.— ( as a blind dog in a

(
Awkward as a bull
shop.-
in a china
^
ini

3G

Back
(
…
Awkward as a cow on ice.— Back. ..with the instinct of

) homing pigeons. (Mary Austin)

(Awkward as a pig in a parlor.

Backuard as the wind sweeps
Awkward
(John Burroughs)
as a man in a bag.
'
flame.— (E. B. Browning)

Backward, like a witch's pray-

Awkward like jackanapes er?.— (Earl of Dorset)
swallowing of pills.— (Rabelais)
Like the pace of a crab, back-
ward. (Robert Greene)

B Backward

^
like the long wash
of a wave. (Maurice Hewlett)
Babble

wine.
BabWg
—
like one
(Swinburne)
mad
^ with
I
Spelling it backward, like
Hebrew book. (Longfellow)
a

heels of fame.— (
The babbledom that dogs the I

1
Slideth back as a backsliding
heifer. (Old Testament)
hi ( 24 ) Sars

Bcrd as the itch.—

Bad
( I
(William J. Mickle)

Barbarous
*

Bad as a blight.— (Hood) Barbarous as a man who uses

i
his finger for a paper knife. (
As bad, as what is worst. I

(Lyly) Bare
Badthe fighting bull
as
Stamford.— (English Proverb)
of
( Bari as a Scotchman's knee.

Bare as g stcme. —(
( Bad as two kings

Bad man
of Breutford.

Armin)
Bare as January. '
(Robert

still
The bad when
worse.— ( praised, become Bare as the back of
-(Balzac)
Bare as a naked
my
bairn.
hand.

There never was a bad man (Robert Buchanan)

that had ability for good service.
Bare as winter. — (Burns)
Bald
Bald
as a billiard ball.— ( Bare as beggary.— (Richard

Bald as an egg.— ( Cumberland)

(
Bare as an Alpine precipice.
Kingsley) ffi

Bald, as 'twere a scalp, reft of Bare as a pig in a sty.

its hair.— (Arabian Nights). (Francis Mahony)
I

His head was as bald as the

palm of your hand. (E. H. Bar-
ham.)
I
Bare as lies
in silver sleeping seas
the mirrored
( )
moon

Bald as a Greek monk. (Rich- Bare as a bird's tail. (English

ard Hovey) Proverb)

^ ^(
I

Bald as is the winter tree. I

Bare as the birch at Yule.
(William Morris) [

Bald as a coot. (English Bare, like a carcass picked by

Proverb) crows.— (Swift)

keray)
Bald as a cannon

Baleful
ball. (Thac-

i
burne)
Bare as
^a. beggar. (Swin-

Baleful
(John Ley den)
as

Balmy
the
^ tomb-tire.
Bare as naked daylight.

As bare as a hornet's
(Henry Van Dyke)
cell.

Balmy, as after vernal raiua.

 B * H

Bare ( 25 ) Seam

-
Bare as an ape.— (Voltaire)

Bare as a goose-egg. (Arte- vision.

Baseless
—
Baseless
as the fabric of a

mus Ward)
Bare as a school-boy's diary. Bashful
(H. G. Wells) Bashful as a -school-girl.-^- (ffc

IB
As bars as winter tree?. Bashful as a maid. (Bulwer-
(Wordsworth) Loytton)
Barren Bashful as a Lenten lover.
(Sir John Denhaw)
Barren as winter rain.
(AUred Sustin)
Barren as a continent of Bran>
den burg sand.-— (Carlyle)
l!
( Bashful as an egg at Easter^

Bashful as a blooming bride.—

(Sir William Jones)
Barren as routine. (G. K.
Chesterton) £ Secluded bashful, like a shrine
Barrm as the wind. (Ebenez- of love.— (Thomas Moore)
er Elliott)
Barren as a desolate moor. Battle
(Gerald Massey) Nothing except a battle lost
can be half so melancholy as a
Barren as a pelican-b?ach. battle won.— (Duke of Welling-
(Herman Melville) ton.)

Barren a a death. (Ruskin) Bawl

Bawl like an auctioneer. (
Brain as barren as banks of
Libya. (Shakespeare) Baviinf)' like Bailors in a
35.
tavern.— (^)
Barren as a rainy day.
' f Alex-
ander Smith) ;^ Bawl like a boatswain of a
Barren as crime.
man-of-war— (Lever)
(Swin-
burne.)
Barren as a
Beam
stock-fisli. (John
Beaming like stars. (Haus
Taylor)
Christian An<lersen.)
Barren as the sea's bare sands.
—(Samuel Waddington) eastern skv.— (
Beamiid like the splendor of nv

Base His face beamed like a pearl

Base as spotted infamy. with light.— (Arabian lights) %
(Coleridge)
 ' ))

Beam 26 )

Like ray-collecting mirrors, Like the walnut tree, the more.,

&" .(Walter Harte) he
^(
isbeaten, the better he'Jl be.

Beaming as the summer's

morn.— (0. W. Holmes) Beaten as a road. (Charles
g Cotton)
My brain is beating like the
Slant yellow beam like a
lane into Heaven that leads from heqrt of Haste. (Sidney Lauier.)
a dream. (Sidney Sanier)
• Beaten like a Turco that pawns
Eyes beaming, like angel's his musket.— (Ouida)
looks.— (Donald Q. Mitchell)
Beats like a maniac drummer
Beamed like the rising sun. in mid-battle. (T. Buchanan
Read)
(Miss Mulock) 3^ Beat, like the pulse, perpetual-
Beams like flowers. (Shelley)
— (Isaac Watts)
Beau
Beard
A
beau dressed out resembles
Long-bearded libe kings of the the cinnamon tree, the bark is of
Frankish race. ( Arsene Houss- greater value than the body. (H.
aye) Parr)
It was scarcely a beard at all,
more like a deepening of the sha- Beautiful
dows in which his whole face Beautiful as. a remembered
seemed to lie. (Johu Eoland) single line of perfect poetry.
(John Albee) liS IB

of
Lodge)
Hia bsqrd
Grantham
is cut like the spire
steeple. (Thomas
( Beautiful
E ^
Beautiful aa a chemical blonde.

aa Adoiii*. (
Beard like the pard.
speare)
(Shake-

A beard like an artichoke, with

Beautiful as a aunset. (
dry shrivelled jaws.
Sheridan)
(R. B. Beautiful as the dawn. (
^
Beard like foam swept off the
broad brown sea. (Swinburne) Greek god.
JSS
— (
Beautiful as the face of a yonng

^
g
^ Be»t
So my spirit beat itself like a dream.— (
Beautiful
y
the seraph's

in vain.
^;^
^
caged bird against iti prison bars
I

1
myrobalm.
Btautifv.l a« the
(Arabian Nights)
bough of the
 ' S )

( 27 )

Beautiful aa a saint. (Balzac) Heaven.— (Jami)

^^ Bnavtiful as the day.— ( Beautiful as the vernal willow.
—(Dr. Johnson)
A si beautiful as a thread of Beautiful as angels. (J. J.

light. (Gustavo A. Becquer) Jusserand)

Beautiful, like a fairy page-
Beautiful as the curtain of ant floating fjr a pastime on the
Soloman. (Saint Bernard) tide.— (E. C. Jones)

Beautiful as fire. (Ambrose Beautiful as an oriole.

Bierce) (Keats)
Beautiful as ever looked from Beautiful as May. (Long- —
ant) ^
white clouds in a dream.: (Bry-

Beautiful as a feather in one's

cap.— (Carlyle)
^ ~ fellow) |%
Beautiful &a morning.

Beautiful as the feet of friend

—

Beauteous as a summer's morn. coming with welcome at our

&
(Thomas Chatterton)

Beautiful as April rains.

journey's end. (Lowell)

(Cowper) Beautiful like the Moon,

Beautiful as heaven. ~ (John (Mahabharata) K
Day) Beautiful as waa bright Lucifer
Beautiful as noon-day. (Dic- before his fall.— (Marlowe)
kens)
Beautiful as rainbow (Dry- Beautiful as dawn in Hoaven
den) .—(Gerald Massey) 12 IS
Beautiful as a dying maid.
(Ebenezer Elliott) As beautiful as sorcer^is.
(Ouida) S
Beautiful as is the rose in
As beautiful aa 'twerea dewy
June. (Emerson) flower. (George D. Prentice)

Beautiful as youth.— (Mrs. D.

Beautiful as childhood's
dream— (F. W. Faber)
Radford) S
Beautiful aa an Olympian divi-

Beautiful as a fairy palace.

nity.— (George Rose) ^^
(Hawthorne) piece of chalk
Beautiful a3 a
Beautiful as spring. (Gerard. cliff. (Ruskin)
T. Hopkini)
Beautiful m a Houri borne off Beautiful hi pin« bridgM orer
from the Garden of the SeTenth Alpine f*r«*nii.— (Rafkia) #
 »

( 28 ) Bt&ntf

lasts a year, it is well. (Thomas

face as beautiful as though
Her Adam)
the rays of Paradise were there.
(Sadi) Beauty without modesty is liko
Beautiful sky and earth,
as
when autumn's sun is downward
going. — (Whittier)
(
a flower broken from its stem.

Beauty, like truth and justice,

Beautiful as heaven. (Word- and like
lives within us; like virtue
sworth) moral law, it is a companion of the

(
'
Beauteous as the silver

Beauteous as the
moon.—

sun. (Ed-
soul.— (George Bancroft.)
#88

ward Young) As amber attracts a straw, so

Beauty does beauty admiration, which only
The best part of is that lasts while the warmth continues;
which a picture cannot express. but virtue, wisdom, goodness and
(Bacon ) real worth, like the loadstone,
never lose their power. (Robert
The women pardoned all ex- Burton) iQ
cept her face.— (Byron)

No beauty' 8 like the beauty

.
of
mind.— (Joshua Cooke) Beauty in a modest woman is

Beauty enough to make

world to dote.— (James I) ^ a
like fire or a sharp sword at a dis-
tance; neither dorti the one burn,
nor the other wouikJ, those tliat
come not too near them. (Cer-
Beauty is as summer fruits, vantes)
which are easy
not last.— ( to corrupt, and can-
The made-up
*
we com-
beauties
monly meet, like artificial flowers,
'

out a fortune.— (
No woman can be a beauty with- are all show and no fragrance.—
(Thomas Holcroft) S
iTii

kaWy.
A
(
dazzling
—
Her eyes were limpid and her
completeness of
Beauty,
above the dark
like a beacon
of strife.
burns
(Gerald
beauty was softened by an air of in-
dolence and languor.— ( Massey)

A
^
H

. Beauty is like an almanae; if it

lows,
chaste beauty is like the bel-
whose breath is cold, yet
makes others burn, (Sir ThomM
 ' ^

Seaoty ( 29 )

Overbury.)

snows,
Her
^
fl
b^aut es were like sunlit
us h'd but not warm'd with
Every
(Goethe)
Withstand
when the
be fj inning

;3vils
the
is

beginainqs;
have become rooted
cheerful.—

my desire. (Coventry Patniore) tl.e remedies avis too late. (Ovid)

ID

The beg inning is thti half of the

Beauty, like truth, never is so whole. >

-
glorious as when it goes plainest.
(Sterne) Every man must submit to be
slow before he is quick, and in-
Beauty,\\^ supreme dominion, significant before he is important.
is best supported by opinion.— -(Sydney Smith)
(Swift)

Beauty passes like a breath.—

(Alfred Tennyson)
A beauty mashed, like the st.n
in their
•Things are always at thoin bast
beginning.—X^asc&l)
" :
in eclipse, gathers together more Whilst we deliberate about be-
gnzera than if it shines out. it becomes too late to be-

^
ginning,
(Wycherley) gin. (Qaintilian)

Bedraggled Each goodly thing is hardest

Bedraggled, like the flounce of
a vulgar rich woman's dress that
;'
to ft^/i.— (Spenser)

Few men, drinking at a rivulet/

trails
Holmes) ^
on the sidewalk. (O. W.
stop to consider
Tapper)
its source. (M. F.

Beg The difficult thing is to get

^
Beg like a dog at a fair.—

Beginning
( your foot in the stirrup.
ing)

(Prov.)
The tirst dish pleaseth all.^
(Old Say-

The beginnings of all things are

Behavior
small.— (Cicero)
Every evil thing easily Men's behaviors should be like
a stifl-
ed at its birth; allowed to become their apparel, not too straight or
point device, but free for exercise
old

taste,
it

ful.— (Cicero.
^
generally becomes too power-

The bud may have

but sweet
)

will
|?J

a
be the flower.
bitter
or motion.— (Bacon)

Behind
(Cou'por) His tail extended all the while
W behind bim like a rat-tail file.— (0#
Bebind ( 30 ) Benefit!

W. Holmes) combated.— (Dante)

See behind, as doth the hunted Bell owe '1 as a hunted ox.—
hare,— (Keats) (Hood)
k Bells
Always behind, like a donkey's Bells arc Music's laughter.—
tail.— (English Proverb) (H)3d^
Beloved
Belch Beloved like a plant whofe
Belching like a torn balloon. leaf and bud and blossom are all
(Angus McNeill) beautiful. (John Gay) fit
Belch. ..as oud as a musket.
Ifi
(Aphra Behn)
Bend
Belief
We are born believing. A
roan bears beliefs as a tree bears
wind. (
Bends like a willow in the
—
Bending like a wand of willow.
apples.— (Emerson) -(Longfeliow)
Bend on me thy tender eyes, as
stars look on the sea. (Bulwer-
A childish
impeccability. — (
belief in his own Lytton)
Bend one way,
corn in a hurricane.
H
like a field
(William
of

his
Each man's bdief
own eyes.—
ft g
( is right in Cartright)

Bending her form towards him,

SI

Cherished beliefs are like those like a torch when it indicates a

drinking glasses of the ancient gentle draught of air.— (Haw th-
pattern, that serve us all so long orne)
as we keep thein in our hand, but
spill nil if we attempt to set them Bend in the blast as blade of
down.— (0. W. Holmes) grass.— (0. W. Holmes) IS

Bends like a wave near a

Bellow rock.-(Ossian) ......

( Bellows like the vagrant winds.

Bending like corn on the up-
Bellow, like a burst of thunder.
— (Aristophanes)
Bellowing as if he was possess-
Si ^
land lea.— (James G. Percival)

Bendi like nn angel

ftf

^
softly
ed of the devil.— (Bocaccio) through the bl ue-pavilioned skies.
— (Mrs. A. B. Welby)
Bellotvs as the sea does in a
tempest, if by opposing winds 'tie BcneflU
 € ) .

fteftefit ( 31 )
Bereft

A benefit loses its grace in being

too much published. (Corneille) Bent
Yonder flimsy crescent, bent
To do well to a bad man is as like an archer's bow above the
great a danger as to do ill to a
good one.— (Plautus.)

like flowers, please

^
SiKnvv summit. —

Bent down
rain.— (T. B. Aldrich)
-
like violets after

Benefits,

?
most when they are fresh.

Benefits are pleasing up to that

Bent...\i^.e
hisrhvme.— ( some rapt poet o
......
er

point when they seem to be capa- ^

—(
ble of requital; when they far ex-
ceed that possibility hatred is
returned instead of gratitude.
«
Beat like a drooping rose.

Bent like a whip. —<

(Tacitus)
Bent like an old bruised lan-
tern.— (R. D. Black more)
Benevolence
To
relieve the oppressed is the Bent-down like corbels of a
most glorious act a man is capable building.— (Carlyle)
of. It is in some measure doing
the business of God and Provid- Bent like a soldier at the
ence.— (Pope) approach of an assault.— (Hugo)

Bent and trembled like the

Miracles are good, but to com- rushes.— (Longfellow)
fort one's brother, to extricate a
friend from the depths of misery, Bent like some great bow un-
to pardon one's enemies their strung.— (Joaquin Miller)
virtues that is the greater miracle
which no longer takes place.
(Voltaire)

That
—— ^
fine benevolence, finely
they)
Bent,

Bequeath,
like a

Bequeath
rainbow.— (So u-

like sijnset to the

is skies, the splendor of its prime.—
executed, which, like the Nile, (Shelley)
comes from hidden sources.— (C.
C. Colton)

There seemed
air a quiet
^
to brood in the
&«?"<jroZe?nc<j of Father
have
Bereft,

Ingelow)
Bereft
as trees that suddenly
dropped their leaves. (Jean

when some tower

Bereft, as

Play. ?
watching His myriad children at
t
doth
wall,
fall,
and
with
gate, and
battlement, and
bridge, and all t
 m

Besmear ( 32 V Bind!

and nothing left.— (Mary A. Town, The Scripture, in time of dis-

send) i
putes is like an open town in time
I
of war, which serves indifferently
Besmear I the occasions of both parties. Each
Besmeared like a gypsy or a makes use of it for the present
chimney-sweeper. (Robert Bur- tu in and then resigns it to the
ton)
Betray
Thou hast betrayed thy secret
next couier to do the same.
(Pope) ( ); H
as a bird betrays her nest, by striv-
ing to conceal it.— (Longfellow)
Big
Big as a church debt.

Bewailing
Bewailing and tolling within
like a funeral bell. — (Longfellow)
(George Ade)
Big as an elephant.— (
Big as a horse.
Bewildering
Big as a whale.
A sweet bewildering pain, like
flowers iu the wind and rain.
Big as all out of doors.— (J. R.
(Thomas Ashe)
Bartlett)
No bigger than an unobserved
Bewitching star.— (Keats)
Bewitching like the wanton As big as a parson's barn,— al-
mermaid's song.— (Shakespeare) ways ready for more.— (Collect-
anea)
Bible Looking as big as bull-beef.—
Like the needle to the North (English Proverb)
Pole, the Bible points to heaven. Bigot
(R. B. Nichol) The is like the pupil of
bigot
* the eye; the more light you put
The Bible among books is as a upon it, the more it will contract.
diamond among precious stones. 0. W. Holmes)
(J. Stoughton)
Bill
A man of confined
education, Bill as doves,— (Robert Bur-
but of good parts by constant read- ton)
ing of the Bible will naturally form Bind
a more winning and commanding
( Binding as a wedding ring.—

ed.— (Henry More)

^
rhetoric than those that are learn-

i
of my
Bindeth me about as the collar
coat.— (Old Testament)
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i :

fiiograpliy ( 33 )

Biography
The biographies of great and
Bitter as gall.— (
good men, like Elijah's mantle, Bitter as chestnut husks.
ought to be gathered op and pre- (Balzac)
served by their survivors. (Mat- Bitter as self-sacrifice. (E B.
thew Henry) f. Browning)
)1 Bitter, like a day of mourning.
< Joseph Conrad)
There is properly no history,
B
only biography.— (Emerson) More bitter than the sea.

Birds
Bitter as a nausea.— (D An-
A
bird that knows nothing of
nunzio)
gladness, is only a song-machine.
Their earthly days were bitter,
(G. Macdonald)
like the oil-tree.— (De Quiucey)

Birthdays
Love bitter as Despair. (Lord
Monday's child is fair in face,
De Tabby)
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Bitter as home-brewed ale.—
Thursday's child has far to go, Fri- (Longfel.ow)
day's child is laving and giving, Bitter as hemlock. (Fitz-
Saturday's child works for its liv- Jaines 0 Brien)
ing, and a child that's born on Bitter as coloquintida.
(Shakespeare)

^ ^
Christmas day, is fair and wise,
)
|

and good and gay. (Old Rhyme) '

Bitte: to me as death. '(

ft Bitter as a tear. (Swinburne)

t
Bitter as the breaking down of
Bite love. —
bill
Bite like finches
and kiss.— (Robert Browning)
when they j

I
( Thy speech

Bitter like
is bitterer

blood.—
than

(
sea.

Bite like pepper. (John Gay)

And I find more bitter than
Biting like the east wind. death the woman, whose heart is
(John Skelton) snares and nets, and her hands as
Bites like fire. (Swinburne) bands.— (Old Testament)

Bitter
Bitter as the suffering of life. Bitter as wormwood. (Old
1

Testament)
 g «

bitterness ( U ) Blactc

Bitterness (Trvin S. Cobb)

Black as the devil. (George

( A bitterness crept into

Black
her face.
Colman)
Black as Tophet.
Conrad)
(Joseph

( Black as Alaskan sealskin.— Black as the mine. (Cowper)

( Black as a thundercloud.

Black as a tinker.— (^c^ )

son)
Black as beads. (Austin Dob-

Black as a wolf's mouth. (Sir

Black as blindness.— ( A. Conan Doyle)

Black as ebony.— (Dumas)

Black as Egypt's night. — Black as night when the tem-

Black as a sloe.— ( pests pass.

Bla:h
— (F.
:'s
W. Faber)

a cassock. (Samuel
Black as snow in London.— ( Foote)
Black as the pit. (W. E.
Black as the Duke

.
black riding boots.— ( of Hell's Henley)

mine.
Blacker than a raven in a coal
- (O. Henry)
Black as the inside of a
who -drank a bottle of ink.— (man
Black as stormy darkness.
(Thomas Hey wood)
Black as the bear on Iskardoo.
— (Edwin Arnold)
Thoughts as black as hell.—
(Beaumont and Fletcher)
, Black as gunpowder. (Hood)

Black as the fruit of the thorn.

— (HooJ)
Black as a coal pit.— (Henry Black as your hat. (Hood)
Ward Beecher)
Black as the tents of Kedar.
Blachans like a thunder cloud.
(Saint Bernard)
-(Hood)
Black as n young rook. (Dion
Black as the wood of the gal-
Boucicault)
lows-tree. (Hugo)
Black, like plumes at funerals.
E. B. Browning) j

Aa black as anv Moor. (Jac-

Black as death. — (Byron) ques Jasmin)

BUxck as the devil in a comedy.

Black as a crow.— (Chaucer)

Black as a cave mouth.

)

I
^
—(Thomas Killigrew) Iff
 M n

Black ( f>,5
) Black

Black as the ylidin^ water over Black as a funeral pall. (John

a DiiLl darn.— (Kilpinj;) G. Saxe)
Black as mourning weed.
Black as the king of Ashantee. (Scottish Balland ("Percy's Reli-
(Lever) ques")
-
Black as siglitles^
(George Cabot Lodge) ^
As blacks as deepest, dark.
eyes. Black as if besinear'd in hell.
(Shakespeare)
Black as incest. — (
(Lyly)
Blacka as the burnt coale. Black as ^1{.--(
(Lyly) Black as Vulcan in the smoke
My Arab steed is black black of war.—
as the tempest cloud that flies
- Black as a cormorant.
across the dark and muttering (Shelley)
(Adam Mickiewicz) Black as the womb dark-
skies.

^ ^— ness,— (Swinburne)
of

Black as a [chiinny] sweep.

(E. P. Northall;
Black and glossy as the raven's
( Black as thunderous night.

As midnight black. ( )

wing. (Thomas L. Peacock)

Black as flameless brand. (
Black as winter chimney.
(John Philips) Black as ashbuds in the front
Black as despair:— ( of March.— (Tennyson)

Black as autumn's sky.

M. Pread) ^ i.W.
(New
Black as sackcloth of hair.
Testament)
Black as
(Opie Read) ^
a burned stump.

As black as the steeds of night.

ment)
Black as a raven. (Old Testa-

Black like an oven.— ( )

T. Buchanan Read)
Blacker than a coal. (Old
Black as fiery Africa's slaves. Testament)
(T. Buchanan Read) Black as Hell. (William
Thomson)
Black as black iron. (C. G. Black as winter sky. (Walter
Rossetti) Thornbury)
Black Black as soot. (Voltaire)
as pitch. (Thomas
Sackville)
Black as a berry. (Francois
Black the newly-pruned
aa
Villon)
crow.— (George Sandys) Black as with wrath* (Alaric
zm A. Watts)
 'ii H

Blame ( S6 ) Bleat

Blame Blaze

V
Blame is safer

Blameless
than praise.
( Blaze like the eyes of a maniac

Blazed up like a beacon. (

Blameless as the snow. (Eric S
Mackay) Blazelikethe fat in sacramental
Blanched flame.— (P. J. Bailey)
Blanched like plants raised in A
cellars.— (Hugo) Blaze like a couple of lamps on
a yellow post-chaise.— (R. H. Bar-
Bland ham) ^
Bland as a Jesuit. (W. E. Blaze like a wyvern flying
Henley) round the sun. (Robert -Brown-
Bland as ocean-breezes gather- ing) ^
ed from the flowers that blossom
in Elysium. (Thomas Moore) Blazed like a sun over the
startled East. (Bulwer-Lytton)

Blandishin cnts Blaze like a box of matches.

The
and pomp of power. (
blandishments of pleasure (Joseph Conrad)

Blazing like a brace of suns.

Blank

^
(Daudet)
Blank as an empty bottle. ( Blazed as if with inward fire. ; ~
(D. Annunzio)
Hopelessly blank, like the face Her heart up like fire

^
blazed
of a blind man. (Joseph Conrad) befo: e the wind. (Firdausi)

Look as blank as a pickpocket, Blaze like a furnace. (Frede-

— (Henry James)
j

rick Tennyson)
Blazes like a mighty sword
Blank as the eyeballs of the '.

leaping to the fight. (G. S.

dead.— (Longfellow)
Viereck)
Blank as death. (Tennyson) Bleak
j

BUik as the ocean vast.

Blast
Like a mildewed ear, blasting Bleat: and bare like furnace-
(

his wholesome brother. (Shake- chiiuneyfc in the air. (Longfellow)

epeare) S
Bla&U like a
(Southey)
pestilence. B/a< like a
Bleat
lamb.— (
 i

Bleeding Blind

Bleeding Blind as the blue skies after

Bleeding as if he had heen sunset, — (P. J. Bailey)
through a thicket of troubles.
(Daudet) t Blind as ignorance. (Beau-
mont and Fletcher)

tal gem.-(Byroa)
Blend
Blended like tints in an immor- Blind as moles.
SL
(
Blind as the fool' s heart.
Inseparably blend like two (Robert Rrowning)
bright dew drops meeting in a
flower.- (Coleridge) Blind as the blindworm.

Blended like the colors in the Blind as a brickbat.

r ai nbow.— ( Dickens) (Dickens)
Blindness acts like a dam, send-
Blended, like the sea's phos- ing the streams of thought back-
phor lustre.— (Raskin) ward along the already-traveled
channels, and hindering the course
Bless onward. (George Eliot)
Blesses, like the dews of Hea- ti
ven.— (John Gay)
Blest Blind as death itself. (W. S.
as the saint to his
Blest home Gilbert)
above flying.— (E. M. kelly) His eye is blind as that of a
potato. -(Hood)
Blight
Blighted and forlorn,
like Blind as inexperience. (Hu-
Autumn waiting for the snow. go)
(whittier) Blind as a beetle. -— (Ben Jon-
Blind son)
Blind as a bank director.— ( Blind as a woman in love.

Blind as a bat.— ( £}
(Ninon de L'Enclos)

Blind as he who closes his

A Blind man is a poor man eyes to the light and will not have
and blind a poor man is, for the it shine. (Lewis Morris)
former seeth no man, and the lat-
g
ter no man sees.
Sit eii .
(Longfellow)

He that is strucken blind, can-

Blind as moonless night.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
not iorget the precious treasure of

^ ^
his eyesight lost.— (Shakespeare)
H
Blind as
n
glass. (Swinburne)
 •

Blind ( 38 ) Bloodless

Blind as grief. —( ^: ft'^

Blind as the night.— ( Blitha as the fi<*st

of birds that vaken.—
Pgt
(
B lit hi sonj^

Blind as any noonday owl. Blithe as a bird in the spring.

(Tennyson) —(Lowell)
Blink Blithe as May.— (R. Fletcher)

heap. (
Blinking like a toad in a sand
—
Blink my eyes like a whacked
Blithe,
such thing ns
as if

vvo-^.
on earth were no
(John Keble)
donkey. (Anton Tchekhov)
11 as the orchards and
Blithe
Blissful birds with the new coming of
Blissful as a leap to daylight spring.— (Lowell)
out of a nightmare. (George B
Meredith) Blithe as a blithe bird in air.
(Owen Meredith)
Blithe

bough. (
Blithe as a bird on a cherry
summer
Riley)
As blithe
days.
and sunny
(James Whitcomb
as the

5^^&8&81^.—( Blither than Spring's when her

Powerful tresses shake forth sun-
Danced as bUthdy and briskly (Swin-
light and shine with rain.
as a lost red maple leaf fluttering
burne )

(
madly in a keen October breeze.
Blithe as swallows, wheeling
summer sky at close of day.
As blithe as the bird that re- in the
joices.— (A. H. Beesly) (Southey) 5H
Blithe as a bobolink. (Robert Bloated
Browning)

( Blithe as our kettle's boiling. ( Bloated like a squeezed cat.

51
Blood
Blithe as the lark that each day
hails the dawn.— (Collins)
£' ^ ( Your hlood

The warm kindling

is red like wiue.
; fH

blood burn-

per)
Blithe as finches siug.— (Cow- ed her cheeks
hot wiucL— ( liice tlio breath of a

( Blithe as phepherd at a wake.

Blithe as a bird new risen from Bloodless

Lips as bloodless as lips of the
the corn. Austin Dobson)
 )
)

Bloody ( ^ )

slain. — (Whittier) ' ff Blowing like

(Kipling) ^ a grampus.

Bloody Puffing and blowing like a por-

Bloody as the hunter. pDis^.— (Lover)
(Shakespeare) 'Blown like a leaf on the blast.
Bloom — (J)hn Boyle O'Reilly)
Bloominq as health. ( ln-
Blown like leaves before the

^
acreon) jji 21

( Bloomed like a bridal-chamber.

Blooming as a peach. (
whirl-wind's fury fleeing.
ard Taylor)
(Bay-
g
Blubbered
Blooming with promise like an BluLbered like a child that's
apple in the month of Ma v. ( nurs«d. (Hood)

Her bloom was like the silver Blue

flower, that sips the silver dew.
(Uiucent Bourne) ^ Blue as a w hale. —

Blue as blue-bell (
bed.—
Blooming as a bridal maid.
(Walter Harte) Bl tie as cobalt. —(
—
Blooming as roses in tha vale.
(Mrs. J. Hunter) Blue as forget-me-nots. (
Bloomed like a rose in a garden Bhw as indigo.— ( |
green.— (David Vedder)
Blue as melancholy. ( )
Blossomed
Blossomed like a rose. (Hugo)
» f!
Blue as October skies. (
Blossomed like a wreath.
G. Rossetti)

A
Blow
with a word strikes
blow
(D.

cf the (
Blue as the soft azure surface
southern sea.—

deeper than a blow with a sword. Blue as your nose on a cold

—( OTi day.
Blown B
Blown up like a tumor. Blue as the sky in spring.
(Emerson)
(R. D. Blackinore.)
Blowing like a blacksmith's
bellows.— (Hugo) M I

Blue as a vein o'er the Madon-

Blown like vapor on summer
air. — (Rossi ter Johnson) P
^[ i

'
na,s breast. (Robert Browning)
fl
 ® )

6! ue ( 40 ) Blush

Blue as shimmering steel.— sand.— (Hamlin Garland)

(H. C. Banner)
Blue like the sea of a dreaiu. Blurred like a lamp's that
(Joseph Conrad) when the night drops dead dies.
Water blue as violet banks. (Swinburne)
(Aubrey Be Vere)
* .
Blurt
Blue like a corpse. (Nikolai Blurted it out like a school-boy.
V. Gogol) —(Longfellow)
Blue as lips of death.— (Eugene Blush
Lee-Hamilton) Blush like an opal. —
Blue as tint of maiden's eye.
(James Haskins) Blush like the heart of flame.—
Sky as blue as June.— (K. G. i Henry W. Austin)
Ingersoll)
Lips, as blue as salt-water. Blushing like a wedding night.
(Massinger)
Blue and beautiful, like skies
-(Balzac) '
I blushed like any rose. (T. H.
seen through the sleeping wave. Bayly) .

(Thomas Moore) Blushing, like a bride.— (Cole-

ridge)
Blue as blaze.— (J. • Neal) Blushes like a new-born flower.
— (Barry Cornwall)
Blue as autumn's skies, (W.
M. Praed) Blush as hot as June.
Blue as the overhanging hea-
ven.— (Shelley) Blush' d an 1 smiled like a clear
Blue heaven's cloudless
as
canopy.— (Esaias Tegner)

Blunt
and
Davies)
rosy eventide.

Make
us blush like copper.
^
(Sir John

(John Fletcher)
BZwnf as a hammer. — Her cheek of beauty blushed
like rose-bud in the rain. —(James
Blunt as a meat-ax. —( )
Hogg)
.

Blunt as the back of a knife. Blushes like the birds of spring.

(Robert Heath) Miss Landon)
Blunt as the fencer's foils, Blush a<i of opening flowers.
which hit, but hurt not.— (Shake- (George P. Lathrop)
speare)
Blush like the backside of a
Blur c n ni nev.— (Lea n's "Collectanea
^^
i

Blurred the air like blown

 B )

Blv$h ( 41 ) Boob
Blush like a sunset. (Alfred Boisterous as stormy sea-winds.
Henry Lewis) -(R. H. Stoddard)

Lovelace) ^^
Blushes like a virgin. (Eichard

Blush &b lovely as the dawn.

(Lover)
Bold
Bold as a blind man.
||

Blushing like a summer morn- As bold as the blast. (Barry

ing.— (Baron Munchausen) Cornwall)
3 Boldly, like eagle on the wing.
Blushed like a girl fresh from -(Hugo)"
school.— (Sir Gilbert Parker) Bold as brass. (Lean's "Col-
lectanea")
Blush'd like a carnation. He was bold as a hawk.
(Thomas L. Peacock) (Lover)
Blush like a banner bathed in Bold as an embodied storm.
slaughter. (James G. Percival) (T. Buchanan Read)

Blush like lads of seventeen. Bold as the glare of the gold.

(James Whitcomb Riley) (R. H. Stoddard)
As boldly as a sunflower faces
Blushing like Aurora.— (Smol- the orb of day. (New York Sun)
lett)
Blushes. ..as a young Bold as a lion,— (Old Testa-

^
virgin on
her wedding night.— (Bayard Tay- ment)
lor) …… " Bolde as a Knight. ("The
Nutbrown Maid")
I blush as red as cochineal. Bold as day.— (Wordsworth)
n?hackeray)
Bones
A faint blush
melting through His bones are as strong pieces
the light of thy transparent cheek of brass; bis bones are like bars of
like a rose-leaf bathei in dew.— iron.— (Old Testament)
(Whittier)
Books
Bobbing We
should choose our books aa

duck
Bobbing up and down like a
in a mud puddle.— ( we would do oar companions, for

(
their sterling and intrinsic merit.

Boil
The old books look somewhat
He maketh the deep to boil
pathetically from the shelves, like
like a pot.— (Old Testament)

Boisterous
aged dogs wondering no one takes
them for a walk. — (
Sooks ( 42 Boobs

always easy for a doctor to detect

Some books are to be tasted, whether tho beatinsr comes from
others to be swallowed, and some himself or from his patient, so the

(
few to be chewed and digested.

^ *
case is exactly the same in the
close union and mingling of the
minds of author and reader. (Ke-
IE
^ '
A borrowed book is but a cheap

^ ?^&
ble)
pleasure, an unappreciated and
unsatisfactory tool. To know the
true value of books... you must first An author may influence the
feel the sweet delight of buying fortunes of the world to as great
lhem.— (J. M. Baldwin)
' an extent as a statesman or a
warrior. A book may be as great a
thing as a battle.— (Disraeli)
A book Is a friend that never
betrays us. — (Guilbert de Pixere-
court.)
A book, like a grape-vine,
among
A home
without books is like a
house without windows; no man
has the right to bring up children
should have good fruit
leaves.- (E. P. Day) ^its

without books to surround them. As a thing on the eastern

(H. W. Beecher) mountains shineth by the presence
of the sun; so one of humble birth,
even, may be enlightened by the
Books should to one of these allurements of good books. (Hito.
four ends conduce, for wisdom,
delight, or
pndesa) !! 3
piety, use.-- (Sir J.
Denham) Be as careful of the books you
^ 1

The three practical rules, then,

read as of the company you keep,
for your habits and character will
which I have to offer, are: 1 Never
read any book that is not a year
old.
books.
2. Never read any but famed
3. Never rend any but
what you like. (Emerson)
be as much influenced by the
former as the latter.
Hood)

^ 35.
(Pax ton
^^
It is as. with women,
with books
: 1
Choose an
3 ) ,^ ?
author as you
2) where a certain plainness of man-
ner and of dress is more engaging
than the glare of paint and airs
choose a friend. (W. Dillon) and apparel, which may dazzle the
eye, but reach not the affections.
As in feeling a pulse it is not (David Huwe) II
 H )

43
Books

^
( )

^
Books are as meats and viands
Bottom
Go to the bottom of things, like
are: some are good, some of evil a custom house officer. (Sydney
substance. (Milton) Munden)
Bottomless
To buy books only because they Bottomless as the foundation o1
were published by an eninent the Universe.— (Carlyle)
printer, is much as if a man should
buy clothes that did not fit him, Boughs
only because made by some famous
tailor. — Pope)

^
The
tree whose plumed boughs
are soft as wings of birds. (
Books, proverbs, receive
like
Bound
their value from the stamp and bound as a
Fast frost- bound

esteem of ages through which they water.— (Swinburne)

have passed. (Sir William Tem-
ple)

Bore
Bound
world's wheel.—
as
(
the sun to the

Boring in and out

My heart bounds like an im-

…
like a
prisoned bird against its wiry
stubby needle going through a
barrier. (John Brougham)
tuck.-drvin S. .Cobb)

Bounds like deer from the

Born hounds.— (Eliza Cook)
Born like a momentary fly to
buzz around,
flutter, and die. Bounds, light as hind before
(Robert Lloyd) the ho n n d ( A — m
brose Philips)
.

*i
Borrowed Bounded like a madman.
Borrowed as beautifully as the (Poe)
moon the fire of the sun. My pulses bound like a stag at
(Stephen Phillips) play- (John Sterliug)

Borrowers and Lenders Boundless

Neither a borrower nor a lender Boundless as the ocean.
be, for loan oft loses both itself and (Bulwer-Lytton)
friend, and borrowing dulls the Boundless as the sheeted sky.
edge of husbandry. (Shake- (George P. Morris)
speare)
 H

Boundless ( 44 ) Brazen

Boundless as the sea.

speare)
(Shake- hopes, — (
Boundless as the wind.
. Bracing
XSwift) Bracing as an Alpine breeze. —
Bountiful (Israel Zangwill)

Bountiful
(Cowper)
Bountiful as mines
(Shakespeare)
as
^
April rains.

of India. Brag boldly,

si.le liis
Brag
like the cock be-
parlet.— C^schylus)
Bow
Braggadocio
Bowlike a field of
fore the rising wind.— ( wheat be-
A
^irf^o.— (
swaggering air of brag-

( Bows

Like a
like a reed in a tempest.

standing corn,
field of
Brain
Terror filled the more remote
that's moved with u stiff gale,
their heads bow all one way.
(Beaumont and Fletcher)
(
chambers of his brain with riot—
)

Brain like liquid lead.

Bow^d like weeping willows. (Southey)
(Campbell) Brainless
Bowed, like a man sawing Brainless as chimpanzees.
marble. (Hood) (C. S. Calverley)

Bow'd like a sleeping flower.— Brave

(Miss Landon) Brave as a Barbary lion. —(
Bowed like bondmen. (Shake-
speare) :S Brai d as Achilles. —
A bowed under its own
life
wealth as the vine is bowed under Brats as a mad bull. —
its fruit. (Sudermann)
Brave as Launcelot. — ( )

Bow down his head

bulrush.— (Old Testament)
]!
like
^ !—a
less.
Brave as a falcon ami as merci-

I
Wilfrid S. Blunt)
<w . -.

Bowed to them) like a tree in Brave as a grenadier. — (Hugo)

^
a storm.— (Edith VVliarton)

Boy
Brazen
Brazen as an image. —
A fitful boy full of dreams and
 '

Brazen ( 45 )

Brazen as alabaster. (Dic- Breath like morn's young

kens) breeze. (Pilpay)
Break
Break him like a biscuit. Breathe
(Beaumont and Fletcher) Breathing like the Spring, —(
Break like an o'er-bent bow.
(Samuel Butler)
Break as a bubble o'er- blown
Breathe
ground. ( like toads under

in a dream. (Sidney Lanier) Breathed out, hard and still, as

a statue might whisper. (Joseph
Their ranks are breaking like Conrad)

(Macaulay) ^ ;^
thin clouds before a Biscay gale.
^
The young lips breathe like a
dewy rose fanned by the fire-fly's
The columns break, like shat- wing. — (Eliza Cook)
tered foam.— (Edward Peple)
Breathing like the bellows of a
Breaking his oath and resolu- forge.— (Lord Da Tabley)
tion, like a twist of rotten silk.
(Shakespeare) Breathing like a second-hand
bicycle pump. (O. Henry)
Breaking like a bursting heart.
— (Shelley) Breathe as the damask Rose.
Breast (Robert Herrick )
Breathing sweetness like a
Breasts as the buds of May.
bridal bower.— (O. W. Holmes)
(Lord De Tabley)

She breathes sweet serene as

Breasts half-globed like folded
'twere a gentle spirit from the
lilies deepaet in the stream. (D. skies. (Petrarch)
G. Rossett)

Breed
Thy two are like two
breasts
Breed like rats on a grain ship.
young roes that are twins, which
- (Li Hung Chang)
feed among the lilies. — (Old Testa-
it
ment)
Breeds like a rabbit. (Swift)

Breath A breed, like a dialect of a lang-

Breath like the sweets from the uage, can hardly be said to have a
hawthorn tree.— (Barry Cornwall) distinct origin.— (Darwin)
J #
 .

Brief ( 46 ) Bright

Brief
^
Briqhi as new silver. - (
^6.( Briefev tlmn the twinkling of

Brief as sparkles from the

y
( Bright as sunshine on the sea.
j

ilint.— (Hood)
Brief as time. (Bjn Johnson)
4^
of a man-of-war.
^^
— (
Bright as the captain's cabin

As brief as dragon-fly's repose. Bright as fullest moon in

-(Lowell) blackest air.— (Arabian Nights)
As brief as the wave's poise be-
fore it breaks in paarls.

Brief, as the sunshine scatter-

(Lowell) Bright as though a

£
fourteenth night.— ( moon of the

ed over the plains.- -(Mimnermus) Bright as a beach in the moon-

light.— (Alfred Austin)
Brief as a dream. (Ptah-
Hotep) Bright as the great stream of
Brief as a broken song. starswhich flows through heaven.
(Swinburne) -(P. J. Bailey)
Brief and trdmulous as a pass-
ing shadow. (William Winter)

Bright
( Bright like night with stars.

Bright as midnight's brightest

eyes.— (T. L. Beddoes)

^
beams
Bright as silver the
shine. ( meridian
Bright as an iceberg.
Blackinore)
(R. D.

Bright as fair sunshine alter As bn'gh' as the waves of a rill.

winter's storms. (^Eschylus) — (George H. Boker)

Br as a blister.— (
^
Bright as the rippling ocean in

—(
hu lshine.— (Robert Bridges)
Bright as a dollar. Fl

nil

Bright as a new penny.( Bright as icicles about a laurel-

tree.— (Maria G. Brooks)

Bright as a pewer pot. ( ) Bright, like a flash of sunlight.

— (Bulwer-Lytton)
beam dance. (
Bright as fairies that in a sun-
— Bright a8 day.— (Chaucer)

(
(
]^fifJBright as Japanese bronze. Bright as stars in winter.
 k —
JH

Ertghi ( 47 ) Bright

— (Hartley meteors

^
Bright as joy. Cole- Bright as ruddy
ridge) ' through the sky.. ~ (Robert Jeph-
Briqht as truth. -
(Barry Corn- son)
wall) Briglit r.s the lily of the vale.—
Bright as orient morn. (Cow- (Sir William Jones)
per)
Bright as a flame. (Daniel Bn'aht as Hope's first smile. —
(Miss Landon)

^
Defoe) '
ft
Bright as sunset. (Lord De Bright as a button. (Lean) "
Tabley) . .

—
Bright as Apollo's breastplate.
(Aubrey Da Vere)
m»m
(Lover)'
As
^
Bright as tho- rnby's blaze.

bright as g'l:)v-vorm.3 in
A
the
(
.
. ,

Bricht as May-day's morn.— niorht.-(Lyly)

Jt) sunbeam of the
Bright as the

sun. (
Bright as the pastures of. the
—
Shone as bright as sea-f oa m
morning.— (Evan MacColl)

As bright' as dewdrops in the

( — (Charles Mackav)
^
sparkling on a moonlit night.
)
Bright as Heav'n.
t
(Went-
sun.

Bright like the moon when the

worth Dillon ) stars are dimm'd with her blaze.
Bright as goodness. (Dryden; (Ewen Maclachau)

Bright as Phoebus. — (Francis Bright as the sunbeam's light.•

Fawkes) — (D. F. McCarthy)
Bright as the breaking east. Bright as new pottery.
(John Fletcher) (Maurice Maeterlinck)

Bright as any star in heaven. Bright as beams of Paradise.

(Goethe) (Mary E Mannix) @
Bright as the sun. (Rabelais)
% Bright as Minerva's
.

yellow
Bright as an opening rose fresh hair.— (Thomas Moore) ^
with dew. (Charless Keade
Bright as the rising sun, in
Bright as the light of her glori- summer's day. — (Pope)
ous eyes. (James Whitcomb ft
Bright as a new bell. (W. C.
Riley)

^ Bright as a beacon. (Hugo)

Russ 11)
Bright as spring. (Shelley)

First)
Bright as gold. (James the Bright
(Southey) ^
as mountain
T
 ) «

Bright ( 48 •)
Broke

Bright as the summer light- Brilliant as stars. (Ouida)

ning when it spreads
the midnight heaven. —
its

( glory o'er
As hi illiaiit as a spangled danc-
ing girl.— (Alexander Smith)
Bright as a rose new blown.
(T. D. Sullivan)

Bright as an angel.— (Swift)

Brisk
Brisk as a flea.— (
Brisk as bees that settle on a
Bright as a facet-cut diamond summer rose's petal. (0. S.
scattering light.— (Tupper) Calverley)

Bright as the dazzling snow. (William

Brisk as a bird.
(Wordsworth) Hazlitt)
Brighten Briskly as a revolving firework.
a
'Brighten like morning of — (Brander Matthews) iBS
young spring,— (John M. Leavitt)
ta Bristle
meadow when
the
Brighten, like a

Mulock)
sun comes out. Miss cupine.
Bri&tles
—
Bristle
( all

like
over

spears
like

in
a por-

battle
the full moon
Brightened, like ranks.— (Jayadeva)
of heaven; when the clouds vaiiisli
away, and leave her calm and Brittle
broad in the midst of the sky. glass that breaks
Brittle as
(Ossian)

Briqhtening like a star at eve.

—
with a touch.— (Swinburne)

Broad
(N. P. Willis)
Broad as the kingdoms and
Brillant
empires of old.— (Charles Mackay)

;(
She was as Brilliant, and as M
hard too, as electric light.— Broad as Heaven's expanse.—
16 (Hugo) W
Broader than the sea. (Old

( Brilliant as Indian
>
5
summer. Testament)
Broke
rainbow.- (
Brilliant as the colors of the

Brilliant as a mirror.
Broken up like baffled dreams.
(F. W. Faber)

(Dumas) Broke like a sea-bubble on the

Brilliant as altar fires. — (Vedic sand.— (James Montgomery)
Hymn) ^^ ' If
 )

firow ( 49 Burrow

Brow on thought, as the wild bee hangs

moon.-
Her brow
( is like the
......
youug cell on cell.— (Robert Browning)

Bulged

…
of a
Brows -thin like the
pen.— (Douglas Hyde) …
stroke Bulged like pudding.
James O'Brien)
(Fitz-

Bv.lged out in the sun like a

Dull black eyes
precipice of brows.
g
(under their ]>anipkin.
fll
—
(Thackeray)

Buoyant
Brown Buoijant
" as wings. (Byron)
Brown as forest flood. (Cachu-
lainn)
Broun
(Daudet)
as a pineapple. Cook) ^
Buoyant as light. (Kliza

Buoyant as the thistle-down.

Brown as the hearth of a (Hood)
kitchen fire.— (John Gay) II Buoyant as summer spray.
(Charles Turner) ^
Brown as a bun. (Hood)

Brown
Bum
Brown
(Shakespeare)
as

in
nut.

hue as hazel
(Longfellow)

nuts. —-
son ember. — (
The poppy burned like a crim-

Burnt like caustic. (Hood)

Brutal
Brutal as an unclean word
Burm like hate. (George
(Vance Thompson)
Mac-Donald)
Brute Burn like the red light of the
A
(
callous and conscienceless

Bubble
setting sun. (T Buchanan Read

Burn like mines of sulphur.

Bubbled like a tea-kettle
ginning to boil.— ( ^ be- (Shakespeare)
Burning like moLen jewels.
(W. W. Story)
Buffoon Burns, like a fiery star in the
A buffoon is liko a mad dcg, upper air.— ^Whittier)
that has a worm in his tongue,
v/hich makes him bite at all that Burned like a heated opal.
light in his way.— (Samuel Butler) (Oscar Wilde)
ffl

ifii Burrow
Build Burro a like a weasel. (R. D.
Mauy a thought did I build uj» B!advmor^)
 W

Burst ( SO ) Buzz

Burst foe.— (J. Hampden Porter)

Overhead the inteii&e blue of
the noon -day sky burst like a jewel Busy
in the sun.—
B
^
Restless and sore and haughty
feeling's vrro hvs'i within. ( •)

Bursting like a bean-pod.

D. Blackmore)
Burst, a morn
like lighted
(R.

^ ( Busy as a beaver.— (
bubble of dew.— (Eliza Cook) Bvsi/ as a beehive attacked by
a bear. —
Bursting like an overdone pota- A
^
to.— (Sir A. Conan Doyle)
( ' Busy as a boy killing snakes.—
i ^
Burst into sound, like thunder
with a shower. (Francis Fawkes) —(
(
Bksi/ as a
)' ^
good wife at an oven.

Busy as a hen with one chick.

Burst
Marston)
Bursts
like

like
surf. ——

the
(Westland

lightning's
Z
Busy as ticking clock. — (
flash.— (Schiller) Busy as a hen with fifteen
Bursts like one sound from ten <hickens in a barnyard.— (J. R.
thousand streams of a tempestuous Rartletts)
sea.- (Shelley)
Busy as a child at play.
Burst, like a thunderbolt. GSainuei Buttler)
(Tennyson)
Burst like new bottles.— (Old Busy as a cow's tail in fly time
Testament) (J. Fen more Cooper)
i

Bush
A
(
bad bush
open field.—
is better than the Busy as the day
(Lean's ^Collectanea")
is long.

Bushy Butterfly
Bushy as the fleece 01 the lam. I'd be a butterfly born in a
—(
' ^
and
bower where the

^
to<

^
s lilies

Business and violets meet.

Let business, like ill watches,
go sometimes too fast, sometimes
too slow.— (Samuel Butler)
Buzzing like a
•
Buzz
fly. ( ) B§

^:^^
Bustle (ft

Bustled about like so many Buzz in the ear like xnats.—

ants roused by the approach of a (Arlo Bates)
 • )

Buzz ( ^ ) Calumny

Buzzed like the bees

swarm.-(Hood)
when they
(Lord
Calm
D>3
as
Tabley)
Calm as a virgin
told a lie— (Dumas.)
an autumn
^ night

who has never

^
Calamity
$
Calamity is man's true touch- Calm as a lake in heaven.
stone.— (Beaumont and Fletcher)
^ (W. S.Gilbert)
(ah,i as night.— (Hugo)

;
the time.— (
Amid the direful calamities of
Calm as a
slumber lying.
child
(E.
in
M. Kelly)
its soft

Calm A calmness like the calmness of

^— '
A somber and breathless calm a grave. (Owen Meredith)
hung over the deepening eve.— (
Calm as a summer evening be-

—(
A
Calm
^
calnmes's settled

a summer
as
on his spirit

sea.
fore
Mulock)
the
It
dark

Calm as under ground.

begins.

(
(Mis.**

(Louisa M. Alcott)

Calm as a convent.— ( Calm as the clear evening after

vernal rains. (John Scott)

Calm as a June day. ( Calm as virtue. (Shakespeare)

Calm as a midnight
.

sea. ( Calm as slumbering babe.

( Calm as a soft summer eve.

(Shelley)
Calm as cieath.— (
Features are as calm as marble.
Calumniate
(John Brougham)
The calumniator is like the
Calm as a babe new-^vorn. dragon that pursued a woman, but
(Roteert .drowning) not being able to overtake her,
opened his mouth and threw a
Cdclm as a tielei of snow. flood after her to drown her.
Carman)
(Blisri (Edward Blunt)
Calm like that when storm is
done.— (Helen G. Cone)
Calumny
Calm as the gliding moon.
(Coleridge) Caluumyalways makes the
U ji
Calm as a mirror. (Dumas) calumniator woraa, but the caluin-
uiated— never.— (C. C. Col ton)
 ||I

Calumny ( 62 ) Careless

Came from all sides like con-

• from a wood
spirators in a tragedy.
Calumnies are answered best — (Maurice Hewlett)
with silence. (Ben J on son) A
Came, like a ray from Heaven,
It often hapj>ens that those are that shines and disappears. (John
the best people whose characters Home)
have been most inju ed by sland- Candid
ers; as we usually find it to bf the
1
Candid as a dove is white.
sweetest fruit which the birds have
been picking at. (Pope) it ^" (Huoro) ]E
Candid as mirrors. (Robert G.
Ingersoll)
Candid as the skies. (Francis
Thompson)
A mind qonscious of rectitude
Candle
laughs at the lies of rumour.
(Ovid) iE
i' When the cnndle is taken
away, every woman is alike.
(Prov.)
Those who convey aud those ' ''.^
who listen to calumnies, should, if /.i;,J'A fr

1 had my way, all hang, the former

Ca pneious as the sky. (James
their ears.— (Plautus)

Be the ii
^^
by their tongues, the latter by

as chaste as ice, as
A. Hillhouse) n
Capacious as the mind of a
boy.— (Donald G. Mitchell)
'
:
pure as snow, thou shalt not escape Caper
cahmnv.— (Shakespeare) Caper like a dancing master.
# (Thomas Otvvay)
there were no hearers, there
If

( )
would be no back-biters (Prov.) Ca}>ricioiis
wind— (P.
as the
H. Hayne)
vagrant
g
Half the world delights in
1

Capricious, like the thinkings

slander and the other half in be- of a child. (George Mac Donald)
lieving it. (French prov.)
Care
so care eats

Gwnc and went

Came

house gleam on a black night at

like the light- I
the
^
As rust eats iron,
heart— (a. ilicard)

Careless
g

sea. (Robert Buchanan) Careless as the salmon with its

wilJioii youuij. (Kicbard Le
 ))

Care f ess ( ^ ) Certain

Gallienne) as a good house-

keeper.- (Balzac)
Cardess as the vind. (Wil-
liam J. Linton) Cautious as a girl.— (Arsene
Careless as the course of a Houssaye)
meteor.— (Ossian) cautious as a burglar walk-
As
ing over a tin roof in cowhide
Careless as the young flower boots.— (Wallace Irwin)
tossing on the summer breeze.
(Ouida) a Cavillers
A fault-mender is better than
Card ess as the child at pi a v.
a iault-finder.-(Prov.)
(William Winter)

Careless as if nothing were.

( Wordsworth ) as the sun.— (Henri
Murger)
Caress Censure

( Caressed him

Carol
like a lap dog. Cemure is like the lightning
which strikes the highest moun-
tains. (Baltasar Graciah)

Carol like a bird in spring.—

No man can justly censure or
(Hood)
condemn another, because indeed
Catastrophe no man truly knows another. - (
Her mind was beaten
ground by the
^^
catastroplie. (
to the

Certain
Catch
Catching like fire in dry grass. (
As certain as that a brook must,
have banks. —
'

^ (W. D, Howells)

Caution will
As
(
certain as that a squirrel
climb a tree.— )

Little boats must keep the

shore;
more.
larger ships
- (Pro v.)
may venture
As
will follow
certain as that
you.— ( your shadow

Cautious
Cautious as a fox.— ( )
As
will fall in
certain as
autumn. (
that the leaves
)

II
As cautious as a Scot. — ( Certain as gold.— (
 )

Ccrtaift ( 54 ) Cdange

Certain as that a crooked tree (Elbert Hubbard)

will have a crooked shadow. (
Change
and heat
Certain as that light
come and go with the sun.— ( All
perishes.
things
-(Ovid)
change', nothing

meal. — (
Certain as tliat no nill no
It will be found that they are
the weakest-minded and the hard-
Certain
animals grow and die.—
as that
(
plants
)
and
est-hearted men that most love
variety and change.
'
(Rnsk'm)—

^
away
Certain
in the fire.—
as
(
that sticks burn
Political changes should never
be made save after overcoming
Certain as the
heavenly bodies.— ( movements of
great resistance.
cer)
—
(Herbert S])(>n-
^
Butler)
Certain as a

As
gun.— (Samuel

certain as a tail will follow

a comet.— (Carlyle)
fortune.—

Change
(
Change as women, wind and

like
^ women's
As
crash follows
certainly
the
as the thunder-
lightning.
(
thoughts and

Cangeable as the
winter weather.—

moons.— (
(Lever)
Certain as bodies moved with
i !
Quickly changed as are the
more

^
greater impulse, progress winds. (Beaumont and Fletcher)
rapidly than those moved with
less.- (Voltaire) Changeful as a child.— (John
Imlab)
Chance Changes color as a maid at
Chance fights on the side of the
prudent.— (Euripides)

There is no such thing

^ sight of sword ami shield.
caulay)
As
(Lewis Moiris)
chaiifjcfal
(Ma-

#!^
ns
—
the spring.

Chaiuj^ful as a mndin.-m's
chance. We have invented this
dream.— (Winthrop M. Praed) i4
word to express the known ofl'oct

aire)
sen
;
of every unknown cause. (Volt-
in &^ -(>
Chautfd like form in a dream.
W-ilRT Sc)tt) g ! 1

No more cfumes

legged mail in a football game.

than a o.io-

-(Southey) ^
Change like the face of fortune
^
 ) )

Change ( ^ )
Chatter

Changed as a cloud in the Charmed like an April rose.—

night.- (Swinburne) (W. H. Holcombe)

Changeful as the sea.— (Bayard Charming asa god.— (Otway)

Taylor)

^
•

Change like a weathercocjk.

(Robert Tofte) Chaste as marble.
("haste
— (
Change of Opinion
It is natural for a wise man to Chaste as
( Minerva.— ( )
>

change his opinion; a fool keeps on

changing like the moon.
Prov.)
(LaHii
A
%
Chade as the moon.— (
Chaste as ice. — (Beaumont and
Changeless Fletcher)
Changeless as truth.— (Keats) Chaste as angels are. (Aphra
Behn)
Changeless as a ray of light.—
As chaste as the silver-white
(Saint-Pierre) i beams of the moon. (John

tier) #
Changeless as heaven.— (Whit-

Channels
Gilbert Cooper)

Chaste as lily.— (Julia C. R

( Diverted into alien channels.

Character
Dorr)

Lovelace)
Chaste as the air. (Richard

Character, like porcelain ware, Chaste as snow.— (Thomas

must be painted before it is glazed. Moore)
There can be no change after it is Vhaste as light. (John Pom-
burned in, (Henry Ward fret) ft
Be cher)
Chaste as unsunned snow.
(Shakespeare)
Charity •
Charity is like molasses, sweet
Chaste morning clew.
as
and cheap. (Anna Chapin Hay)
A
Charity creates a multitude of
sin ,._( 0s car Wilde)
V Edward Young)

Chaste as the morning.— (

Chatter

a mine,— (
Your charms
(^harm
lay like metals in
k
( Chatter inn like a flock of daws.

The public press would chatter

and make odd ambiguous sounds

(
A fugitive intangible charm.
pJ storm.— (
like a shipload of monkeys in a
li
 A

Chatters ( 56 ) Cheerless

His chenk is like the rose of

spring.— (Firdausi)
Chatters like a jay.— (Robert
Browning)

pie
A constant chatter, like a mag-
in the trees.— (W. S. McFet-
bloom
Cheeks

^ of
crimsoned
the pomegranate.
like
— (
the

ridge) Her cheeks, as snowy apples

sopt in wines.— (Giles Fletcher)
Cheap
Cheap as dirt.— ( Cheeks are as round and as red

Cheap as dog's meat. — ( ^

as a cherrv. (David Garrick)

Cheeks like the rose on a bed of

As cheap as pearls are costly. snow.— (A. P. Graves)
(Robert Browning)

Cheap as sunshine.— (Hood)

Cheap as lies.— (Shakespeare)

Clieeks that shamed the rose.
iJohn Harrington) i ;
Her cfieeks like winter apples
red of hue.— (Jean Iugelow)
Cheap as old clothes.— (Horace
Walpole) His cheeks, as roses red, as lilies
Cheek fair.— (Willian Thomson)

( Cheeks as

Her cheeks
brown

like
as oak

living
leaves.

roses Cheered her

Cheer
soul like dew a
glow. (Scottish Ballad ) (Paul Laurence
dusty flowrr.
Dunbar)
With
a cheek like a bm'iiing
rose.- (Barry Cornwall) |I
Cheerful
Like a rdse set in snow was the OJieerful as the birds. —
bloom on her cheek. (John Craw-
ford)

Her cheekswere like the rocs

Cheerful ns the lively morn.

As cheerful :is
^
sinuiii'i 1'irk.
red, (Michael Drayton)
- Colerkl-e) ^^
Cft^erfid as priuc?.— (Mrs
A cheek like an apple-blossoui, :i

Gas)
-(George Eliot)
Lovely her cheeks were. . lit*.?-
Cheerless
berries red.— (Ancient Erse) Ghserhas :ir the grave. (Kliza
c-)ok) mmmm
 ^ )

Cbidd ( 57 )

Chide Chill as the scent of a new-

Chide as
(Shakespeare)
loud
^
Childhood
as thunder,— made grave.— (Kipling)

Chill as death.— (
The childhood shows the man
—
^
as
(Milton) ;
morning shows the day.
It:
Chill as ice.

Chilly as a tomb.
Mathilde Blind)

— Hood)
Childlike
Chilly as a dripping well.—
Childlike contour of the body.
(Keals)
—( As chill and ps green as the
Children sea.- (Kipling)
He is happy \\ ho has children; Grew chill as an Arctic lands-
he is not unhappy who has none. cape.— (Jack London)
— (French prov.)

Children are like grown people;

the experience of others is never of ^
chilled.- (
Her mood was unaccountably

any use to them.— (Daudet) Chimes

Chimes like silver hammers
falling on silver anvils. (Tenny-
Itthe case with children as
is son) '
with plants, that their future char-
acter is indicated by their early
dispositions. — (Djmophilus)
Chirping
Chirping like a cricket. (
Children are like beggars; often
— (W.
Chirp
net.— (Austin Dobson)
like
^
new-fledged lin-

coming without being called.

Chirping as chirp the birds be-
S. Downey)
neath the eaves. — (Hugo)
Children are never too tender
to be whipped; like tough beef- Choice
steaks, the more you beat them The difficulty in life is the
the more tendor they become. Choice.— (Geo. Moore)
( Poe ) ifii

Choose your love and then love

The smallest children are near- your choice.— (Prov)
est toGod, as the smallest planets
are nearest the sun.— (J. P. Rich- Felicitousness in the choice
ter)
tion of words.—
iW
(
and exquisiteuess in the colloca-
 ( S

Cficlerlc ( 58 ) Clappecl

Choleric Cities
Choleric as fire. (Charles An
age builds up cities, an
Reade) hour destroys them. (Seneca)
Choose Kf
In great cities men are more
To chooee time, is to save time.
callous both to the happiness and
( the misery of others, than in the
Chronicle country; for they are constantly in

( Such was the petty chronicle.—

Jifc
the habit of seeing both extremes.
(C. C. Col ton)
mm ^^
Chuckle
ChncJding like a setting hen.
^ Cities, like forests, have their
(Hugo) dens in which hide all their vilest
Circle and most dangerous monsters,
Circled like flight of doves. (Hugo)
— (George Meredith)
mm If a man
Citizen
be gracious and cour-
Circling like an eddy.— (Charles
L.Moore)
Circumstance
teous to strangers, it shows he
a citizen of the world. ) ( is

Man is not the creature of

circumstances. Circumstances are the Clamor
creatures of man. —
(Disraeli) Clamouring like a brazen bell.
— (George Meredith)
Clamorous like croaking
I endeavour to subdue circum- daws.— (Pindar)
and not myself to
stances to myself,
circumstance— Horace )
^
Clamorous like as wave to wavo
at sea.— (Swinburne) ;
Kil'ic

Happy circumstances in life are Clamorous as a horn reechoed

like certain groups of trees. Seen
from the distance they look very ^
by naked rock. (Word.sworth)

well, but go up to them and among

them, and the beauty vanishes;
you don't know where it can be; it
Sinks clamorous
watera at wild play.— (
like
)
nill-

is only trees you see. And so it is Clans

that we often envy tlie lot of Clang like a gong.— (Hood) ®
—
others.

ISA
^
(Schopenhauer) A_
A

Ifii
^ Clapped
Clapped his hands like the
clapping of wings. (Hugo)—
 H

Chip ( 59 )

Clasp
Clasp like ivy.— (Donne) ^ Clear
Davis)
C'ear as
as Spring.

infant's eyes.
(Thomas

Clean (Keats)
—
C7tfj7i as crystal.

Clean as light. — (
Clear as the finest porcelain.
(Richard Le Gallienne) ^
Clear as running waters are.
Clean as sifted corn . (Aristo- <Longfeilovv) in
phanes) Clear as a race course.
Chan as a maiden's honor. (George Meredith)
(Bj^rnstjirne Bjornson)

Chan as a rose
(James Whitcoirib Riley)
is after rain. — Moore)
Clear
(Henry
^^
CI ear as well water.

as
Morley)
the rosy dawn.
(George

Clear
— Ovid)
( Skies as clear as babies' eyes. -" ~ -
Char as glass.

Clear as a
(Franklin P. Adams)
midsummer sky.
'
^ Cigar as a mirror.

Ch ,ar as morning roses newly

(Schiller)

(
j

Clear as daylight.—
washed witli dew. (Shakespeare)
S
( A voice as clear as forest bird. Clear as the blast of horn.
(Bayard Taylor)

( Char a3

Clear as paint.—
mountain stream.

( four.
Clearly as two
(Voltairj)
and two makes

CUar as the crystal brooks.

Clear as pearls and diaphan- (Izaak Walton)
ous gems. (Arabian Nights) Clear as diamonds. (Theodore
WattsDuntoc)
Char as heaven's '
stars.
Cling
(James Beattie)
(Jlej:r as noon. (Robert Something divine seemed to
Browning)

cast
Clear as if

thereat.— (Bunyan)
no dirt
;
had been
(fi
vapor.- (
cling around her like some subtle

—(
Clin j like moss to a damp
Clear as a beil.— (Chaucer) waR

^
ii
CJinas fast as the clinging

mm
Clear as lake. (Coleridge)
^
vine.— (I':. B. Browning)
 " ^

Cling ( 60 )

ill lags about thee close, like Closed as a shrine. — ) HQ

in >ss to stones. (Walter S.
Landor) Clothes
A simple fellow in gay clothes \3

Clung like magnet to steel. like a cinnamon-trce, the bark is

T. Buchanan R-ad) of more value than the body.

Clog
Clogged like honey. (R. D. Cloud
Black-more) One winged cloud above like a
Close

(
Close as one second
oLher. —
is to an- (
spread dragon overhangs the west

Close as heat to fire. — ( The

clouds.- ( ^
east alone frowned with

Clumsy
—(
sofa.— (
Close as lovers sitting
U£
upon the Clumsy as a bear.

Cluster
C7osi?-mouthed as a clam.— ( Clustering like bees around
their commander.— (Aristotle)
wax.— Beaumont and

^
Close as t

Fletcher) Clutch
Close as an oyster.— (Robert Clutches like as a cog-wheel
Burton) 1 whatever comes too near the
seizes
nut.— (George
W
Close as a

(J lose as hand and glove.—

Eliot)
^
machine.— (Alexander Kiel land)

^ ......

("Foundling Hospital for wit, Coarse

1743") Coarse as fustian —
Hey wood)
Close as night. (Thomas
Coarse as hemp.— (
thorn is to the rose.
Close as
(Robert Lloyd) . .

Coarse in grain as the bark of

Close asoak and ivy stand.— (C.
G. Rossetti)
Close as the young wheat.—
# an oak.— (Dickens)

(Oiled
(D. G. Rossetti) Coiled like a snake.— (\V. S.

Close as a jail.— (Thomas Tus- Blunt) *g

eer)
Close as a flea in
("Yea and Nay
a blanket.—
Almanack," 1680 )
(old
Cold as a dog's nose.— (
Cold as a frog. — *t
Cold ( 61 ) Combativeness

morning.- (
Cold as a hot-water bag in the
Leslie)
Cold as a skeleton. (Amy ^

(
Cold as a tomb.—
As cold as an earthworm.
(Maurice Maeterlinck) ASfil
Cold as the night-dews on the

( (
Cold as Greenland's icy moun-
^
world.— (Gerald Massey)

^
tains.—
— (
^ Cold as charity.

—(Cold as iron.
Cold as a fireless hearth.—

Cold as a fish. (George Mere-

(
san.—
Cold as the heart of a courte-

Tears as cold as the stones on

dith)
Cold as Death's chill hand.
(William J. Mickle)
which sorrowing hearts had caused
to be carved their regrets. Cold as a dead maid's cheek.
(Balzac) (Miss Mulock)
Cold as a dead man's noae.
As cold as cucumbers. (Be- (Shakespeare)
aumont and Fletcher) 01 Cold as a snowball; (Shake-
Cold like a corpse. (Charlotte speare)
Bronte)
Cold as graveyard stones
from which the lichen's scraped.
Cold as dew to drooping leaves.
-(Shelley)
Cold as rains in
»
autumn.
(E. B. Browning) ...... (Swinburne)
Collapse
Cold as the ice on northern
sea.— (Ella D. Clymer) ( Collapsed lika a house

Like a dissolving palace of

of cards,

Cold as'clay.— (Coleridge) snow, it collapses. (De Qaincey)

Cold as a turtle. (Richard Colorless

Cumberland) Colorless as a statue. (Balwer-
Cauld as the marble stone. Lytton)
(Allan Cunningham) Colorless as lead. (John Rus-
Cold as the clod. (Aubrey T. kin)
De Yere) Colors
Cold as the coiling water-snake.
O. W. Holmes) ^
All
d ark. ( colors will agree in the

Cold as the mountain stream. Combativeness

— (Mrs. Inglis) Hethat wrestles with us
Cold as
(Keats) ; a
f
bubbling well. strengthens our nerves and shar-
pens our skill. Our antagonist is
 ^ ^

Comely ( 62 ) Complexion

^ ^^
our helper. — (Burke) ^ Ueade)

^ Comely
Common
Webster)
Common
as

as
sickness.

dew and sunshine.

(John

Comely as a bride. — -(Whittier)

Commonplace
Comfort Common place as mud. (
Love comforteth like sunshine
after rain. (Shakespeare) Companionless
Companionle$s as a prisoner in
That comfort comes too late;
bis dungeon. —
(Charlotte Bronte)
'tis like a pardon after execution.
(Shakespeare) (oinpanioiiship and Company
Above all things endeavour to
keep company with people above
Comfortless
you.— (Lord Chesterfield)
Comfortless as frozen water to a

^
starved gnake. —
(Shakespeare)

Comments
no
If yju would
companion, avoid
criticism upou those with
bd loved as a
unnecessary
whom
Harsh comments have yon live.— (Sir A. Helps)
hammers
effect: they

anvil.-(Helvetus)
are

^^
Common
like
which nre always repulsed br an
^ if
Best company onsiats
persons. -(Steele)
of five

Comvion as the stones in out Company

stree s. (Thomas Adams) ' Bad company is a dog that
those most he loves the bost.

&
dirt?

mg.— (
Common as a convenient say- (Swift)

casUe. —(
Vo.'iiruon as coals

as lying.— (
Newcastle
from New- Comparisons
Oar discontent is from com-

^ Coni'iaoii

—(
)

$
pariion.— (J. Norris)

Behn)
Common

Camuon
^
as pins.

as the air. — (Aphra Miic.—

A
(
coih
Compassion

^ ^
no s.n on perfectly an-

Tv;an)
Coinmo
^ i as rain.

—
(Pierc3 Coini>lo\ion
Her brow was fair,

pale, and looked like stain i^s in ar-

but very
Comtnoii
Gaskell)
Vqi/u/ioh
^ as

as
poverty.

dut.
(Mrrj.

(Charles
ble; a t >uch ineth n'^ht wouhl soil
its whiteness.— CB-irry Cornwall)
Complexion ( 63 ) Confidence

®
Com pie rion like a pink
—(Maurice Hewlett)
1^
rose's.
human affairs. — (Emerson)

Concessions
^
The concessions of the weak
A complexion like the red glow are the concessions of fear.—
of evening upon sn^w. (Heinrioh (Burke)
Zschokke)
Compound Conduct
A compound
strange
tradictory dements. — ( of
)
con- Yield with graciousness^
oppose with firmness.— ( or

All
Compulsion
that makes
valuable to anyone depends on
existence ( Scrupulous morality

From
of conduct.

another's evil qualities a

-

the enforcement of restraints upon wise man corrects his own.—

the action of other people. (J. S. (Publilius Syrus)
'
^
Mill)

Compunction
Be sparing
lingua, loculi&j loculis,
of four
et poculis
.

things,

A
moved
faint sense
her. — ( of compunction your tojigue, your purse, yoiir eyes,
and your cups. (J. Trusler)

Conceal
Conceal, like cosmetics. Confession
(Osman_Edwards) He's half absolved who has
Conceit confessed.- (Prior)
He was like a cock who
thought the sun had risen to hear It is a greater thing to know
him crow. — (Geo. how to acknowledge a fault than

^
Eliot)
to know how not to commit one.
(Cardinal deRetz)
Conceit is the finest armour a
man can wear. (J K. Jerome) Confidence
ft Salf trust is the first secret of
The surest way to be taken in success.— (Emerson)
is to think yourself cleverer than

^
others. (La Kocbefoucauld)

Concentration
^ Confidence placed in another
often compels confidence in return.
-(Livy)
Concentration is the secret of
success in politics, in war, in trade, Confidence, like the soul, never
ip short in all the uijuiageineni of returns thither whence it has de-
 ( 64 ) Conscience

parted.— (Publilius Syrus) Skirmishes and retreats of co/i*

sc/^c" —
Confidencein an unfaithful A man's conscieace and his
man time of trouble is like a
in judgment is the same thing, and
broken tooth, and a foot out of as the judgment so also the consci-
joint, (Old Testament)
^
ence,

^
may
^
be erroneous.— (Hobbes)

Good conscience you owe to

Confident
manhood yourself, good fame toyour neigh-
Youth is confident,
bour. (St Augustine)
wary and old age confident again.
flS
(M. F. Tupper)

As confident
^
as a bird commit- The greatbeacon-light God

(
ting itself to the air or a great fish
to the deep. —
the conscience of each
sets in all,
bosom.— (Browning)

Nor ear can hear, nor tongue

Conformability and
can tell the tortures of that inward
Conformity
holl.- (Byron)
often the shorter way and
It is
the more useful to conform to
^To all mortals conscience is a
other people, rather than to make
other people conform to us. (La
God. — (Menander)
Bruyere) St
A man has less conscience when
« in love than in any other condi-
Confused
tion.— (Schopenhauer)
Confused as in a dream. (
Love is too young to know
(
Confused,
wives,—
like the roaring of
what conscience is; yet, who knows
not conbcience
(S)iakespeare)
is born of love.

Confusedly, like a flight of dark

Bhadows.-(Hugo) N

A fly or dust shows itself at

Congenial
once in milk; so in a pure consci-

again. — (
Congenial ppirits part to meet

Conquest
ence, any, the smallest stain, cannot
be hid. And, as a fly quickly
cast forth by any one who is drink-

death.— (
Chains or conquest, liberty or ing milk, so the busy fly of impure
thought is cast from the pure con-
science.— ;St. B niiventui'Ji)
Conscience W ft«
 -

Con&cience ( 65 ) Consfant

^ Conspirator
Conspiratorsand
like moths, which eat the cloth in
He
that has a scrupulous con- which they arc bred; like vipers,
science like a horse that is not
is that gnaw the bowels where they
well wayed, he starts at every bird
that flies out of the hedge. A know-
ing man will do that which a ten-
der-conscience man dares not do
by reason of his ignorance, the
are born; like worms, which con-
sume the wood in which they were

^
engendered.— (Agesilaus) ^
^
other knows there is no hurt: as a Constancy
child is afraid to go into the dark
when a man is not because he
knows there is no danger. ~ virtues.— (
Constancy is the foundation of

To love one maiden only,

^ylden)

^ cleave to her, and worship her by

years of noble deeds, until they

—
won her.— (Tennyson)
il i
Conscientious
Conscientious as a dog. Woman is like a weathercock
(Robert Louis Stevenson) which, when it is new, glistens in
the sun and turns at every wind,
Consolation but becomes fixed at last when
This is the comfort of friends, tirae has rusted it.— (Voltaire)
that though they may be said to
die, yet their friendship and society
are, in the best sense, ever present, Constant

^^
because immortal. (Penn)
sun._ (
Constant as a shadow in the

in
There is no
truth alone —(Pascal)
consolah'on except
Constant
spheres. - ( in motion as the

Constant as the dove. (Mrs J.

Conspicuous Hunter)
Co ispicuous pyramids. ( Constant as the day
from east to west.
and niglit
(James Mont-
Cmxpicuous as the brightness gomery) S
of a star.— (Cow per) (Jonsfant the stars that never
moved.— (Olway)

^ (
Conspicuous like a cathedral.
Robort Louil Stevenson) ^ Constant as the sun.
Reade)
(Charles
 ) Kv

Constraint ( 60 ) Content

f ('onstraint kuow too

^^^- ^ ^ ;
. much of him.— (C. C.

( xlis coiidroint was excruciaiing. Oo\ ton )

\f-

suu. ( Consume as snow against the

Consume like smoke. (Old

Contemptible
Contem ptible as pebbles to an
Testament) admirer of diamonds. Balzac)
Consumed her like a fire.
(Matthew Arnold)
Consume, like a devouriug fire. Co/it.'.nt as infant smiling
— (George Sandys) through its dreams. ( Willian All-
ingham)
Consumeth, as a garment that is Contented as a fox when the
hounds were drawn off and gone
moth eaten.— (Old testament.)

Consuming
(Whittier)
like a vapor. ^
home from hiin. (Col ley Gibber)

^Mutual content
which must have
is like a river,

^
its banks on
The contagion of extravagant either side. — (Le Sage)
luxury.— (Ooiitagiouj
( Men live best on little. Nature

^
a
Contagious as a yawn.

happy child.
^
Contagious, like the gladness of
(Bulwer-Lytton)
gives all
only
iun)

Him whom
men

^
knew how
happiness
to use it.

W
if

^ th'j y
(Claud-

''

&/"A ""Ort.—
7
Contemplation

(
Soar into a rosy zone of con-
'
content,
(Epicurus)

Few
nothing

^
i\

\\

things are necessary to

little
ill c

^
will i"t
outeat.

Ooiitemporaries make a wise man happy, .but

Contem poraries appreciate the nothing c:ui render a fool cedent-
man rather than the merit; but ed. Thiit is v. by nearly all men
posterity will regard the merit are miserable. (T.a Kochefou-

Col ton)
&
rather than the man. (C. C.

Speaking generally no man

cauld)
^^
Sweet are tlui thoughts that
savour of content; the quiet mind
*«rW
7'
f C

appears great to bis contem por-

a vies, for the same reason that no
inau is great to his servants they
^ ^
is richer than a crown.

^^
(K. (ir('<"i)
l^i'i
 -
-

( 67 ) Cool

hold that to need nothing is

I taking mineral waters, it is the
divine, and the less a man needs after effects that are the real
)\Mm
^
the nearer does he approach divini- effects. (Schopenhauer)
ty. -(Socrates) S

Contention Conversation
Contention is both
like fire; for conversation of a man re-
The
burn so long as there is any ex- sembles a piece of embroidered
haustible matter to contend with. tapesty, which, when spread out,
— (Thomas
^ Adams)

Contention, like a horse full of

showed its figures,
folded up, they are hidden and
(Theraistocles)
but, when it is
lost.

high feeding madly hath broke

and bears down all before

^
loose, ifii

hiin. — (Shakespeare) Conversation in its better part,

may
Contention with an equal is
doubtful; with a superior, madness, -
art.
be esteemed
(Cowper)
a^gift, and not an

^^
with an inferior a degradation Silence and modesty are very
(Seneca) valuable qualities in conversation.
(Montaigne)
Continuous
you your
( Continuous, like the

Continuous as the stars that

brook.
from
care To
If
things observe with
slips, five
whom you speak, of
whom you speak, and how and
lips would keep

shine and twinkle on the milky

^
wav. (Wordsworth)

Contrary
when and where. (W. E. Norris)
- rkm

minting. — (
Contrary, like wind and
^ tide

Cool as a
M. Alcott)
Cool
snow bank. (Louisa

(Sir
Contrary as light arid darkness.
Richard Steele) ^ ( Head as cool as an usurer's.

,
Controversy
Truth often suffers more by
muzzle.
Cool as a dog's nose in a wire
—
(Josh Billings) IJ ^
the heat of its defenders thau from Cool clown like a dish of tea.
Uie arguments of its opposers.
(L'enn) M ^ (Collay Gibber)

Gay)
Cool as a cucumber. (John

There is consolation in that Cool as a moonbeam on a,

fact that in controversies and in frozen brook. (O, W. Hoi in era)

 ( 68 )

. Cuntless, as the drops that

The heart
rose, of
Coquette
of a coquette
which the lovers pluck the
is like a (
glide in the ocean's billowy tide.

Countless as locusts.— )

(
leaves, leaving only the thorns for
the husband.— Countless as the stars that roof
our night — (Aubrey De Vere)
fiB
A coquette is to a man what a Countless as motes in the sun-
toy is to a child as long as it pleases beams.— (Sir Walter Scott) jftill
him, he keeps on; when it ceases
to pleases him he discards it. ( Countless as leaves on
autumn's tempest shed. (Shelley)

Core Countless as the desert sands.

to the cove. (
Penetrate beneath the surface

Correct
(Bayard Taylor)
Country, The
God made the country and man
Correct as a machine. (Pierre
made the tovvD. (Cow per)
dje Coulevain)

^
He who
recting the error. (
errs quickly is in cor-

hills
All country people hate eacli
other.- (Hazlitt)
The gift of country
woods, where happy
and
life, ne a i

Corrupt waters sing in solitudes.— (John

Corrupted as ttje grave.
Masefield)
(James Montgomery) *
Gosy
Courage
Cosy as the nest of the bird.
Gathering all her scattered
(Phoebe Cary)
Couch
Couch' d like a lion watcliing for
bis prey. (James Montgomery)
o>"r"^.— (
impulses into a passionate act of

None bat the brave deserves

the fair.-(Dryden)
Coughed
Coughed like a cow who finds True valour lies half way be-
feathers mixed with hay.
zac)
Counteiiance
(Bal-
^ [ ween cowardice and rashness.
(Cervantes)

His countenance was like lightn- You will find many men who
ing. (Old Testament) are mof=t unjust, most unholy,
I most intemperate, and most
Countless I
ignorant, yet eminently courage-
 )

Courtage ( 69 ) Coward

ous.— (Plato) Cot doits persons are like

® sponges which greedily drink in
water, but return very little until
they are squeezed.— (G. S. Bowles)
by
Valour grows by daring, fear
holding
Syras) g
Courage
back.

is like the
(Publilius

diamond
^ *

when
Covetousness,
it
like jealousy,
has once taken root, never
very brilliant; not changed by fire, leaves a man but with his life.
capable of high polish, but except (Tom Brown)
for the purpose of cutting hard
bodies, useless. (C. C. Col ton) Coward
Base and crafty cowards are
like the arrow that flieth in the
dark. (Bacon)
Courtesy
Life is not so short but that There needs no other charm
there always room
ie for courtesy. nor conjurer to raise infernal spirits
(Emerson) up, but fear.— (S. Butler)

The flower of courtesy. ( Cowards die many times before

—^
The greater man, the greater their deaths; the valiant never
courtesy.— (Tennyson) taste of death but once. (Shake-
19 speare)
Courtly
Courtly as the French. (John
Cowardly as a wild duck.
Ford)
(Shakespeare)
Cover When our actions do not, our
(
Covers the country as the'dew.

Covers it, a stone covered

like
fears do make us traitors.
speare)
As an old
(Shake-

soldier I admit the

in grass.— (D. G. Rossetti) cowardice', it's as universal as sea-
8[ sickness, and matters just as little.
Covert (G. B. Shaw)
Covert as the birth of thought.
— (Jomes Montgomery)
There grows no herb of help to
Stole out as covertly as starlight heal a coward heart. (Swinburne)
from the edging of a cloud. (N.
P. Willies) IS The wieked flee when no man
Covetous pursueth. but the rightous are
 )

Cowa ri ( id ) Creatty

bold as a lion.— (Pro v, ) Cmfty a s a fox.— (

^lany would be coa:ar<Js if they
had courage enough. (Frov.)

Cower
Crafty as any Jesuit.
Joubert)
Crafty as a snake.
^
(Joseph

(Keats)

Co uer and crouch like an Eng- Oram

lish housemaid when knees are
calloused with scrubbinu-.
!
(Hu'?o)
i'fi
Cram: tied in, like salted
their barrel.— (Carlyle) ^
fish, in

mm Crash
Coxcomb Crashing... like the ice of polar
Coxcombs keep each other com- sea.— (W. H. Lecky)
pany, like two knives, to wliet
each other.— (V.mbrough) Crash as if rock were hurled
PS' upon rock. — Ouida)
Crabbed
Crabbed as a cuckoo. ( Crashed,
(Tennyson)
like a hurricane.

Her temper is as crabbed

thorn.— (T. Buchanan Read)
as a (Ji'a.wl
Crawl like a snail.—
KH4
(
Crack Crawl like caterpillars on u
Crack' d your skull through wall. (James Montgomery)
like a bottle. (Beaumont and
Fletcher) Crawled like a weed-clogged
Making the floor crack as if an wave.— (Oscar Wilde)
image of stone were walking
it.- (Hugo)

3
^
a cocoa-nut bo',
ovt;r

led
"

Crazy as a bedbug;
Crazy
(J.- R.
Bsrtlett s "Dictionary of Americ-
by a monkey. (George Meredith) ansm')
'

Creak

^
Crack and bounce like parched Creaked like the implacable
peas.— (Charles Keade) cicada's cry. (Robert Browning)
^^ if

Crackle
Crackling as artillery.
Blackmore)
Crackled like charcoal at the
(R. D.
^ Creek like the chariot wheels
of satan. —
(Bt n Jonson)
i

Creamy

^
flirt ofa fan. (Sir Richard Steele)

Crafty
Creamy as the opening
(Lewis Morris)
Crease ( 71 1 Crisp

Crease All creeds and opinions are

^ K—
folio.
Creased like
(Thomas
dog's
CJray) ^ nothing but the mere result of
r
chance and teniper^jin ent.— (J. H.
Shorthouse)
v

i^fl
Credit

^(
Credit lost is like a Venice Creep
glass broken.— Creeping into her innocent

Credit is like chastity; they

cnn both stand temptation better
(
heart like a maggot into a rose.

g/n ^
than suspicion. (Josh Billings)

Credulity
the
Creep like the grey mists upon
mountain side.
Hauptmann)
Creep like shadows.
(Gerhart

(Shake-
A credulous man is a deceiver. speare)
-(Bacon) Creeping like snail unwillingly
As a rule men freely
what they wish. (Caesar)

The most positive men are the

believe
^
to school.

hidden weeds.
(Shakespeare)

Creeping close
||

as
(Spenser)
snakes in

most credulous biuce they most be-

lieve themselves. ( Pope) Crest-fallen

There is nothing that cannot

be imagined by people of no iin-
H
( Crest-fallen as a dried pear.

Crimson
agiuation.— (Edith Sichel) as August heather.
As crimson
(Alfred Austin)
Confidence is a pi ant of slow Crimson, as if blood were min-
growth in an aged bosom; youth is gled in it.— (Longfellow)
the season of credulity. (Lord
Chatham) Crimson, like a sea of blood un-
troubled by a wave. (Whittier)
Let any man spsak long
enough, he will get believers. (R.
L. Stevenson)
He flushed crimson. ( )

Crinkly
W.
Credulous as a child.
Smalley)
(George
Crinkly as a coon's hair. (
Creeds
Creeds are as thistle-down Crinkly like curled maple.—
wind-tossed and blown, but deeds (Lowell) JS
abide throughout eternity. (G. Crisp
Barlow)
tiice»— (
Crisv as a head of
»'
young let-
 Crisp ( 12 ) Critic
Crisp as n6W bank notes. — other graminivorous animals, gain
(Dickens) their subsistance by gorging upon
Critic buds and leaves of the young

what
A very
fastidious critic— (
practised and some-
I

j
j
"rubs of the forest, thereby robb-
in g them of verdure, and retarding
their progress to maturity.
The eye the critic is often
of I
(Washington Irving)
like a microscope, made so very
fine and nice that it discovers the ffn

atoms, grains, and minutest par-

ticles, without ever comprehending
the whole, comparing the parts, or The eyes of critics, whether in
seeing at once the harmony. commending or carping, ace both
(Swift) on one side, like a tur bat's.
(Walter S. Landor)
m
A true critic in the perusal of a The theatre is like a Turkish
book, is like a dog at feast, whose I
seraglio: the critics a re the eunuclia
thoughts and stomach are wholly (Farquhar)
set upon what the guests fling
away, and consequently is apt to A should be a pair of
critic

bones. — (
snarl most when there are fewest snuffers. He
is oftener an extin-

guisher; and not seldom a thief.

(Julius C. Hare) ^
A young critic is like a boy
Critics are brushers of
like with a gun; he often fires at every-
Noblemen's clothes.— (Sir Henry thing he sees; he thinks only of his
Wotton)

A an idler amus-
critic is like
(
own skill, not of the pain he is
giving.-
^
ing himself with a spy-glass, he
looks at the defects of a work Some critics are like chimney-
through the end that magnifies, sweepers; they put out the flre
then inverts the instrument to dis-

^^
below, and frighten the swallows
cover the virtues.— (E. P. Day)

Critics a kind of free-

are
^ from the nests above; they scrape
a long time in the chimney, cover
themselves with soot, and bring
nothing away but a bag of cinders,
and then aing out from the top of
booters in the republic of letters, tho house, as if they hnd built it,
who, like deer, goats, and divers -(La^gfollow) ©
 ^

Crhics ( 73 ) Crown

m © Like two doomed ships that

^
/

Critics are the eunuchs of art;

pass in storm, we had crossed each
other's way. --(Oscar Wilde)

they talk about what they cannot Intricately crossed, like leafless
do.— (Vladimir De Pachmanu) underboughs, 'mid some thick
grove.— (Wordsworth)
A critic is a legless man who
teaches running. (Channing Pol- Crow
lock) Crow like chanticleer.
Crilics, like weather-cocks, are (Shakespeare)
not infallible. — (Lewis Rosenthal) Crouch

Crooked
Crouching
(^schylus) » as for refuge.

( Crooked as a dog's hind leg.

Crooked as a gimlet.— ( side)

C'rouche'd like a slave.

Crouched like two bulls locked

horn in horn in fight.— (Robert
(Aken-

-Crooked as a ram's horn.

Browning)
Crouching about like a cat a-
mousing. (Longfellow)
( Crooked as Robin Hood,s bow.

Crouched like a wild beast

Crooked as the
in his lair— (Longfellow)
st eets of
Boston.— (Arlo Bates)
Crowd
Crooked as the letter Z. Crowding like the waves of
(Francis Groses "Classical Diction- ocean, one on the other. (Byron)
ary of the Vulgar Tongue")
Z Crowded like chickens in a
Crooked as an auger.— (Othe- cluster. —
(John H. Frere)
man Stevens)
Cross Crowding one another like a

( As cross as nine highways.—

Cross as the tongs.— (

flock of black goats scurrying
the hills.— (Flaubert)
down

)
Crowd, like flocking linnets. —
As cross ns a red donkey. (Hood)
(Balzac) Crown
Crons as two sticks.— (Dickens)

Crossed
A crown
worth wearing.—
if it

(
hurt us, is hardly
 g )

Cruel ( 74 ) Curious

Cruel as a
(
Cruel
rich coxcomb in a
^ Crumple
Crumpled like a leaf. (
'
hallrooin.

OiwZ
—
as winter. — unwelcome
Crumpled like a creditor's
bill.— (Bui wer-Lytton)
m
Cruel as Medusa's sculptured Crum pled like a snowball in
— (Lord
^
face.

)
De Tabley) his fist.- (Hood)
Crush
Crushed like an egg-shell. (
Cruel as the sun. (Maurice)
Hewlett)
Cry
They are as cruel as creeping
My heart is crying like a tired
tigers.— i

^(
child for one fond look, one gentle,
Cruel as the pinch of a pain-
loving word.—
(
less dentist.— (Sydney Munden)

Cruel as love or
)^
life. (Swin-
pp
Culture
burne) g§
Cruel as death. (James The fine flower of culture.— (
Thomson)
Jealousy
grave. —
(Old
is as cruel
Testament)
as the Cunning
Cunning as a fox.— (
Cruel,
wilderness. — (
like the ostriches in the
^ Cunning as a
lotte Bronte)
witch. (Char-

^^^ ^ m^
Cunning differs from wisdom as

( Her scarlet lip curled

Cruelty, like every

other vice,
cruelly. twilight
Johnson)
from

;
open day. (Dr.

requires no motive outside of itself;

(
^' ^
it only requires opportunity Cunning as a - eased. (Kanuri
'f Vf Proverb) '
Nothing doth more hurt in a
(rumble
CrvmbJed like a house
— (Ouida)
of sand.
for vis ( ^
state, than that cvnning men pass

Cni mltie The ve:'.k in courage is strong

^
like a ruined tower.
(Charles G. D. Roberts)
in ci</j/ji/?<7.— ( Wm Blake)

Cruinble like the chaff of a Curious

summer thresliin^-fl or.— (MiUoii) Curious as a fish.— (Goethe) iif

^^
 )

Curidus ( 75 ) Dance

Curious as a magpie.— (Bet- The despotism of custom is

on Hutten) everywhere the standing hindrance
Curiosity to huruan advancemen:. (J. S.

Feeding his scholarly curiositj. Mill)

—(
His curiosity is quenched. ( A bad custom is like a good

The maiden whose

Curl
it

lip like a
(
cake, better broken than kept.

rose leaf is curled. (P. J. Bailey) Cut

Curling like tendrils of the

parasite around a marble column.
The name that
soul like a knife.— ( cuts into my

-(Shelly)

Curling like a kinked up

The
a knU'e. — (
satire of the word cut like

ostrich feather. (Ella Wheeler D

Wilcox) Dainty
Curling like a wreath of smoke.
(
(Coleridge)
Curled up in his heart, like a
Daintu
# as

Dainty as a quail.
thistle-down.

(Zola)
little squirrel in its nest. (W.
Gilbert) Dalliance

Curve
He
c^Z/omctf. (
treads the primrose path of
—
-(Southey) ^
Curved like the crescent moon,

Cut
shine- (
Dance
Dance. ..like atoms in the sun-

Cuts like ingratitude.

Cuts like unkindness.— ( Dance

waves-— ( like corks upon the

Dance like flarae. (Robert

Custom is not only, as the Browning) A
proverb says, a second nature, but Dancing like a bright and
is continually mistaken for the buoyant flame (Celia Thaxter)

^
first. (J. 8. Mill)
Danced like the fairies.

( ^
Custom reconciles us to every
thing. —
(Voltaire)

(William B. Yeats) fel

fll]

Dance like a wave of the sea.—

 Af

Danee ( 76 ) Daunt

wind.— (
She danced like

Danger
a flower in the Bark as mire.-— (Bunyan)

Dark as pitch. — (
i

Banger is never overcome with-

out danger. (Publilius Syrus) Dark as the grave.— (Cowley)

(0.
Dangerous as a machine gun.
Henry)
Dark as shadows be. — (
truly
If the danger seems slight, then
not slight.
it is —
Darkness is
sublime idea than
more productive
light. ( of

woR— (
In front of precepice, behind a
(
Darkness oozed out from be-
tween the trees.—
gangers breed fears, and fears
more dangers bring. ) ( Darted

Dark
Dark
as a cellar.— (
Darted
(Aneurin)
like
; an eagle.

Darting skyward like a rocket.

Dark as a dungeon.— (f^ife )

Dark as a

Dark
thief's pocket.

as a futurity. (
(
-(Dickens)

ling)
Darted
(Dumas, pere)
Dart like a
like
^ a

rifle-bullet.
A
serpent.

(Kip-

Darted... M^q
)
an arrow aflame.
Dark as midnight.— ( )
-(Joseph Conrad)

(
A
Darted like a skimming bird.

( Dark as the shades

Bark as a wood.— (K. D. Black-

of night.
Darted away like a bird that
has been fluttering around its nest
more)
Dark as a dead man in the
ground.— (Sydney Munden)
before it takes a distant flight.—
(J. Fenemore Cooper) !
Bark as hell.- ( horse in a race.
Dash
Dashed on like a spurr'd blood-
(Byron)
Dark as fate.—
The waves dashed like a
Dark as the inside of a whale. torrent of pearls. (Francis S.
-(F. W. Thomas) Saltus) }g
Daunt
Dark as the brooding thunder- Daunt like a king that draws
cloud.—OVhittier) his troops to fight. (George
 S ^ B

Dauntless ( 77 ) Deal*

Sandys)
«
Dead as yesterday. — ( )

Dauntless Dead as dreams. (William

Dauntless as death. Matthew Watson)
Prion)

(
Dauntless as deities exempt
—
Deaf
Deaf as a post.— (
from fate.

Dauntless as an ibis.— (Ouida)

As deaf as a beetle. — (
Deaf as a door.— (Nicholas

(
The dawn
Dawn
is singing at the
Breton)
Deaf as bricks. — (
dooi. —
Dawn had broken.— ( Deaf as the billows. (Ovid)

Day Deaf as the sea. (Shake-

less.
A
— (day monotonous and color-

Day-dream
speare)
Deaf as fire. (Swinburne)

He gave himself to a sudden Dear

day-dream. Dear as the land to shipwreck-
ed mariner.— (Eschylus)
Agitated
da !H ireams.- (
and enthralled by
Dear as liberty. — (Cicero) '
Dazzle
Dazzled like the lightning in
the sky.— (Racine)
%
^ =
Dear as the apple
—(Timothy Dwight)

As dear to me as my own
to thine eye.

right

^
Dazzle like a new-discovered
star.— (T. Kuchaoan Read)
hand.— (W. S. Gilbert)

Dead Dear as the vital warmth that

( Dead as the nail in a coffin.— feeds my life.— (Otway)

( Dead

Dead as
as the Roman
bricks. —
Empire. Dear as the
feeds? my heart. —
vital stream that

As dear to me as are tlie ruddy

Dead as wood. — (Lewis Morris) drops that visit my sad heart. —(
Jh:ad as earth.— (Shakespeare)
( As dear to me as life itself.—
 S

Deare ( 78 ) Debt

and liberty. — (
Dearer than eye-sight, space, Heaven gives
earlv death,— (Byron)
its favourites-

shuts
Death is
down our
Death
like sleep;
lids.
and sleep
(Byson) %
its
To pass away ere
brightness? — ( life hath lost

Sweet rose, fair flower, untime-

Men fear death, as children fear lyplucked, soon faded; plucked in
to go in the dark. — the bud, and faded in the spring.—
(Shakespeare) IS

ctea
Into
. ( the

Dismal march
very vestibule

of death. (
of

She dies in— like a rose, blown

D.
from its parent stem. (C.

How beautiful is death when Sillery)

earned by virture! —
Death, United In
The
world's an inn,
the journey's end.— ( and
)
death
i

I
Saul and Jonathan were lovely
and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided.
A
hint of death
breath of the gale.—
W
( in the icy I

I
-(Samuel)
!
Deathless
It is
born.— (Bacon)
Death openeth the gate to
,
as natural to die as to be
burne)
Deathless as

Debt
love. (Swin-

good fame and extinguisheth envy. Debt is like any other trap,
Bacon) ... … i easy enoug-h to get into, but hard
I
enough to get out of.— (Josh Bill-
There is a remedy for every- ings)
excepting death.
^2
I

thing (Cervan-
I
.
tes) Debts are now-a-days like
The sense of death is most in children, begot with pleasure, but
I

apprehension; and the poor beetle, brought forth with pain.— (Moli-
that we tread upon, in corporal ere) H
Bofferance finds a pang as great as
when a giant dies. (Shakespeare) Debt is the prolific mother of
folly and of crime. (Disraeli)
ftU

Death sets us free even from The second vice is lying; ilio
the greatest evils.— (Plutarch) I
first is running into debt.— (B.
tt II I Franklin) ftffifliJ

Death, Premature i
 —

Debts ( 79 )
Deep

Debts and lies are generally Deceitful, like crows.— (-<E3-

mixed together. Rabelais) chylus)
Deceitful like the devil.
A person who can't pay gets (William Byrd)
another person who can't pay to Deceiver
guarantee that he can pay. Like- A base Deceiver, like a deep
a person with two wooden legs get- well whose mouth covered with
is
ting another person with two smiling plants.— (Kalidasa)
wooden legs to guarantee that he
has got two natural legs. It don't
make either of them able to do a Deceptive
walking match.— (Dickens)
(
Deceptive as the mirage of the
desert,-

itfc
Deciding
Those who are quick in decid-

(
Decay
Decay like the rain bow 'a hue taken. — (
ing are in danger of being nis-

We decay like grass of the hill; Decline

our strength returns no more. Declined, like a flower sur-
(James Macpherson ) charged with dew.— (Milton)
All decay, like the glories of Deeds
the spring. — (Miss Mulock) We live in deeds, not years; in
thoughts not breaths; in feelings
Decay like corpses in a char- not in figures on a dial. (P. J.
nel.- (Shelley) Bailey)
While man is growing, lite is
in decrease; and cradles rock us
nearer to the tomb. Our birth is Deeds are
— (Prov.)
fruits, v )nls
' are biU

—
nothing but
(Young)
our death begun. leaves.

Deeds are males and words

females.— (Prov.)
a.r,,

If a man
Deceit
deceive me once,
tions.— (
Great deeds need great prepara-

Deep
shame on him;
me.-CProv.)
S
—
if twice, shame on Deep as grief. —

Deceitful ( Deep as the fountains of sleep.

 )

Deep ( 80 ) Delicious

Deep as the void above. ( Defence

Self defence is nature's oldest
Deep as the North Star.— ( law.-(Dryden)
*
Deep as though the globe were Self-preservation is the first of
split to let the waters through. laws. Dryden)
(W. E. Aytoun)
Delay
Deep in the heart as meteor Justice deferred enhances the

higher sphere. ^
stones in earth, dropped from
)
some price at which you must purchase
safety and peace.
ham)
(Lord Broug-

Deep as hell from high heaven.

Carlyle) When my house burns, it is
not good playing at chess. (Prov.)
Silence as deep as eternity. (
Deep as life and death.— ( All delays
war.— (Dryden)
Delay of justice
are dangerous in

is injustice.
Deep as the murmurs of the (W. S. Landor)
falling floods. (James Cawthorn)
Delicate
Deep as the unfathomed end- Delicate as flowers. )
less sea.— (C. G. Rossetti)
Delicate as invisible meedle-
Chasms as deep and as drear as points. —(Carlyle)
the tomb.— (John Kuskin)

Deep as hell. — (Shakespeare)

Z^Wca«g as a lily.— (
Deep as the sea. —
Delicate
(Agnes Repplier)
as
ff
Delicately
rose
^
leaves.
C

Deep as night and Heaven.— Delicately, as fingers play sad

(Shelley)
Deep as hate.— ( music— (R. D. Blackmore)

Deep as the grave.— ( )

Delicately,
finger-nail
Meredith)
like the tap of
on a vase.— (George
a

Defect
Delicious
The wise man's defects are like
the eclipses of the sun; they come
to every one's knowledge.— (Con-
fucius)
( Delicious as forbidden fruit

Delicious as a dream.— (Miaa

* Landon)
 ) "

Del gbtfnl ( 81 ) Destructive

Delightful Descends like the foot of a crow.

mel. — (
Delightful as the song of philo-

Delightful as the all enlivening

(Arabic)

It is a strange desire to seek

sun.— (Walter Horte) power, and to lose liberty. (
Delusion
Delusions, errors, and lies are
Desolate
like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters
of which are rotten and worm-
Desolate as a mausoleum.
eaten, and those who embark in
Desolate as a tomb. (Heinrich
them are fated to be shipwrecked.
Heine)
(Buddha)
; §
Desolate as death.
Saltus)
Desolation
(Francis 8.

Delusive
midnight dream.
Delusive as a Pale and vague desolation. —(
(James Cawthorn)
mm Despair

D<;mw?'g as a
Demure
cat.— ( ;jfc
Despair is like fro ward child-
ren, who, when you take away one

—(
'M^ of their playthings, throw the rest
Dgmtov as a nun. )
into the fire for madness.
Oharron) ^
(P. de

m
Dense
Dense as darkness. ( )
Despise
!!
ii

Depart Despised as a thing passing into

Departed as a shadow. (Pee) oblivion. (Thomas Morton)

Deprecating Destested

gy.— (
In a deprecating tone of apolo-

Depression
D^stested as the gates of hell,
(Schiller)
Destruction
Collapse into a dreary and Athousand years scarce serve
hysterical dejy''essicm. — to form a state; an hour may lay it
— (Byron)
ffij

Overshadowed
<^/ws/cw.— ( by a vajjue
in the dust.
^
Descend Destructive

iold. (
Descended like a wolf on the
rattle-snake.— (
Destructive as the bite of tho
 A

Destructive 82
( ) Differ

( Destructive as hail in

Deteriorate
summer
beam
Jasmin)
It died
of a
away like the pale sun-
weeping day. (Jacques

Deteriorate like a fish in the

sun.- (Ambrose Bierce) All my glories die like flowers
transplanted to a colder "sky.—
Devoted (Lord Lyttelton)
Devoted as a faithful dog.—
(George Sand) Differ
Devotion Differ as a clipped hedge and
Devotion, like forest.
in
fire froste
weather, burns hottest in

(
afflic-
tion.— (Sir Thomas Overbury) Differ as smoke and flame.—
A
Devotion, like
ward.- (Zoroaster)
fire, goeth up-
( Differ as sword and tooth- pick.

Devour
Devour me as an adversary.
(Bunyan)
Differ as the
the ea gl e
Mm
-'
. — ( glow-worm and

Devoured it like a ravenous

wof that liad been starving a fort-
—
Differ as the song of the lark
to the voice of the crow. — (
^
night in the snow. (Daniel Defoe)

Dewy
Greek.—
Differ
( as an Jndion and a

J^ewy as a
(Amy Leslie)
spring morning.—

Die
( Differ as a

Differ as flint
whale and
M
and chalk.—
a tadpole.

(
Die like a dog in a ditch.— ( A
Where heroes die as leaves
Differ as grass and liay. —(
—(
Dies away like a peal of cathe-
fall.

DWwas loeks.— (
—(
dral bells.— (Saint-Pierre)
Differ as noses. )

The fresh roses on your cheeks

shall die like flowers that wither in
the shade.— ("Aphra Behn) ( ^
Differ as simpleton and sage.

Die like a rat in hole.

and the
Differ as the tail
tail of a pig— ( of a comet

(Ranger Gull;
( l>'ffer as winter aud summer*
Differ ( 83 ) Dim
Differ most, as solt and sugar. Difficult as a beginning. -

Bacon) (Byron)
Differ like human faces. As difficult as for a slave girl to
(Nicholas Rowe) please a slave-dealer. (Osmauli
Proverb)
Difference
The difference of savour 'twixt As as to preserve
difficult
vinegar and wine. (Arabian
your purse at a gaming-table or
Nights)
your health at a bawdy house.
The difference is as great
that between elephant and
mosquito. (Tamil Proverb)
as
a
(Fielding)
^
Difficult as to distinguish colors
Difference between jet and
in the darkness. (Sir Richard
ivory.— (Shakespeare)
Steele)

Different Difficult. ...aa for a rattle-snake

making a
(
Different as dog-days
at Christmas. —
and those to stir without
(C. 0. Colton)
noise.

( Different as

As different
swan

as
is from goose.

our faces. (C.

Difficult to
end of a hard boiled
Edgren)
grasp as the small
egg. (Robert

C. Colton)
Different as the two hemisph- Difficulty
eres in the time of Columbus.
(George Meredith) (Burke) ^
Difficulty is

Difficulties, like
a severe instructor.

thieves, often
Different asdark eyes from disappear at a glance. — (Rochefau-
golden hair.— (Swinburne) Cauld)
Dignity
Difficult
Difficult
virtues of our
as
enemies.—
to
(
forgive
)
the
be silent.— (
His dignity, counseled him to

Dim
( Difficult as to grasp a shadow.
Dim as in a dream. (Bui-

egg shell. — (
Difficult as to sail the sea in an wer-Lytton)
Dim as a ghost.— (Mrs.
H. Cortissoz)
E. M.

Difficult
rhyme made
as to remember
in a dream. — ( a Dim
that was
den)
as the dream of a dream
dreamed.— (Sydney muu-
 )

Dim ( 84 ) Discourse

Dim as the dusk of day.

(James Whitcornb Riley)
U
( Disappeared like a shadow.

Disappeared, like the shadow

Diminish thrown by a passing cloud.
Beauties diminish, like those (Dickens)
of a fine prospective viewed too Disa ppeared, like a cloud
near. (M. de Lo Bruyere) driven by the wind. (Dumas,
Piere) i
Dimly Disappear like a tale that is
Dimly like a half-remembered told. —
(Simeon Ford)
dream.— (George Eliot)
Disconnected
Dimpled Disconnected as a dream.
Dim vied r.s a bady. (0. W. (Max Nordau)
Holmes)'
Dimpling
IBliM
like a brook. ( Discontent
.

A man whomno one pleases is

much more unhappy than a man
Dimpling
cheek. — ( like

Direct
a maiden's who pleases no one.
foucauld)
(La Roche-

Direct as a railroad. (Hood) Discontent is the first step in

man

^ the progress of a or a nation.

Direct as light. (Robert G. Oscar wilde)
Ingersoll)

^^
Dirty Discordant
the a
^ Dirty as a hog.— (John Byron)

Dirty as earth. — (Fielding)

gull.
Discordant
(Daudet)
as cries of

Discordant as croaking frogs.—

Disagree (Bonnell Thornton)
Disagree like clocks. (Lily)
Discourse

( Disagreeina as fire and water.

Disappear
Disappear like phantoms.
Disappears like dew an a June
morning. (Edward G. Buffum)
Themistocles said that a man's
discourse was like to a rich Persian
carpet, the beautiful figures and
( patterns of which can bs shown
only by spreading and extending
it out; when it is contracted and

Slowly disappearing, like a day

dream.— (C. S. Calverly) ^
folded up, they are obscured and
lost —
(Plutarch)

W
K
^^ S
 a )

Discoverers ( 85 ) Disputes

Discoverers Dismissal
I seem to have been only like Out of sight, and trouble me
a boy playing on the sea-shore and no more.— (marlowe)
diverting myself in now and then
finding a smoother pebble, or a I do desire we may be better
prettier shell, than ordinary, whilst strangers.— (Shakespeare)
the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me. (J. Dispel
Newton)
fog.— (
Dispelled,

Disputant
as the sun did the

True disputants are like true

Discretion sportsmen, their whole delight is
Discretion
than eloquence.
of

Disease
speech
(Bacon)
is

&
more in the pursuit; and a disputant no
more cares for the truth than the
sportsman for the hare.— (Pope)

Dangers stand thick through all

the ground, to push us to the tomb;
and fierce diseases wait around to Our disputants put me in mind
hurry mortals home. (J. Watts) of the scuttle- lish, that when he is

If the
^
head is sick all the
unable to extricate

he becomes invisible.
himself,
blackens thd water about him till
jHj (^
limbs are affected. (Latin prov.

Disgrace Distinct

disgrace.- (
It is better to die

Dishevel
when life is a vice from virtue.
Distinct as
(Charlotte Bronte)
Distinct like a goug at m'd
D,'s7ieveWd hair, like eagle's night.— (E. B. Browning)
plumage ruffled by the air.
(James Montgomery) Distinction
Panting after distinction. —
Dishonour
The shame is in the crime not Distinguished
in the punishment.— (Voltaire)

When faith
Distinguished by hereditary
rank or social position.— (
&
dies, the
-
man is
islost,when honour
dead.— (Whittier) Disputes
He who discusses is in the
Dismal
Dismal as a hearse.— (Nicolas
Boileau)
right, he who disputes is in the
wrong.— (De Rulhieres) ^
 )

Disputes ( 86 ) Doubt

In much as
all disputes, so there Distant as the dead.— (Scheller)
is of passion, so
nothing to the purpose.
much there
( is

)
of

Distinct as a
Distinct
new map.— (
Dissimulation Distinct as thunder-peals.— (
tion. — ^
Dissimulation invites dissimula-

Dissipated
Divide
Dividing like a splitting stick.
Thomas Hardv)
Dissipated like fleecy
across surnmur skies. — (clouds
)
Dizzy
Dissolve D^^/ as a goose. —
like a
Dissolved, fragment of
Dizzy like one in an ill dream.
summer sea.
ice that melts in the
-(Henry Van Dyke)
—(
Dizzy, like a man in a dream
S falling from a height and enduring
Dissolve ike smoke. (Ver-
the anguish of falling. (Edmond
laine)
aud Jules De Goncourt)
Distance
Tis
Distance lends enchant- Docile
ment to the view, and robes the Docile as a lamb. (Balzac)
mountain in its azure hue.
(Campbell) Docile as a pet spaniel. (Haw-
thorne)
Distance sometimes endears Docile as a managed horse.
friendship, and absence sweeteneth (Wordsworth)
it.— (J. Howell)
-
— Dodge
Dodged and scrambled around
Distant like a woman who has lost her

lantic.
Distant
— ( as America from At-
,
mind on account of the arrival of a
bat— (Mark Twain) W

At a safe distance, like mother Doubt

ducks watching their brood. ( tainties,
If a man will begin
he shall end
with
in doubts; but
cer-

Distant as the horizon sail. ifhe will be content to begin with

(George Meredith) doubts, he shall end in certainties.
-(Bacon) IW

(John G. Neihardt) ^
Distant as a dream's flight.—

believed;
Who never doubted, never half
where doubt, there truth
 J

Doubts ( 87 ) Drama
is 'tis her shadow. (P. J- ment)
Bailey)

Who knows
(Browning) ^ most, doubts not.— chilled
Went down like
thermometer. (
mercury
)
in a

Doubt on matters important Downcast

for us to know is a state too violent Downcast as a woman fearing
fir the human mind. It cannot Warue.— (Wordsworth)
resist long; in spite of itself it de-
cides for itself in some way or other Down-trodden
and loves rather to deceive itself Down-trodden, as the untimely
than not to believe. (Rousseau) shook from the fig-tree by
fruit a
sudden storm. (Coleridge)

'
ifii Wafted
painted leaves of
drovmuard like
Autumn.
the
(Long-
By doubting we come at the fellow)
truth.- (Cicero) i

Drag
make
win,
Our doubts are traitors and
us lose the good we oft might
by fearing to attempt.
cession.
Dragged
(
Drag along
—
like a stage pro-

like a lamb to a
(Shakespeare) slaughter- house. (Thomes Hol-
craft)
Dragged like a dove into the
In philosophy you must doubt vulture's bed.— (Lycophron)
things which you understand too
easily, as much as things which you Like a wounded snake drags
do not understand at all. (Volt- its slow length along. (Pope)
aire)
Drama
All spectators desire
pleasure
— the crowd the pleasure of the
^
Doubt tortured him.

Down
eyes; the women the pleasure of the
heart; the thinkers the plearure of
the intellect.— (Victor Hugo)

scythe.— )(
Gone dotm
like grass before the

Down, like the hungry hawk. Melodrama for the crowd

-(M. K. Stebbins) # tragedy for women; comedy, which
He shall come down like

^
rain depicts humanity, for thinkers.
upon the mown grass: as showess (Victor Hugo) ""
that water the earth. — (Old Testa-
 g

Drama ( 88 ) Drive

M in general, become of no more

Have you not perceived the value than their dress. (Haziitt)
tendency of your soul during a 3t- 3
comedy, how a mixture of pain and
pleasure is found therein? Drift
(Plato)
( Driftinq like flakes of snow.

Drifts like April snow. (Amy

The purpose playingof to Leslie)

nature.— (Shakespaare)
^
hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to
( Drift as wrecks on the tide.

Drifting, as the sands on sea-

Draws shore shifting.— (Ellen Peck) R
sea.— (
Draws as the moon draws

Draws tears like an onion.

the

( Strong
i
Drink
drinks are like wars,
making cripples of some men, and
Dreadful sending others to the grave. (W..
Dreadfid as the storm. S. Downey)
(Campbell)
Lf readful
— (John Hay)
as a gathering storm. Drink like a funnel.— (
Dreadful as the
(Homer)
God of war. Drinks like a sieve.— (
Dreams Drink like a fish.— (Beaumont
Which the children of an
are and Fletcher)
idle brain, begot of nothing but
vain fantasy.— (Shakespeare)
^
when
Thirst

Augier)
the
coraes
wine

Drip
is good
^
with drinking
(E.
•
—

( Life find love are all a dream. Dripping like a laborer in a

^ (
foundry.— (Stephen Crane)

of
A
rfmmw. (
swiftly unrolling
—
panorama
Dripping like a mermaid.
(Hugo) ^
Dreary as an
Dreary

^Asian steppe. mayaua) ^

Dripping as if drowned.

Drive
(Ra-

^
(Balzac)
Dreary as an empty house. Drives him, like a lightning.—
(Flaubert) (Pope)
Dress Drives like rain to the roots. -
Those who make their drexs a (George Meredith)
principal part of themselves, will,
 ' . — T

Drive ( 89 ) Drop

Drive like chaff before the Droop, like unfolded wings

1: 1st ring wind. (George Sandys) half spread for flight.— (T. Buch-
anan Read)
Drive like mists before the
Droop like a shower-beaten
^
blasts of dawn. (Swinburne)

Drives out opposition, as the

flower.— (D. G. Rossetti)

Drooping like a dew-laden lily.

sun drives out the night. (S. G.
Tailentyre)
Driven
Di'iven as leaves in Autumn's
blast.— (Edward Octavus Flagg)
-(Tupper)

frost.— (Celia Thaxter)

Drop
^
Drooped like a flower in the

Dropped like a stone down

Driven like chaff before the through the deep sea. (Miss
wind of heaven. (Sir Walter Mulock)
Scott) The blood dropped out of her
Driven like starlets down the cheeks as the mercury drops from
wind.— (James C. Woods) a broken barometer-tube, and she
melted away from her seat as an
Droop image of snow. (O. W. Holmes)
Drooping like a falling bios-
som.-(BoIzac)
Droops like a broken lily. ( Men
(Kipling)
dropped like partridges.

Droo p, like wreaths of snow. Dropt from the zenith like a

(E. B. Browning)
j

falling star. — (Milton)

Droops, like a rose, surcharged
with morning dew. (Dry den) Dropped like flakes, they
dropped like stars, like petals from
a rose. (Emily Dickinson)
Drooping
(Duinas, Pere) :
like pltimes. |0

Dropped like a flower cut down

^
in the
She drooped like a lily
valley.— (Patrick Bronte)

Drooping like a rose rainladen.

-(Miss Landon)
bedewed
by the sickle. (Dumas, Pere)

Drop tears a fast as the Arabi-

an trees their medicinal gum.
'

(Shakespeare) ffi

Droops like a flower. (Barry

rnin)
Droop like the trees in
tober. —(James PuckU)
Oc-
Droppeth
from heaven.
as the gentle rain
(Shakespeare) '
i Drop off like leaves in Au-
 a )

Dropped ( 90 ) Dry

turn n.— (Robert Blair)

Dropped like a spent horse.

Drov;sy
clock.— ( as the clicking of a

—(George H. Boker)

Fluttering to the ground, drop-

Drunk
As drunk as a beggar. ^ i)

ped like a wounded bird. (Ma- Drunk as fish.— (Ben Jonson)

thilde Blind)
Drunken as a tinker. — )

Drop
Browning)
like

Dropped as dead.
shot.

(Aubrey
(Robert
i>rimfc as a top.— (
De Vere) Mi\^Ci9Ja Drunken as a rat.— (Borde's

day. — (
Drops like mercury on a cold

Droppedlike a lily broken down

"Book of Knowledge", 1542)

Drunk as a porter.— (Nathaniel

by the hail.— (Lody Barnard) Field)
Drunk as three in a bed. —(
She stoodsilent a moment,

branch.- (
dropping before him like a broken

I
Drunk as a wheel-barrow.—
(Samuel Wesley)
Drunk as a lord.— (
Drought
The drouth is like sand spread Drunk as a beast.— (Whitter)
within my mouth. (D. G. Ros-
setti) Manbeing reasonable must get
drunk, the best of life is but in-
Drowned I

Drowned like pigs when they i

toxication.— (Byron)
attempt to swim. — (Hoop) ST
Dry
Drowned, as
Egypt.— (Old Testament)

Drowsed
by the flood of
!

•
Dry
(George Ade)
Dry
as a

as
London Newspaper.—

peanut shells.—
^
(
Dry as pith. —
The light moon

(
tween the trees like a
drowsed be-
great yellow Dry as tinder.- ( :

moth.- i
'Mm
Dry as soon (
as tears.—

Drowsiness
Drowsiness

( coiled insidiously
I

Dry
i
as a bone.— (
about him.—

Drowsy
'•

i
Drri as a sponge.— (
 )

Dry ( 91 ) Dumb
Dry as nuts.— ( Dull as a Dutchman. — (
Dry as desart dust. — (Stopford As dull as a hoe. —
A. Brooke)
Dry as a cinder.— (Joseph Con- D" as a post.— ( )'

rad)
Dry as a chip. (Dickens) Dull as cloudy skies.— (
*
Dry as the desert, — ( Dull as ditch water.— ( Jft

Dry as granite.— (Dr. John Dull as a dormouse.— (Beau-

Doron) mont and Fletcher)
Dry as the shell on the sand.— Dull as the earth.— (§c^)
(0- W. Holmes)
Dry as the leaves in winter. Dull as sin. (S. Lanian bla.ii-
(W. S. Landar) chard)
Dry as sand.— (Charles G. Le- Dull as lead. (Anne Bronte)
land)
Dry as ashes.— (George Eliot) Dull as an ox. (Fielding)

Dry as a pond in the summer. With eyes as dull as smoky

(Lover) K glass.— (Norman Gale) g
Dry as the tomb.— (Robert
Mackay) : Dull as a whetstone. — (Robert
Dry as flame.— (Ouida) Heath)
Dull as a donkey. — (Hood)
Dry as dust.— (Shakespeare)
Dull as night. (Shakespsare)

after a voyage.— (
Dry as the remainder biscuit

iam
Dull as country squire.
Wy cher ley)
(Will-

Drying up like a brook Dull as catalogues. (R. B.

when
Shcredan)

^ ^
the woods have been cleared fei

around.— (Bayard Taylor) Dull as a sheep. (Robert

Louis Stevenson) M
Dry and yellow as parchment.
(Henry Van Dyke)
Dumb
Dumb as an oyster. — ( )

Dvmb as death.— (Sydney Do-

A
Dull
Dull as a beetle. — ( bell)
Dumb as a fish.— (Ben Jonson)

as a convent. —( ) Dumb aa the grave. — (Keat«)

Dumb 92 Early

;
( )

Dumb as pillar-posts. (George

Meredith) Sweet peace conduct his sweet
Dumb as a mouse.— (English soul to the bosom of good Abra-
Proverb). ham!— (Shakespeare)
Dumb as a dream. (Swin-
burne)
Durable
E
negro.— (
Durable as the black of the

Eager
More durable than steel. — Eager as a bridegroom. (
Durable as eternity.— (Haw- Eager as a cry for life.

thorne) (Georgie Meredith)

DurabU as bronze. (Henry
James)
Duty
Eager for it as a ho^nd. (
The only way to regenerate Eager as greyhound on his
the world do the duty which
is to —
game. (Sir Water Scott)
lies nearest us, and not hunt after
grand, far-fetched onea for

—
selves.- (C. Kingsley)
our-
their prey.— (
Eager as hunters in pursuing
!tA

Ear

few
Knowledge
may
a steep ^hich
is

climb, while duty is a path

An eager and thirsy ear. (
which all may tread. (Sir L.
Herlittle ears were like rosy
Morris) shells, they had a pearl dangling
TO from each of them. (AVilkie Col-
Dwindle

down
Dwindling away
a valley of rocks.
like echoes
(Thomas
lins)
^ ^ Early Rising
Hardy) Cheerful at morn he wakea
Dying from short repose, breathes the
One can be a soldier without keen air and carols as he goes.

(
dying, and a lover without sighing. (Goldsmith)

He
a
that would thrive must rise
Truth sits upon the lips of dy- by five; he that hath thriven may
ing men.— (M. Arnold) lie till seven.— (Prov.)

S If
But she was journeying to the They that rise wi the sun ha
land oi souls.— (Campbell) 4a ' their work well begun.— (Scottish
Earnest ( 98 ) Economy

prov.) Last/ as forgetting oaths. — (0.

Wash thy face in morning
dew, thus thou wilt thy health
W. Holmes)
Easy as loving.— (
renew.— (Old saying) Easy as lying. —(
Earnest With as much ease as whirl-
Earnest as bees.— (Leigh Hunt)
Walton) ^
winds more feathers. (Izaok

Earnest as
(Donald G. Mitchell)
life and
#
hope.
—(
Easy as robbing a child's bank.

Easy as winking.— (^c^)

bountiful
Earth

mHA.— (
Everywhere the fragrance of a Easy as breathing. ( )

Easily
Easily as a, nurse leads a docile
child.— (Bui wer-Lytton)
poker.— (
Easy as a conjurer swallowing a

down
II
Easily as eagles cleave the
-(Mrs. Sarah Hale)
air. ^ Shall be as easy as going
the river in a boat.

As easy for you

(Pante)

to take a drink,

Easily removable as a pair of

— (John Davidson)
Easy as kissing.— (
lais) ^
spectacles from the nose.

Easily as
(Rabe-

the eagles soar.

Easy as a down -bed.— (Shake-
speare)
(Schiller)
Pouring as easily as hour-glass

^ Eat like a hog.

Eat
—(
saiid.- (Keats)
Eat like a horse. (
one might wind a
Easily/ as
watch.— (Donald G. Mitchell)
'

Eats like rust.— (

on
Turning easily
a perfect axle. — (
and securely a?
mm
Eat like wolves.— (
Eat as doth a canker. (New
Easy Testament)
Echo

^
Easy as counting the blossoms
on a century plant.— ( Forever echo in the heart.— (
Economy
Easy as for a dog to lick a dish. Frugality is the science o£
—( avoiding unnecessary expenditure,
 •

Education ( 94 ) Egotism

or the art of managing our pro- To be a well-favoured man is

perty with moderation.— (Seneca) the gift of fortune, but to write

and read comes by nature.
(Shakespeare)
Education
What greater or better gift to The great secret of education is
the state than to train up youth? to secure t/int bodily and mental
-(Cicero) exercises shall always serve to
relax one another. (Rousseau)

The foundation of every state

is the education of its youth. The education of children is a
(Diogenes) business w here one must know
how to lose time in order to gain
The richest soil, if uncultivat- it.— (Eousseau) I&l—
ed,produces the rankest weeds.
(Flutarch)
^
Tis education forms the com-
Effort
You cannot do anything by

—
mon miDd; just as twig is bent, the
tree's inclined.— (Pope)
M
Education is a pocession which
doing nothing.— (Prov.)

hard
Prov.)
It is
to
easy to open a shop but
keep it open. (Chinese

cannot be taken awav from men. Wherever nature does least,

(Greek Saying) man does most.— (American Say-
ing) fl}

men without religion

Educate
p.nd you make them but clever There is nothing which has
devils. (Duke of Wellington) not been bitter before being ripe.
(Publiliua Syrus)

The vices of the mind may be We must

so strive that each
corrected, but when tho heart is man may regard himself as the

«^
chief cause of the victory.— (Xeno-
bad, nothing can change it.
(Voltaire) phon)

The clothing of our minds Egotism

certainly ought to be regarded be- There's nothing like egotism.
fore that of our bodies.
8teele)
(Sir R.

Education has for its object the

It preserves a
meat. — ( man as ice preserves
fi

formation of character.— (H. Spen- The surest way to be cheated

eer) H is to think oneself c levers than
 )

Eloquence ( 95 ) Endeavour

other
cauld) ^
people.

Eloquence
(La Rochefou- Agitated with violent and con.
tending ^rno^ws.

Emphatic
—
El oquence may exist without a Emphatic as an oath. (Georgo
proportionable decree of wisdom. Moore)
-(Burne) Employers and Servants
If they have a bad master,
When things have taken they keep quarrelling with him; i(
thorough possession

^
of the mind, they have a good, master, they
words are plentiful. (Seneca) keep quarrelling with one another.
:f -(Goldsmith)
Eloquence is the mistress of all
t'he arts.— (Tacitus)
Empty
Eloquent
Eloquent as Cicero.
(
( ) cio)
Emptier than a reed.

Emptif as a bird's nest in De-

(Boccac-

Eloquent as angels. (C. C. cember.

Colton)
Elusive
Elusive as quicksilver.— ( Empty as a quill. ( )

Empty as shade.— (C. C. Col-

Elusive as sheet lightning play- ton)
ing among June clouds.
Huncker)
(James

So elusive that the memory of

^ Empty as a church on
day.— (Daudet)

Empty as an idiot's
a

mind,
week-
13

itafterwards wag wont to come and

go like a flash of light.— ( (George Cabot Lodge)

Empty as space. (Guy De

Embarrassment Maupssant)

( A twinge of embarrassment.

Embrace
Empty

Empty
as a skull.

as wind.
(Tennyson)

(Mrs. Trol-
lope)
Imparadised in one another's
arms.— (Milton) Endeavour
To do your best is to be one
Eminence man picked out of a thousand.

Wwift)
Censure is the tax a
to the public for being
man
eminent
pays
:
(Eden Phillpotts)
i

We always succeed when we

Emotion only wish to do well. (Rousseau)
 u ' —

Endings ( 96 ) Enemies

believe this to be a duty, and that

Endings not to fulfil it is a sin. (Pascal) —
The bud may hava a bitter
taste, but sweet will be the flower. II .t fi
(Cowper)

The end gcod thing is p.n

of a
evil; the end of an evil thing is a
Enduring as
Endurins
marb!c.— (
good thing.— (La Ecchefoucauld) Eamiring as the stars. —

Enduring as — (Joseph
#
to
It is much
fiinsh.-(Plautus)

The end crowns

easier to begin
^
all.— (Shake-
than Conrad)
As enduring
(Keats)
eternity.

Enemies
as a camel.

speare) It is impossible for any man

Endowed not to have some enemies. — {Lord
(
Endoued with
Spbasis.—
life and em- Chesterfield) ^
—(
A large, rich, copious Iinman He who has a thousand friends
eWowwenf. has not a friend to sprare; and he
who has one enemy will meet him
Endurance everywhere.— (Emerson)
Whatever happens, either you
have strength to bear it or you
have not. If you have, exert your Reflect that a friend may be
strength and do not murmur. 11' made out of an enemy. (Seneca)
otherwise do not complain. The
weight will crush you and then All cause of liate was ended in

^ ^^ ^^^^
destroy itself.— (Marcus Aurelius) their death; nor could he war with
* Iff [- bodies void of breath. (Virgil) —
s ai&i
iTii

'
; R:

A man
&
can't be too careflil ia
'Tis the one way to make To- the choice of his enemies. (Oscar
morrow

Kucw how
^
sing. (E. Le Gal lien ne) Wilde)

it

^
is to suffer
(Longfellow)
sublime
and be
a thing
strong.
ifii^KflJ
evil is

He
^^ ^
One that confounds good and
an enemv to the good.

that wrestles with us

(
One should not to be dis*
try
tressed about anything, and to take
all that happens as for the best. I
pens our skill. — (
strengthens our nerves, and shar-

^
 . )

( 97 ) Enthusiast

man. (
The greatest enemy to man is

.(
Enterprises
Pulling the strings of many

dam
Our enemies were broken
of river reeds.— ( like a e/^r/^'
Enthnsiasm
Nothing great was ever achiev-
Energy ed without enthusias777 (Emer-

of
An
emr . (
almost riotous prodigality

England
son)

Enthusiasm is the genius of

England a prison for men, a
is sincerity, and truth accomplishes
no
paradise for women, a purgatory

& without
victories it. (Lord
for servants, a hell for horses. Lytton)
(Proverb)
Enthusiasm like a bottle rid of
Englishmen the cork.— (George Meredith)
Of the nations in the world,
all
at present, the English are the stu- The prudent man may direct a
pidest in speech, the wisest in ac- state;but it is the enthusist who
tion. —Carlyle) regenerates it, or ruins. (Lord
Lytton)
Liberty is the idol of the
English, under whose banner all National enthvsism is the
the nation lists. (Mrs. Centlivre) great nursery of genius.— (H. T.
Tuckerman)

How hard it is to make an

Englishman acknowledge that he
is happy!— (Thackeray)
Nothing great was ever achiev-
ed without enthusiasm. (
g
When a Frenchman and an (
Stirred into a true access of

Englishman think the same, you

may be prettv sure that they are
right.- (Voltaire)
A fever of enthusiasm. (
She swept away all opposing

-ward
Enjoyment

(
Sensuous enjoyment of the out,
show of life.—
w^ww'aw". — (
opinion with the swift rush of her

Enthusiast
Enlightenment Tlie enthusiast has been com-
It
enlightenment.- (
came to him with a stab of pared to a
everything
man walking in a fog;
immediately round

Entangled
Entangled
like vines^ — ( liiru, or in contact with him, ap-
pears sufficiently clear and lumin-
ous; but beyond the little circle, of
 B

Enthusiast ( 98 ) Envy
which he himself is the centre, all So eniie consumeth the envious
13mist, error, and confusion. — (C. man. (Anthonie Fletcher's "Cer-
a Colton) tain Very Proper and Profitable
Similies" 1595)
Hi
As a moth gnaws a garment,
Envious so doth eniy consume a man.
Envious people are disarmed (Saint Chrysostom)
by their own dispositions, as iron
by rust.— (Antisthenes) Pity and envy, like oil and
vinegar, assimilate not. (C. C.
Envious as a pretty woman is Colton)
another woman, as a banker
of
is of another banker, as a political
adversary is of a rival.— ( Envy
happiness.
is hatred of other people's
(St. Augustine)

As rust corrupts
envy corrupts man.
Envy

( iron,
)
so
con)

pities
^
Envy has no holidays.

For one man who sincerely

our misfortunes, there are a
(Ba-

Envy,
shade pursue.-
like
(
merit, doth its
thousand who sincerely hate our
success.— (C. C. ColtoD) —
would rather that my enem-
I
Envy lurks at the bottom of ies me than that I should
envy
the human heart, like a viper in envy iny enemies; fcr it is misery
its hole.- (Balzac) to be envious because it is well
with another and ill with yourself.
':iu'y like the worm, never
, -(Plantus)
runs but to the fairest fruit; like a
cunniug bloodhound, it singles out #
the fattest deer in the flock.— natural to mortals to look
It is
(Francis Beaumont) with sick eyes on the recent good
m- fortune of others. (Tacitus)

Envy, like a flame soars up- Envy is a necessary evil; it is

ward.- (Lyvy) A a little good which forces us to do

yet better.— (Voltaire)

which
Envy, like flame, blackens that
above it, and which
is

cannot reach.— (J. PetilSenn)

it
in

is
He most
praised.
is

— (Dryden) ^
hated when he ino3t

jfcti

'
A rustinesse consumeth iron. (Gay)
Enn/
' ^is n kind ot praise.—
 >

Envy ( 99 ) Erect

Envy is better worth having Gentle Lady, may thy grave

—
than pity. (Greek prov. ) peace and auiet ever have. (Mil-
ton)
The potter is the
envious of
potter, the smith of the smith. Beneath this stone old Abra'm
(Latin prov.) lies; nobody laughs and nobody
cries; where has gone or how he
Epigram fares, nobody knows and no one-
Like a bee or an epigram, all cares.— (On Abraham Newland,
bis sting is in his tail. (Thomas Chief Cashier of Bank of England)
Adams) S
Epitaphs
Of this blest man let this just
praise be given: Heaven was in The scene is changed, I am no
hiin before he was in heaven. (I. more; death's the last act now ail
Epitaph on
AValton)

Fear no more the heat o the

is o'er.
Quin, the Actor)
(Garrick.
^ ^
sun, nor the furious winter's rages;
thou thy worldly task hast done, " As I am now, so you must
home art gone and ta'en thy be; therefore prepare to follow
wages: golden lads and girls all me." To follow you I'm not in-
must, as chimney sweepers, come tent, till I can learn which way
to dust. — (Shakespeare) you went. (Rev. Wm. S.S. Hun-
tington.— On an epitaph in St.
Pancras Churchyard) "

Stranger, to Lacedaemon go,

fi ("
aud tell that here, obedient to her
words, we fell. (Geo. Burges.
Tr. of the famous Greek spitaph
by Simonidea, on the Greeks
fell at ThermophH)
who
Prodigal
epithets. — )

Equal
^
Epithets
of

Equal as flowers iu the

discriminating"

field.
(Edwin Markham)
For that dear Name, through
every form of danger, death, and
shame, on ward he journeyed to a
happier shore, where danger,
A woman is always younger,
than a man at equal years. (
and shame assault no more.
(Macaulay.— On Henry Martin) Erect
i Erect as an Indian. — )
im
in!'

^& Erect as a live hydra.— (Hugo)"

 M ^B

Erect ( 100 ) Evening

prov.)
Erect as alders.— (Ovid) Escape
( My soul escaped as a bird out

^
Erect, like pillars of the tem- of the snare of the fowlers: the
ple.-(Sauthey) snare is broken, and we are escap-
Error ed.— (Old Testmont)
Errors, ike straws, upon the
surface flow; he who would search
for pearls muet dive below. (Dry- Essential
den)
R
Essential
C. Hayes) .
as the dew, (Edna

To err is human,
devilish.— (St. Angustine)
to persist is As esseiitial to the river S3 a
fish.— (Henry D. Thoreau) ^
Truthlies within a little and Established
certaincompass, but error is im- Es'a>lished for ever as the
mense.— (Bolingbroke) IS moon.— (Old Testment)
m
Error is a hardy plant, it
flourish eth in every soil. (M. F.
Eternal
Eternal as life.— (
Tur>per) Eternal as the eternal God.—
(J. C. Guthrie)
Fault in the life bred errors in Eternity
—
the brain. (Cowper)

A man should never be asham-

After an ^terniU/ of resolutions
doubts, and indecisions. )
— (
ed to own that he has been in the
wrong, which is but saying., in The curfew tolls the knell of
other words, that hs is wiser to- parting day, the lowing herd winds
day than he was yesterday. slowly o'er the lea, the ploughman
(Swift) homeward plods his weary way,
and leaves the world to darkness
Error cannot be defended but and to me. -(Gray)
by error. Uiitrutl) cannot be
^^
^
shielded but by untruth.— (Bishop
Jewell)
The day is done, and the dark-
the nature of men ness fall from the wings of Night.
It is
of fools to persist in error.
prov.) mmi
to err,
(Latin
I

-(Longfellaw)
Rifii
—B ^
ttwi Now came still evening on, and
When he learned man errs,
t twilight grey had in her sober
be errs iu a learned way. (Arabic — livery all things clad. (Milton)
 S

Evening ( 101 ) Examinations

— Evident
The grow dark, on purple
hills
peaks a deeper shade descending.
(Scott)
( Evident as Euclid's

Evident as is the
axioms.—

universal
light of day.— (John Banim)

steps.—
The
( evening

Events
comes with slow t
Ed
(Carlyle)
B
dent as the sun at noon,

Events, like the pendulum of a Evident as light in dark.—

clock, have swung forward and (George Meredith)
backward, but after all, man, like
the hands has gone steadily on. Evil
(R. G. Ingersoll) fishes that are taken in
As the
an evil net, and as the birds that
All the great events of this are caught in the snare; so are the
globe are like the globe itself, of sons of men
snared in an evil time,
which one half is in the full day- when falleth suddenly upon
it

them.-- (Old Test men t)

^
light and the other half is plunged
T
in obsurity.— (V oltaire)

The
N4
greatest events often are
produced bv accidents. ) (
Evil,
ceases to be evil.

Man, do not waste further

^
once manfully fronted,
(Carlvle)

time in searching for the author

An event has happened, upon of evil; that author is yourself.—
which
impossible
it is difficult to
to be silent. (
speak, and (Rousseau)

The origin of evil has always

Everlasting been an abyss which no one can
Ei blasting as the sun. (Wil- fathom. -(Voltaire)
liam King) 7
Everlasting as the voiceless
hills.— (Condi B. Pallen) ( A small eiil is

Do not make evil gains: evil

a great good.

Evidence.
The ear is a less trustworthy
witness than the eye. (Herodo-
(
gains are equivalent to losses.

tus) IP Exact
The eyes
believe themselves, Exact as clock-work. (Carly-
the ears believe other people. le)
(Prov.) g Examinations
One eye-witness is better than Examinations are formidable
ten hearsay witnesses. (Plantus) even to the best prepard, for the
Examioations ( 102 ) ExpanP

greatest fool may ask more than the spleen; for when that did
(
the wisest man can answer. -- swell, the
(Trajan) #
whole body did pine.

Example Exclamation

us
men all remind
Lives of great
we can make our lives sublime,
and departing, leave behind us
A
and disdain.-
fiery
(
exclamation of wrath

footprints in the sands of time. Excuse

(Longfellow) An
excuse is worse and more
terrible than a lie; for an excuse
is a lie guarded. (Pope)
Example is a lesson that all K
men can read. (Gilbert West)
Exercise
Excel Better to hunt in fields for
As the fair lawn excels the health unbought, than fee the doc-
rusliy mead, as firs the thorn, tor for a nauseous draught. The
and flow'rs the pois'nous weed. wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
(Richard Jago) God never made his work for man
to mend.— (Dryden) 5

leth
ifii
Then I saw that wisdom ex-
celleth folly, as far as light excel-
darkness. (Old Testament)
^ Exhaustless
ExJiaustless as the ocean.
Excelling, as much as orient (Ouida)
gold surmounteth brass.— (Wil- Expand
liam Thomsow) Expanded like a flower under
the sun. —
Excess
The
best things carried to ex- Expanding like the dawn.
cess are wrong. (Churchill) (John Davidson)

( In charity there is

The excesses of our young are

no excess. — Expand, as tides that ebb, or
tides that flow.— (Lord De Tabley)

upon our old age, payable Expanded like the face of the

^
drafts

after date. — (
with interest about thirty years

U I!)
sun
eastern
when
hill.
B
it mounts over the
(Jeremy Taylor)

S A solemn gray expanse that

The
Exchequer
king's exchequer was like
lost itself far
the sea.— ( away in the gray of
 , A

Exhilaration ( 103 ) Extravagance

t.
Exhilaration
moved me to a strange ex-
^^ Expired like hardy plants
hilaration. — i which lose their color and perfume
Expectation
Expectation^ like a fiery steed
Anticipates the course, and pants
J

(^
when transplanted to a hot house.

to hear the sprightly signal start

him
son)
St t§ ,
for the goal.

H
Expectancy
(Robert Jeph-
i
Expiring like the deserted
camp-fires of a retiring army.
(George W. Curtis)

Expression
^
(
Jler lips parted in a keen ex-
;>d<iney.--
mm
tion.—
A
(
glassy expression of inatten-

Expressionless
Experience
Human experience, like the
stern lights of a ship at gea, too
\
( Expressionless as a grave-stone.

Exquisite
often illuminates only the path

^
we havo passed over. (Coleridge) :

i
wild rose. (
Exquisite, like
—
the heart of a

W Extended
By ivxpurience we find out a Extended as the heavens.
short way by a long wandering. (Vanbrugh)
Learning teacheth more in one Exterior
year than experience in twenty.
(R. Aseham)
ti ' I
A grave man
dm'or.— ( Extinctiou
of pretending
®

gives to
Experience
their
isa name everyone
mistakes. (Oscar
( Slope towards

Extinguish
extinction.

Wilde) Extinguished us stars by the

i
risingsu
Experience is the
child of
Thought and Thought the child
is Extinguished like taper's flame,
of Action. We caunot learn men i
—(Ambrose Bierce)
from books.— (Disraeli)
S Extinguished, like the vital
spark in death. (Hood)
The years teach much which

»
I

the days never know. (Emerson) Extravagance

B Extravagance is like a violent
Expire fire, that is no sooner stopped in
Expired like the sound of a one place than it breaks out in
melancholy echo, — ;

another.— (Vanbrugh)
 « gC

Extremes

Jit [
ffl

Excess of
Extrems
sorrow laughs, excess
( 104

a
)

^
Languishing
looking tenderly
roe
eyes like those of
at
Eyes

her
of jy weeps.— (Wm. Blake young.— (Amrilkais) H
•
Exuded Two eyes ike heavens bright
She exuded a faint and intoxi-
cating perfume of womanliness,
ike a crushed herb.— ( (
lamps in matchless beauty shining.

Eim like violets steep'd in

dew. J. C. Guthrie) H

Eye Her eyes, iike moonbeams

The most dazzling stars are glowing.- (Hafiz) g
pebbles without lustre beside the Eyes like twin blue stars.
diamonds of her eyes. (Joseph A — (Heinrich Heine)
de Gobinean)

Azure
(
eyes, like stars upon the ^/e. — (
He threw round a measuring

river's brink. —
( A carefully apprasin » eye.

in winter nights.— (
Her eyes like two twinkling stars
) his
Ho had
trade.-
H
(
the eye of an eagle in

My
chariot roll
E. B. Browing)
eyes like the wheels of a
around, (Eschylus
The night has
and the day but one.
H (^ (
a thousand eyes,

[J)
)

len)
• Her
gorgeous wings.
eyes were like a butterfly's
(James Lane Al- ( Your

Her
eyes as
H
blue as violets.

eyes are bright as stars in

Eyes like mountain water the blue. — (Robert Bridges)
that's flowing on a rock. (Wil-
liam Allingham) {! Burning eyes that blaze through

^( ^(
a lace veil, like flame through can-
Eyes like
blan ket. ( burnt holes in a non smoke.—

Eyes like flames cf sulphur.—

Eues like saucers.— ) (Beaumont and Fletcher) U^?
S

sky.— (
Eyes transparent as a cloudless
fe

^ (
Eyes, like torches, fling their
bearaas around,— ^
Eyes brilliant and humid like Those death-Jiko eyes, nucon-
the reflection of stars in a well. scious of the sun. — H
(EUmondo De Amicis) 14
 H g )) g

Eye ( 105 ) Eye

' ^
Those eyes like brMal beacons is that of the eye, which is in the
shine. — ) tilt body, as the sun in the world; set
in the head as in a watchtower,
Thy brown benignant eyei having the softest nerves for recei
have sudden gleams of gladness ving the greater multitude of spir-
and surprise, lide woodland brooks

^ ( its necessary for the act of vision.

— (Stephea Charnock.)

^
that cross a sunlit spot.
g

judge,
His eyes, like
seemed
those of a pitiless
to go to the very
^
bottom of all questions, to read all
natures, all feelings
-(Balzac) H ^
and thoughts.
His eyes had a twinkle of re-
miniscent pleasantry. )

^
(
His eyes literally blazed with
K savage fire. —
Whose
sparks of fire.— (
little eyes glow like the
g ( His eyes stared unseeingly.
) g
Expectant yellow eyes, like a
Thine
shining.- ( eyes like two twin stars cat watching the preparation of a
saucer of milk. —
—(
These eyes like stars have led
me. Her eyes are sapphires set in

in her
A
(light of unwonted pleasure enow.— (Constable)

Eyes like the summer's light

(
Into her eyes had come a hos-
tile challenge.—
blue sky.— (Bulwer Lytton)

blank (
And day peers forth with her
a
Beautiful eyes in
handsome woman
(
the face of
are like elo-
Something eminently human
beaconed from his eyes. ( quence to speech,— )

(
g

^
Indolentiv

(
She has great
—
handsome

eyes
eyes.

like the
Eyes like the
(F. A. Butler)
An
(Eliza Cook.)
eye like
g
dawn of «lay.

the polar star.—

^
Honest eyes. ...Blue like
doe. ) the
Her bright
phant.—
His
(
eyes
eyes

shone with the pure

were trium-
f% ?
tropic skies.—-(D' Anunzio.)

Eyes
S
gleaming and spark-
fire Of a great purpose.—
g
) ling like lizard's eyes in the cre-
vices of old wall?.— (Daudet) .
What a curious workmanship Her eyes grew bright and:
 A ®

Eye 106 ) Eya

large, like springs rain-fed that

dilate their marge.— (Aubrey De Old men's eyes are like old
Vere) men's memories, they are strongest
for things a long way off. (George
Her
(
eyes like stars in
waters glossed.—
midnight
'
Eliot) IE

overflow like two cups

Her eyes are bright as beryl filled above the brim.— (Hugo)
stones that in the tankard wink.
(Austin Dohson) Eyes that droop like summer
flowers. —
(Miss Landon) 5ft

Eyes like live coals. — (Dumas,

Eyes that mock the diamond's

^
Tere.)
An can threaten like a
eye blaze.— (John Harrington) g
loaded and levelled gun, or can
insult like hissing and kicking; or,
in its altered mood, by beams of
Eyes like a hare's, that look
sideways for danger. ) (
kindness, it can make the heart
dance with joy.— ( red.
—
Eyes
' ( like stars, robed in dull

An eye as clear and steady as

the evening star. —
When a man speaks the
truth in the spirit of truth, his His eyes. ...deep sank beneath
eye is as clear as the heavens. his [lowering brows, like caverns
When he has base ends, and by a moonlit sea. (R. M.Milnes)
speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, iS
and sometimes asquint. (Emer.
son) I dislike an eye that twinkles
like a star. Those only are beauti-
ful which, like the planets, have
Her eyes like the radiance the a steady, lambent light— are
sunbeams bring. (Ancient Erse) luminous, bat not sparkling.
B (Longfellow) H
Eyes as azure as the wave.
(Violet Fane)
A burning eyes yellow and Eyes like two streams of liquid
phosphoric like the eye of a light— (Frances Anne Kemble)
crocodile or a lion. — (Gautier) g
Her eyes flames like a fresh
His eyes were like the eyes caught hind's. (Kingsley) t!
of doves when washed by the
dews of the morning. (Gold- — Fiaw-saeing eyex, like needle
smith) points. —
(Lawell)
 i : ' 5H

Eye ( io7 y Eye

soul; the mouth, the door; the

Bright eyes which were like i
intellect, the will, are seen in the
lotus-blossoms. (Mahabharata) eye.— (Hiram Powers) H
H
E(/es... .like restless sjtars in the {

pit of ni';ht. (Ed wine Markham) Eyes as fresh and clear as

morning skies.— (James Whitconib
Eyes like reflected moon-beams Rilev)

;
on a distant lake.— (Ouida) g

Eyes, flashed like the sun play-

j
fried
T
With
eggs.— (
a pair o' eyes like,
m ^ two

ing on water.— (Ouida) Her eyes are like the open

B heaven holy and pure from sin.—
Eyes like blue heavens in a
night of frost.— ( (C. G. Rossetti)

Dim dried
H

eyes like an ex.

Eyes shining like the planets. hausted well. — ('
-(Ouida)
Her eyes were of a deep brown Eyes as of the sky and sea on
hue, velvety brown of
like the i
a gray day. (D. G. Rossetti)
stag's throat.— (Ouida)
The eyes are the pioneers thai
Her eyes are like free-booters,
living upon the spoils of strag-
glers.— (Sir Thomas Overbury)
first announce the soft tale of ove.
-(Propertius) ^
H Eyes glittering like basilisks.
Unfathomable eyes which hid (Charles Reade) H
their secrets under the undisturbed Her eye worked like an ice
serenity of majestic repcse, like a
mountain lake, whose waters seem (
gimlet in her daughter's
H
face.

(
black on account of their depth.—
H
An
and command.
eye like Mars, to threaten
(Shakespeare) fej

Her eyes as stars of twilight

snow on
Eyes, whose eleepy
violets lies.— (lid like fair— (Wordsworth) g

^
\

Mulockj
Fyes as soft as doves.— (Miss
r-
in dew.— (
Eyes like the harebells bathed
g
The eyes
a like
shattered Eyes as glad as summer. —
mirror, muhiplies the images of
its sorrow.— (Poe) g
^ (Swinburne)

l^yes pale as
H

the
{ft

skies.
The eye ia the window of the (Arthur Symons) H
Eye ( 108 ) Facft

His threatening eyes like flam- Fabulous

ing torches burned.— (Tasso) As fabulous as aladdin's ring.
H (O. W. Holmes)
Like a blue spot in the sky
was her clear and loving As fabulous as the immortality

^
eye.
(Sir Henry Taylor) of the giants ot mythology
(Thomas Paine)
heaven's
Et/es like own blue.
— (Esaias Tegner) H Face
His face is fair as heaven.
Her eyes like the statues. (William Blake)
mild, grave, and wide.— (Paul
Verlaine) H A face
that cannot smile is
like a bud
that cannot blossom

( Eyes like sun beams.

^
Eyes flashing like sapphries.

— Johann
which dries up in the stalk.
(Henry Ward Beecher)
^
Zschokke) H B A sharp face like a knife in a
Eyes as fair as star beams cleft stick. — (E. B. Browing)
among twilight trees. (Shelly) 7J
H Ho had a. face like a benedic-

sleeping flower.— (
His faint eyes, like dew upon a tion.— (Cervants)

Sweet youthful face fair as the

l>]ii3
Thine

fej
eyes are like
boundless heaven. (
the deep, moon at full. (Edwin Arnold)

A face like a setting sun ob

Kyes like kindling flame. a summer's day, when promise
(Lydia H. Sigourney) of a hot day to-iuorrow is read
in its ruddy hue. —
(F. C. Griffith)
In her hazel eyes her thoughts S
lay clear as pebbles in a brook.
(Alexander Smith) Her little foce is like a walnut
H shell with wrinkling lines.— (W.
Hcr goodly eyes like sapphires E. Henley)
shining bright.— (Spencer)
kJ Face like a flame.—-(Maurice
Hewlett) A
Her eyebrows like a bent bow.

^
("Vikram and the Vampire.")
Faees are as legible as books y
with this difference in their favor,
that they may be perused in much
less time than printed pages, aud
EyeUm
(Slielly) ^ as old Destiny.- are leas liable to be misunder-
stood.— (Frederic Saunders) .
 - )

Fact ( 109 ) Fade

decision.
His
(face lit with a
.
fire of

Herface was like a lily hidden tative.— (

His face was <rravelv authori-

in holy dusks.

Her face was

—
(George Sterling)

like the Milky

(
His fade dismissed its shadow.

There is a garden in her face

Way in the sky, a meetingof gentle where roses and white lilies srrow.

lights without a name. —

(Sir John —(
Suckling)
Her face was lit up by a glow

—
His face was as the must that
lies upon a vat of new-made wine.
(Oscar Wilde)
of

with a
inspiration

lis
and resolve.

whole faa
fierce
^
was lighted
enthusiasm. (
(

A face that was like an open

letter in a
(Hunry James)
fl
foreign tongue, —
intelligent
His face
— (
A face singularly acute
fell abruptly into
and

morn
His face is like a squeezed
orange. —
(Ben Jons jn)

His face
clad in
was
a
like an April
wintry cloud.—
stern lines.
His faee

Her
showed a
bewilderment.— (
fair faca
^ pleased

hid like a ripe

(David Mallet) peeping rose. (Owen meredith)

^
Her fac3 is as
pillow bv night.— ( white as her
—(
His fact} torn with conflict.

^»
His face caught the f uH

A face open as day.

Her own face was

(Rogers)

like a flower
i
(
strength of the rising wind.

They have faces like flowers,

of the prime half in sunshine, half i —(
in shower, in tho year's most Fact
tender time.

^
(O. G. Rossetti)
here. — (
One gracious fact emerges

of
Face, long as a courtier's out
place.— (Caiman) i
Faded like snow.—
[(Arabian Nights)
Fade
(
E Faded like the morn.
Face like an ancient lemon.— Faded like an unfixed photo-
(Joseph Con rod) grai>h. (William Archer)
A /ace like a smoked herring. I

^
-(Anatole France) Fade like grass.— (Matthew
 — )

Fade ( 110 )

Arnold)
Fades away like morning dew
(Scottish Ballad.)— ;
to sleep.— (
from the sky, when the sun sinks

As flowers kept too long in

the shade. .../a^.
ning)
(E. —
B. Brow-
… city of mythology.— (
Fade away like some fabled

Fading like moonlight softly Fade like autumn leaves, and

into darkness. (Robert Bucha- fade and die with no kind hand
nan)
Beauty Fades as a tree in
winter. —
(Robert Burton)
the dyiag eye.— (
to raise the head and gently close

ifli

Fade like stars

sun.- (Campbell)
before the
(Faded. ..like dew upon the sea.

Faded.. ..like the mist of a

breath on a mirror.— (Joseph
-(Hugo)
Faded. ..from
^me like a dream.

Fade like an August marigold*

Conrad)

Fades like
arch.— ( the rainbow's
, (Jean Ingelow)

Fade, as shadows passing into

--
brilliant
AT
Fades like the fair flower dis-
.
deeper shade. (Longfellow) '

hevelled in the wind.

A
—
(Cowper)

beauty fading like the April

Faded slowly from the sight
blushes from the cheek. (
show'rs. (William Drumrnond) Face away like a thin vapory
cloud.— (Lord Lyttelton)
Fade away like a cloud and
vanish.- (Froude) Fade like vapor. — ( )

Fading like a morning dream. Fade like the hopes of

— (Gerald Griffin)
Fading away, like a pale
English flower, in the shadow of
the forest— (Hawthorne)
k youtb.-(Southey)
Faded as fields that withering
winds leave dry. (Swinburne)
flii^

Faded like a dream of youth. Fades like a once-heard tale.

(0. W. Holme?)

Fade as a passing breath.

.
-(Lewis Morris)

Faded like a wreath of mist

(Gilbert Abbott a Beckett) at eve— (George D. Prentice)
li
Faded as the splendor fades Fade as a flower in May.
 |i|
Ii
j )

Face ( HI ) Fair

(R. ^yuson) -(Kipling)

Fade like the go wans in May. aint and

^
fcrlcru.... like the
— (Allan Ramsay) breath of a spirit sighing. — (Mrs.
Norton)
He

(
^
faded away like a pound
of soap in a hard day's wash.

Fadvd like some rich raiment

^ j

I
Faint as the voice of thd
telephone. (Morgan Robertson

Faint as shed flowers. (D. G.

Rossetti)
j

worn of old.— (Rosamund Marrisot

,
I Faint, like distant clarion feeb-
Watson) ly blown.— (Sir Walter Scott)

Fades like a funeral lay.— Faint as the far-off clouds

(Thomes Moore) of evening. — (Southey)
We all do fade as a eaf. — j
Faint as the moonlight that
(Old Testament) rests upon your sleep, or the
first glow of dawn that wakes you
Fa«nt to new endeavor. (Sudermann)

bees.— (
Faint as the hum of distant
IP
Fainter than a
j

yonng lamb's
Faint. ...like
(Robert Browning)
a
^lost star. |

bleat.— (William B. Yeats)

Faintly

Faint
dreams we
^
As faint and helpless as a
new-born babe. (Lord De Tabley)

as the
hear.
music that in
(Mary A. De
!

'
Like a pale moon in' vapor,
fainth/ bright.— (John Dyer) in
'
Faintly as tolls tne evening
Vere) chime. (Thomas Moore)

Fa hit as the moon if the Faintty, like falling dew.

sundawa gleam.— (Swinburne) (Frederick Tennyson)

Faints like a dazzled

moon.— (Tennyson)
morning j

Fair as a saint.
Fair
( )

Faint as half-forgotten dreams.

(Frank Waters) ed. — (
Fairer than fancy ever feigu-

Fair as Lady IXn'e. —(

Faint as the light of stars and |

-CTean Ingelw) Fair as stars that shine in

summer skies. —
J ni'nt as the visions in a dream. 5
 )

Fair ( 112 ) Fair

(Fair as the garden of Shiraz.

( ( Fair as the bosom of the swan.

fair
caress'd.—
as
( youths by brides Fair as any goddess who
sweeps through the Ivory gate.
(Mortimer Collins) ^
As fair a3 summer roses.
(Thomas ashe) g As fair as truth. (Bary
Fair us lotus when the morn Cornwall)
kisses its opening petals red. Fair as Spenser's dream. —(
(Ancient Ballad of Hindustan)

lr
Fair as the cup of a lily held
know.
Fair
— (as those old fields we

in a maiden's hand. (Eugene Fair as a sculptor's marble

Barry) dream.— (Julia C. R. Dorr)
Fair as the flowered opening
in the morn.— (Beattie) Fair as cygnets'a down.
(Nathaniel Cotton)
Fair as the bud unblasted.
(Beaum onfc and Fletcher) Fair as light in heaven,
or flowers in spring.— (Allan
Fair as he morn. (Michael Cunnington)
Bru?e) ft
Mary
dew.— ( is fair as the morning
skies,
A face
where
as

— (H.
fair
many
as summer
a blush in

( Fair as the virgin's-

Fair as the wild rose.

vows.

(
ambush lies.

5
Fair as a young maid asleep
B. Ereeman)

IS
Fair aa winter lilies. ( beneath
(Gauties)
new

Fair as the dawn in the

fallen snow.—

young.
Thou
— ( as heaven art fair and spring time.— (Glacosa and Illica)
iiHS,^,
to
m
Fair as a
dinnner.— (
friar that is invited Fair as a god.— (Home Pope)

Fair as the new-born star that

Fair as the hills of Paradies. gilds the morn. —
— (William Cullen Bryant)
Fair is she as the dreams
Fair as pearls. — (Gottfried A vouns; poets weave. (Hood)
Burger)
As fair a thin as e'er was Fair as the morning:
forin'd of clay.— (Byron) (Ancient Erse)
 —

Fair ( 113 ) Fair

As honor fair.— (Galconer) Fair, Lady Mary, as a lily in

the sun.— (Henry Helford) fe'J

May. —
Fair
(
Fair. ...as

as
all

the
the

flowers
flowers of

the ni-
Fair as as Eve in Paradise.
(Robert Herrick)
sei ve.—( John Fletcher)
Fair as the spring. (Walter
Fair as Aurora. — (Alice A. Harte)
<5alger)
Fair as a wood flower.
(Mary Johnston)
ing skies.— (
Fair as the summer's even-
(3 E
Fair as some wonder out of Fair she is as foaru-born
fairy land.- (Keats)

Fair as a flowep, and faded

Venus. (Heinrich Heine)

Fair as bar of
(
gold. (Kip-

-
just as soon.

Fair as the sun.

(Omar K hay-yam)
(Kingsley)
ling)

the
Fair as Aphrodite rising from
deep-blue Grecian sea.
(Sigmund Krasinski)
(
( Fairc as

Fair as
is the rose in May.

Eden's towers. Fair as the moonlight. ("Miss

(Coleridge) Landon)
Fair as original light -first

^
lily
Fair as the wave-bleached
of the stream.— ( from the chaos shot.
Loveloce)
f Richard

Fair....&8 the spotless moon Youre fair and fresh as a

upon the midnight sea. —
(Horace) morning in May.— (Lover)
'
E ft
She as fair as any shepherdess Fair as the garden of God.—
that ever was in mask or (Lord Lyttelton)
Christmas scene.— (W. D. Ho- Fair as bride to altar lead. —
wells) (Evan MacColl)

Fair as the crowning rose of Fair as a Seraph. (Georga

—
]
the whole wreath.
I
Fair as the forest. (Alice
Mac-Henry)
She is fair
light,
as the spirit of
that floats in the ether
Cary)
Fair as Ambition's dream or
on high. (Adam Mickiewicz) -
Beauty's face. —
(Thomas Chat- Fair as flame. (R. M. Mil-
terton) BS nes)
Fair as the noon sky.
Fair ( 114 ) Fair

Milton) the fields— (Otway)

Fair as the whitest snow on
Scythian hills. (Marlowe) Fairer than snow on the
raven's back. —
O. thou art fairer than tbe
evening air, cJad in the beauty of Fatr as the fabulous aspho-
a thousand stam ) — dels. (shakespeare)

Fair as
evening star.
the spirit of the
(Gerald Mossey) behold.— (
Fairer than any wakened eyes

Fair as the lightning thwart

the sky, as sun-dyed snow upon
moon
Fair
is
like
awakened.
stars
( when
)
the

Fair as an angel from the

tbe high, untrodden heaps of
threatening stone the eagle looks
unknown land. (Miss Mulock)

upon

^ ^ ^
alone. (William Marris)
She is as fair as a peach.
(Miles 0 Rollly)
Like great god Sacarne fiare.
Fair as dreams. (Owen — (Sir Philip Sidney)
Meredith)
If air as Orion. -— (James Mont- As fair as the first beams of
gomery)

(
Fair
through
as the
darkening
rain bow shines
showers.
the
Sang) ^
mourning. (Roumanian

Fair as a fairy.-- (Swinburne)

[
(
^
Fair thou art as moon rise
Fair as the moon's unclouded after rain. —
light.— (Edward Moore)
Fair as the flowers that maid-
Your face is asandfair ens pluck for an hour's delight.
bright as the foam on the wave in (D. G. Rossetti)
the morning light.— (Lewis Morris)
Maiden fair as a silvery
Fair as youth and love. dream.— (Fransia S. Saltus) if :
(J. N. Paton)

Fair as a musk-willow forest. Fair as the summer. (Hay.

-(Persion) den Sands) §
Fair like the rose, midst Fair as the earliest beam of
paling flowers the queen. eastern light.— (Sir Walter Scott)
(Petrarch)
Fair he was, like the rainbow Fair as an any mother's child.
of heaven. —
(Ossion) -(Shakespeare)

Fair as the summer-beauty of Fair as day. — (

 B )• >
)

Fafr ( 115 ) Fair

Fair as a field in flower. —( Eyes as fair as star-bsama

among twilight trees )
( Fair as a star-shaped flower.
Fair as all that the world may
As the opening blossom
-(Matthew Prior)
Fair, like goddesses.
fair.

— (Robe
call most
own face.— (
fair, save only the saa'ff

lais)
A face as fair as the
dawn.— (James Whitcoinb
summer
Riley)
( Fair as the sunbright air.—

Fair as the sundawn's flame

K seen when May on her first-born
Fine and fair as your school-
boy sweetheart's hair. — ^ Dame.- (
day biJs earth exult in her radiant

Fair as a bridal chamber. &

(C. G. Rossetti)
Fair as dreams that die and
know not what they were. ( clothed night.— (
Fair as the face of the star-

Fair as even the wakening

^
year sees fade.— (
Fair as the frondage each fleet

skies. —
Fair as fled foam. — ( Fair as the morning. (
( Fair as heaven iu spring. - the flowerful air.— (
Clean and fair as sunlight and

—(
Fair as hope divines. Fair as the ambient gold of

Fair as life. — ( wall-fiowers.

Fair as peace.— ( Fair as the mooru (Old Tes-

tament)
—
Fair as the daughters of Job,
(
( Fair as the
H
eves
" are fair. lOld Testament)

( ) Fair as text B in a copybook.

(
Fair as lily leaves. (J. T.
Trowbridge)
Fair as the day that bodes as
—

Her face as fair as tho she fair a morrow. (August Von

bad looked on
caught its early
Paradise,
beauty, ( and" Platen)
Fair as some Arcadian dell.—

(
(Bayard Taylor)

( Fair as breathing marble.

leaves
Fair as the last star
the morning air.— ( thai
 ^

Fair ( 116 ) Faithful

soul mount up to her eternal rest.

^
of pastoral England. — (
Fair as the loveliest landscape (Francis Beaumont)
K
Fair as a star, when only one
isshinning in the sky. (Words- Faith, like the phenix, soars
worth) and sings. (Richard Le Gallienne)
Fair as beams of light.
(Thomas Yalden) Faith, like light, should ever
Fair as the primrose mead, or be simple and unbending, (Mar-
blushing rose. (Thomas Warton) tin Luther) k
Faith, like the itch, is catch-
Fairer than the day, or the ing.— (Luigi Pulci)
flowery meads in May. (George
Withers) Faith is like a lily lifted high
and white. — (0. G. Rossetti)
Fair as a statue of marble.
(Michael Vorosmarty) Faith, amid the disorders of
sinful life, is like the lamp burn-

the East. — (
Fair as a gorgeous fabric of ingin an ancient tomb.
Swetchine)
(Madame

(
Fair as thought could dream.

Fair as youth.- ( his own

Each man's belief is right
eyes. —
Cowper)
in

Much knowledge of things

Failure divine escapes us through want of
The man who loses his oppor- /ai</i.— (Heraclitus)
tunity loses himself.— (Geo. Moore)
What we do not believe is of
We learn wisdom from
failure no importance. The secret of life
much more than from success. is to discover what we believe.
"We often discover what will do, (Edith Sichel)
by finding out what will not do.
(Smiles)
Faithful

Faith
Faith without works is like a
bird without wings; though she
may hop with her companions on
^( Faithful
shepherd's pride.

Faithful
as

as
dog,

a
the lonely
(Eschylus) ^,

good book,

earth, yet she will never fly with Faithful as the star is to the
them toheaven; but when both night. T. Buchanan Read)
are joined together, then doth the
'
Faithful

Faith fid, from day to day, as

Hesperus, that leads the sun his
( 117

—(
)

^ Fall

Falling... soitly as a snow-flake.

(
wav.-(Tasso)

Faithful as the planets.

Falling like a bolt out of the
blue. —
(Carlyle)
Falls and risings, like a swan
Faithful as wax to one settled upon waving water. (Col ley Cib-
(Bulwer Lytton)
,
impression.

the sun in the

Faithful as
ber)

leaf.
Fall,like the autumn-kissed
(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
heavens.— (James R. Gilraore) j

Fall on me like a silent dew,

Faithful as the knee-joint to or like those maiden showers,
its socket. (Arthur Guiterraan) which by the peep of day, do
strew a baptism o'er the flowers.
Faithful as the eagle to the
sun, as is the steel unto the mag-
(Herrick) g ;
net- (Hugo)
Faithful as the hands of a
dew.— (
Sweet-falling as the evening

Fall like a thousand of brick.

clock to the springs. (Geofge
Meredith)

Faithful as the sun. (Henry

Then
faded flower.— ( ^
fall unheeded like the

Vaughan) She let the soft wave3 of her

( Faithless
Faithless
as fair weather. Paradise.- (
deep hair fall like flowers from

Faithless... as the winds. They fall away, like the flower

(Aphra Belm) on which the sun hath looked in
Fall his strength. (James Macoher-
He that climbs highest has the son) A
greatest fall. (C. Tourneur) I

Like a leaf that quits the

Falling like Sierra's April flood

(
that pours in ponderous cadence
from the cliff. —
j
bough, the mortal vesture falls.
(0. W. Holmes) !^
( ®) ^ Like a city without walls, the
I grandeur ol the mortal falls who

ber— (
Falls like the leaves in Octo-

Fall like small birds beaten

I
glories in his strength and makes
not God his trust. (Macaulay)

by the storm against a dead wall,

dead.- (P. J. Bailey) He Jalh like an oak on thi
 ) W
)

FaU ( 118 ) False Repsrts

(
plain; like a reck from the shaggy
^
hill.

— (Arthur
Falls like
A
AV. E.
some baffled thing.
O'Shaughnessy)
False as suborned perjurers
(Samuel Butler)

False as the
^ —
^
fowler's artful
Softer falls than petals from snare.— (Smollett)
blown roses on the c:rass. (Tenny-
son)

They
^ !
fall like grass before the
mower,— (Thackeray)
burne)
False and foul as fear,

©
False as the father of lies.—
(G. K. Chesterton)
— (Swin-

fJ'

Falls like Lucifer, never to False and lair-foliaged as the

®
hope again. (Shakespeare)
.
manchineel.— (Coleridge)

Fall as a slaughtered beast

headless,— (Swinburne)
False as a
leon) ^ bulletin. (Napo-

False as the .adultorat.'; pro-

in their
^season thinned.
&
Fallen as leaves by the storms
( mises of favorites in power when
poor men court them.— (Oi%vaT>
©^
— (F.
Falling soft as snow on snow.
T. Palgrave) and t'he weather.— ( '
False as the wind, the waters,
"J

False as God is true. — (Thomas

Falling as gently as an answer
to a prayer. (Anelaide A Procter) Paine) ©
False eloquence, like the pris-
M

^ ^
matic glass, its gaudy colpr&spread
Fall off, 1 ke leaves from a
withered tree. — (Voltaire) on ev'ry place.— (Pope) t

False False as an obituary. (Edgar

liead and a red beard. ) (

False as a man with a black
" —
Saltus)
False as dice. (Shakespear)
'

( )— (
False as Dick's hatband.
^ False as dicers' oaths. (
mm False as hell. —
False friendship, like the ivy,
decays and ruins the walls it em-
braces; but true friendship gives
False as stairs of sand.
n
(
now Wie and animation to the Fa he as ater. —(
object
ton) @
it supports. f Robert

^
Bur-
False Report"
 ) I|

False Reports ( 119 ) Fame

The wcrldnaturally averse

is without care. Weeds' care no-
to all the truth sees or hears,
it thing for soil or rain. They not

^ ^
but swallows nonsense and a lie only ask no help, bat they almost
with greediness and gluttony. defy destruction. (R. G. Inger-
(Butler) sou) n
1

Falsehood Falsetto
Falsehood flies and truth comes !

Falsetto, like the notes of a

limping after it, so that when men split reed. — (Washington Irving)
come to be undeceived too ®
^
it is
|

late.- (Swift) Falter

Faltering like the skylark's
Falsehood and fraud shoot up young. (James Montgomery) |^

( ©
j

on every soil, the product of all

climes.— Fame
Man is ice to
truth, fire to Fame is like a whim3ical mis-
— j

falsehood
©^
(Voltaire) tress;she flies from those who
pursue her most, and follows such

tiiose
®
Falsehood! like a nettle, stings
who meddle with it. ( I as show the least regard to her.
(Sumuel Crox)

A mixture of falsehood is like i

alloy in coin of gold and silver, Fame is like a river, that

which may make the metal work

(Bacon) ® ^^
the better, but it embaseth it. I
|
beareth up thing light and swol-
len, and drowns things weighty
and solid; but if persons of quality
and judgment concur, theu it
filletb all Tound about, and will
Falsehood, like a drawing in not easily away; for the odors of

^^&
perspective, will not bear to be ointments are more durable than
examined in every point of view, those of flowers. (Bacon)
because it is a good imitation of II

truth, as a perspective is of the

reality, only in one.

—
ton) ^
(C. C. Col- ?

iii

Good fame is like

you have kmdled it,
fire:
you may
when
To tell a falsehood is like the easily preserve it; but if you onca
cut of a sabre: for through the I extinguish it, you will not easily
wound may heal, the scar of it
will
^
remain.-(Sadi)
nli
;
^
kindle it again.
HI
(Plutarch)

Falsehoods, like wesds, flourish i Fragrant his fame as flowers

Fame ( 120 ) Familiar

that close not.— (Swinburne) and shuts the gate of Envy after
it.- (Sterne)
Fame, as a river, is narrowest
where it is and broadest
bred, far Fame, like water, bears up the
off.— (Sir William Davenant)

Fame, like a new mistress of

lighter things, and lets the weigh-
ty sink. —
(Sir S. Tuke) ^
the town, is gained with ease, but I awoke one morning and
then she's lost as soon. (Dryden)
^ —
found myself famous (Byron)

will
woo her
Fame, like
still

but makes surrender

a wayward Girl,
the coy, to those who
with too slavish knees,
to some
fame is
^
The deed

Mortals,
is
nothing. (Goethe)

who sought and

^
everything; the

thoughtless Boy, and dotes the found, by dangerous roads, a path

more upon a heart at ease. to perpetuity of fame. (Byron)
(Keats)
But these are deeds which
should not pass away, and names
Fame, like money, should that must not wither. (Byron)
neither be despised nor idolized.
(L. C. Judson) One desires to be unknown,
jji
but only when it is too late. As
Fame
is like a crop of Kanada soon as the trumpets of fame
very eazy tew sow, but
^hissels, have sounded the name of an
hard tew reap.
(
(Josh Billings) unfortunate man, farewell
ever to his repose.
for
(Voltaire)

The way to fame, like the way

to heaven, is through much tribu- Familiar
lation.— (Sterne)

The glory dies not, and the

( Familiar as a popular song.

Failiar as the sights on our

grief is i^ast.— (Sir S. E. Brydges) streets.

Great is the world's incon- Familiar as my sleep, or

stancy, God knows; fame, like the want of monev. (Beaument and
ocean, ebbs as well as flows (J. Fletcher)
Wolcot)
Familiar as the simple lore
A name famous policemen and two
too soon
very heavy burden.— (Voltaire)

Death opens the gate of

^
Fame,
is that two
thieves
Bierce)
make four. (Ambrose
&
 v

Familiar ( 121 ) Fantastic

Familiar cradle-song.
(R.
as a
J. Burdette) ^
Familiar as a voice of home.
-(John Fletcher)
Familiar as an oath. (Lord Familiarly
De Fabley) Talks as familiarly of roaring
Familiar, like the amulet lions as maids of thirteen do of
worn on the heart. (George — puppy-dogs. —
(Shakespeare)
Eliot)
As familiar as a fiddle.
Family
His family is like potatoes, all
(John Fletcher)
Familiar to me as my own face
in the glass; as the speech of
my own tongue.— (Hugo)
ground. (
that as good of them are under-

Famine
f?i Famine ends famine. (Ben
— (Mas- Jonson)
Familiar as eating.
singer)
Fan
It fanned his check like a
Familiar as his garter.
meadow-gale of Spring. (Co-
(Shake ear)
leridge)
Familiar in his
houshold words.— ( mouth as

Fancy like
the silent scenes
Fancy
a spright,
of
prefers
night.
Familiar as the sun and (Nathaniel Cotton)
moon. (Henry D. TJioreau)
B Fancy like the finger of a
Familiar as our childhood's clock, rund the great circuit, and
stream or pleasant memory of is still at home. (Oowper)
a dream. —
(Whittier)

The family like a book

is /anc?/.-
It
(
lends no dazzling tints ta

the children are the leaves, the

parents are the covers that pro-
Drift
/ancy. ( along the stream of

tective beauty gives. At first the

pages of the book are blank and
purely fair, but time soon writeth
Pleasant
vistas of airy fancy
and
( flower-strewn

memories and painteth pictuies Fangless

there. Love is the little golden Fangless as the fat worms of
clasp that bindeth up the trust, the grave. (James Whitcomb
Oh, break it not, lest all the Riley)

(
leaves shall scatter and be lost.
>

dreams.— (
Fantastic
Fantastic
like a sick man
 —

Fantastic ( 122 ) Farewell

Fantastic. ...aa the sports of a bounds imagination's flight,

Naiad.— (Bulwer-Ly tton) (Shelley)

(G.
Fantastic as
K. Chesterton)
a war-dance. Burning far, like the light
an unmeasured star.—
n—
) ( o{

Fantastic as a woman's mood* ' Far from sarth as heaven.

Sir Walter Scott)
So far from sounding and
Far discovery, as is the bud bit with

( Far as good is above evil. an envious worm, ere he can

spread his sweet leaves to the air or

(
As far from the heart as from
the eyes.—
As far aa finite is from in-
( ^
dedicate his beautv to the sun.
'
^nite. —
(P. J. Bailey)
Far as hope from joy or sleep
Far as mortal eye can compass from truth. —
sight.— (Byron)
Far and wide, like the falcon

as
Atom from atom yawns
far as moon from earth,
star from star. (Emerson)
as
or
that hunts through
(Esaias Tegner) ^
the sky.—

Far as heaven's red labouring

Far as poles asunder. (J. S. eyes could glance. (Swinburne)
Knowles)
Afar as angels or the sainted As far from help as limbo is

dead.— (Gaorge Mac- Don aid) —

from bliss. (Shakespaar)

Far as imagination's eye can Farewell

roll.— (Montgomery) If e'er we meet hereafter, we
shall meet in happier climes and
Far as human man is from
the brute.— (Lewis Morris)
on m safer
1 ^ shore (Addison) ilfc

As far as sleep from waking. A long, ong sigh, and wept

— (John G. Neihardt) a last adieu. — (Cowper)
And no star is from thy One fond kiss before we part
mortal path eo Far as streets drop a tear and bid adieu. (R.
where childhood knew the way. Dodsley) 1W
L.
Jt
G. Rosseetti)

Far as the remotest line that

A wordless farewell. — (
Farmer ( 123 ) Fast

Farmers "We praise and blame most

The farmer times himself to things simply because it is the
Nature, and acquires that livelong fashion to praise or blame them.
patience which belongs to her. — (La Rochefoucauld) @
(Emerson)
Be not the first by whom the
And farmers fatten most new are tried, nor yet the last
w hen famine reigns. (Sir S. to lay the old aside. (Pope) —
Garth.)
Fascinate In almost every age, whether
Fascinate snake would
as a in literature or art, if a thoroughly
a bird.— (Joseph Conrad) wrong idea or fashion or manner
becomes in vogue, it it admired.

A
(
Fascination
grim and shuddering fas-
ci'nc^'on.—
Fashion
For fashion's sake, as bawds
^
(Schopenhauer)

A man of fashion is like a

^
certain blue flower, growing spon-
go to ch\i«rcii. (John Webster) taneously in ploughed grounds,
^ ^^ which chokes the corn, spoils the
What used to be vices are crop, and takes up the room of
become fashions. (Seneca) something bettor. (M." de La
Bruyere)
An Englishman of fashion is

like one of those souvenirs, bound

in gold vellum, enriched with Thisour chief bane, that
is
delicate engravings, on thick hot- we live not according to the
pressed paper, At for the hands light of reason, but after the
of ladies and princes, bnt with fashion of others.— (Seneca)
nothing in it worth reading or
remembering. (Emerson)

^ *
Fast

(
Fast as a jack rabbit in front
—
^ of a prairie fire.

Two things completely

posite to each other, captivate us
op-
( Fast as a dog; will lick a dish.

equally habit and novelty. (La

Bruyere) drift
As fast as the
on the river.— ( foam-flakea

A man of fashion never has Held her fast, mercilessly, as

.recourse to proverbs and vulgar a snake holds a little bird. (Miss
aphorsms. (Lord Chesteriield) Mulock)
 Q

Fast ( 124 ) Fast

Fast as a dog can trot. Entrap the hearts of men,

(Rabelais)
Fast as
(Edmond Rostand)
the magnet flies. (
faster than gnats in cobwebs.—
- ©

Fast as
-(Schiller)
air.
Fast as a horse
(Ben Jonson)
^
an eagle through the

can trot.
—(Fast
Faster

as
winter.— (Swinbane)
than thought or time.

autumn days toward

Spend vows as fast as vapors, Fast as fire on e-arth devours.

which go off even with the fumes.
-(Charles Lamb) As fast as the simoon's desert
wind. (Fried rick Ruchert)
Fast as windy flames devour.
(George Meredith) Fast as lagging fowls before
the northern blast.— (Shake-
Fading fast as rainbows. speare) 51 !
(Thomas Moore) ]4
As fast as a fisher could let Drop tears as fast as the
out line.— (J. M. Barrie)

Fast as Time's pinions

swift
Arabian
gum.- ( trees their medicinal

can convey.— (Samuel Boyse) Gulp it down as fast as a

Neapolitan beggar does a plateful
Fast as the rolling seasons bring of free scalding-hot macaroni.—
the hour of fate to those we love.
(O.W. Holmes) (
(Henry T. Finck)
>X

Fast as light. — (Hugo)

Our days run as fast away
(Fast as
wayfarer.
the gin's grip of a

as does the sun; and as a vapour, Fast as warriors grip their

or a drop of rain once lost, can
ne'er be found
Herrick)
again. (Robert (
brands
hurled.-
when battle's
&i
bolt is

(
land.—
Made fast as with anchors to

— (
Fast as the streaming rain. Fast in bondage as herded
(Chatterton) beasts.
Served as fast as you throw
the five baseballs at the colored
gentleman's head. (0. Henry) ( Fast as storm could speed.-—

Faster than dolphins do

o'ershoot the tide, cours'd by the
 1i|
i I !i «
)

Fast ( 125 ) Fatality

yawning shark.— (C. J. Wells)

ffi
Fat as tame things.— (
—(
Fat and fulsome to mine ear
Fast as a musician scatters as howling after music.
sound out of
(Wordsworth)
an instrument.

Fasten
Like one drowning fastens
ment)

grass.—
Fut as

Grow
^
(
grease.

fat as
— (Old
the
Testa-

heifer at

upon anything that is next at !

Fatal
haud.-(jAhn Earle) Fatal as the eye of the basilisk.

Fastened
cartwheel.— (Sir
like nails
Walter Scott)
in a Fatal
serpent.— (as the tongue

Fatal as the shade of Death's

of the

Fasten him as a nail in a dark valley.— (P. J. Bailey)

sure place. (Old Testament)

Fatal as the scythe of death.
Fat — (Cowperj

— Fat as a
tlemas.— ( bacon- pig at Mar- |
Anger and power are
as lightning. (George Eli^t)
as fatal

Fat as brawn.—
Fat as a sheep's
(— (
tail.
1

Fatal as the Egyptian night,

when the eldest- born were slain.

ffi I
(James Montgomery)
A bag, fat with
red your j

unpaid like a landing

bills, net— ! Fatalism '

(Dion Boucicault) K Wemoralise when it is too

late; nor is there anything more
Fat as a whale.— (Choucer) ! silly than to regret. One event
« makes another; wbat we antici-
Fat as a barn-door fowl. |
'pate seldom occurs; what we least
(Congreve) expected, generally happens.
Fat as seals. — Charles Hal- ! (Disraeli)
lock) ,
Fatte as a foole.--(Lyly) flE
Fatality
As fat as a distillery pig.
j
All human things are subject
(Scottish Proverb) and when fate summons
to decay,
monarchs must obey. (Dryden)

( As fat as a Miller's

Fat as butter.
horse.

(Shakespeare)
i

As killing as the canker to

« 1

the rose.- (Milton)

 ^ Ii

Fate ( 126 ) Faults

that one wishes. (La Rochefon-

Fate cauld)
The best of men cannot sus- |

pend their /ate; the good die early, J

If I can catch him once upon
tod the bad die late.— (Dafoe) # the hip, I will feed fat the ancient
grudge I bear him.— (Shakespeare)
With equal pacQ impartial
fate knocks at the palace as the B
cottage gate. (P. Francis) However mean your life is,
^ meet it and live it; do not shun it
It lies not in our power to love |
and call it hard names. It is not
or hate, for will in ua is over-ruled so bad as you are. It looks poorest
by /a^.— (Marlowe) when you are richest. The fault-
finder will find faults even in
My fate is like that of an i
paradise.— (H. D. Thoreau)
eagle, who, being shot with an
arrow, observes his own feathers
on the arrow that kills him. ©
(Chesterfield)

^ Enquire not too curiously into

other men's failings, neither let

( Either way her fate was cruel. \ the one of you speak ill of another
in his absence. Would any of you
An
.cruel caprice of /a<?. ) — (
inexplicable and uselessly desire to eat the flesh of his dead
brother?- (Koran)

( A dark and relentless fats.

Father Faultless
Faultless
5L

as blown roses in
It is a wise father that knows June days. (Edward Dowden)
his own child. —(Shakespeare) I

K Faultless as a flower. (Swin-

A
father is a banker given by burne)
nature. (French pro v.) Faults
It is great folly not to part
We thiak our fathers
fools, so |
with your own faults, which is
wise we grow; our
wiser sons, no always possible, but instead to try
doabt will think us sa (Pope) — to escape from other people's faults
which is impossible. (Marcus
Aurelins)
Fault-finding
The reason why it is so easy It is no doubt an evil to be
to believe that other people have |
full of faults, but it is a still great-
faults is that it is so easy to believe
1

er evil to be full of them an<] not

Faults ( 127 ) Fear

to wish to know them. (Pascal) injured person.— (Swift)

When some great misfortune

comes tosays one of the
you, chief fault of man is that
The
Popes, examine yourself well and he so many small ones.
has
you will see that it has always (Richter)
been your own fault. (Le Sage) Favor

We
; i
should never speak, pub-
man;
the sea.-
Do not do a favor
it is

(
to a bad
like sowing your seed in

licly at least, of our own faults,

nor of the faults of others, unless Thy / avors are but like the
we hope to effect some useful pur-
pose by it.— (Goethe)
wind that
meets.— ( kisses everything it

Favourites
It is the nature of folly to see We may
concede any man a
the faults of others and forget his right, without doing any man a
own.— (Cicero) wrong; but we can favour no one
without injuring someone. (C. C.
We are very apt in blaming Colton)
the faults of others, but very slow
I

in making use of thein to correct Pelt a dog with a bone and

our own. (La Rochefoucauld) I
you will not offend him. (Italian
!
prov.)
If you do a favour to a bad
Quarrels would not last long man, the favour is lost; if you do
ifthe fault was only on one side. I
illto a good man, it lasts for a
(La Rochefoucauld) length of time.— (Plautus)

If we had no faults, we should Extreme eagerness to return

not take so much pleasure in an obligation is a kind of iugrati-
noticing thein in others. (La tude. — (La Rochefoucauld)
Rochefoucauld) j

Fawn
Whoever does not know how Fawn like spaniels. (Mar-
to recognise the faults great
of lowe)
men is incapable of estimating Fawned like hounds. (Shake-
their perfections. (Voltaire) ^ I
spear)
Fawning like a courtier para-
: site— (Volttie) |§
When you
have done a fault, Pear
be always pert and insolent and Better die once for all than
behave yourself as if you were the live in continual terror. (J^sop)
Fear ( 128 ) Feeble

Nothing
itself.- (Bacon)
is

;
terrible except fear
i Fearful
(C. F.
Fearful
as
Alexander)
a locust bane.

Fear has many eyes.— (Cer- Fearful, like a dog an old

cantes) master drives away, and which
Fear that makes faith may fears the new one.— (Ouida)
—
break faith. (Swinburne)
Fearful as a fiege. — (Shake-
Despair and confidence both speare)
banish fear. (Earl of Stirling) Fearless
Fearless as the* st>BOiig- winged
How wretched a thing it is to eagle. —
(James Macpherson)
become old through fear. (Pub-
Hlius) Fearless as a drunkard.
Fear follows crime and is its (Thomas Middleton)
chastisement. —
(Voltaire)
Fearlessly

tiou
An uncomfortable
^/ectr.— (
Fear held him yu ^
premoni-

vice. —
fearlessly, like a
too innocent to fear.
happy child,
(Southey)

^} e^Snn
:

Fear, like spare diet, starves

the fevers of lust and quenches ing fate.— (
The debilitating /«ars of allur-

the flames of hell.— (0.

Holmes)
S
W.
own /ears.— (
Plumbing the depth of my

Fear on fear, like light reflect- Feast

ed from the dancing wave, visits Feasting like fiends upon the
all places, but can rest in none.— infidel dead.- (Shelley)
Robert Jephson)
Spread the table and conten-
As corn o'ergrown by weeds, tion will cea&e. — (Hebrew prov.X
so heedful fear, is at most chok'd
by unresisted lust. — (Shakespeare) Features
Every curve of her features
seemed to express a fine arrogant
Trembling

«
falcon's bells. —
cear, as fowl hear
(
acrimony and harsh truculence.

Fear is like & cloak which old Feeble

meu huddle about their love, as Feeble an a lamb's bleat. —
it to keep it warm. ( Words-
wortb) 1818 Feeble as the wing of a chicken.
 H

Feeble ( 129 ) Fell

in the pip.— (Charlotte Bronte)

Feed To make the tale of her

Feed like an oxen at a stall.
(Shakespeare)
Feel
Nature meant that a fat man
should have an appetite and that
he should gratify it at regular
intervals meant that he should
feel like Grand
dinner and the Royal Gorge
ward.— (Irvin S. Cobb)
Canyon
charms complete, they [her hands]
were matched by the shape of her
exquisite feet, feet so light no maid
might show, so perfectly fashioned
from heel to toe, if on the eye of a
lover she stepped, her foot would
float on the tear he wept (Jami)
before
after-
J3E
^: it

Grand
Canyon ( Her feet beneath her petti-
Royal Gorge ( coat, like little mice, stole in and
She
criminal.— (
felt like an unrepentant out, as if they feared the light.
(Sir John Suckling)

—(
Then felt I like some watcher Feint
of the skies.

Feelings
blow.
A
— (
burlesque feint

Felicity
of evading a

It with feelings as with

is Domestic felicity, which, like
waters: the shallow murmur, but the small-pox or the plague, a man
the deep are dumb. (Sir Walter can have only once in his life.
Raleigh) (George Washington)

The feelings, like flowers and

butterflies, last longer the later Fell
they are delayed. (Richter) from her full height
She...fell
as a stone drops from a rock into

/^" (
Suggestions
vibrant
of veiled
®
and the gulf below.— (Ouida)
»
(
She strangled a
feeling that welled
fierce tide of
np within her.
Fell, like
a smiling day. — (
the unseen blight of

Feet Fell fast, as the seared leave

Her pretty feet like snails, did that from the trembling tree tho
creep a little out, and then, as if autumn whirlwind shakes.
they played at bo-peep, did soon (Southey)
draw in again.— (Robert Herrick)
 )

Fell ( 130 ) Fetid

mower's scythe.— (
Fell like ripe grass before the I

I
fell on the ground, like a silvery,
shimmering shower
. of hail.

Fell like a thousand of brick. Ferments

(Simon Suggs) Ferments like boiling yeast.
Fell, like the snow-flakes from (George Mac-Henry)
heaven. (James W. Watson)
Ferocious

at
Fell
night.— (
upon his ears like fire- bell
taire)
Ferocious as wolves. (Vol-

beneath
Fell as
hail.
thick
— (Byron)
as harvests I
Ferocious
searching for
as
its
a catamount
dinner. (
Ferocity
The charioteer
tered leaf; or
from the wing
fell like
as feather
of
a flut-
shaken
some high-soar-
^( A campaign of unbridled feroci-

Fervent
ing eagle, when the hail falls in a Fervent the solar
as rays.
whirlwind and the woods cry (Franklin P. Adams)
back. — (Lord De Tabley)
i Fervent as fire. (
Fell, like a flail on the gar- Fervent as a saint. (Eliza
nered grain. (Longfellow) Cook)
Fervent as Hesper in the brow
He the bank of a
fell, like of Eve. — (Gerald Massey)
mountain-stream. (Jaraes Mac-
pherson) Fervent as fiery moon. (Swin-
He one struck dead.
fell as burne)
(J. S. Knowles) Fervent as glorious noon.
His face fell like a cookbook (Isaac Watts)
cake. (Joseph C. Lincoln) Fervor
Pledged with enthusiastic
Fell like a ninepin. (Josfe /«rtor. —
Echegaray) Festered
Festered like buried thorns in
The stars of heaven /<;ZZ calmly the flesh.— (Irvin S. Cobb) |£
away, like flakes of snow in a
winter day. (James Hogg) Fetters

She fell like a column of wa-

ter.— (W. D. Howells)
I
/tWars. — (
Free from rigid or traditional
SS

Fetid
They broke into pieces aud Atmosphere as fetid as the
 g

Fetid ( 131 ) FierctJ

( —(
Stymphalian lake, over which no
bird could fly. Fidget
In a fit of fidgets, when she
behaved like a puppy chewing »
Fickle Bring, a clumsy woman in a
Fickle as friends. — ) side-saddle, a hen with her he«d
cut off, or a cow stung by a hornet.
Fickle as the lightning.— ( (Kipling)

Fickle as the weather.— ( Fidgety

Fickle as love.— (Balzac) Fidgety as an old maid.— (Bal-
zac)
Fickle as the flying air.— Fierce
(Beaumont and Fletcher) Fierce as the flight of Jove'a
—
Fickle as a feather.
der Brome)
— (Alexan- Jove (
destroying flame. (Akenside) S

Fickle as the sea.— (William

Cullen Bryant) ( Fierce as a Japanese mask.—

Fickle... as the winds.

Behn)
(Aphra
( Fierce as lecherous desire.

Fickle and bright as a

throng.- (Eliza Cook)
fairy
(
Fierce as a lion of Cats wold.
81

Fickle
Graham)
as the sky.— (James -
Fierce as a mother

Fierce as those flames which

bird. (ffc

Fickle as a female in hysterics. shall consume, at close of all. —

— (O.W.Holmes) (Bhagavad-Gita)

King)
Fickle as the flood.—

Fickle as the breezes blow.

(William
the northern sky.— (
Fierce as the blast that tears

(Joseph B, Ladd)

Fickle as a changeful dream.

bolt.— (
Fierce as the falling thunder*

Fierce as lion.
*
(Chatterson)
(Walter Scott)
Fiction Fierce as twenty bloodhounds*
Men who have had no time (E. B. Browing)
or opportunity to read novels in Fierce ns the shout of victory*
their youth, such those men — (William Cullen Bryant)
who work with their hands, have
a decided advantage.— (Schopen- Fierce as sin.— (P- H. Hayne)
liaaer)
 « )

Fierce ( 132 ) Fill

Fierce as a whirlwind.—
(Homer) Fight like a dragon. (Robert
Fierce as a tigress plundered Burton)
of her young.— (Juvenal) Si Fight like mad or drunk.
4fc
(Samuel Bulter)
Fierce as the hydra.— (William
Eng) Fight like a cock. (Congreve)
Fierce as a female Leviathan.
(Owen Meredith) Fight like a bull in a tether.
(Kingsley)
Fierce as mounts the flame Figment
in air.
H^c
(Willion J. Mickle)

Fierce as a comet. (Miltan)

fancy.
A
— (
mere figment

Figure
of a poet's

Fierce as ten furies. ( •/^"W

A
(
disheveled and distraught

Fierce as
(James Montgomery)
a turkev-cock. (
She had a figure like a pillow.

Her figure is like a willow

bDugh.— (Joseph A. de Gorineau)
Fierce. ...aa whetted scythe.
(John Ruskin) A dandified, pretty-boy look-
-
Fierce as a famished woif. ing sort of «^p"r«. f^c—(
(Southey) ft
Fierce as hawk in flight.
(Spenser)
A
dignity.- (
figure full of decision and

hell.— (Swinburne) ^
Fierce as a blast of hate from
D File

^
In they lay, like the
files

lions.-
U
(
Fierce as the fervid eyes of
—
mower's grass at the close of day
(Byron)

Fierce as flaming fire. Fill

(Tass) Fill like a rush ot wind and
Fierce Achilles
as was. shaft of sunshine.— (William
(marlowe) Mi(D Achilles Archer)
Fierce as wolves.— (Tolstoy)
» My heart feels filling like a
Fight sinking boat. (D. J. Bailey)
Fight like a bulldog. —
n Filled as cloud with fire.
— A
» Fight like sin.

Fight like thunder. — (

(Swinburne)
Fill
cloud.- (Whittier)
like the shallow of a
 ) )

Filthy ( 133 ) Firm

gian. (
Filthy as the
—
Filthy
mouth of a fired
that spreads its filmy web-work
o'er the tangled mead.— (
n
Final More fitui than moon -beam 8.
Final as going to Heaven.— -(Swinburne)
(Joseph Gonrad) Fine as a hedge in May.
Finance Samuel Wesley)
His finance is like the Indian Finger
philosophy; his earth is poised on Lik« reeds were those taper
the horns of a bull, his bull fingers of hers to write on each
stands upon an elephant, his heart love's characters. (Jami)
elephant is supported by a tor-
toise; and so on forever. (Edmund Fire
Burke) Now autumn's fire burns
slowly along the woods, and day

melt. — (
by day the dead leaves fall and

day.—
Fine
( as
Fine
a Maypole on May-
^
Do not add fire to fire. (
Fine as five-penny. ( Fired like a planet on its
peculiar spot, to draw nutrition,

Fine as gossamer. ( )
propagate, and rot. (Pope)

Fine as an ape in purpla Fired, as by a spell.— (Shelley)

(Clarke's Proverbs) IE
m Firm

is fine as
ig
a thread. (
Where the source of the waters
) the
ISJ
Firm as the shaft that props
towering dome. (Eschylus)

A sound so fine, there's no- Firm as the solid base of thi«

thing lies 'twixt it and silence. great world. (Akenside) S
(J.S. Knowles)
Firm as adamant— ( )

Fine as bronze
Leslce)
Fine as light.
floss.

— (Shelley)
(Amy
Firm fts a mountain,— (
Firm as the granite base of
Fine as silkworm's thread. Mount Washington. —
(Sothey)
Fins as the gleams gossamer Stand firm like a rock.
 ))

Firm ( 134 > Fit

(Marcus Aurelius) As virture, Vm.—( William

Firm as butchers.— (Bacon) Thomson)
As firm as rock in ocean.
Firm as the heart of a moun- (William Whitehead)
tain.— (Ambrase Bierce)

leg
Firm
of
in his sinew as the hind
a stag. ( Bui w er-Ly tton
( Firm as

Firm as rocky mountains.

the solid crystal.—

(Shakespeare)
Firmer than heaven and Firm as the world's centre.

^
earth.- (Bunyan) (Shelley)
Firm as a fortress. (Byron) Firm as dust and fixed as
shadows. —
Swinburne)
Held firm like a wall of rock.
(Carlyle)
Firm as the iron hills. — ( Firm and unflinching, as the
lighthouse reared on the Island
rock.— (Wordsworth)
Firm as the budding fruit.
(Ariosto) Firm as stone. (Old Testa-
Firm aswell-cured olives. ment)
(Aristophanes) Fish and Fishing
Firm as Sparta's king.— (Sir When the wind is in the east;
Francis Doyle) then the fishes do bite the least;

rock.—
Firm as
(
Firm as the rooted mountain

Atlas. (Robert Jeph-

when the wind is in the west, then
the fishes bite the best; when the
wind is in the north, then the fish-
son) Atlas es do come forth, when the wind is
Firm as steel. (Virginia W, in the south, it blows the bait in
Johnson) the fish's mouth.— (J. O. Halliwe
Firm as the tread of lions. 118)
(Richard Le Gallienire)
Fist
Firm asoak on rocky
the Fiats like shoulders of mutton.
heights.— (Edward Lovibond) S —(Balzac)
Fit
Firm driven
as
(George maredith)
Firm as a pillar.
stakes.

(George
( Fit as a rope for a thief.—
(
Meredith)
Firm as the poles, of the
earth, which never move.
Fit as aa shoulder of
for a sick horse.
M
— ( mutton

(George Sandys)

Firm as faith.
[
(Shakespeare)
Haughton)
Fit as

As fit as a pudding
-
a fiddle.— (William

for a
 g

Fit ( 135 Fixed

dogges mouth.— (Lyly) into the setting of a ring.

Pazlitt)
Fit as a fritter for a friar's m
M
mouth.— (English Proverb)

A word fitly spoken is like

Fits the present purpose like
a ring to your finger. -— (W. S.
Landor)
opples of gold in pictures of silver.
— (Old Testament)
ffl
Pit her as a helmet
a hero. —
(Amy Leslie) :
might

banana.
Fit as
— (
a banana skin on a
Fitted
the oartfully
each other like
into
covered pieces of
Fit in like dog's teeth. — wood which composed the picture
—
puzzles of our childhood. (Alex*

(Fits like the bark on a

Fits like a bathing suit coin-

tree. ander Kielland) gg

Fit like a kid glove. (George

ing out of the water. (George Meredith)
Broadhurst) ;g Fit like wheel to nave. -
(Milliam King)
Fits in ite place, l)ke a marble Fits as saddle for a horse.
stone accurately hewn and poli- (Sir A. Conau Doyle)
shed. -(Carlyle)
Fits you like a finger stuck

(Fits like feathers ou a duck. in the mud— (H. W. Phillips)

wall.—
Fits
(like the

Fit into his niche like

paper on the

a
Fitful
trees. — (D.
like
Fitful
thetalking
G. Rosaetti)
of

peg into a hole.— (Balzac)

Fitful as the sea.-— (Swin-
Fits you like a flannel washed burne)
iu hot suds.— (0. Henry) Fitfully
Comes Fitfully like broken
Fit like Sunday shoes. — (0. music— (Tennyson)
W. Holmes)
Fitted
well-oiled
Hutten)
as does
lock.
a key
(Bettiua
W
in
von
a
Fixed as
Fixed
fate. — (
Fits as a shell for a crab.
Fixed as the laws
planetary system.— ( of the

M
(Sir A. Conan Doyle)

Fitted into it like a brilliant (

Fived as your name on a note»
fixed ( 136 ) Flag,

Fixed as the orb of the burn- statue d— (South y)

ing sun.— (Emily Bronte)
Fixed like a searock.— (Swin-
Fixed as the polar star. burne)
(William Allen Butler) Fixt as are the roots of earth
and base of all.— (Tennyson)
Eyes immovably fixed^'Aike
a miser torn away from his Fixvd as the earth.— (Theo-
coffers, or like a mother separated gins)
from her child about to be led Fixed... like churchyard gra-
away to death. (Oumas, Pere) ves. (Theodore Til ton)

Fixed,
Vance Cheney)
as in death. (John
Fixed as a
&
Fix'd as oaks.— (Paul Whit-
head)
star. (Words- —
Fixt as an island 'gainst the worth)
waves and wind.— (Abraham Cow- Fixed like a rock.— (Mahab-
ley) harata)
Fixed like a statue on his Fixed as a monument. (W.
marble throne.— (F. W. Faber) M. Pread)
Fixed as a sentinel. — (Edward
Sullen, fixed like some old Young)
oak's deep-rooted, knotted trunk, Fizzy
which hath endur'd the tempest- Fizzes like wildfire. (Robert
breathing months of thrice a hun- frowning)
dred winters, yet remains un- Fizzed like freshly opened
shaken.— (Richard Glover) sodawater.— (Kipling)
^ Fizzling like an impatient

( Fixed as a sculptured figure.

Fixedly
K
as rocky marge.
soda
Browing)
fountain. (Harry Leon

(Keats) Flabby
Gaze fix d...&s one who deep
^
y
As flabby as a sponge. (Guy
in heaven some airy pageant sees. de Maupassant) I^UJ
(John Keble)
There is affection in every
As fixed as the law of light.— employment, and it gives the
(Charles Sangster) spirit energy, and keeps the mind
m intent upon its work or study.
FVxd as a mountain ash. This if it be not relaxed, becomes
(William Somerville) dull, and its earnestness flag»,—&s
salt that has lost its savor, so that
Like the stone eyeballs of the it has no puugency or relish; or as
 ) )

Flags ( 137 > Flasb

bended bow, which unless it be

unbent, loses the power that it Flare like torches. — (Long-
derives from its
(Emanuel Swedenborg)
elasticity.—
— fellow)
Flared like molten
(James Montgomery)
brass.

Flared, like Titan torches

flinging flakes of flame and em-

^ Her interest flagged, ( bers, springing from the dale.

(A
(James Whitcomb Rilev) :)feto'
Flame
Flamed like a sheet of molten Flash
gold. — (William H. Ainsworth) A flash snow avalanche.
like a
— (Thomas Westwood)
Flame like torch-flames
passionate air. (Sidney
in the
Lanier) Fl ashes like cut glass. (
A jlame of scarlet crept in a A mere as chaff and
flash,

(
swift diagonal across his cheeks. straw soon burn vehemently^
fired,
for a while, yet out in a moment.

eyes.—
A
(
quick Jlame leaped in his ;
-(Robert Burton)
2

Flame, like a meteor, to the

troubled air. —
(Robet Lloyd) '
( The rainbows

Flash like stars.—

flashed like fire.

(
Flaming like a carbuncle. Eyes flashing, like shooting
(Rabelais) thunderbolt.— (P. J. Bailey)

burne)
Flames
» like

Flap
morn. — (Swin- Flashing, like a
ed flame.— (R. D. Blackinore)
newly-awaken-

Flap as a flag as the winds go

by.— (James Whitcomb Riley)
Flashed like
fountain. — ( the spray of a

Flapping down behind him Flashing like a steel blade.

likethe back-fin of a water-ser- (Georg M. Braudes) fit
pent.— (Robert Browing)
Flash' d like a jewel. (Robert
Flare Bridges)
lamp About
to die.
Flare like a spent
— (John Davidson) ^ Joi
Flash like a rocket.
Calverley)
(0. S.
 ) K)

Flash ( 138 ) Flattery

Flashing. .Ailie sci miter from mont and Fletcher)

its sheath. (Paul Laurence Dun- Flat as an anvil's face.
bar) 7J (Robert Browning)
Flash like golden fire-flakes
from the sky. (Wilhelm Miiller) Flat as a gravestone.— (E. B.
Browing)
Mashing like thought. (Miss Flat as a juryman. (Dickens)
Mulock)
Flashing like fire-flies. — ( Flat as dead sands be at ut-

Flashing like '

a
(Richard Le Gallienne)
scythe.
^
salt o the sea.— (
most ebb that drink the drained

Flashed, like a sabre in the Flatter

Thomas Moore) A woman who wont't flatter
is like a piano that won't play.

(Schiller) ^
Flashing like a fiery stream.

Flashed like a strong inspira-

(Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler)
)

tion.-(Shelly) Flatterers

Like a mirror sparkling to the

eun with dazzling splendor, /as^ec?.
Flatterers arecats, that
before and scratch behind.
|g
( lick

-(Southey) Face-flatterer and back-biter

are the same. (Tennyson)
Flat

( Flat as a pricked bladder.-—

Flat as your hand.

A flatterer can risk everything
with great personages. (Le Sage)

Flatterers look like friends, as

Flat as the beaten coin. wovles like dogs. (Chapman) |g
CAntar)
Flat as a flair. (Bret Harte) Flattery
like Kologne water,
Flattery is
As flat as a pancake. (Lud- tew be smelt of not swallowed.
Tig Holberg) (Josh BiUings)
Flat as a rose that has long
been pressed. (O. W. Holmes) Flattery corrupts both the

( Flat as a willow-pattern plate.

receiver and the giver.
g :^ (Burke)

Every woman is infallibly to

( Flat as the fens of Holland.

Flat as a flounder. —- (Bea u- !

be gained by every sort of flattery,
and every man by one sort or
another.— (Lord Chesterfield)
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Flattery ( 139 ) fled

19

it is
When flattery does not succeed,
not the fault of flattery, but
flattery
An atmosphere
&nd toadyism. (
thick
)
with

of the flatterer.— (Pierre Gaston) Flattery is the destruction of

all good fellowship; it is like a
qualmish liqueur in the midst of
Learn to contemn all praise a bottle of wine. (Disraeli)
betimes; for flattery's the nurse of
crimes.- (Gay) Flattery is like false money; it

A flattering painter, who made

his care to draw men as they
it. (
impoverishes

Your
thos?»

flattery, like
that receive

a rich jewel,

^
it
ought to be, not as they are. has a value not only from its
(Goldsmith) superior lustre, but from its ex-
tra-ordinary scarceness. (Richard
Cumberland)
Tis the most pleasing

^
flattery
to like what other men like
(J. Selden) Flattery resembles the picture
of a suit ofarmour in this respect,
Flattery is like a painted ar- that it is calculated to yield de-
mor; only to show. (Socrates) light, not to render any actual
service. (Demophilus) |@
Though flattery blossoms like
friendship, yet there
— (
is a vast
difference in the fruit
IS
A man that flatter eth his ^^ Flecked
Flecked as a .turkey egg. —(

^
neighbour spreadeth a net for his
feet.-(Proverb) IS

If men did not jlatter one

another there would be scarcely
Fled
The tyrant from oar
like a forbidden demon
(Akenside)
>
shore,
fled.—

-any society.
IS
Three
( Vauvenargues)

personages can-
sorts of
( Fled like leaves on the gale.

Fled like a
11
dusky cloud.—

^
not be praised too highly he gods, i (Kipling)
one's mistress, and one's kings. Find, as the dawn clcuds fleo
(La Fontaine) before the sun. —
(John Payne)

If we do not flatter ourselves^ Fled like shadows. (Petrarch)

%he flattery of other people would
^ot harm us.— (La Rochefoucauld) Fled, as fogs disperse before
 Ii 3

Fled ( 140 ) Flee

the god of day. (Charles Reade)

Fled, as time will in a dream.
Fhd. like frighted doves. ( N. P. Willis)

Fled like crows when they Fled as fast as doth haunted

smell powder. (Samuel Butler)
|

fawn.— (Wordsworth) ^:
^
Fled like a dream. — (Cowper) Fled like vapour, like a tower-
ing cloud, dissolved.

^
Fled from his thoughts like a
sickly dream.— (Bulwer Lvtton) Fled like a mist before the
radiant day. (Roscommom)
Like a passing thought, she
fled, (Bur ns) Fled like a glittering rivulet
to the tarn.— (Tennyson)
Liko a flock of rooks at a I

farmer's gun, night's dreams and

terrors, every one, fled from the
brains which are their prey. —
|

J
As
she^d.— (
flies the shadow of a bird,

Sorrow fled on fleeting pinions,

(Shelly) like the icy breath of winter that
spring zephyrs waft away. (
Like i]urder, chas'd by con- j
Each quiet day has fled like the
science, fled. (Ebenezer Elliot) I same inoth, returning with slow
wing, and pausing in the sun-
Fled like the flood's foam. shine.— (George Eliot)
(Emerson)

Holmes) ^
Fled ike felon. (O. W. My best years h.B.\e fled away,
like dreams. (Walter yonder Vo-
Fled, like insect tribes
the northern gale.— ( before gelweide)

room
She fled
('
like a spirit from the

Fled like a beast. (John i

Skelton) Flee
—
(Beaumont

&&
Like spectres from the sight of Flee like desirea.
j

morning, /fed— (Southey) 1

and Fletcher)
Flee like a shamed child. (R.
Fled away like a dream. I
M. Milnes)
(John Wesley) Flee like a dream's dim ima-
Fled like a tlagh of light. gery. -(Shelley)
(

(Klla Wheeler Wilcox)

-- Flue, like mist from the tem-
—
ship. (
/'7«?rf,like
—
rats from a
) ^
sinking
If
pest's might.
 ) )

Flee ( 141 ) Fleeting

Flee as clouds and winds and Fleet as the shadows. — (Words-

rays across the sea. (Swinburne) worth)

tain.
Flee as a bird to your
—
(Old Testament)
monn- years. — (
Fleet as days

As fleet as
and months and

had they wings upon

their feet. (Jacques Jasmin)

( Flee as fleeing from a

Fleeth also as a
sword.—

shadow. —(
Fleet as wind. (Mahabharata)

Fleet as the dew. — (Philip B.

Fleet Marston)
Fleet as the arrow from the Fleeter than the roe. — (Shakes-
bowstring flies, fleet as the eagle peare)
darting through the skies. Fleeter than lightning's flash.
(Firdansi) (Sophocles )
Fleet as light. (Swinburne)
Fleet as leash-slipped grey-
hounds. (Dante) Fleeting
Light and fleeting as a dream
— (Charles
den) —
Fleet as fancy. Dib- of night lost in garish day.
(Esckylus)
Fleet as a flying swallow.
— (
»
(Joseph R. Drake) Fleeting as a shade.
Fleets as a dream.— (Elijah
Fenton)
Fleet as a greyhound. —
Fleeting as oy of youth. —(

^ Fleet as kindled fire. — ( wind

Fleeting like
aloft. (George
feathers in the
Gascoigne)

Fleeter than hawk that ever Aa fleeting as April sunshine.

flew. — (Edwin Arnold) (Gerhart Hauptmann)

Fleet is his foot as the wild Fleeting as bubbles that swim

roebuck's.— (C. S. Calverley) on the beaker's brim, and break
on the lips while meeting.
Fleet
(Campbell)
as the whirlwind. (Charles Fenno Hoffman) ;
( Fleet as the lightning's laugh.
Fleeting as a passing sigh.
words of men or snow-
Fleet as
flakes on the wind.— ) ( (Sigmund Krasinski)

A thing as fleeting as the thin

Fleet as shooting star. ) sea-foam. —
(G. S. Viereck)
 »

Fleeting ( 142 ) Fling

Fleeting as the wings of sleep.

(Virgil) Flickering like a casement
Fleeting as health or beauty. 'gainst the sun. — (Charles T.
(Wordsworth) Turner)
Fleeting as air. (Swift) Flickering like a flame, half
choked by wind an'i dust. — (G. S.
Fleeting like a beam of light.-— Viereck)
(Tennyson)
Fleeting
clouds.— (Tupper)
as

Flesh
the bow in the
wind. — (
Flickering like a flame in the

Flicker like a lamp.

mund Krasinski)
(Sig
^
^ —
All fleih is and all the
as grass, Flickering like dying lamps
glory of man the flower of
as in sepulchres. —
(Schiller)
grass. The grass withereth, and
the flower thereof falleth away.

—
(New Testament) — Flickers
flame.— (Swinburne)
like a blown-ouc

Flickering like a wind-bawild-

Fleshless ered leai —
Fleshless as a joint of cane.
(Irvin S. Cobb) Flight
Fleshless
(Dumas, Pere)
Fleshless
as

as
bars

the talons of
of steel.

a
The
days.— ( flight of

Flimsy
the autumnal

hawk. — (Edwin Markham) Flimsy as gauze. —

X a skeleton. Flimsy as gossamer. —
Fleshless as
IBaint-Pierre)
Flexible Flinch

( Flexible as a riding whip.

As finely flexible as linen.

Flinch. ..like
burning a sun.
a plant in
(Thomas Hardy)
too

(George W. Curtis) Fling

Fling... as a bird flings o'er bis
Flexible as figures fti the shivering plumes the fountain's
bands of the statistician. (Israel spray.— (William Cullea Bryant)
Zangwill) til

^ ^
Flickering Flung up like a fortress lifted
Flickering light like the jewels by powder. — (George Meredith)
of a broken necklace. (Kipling)
Flung like vile carrion to the
Flicker like fire. — hound.— (Sir Walter Scott)
 E II

Fling ( 143 ) Flit

wintry night. —
Flung as foam from a ship's
swiftness.- (Shelley)

Flip
( Fl.it

Flitting
like a

like
summer cloud.—
IC
motes in the
Flips away like whale-bone sunheam (John Brout Gham)
from the finger. (R. D. Blake-
more) Flit, like splendor-winged
Flippantly moths about a taper. (Shelly)
Flippantly, as a boy not yet
grown bashful. (Xenophon) t$ Flitted like spark.— (Hood)

Flirt Flit like a ghost away.—

A flirt is like a dipper attached (Keats)
to a hydrant; every one is at liber- Flit like blown feathers.
ty to drink from it, but no one (Don Marguis)
desires to carry it away. (N. P.
Seasons flit before the mind
Willis)
as the snow-flakes in a winter
flit

storm, seen rather than distingui-

shed.— (William Cullen Bryant)
She had flirted as far and
wide as the butterfly flirts with
the blossoms, as it flutters on
Flit over the brain like the
|

through the range of a Summer I

of the dead. (Thomas

day. — (Quida) ghosts
Pringle)
Flirtation
is like a circulating He flits like a bee.— (Osmanli
Flirtation
library, iu which we seldom ask Proverb) ^^
Flits like a swallow that stoopS
twice for the same volume. (N.P.
Willis) to lave its burnis-hed bosom in
the wave. (T. Buchanan Read)
Flirtations are like motor cars;
enjoyments,

—
they either exceed the speed limit I
Flit, like life's

and end in a smashup, or they on rapid, rapid wing. (Caroline

are so slow that a girl nearly dies Sonthey)
of nervous prostration waiting for Flitted away like a kite wi a
them to get somewhere. (Helen broken string. — (Tennyson)
Rowland) \

I FlHs like a sadden drift of

snow against the dull grey sky,
-K)scar Wilde)
Flit
Flitted away like a bird on a Fattening here and there, like
 ' )

Flit ( 144 ) Flourish

sunshine
waves.
B
— ( in the uneasy ocean- wave. — (Sir Walter Scott)

Floating like the streamers in

Flitted-'MfnUj as an April the wind.— (Souther)
sunbeam. (Bulwer Lytton)
Floats like soft-melting mur-
Fancies and flit, wheel like murs of grief. (James Montgom-
butterflies on banks of thyme. ery)
(Andrew Lang) Floating in the air like so
many spiders upon their cobwebs.
Flitting like a shadow of love. — (Munchausen)
(Donald G. Mitchell)

Flits
fire.— (Samuel
like a living
Minturn Peck)
flake of seas. (
Floats like oil upon brown

Flock
Float Flocking into the country like
Float away like the deluding I
pigeons in the spring (J. Feni-
mist of a mirage.— t more Cooper)
I

Flood
Floats like the lotus in
lake, unmoved.— ( the It flooded the crimson twilight
like the close of an Angel's Psalm.
— (Adelaide A.) ^
Floats over the troubles of
as the froth above the idle Florid

^
life
wave.— (William

Floats like
Hazlitfc)

an atmosphere.
i
( Floried as a

Florid as the Spring.

milk-maid.

— (
(Longfellow)
I

Floats like an Ark safely Flounce

through the deluge
all of the Flounce like a fish.— (Robert
dark. — (Gerald Massey) Wolseley)
Flounder
Gently floating. ...like a fairy Flounder on, like wounded
chime blue harebells heard
of whales tossed on the bosom of a
in dreams, beneath the forest stormy sea. (Wordsworth)
trees. — (A. J. Symington) i

(
I

huge

^
She flounders like a
conger- eel in the ocean.
They float in its rythmic
measure like leaves on a summer Flourish

^
stream. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
H
Floating like foam upon the
j
( Flourish like a green bay tree,

Flourished like scripture-

 ) |

Flourish ( 145 ) Fluctuate

trees called bay.

ing)
(Robert Brown- |
I
images
ton)
of sleep. (Edith
'
Whar-

Flourshing
grove. -(Carlyle)
As cedars beaten with
tinual storms, so
flourish.—
great
(Chapman)
as a Banyan

con-
men
Flow, smoke, along the
like
level of the blast, in
currents.— (Wordsworth)

Bubble,
mighty

bubble, flows the

^
stream like an old tune through
a dream. (Maurice Thompson)
Flourishes like the mountain
oak. — (Agnes Eepplier) Flow as hugely as the sea.
(Shakespeare)
Flourish as a branch. (Old Flowers
Testament)
Flourish like an herb. ( The is a flower without
tulip
a soul, but the rose and the lily
seem to possess one. (Joseph

earth.- (
Flourish like grass of the Joubert.)

( Flourish like the palrnt

As a flower of the field so

ree

he
robe
Flowers, that their gay
wear— (Miltoh.) #
ward-

flourisheth.—m^)

Fourishing as the flowers in

They
powers.— ( seemed

Fluctuant
like floating

May .— (Lewis Wager) Fluctuant, as the ark of Noih.

Flow like
Flow
a free and flowing
I

(
-(Bacon)

Fluctuate
river. —( urged
Fluctuated like a stormy sea
by the
Eloquence flows like drop- secret Furies.—
pings oi sweet poppy syrup. (Thomas Ashe)
(Macaulay)
Fluctuated as flowers in rain
Flowy like the dews of the that bends them and they tremble
love-breathing night, from the I
and rise again and heave and
warmth of the sun that has set. straighten and quiver all through
(Thomas Moore) I
with bliss and turn afresh their
mouths up for a kiss, amorous,
Flowed like light amid the athirst of that sweet influent love.
shadows of the sea cast from one Swinburne)
cloudless star.— (Shelley) il

Flowed by like the streaming Fluctuates like a sleepy wave#

 i

Fluency ( 146 ) Flutter

-(Bayard Taylor) ®
^
leaf.-(Hazlitt)
Fluency Fluttered noiseless as a flame.
He conversed with a colorless -(J. G. Holland)
^wwq/, — m
Fluent Fluttering like new-mown hay.
Fluent as the skylark sings 0. W. Holmes)
when the morn allures its Flutter like a flickering dying

&
first
wings. -(Akenside) lamp.— (Sigmund Krasin ski)

Aa fluent as a parrot is, and Fluttered like a lark.— (Gerald

far more Polly-glottish. (Hood) Massey)
SI Fluttered like a bird fresh
Fluent as the sea.— (Shake canght.— (Miss Mitford)
speare)
Fluid Fluttering like a prisoned bird.
Fluid as a cloud or the air. — (Lewis Morris)
-(Emerson) sparrows
Flutter. ...like round
Flurried an owl.— (Bnlwer-Lytton)
Helpless and flurried as a fish
landed on a grassy bank with Flutters up and down like a
a barbed hook through his gills, i
butterfly in a garden.— (Samuel
Ouida) Butler)
Flutters as wingM with joy.—
Flush (Byron)

his
The deep
face. — ( flush ebbed out of Flutters as
-(Barlyle)
Its meaning
an unreal shadow.

flutters in me
Flushed as one afire with like a flame under my own breath.
wine. —
(Swinburne) E. B. Browning)

Flushed.... like a rose. —— (Aubrey

De Vere)
Rosy flushes like warm dreams
Fluttering,
tures before storms.
like
— (
dumb crea-

of love.

Flushes,
;
(Frances

like
Anne Kemble)

some young
Fluttered like a tame bird, in
among
(
its forest brothers far too
strong for it.
Hebe's

Have
lip.

(
— (Thomas
ne'er by shame been
Moore)

a
Fluttered like a dead leaf in
blast. —
(P. J. Bailey) ^
taught to blush, like vernal roses
in the sun flush. — ( ( Fluttered like a winged asp.—
M^k
iTt»

Flutter
Fluttering like a piece of gold ed.— (R.
Fluttered like a raven wound-
D. Blackmore) ^
Flatter ( 1^ ) Fly

( ( Flew like feathered Mercury,

Flutterd like
broken wings.— (Dickens)
a bird with
L Flew like graiiado. — ( .

Flutter like snowflakes.— Words flew out of his mouth

(Hamlin Garland)
Like snow-colored petals of
blossoms that flee from storm
(
as shot out of a gatling gun.—

that unsettles the flower as the Fly, like a yelping cur with
tree they flutter.— (Swin burne) a bottle at his tail.— (Colley
Cibbuer)

— (0.
Fluttering
G. Rossetti)
I flutter
like pigeons.

like
her mother.— (Sappho)
a child after
like
. Each mysterious form,
the pictures
dream. — (Akenside)
it
of
— flew
a mornincf

Fluttered,
(Schiller)
like a vision, tempest. — (
Flew along like a bird in a

( Fluttering like

Like an angel's
spent

pinion,
Are, Fly like doves that the exalted
eagle spies. (Richard Duke)

fluttereth. — (J. T. Trowbridge) Friends have flown, like

leaves whirled away by the blast,
Made my own heart flutter, Mrs. E. Forrester)
as a bird that beats for freedom at
the bars that prison it. (James Flying.... like scatterings of
Whitcomb Riley) dead leaves in autumn-gusts.
(E. B. Browning)
Gauzy wings fluttered by like

M the sky. (
the ghost of a daisy dropped out
—
Fly as from
(John Davies)
the

Fly as the leaves before the

plague.—

Fly autumn tempest. — )

Flies
dreams— (like antic shapes in

of
Fly as a bird on the
Night.— (Arabian Nights) ^
wings

His arms flew like a windmill.

—( Fly like.... the northen wind.

( Flying, like '

blown flame. (Francis Beaumont) 4b

(
Flies like chaff wide scattered
bV the wind. —
Flies like a feather in
blast.— (Joseph K, Drake)
the
 L
Fly ( 148 ) FI

he
Away
fl ew . — (
like a glance of thought
Flew around like the spray
on a storm-driven deck. (Joaquin

,
Flies like the nimble journeys Miller)
of the light.— (Dryden)
Flown, like morning clouds,
Fly around like a bat in the a thousand ways. (James Mont-

^
twilight.— (Bjornstjerne Bjornson)

Flew as if he knew a frenzied

wretch was on his back. (Eliza
gomery)

thistle.
All flew like
(Clement
the
C.
down
Moore) —
of a

Cook) As before the pike will fly

dace and roach and such small
Fly like a full sail. — (Beau- fry; as the leaf before the gale,
mont and Fletcher) as the chaff beneath the flail as
before the woll the flocks, as
Fly like chaff before the wind. before the hounds the fox; p.s
-(James Bos well) before the cat the mouse, aa the
rat from the {ailing house; as the
Fly like the cannou that burst fiend before the spell of holy
on the Fourth of July. — water, book, and bell; as the ghost

m
Flew as in a dream. (Hugo)
from dawning day.
Peacock) ^) (Thomas L.
I
,1
Sparks that fly like chaff from
a threshing-floor. (Longfellow)

Flies like a bird unfettered Flew at him, like the young

from her cage. (Maria Lowell) hero Siegfried when he attacked
the wild, long- bearded dwarf
Flew like sparks in burnt up Alberich.— (Joseph V. von Sche-
paper. — (Lowell)
Sweetly flew as glancing flame
(
ffel)
Scandinavia Sf^

-(Thomas Moore) Flown like the light clouds of

a summer's day. (John Scott)
Flown are those days with EB
their winged delights, as the odor like
Fly, mist before the
is gone from the summer rose. zephyr's sigh.— (Sir Watter Scott)
Louise Chaudler Moultou)

Fly as tast as the hare from

S
(
Like falcon to the lure, away
S lie iiies.—

the horn. (Brian —

Melbancke) He flies like a dog that has
 * . )

Fly ( 149 ) Fold

burnt his paw.

A
(Osmanli Prov,)
( Fly,
)
like scattered sheep.

dead.
Flew as the
(D. G. Rossetti)
spirit flies from the
wind. — (
Flew away as lightly as the

Fly like eagles which pursue

Flying
through the fen.—
fast
(as roebucke

their prey.

Some
(George Sandys)

pendulums,
fly,
(
like glory's
Flown, like
cup.— (Amelia
the morning-
B. Welby)
irom good to evil, and in that
point are madder than the devil. Fly like flower-seeds on the
— (Christopher Pitt) breeze. -(N. P. Willis)

(
I

f I

Fly away as a dream.

Flies, as leapes the deere fled
from the hunter's face. (Earl ol
;
Flew like a blossome blown
Stirtiug) i
about.— (Walter Thornbury)
Fly as if the devil drove.
(Swift) Flown, like birds from the

to eat. — (
Fly as the eagle that hasteth

Fly like thought,— (1^

j

j
nest
— (John
when
T.
their wings have grown.
Trowbridge)

Fly, ike doves before the

Lik^ soldiers, when their cap- I gathering storm. (G. S. Viereck)

fly.— (
tain once doth yield, they basely
! Foamed
Foam
like a wounded thing.
Flew like the swift and dazzl- -(Shelley)

(
I

ing flight of gold-winged orioles. They are as white foam on the

(Ouida) swept sands. —
Three-cornered notes
like butterflies.— ( fly about Foamed
Stebbing)
like a flagon,— (M. E.

They fly like spray.— ( will)

Foaming
Champagne
at the
bottle.
mouth
(Israel
like
Zang-

the sea. — (
Sea-gulls flying like flakes of
Folded
dream— (Shelley)
Fold
like thoughts in a

Flew like the wind. (John

Skelton) Eyelids folded like a white-
Flew at him like an hellish rose leaf.— (Swinburne)
fiend. — (Spenser)
Folded up as folds a primrose
Fold ( 150 ) Folly

when the gates of day are shut. cher )

(Eugene Fitch Ware) ^lll Followed like a comet-tail.—

(Carlyle)
Folds up like a crush hat or a Follow each other, like surge
concertina.— (Irvin S. Cobb) upon sur^e.— (William Knox)

Folded like a wave.— (0. W. Youth follows life, as bees the

Holmes) honey. — (Bayard Taylor)
Shall fold their tents like the
Arabs and as silently steal away. Will follow thee, as the ripple
-(Longfellow)

The flowers fold their cups

^
follows the bark at sea.— (Whit-
tier)
Like geese each other follow.
like praying hands. (Gerald Mas- fieorge Withers)
Bey) Misfortune follows him like
Foliage a faithful hound.— (Stephen Phil-
An
foliage.— (
impenetrable screen of lips)
Follow, as the night the day.
(Shakespeare)
Follow Followed. ..like one drawn by
Follow the track of blood. ..like a charm.— (E. R. Sill)
to
wounded fawn. — (
some hound that hunts a

Folly is
Folly
the growth of
like

( Follow like a flock of sheep,— weeds always luxurious and spon-

taneous; wisdom, like flowers, re-

mon. (
Follow... like geese

Follows like a shadow.

on a com-

— (
quires cultivation.
lon)

Dead
^
(Hosea Bal-

flies cause the ointment

of the apothecary to send forth a
Follow'd faithfully as if 'twere stinking savour: so doth a little
his shadow.— (Edwin Arnold) follyhim that is in reputation for
wisdom and honour. (Old Testa-
Follow'd her desire, as sun-
light tracks the
Thomas
shadow
Ashe)
of a cloud.
ment)
'
Folly irf like a sore on a sur-
be bounde to follow it as the
I feited horse, cure it in one place
carpenter bis ruler. (English and it breaks out in another.
Ballad) (Dryden)

Follow one another like ducks

in a gutter.— (Beaumont and Flet-
One man's
xnans fortune. — (
folly is anotbef
Folly ( 151 ) Fond

An easy prey to the powers of

has su red. — ( )

folly. —( A fool like a bottle, which

, would make you merry in com-
Folly and Fools pany, will make vou dull alone.
There is just this difference (Vanbrough) ^
between a fool and a hen, the fool M
cackles before, the hen not till All world's a mas3 of
the
after the egg is aid.— (John Bill- folly, youth is gay, age melancho-
ings) ly: youth is spending, age is thrif-
ty; mad at twenty,, cold at fiftyl
Wise men learn more from man is nought but folly's slave,
fools than fools from wise men. from the cradle to the grave.
(Gato) (W. H. Ireland)

Folly in youth is sin, in age

'tis madness. (S. Daniel)

A man of wit would often be

An ass may do more adventi- very much at a loss withotlt the
tiousill than twenty tigers. (J. company of fools. (La Roehefou-
Davidson) |g cauld)
Let the doors be shut upon
The others
folly ever
of is him, that he may play the fool
most ridiculous to thosewho are nowhere but in s own house.
themselves most foolish. (Gold- (Shakepeare)
smith)
Men may live fools, but fools
the folly of the world
It is they cannot die. (Young)
constantly which confounds its
wisdom — (0. W. Holmes) Answer not a fool according
thou also be lik&
to his folly, lest
None but a fool is always right. unto him. Answer a fool accord-
-(J. 0. Hare) ing to his folly, lest he be wise
A a worse fool than
wise fool is in his own conceit. (Proverb)
an ignorant fool. (Moliere)
^
Fools, like apes,
from their
Whitehead)
birth.
are mimics
(William Fond as cat
Pond
is of milk. — (
A fool
right by chance.
must now and then be
—
gold.
Fond
— ( as the miser is of his

Fond as a bride. — (John Gay>

Even the fool knows, when he
 || )

Fond ( 152 ) Forged

Fond as hounds are of run-

(
j

ning after foxes.— (Hood) Foolish as the tailor who sews

sleeves to the pocket holes.
Fonder than ignorance.

—(
(Shakespeare) Footsteps
Dogs the footsteps. it
Fond of an old sweetheart as
a brisk widow of her third hus- Forbidding
band.- (John Wilson) Forbidding as a mourning
card.— (Com pton Mackenzie)

Foolery Forehead
Foolery, Sir, does walk about A forehead more pure than
—
the orb like the sun: it shines
everywhere. — (Shakespeare)
B
(
the Parian stone. (Whittier)

Force
Foolish
Foolish a3 a calf.— ( Creative force, like a musical
composer, goes on unwearying
repeating a simple air or theme,
Foolish, as look for a rainbow now high, now low, in solo, in
in the night. (Sydney Munden) chorus, ten thousand times rever-
berated, till it fills the earth and
Foolish as the disturbing heaven with the chant. (Emer-
— (Walter
phantoms
Trumbull)
of the night. son)
&
Foolish as an endeavor to ifii

make a lobster climb a tree and

(
give a report of the atmospheric
con ditio n s. —
smile.- (
She forced a faint quivering

Forcible
Forcible as custom. (Bacon)
Foolish as to scratch one's
head w;'th a firebrand. — j

Foreboding
Haunted with a chill and un-
Foolish as to flash a roll of
bills before a
lawyer. — ( earthly foreboding.
^
Forethought
— mgm

blind man. — (
Foolish as to talk of color to a j
Forethought
repentance.— ( is better than

Foolish as
from a bald man's head. —
try to pull
(
hair
)
i

Forged
Forged
like steel and tem-

Foolish as a peacock. — ( )
pered thought. (Swinburne)
Forgiveness ( 153 ) Forsake

Forgiveness
Abrave
bis superior
jury, for
man thinks no one
who does him an in-
he has it then in his
Forgotten, as the
thy youth.— (CDwper) ^
foliage of

power to make
himself superior to
the other bv forgiving it. (Pope) sea.— (
Forgotten like waves on the

Thrown
aside and forgotten
as are the hoofs and horns of a
To love is human; it is also buffalo. —
J. Fenimore Cooper)
human to forsfive. (Plautus)
^ Forked
To err is human; to forgive, Forked like the loveliest light-
divine.- (Pope) nings.— (Swinburne)

Forge tten Forlorn

Forgotten like the
last vear*s clouds.— ( )
forms of As forlorn as the faded coquet-
te.— (William Allen Butler)

Forgotten like an almanac out Formal

of date.— (M. de La Br uy fere)
Formal and precise, like rooms
EJ
which we enter and leave, not
Forgotten like an antique tale
those in which we settle and
of Hero and .Leander. (Charles
dwell.— (Bui wer Lytton)
Lamb) Hero Leander
H 'ro Leander
Formal. ..as the
Leander veil of a nun.
Hero
— (Henry James)
Formal as a Quaker. (George
Forgotten as a fallen
(Harry B. Smith)
star.
P- Morris) (
Forgotten as changes of Formless
dreams. —
(Swinburne) Formless as air. (P. J. Bailey)

( Forgotten like

Forgotten as a dead
spilt

man
wine.

out
go)
Formless as midnight,

Forsake
(Hu-

of mind.— (Old Testament) Forsaken like some old house

one moves out of and locks up
Forgotten like a dream. when one has gotten a new one.
(Wordsworth) (Bjornstjerne Bjornaon)
By all forget, like a flower
whose stein is broken.— (Barry
Cornwall) To forsake as the trees drop
 )

P or sake ( 154 ) Fortune

their leaves in autumn. ( where,

Fortune
many
is like the market,
times if you can

stars.
Forsake us soon, like morning-
(John Pomeret) (
stay a little, the price will fall.—

Forsaken, like the shadows The way of Fortune is like

that fly from the dawn. (William the milky way in the sky; which
Winter) is a meeting, or knot, of an umber

Fortune
youth and is
Fortune
is like women,
fickle. — ( loves
of small stars, not seen asunder,
afc giving light togather— (
Happiness or misery generally
go to those who have most of Fortune, like other females,
either the one or the other. (La delights rather on favoring the
Rochefoucauld) young than the old. (Addison)

Fortune gives too much to

many, enough to none. (Martial) Good fortune, like ripe fruit,
ought to be enjoyed while it is
present.— (Epictetus)
you count up the sunny
If
and cloudy days in a complete Many fortunes, like rivers,
year, you will find:'that the fine have a pure source, but grow
muddy
¥
dav has come more often. (Ovid)
Petit-Senn)
as they grow large.— (J.

unkind to men of
fortune, False Fortune, like a fawning
talent, how unqually do you dis- strumpet, about to leave th«
tribute your rewards (Seneca) bankrupt prodigal, with a dis-
sembled smile would kiss a«
When fortune means to men parting, and flatter to the last.
most good, she looks upon them
with a threatening eye.
peare) S
(Shakes-
(Dryden)
^
Fortune as well as women
It seems to me
harder to find must be taken in the humor.
a man who bears good fortune
•well, than one who bears evil.
(Xenophon)

Fortune is glass;
^ just
1
when it
(Wycherley)
Fortune, like other drabs,
values a man gradually less for
every year he lives. (Swift)

is bright it is broken. (Latin pro- Fortune is like glass tho

verb) brighter the glitter, the moro
 )

Fortune ( 155 ) Frail

easily
Syrus)
it is broken. — (Publius
(
fragrance as of

Frafrant
hidden flowers.

Forward
Forward like a wind-blown
flame.— (Francis Thompson)
( As fragrant as clover's

Fragrant as musk.
sod.

Forward like a fierce hound Fragrant as the morning rose.

strainingon a leash. (Sir A. -(Maslowe)
Conan Doyle) Fragant as the frosted blossom
of a May night. (George Mere-
Foul dith)
Foul, like a birding place. Fragrant as the dewfall.
(Thomas Dekker) (Swinbune) •

Fragrant.... as May. (Lord Da

Foul as a sty. (Edgar Lee Tabley)
Masters) f^i Fragrant as a violet on a
Foul as slander. (Shake- summer's night. (Emerson)
peare)
Foul as pestilence. (Eichard
5
Fragrant as teh breath of
Shell) angeK— (0. W. Holmes)
Foul as plague polluted
gloom.— (Swinburne) Fragrant as thyme upon the
mountains. (Dr. Johnson)
Fragile as a
Fragile
lily. — (
Fragile as rainbows. ( (Balzac)

eray)
Fragrant

Fragrant
as

as
field- flowers.

lilacs.— (Thack-

Fragile as a shade. (Balzac)

Fragrant as the breath of

Fragile as a dream.
flow'rs.— (William Thomson)
(Walter
Malone)
Fragile as a leaf. (Donald G. The
fragrance of her rich
Mitchell) and delightful character still

As fragile as a strand of rain. lingered about the place where

— (James Whitcomb Kiley) she had lived, as a dried rosebud
scents the drawer where it has
Fragile assome dream which withered and perished. (Haw-
Hope with hollow band hath throne)
guided. — (Mary A. Townsend)

Fragrance Frail
The air is touched with a lazy Frail as May's first lily iu. ti
 g B )

Frail ( 156 ) Free

Northern vale.— (Bayard Taylor)

Frayed
Frail as perfume of the Frayed like fretted foam.—
cuckoo-flower. — (Tennyson) I
(Alfred Austin)
Freckled
Frail frost-landscapes
as
a window-pane. (Lowell)
on
^ Freckled like a pard. (Keats)

Frail as the clouds of sunset. Free as a fly.—

Free
(
— (James
Frail
Montgomery)

as a flake "of snow.

I
m
Free as a gift.— (
(A. J. Ryan)
Frail as a lily. — ( Free from
diamond from the mine.
W. Sladen)
flaw or stain
(D.
as
B.
|R
Frail as flesh is. (Laman
Blanchard)
Frail as the leaf in
yellow bower.— (Campbell)
Autumn's
Free as birds that breast and
brave the sea.— (Swinburne) .
Free as mountain winds.
Frail as the clouds. (De (Shakespeare)
—
Quincey)
Frail as a sigh.— ( Freer than a jailer.

Free in spirit as the mountain.

the web that misty
Frail as - (Shelley)
night has spun. (0. W. Kolmes) Free as India's leopard. — (N.
P. Willis)
Frail as dishes. (Hood) Free as the soul of the fragrant
wine.— (William Winter)
Frank

( Frank

Frank
as

as
growth of spring.

a soldier. (James
Free
worth)
Free
as

as
the

our
Sun.— (Words-

desires. (
Grahame)
Frank
birds. — (W.
as
E.
the call
Henley)
of April
i

( Free as the

Free as heaven.—
circling

(
sea.—

Frank as the day. — (Charles

—( .
I

Reads) Free-born as winds and stars

Frantic and waves are free. )

(
I

Frantic as a war dance. i

Frantic like a madman's

dream.— (George Granville)
i
are
Freer
f ree .— (
than birds or dreams
 t | ))
)

Free ( 7 ) FVee

Free
Tayl^-) "li^
as song. (Bayard ; Free as a king. (Thomas
As free as the eagle's wing. Lodge)
(Henry D. Thoreau) Free as breezes be en nature's

(W.
^
Free an Arab. (Emerson)

Free
S.
as a
Gilbert)
mountain bird.
velvet flooring.— (Eric Mackay.)

Free as the thought that you

cannot c© fine.— (D. M. Moir)
1
,
!
Free as the

Smiling
hawk,—-(Goethe)

free, as rose to sum-

Free as the fetterless wind.
(Thomas Moore)
mer air.— (Dora Green well) Free as fishing is.— (WaltOH)
5
Free as the soul. (Edward Free as Emperors. — (William
Hake) Ward)
Free, like one who trails the Free as our rivers are ocean-
plough. (Samuel Hoffenstein) ward going. — (Whittier)

Free and winding as a poet's Free to rise as leaves on

thought through
Bulwer Lytton)
his verse.
(
Autumn's whirlwind borne.

Free and graecful....like Dian Free as a wood sawer. —

when the bounding hart she tracks
through the
(Cheremon)
morning dew.

^ M
( Eve. — (
Free as egg-nog on Christmas

ton)
Free as the wiud. (Chatter-
from alloy.— (
Free as the diamond is free

Free as an eagle. — (Keats) It

Free as thought.— ((
( Free as the sky-searching lark. Free as a hurricane.

Scott
Free as the breeze.
Key)
More divinely free than Paci-
^c's boundless sea.— (Frederic L.
(Francis I

sorrow.-
Free,
(
as a

Free as whispering
young
^(
calf,

air.
from

Knowles) Free as bird on branch, just

as ready to fly east and west.
Free as ambient air. — (Sir (E. B. Crowing)
Roger
M
L. Estrange)

Free as the waters of life.

Free as light.— (
(Alfred Henry Lewis)
1

Free as a bate from cheating.

 ^ — )))

Free ( 158 ) Eresh

(Robert Browning) Frequent

II Frequent as telegraph .poles

*re.
Free
— ( as cloud and sunbeam on
Munden)
a railway
S
journey. (Sydney

( Free as a

As free from
mountain

artifice
goat.

as is — (William Allingham)
Fresh
Fresh as an apple-tree bloom.
,

the dimple in childhood's cheek-

Alfred Austin) Fresh as May-flowers. (An-
acreon)
Free as wanton winds. Fresh as a buttercup.
(Aphra Behn)
Free as the light and air.
(Churchill)
— Fresh as a cherub. ( •

Free as water.
ton Comfort)
—
(Will Leving-
( Fresh as a flower just blown.

Free as the sunbeams on the

chainless air. —
(Robert T. Conrad) farm.—
Fresh
( as an e^g from the

Free-handed as a harlot.
(John Davidson)
themum.-
Fresh
(
Fresh as a November chrysan-

as a sea breeze. (
Free as a liberated ghost.—
(Sydney Dabell)
Free and noble as clear poesy.
—(Michael Drayton)
( Fresh and charming as Hebe.

Fresh as if she had been born

(
with the morning. —
|g
Free as nature first made man.
-(Dryden)
The good man only is free;
Fresh
lettuce.— ( as a young head of

all bad
(Plutarch)
men are slaves.
( Fresh

Fresh
as

as
summer's
a:
the dawn.
grass.

— (
No human being, however
great or powerful
free as a fish.— (Raskin)
was ever so
( Fresh as the dewy field.

Freely
Fresh
year.— ( as the firstlings o the

flowed. — (
Freely as the streams of Eden
Fresh and fragrant as a rose.

tO.
Freely

As
as the firmament
embraces the world. (Schiller)

freely as a conduit spout.

Tourneur)
-(P.

upon the

As
J. Bailly.)

hills.

fresh as
(
Fresh as a sprouting spring
—
any
fi ^
flower.—
 I

Fresn ( 159 ) Fresli

(English Ballad) ,
Her face is as fresh as a frosty
Fresh and as gay as the fairest
and sweetest, that blow on the
morning in autumn. (Balzac) beautiful bosom of May. (Cow-
per)

( Fresh as a

Fresh as dew. —
white rosebud.

( All show'd as fresh, and faire,

and innocent, as virgins to their
lovers' first survey.— (Sir William
Fresh as butter just from the
chum. (J.
ary of Americanisms")

Fresh as the floweret opening

^
R. Bartlett's "Diction-
2 "
Davenant)

Fresh as a clover bud.

De Tabley)
Fresh as a lark. (Dickens)
(Lord

on the morn. — (Beattie.) f^lS

—
j

Fresh as butter.
Fresher than the day-star.— I

(R. D, Blackmore) Fresh as a fresh young pear-

Fresh as the trickling rainbow tree blossoming. (Austin Dobson)
in July. (Emerson)
I

Fresh as primrose buds.

Fresh as the wells that stand j
(Edward Dowden)
in natural rock in summer woods j

or violet-scented grove. (F. W.) As fresh as blovis that in May

Faber) It

Fresh, as early day. (Francis

g
up spredis.

As fresh
(William

as rain
Dunbar.)

drops.
Fawkes) (George Eliot)
Fresh, like the larks, from a Fresh as April when the
dew bath in the daisies. (S. breezes blow. — (R M. Milnea'*
Gertrude Ford)
ffi Fresh and fine as a spring in
Fresh as a peach.— (Goethe) j
winter. (Richard Hovey)
j

Fresh as the flow'r amid the Fresh as April's heaven.-—

sunny showr's of May.— (Michael
Bruca) 21
Fresher than the morning
! (Hugo)
Fresh as a young girl.— (
dawn when rising Phoebus first is Fresh as milk and roses.—
seen.- (Burns) (Jean Ingelow)

Fresh as a nursing mother. As fresh as the fruit on the

«
-(Byron)
Fresh as a rose.— (Chaucer)
j
tree.— (Henry James.)

Fresh as the morning. — (Ben

 )
) )

Fresh ( iao ) Fresb

Jonson) (Shakespeare)

of
»
As fresh as faucon
me we. — (Chaucer)
comen out
& till'd
Fre^ii aa morning/ a
on flowers. —
dew dia-

^(
As fresh
someres day. — (
as is the brighte
(Spenser)
Fresh as flower of May.

medow

May. —
F-resh

Fresh as
(Eliza Cook)
as
^
is

the
the

foamy
raonthe of

surf.
j

^
Fresj^
green e doe grow.

Fresh
as flowers
— (l^±)
morning
in

rose. (
Fresher than berries of a Fresh as ligh^ from a star
mountain-tree.— (Keats) just discovered. (Thomas Moore)
I

Freshening as the morning Fresh aa spring. (Coventry

ak. (C. M. S. McLellan) ^atmore)
Fresh as paint. (Sir Arthur
Frosh as a pippin. (Theo- — I
T. Quiller-Couch)
phiius Marzials) Fresh as the welling waters.

&
Fresh as the drop of dew
cradled at morn. —
(Gerald Massey)

Fresh as the orchard apple.—

(George Meredith) iRjl!
!

I
(Samuel Rogers)
Fresh as the sun.
Rossetti)
Fresh as the
(Charles Sangster)
(C. G.

tropic rose.
|g

Fresh, as farthing from the Fresh as the May-blown rose.

mint.- (Swift) -(Richard Glover)
(farthing
Fresh as the spirit of sunrise. Fresh as a blossom bathed by
(Swinburne)
Fresh as a sea-flower. — ( j
April rain. —
(P. H. Hayne)

Fresh as the breez3 blowing

jjjj

Fresh as a man's recollections over the heather. (O. W. Holmes)

boyhood.— (Thackeray)

^
of
Fresh as the dews of our
fresh as banner bright, uu- prime. — (IS]
furl'd to music suddenly. (Words- —
wortli) Fresh as the first beam glitter-
Ah fresli as a May go wan. j
ing on a sail. —
(Tennyson)
(Sir Walter Scott)

«^ Fie^h as an old oak. — ( 1

in Paphian wells.— (
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed

Krosb as a bridegroom.
 ) I|i

Fmsh ( 161 ) Friend

Fresh and ruddy as a parson's i

i
daughter.— (Bonnell Thornton)
;^
Fresh as a daisy. (Tolstoy) Friday i<i always the best or
m
j

the worst day the week. (Old

Fresh as Spring's earliest vio- French prov.)
let. -(Whittier.)

Fresh as the moon. — ( A

Friend
true friend is like sound

Fresh as the lovely form of

youthful May, when nymphs and
(Wie-—
i
health; the value of it rs seldom
known until it is lost, (
graces in the dance unite.
land) A false friend is like a shadow
on a dial;appears in clear
it

break of day. — (
Fresh as a lavk mounting at j weather, but vanishes as soon as a
cloud approaches. ) (
Fret
Fret as in a cage. —(Frederick
A real friend is somewhat like
W. Faber)
a ghost or apparition; much talked
Fret like a pupil of Walton
of, but rarely seen. (Charles N.
and Cottom, who remains by the
Buck)
brink of the water, agape, while
the jack, trout, or barbsl effects
The malyce of a friend, is like
its escape thro' the gut or silk

((
line being rotten.— (Hood) L
) the sting of an Aspe, which no-
thing can remedie, for being
pearced in the hande it must be
cut off, and a friend thrust to the
heart it must be pulled out.—
Fretting like a wild horse (Lily) B (
struggling to escape. (Hugo) m
Frets like a gammed velvet. Friends are like meilons: to
<Shakespeare) findoae good, you must a hundred
Friday try.— (Claude Mermet)
Friday is perhaps the best day
oi the week. Friday's greatest A friend both wise and true
merit is perhaps that it paves the amid all resplendent
shocks
way to Saturday and the cessation shines, like fire upon a rock's high
of work. That it ever was really top, which dissipates the darkness
unlucky I greatly doubt.— (E. U. round and fills the travellers by
Lucas) with joy profound. (Oriental)
Friend ( 162 ) Friendship

As the Sun is in the Firma-

ment, so is friendship in the

tried
A
friend should be like money,
before being required, not
found faulty in our need.— (Plu-
band.— (
world, a most divine and heavenly

tarch) Friendship is less apparent

when too nigh, like objects when
A profitless friend is like a they touch the eye. (Cowley)
fleece
Proverb)
without

An
^ hair.

untried friend is like an

(Osmanli

Friendship, like love, is but a

uncracked nut.— (Russian Pro v.) name, unless to one you stint the
flame.— The child whom many
A new
Iriend is as new wine; father's share hath seldom known
when old thou shalt drink it
it is a father's care. Tis thus in friend-

?
with pleasure. (Sirach)

Old friends, like old s words,

ship; who depend on many, rarely
find a friend, (John Gay)
—IS
——
still are trusted best. (John
Webster)

Friends, like mistresses, are The firmest friendships have

avoided for obligations past. been formed in mutual adversity,
(Wycherley) as iron is most strongly united by
the fiercest flame. —
(C. C. Colton)
Friendless

( Friendless as an alarm clock.

Friendly of the
As the harbour is the refuge
ship from the tempest, so is
Friendly as a puppy. (Bet- friendship the refuge of man iu
tina von Hutten) adversity. (Demophilua)
Friendship
The friendship of a great man
is
gone.
like the
— ( shadow of a bush soon
y New friends, like one's best
coat and patent-leather boots, are
only intended for holiday wear.
False friendship, like the ivy, At other times they are neither
decays and ruins the walls it serviceable nor comfortable, they
embraces; but true friendship gives do not answer the required pur-
»ew life and animation to the poses, are ill adapted to give us
object it supports. (Robert Bur- the ease we seek. A new coat,
ton) however, has this advantage, that
in in time it will become old aud
 # I

Fr'endship ( 163 ) Friendship

comfortable; so much can by no in abundance; but in the winter

of a new friend.
>ope) ^
means be predicted with certainty
(Anthony Trol-
of our need they leave us naked.
-(Warwick)

Friends are as dangerous as

enemies. —
(De Quincey)

The feeling of friendship is Friendship is a poor adviser;

like that of being comfortably politiciansdeep and wise many
filled with roast beef. (Dr. John- times are forced to learn a lesson
son) from their enemies. (Aristo-
Friendship, like love, is des- phanes)

missions.- (
Friendship is
^
troyed by long absence, though
it may be increased by short inter-

If

like those an-

he
He that is
will help thee in
(R. Barnfield)
thy friend indeed,
thy need.—

cient altarswhere the unhappy, A crowd is not company and

and even the guilty, found a sure faces are but a gallery of pictures.
asylum. (Madame Swetchine) -(Bacon)

There is little friendship iu

Friendship is like rivers, and
the strand of seas, and the air,
common to all the world; but
tyrants, and evil customs, wars,
and want of love, have made them
equals.

curse,
—
(Bacon)
^
the world and least of all between

foe may prove

An open
but a pretended friend
a
is

proper and peculiar. (Jeremy worse.- (Gay)

Taylor)
He
who has a thousand
friends,has not a friend to spare,
Friendship— our friendship- and he who has an enemy, will
is like the beautiful shadows of j
meet him everywhere. (Emerson)
evening, spreading and growing
j

till life and its light pass away.— |

(Mihaly Uitkovics) There is a profound difference

between the friendships of men
and those of women. Men's friend-
The friendship of the world is ships are linked by their pleasures,
like the leaves falling from the {
women's by their griefs. (Edith —
trees in autumn, while the sap of !
Sichel)
maintenance lasts, friends swarm
'

IP
 ) ))

Friendship ( 164 ) Frowe

f a new friend is as new wine; wljen

Women
do not have friends, it is old, thou shalt drink it with
— — (Ecclesiasticus)
they only have rivals.
xnoald)
(E. Gri-

True happiness consists not in

the multitude of friends, but in
the worth and choice. (Ban Jon-
^
pleasure.

cine of
A faithful friend is the medi-
—
life. (Ecclesiasticus)
Bon)
Ifefe Friendship's the wine of life.

Friend 8 are not so easily made (Young)

as kept. —
(Lord Halifal)

Nothing so dangerous as an
Frigid as
Frigid
an iceberg. (
ignorant friend; it is better to have Frisk
h wise enemy, (La Fontaine) Frisk away, like school-boya,
at th* expected warning:, to joy
and play.- (Burns)
It is more common to find
excess in love than thoroughness
Frizzle
in friendship. (La Bruyere)— Frizzled like a lawyer's wig.
(R. D. Black more)
So vanish friendships only
mnde in wine. (Tennyson) fig
Frolic
Were
Frolic as the snow. — (Richard
choose a friend, I'd
I to
Hovey)
rather have an honest blockhead

^!
than a clever
Thompson)
knave. (D. W.
Frolicsome
Frolicsome as a boy. — (
Front
Most friendship is feigning,
Always in front, like a cow-
most love mere folly. (Shakes-
peare)
catcher on a locomotive. —
Change your pleasures, but do
Like a camel's guide, he al-
not change your friends. (Vol-
ways keeps in front. (Osmanli
taire) £ Proverb) !^
A good friend isworth a hun- Frown
—
dred relations. (French prov.

Flattery. ..is the natural lan-

Blake)
Frown (William
like a fury.

Frowning, as if in his uncon-

guage o friendship. (John Wil- scious arm he held the thunder.
son) (Cowper)
Forsake not an old friend; for
the new is not comparable to him: My frown is like a
Frown ( 165 ) Full

house, laid eastward

land.— (Lord De Tabley)
m a bitter (
Fruitless as the lamentations
Frowns, like winter storms.— afa prophet crying in the wilder-
< James Shirley) ness.— (Frank Horridge)

Frowned like a thuuder-cloud. Full

(Stephen Smith) Full as a goat. —( ffi

Frowned like good Friday.—

—
(Sp 3 nser)
G ( Full of airs as a., music box.

Frugal
Frugality, like a short and ( As full as a toad is o-f poison.

pleasant journey, is attended with

much enjoyment and
(Demophilus)
little toil. Euclid.— (
Full of angles as the book of
(
Frugal, like a beggar's child.
(Emerson )
As full of
cessful career. — (
blunders as a sue--
Hi

Fruitful
( ( Full of events as a dime novel.

Fruitful as Ceres.

As fruitful as Egypt.
)

— (Robert
dew.— (
Full of poetry as a lily is of

()(
Burton) Full of terror as a tragedy of
Fruitful as seeded earth.— Sophocles.— *
(George Eliot)
Fruitful as the
year.- (Aaron Hill) ^
full-grown

Fruitful as the free elements.

— (Shakespeare)
Full of company
(Thomas Dekker)

Full as a bee with thyme.

(Robert Herrick)
as a jail.

Fruitful as the land that feeds

us. — Full of life as a multitude.

^
(Hugo)
Fruitful as a sheltering
(Swinburne)
palm
Jonson)
Full of noise as a
^
Full as a piper's bag. (Ben

mill.
Fruitless (Lean's " Collectanea ")
Fruitless as it would be to #
explain the most difficult prob- "Full of life and light and
lems of Sir Isaac Newton to one sweetness as a summer day's com-
ignorant of vulgar arithmetic. pleteness.— (Lowell)
(Fielding) 5
Full ( 166 ) Furious

Full of fragrant love as May's

musk-roses are of morning's wine. Fumbling about her like a
-(Gerald Massey) drowning person. (Hugo) —
Full of passion as a tiger.
(Brander Matthews) ; is
Fumed,
Fume
like champagne that
fizzy.— (Bliss Carman)
As fu as a piper. — (Scottish

—(
Proverb) Fume like a stew-pot» (Ed-
As fu as the Baltic. ward Sharpham)

Full as a plenteous river. (C. Fun

G, Rossetti) Fun has no limits; it is like

May. — (
Full of spirit as the month of the human race and face; there is
a family resemblance among all
As full
of sands.— ( of sorrows as the seas the species, but they all differ.
(Sam Slick)

Full as a cup with the vine's

burning dew.— (Shelley) Funny
Funny as a wooden leg.—
As full of wisdom as a cheese (George Ade)
•of mites,— (Spenser)

Full as a feaster's hand fills

( Funuy

Funny
as a barrel of

as a clown. —
monkeys.

full with bloom of bland bright

wine his cup. (Swinburne) Funny as a crutch.— (
Full of the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters covers the sea.
(Old Testament)
As funny
snov storm. — (
as a funeral in a

—(
Funny as to throw an egg into
Full as the summer rose. an electric fan. 88
(James Thomson) g
Funny as au open switch.
Fulsome (Amy Leslie) «38
As fat and fulsome to mine Furious
ear as howling after music. Furious as a favored child
— (Byron)
(Shakespeare)
^
Fumbling
balked of its wish.

Furious. ..like a wounded bull

an arena. — (Dumas,
…
Fumbling... like a ricketty in pere)
cricket, saying its beads. (Daniel
Henry Holmes) Furious as the wind.-— (Otway)
 . >

167 )
Gambling
(
Furious
peare) e
l L. .
when,
Gabbles, like the laborers of
Furious.. .as a bitch is
(Van- Babel.— (Swift) fil
she has lost her puppies.— (Babel
brugh) Gables

Embraced
Furtively
tenderly but
her
furtively like a feather
-
curling
yet
The
like hoods.
i
roofs
— ( with their ?able3
«
round a lovely head, caressing Gad
scarce touching. -
(Charles RsaM Like frisking heifer, loose
in
where'er
flowery meads, she gads
.+ her roving fancy leads.
(Ambrose -
person. — (
Eyes furtively, like a

Fuss
guilty
Philips)

Gaiety

salt
As much fuss as a bushel
thrown into a furnace. — ( of

animal
grance.
Gaiety to good-humor as
perfumes
is
to vegetable fra-
(Dr. Johnson)
Futile
^

^
Futile as to tarn
hands of a clock.— (u
back the

ten
Whatsoever
is
Gain
is somewhere got-

somewhere lost. (Bacon)

futile as a tenor in a boiler
shop. —
(Henry Irving Dodge) U Gain cannot be made without
*

some other person's loss. (Pub- —

lilius Syrus)
Future
The past is like a funeral gone Gale
by. The future comes like an In a gale of teasing merriment.
unwelcome guest. (Edmund
Gosse) Gallantly
Gallantly as a good ship
Future Existence meets a heavy sea. — (Miss Mulock)
The undiscovered country
j

from whose bourn no traveller Gallantly, like an old fencer,

returns. (Shakespeare) j
-(Rabelais)
Gallop
Galloping like a fury. —
G I had
l
seen the Arab galloping
Gabble like the wind.— (Guy de Maupas-
Gabbled like a goose.— (Philip sant)
Gambling
Freneau)
Gabble like tinkers.— (Shakes- In play there are two pleasures
Gambling C 168 ) Gather

Gape —(
^
ior your choos^ig the one is win- like an eyslter.
ning, and trhe other losing.
(Bvren) Gaping like au indolent Yum.
(J. Fenimore Cooper)
Who games is felon of his
wealth, bis time, his liberty, his Gape wider than an oystef_
health. (N. Cotton) wife— (Thomas Dakker)

Gaining is the child of Like dead heaps of fishes,

avarice but the parent of prodiga- stranded by the storm-spray, gap-
lity.— (C. C. Col ion) ing, staring. (Alfred Doraett^p

Gaming is the mother of lies

and perjuries. — (John of Salisbury) Gaped, like the griesly mouth
o£ hell.— (Spenser)

Gambol
Gambol
like a fawn.— ( (Swift)
Gaping like a stuck pig.

Gambol like a lambkin.— ( God

Garden
first planted a garden:

her
Gambol
first
like a
kitten.- ( young cat and and indeed
human
it

pleasures.
is the

(
purest of
)

Gambol like a dancing skiff.

(Wordsworth) |g Ribanded and garlanded like

Game
Game
as a badger. (
— )
a thyrsus.— (Edmund Gosse)

Garrulous
(
Game
Game
as a fighting cock.

as a lion.— ( ( Garrulous as au c^d maid.

Garrulous as a mugpie. (Ma-

son L. Weems)
Game as hornets. (Alfred Gasp
Henry Lewis) Gasping like a fish newly
Gape taken from the water. (Edward —
Gaping mouth wide open
a dying codfish.— ( like Eggleston)

…
Gasping. ..like a trout after
Gape as were dogs
it for e water on a kitchen table.— (Flau-
bone. (Alexander Barclay) bert) «|
Gasping like frogs in drought.
Mouths that gap'd like bung- -(Kingsley)
holes. (Beaumont and Fletcher) Gather
Gather like ants. — (
 S
)

Gather ( 169 ) Gay

Rays)
Gather like a locust's crew. '
Gaunt as a graye. — (Siiake-
(Byron) speare)
Gather
. like

Like a morning mist

night-dew.

it
(
gather-
of
Gaunt
himself.
as it were the skefcton
(Tennyson) ^^
ed.- (O. W. Holmes) Gay.
Gay as a blackbird. —(
Gat her a like a
pher Pitt)
tide.

Gather, like flocks of olouds in

— (Christo-
Gay as a bullfineh. (
spring's

m
(Shelley)
delightful weather.
( Gay as

Gay and gladsome

a negro funeral.

as the air

( Gather.... like flies in the sun.

Gathered thy children to-

-(Mary

Gay
E. Blake)

as a woman's wish.
gether, even as ahen gathereth (Henry Brooke)
her chickens under her wings. Gay.... like a SwfSs guard off
(New Testament) duty.— (Robert Browning)

Gathered as water spilt on the Gay as the gilded summer

ground, which cannot be gathered sky.- (Burns) Ml Q
up again.— (Old Testament)
Gaie as all nature at the
6audy moruyng's smile. (Chatterton)
Gaudy as a butterfly.
(William Hazlitt) Gay as gold. — (" Chester
Gaudy as the summer. Plays")
(James Shirley.) Gay as the dahlia's bloom.
Gaudy, like a harlequin's (Eliza Cook)
jacket. (Thackeray) Gay as a butterfly. (Dickens)

Gaunt Gay as a thrush. — (Austin

Gaunt as a wolf.— (Gustin Dobson.)
Dobson) Gay as a chaffinch. (Dumas,
Gaunt as a gibbet. — (Lord de i
Pere)
Tably) Gay as larks- (La Fontaine)
Gaunt as bitterns in the pools.
— (Emerson) |

Gay Apollo locks. (John

as
Gaunt, like the drear soul of Ford) Apollo
poverty. —
(T, Gordon Hake)
j

Gay as the joy of a maiden's

'
look. — (Sim Walter Foss)
Gaunt as a greyhound.— (John
 ( 170 ) Gaze

Gay like to and Symons)

^^
a light
brilliant butterfly, around a dusky W$
flower. (Goethe) Gay as the garments of
gem-sprinkled gold. (Bayard.
Gay as a
mote. (William Taylor)
Hazlitt) i| Too gay... .like apink ribbon
Gay as the thistledown over bon the bonnet of a Puritan
the lea. — (T. W. Higginson) woman. (Henry D. Thoreau)
......

Gay and fleeting as bubbles As gay as a bridegroom.

that swim on the breaker's brim, (Vanbrugh) *
"and break on the lips while Gay as the dancing wind.
meeting. — C. F. Hoffman) (Sarah C. woolsey)

Gaily, as one who hath no

Gay the morning.
as ("Wil- care or 'pain. (William Watson)
liam Livingston.)
Gay as the hawthorn in May. Gay as the spring. (Thomas
-(Evan MacCloll.) Yalden)
Gaze
Gay as a rising sun. His gaze seemed full of
(Mahabharata) unconquerable hopefulness. (
Gay as lover to the altar. ,
(Gerald Massey) Her blank gaze chilled you.
—(
Colors as gay as those on
angel's wings. (Thomas Moore)
« His
praisingly
shrewd gaze
upon her. — (fixed ap-

thro'
My er8
Gay

.)
the
as the
skies.
starling
— (F. W.
shoots
H. ( Love hovered in her gaze.

Steady gaze, like little dogs

Gary as if his life were young. face to face with one of their own
-(Otway) kind. —
(George Eliot)
Gay as mischief. (Ouida)
Lingering gaze, like a peacock
Gay as the primrose-dell in whose eyes are inclined to his
May. — (Ambrose Philips) tail. — (Hood)
As the feathered warblers gay.
— (William
Your voice
Shenstone)

the was gay as

^
.baby.
Gaze for
(Francis
gaze as baby looks on
Thompson)

Gazed like one who fronts a

foe.— (Ebenezer Elliott) IS
Toice of a fird in the down of a
4ay on a sunshiny tree. (Arthur Gazed, like lion roused. — (Sir
 )) ' «

Gaze ( 171 ) Genius

Walter Scott )

(
Gezed like the startled deer.

Generosity
Men ov genius are like
tha live on what tha kill,
eagles
while
Generosity is like the sea, men ov talents are like crows,
and yet the sea hath its bounds. tha live on what haz bin killed
( There was a man, though
for them.— (Josh Billings)

some did think him mad, the

more he cast away the more he
had.— (Bunyan)
Early genius, like early cab-
bage, does not head well.— (
He who bestows his goods
The advent of genius is like
upon the poor shall have as much what the florists style the breaking
again and ten times more. of a seedling tulip into what we
(Bunyan)
,
Many men have been capable
may
ccount for
high-caste colors. ••••It is
call
a surprise there is nothing to a
it. (0. W. Holmes)
of doing a wisa thing, more a
cunning thing, but very few a
......
generous thing.— (Pope)

The genius, like the

richest
fertile soil, when
Generous
Generous as a dream. ( most uncultivated
shoote up into the rankest weeds;
and instead of vines and olives
for the pleasure and use of man,
Generous as the sun in spring.
-(P. J. Bailey) produces to its slothful owner
the most abundant crop of poisons.
Generous as a lord. (J.
-(David Hume)
Fenimore Cooper)
Generous as daylight. (Seigh
Hunt)
Genial
Genial as sunshine. — The mind contemplates genius
II through the shades of age, as the
Genial as a pawnbroker's kiss. eye surveys through artificial
— (J. H. Blackwood) capacity. — (Dr. Johnson)
^
Genius
Genius
like Shakespeare's Genius like a torch, shines
toad, may
be out at the elbows less in the board daylight of the
and down at the heels, yet still present than in the night of the
wears a precious jewel in its head. |
past— (J. Petit-Senn)
(Hilafry Bell)
Genius ( H2 ) Gentle

Genius is the alarm-clock of As gentle as the lover's sighs.

sleeping centuries,— (Richter) -(Olaudian)

Genius, like fire,

servant, but a terrible
(Mrs. Sigoumey)
is a good
master.—
Gentle as the
Henry Dana) ^
moon.— (Richard

Gentle and placid as Socrates.

(Daudet)
Gentle as sleep. (Lord Da
Genius as with fashion; all Iabley)
those are displeased at it, who Gentle as a feather-stroke.—^
are not able to follow it. (Thomas (George Eliot)
Warton) Gentle as the falling dew.—
(Heeiod)
Genius, like humanity, rusts Voice gentle as the breeze
for want of use. (William that plays in the evening among
Hazlitt) the spices of Sabara. (Dr. John-

( Genius

If
is of

you have genius, industry

no country. son)

More gentle than the wind in

will improve it; if you have none, summer.— (Keats) S
industry will supply its place.
(Sir Joshua Reynolds) As gentle an' soft as the sweet
summer air. (J. S. Le Fanu)

Ill-fortune is often an in- Gentle as truth. ( W. J.

centive to genius. (Ovid) Linton)
Gentle as a sigh love-fraught.
Genius can only breathe freely -(Evan MacColl)
in an atmosphere of freedom. (J.
S. Mill) Gentle, loving, kind like
Mary singing to her mangerecj

an
No great
admixture
(Aristotle)
genius
of
is without
madness. ^—
child. (George MacDonald)
ifi

Gentle as infancy.— (W. T.

AH men genius are natur-
of Price.)
ally melancholic. (Aristotle) Gentle as the cradle' bake.—
(Shakespeare)
Gentle They are as gentle as zephyrs
Gentle as a fawn. (Irish blowing below the violet.
Ballad)

(Aphra Behn.)
Gentle as a turtle-dove.
D. Blackmore)
^
Gentle as a love-sick maid.
If
(R.
(Shakespeare)

Music
31

Gentle as eve.

that
— (John
gentler
Taylor)

on th»
Gentle ( 173 ) Giddy

spirits lies, than tir'd eyelids tir'd each one a gem. — (W. H. Gibson.)
eyes. — Tennyson)
The queen as soft and gentle, Falling as gently as an answer
like a moonbeam white and fair. to a prayer. — (Adelaide A. Proc-
— (Ludwi^ Uhland.) ter.)
Ghastly
Gentle as an infant child.
(Word-worth.) (
Ghastly as broad-eyed slumber.

( Gentle as the monning light.

Gentle as a joy on tree. (S'Wo-

t
fair
Ghastly as smiles on some
maniac's face smiling uncon-
scious o'er her bride -groom's corse.
rlde and the Chylde.") -(George Eliot)

gently
Gently as any sucking dove.
(Shakespeare)
Ghastly as a laugh in
(Thomas Hardy) $—
hell.

the parting day.

>
Gently as the twilight takes
—
(Thomas Ward)

Gently, as morning-dews distil

-(Isaae Watts)
-mbllej)
Ghastly as a tyrant's dream.

Face ghastly. ...like a dead

man's by the sepulchral lamp.—
Gently as to make no more (S^uthey)
noise than a spider attaching its
thread.— (Balzac) Ghost
Ghosts, like the ladies, never
Gantly as a rabbit goes. speak till they are spoke to.
(R. D. Blackmore) (R. M. Milnes)
Gently, like the morning's
light, shedding, unmark'd, an Ghostly as remembered mirth.
-(William watson)
intiuence soft and bright,
the landscape gather in the sight.
— (E. B. Browning) &
till all

Gibber
Gibbers like a dead man's
ghost that clamours for the licht
Gently as a lamb. (CI ice it'3 losts.— (J. B. Selkirk)

Cary)
Gentfy as an angel's hand. Giddy
(Dickens) Giddy as a dancing dervish.
Gently as falls a mother's (Laurence Housman)
tender speech. —
(Julia C. R. Dorr)
As giddy as an hour-old ghost
Gently like thoughts that that stares into eternity. (Jamca
come and go, the suow flakes fall, Whitcomb Riley)
 )

Gift ( 174 ) Glad

The presence of a young girl is

Gift like the presence of a flower, the
Gifts are like fish-hooks, for one gives its perfume to all that
who not aware that the greedy
is approach it, the other her grace
char is deceived by the fly which to all that surround her. (Louis
he swallows. —
(Martial.) Desnoyers)
g
Give off
For scorned where
gifts are
givers are despised.— (Dryden)
She gave off antipathies as
liquid gives off vapor. ( )

Glad
It
even the gods.
is said that gifts
— (Euripides)
persuade
a crown.— (
Glad as one would give me

It is the one base thing, to Glad as a fly. — (Araban

receive and not to give. (Emer- Nights)
son) Every heart was glad, as if
small present may be the
A the taxes were abolished.— (T- L.
testimony of a great love. Beddoes)
(Petrarch) Glad as singing-birds. (E. R
Browning)
The only present love demands As 'glad as April skies. (Eliza
is love. — (Gray) : Cook)
Glad as children come f.om
I took the good day from the school. (George Gascoigne)

(
hands of God as a perfect gift
Glad as fish that were but

A
in the eyes of
gift is as a precious stone
him that hath it
lately caught and straight again
were cast into the pool. (
whithersoever it turneth, it Glad as the bird up the
prospereth. (Old Testament) summer vault singing. — (E. M.
Kelly)
Glad as a blossoming tree.
Gilded (Edwin Mirkham)
Gilded as a glittering toy.— Glad of life as leaves in
(Dickens) spring. (Josephine P. Peabody)
Girl
A girl islike a flower fresh Glad as a fowl of a fair day.
gathered, but a guilty woman is -(English Proverb)
a flower trodden under foot.
(Balzac) Glad as brief delay. — (Sir
W Walter Scott)
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Glad ( 175 ) Glance

Glad as a bird whose flight seized! It —is done. The wheels

is impelled and sustained by love. have caught you, the glance has
-(Swinburne) ^^ captured yon. It has taken you,
no matter how or where, by any
Glad as the golden spring to portion whatever of your thought
greet its first live leaflet's play.— which was trailing, throngh any
k absence of mind. You are lost.
You will be drawn in entirely.
Glad as a soul in pain, who A train of mysterious forces has
hears from heaven the angels gained possession of you. You
singing of his sins forgiven. struggle in vain. No human-

(Whittier) succor is possible. You will be

drawn down from wheel to wheel,
His voice
bird, S .
Glad
— ( as
)
as glad

fruition.— (C.
as April

P.
from
torture
anguish
to
to
You, your
torture.
mind, your fortune, your soul,
anguish, from

Wilson)
and you will not escape from
Glad as gardens. (John
Wilson) the terrible machine, until accord-
Gladden ing as you are in the power of
Gladdening to our eyes as the a malevolent nature, or a noble
flowers in May.— (R D. Black- heart, you will be disfigured by
more) shame or transfigured by ove.
Gladdens like a beam in (Hugo)
spring... .making blithe each daisie
one by one. (Alexander Smith)

of the
Gladsome
Gladsome
as
spring.— (Coleridge)
the first-born ^ Ifl

^
Gladsome
(Robert Tannehill)
Glance
as summer.
^
The glances of women are like
certain apparently peaceful but A
really formidable machines. You
pass them every day quietly, with Glance that shoot and illum-
impunity and without suspicion inate like the sudden gleams that
of danger. There comes a moment
when you forget even that they
tre there. You come and go,
(
glow through antumn clouds.

you muse, and talk, and laugh! The glance of the eyes like
Suddenly you feel that you are the fawu's soft gaze. (Arabian
 ) U g

Glance ( 176 ) Glare

Nights) Glancing white, like streams

in sunny valleys, (Thomas
Gave a glance as from the miller]
depths of a tomb. — (Stephen
Crane) Glancing like a sabre's gleam.
Glance
(Dumas)
A glance
like
*as
lightning.

bright .is a
-(Ouida)
Glanc'd like rays of glory.
(Allan Ramsay)
gnome's in his mine of gold. Glance... .as the glints of a
(P. H. Hayne) thousand gems. —(James Whit-
coinb Riley)
The first glance of a soul Glanced by like a star in a
which does not yet know itself is storin.-(G. H. Sass.)
like the dawn in the sky. (Hugo)
Glance and gleam like the
green heights of sunset heaven.
A glance«"Such as Voltaire (Swinburne)
would have thrown upon a
provincial academician who had
proposed a rhyme to him. ( Glancing like a dragon-fly.—
(Tennyson)

^3^ Glare
Eye. ...glared like a full moon,

cold and piercing. (

His glancd was like a gimlet,
)
or a broad burnished «ehield.
(Addison)

Fair lady, a glance of your Glaring like mad. (Aristo-

eye is the returning sun in
like phanes)
the spring it melts away the Glaring at each other like two
frost of age, and gives a new gaunt wolves with a famished
warmth of vigor to all nature. brood.— (Mathilde Blind)
(Arthur Murphy) Ifi]

Glare like gates of hell.—

(Robert Browning)
A glance like the sunshine that Glare like the eye of an
enemy. — CJoseph Conrad)
—
flashes

A
on steel.— (Whittier)

glance of extraordinary Glaring like a lion in a trap.

meaning. —( (0. Henry)
Glare, like to a dreadful comet

(
Their glances
swords.
met like crossed in the air. —
(Robert Herrick)

—(
Glances like one
a blow.
who
^
expects IS
Glares like a tiger.

Glares like an excited cat.

(Hugo)
 177 Gleam
€lare ( )

(Kipling)
Glared like hot iron.— ( ( at the loot of those divinest
altar.

glass.— (r. J.
Glaring like red insanity.— Gleam like
Bailey)
(Miss Landon)

of the Gvclops. — (W. S.

t
Broad and glaring as the eye
Landor)
Gleaming
moonlight.—
Gleaming
( like

like
the

a flash
white

of

lightning.- (Balzac)
As glares the famished eagle
Gleamed upon the water like
from the Digentian rock on a —
choice lamb that bounds alone a bride at her looking- glass.
before Bandusia's flock, Herminus (R. D. BUckmore.)
glared on Sextus.— (Macaulay)
Herminus Sextus Gleamed like star-motes in
Digentian the milky-way. — (Mathilde Blind)
Bandusia
Glare, like fiery serpents his- Gleameth like a seraph sword.
sing through the air. ) — (E. B. Browning)
.

Glare, as when a torch is Gleam like gates of hell.—

hurled before a sleeper's eyes.— (Robert Browning)
(Bayard Taylor) Gleamed like Saint Sophia's

Glares, like a troubled spirit.

(Wordsworth)
dome when all the faithful troop
to morning prayer. —
St. Sophia
(
Gleain....like the phosphor of

( Gleams

Gleamed
like a naked sword.—

like fireflies. — (
\

i
the foam upon the shore.— (Robert
"Buchanan.)
u ,
Gleams, like a seraph from
Gleamed
evening rays.—
like
( gold from the

[
j

\
the sky descending.

Gleams
(Byron)

like
—
flint.— (Madison

( Gleam like sunny heavens.—

Gleamed like the chamomile.

I
Cawein)

on
Gleam
au
like the bright rainbow
evening stream.— (Cele-
-(Arabian Nights)
ridge)
Gleamed as the lightning
I

Golden gleams, like the bright

glitters against the murky night.
-(Ed^in Arnold) miracles we see in dreams. —
(Julia
I

1
C. R Dorr)
Gleamed like a praying-carpet
 Gleam ( 178 ) Gleam
Gleaming like shot silk in Like a river, frozen and star-
the sunshine.— (Sir A. Con an I
lit, gleamed his coat of mail.—
Doyle.) (Longfellow)
Gleamedlike the flocks of
cloudlets bright in sunny air at
morn. — (F. W. Faber) ( Gleamed like a grate of brass.

^
Gleamed.... like sapphires in
the mid-day hours. (Paul Fer-
Gleamed on the
a patch of snow. — ( hillside like

roll) Gleam like midnight's

Gleamed as funeral lamps in a boreal dances.— (Lowell) *
sepulchral chamber. (Flaubert)

.…
Gleamed like moonshine on
The sand ....gleamed like mica wet sands. — (George MacDonald)
dust.-(Gantier)
Gleam, like drifted gold in
Gleamed. ...like a starbeam, summer's cloudless beam.
one star beam
predominant star.
Hallam)
of some high
(Arthur Henry
A
|

|
:
(James Montgomery)
B
Gleam'd, like the meteors of a
northern sky.— (James Montgo-
Gleamed and shone, like a mery)
splinter of daylight downward :
Gleam like the pearls that
thrown. (Wallace Harney) sprinkle a virgin's golden hair.
(Nanakkash)
'
Gleams like to the angel's
|

^
j

sword.— (Charles Harpur) Gleamed like the young

dancing
Gleams
girl.
like a
(0.
diamond on a
W. Holmes)
—
moon's crescent. (Pilpay)

Gleam, like a glow-worm in

the night.— (T. Buchanan Bead)
Gleam like gold. (Philander
Chase Johnson)
Gleaming
pearls below the wave.
rose-hued
like
(Frances
moon.— (
Gleams like a rising harvest

Gleams like a beacon from

Anne Kemble) afar.— (C. G. Rossetti)

Gleam like the golden flash Gleam like islands on a dark

of a moon-lit stream. (Miss blue sea. — (Shelley)
Landon)
Gleam like the white effigies
Gleams
like the taper in the on tombs in dim cathedrals.
blaze of day. (Robert Lloyd) (Alexander Smith)
 W •

Gleam ( 379 ) Glide

Lurid gleam, like

tion of a sulphur fire.
the reflec-
(Southey)
( The sea,
; that gleamed still,

like a myriad- petaled rose. —

Gleam broad as the brows of
the billows that brighten the storm Gleeful
with their crests. Swine burne) Gleeful as the Evil One a-
-
counting of his imps. (Charles
Gleams like spring's green Reade)
bloom on boughs
gnarry.— ( all gaunt and
B
Gleeful as a brook or bird.
(Maurice Thompson)

Gleam like a cloud the wester- Glib

ing sun stains red till all the blood —
Glib as glass. (Robert Brown-
of day's blithe heart be bled and ing)

( ?
all night's heart requickened.
t
Glib as wolves.— (Alfred Henry
Lewis)
Glib as clockwork.— (James
Whitcomb Riley)

of (
Gleam like the green heights
sunset heaven.— As glibly as a top kept in
vivacious movement by the per-
Gleam like a brooklet, whose petual application of the lash.
bed is all unshaded. (Carmen (Bulwer-Lvtton)
Sylva) i
Gleam like sea-mists oer the Glide
plain.— (Bayard Taylor)

Gleam fancy
like made of
( Glide like a gentle stream.

Glided like a flame of wind-

golden air.— (Tennyson) blown fire.— (Thomas Ache)

Gleam like the

(William Thomson)
^

Gleamed like a satin ribbon

^
rosy east.— Glide on smoothly, as a river
floweth by, or as on stately pinion,
through the gray evening, the
culver cuts his liquid way-
id the sun, or like the pearly in- (David Gray)
side of a shell. (Henry D. Tho-
reau) Glided like a dream. (Celia
Thaxter)
Gleaming like a sea.— (Virgil) Gliding like morning mist
enkindled by the sun. (Words-
Gleams like an angry lion's worth) ft
eye.— (Oscar Wilde) Like plantoms painted on the
3 magic slide, forth from the dark-
A sudden gleam of insight. ness of the past we glide, as living
Glide ( 180 ) Glimmer

shadows for a moment seen in I

cast back. — (E. B. Browing)
niry pageant on the eternal screen.
(O. W. Holmes) Glimmer like a star in
j
autumn's hazy night.— (William
Cullen Bryant)
Glide like a fallen leaf. — E,
3. Browning) Glimmers, ..like starry twink-
Glide away like a ghost, at lere that momently break through
break of day. (Robert Browning) the rifts of the gathering tempest's
rack.— (Joseph R Drake)
Glide like happiness away.
(Byron)
Glided... like naked demons Glimmer, like the last flicker
flitting among
the clouds. (J. of a night-light- (Hugo)
Fenimore Cooper)
Glimmer like a coral grove.
Glide over her mind as water (Walter Malone)
over a glass.— (Harriet Parr) Glimmer like a butterfly.—
(Don Marquis)
Glide to and fro like ghosts of The firelight glimmers upon
buried centuries.— (Pol) the walls of your cherished home
like the Vestal fire of red upon
, Like shuttles through the
loom, so swiftly glide my feather'd
hours.— (George Sandys)
the figures of adoring angels.—
(Donald G. Mitchell) ^
Gliding like a vision o'er the Tresses glimmering and gleam-
ground. —
(Southey) ing like glad waters running over
shelving shallows, rimmed with
Glide like the flitting arrow.
(Thomas Hastings)

Glide ae thought through

clover. —(James Whitcomb Riley)

Glimmers like a
^
meteor.
Bpritis
ton Hayne)
sanctified.
— (Paul Hamil- (Samuel Rogers)
Glimmered
cis S. Saltus)
like
A
fire. (Fran-

Let my soft minutes glide He glimmered apart in solemn

Becurely on, like subterraneous gloom like a dying lamp in a
streams, unheard, unknown. haunted tomb. — (R, H. Stoddard)
(Bishop Norria)

Glimmer Glimmered through the misty

Glimmering faintly like the sphere like moonlit marble.
rack o tlie moon in her own light (Bayard T&ylor)
 ||

Glimmer ( 181 ) Glisten

Glistening. ..like the track of

Glimmered like a faint, moonlight on the sea. — (Thomas
vanishing tinge of blood on snow. Hardy)
(Henry Van Dyke) Glistens like a star. (Emma
Lazarus)
Under the willow-tree glim- Glistened as the tears in a

T
Glimmered
dimly viewed through
,(
mered her face like a foamflake
drifting over the sea.

vapors.— (Wordsworth)
like a
—
pine
Alpine
tree
widow's eyes.— (Camille Lemon-
nier)

water.
Glistened
morn. — (Longfellow)
Glistened
—(
like

like
the

the
dews

sun
of

in

Glistened like the glow of

Glint precious stones. (George Mac-
GJints like polished jet. ( Henry)

Glints like sunshine. — ( \

His eyes dilated and glistened
like the last flame that shoots
from an expiring fire. — (Guy
up
de
Glints... like a lance that flees. :; Maupassant)
-(D. G. Rossetti)
Glistens like a clump of stars.
Glint, like thousands of suns (Cosmo Monkhouse)
— (Schiller)
|

^
from the dew-drops.

Glisten
j
Glistening
(James Montgomery)
like gossamer.

morning. (
Glistens like the forehead of
—
Glistened as still as when on i
Glisten like the glistening
eyes of nightingales in vernal
leaves.— (Robert Noel)
moonlit eves no zephyr spills the
—
|

glistening dew. (Edwin Arnold) i

Glistened, like a globe of
burnished gold.— (Poe)
m
Glistening, like a r^aid at her i
Glistened like an emerald
own ideas. (R. D. Blackmore) |
beneath the glow-worm's sheen.
(Francis S. Saltus)

piled with snow.— (

Glistened like dormer-windows i

Eye glistened like that of a

rattle-snake.— (Smollett)
Glistened like a plate of beaten
Fenimore Cooper)

^
silver. (J. Glistened like a tin roof in tbe
noon-day sun. (Henry M. Stan-
Glistened like the path of |
ley)
diamonds in the sun. (Dickens) Glistening like the eyes of
love. —
(Joseph Tumlej)
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Glitter ( 182 )

Glitter Glitter like an angel's ladder.

Has
a cold cheerless glitter,
— (A.'E. Housman)
like the new furniture in a ware-
house.— (Alexander Smith) Glittering as a parterre.
(Hugo)

grass.
Kobes
— ( glitter like young sedge Glitters like a sea of light.
(Sigmund Krasinski)

Glittered like a winter sun.

Glittered in the gloom like a
(Owen Meredith)
giltepitaph within a tcmb.
Glittering as steel.— (Ouida)
(Ambrose Bierce)
Eye glittered like rattle-
Cold glitter as oi ice. (Carly-
snake's. (Charles Reade)
le)
Glittered as strewn with

(
if
Genius glittered like the glo-
powdered pumice. (D'Annunzio)
riola of a saint.—
IB
Glittering as snow in the sun-
Glittered like a sickle of tin.—
shine.— (Daudet) (Edgar Saltus)
Glittered like dragon-flies. Glittering like the spangled
(Dr. John Doran) dew-drop.— (Sir Walter Scott)
Glittered like fish from the
sweep-net. —
(Dumas)

^
Glittering as the wine- bright
jacinth-stone.— (Swinburne)
Glitters like a star. — (Goethe)
Glittering as wine. —
(Glitter like

Glitter like
heaven new-born.

dew.— (Ranger
Glittered like a bed of flowers.
-(Tennyson)
Gull) •
Glitter like a swarm of fire-
Glittering like
which some ill-fated wanderer
might pick up, and thenceforth be
a lost jewel,
(
flies tangled in a

Glittered ... like

silver braid.

sleet- bound
haunted by strange phantoms of trees in wintry skies. (John
guilt, sinkings of the heart, and Trumbull)
unaccountable misfortune. (Haw-
thorne) Glitter... like the bayonets of a
regiment on parade.— (John C.
Van Dyke)
Glittered and sparkled as if
W :

^^Sf^
diamonds had been flung against
it by the double handful. — ( the glass pon-
Glitter.. .like
dants of a chandelier.— (^Ji)
 |!I
| ® )

Glitter ( 183 ) Glorious

John saw in the sun. — (Thomas

They glitter iu my
fancy like J
Hardy)
the distant multihedral steeples,
domes and sunlit turrets of some
'

Glorified like the illuminated

beautiful cathedral. (Eugene |
figures in the painted chronicles*
Fitch Ware) -(Ouida)
M
Glittering
shield. — (Oscar Wilde)
anlike argent j

victor. — (
Glorious

^
Glorious as a victory for the

Globular
Globular like a hazel-nut.
(Baron Munchausen) K
j

i
Glorious as when
ruled over Athens.
Pericles (
— ( Pericles

Gloom
( (Beau-
^
;
A gloom overcame
Gloomy
him.
j
Glorious as the sun.
mont and Fletcher)
Glorious... as spreads before us
the sky's unspeakable blue.
Gloomy
wet Sunday.— ( ^
as a graveyard on a
(Mary Geoghegan)

Glorious as the morning star

Gloomy as a hobgoblin.—
of heaven.— (Robert Greene)
(Dickens)
Gloomy outside, like a rusty
J
Glorious as the rainbow's
chest.- (Dryden)
birth.— (Gerald Massey)
Gloomy as night. (Homer —
Glorious as the spring. (Mas-
Pope)
singer)
Gloomy and dogged like a
Glorious as a midnight star.
dangerous maniac in his cell.
(C. G. Rossetti)
(Charless Keade)

pest.
Gloomy, like a gathered
— (Isaac Watts)
tern- i
( Glorious as purple twilight.

Sweet and glorious as com-

passion.— (Swinburne)

(
You are 'gloomy to-night as an
undertaker out of employment.
I

Glorious as the sea. (

Glorious as if a glimpse were
Glories
given within the western gates of

( Pallor of
m'
refected

Glorified
glories. heaven.— (Celia Thaxter)

Glorious as unclouded May.

Glori:ied...like the angel St. (John TobiD)
 i
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Glorious ( 184 ) Glow

Glorious as the new-built scarab.— (Robert Browing) jfii

town. -(Waller)
Glorious, like the angel stand- Glossy like laurel.— (Helen
ing in the sun.— (Whittier) H. Jackson)
Glossy as a heron's wing.
Glory (Thomas Moore)
Glory is like a circle in the Glossy as the finest silk.—
(Oriental)
water, which never ceaseth to
•enlarge itself, till by broad spread- Glow
ing it disperse to naught. Healthy glow, as a fine frosty
(Shakespeare)
—
morning. (George Gissing)

Her

…
eye balls. ..glowed like
As the vine is the glory of the
flainiug carbuncles. (W. H. Ains-
trees it clasp3, as the grapes of the
worth)
vine, as the bull of the herd, as
the standing corn of the fruitful
field,
glory of
(Virgil)
thou and thou alone art the
those who love thee.
( Glow like a blacksmith's forge.

Aglow, like fruit when it

colors. — (William Canton) ^:
Glories, like glow-worms, afar
off shine bright, but look'd too
Glow... like a pool of flaming
blood. —
(Joseph Conrad) & ^
near have neither heat nor light.
Glows like a painter's palette
(John Webster) — (T. W. H. Crosland)

Our aim is glory and to leave

Glow, as if her veins ran
our names to after time. (Mas- lightning.— (Byron)
singer)
Glows as some rain-burnished
He have true glory who
will
despises glory.— (Livy)
rose.— (Lord de Tabley) fg ^
Glowed like June.— (C. G.
No path of flowers leads to Duffy)
glory.— (La Foutaine) Glow like adoration. (Ebene-
zer Elliott)
Glory follows virtue like
Bhadow.- (Cicero)
its

wings. — (
Blush and glow like angel's

Glow like webs of golden tissue

Glossy in the sun. — (F. W. Faber)
Glossy as a shark's tooth.
(Arlo Bates) Glow like twin roses in the
As glossy and black as a verdant bush. (Francis Fawkes)
 ) B

Glow (185 GIOMT

^
—(
^ Glowing like molten iron.
)

(Homer)
Glow like a self-enkindled
star.— (Lemuel Hopkins)
Glow like the gates of the
New Jerusalem. — Glow?, like a peak at dawn. -
(Hugo)

( Glow like the golden fleece. Glow

green.
like
— (Helen H.
flashing
Jackson)
seas
SI
of

( Glow like the vernal grass.

Cheeks glow red as tomatoes.

Glow
on snow.
^
like the northern lights
— (Keats)
(Robert Browning)
35 Glow like the diamond in the
Glowing in the green, like presence of radium. (Andrew
flakes of fire. (William Gullen Lang)
Bryant) Glowed like angels in the sun.
(Gerald Massey)
Glowin' like a circus poster.
(Seweli Ford) Glowed like a watch fire in the
t
wilderness. —
Glowing like a bride robed to
meet the bridal hour. — (S. Ger-
(
I

Glowing imperial as the sun-

trude Ford) touchtrose.—

when blushes
-
Glow. ..like

Laura
I glow as
Laura's
rise.

with new
cheek
(John Gay)

wine.
Glowing like anthracite
—(Donald G. Mitchell)

Glow like paint

&
on death's
coal.

(Goethe) shrunk cheek. — (Miles 0 Relley)

Glowed like a household fire.
-(Hawthorne)
Glows like a red flame in the
dark.— (
Glowed like sunshine. (
I

'
Jewels

Glows
...

beams,— (Ou:da)
glowing

like a golden
… like

group of
sun-

buttercups. (T. Buchanan Read)

Glowed like a coal, in the

«5
furnace.— (W.
I

throat of the E. Glowed, like great archangels

Henley)
and glowing as a sum-
Soft
mer's eve.— (Henrik Hertz) \
road. -- (
moving slow on some celestial

Her white forehead glowed

(O.
Glow
W. Holmes)
like a queen's missal.
I
like a rose.— (Charles Reade) ^
Glow like fiery meteors* Glow like a flower.— (C. G.
Glow ( 186 ) Go den
2

Rossetti) Gnaw like fire. (Swinburne)

Glow
like the first splendors
of the morn.-— (Jose Selgas) Pain gnaws at my heart like a
rat that gnaws at a bean in the
Glows like solid amethyst.— dusty dark of a ghost-frequented
(Shelley) house.— (Arthur Syraons)

( Glowing like the vital morn. ^

on a
lor)
Glow... like the sunset's flush
field of snow. (Bayard Tay- Go like a
Go
house afire.— (
Glows, like baker's oven. Going as if he had trod upon
(William Tennant) eggs.— (Robert Burton)

Glowed as a cloud worn thin.

(Walter Thornbury)

Glow like a great pearl.

Go
Quincey)
along like
^ blazes.

The multitude goes, like the

flower and the weed, that wither
(De.

(John 0. Van Dyke) away to let others succeed.

(William Knox)
Glum
As glum as a man who has God
found a penny and lost a six- Man proposes but God dis-
pence.— (Scottish Proverb> poses. (Thomas A. Kempis) Vk

Gluttonous He who truly loves God must

Gluttonous as curiosity.— not desire God to love him in
(Lewis Carroll) return. (Spinoza)
Gluttony
Gluttony kills more than the God is the brave man's hope,
word, and is the fomenter of all and not the coward's excuse.
evils.— (Fr. Patricius) (Plutarch)

Gold
Gluttons dig their graves with Gold in the house is like sun
their teeth.— (French pro v. ) in the world.— (Arabian Nights)

Gnarled Gold like the sun, which melts

Gnarled like olive branches. wax and hardens clay, expands
(Guy de Manpassant) great souls and contracts bad

Gnawed as
Gnaw
with a file. — (D. Q.
hearts.— (Rivarol)
.
Golden
Rossetti) Golden as the fruituof autumn.
 ))

Golden ( 187 )

( Golden as the buu. (P. J»

thread into
Dostoevsky)
a needle. — (Fedor
P
Bailey)
Golden as the sunlight. Gone, like a vapor which the
(Plaubert) potent morn kills.— (David Gray)
Golden as honey in the sun.
(Lowell) Gone like the bubble that
Golden as the glow of morning bursts in the sun; gone like the
Bunlight.— (Clinton Scollard) grain when the reaper is done;
gone like the dew on the fresh
Gold as golden as the gold of morning grass; gone without partr
hives.— (Swinburne)
'
ingfarewell; and alas Gone with
a flavorof hydrogen gas (Bret
Golden as water kindled with
presage of
ft
dawu qt night -
Harte)
—
Golden as a star. (Thomas Gone like the locust band,
Wade) when whirlwinds bear their flimsy
Golden as the facade of St.
Mark's with dancing reflections. —
legions through the waste of air.
(Reginald Heber)

(
(Israel Zangwill)
Venice ) ley)
Gone, like the spray. — (Kings-

Gone
Gone
as a gone goose. ( Thou art
like a beautiful
Linley)
gone from
dream.
my gaze
— (George
Gone as a shadow goes. (R.
D. Black more) Gone was every trace of sor-
Gone as evanescent cloud- row, as the fog from oS the river,
as the mist from off the meadow.
lands.— (Mathilde Blind)

Gone, like traces on the deep,

— (Longfellow) —
like a spsctra grasp'd in sleep, Gone like the flowers o spring
dews inhal'd from morning glades, awa, or like a vision perished.
melting snows, and gliding shades. (Alexander McLaughlan)
— (Henry Brooke) ,.'

Seen no more, gone, like the

wind that raised the wave, the
Quite gone... like a lost star.— spout wave on the shore. (Gaorge
(Robert Browning) —. " Meredith) p
2
Gone. ..like ice on a June day. Gone, like smoke dissolved in
(Carlyle) air.- (Aaron Hill)
Gone into their snares like a
Gone 188 ) Good

Gone like a meteor. (Thomas

Moore) Gone as the fox-hunter follows
Gone, like the thoughts that the sound of the horn.--(Whittier)
*nce were oars. —

gone,
To-day we are here, to-morrow
like the shadow that
The
mist on the
red man
air. — (
has gone like the

vanisheth, like the grass that Gone as a cloud faded into the
withereth, or like the flower that sky.-(W. B. Yeats)

^
or rather like nothing.
^
ffadeth; or indeed like anything,
(Otwav)
Good

Good
Good
as feast.

as an
'

idle
— (
bird. —
Gone like the bloom upon the
heather. —(J. B. Selkirk) Good as new. —
Gone, as an angel's wing
through an opening cloud is seen,
Beauty
money. --
Good
( —(
is as

as truth.
good as ready

and then withdrawn. (J >hn Pier-

pont) Good -as dew to flowers.-- (
Gone as soon as a grain of Good as gold. — (Balzac)
corn thrown to an ant. (Plantus)
Good as wheat,— (J. E. Bart-
Goxie as an unreturning river. letts)
C. G. Ros3etti) As good as a show. (Bulwer-
Like the dew on the moun- Lytton)
tain, like the foam on the river, Good as a play. — (Charles II)
like the bubble on the fountain,
thou art gone, and forever. (Sir— As good music as when pigs
Walter Scott) play on the organ. — (Clarkes) #
Gone like shadow when
declineth.— (Old Testament)

Your early splendor's gone

it

hall's
^
Good as

Good
bread. — (Longfellow)

as puppet show.— (Nort-

"Folk Phrases")
like stars into a cloud withdrawn
.

like music laid asleep in dried Good as ever flew in the air.
up fountains. (William Wallace) (John Rays)

Gone, like the summer light-

£ Good

Good
as a sermon.

as a
(Southey)

comedy.— (Joh a
ning's gleam.— (Frank Waters) Taylor)
 ) : I

Good ( m ) Gorgeoo:

To do good to the base is like

sowing the sea. (Theognis)— ;^
lightens all.

Goodness
(Samuel Boyse)

is like the art pros-

Good-nature pective: one joint center, beget-
Good -nature, like a bee, col- |
ting infinite rayes fSir Thomaa
lects honey from every herb. Ill- Overbury)

from the sweetest flower.

^
nature, like a spider, sucks poison
( cloud,
Your goodness s as a morning
aud as the early dew it
goeth awa^*. — (Old Testament)
Good Deeds
The reward of a thing well As a horse when he has run, a
done is to have done it. (Emer- beewhen he has made honey, so
son) ^ !! 11 man when he has done a good act
does not call out for others to
A
short life is given us by j
come and but he go s on to
see,
nature, but the memory of a well- another act, as the vine gaea on

^
spent life is eternal. (Cicero) to produce again the grapes in

Good words make us laugh;

^ season. (Marcus Aurelius")
'
j

good deeds make us silent.— W

(French pro v.) Good andevil we know in the
world grow up together
field of this
Do good whilst you live, if you j
almost inseparably. (Milton)
wish to live after death. (Medioe- I

val)
Gcod-will
How far that little candle i
Good-will, like a good name,
throws his beams shines a is got by many actions, and lost
good deed in a naughty world.— by one.— (Francis JefFrey)
(Shakespeare)
Gore
An assurance
that forestalled hostility.
of good -nature
— ( ( Gore like the tusks of a boar.

True goodness
Goodness
is like the glow- |
Gorgeous
Gorgeous as a sultana, — (
worm in this, that it shines most Gorgeous as are a rivulot'a
— (William
heaven,
Arnold)
are
^
when no eyes, except those of

Goodness, like the

upon it. (Edwin

sun, en-
I banks in June.
Bryant)
Gorgeous as
(De Quincey)
Gorgeou? as
» the
!^
heavens-

the sun at mid-

Cullon
€ossip ( 190 ) Government

Rnmmer. — (Shakespeare) that these wants should be

3C provided for by this wisdom.—
Gossip (Burke.) ^
A
gossip in a village
Tiper in a bed. — ( is like a

No government is safe unless

Gossip, like ennui, is born of buttressed by goodwill. (Cornelius
idleness.— (Ninon de Lenclos) Nepos.)

Gossipin' about like a cracked Of governments that of the

bell-clapper. (George Meredith) j
mob is the most sanguinary, that

j
of soldiers the most expensive,
Gossip must often have been and that of civilians the most
likened to the winged insects I
vexatious. (C. C. Col ton)
bearing pollen to the flowers; it

(
fertilizes many a vacuous reverie.
You can only govern men by

Govern the
Govern
lips as they were
palace doors, the king within.
(Edwin Arnold)
i
serving them. The rule is with-
out exception. (V. Cousin)

action is bsst which

That
procures the greatest Happiness
^
for the greatest Numbers. (Fr.
Government Hutchoson)
But when a government is
grown in strength, like some old There is no state in Europs
6ak, rough with its armed bark, where the least wise have not
governed the most wise. — (W. SL
it

(Dryden) ^
yields not to the tug, but only
pods, aud turns to sullen state. i Landor)

ment
Every nation has the govern-
it deserves. (De Maistre)
Government, like dress, is the
badge of lost innocence. (Thomas ,
Local self-government is the
Paine)" fB j
life-blood of liberty. (J. L.

I
Motley)
The greatest happiness of th9
greatest number is the foundation In a chauge of rule among

^—
of inorala and legislation. (Jere- the citizens, the poor cbaugo
my Benthara) 1® nothing beyond the name of their
master. —
(Phsedrus)
- Government is a contrivance
tA human wisdom to provide for When it was said that Sparta
human wants. Men have a right ' was preserved because the kings
 )

Government ( 191 ) Grand

knew how to govern. Theo- Graceful as a snake of the

pompus replied. "No, but be- paradise of Asia. (Savid de La
cause the citizens knew how to Gamme) ffi

be governed"— (Plutarch.) Graceful as the willow-bough

o'er the streamlet weeping.
Theopompus (Lover)

"
Governments which are hated — (Edward
As warm and graceful
Louib) Jft
as May.

never hold out long.— (Seneca)

The Pope says....Thon little
thinkest what a little foolery
governs the whole world. (J.
Selden)
No one has long maintained
violent government; temperate
rule endures.— (Seneca)
Where there is not modesty,
nor regard for law, nor religion,
reverence, good faith, the kingdom
is insecure. — (Seneca)
She is graceful as the greenly
waving boughs in summer wind.
— (Gerald Massey) S :
—
Graceful as an ivy bough bora
to cling and lean. (C. G. Roa-
setti) M
Graceful as a bow just bent.
(Buskin)
Graceful and free as honey-
suckles and the lilies be.— (D. 8.
W. Sladen)
Graceful as a couch ant god-
dess.— (Anthony Trollope)

Graceful as the sapphirine

Graceful
tide. (Joseph Turnley)

( Graceful as an Alpine sapling.

Gracious

( ^
,
Graceful as a bird on the Gracious as a mediaeval queen.
—
Wing.
Graceful as a fawn. ( —(Thomas Hey wood)

As gracious as the morn.

Graceful aa a fairy-tale.
(Hugo)
(William Archer)
Gracious as a duchess.
(Thackeray)
Gaceful as the arch of a
rainbow.
Exquisite
manned — ( graciousness of

Graceful as a black frigate

with snow white sails.— (Balzac) Grand as
Grand
a victory.— (
Graceful as a fairy. — (Paul Grand as thought.— (Balzac)
Hamilton Hayne)
 s A

Grand ( 192 ) Grave

Grand as a Greek statue.—

(Robert Browning) Thou touchest me gratefully,
like nature's wholesome breath.
As grand as the world.— — (Niccolo Tommaseo)
(Joseph A. de Gobineau)
«r Gratitude
Grand as floor-walkers. (O. Gratitude the good
is like
Henry) faith of traders,maintains
it
Grand as the frigate od the commerce; and we often pay, not
wind.— (Jean Ingelow) because it is just to discharge
our debts, but that we may more
Grand as the passion felt but readily find people to rust us.
j

never spoken. (Tracy Robinson) I

-(Rochefoucauld)
M
Grand, as though a distant
singing sea broke on a tuneful
strand— (C. G. Rossetti)
j

i
'
"Wherever I find a great deal
of gratitude in a poor man, I take
Grand as any stone that decks it for granted there would be
a monarch's hand. — (D- B. W. as much generosity if he were a
mam. — (Pope)
|

Sladen) rich
Grand as doomsday and as
grave. -(Tenny)
- Gratitude is the least of
Grandiloquent. virtues, ingratitude is the worst
He was nothing if not grand- of vice 9 .-(Prov.)
iloquent. — )

Grave

Grasps,, like
zer Elliott.)
Grasp
death.— (Ebene. ( Grave as an old gate-post

Grave, as the manner of noble

Grasp as firm as his whose men is. (E. B. Browning)
arm is nerved by glory's zeal.
(Gerald Griffin) Grave as an organ. — (Dickens)
ft
Grasps as in water, the more Grave and thoughtful as rich
she grasped the less she held. j
mourners.— (Diogenes) JR
(Sir Philip Sidney)
« Grave as actors do in Lent.
Grass j
(Pierce Egan)
The velvet grass that is like A
(
padding to earth's meager ribs.
—(
Grave

Grave
^as a

as
mourning hearao

saints. — ( J. J. Jus*
 — I|

Grave ( 193 ) Greed

serand) g
Grave as an eye dwelling on Great
blood.— (George Meredith') Great as a lord.— (Frances
Fawkes)
Grave as judge. ("Poor It is with great men as with
Robin's Almanack") high mountains. They oppress
Grave as from a funeral. us with awe when we stand under
<Tennyson) them; they disappoint our in*
Gray- satiable imaginations when we

dish. — (
Gray as the inside
}
of a pewter are nigh, but not quite close to
them and then, the further we
recede from them, the more
Gray hairs are like the light astonishing they appear; until....
of a softmoon, silvering over the they at one moment seem mir-
evening of life. — aculously lifted above earth, and
the next strike our fancies as let
Gray as a badger. (K. H. Bar- down from heaven.— (J. C. Hare)
ham)
Gray as shallow sea.— (Cuchu-
lain)
Gray as a hoary monolith.
(G. K. Chesterton) I think myself as great as
Csesar riding in the Roman street,
Gray
Parley) »
as time. (George

Gray, like a shield embossed

in silver. —
(Longfellow)
with captive kings at his trium-
phant car.
Cffisar
— (Marlowe)

3R Great men are the guide-

Gray, like the soft creeping
twilight.— (William morris) (
posts and marks in the state.

Great honours are great bur-

Gray as smoke.— (John G. dens. -(B. Jonson.)
Nelhardt)
Gray as glass. —(Shakespeare)
:^ Greed
Greedy as a hoy. —
Gray, like a storm-extingui-
shed day.— (Shelley) Greed was like a slip-knot
drawn more and more tightly
Grey as a flower ruined. about his heart, till reason at
(Swmburne) length was stifled.— (Balzac)

^
Gray as the raorn.— (J. A.
Bymonds)
Her eyes are grey like morning Greedy as a wolL —
dew.— (W. B. Yeats)
 )))

Greed ( 194 ) Grief

Skelton) '
Greedy as a cormorant.

Greedy as hell's mouth.—

(John burne)
Green
-(Wordsworth)
as the salt-sea billows.

(Leonard Wright)
Seize on greedily.— ) ( Green as the mantled pool.
(Hood)
Green as hope before it grieves.
Making the ear
remark offense. — ( greedy to -(Miss Landon)

As green as the leaves of the

Green fir tree. — (Mabinogion)
Green as May. (James Lane Green as jealousy. (George
Allen)
Green as a gooseberry. — ( Meredith)
Greetings

Green as a gourd.— ( Christmas greetings are like-

pots of ore; the hollower they

^ Green as a lizard— ( )
are they sing the more.
Bierce)
(Ambrose

Green as bottled glass.— ( Grew

Green as emeralds. ( Grew like the

(Shakespeare)
summer
B
grass.

—(
Green as grass some
Grew, like a pale flower
sad
(Shelley)
maiden
^
cherished.
by-

( Green as the deep waters.

— Woman's
Grief
sum-

^
Green as the sea. grief is like a
mer storm, short as it is violent.
Green as a leaf. (Thomas (Joanna Baillie)
Ashe)

^
As green as any privet-hedge Genuine grief is like penitence,
a bird might choose to build in. not claraor9U8, but subdued.
(E. B. Browninc?) (Josh Billin-s)
g
Green as an arum leaf. Grief, lilce wine, the tongue
(Ouida)
Green as the grave of a loved
will
Legnre)
render
^ free.
If}
(J. M.

one. — (C.
Green
G. Rossetti)

as leeks. (Shake-
( Grief is itself

Nothing speaks our

a medicine.

grief so
speare) well as to speak nothing. —
Green as the forest's night.
(Shelley) What deep wounds ever cl«veJ
Green as summer. (Swin- w ithout a scar Byron)
 * i
»
—
Q

Grief ( 195 ) Grinding

*
But grief should be the in- Grim
structor of the wise; sorrow is Grim as a judge.—
kno wledge.— ( Byron )
Grim as death. —
It is foolish to tear one's hair,
as though sorrow would b3 made Grim as a voice from the
less by baldness.— (Cicero) grave. -(A. H. Beesly)

Grim as a Swiss guard.

The ocean has her ebbinga (Robert Browning)
s) has grief. — (Campbell)
Grim as a grizzly fighting for
Grief is itself a insdicine. her cur.— (John G. Neihardt)
(Cowper) igP Ifii

A great sorrow is a great Grim a3 a crow. (Joseph

repose, and you will come out Skipsey)
from your grief stronger than Grim as dreams that quicken
when you entered it. (A. Dumas) from dead men's graves (Swin-
burne)
^ Nothing speaks our g ief so
•
Grim as hell. —
well as to speak riOtliing.— Grin
(Richard Crashaw)

The path of sorrow, and that

( Grin like a Cheshire
Cheshire
cat.
(
path alone, leads to the Grinning like one bringing
land where sorrow is unknown. rare news.— (J. M. Barrie)
(Cowper)
Grinning like enchanted apes.
Grief and passion are like Thomas Carlyle)
floods raised in little brooks by

^
a sudden rain. (Dryden)

Grief was as a last year's leaf

blown dead far down the wind's
Grin like a basket of chips.—
(Francis Grose)
Grins like
nightly spectre
some
— (A.
fantastic
G. Oehlens-
wav. — Swinburne) ;^ chlager)
Grin like lions upon thd
Grieve pikes o the hunters. (Shake-
Grieve like the stranger- speare)
tended child, which seeks its Grinding
mother's arms, and sees and Where the intricate wheels
feels them not. — (Oclia Thaxter)
$
of trade
mill.— ( are grinding on, like a
 - —

Grip ( 196 ) Grow

Gross

Grips like a
Grip
vise. — ( Grosse as a hog.

Gross as a mountain.
(Middleton)

(Shake-

( Grips like hoops

Grip like s »me kind of

of steel.

sin-
I
speare)

drunk.—
Gross
( as ignorance made

ning.— (Robert W. S3rvice)

Ground

Gripe
(Coleridge)
like
Gripe
a convulsion. ( He adroitly shifted his ground*

Groundless
Groan Groundless as the dreams of
Groan like some bad prophet, philosophy. (Laurence Sterne)
that foresaw the doom of those
whom best be loved, and could Group
not save. — (Dryden) As the moths around a taper,
as the bees around a rose, as the
gnats around a vapour, so the
Groans like a cannon-ball.— spirits group and close round
(Richard Lovelace) about a holy childhood as if
drinking its repose (E. B. Brow-
Groaneth, like a door on rusty ning)
hinges— (Tupper) if

Groaning like a dying horse.

(William Ward)
Grog, like grief, is fatal stuff
Grovel
Grovel like swine.— ( )

for any man to sup; for when Grow

it foils
to blow
to pull
him up.
him down,
(John G. Saxe)
it's sure Grow
wards— ( like a cow's

We do not make our thoughts;

tail, down-

they grow in us like grain in a

Grooved wood.— (P. J. Baliey)
Grooved like the sunken
spaces between the fingers. Growing like smoke. (Frances
(John Burroughs) Hodgson Burnett)
Grow like grass in May.
Grope (Georga Eliot)
Groping blindly as in a dream. Like some fair plant beneath
(Hugo) my careful hand he grew, he
Groped like a blind man I flourish'd and, he grae'd the
finding his way. (Guy de Mou- I land.- (Homer)
passant) '
Crow ( 197 ) Gush

That grows with gazing on, Guest

like lover's beauty. (Gerald Mas- A fish, has an
guest, like a
sey) unpleasant odor after three days.
—
I

(Guido Cavalcanti)
Grew like the summer grass. i

—(Shakespeare) Guileless
Grow like weeds on . neglected Guileless and simple as a six-
tomb.— (Shelley) year-old child that has never left

^&
j

I
its mother.— (Balzac)

Large streams from little foun-

(
j

tains flow; tall oaks from little Guileless as a candidate.

acorns grow; — W (Richard Le Gallienne)

Grows great as the moon Guileless as infancy. (T. N-

through the month. (Swinburne) Talfourd)
Guilt
Growl Every man carries the bundle
Growled within himself like of his sins upon his own back.
a little double-bass.— (Dickens) (John Fletcher)

Grawls, roars and breaks Guitar

itself,like our eternal and power- Through the moonlit trees,
less despair.— (Dumas) i like ghosts of sounds hauntitg the

Growl, like a crescendo in the

double bass.— (Lover)
j

I
of a guitar.—(
moonlight, stole the faint tinkle

—(
Ho growls like a bear that Startling leaps over vast gulfs
has burnt his paw. (Osmanli of time.
Proverb.)
Grunt jike a bear when lie Gulp
is a moaning. — (Ulpian Fulwell) Gulped as. ...swallowing sobs.
- (Joseph Conrad)
Grunting like some pounded
animal. (Maurice Hewlett) Gulped down pleasure as a
dog does his dinner. (H. T.
Grunted like a pig under a Finck)
lub.-(Lyly) Gurgled
Grants like a hog. (Marlowe) Gurgled like the cry of a
j
drowning man. (W. 0. Russell)
Guarded i

As well guarded as a prince in Gush

Lis castle, -(James Otis) Gush like a fountain at its
 #

Gush ( 198 ) Har

source.— (Donald G. Mitchell) degrees, as brooks make rivers,
$ rivers run to seas. (Dryden)
Gushes like nectar from
Hebe's Olympian bottle (W. H.
Venables) 111 customs by degrees to
habits rise, ill habits soon become
His heart gush'd like a river- exalted vice.— (Dryden)
fountain of the hills, ceaseless and
lavish, at a kindly smile, a word Habits are at first cobwebs,
of welcome, or a tone of love. at last cables.— (Prov.) iti

^
(Whittier)

Gusts
His speech carae in gusts, like
Hacked
(Shakespeare)
Hack
like a hand-saw.

Hacked like dull wood of

linnets in the pauses of the wind. every day. (Frances Thompson)
-(William De Morgan) 3
Haggard
Haggard and wan as slain

H men.— (Edwind Arnold)

Habit Haggard as spectres. (Schil-

Habit may be likened to a ler)
cable; every day we weave a Haggard as crime. (Swin-

it.—(
thread, and soon we cannot break burne)
Haggard as fear. ( )

Habits are like the wrinkles Haggard as hell. —

on a man's brow, if yon will
smooth out the one, I will smooth Haggard as the face of night.
out the other.— (Josh Billings) )

Hair
Her hair was like the threads
Bad halbits are as infectious of gold. — (Scottish Ballad)
by example as the plague itself
by c:»ntact —
(Fielding) Hair like weed. (Maurice
Hewlett)
Long customs are not easily Her hair is like the curling
broken; hethat attempts

very often labours in vain.

to
change the course of his own life
mist that shades the mountain-
side at e'en.— (Burns)
'
: t'i!

(j/hnson) Her blond hair like gold ironi

the furnace. — (Charless Nodier)
111 habits gather by unseen
 '

Hair ( 199 ) Hang

Her dusky hair, like silver *
night elbowing the gloom or White hands through her

^(
twilight. — (Darrel Ffggis) hair, like white doves going into
the shadow of a wood. — )

Hair like the mist of the hill

soft and curling in the day of They are as white swans in
the sun. — (Ossian)
(
the dusk, thy white hands.

corn
Her hair is like the golden
a low wind breathes upon;
or like the golden harvest-moon
( His hand supported his chin.

A frigid touch of the hand.

when all the mists are gone or t

like a stream with golden sands Handsome

on which the sun has shone day Handsome as paint. (
after day in summertime ere
autumn He accumulated handsoina

^
leaves are wan. (C. G. a
Rossetti) ^ sum of money.— (V. Knox)

Handsome as hackman's hat.

— (Sydney Munder)
Her hair, like golden threads,
play'd with her breath. (Shake- — Handy
speare) Handy as a hen. —
Your
of sunrise. (
hair was golden as tints
— ( Handy as a poker in Hell.

Whosehair was
raiment on a king.— ( as gold rain.—
Handy
( as

Handy as a pocket in
a robin after

a shirt.
a

J. R. BarUetts)
Hairless
Hairless as an egg. — (Robert Hang
Herrick) Hang together like bees. —(
Hairy
Hairy as a mastodon.— (Joseph Banging like •
Mahomet's
Conrad) coffin, between earth and heaven.
Hand
of
He had hand like a bunch
a
bananas.— (E. F. Outcault; ( Hang together like birds.—

—
(Hood)
Hands like rugged bark. ( Hang together

Oue snowy cloud hangs, like

like burrs.

A baby's hands, like rosebuds an avalanche of frozen light upon

furled. — (Swinburne) the pe \k of night's cerulean Alp»
 H *

Hang ( 200 ) Happiness

T. L. Beddoes) Hang like night on heaven

above me. —
Hang, like words of transport
trembling on the tongue, too Hangs heavy as the dewiest
strong for utterance. (Robert poppy. — (Arthur Upson)
Bloomfield )

Hang liks sackcloth on a

You dosed me
with a drug wanton nun. (Thomas Wade)
that hangs about my tongue like a
pound-weight on a humming- Hanker
bird's wing. (J. Fenimor Cooper) Hanker as strongly as do pian-
ists inthe presence of an open
keyboard. (James Haneker)
Hangs his head.. ..like bending
liliesover-charg'd with rain. Happiness
Happiness

^
(Richard Duke) is like sunshine;
Hang heaven around.
like it is made up of very little beams,
—(
(Gerald Massey)
^
Hung
streams
^
Hangs on the heart like a
nightmare.— (O win Meredith)

like mists o'er sleeping

in unin-habitable lands.
Happiness, like the blue of
the sky, cannot be lasting, for
the earth, to yield its fruits, re-
quires the rain, and man to esti-
mate at their true value this and
(T. Buchanan Read)

Hung
cloudless sky.
like a vapor
— (Samuel)
in the ^
life the next, has need of tears.
(Fprnan Caballero)

Happiness, like a refreshing

His listless hand hung like stream, flows from heart to heart
dead bone within its withered in endless circulation. (Henry
skin.— (Shakespeare) Grove)

Happiness
( Hangs like flax on distaff. — is

the light of heaven; and every

reflective,

countenance, bright with smiles,

like

( Hang upon him

Hang upon
like a disease.

iny tongue like

and glowing with innocent enjoy-
ment, is a mirror transmitting
to others the ways of a supreme
a new-married wife about her
husband's neck.

Hung
—
like bees on
flowers.-) Shelley)
)

mountain-
and ever-shining benevolence.
(Washington Irving)

II
^^ ^
4U Happiness like a snail, ia
 —

Happiness ( 201 ) Happy

never found from home nor Col ton )

W
^
without a home. (L. C. Judson.

Happiness is like game, if Happy

you aim at it from too long a no man happy
Call before
distance, you must miss it his death. -(Solon)
(Alphonse Karr)
ft To be happy give no cause for
l alse happiness
like false is envy. The secret of happiness is
money; it passes for a time as to hide one's life.— (De La Bouisse)-
well as the true, and serves some
ordinary purposes; but when it is
brought to the touch we find the One is never so unhappy as
lightness and alloy and feel the
loss.

K
-(Pope)
^
®
^ one believes, nor so happy as one
—
had hoped to be. (La. Rochef-
oucauld)

No man is happy. Man strives

Happiness is like a sunbeam, all his life through for imaginary
which the least shadow intercepts, happiness, which he seldom at-
while adversity
— (^ is often as the tains, and if he does it is only to be

^ ^!
disillusioned.— (Schopenhf uer)
rain of spring.
m
Happiness added Life and
is
^ ittgn

the giver of Life.—-(Herbert Spen- Mankind are always happier

cer) forhaving been happy, so that if
Every mortal has for bis share you make them happy now, you
hia own happiness near at hand to make them happy twenty years
hence by the memory of it.
him. -(Voltaire)
Siiifii

happiness. (
So innocent in her exuberant
—
!

I
(Sydnev Smith)
tl ^^
The happy only aro the truly

—(
Happiness is - not steadfast but j
great, -(Young)
tnuisient.
Ifti

Tli ere is this difference be- ( Happy as a big sunflower.

tween happiness and wisdom: he

that thinks himself the happiest
man really is so; but he that
i
Happy
game.— ( as a boy at a baseball

June bug. —
j

tli inks liimself the wisest is goner- Happy as a '

nlly tho greatest fool. (C. C.
 . ^

Happy ( 202 ) Happy

Happy as a prince»— ( . Happy as aSunday in Paris,

cream.
Happy
—
Happy
(as a

as a queen.
pussy that sees

—(
full of song, and dance, and laugh-
ter.— (Fitz-Greene Halleck)

Hanpy as the day. (J. G.

Happy as a turtle dove. ( Holland)
Happy as a lord. (Hugo)
Happy as a wave that dances
on the ^ea. — Happy as the bird whose uest
is heaven'd in the heart of purple
Happy as sunlight. (Thomas hills. —
(Gerald Massey)
Ashe)
Happy as heaven. (P. J. Happy a3 a miner when he
Bailey) has discovered a vein of precious
Happy as a reprieved thief. metal.— (Gay de Moupafesant)
(Balzac)

ter.
Happy as a clam at hi^h wa-
—(J. R. Bartletts)
Happy as a schoolgirl going
home for the holidays. — (
Hap py
(Josh Billings)
as

Happy as a May-pole.
Blackmore)
Happy as birds
a dinner-bell.

(R. D.

in the spring.
^
Happy
ding.— (George Moore)
as a priest at a wed-

Happy as an enfranchised
bird.— (Thomas Moore) 1

-(William Blake)
Happy as a lark. (Anne Happy as a poor man with a
Bronte) bag of gold.— (Miss Mulock)
Happy as the kine in the
fields. — (Bui wer-Lytton) Happy as a pig in muck.—
(Northall's "Folk Phrases")
Happy as birds that sing on a
tree.— (Sir James Carnegie) Happy as a young lamb.—
(Ouida)
Happy as a fish in water. Happy as heroes after battles
(Victor Cherbuliez) won. — (Matthew Prior)
Happy as Spirits cleansed.— As happy as the day is long.
(Anbrey De Vere) (Scottish Proverb) B
She seemed as happy . as a
Happy as a king. (John Gay) wave that dances on the sea. (
Happy as the blest above. Happy as the fairest of ail.
(George Granville) (Shakespeare)
 ) I||
|I —)

Happy ( 203 ) Hardy

As happy as a serf who leaves Fingers, hard as a lobster's

the king ennobled. — (Alexander claws. (Guy de Maupassant)
Smith)
Hard as the devil's nagnaila.
Happy as a rose-tree in sun- (Northalls)
sheet of brass. —
|

shine. (Thackeray) Hard as a 1

(Ouida)
Happy as a child. (Words- Hard as a pine-knot. (James
worth)
Happy as a lover. ( .
K. Paulding)
Hard as steel. (Shakespeare)

As happy as birds in their Hard as the palm of plough-

bowers. — j

man. —
Hard as the push of death.
Happy as a wave. — (Swinburne)
Hard as a piece of the nether

Hard
Hard
as a brick. ( mill -stone.— (Old Testament)

Hard as a flint stone

Hard as a cobble-stone.-- ( (Leonard Wrights)

Hard
EI
as a cricket-ball. — ( Hard as being good.

Hard as granite. ( love

As hard
fish. (
—
to answer as why cats

Hard as hail stones. — ') As hard

( to hold as an eel by

« As hard

Hard
as horn.

as marble. j "(
—

.
^jta |
the tail.-

Hard as death.

As hard as for
— (Hawthorne)
an empty sack
Hard as a barren stepmother's
j
to stand upright. — (Bsnjamin
slap.— (Lady Gregory) 8§ Franklin)
Hardened
Hard as wire. (John Hey- Her lips hardened. —
trood)
As hard as the heart of a Hard-held
religious
Holmes)
foe - curser. (O. W. Her
hard-held.
voice
— ( was full of temper

Hard as nails, (Leans) Hardy

Hard
Lodge)
as iron. (Thomas j ( Hardy

Hardy
as a

as highland
mountain

heather.—
pine.
 •

Hardy ( 204 ) Haste

(W. Dudgeon)
Hardy as a forest pig.
to aught save Angel's tongue.
(Eobert Browning) H ^
;
(NorthalFs "Folk Phrases")

Harmless
Harsh
(John Davies)
as... a grating wheel.—

— (William.
'

festival.— (
Hara,les3 p.s a

Harmless as the turtle-dove. '

strawberry
Lloyd)
Harsh as

Harsh as the bitterness

death.— (Swinburne)
truth.

of

(Patrick Bronte)
Harmless and pleasant as the
murmur of brook and
(Robert Buchanan)
wind.
harsh.
Like
— (
a jagged shell's
M
lips,

Haste
Harmless <'s an infant's play.
Hastened like homing pigeons,
-(Cowper)
which do not look behind.
Harmlesse as the bee that
(Iiamlia Garland)
doeth but taste the flower and flee
11
away.— (William Drum monJ) flaming
Haste. ..lika tapera
brightening as they wasted.
Harmless as reptiles kept in
(James Whitcomb Riley) S.
spirits.
|ra ^
(Sydney

Harmless as
Drummond)

a paper tiger.
A man of sense may be in
hast«,but can never be in a hurry,
(Chinese Proverb)
because he knows that whatever he
Harmless aa my life's first
does in a hurry he must neces-
day.— (Swinburne) sarily do very ill. —
(Lord Chester-
iield)
Harmless as the lightning life
of song. — (Swinburne) ifii

Harmless. ..as petals

er.- (Bayard Taylor)
of a flow-
Haste administers
badly.-(StAtius)
ail things
^
m
Harmless
Testament)
as
^
doves. — (New

Harmless as a babe. (Words-

worth)
a h'urrv.
^
Dress slowly when you are in
—
(French prov.)

Like as the waves make to-

wards the pebbled shore, so do our
n

Harp minutes hasten to their end.—

His harp is the sole compa-
nion ofhis way.— ( (Shakespeare) ifii II

Harsh as
Harsh
blame on ear unused
piuosa. (
Glowing with haste and hap-

Haates.-.iike ns war horse to

 ®

Hatty ( 205 ) Haunt

fray. — (Wul ffer)

n There's nothing in this world

Hasty I
so sweet as love and next to lovo
As hasty Hopkins, that
as I
the sweetest thing is hate. (Long.
came to jail over night and was fellow)
hanged the next morning.— (Eng-
lish Proverb) ^( I

Hateful
Hateful as death.— (Carlyle)
Hasty as fire. (Shakespeare)
5Ac Hateful as hell.— (John Phi-
Hasty, like a Scotch jig. —( lips)
—
j

Hateful as the grave. (Swin-

Hate burne)
Hate is like fire; it makes even Hateful to me as the gate of
light rubbish deadly. (George Hades is that man who Uidee 0110
Eliot) thing in his heart and speaks
another.— (Homer)
Hate without an object' is like
a shoot insr-match without a tar-
get, -(Hugo) Hateful to me as the reek of a
limekiln. —
(Shakespeare)
With hate darkling as the
swift winter hail. - Hatred

Hate
B
like poision.— ( ) hatred
There

(Schiller)
is
isno good result when
returned for hatred.

Hates as Heaven hates false- Now rose the unleavened

hood. (Beaumont and Fletcher)

Hat« like cat and dog.

hatred of his heart.— (Bvron)

Hatred without a desire for

'
(Carlyle) vengeance is like a seed falling
I do hate him as I dc hell on stong ground. (Balzac) —
pains. —
(Shakespeare) tg^Il I

Love, as though some daj you Haughtiness

would have to hate; hate, as Haughtiness and arrogance
though some day you would have
to love.-(Chilo)
i

i (
were largely attributed to him.—

Haughty
Who
cannot hate; can l®ve Haughty as the devil. (Podo)
not.— (Swinburne,
; tg
—
j

Haunt
A man — OVi!-
(Napoleon)
trao
^ hates no o:u\
'
Haunts
liam Aytouu)
like a kneli.
 #
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Haunt ( 206 ) Headway

Haunt us as eagles haunt the

,
morniDg air. —
(P. J. Bailey)

Your beauty haunts me like a

fungus.
Hazy, like an oil-lamp
—
(R. D. Black more)
fall of

fevered dream. — (Lady Dufferin) Head

Head as hairy as Faunas.
Haunts … like some sweet (E. B. Browing)
cadenced strain.— (G. H. Ellwan-
ger) …… Many heads t obstruct intri-
Haunts the memory, like the gues, as slowest insects have moet
wild imagings of a fevered night- legs —
(Samuel Butler)
mare.— (R. W. Fraser)
The head of & woman is like a
Haunted aas robber-path weather-cook on the top of s
through wilderness of wood. house, which turns with the
(Hugo) slightest wind.— (Moliere)
Haunted ... like a regret. S
(Lamartine)
Haunts like a
(Thomas Moore)
wild melody. —- ly. — (
Hefr

We
head throbbed dangeroug-

have heads to get money,

and hands to spend it.
Haunt W
^ an
... like avenging
fiend.— (Miss Mulock) The bead,
like the stomach,
ismost easily infected with poisom
Vex and haunt me like a tale I
when it is empty. (Richter)
of my own future destiny. (Schil-
ler) His head is like a stomach and
Haunt thee like a wicked con- I
intestines which let tbe food pass
science.— (Shakespeare) through them undigested.
(Schopenhauer)
Haunt one like a ghost.
(Edward &harpham) ' I hang the head as flowers
with frost, or grasses beat down
— (T.
Haunting
N. Talfourd)
Haunted me
like spectres.

like a passion.—
j
with storms. (Skakeapeare)

Headdress
.
(Wordsworth) There is nol bo variable

light.-
A
(
golden
Haze
haze of pensive dress.- (
thing in Nature as a lady's head*

Headway

Hazy thought,
o£
looks at a butcher.—
Hazy

( as a calf •

:
aflyiiig.—
if
(
Making headway like
A
bird*
Headway ( 207 ) Heart

Makes such head as a fire

does in a raging wind. — (Dickens) Healthy

Health
A man too busy to take care
( Healthy

Healthy as a
as a May morning.

May hedge in
of his health is like a mechanic bloom.— (Sir A. Con an Doyle)

(
too busy to look after his tools.—

X
^tD
Healthy as poignant brine.
(William Watson)
Health is like munny, we
a ever have a true idea ov its value Heap
until we lose it.— (Josh Billings) All in a heap, like a slaugh-
tered lamb. —
(Shakespeare)

Health and good humor are to Heaped like a host in battle

over-thrown. (William Callen
the human body like sunshine to
— (Massillon)
vegetation.
. Bryant)
Heard
To gather riches,
hazard health, for truth to say,
do not
dream.- (
She heard him like one

Heart
in a

(
health is the wealth of wealth.—
The heart of a man is like a
delicate weed, that requires to be
trampled on boldly indeed. (
The healthy know not of their
health, but only the sick: this is
A flinty heart within a snowy
the physician's aphorism. (Oarly-
breast is like base mold lock'd in
le) (Francis Beau-
a golden chest.
mont)
Look to your and if
health;
you have it, praise God, and value
An iciness, a sinking, a sick-
it next to a good conscience; for ening of the heart. —
health is the second blessing that
ilK;
we mortals are capable of; a bless- Absence makes the heart grow
ing that money cannot buy.
Walton )
(I.

(
fonder; Isle of beauty, fare thee
well. —

_#
Without health
( life is not
I
Thy
a tree. — ( heart is
—
light as a leaf of

^
life,
—
life is lifeless.

HeaLth and intellect are the

iUJ

throat, (
Her heart pounded

His heart rebuked him.

in

—
her

two blessings of ife. — '

Heart ( 208 > Heart

prise.— (
His heart was full of enter-
Her heart is like an outbound
Our hearts bowed down like
Violets after rain.
iC
— ( ship that at its anchor swings.—
(Whittier)

My heart is like the fair s^a- A woman's heart, like the

shell, there's music ever in it. moon> is always changing, but
(Eliza Cook) there is always a man in it.

(Punch)
A woman's heart is as intricate
as a ravelled skein of silk. Heavy hearts, like heavy
(Dumas)

Some hearts are like a meltiag

peach, but with a larger, coarser,
harder stone. — (J. C. Hare) heart
^
clouds in the sky, are best relieved
by the letting of water. -— (Rivarol)

My like a singing bird

is
whose nest in a watered shoot;
is

His heart was like a bookful

my heart is like an apple-tree
of girls' song. —
(Francis Ledwidge)
whose boughs are bent with thick-
set fruit; my
heart is like a rain-
bow shell that paddles in a halcyon
its duties.- (
Her heart appeared to abdicate

Your heart is as dry as a reed.

sea; my heart is gladder than al;
these because my love is come to
—
me. (C. G. Bo3setti)
—(
A maiden's heart is as cham-
pagne, ever struggling upward.
(C. S. Calverley)
A noble heart, like the sun,
The heart is like the tree that shovveth its greatest countenance
gives balm for the wounds of man* in its lowest estate. (Sir Philip
only when the iron has wounded Sidney)
it.— (Chateaubriand)
Burning lips and a wicked
A woman'sheart is just like a heart are like a potsherd covered
lithographer's stone,— what is once with silver dross. (Old Testa-
written upon it cannot be rubbed ment) i
out,
—
— (Thackeray) Heart as calm as lakes that
sleep, in frosty moonlight glisten-
ing. -(Wordsworth)
My heart islike fire in a close
vessel: I am ready to burst for Hearts, like apples; are hard
trant of vent. (John Wesley) and sour, till crushed by pain's
resistless power.— (J. C. olland)
 )

Heart ( 209 ) Heavy

Heaved and sighed like the

The human heart is like a

millstone in a mill; when you put
J
(
dying gasp of a syphon bottle.

wheat under it, it turns and Heaves like a long-swept wave

grinds, and bruises the wheat about to break.— (Byron) g
into flour; if you put no wheat in
it, it still grinds on; but then it is Heaved like the surface of tha
itself it grinds, and slowly wears sea.— (Dumas)
away. — (Martin Luther) Heaved as in bis breast the
waves of life kept heaving to and
fro. — (Hood)
Heaving. ..like the sea in the
The heart is like an instru- background of a marine piece at
ment whose strings steal nobler the theatre.— (George Meredith)
xousic from life's mystic frets.
(Gerald Massey) Heaved like ridgy waves.
(Ossian)
Heaves... like a mighty ship
A wise man's heart is like a in pain, facing the tempest with
broad hearth that keeps the coales struggle and strain. (E. B.
[hie pas&ions] from burning the Browning)
bouse. (Sir Thomas Overbury)
() Heaves. ..like a
that opens to
water-weed
the wave. — (
His heart is like a mountain
of iron. (Pentaur) Heaven
How has kind Heaven adorned
The hearts of pretty women, the happy land, and scattered
like
wrapped
Senn)
New Year's bonbons, are
in enigmas.
; (J.

k
Petit- (
blessings with a wasteful hand!

Heavily
Hearty
Hearty as a buck.— ( )
Laboring heavily— like a tramp
freighter
Price)
in a heavy sea. — (E. D.

Hearty as an oak. — (Samuel

Foote) Heavily, as &cm'ow-Iadeii. —
Heat (Hawthorne)
Heats like the hammered Heavy
anvil. — (O. W. Holmes)

Heave
Heavy
dimpling. — (
as a boarding-housa
^
 )

Heavy ( 210 ) Hera

Heavy as death. (Matthew Helpless as an infant eaten-
Arnold) pillar in a nest of hungry ants.—
Head as heavy as alderman's. (James Montgomery Flagg)
-(Fielding)
Heavy, like a spade that digs Helpless as the dead. (W.
in clay. —
(R. H. Home) S. Gilbert)
Helpless as a turtle on its
Lied heavy.... like murder on back. —
(O. Henry)
a guilty soul— (Shiller)

Heavy as lead.

Heavier than the sands

— (Skelton)
of the
(Ouida) ^
Hepless as a lame beggar.

Helpless and flurried as a fish

landed on a grassy bank with a.
sea. — (Old
Heavy
Testament)

as frost.— (Wordsworth)
(
barbed hook through its gills.

Helpless as a ship in stays. -

Held (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Held on like a ssinmer cold.—
(George Ade) S^if Helpless, like doves driven

( Held back like a hearse horse.

•
headlong down by
tempest.- (Virgil)
a murky

(
•)

Hel'd on lilce grim death.—

i Helpless as ,v sailor cast on
'
Held on to him like a life- desert rock. —
(Wordsworth))
belt.— (Lloyd Osbourns)
Helpless.... as the blind. —(
Held... .as flesh holds flesh,
and the soul the soul (Swin- Helplessness
burne)

Help
ness. (
Aghast at his own helpless-

Hero
As from help as limbo
far is Oh! remember life can be no
troia blisa.— (Shakespeare) charm for him who lives not
free! Like the day-star in the
Helpless
( wave, sinks a hero in his grave,,

(
He^less
f
as a babe.

Helpless, as a cat in a trap.

^
'jiidst the dew-fall of a nation's
tears. —
(Thomas Moore)
&
—(
ES
Helpless as a corpse.
Like the young lion wounded
Helpless as a king of England. by the dart, whose fury kindled
-(Emerson) at the galling smart; the hero
 )

Hero ( 211 ) Hideout

roases with redoubled rage, flies theology when they dispute with
— Byron)
on the
stage.
^
foe, and foams upon the
-(Paul Whitehead)
sceptics.

Hewn
8 word a
(Swinburne)
in
as if with
tempest
stroke of
steeled.—

Nurture your mind with great

thoughts. To believe in the Hide
heroic makes heroes. (Disraeli) Hid, like a thought of God,
un uttered.— (P. J, Bailey)

Every hero becomes a bore Hid, as in a grave. (Howe)

lit last.— (Emerson)
H»d safe from tha glare of
Brave men and patriots, dear the day like an eye under its lid,

(
to God, and famous to all ages. -(Frank D.

Hidden. ...like
Sherman)

a dark well,
One brave deed makes no
whose unseen brink is overgrown
hero.-(Whittier)
with waving grass. (Valmiki)
Heroic
Hidden.... like the worlA of
Heroic as martyrdom.
(Ouida) a watch beneath the hands.
Hesitate (H. A. Jones.)
Hesitating like stag at bay.
Hide ike gentle nuus from
(John Clare)
Hesitating, fluttering, like the
human eyes. (Sidney Lanier)

bird with young wing, weak and

Hid like incense in a flower's
dHbious.— (George Eliot) —
I
heart. (Gerald Massey)

to
Ba'rd
Hesitating like a bather about
make his plumge. (Thomas

Hesitate, like the submissive

Hid like a buried
(James Montgomery) ^ star.—
n

voice of an inferior.
Scott)
Hesitation
(Sir Walter Hideous
Hideous as midnight. (
When you are in doubt Hideous as evil. — (Hugo)
whether an action is good or bad,
abstain from it. (Zoroaster) Hideous like a savage at hif
« I
altar. — (Nietzsche)
Hew
Hew'd away, like doctors of Hideou3 as a skeleton.—
 ) &

High ( 212 ) Hiss

(Anton Tchekhov) (
(
i

High Hinders
High as a kite* — Hinders.... like water, that by
M I foree of its own pressing violence

(
High

High
as

as
summer-surge

the
swells.

herald-star.
I

I
and abundance cannot find a
ready issue through the neck of
a bottle, or of a narrow sluice.—
(Edwin Arnold) (Montaigne)

High as
(Beaconsfield)
man's desires. j
? Hiss
High.... as the stars were above
the clouds. —
(A. C. Benson) ( Hiss like

Hiss.. ..like shot

a
^
ste.am kettle -—

from guns.
Higher than the price or gold. (E, B. Browning)
-(Josh Billings)
High as the stars. (Carlyle) The sea hisses like twenty
j
thousand kittles! (Joseph Con.
rad)
High as the head of fame.
(Congreve)
High, as the spheres. ( Hissed like a forked serpent.
-(Aubrey De Vera)

Hiss like a goose with a

Piled high as the skies.
(Frederick the Great) flock of goslings. (Sam Slick)

High as the berries of a wild

Hissing like a snake. (Hugo)
ash tree.— (Keats)
I

Hiss like vipers. (Sigmund

High as most fantastic wo- Krasinski)
man's wits could reach. (Otway) I

Hissed like a rocket. (Gamille

High as heaven itself.

I Lemonnier) A
Hisses like red-hot iron.—
(Shakespeare) (W. C. Russell)
High as the sunniest heights
I

of kindliest thought. (Swinburne) Hisses and roars, as when fire

\
is with water commixed and con-
High as manhood's noon. j
tending.- (Schiller)
(Wordsworth)
Hilarious Hiss as of a rushing wind.
Hilarious as a sailor ashore.— (Shelley).
f Hisses as with mouths
Hills
Green hills pile themselves
upon each other's shoulders,
'

'''
snakes and wolves at bay.
(Swinburne) ^ ->f
 |

History ( 213 ) Hold

History In effect history is only a

History is like sacred music picture of crimes and misfortunes.
because truth is essential to it -(Voltaire)
(Cervantes)
Hoarse
Histories make men wise. Hoarse as the rustling of au-
j

<Bacon) tumnal breeze. (Henry Brooke)

History is the essence o£ in- |

numerable biographies. (Boliug- Hoarse as a raven. (Charles

broke) fE Reade)
The first law of history is Hoarse as warning prophets
that it shall not dare to stale in an evil age. (Bayard Taylor)
anything which is false, and con- I®
sequently that it shall not shrink Hoarse as when a hawker
from stating anything that is true- hawks his wares. (Tennyson) 9?
(Cicero)
^@ Hoary as
Hoary
the glacier's head
History after all is the true faced to the —
moon. (George
poetry. — (Carlyle) Meredith)
Hoary as ashes that show not
Histories make man wise; a gleam. — (Swinburne) •

poets, witty; the mathematics,

subtile; natural philosophy, deep; Hoar as the hawthorn blossom
—
able to contend. — (
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, in spring.

People will not look forward

Hoary
the hoary sea.—
as
(
weeds cast up from
^
to posterity, who never look Hobble
backward to their ancestors. Hobbles as a goose. — (John
(Burke) Skelton)
Hold
The history of the great events
of the world is little
the history of crimes.
more than
(Voltaire
( Hold on like grim

Hold hiin, like an eagle that

death.

has seized an eaglet in his talons.

History, like religion, unites -(Balzac) |g
all learning and power. (Eichter)
Holds as tight as a horse-
leech.— (Dickens)
Such things as the eye of
history sees. — b
|

Hold together like burrs.

(William Camdens)
 H )

Hold ( 214 ) Heme

Holds hiin fast as a night- Fane)
flag round the mast. (George As hollow as any trumpet in
Meredith) Europe.- (Fielding)
Her arms the master hold,
as on
tight. — (
wounds the scarf winds
across
Hollower than an echo fallen
some clear abyss. (
Hold like colors of a shell. Hollow, as a sepulchre. (M.
(Tennyson) D. Post)
Taken hold upon nie, as the Hollow as a drum. (Charles
pangs of a woman that travaileth. Eeade)
— (Old Testament)
Hollow as a ghost. (Shake-
speare)
Holds... .together as the shell
Hollow as the hopes and fears

does the egg. (John 0. Van of men.— (Tennyson)

Dyke)
Holiday Holy
On a sunshine holiday (John As holy, as the symbol that
milton) we lay on the still bosom of our
white-robed dead. — (O. W. HoL
Hollow
Hollow as a gun. — ( )
mes)

Holy as heaven a mother's

B

( Hollow as the soul of

Hollow as the murmur of the

an echo.
tender love.— (Mrs. Norton)

Holy as the watch of an in-

midnight sea after the tempest visible spirit.— (Poe)
nursed itself to rest. —
Holy as bowers where angels
As hollow as an egg shell.
have flown. — (A. J. Ryan)
(P. J. Bailey)
II
Hollow and wasteful as a Holy as a choir of nuns.
whirl-wind. — (R. D. Williams)

Hollow as is the armour of Holy as a spire reard o'er the

a ghost. — (T. L. Beddoes) house of God.— (Jobn Wilson) |f

Hallow as an actor's laugh. Holy as one from an angel

(Gelett Burgess) IK clime.- (William Winter)
Hollow like a niche in a
column.— (Fedor Dostoevsky) Homage

shell
Hollow and dead as the empty
of last year's nut. (Violet
respect,
The
(
chivalrous

Home
homage o!
 S) #

Home ( 2i5 y Honor

Mid pleasures and palaces

tkaugh we may roam, be it never Honesty-
so humble, there's no place like He that loseth his honestie
kome.-(J. H. Payne) hath nothing else to lose. (J.
Lvly.)

A comfortable house is a Honesty is the best policy, but

great source happiness.
of It he who acts on that principle is
not an honest man.

…
ranks immediately after health (Archbishop
and a good conscience. (Sydney Whately)
Smith)
ffi Honeyed
As much home.... as a fish
at' Honeyed as the damask rose.
in water. — (Balzac) — (Nora Hopper)

Homaly Honor
Homely as hedge-fence. — t Honor that is gained f\.l
broken upon another hatli the
Homely as the queen of quickest reflection, like diamonds
spades. cut with facets; and therefore let
a man contend to excel any
Homely as a stump fence. competitor a of his in honor, i(K
(Attemus Ward) outshooting them, if he can, iE
Honest their own bow. —
(Bacon)
Honest
meat is out
as a cat
of reach.
when
— ( the

Honest as a mirror. —
Henour is like the eye, which

( Honest as the day

Honest as the sun. —

is long.

(
cannot suffer the least injury with-
out damage; It is a precious atone
the price o which is lessened by
the least flaw.— (Boss uet.)
Honest as a star. — (Jamea
Grahame)
Honest a man as ever lived by Honor is like a widow, won
bread. — (Thomas Hoy wood) with brisk attempt not slow
approaches, like a virgin.
Bluffly honest as a northwest (Samuel Butler) n
wind. — (Lowell) » 4b

Honest as the nature of man Woman' & honour is nice as

first made, ere traud and vice ermine; 'twill not bear a soil.—
were fashions. — (Ot way) 0 (Dry den)
 « '

^
Honor

Honer and he agree

together
woolen
as a satin
as well
suit and
( 216 )

grow in one; take honour from

me, and my life is done.— (Shaka
speare) i:
Hope

stockings. (John Mar-

ion) di Life every man holds dear;
but the grave man holds honour
Honor. ...like power, disdains far more precious-dear than life.
being questioned. (Nicholas (Shakespeare)
Rowe) II
Honor, like life when once
lost, never returns. (Publius Dearerlove than life, and
is

Syrus) fame than gold; but dearer than

them both your faith once plight-
As snow in summer, and as ed hold. —
(Spenser)
rain in harvest, so honour is not lfa$
seemly for a fool— (Old Testa-
ment) S Hooded
Hooded iike a hawk. — (Con-
What can't be done with hon- greve)
our can't be done at all. (Henry Hop
Fox) Hop as light as bird from
brier— (Shakespear)
When honour's lost, 'tis a
relief to die; death's but a sure Hope
retreat from infamy.— (Sir 8. Hope and fear are inseparable

^
no hope without
Garth) There is fear
and no fear without hope, — (La
Life is ended when our honour Rochefoucauld)
ends— (Goldsmith)
Marching down
with divine honors.—
# (
to posterity
)
The miserable have no other
medicine but only hope-— (Shake-
speare) » I?

( He is the fountain of honour. S

Hop deferred maketh the
Purity
the feminine, truth
is

the masculine of honour.

^
Hare)
(J. C. —
heart
m
hope.-
sick.

(
Who against
— (Pro v.) S
…
hope believed
2
m

Mine honour
^
1 account more strength in a
true heart than in a walled citie
(J. Lyly)

is my life; both
Hope it is which makes the
shipwrecked sailor strike out witb
his arms in the midst of tiie sea,
even though on all sides he can
 -

Hope ( 217 ) Horrible^

gee no land. (Ovid) on savage crag-side grown, seems

nourished hour by hour from its
wild self alone, so lives inveterate
For hope is but the dream of hope, on her own hardihood.—
those that wake. (Prior)— (William Watson)

It may be said of man in

general that befooled by hope he
dances into the arms of death.
(Schopenhauer)
it is
Hope
a bad supper. — (
is a good breakfast, bufe

Hopeful
A woman's hopes are woven Hopeful as the break of day.
as sunbeams; a shadow annihilates — (T. B. Aldrich)
—
the in. (George Eliot) m
Hopeless
Hope, like glimmering
the Hopeless and as full of fear
taper's light adorns and cheers as are the blasted banks of Erebus.
the way; and still, as darker grows -(Marlowe) in
the night, emits a brighter ray.— Erebus
(Goldsmith) As hopeless as for the musician
to pour his notes into the ear of
a deaf man. —
(J. Me Neill Whis-
Hope is like a harebell trembl tler)
ing from its birth— (C. G. Rossetti)
Hopelessness
Who build 8 his hope in air For where no hope is left, is.

of your fair looks, lives like a left no fear.— (Milton)

drunken sailor on a mast; ready,
with every nod, to tumble bown Horizon
into the fatal bowels of the deep. Enticed irresistibly by the
-(Shakespeare)
(
freedom of

It parted to
an open horizon.

a liquid horizon

as
Hope is like the sun, which,
we journey towards it, casts
sea.- (
and showed the gray rim

Horned
of the

the shadow of our burden behind Horned like the crescent

u&— (Samuel Smiles) B moon. — (Shelley)
ft Horny
Horny as a camel's knee.
Hope has left yo« like a (Anatole France)
painted dream. — (Joseph Stans- Horny as a briar
bury) (Hugo)
As some adventuroua flower Horrible
 T f
»

( 218 )

Horrible as viper-bitten bodies.

— (George Meredith) (
together, the backbiter ia hated and

&
despised by both parties^ —
Horrible, like the shrieks
witches.— (Munchansen)

Horrid
of

Hot
^
Hot
as a black puddiag.
5
19

— (
Horrid as. a murderer's dream.
— (Dr. JohDson) Hot as a ooai. (
A
Horse
white horse and a beautiful
Hot as the sim. — (
woman are akin, and two trouble- As hot as hot might be. (
some things to manage: the first *
is difficult to be kept clean; and Hot as leve'B flaming climiate.
the second, honest. (Samuel
Foote) Hot as pepper. — jfi

She wasiron-sinewed and

satin-skinned, ribbed like a drum
one.
Hot
— ( as ten thousand suns in

and limbed like a deer, fierce as Hot as the kings of hell.

the fire and fleet as the wind, there
was nothing she couldn't climb or Hot as a volcano, — <

clear.— (A. L. Gordon)

Hot as the devil's kitchen.—
(J. R. Bartletts)

There's nothing like a rattling Hot as the fire of the Lord out
ride for curing naelancholy. (W. of heaven could make it.— (Ban-
M. Pread) yan)
Hot ae a basted turkey.--

^
Hostile (Will Carleton)
By nature as hostile to mystery Hot as hell-fire. (Dryden)
as the sunshine to a dark corner.
(Hawthorne) Agonies aja hot as flamae of
sulphur.— (John Ford)
An assumption of hostile in-
tent. — Hot as hata — (Hamlin Gar.
Hostility land)

if)
Hostility between two people
like fire, and the evil-iated
back biter supplies fuel, After- .
Love is as hot as pepper'^
braudy.— (William King) ^
wards, when* they are reconciled Hot as a toast.— (Lyly)
 K . ) »
S >

Hot ( 219 ) How!

Hovering like the summer

Hot as hay harvest. — (Brian skv. — (M. A. Browne)
Melbancke)
Hot as flame. —(Ouida) Hover— like a moth intoxicat-
ed with light. — (John Galsworthy)
Hot as coals of glowing fire.—
(Shakespeare)
Hot as gunpowder. ( )
Hovering near, like some base
vulture in the battle's
(Reginald Heber)
rear.—

Hot as molten lead.

ft
Hot as monkeys.— ( on the sea. — (
Hovers as birds that impend-

Hot and close as fire. — (Swin- .

Presently she hovered like a

burne)
Hot as an oven. — (Old Testa- (
fluttering leaf or flake of snow.

ment)
He went hot and cold. — ( Howl like
Howl
a dervish. —
House
A house without woman or Howl like a vagabond for
firelight is like a body without bread. —
soul or spirit.— (Franklin) Howled like a just-lngged
A&^» M bear. — (Robert Browning)
Houses are built to live in and
not to look on. — (Bacon) Howling, like a wolf, flies the
famished northern blast. Wil- (

I in my own house am an liam Cullen Bryant)

emperor, and will defend what's
mine.— (Massinger) Howl'd for help as wolves do
for a meal.— (Byron)
Housekeeping
Man's work lasts till set of Howl like a wolf.— (Dickens)
sun; woman's work is never done.
(Proverbial saying) Howls like a thousand demons.
^George Eliot)
Hover
Hover as a hawk. — Howling like a pig in a gate.

flame.
Hover
—
Hovered
fountain.
( like a

— (P.
)

like
»
J.
moth around a
!^
rainbow round a
Bailey)
(Kingsley)
Howl
(Kipling)
Howled
ed dogs.
like

like a
— (Lamartine)
a wild

pack of
beast.

famish-
 ) *

Howl ( 220 ) Human

Howlings, like a herd of raven- Hum, like listless topers sing-
ous wolves disappointed of their ing o'er their cups. — (Arabic)
prey. —
(William H. Prescott)
Hnm and murmur like a hive.
Howling like savage creatures — (E. B. Browning)
grazed by death. (Charles Beade)
Humming,
Howling, like
town. -(Shelley)

Huddle
a slaughtered
^
swarming.

Humming
(Longfellow)
like bees that are
— (Heinrich Heine)
like a hornet.—

Humming... like a hive

like

in
Huddle together
the forms
Eschylus)
of
^
at random...
dreams.

Huddled in rows, like wrinkles

some old gown. »— (Robert
(A — (Joaquin Miller)

Human
Human
as a kiss.
of bees.

— (Vance
Bridges) Thompson)
Huddled like beasts beneath Human Nature
the drovers' whips.— (John Mase- Would you know the qualities
field) inwhich a man is wanting? Exa-
Hueless mine those of which he boasts.
Hueless as a ghost. (Cole- (De Segur)
ridge)
Cheek hueless as a brandy- Truth is for ever truth, and
peach.— (0. W. Holmes) love is love.— (Leigh Hunt)

Hueless as young ivory. Human nature is not a mac-

(George Cabot Lodge) hine to be built after a model and
set to do exactly the work pre-
Hug bcribed for it, but a tree, which

witch.—
Hug me
( as a devil hugs a requires to grow and develop itself
on all sides, according ta the
tendency of the inward forces
Hug — which make
like a bear.
(J. S. Mill) \
it a living thing.

( Hug like a boa-constrictor.

To be hugged by a bony man

is about as luxurious as sitting on Virtuous And vicious every
a picket fence. man must be, few in the extreme,
but all in the degree. — (Pope) ^
Hum like
Hum
a cobbler. ( B
«
You cannot slander
IS

human.
 ) ^

Human Nature ( 221 ) Humifity

.

nature; it is worse than words can Soaring you'll sink and sink-
paint it. — (CS. H. Spurgeon) ing you will rise; let humble
t thoughts thy wary footsteps guide!
Regain by meekness what you lost
Humaneness —
by pride. (Arbnthnot)
The behaviour of men to the
lower animals, and their be-
haviour to each other, bear a con-
stant relationship.— (Herbert I thank my God for my
Spencer) humility. — (Shakespeare)
1 ^
He that is down need fear no
The animosities are mortal, fall, he that is low, no pride.
bat the humanities live for ever. (Bunyan) S
-(John Wilton)
Humility is the foundation of
Never to blend our pleasure all virtues. — (Confucious)
or our pride with sorrow of the
meanest thing that feels. (Words- Humility is the true cure for

worth)
• Humble
many
(Sir
aneedless heartache.
A. Helps) Ml

man. — (
Humble

Humble
as a grateful

as a worm. —
alms-

(
A great many people want to
be devout, but no one wants to be
humble.— (La Rochefoncauld) Jft

Humble as is a lamb. (Ale- Humility is the altar from

xander Barclay) which God would receive sacrifice^
As humble as the grass. (La Rochefoncauld)
(Bliss Carman)
As humble as the child of one Humility is a virtue all preach,
that sweats, to eat the dear-earnM none practise, and yet everybody
bread of honest thrift. (John is content to hear. (Selden) ^
Ford)
IS^
Humbly, like a praying nun. True humility, the highest
0. W. Holmes) virtue, mother of thein all.
(Tennyson)
Humbly as they used to creep
to holy altars. (Shakespeare) ^ The lowlv heart doth win the
— (G. Turberville)
love of all. $f
Humble as a stone. (Hood)
Humility like darkness re-
Humility veals the heavenly lights.— (Henry
 a ) B

Humor ( 222 ) Hurt

D. Thoreau) B ments ")

Hungry as if it were the last
Humor day of Lent.— (Henri Murger)
Asense of humor is to a lonely
citizen of theworld what is to a Hungry as a hunter. (North-
shipwrecked sailor on a desert the all's "Folk Phrases") fl
knife with which he hews the logs
to make his hut, and cuts the Hungry as the winter. (An-
fruit by which he lives.— (Bettina ton Tchekov)
von Hutten) Hungry as the grave. — (Jamea
Thomson)
Hungry as the sea, and can
Humorous digest as much. (Shakespeare)
Humorous as wind. (John
Dry den) Hungry as a hawk. (John
Humorous as winter. (Shakes- Taylor)
peare) Hurled
Hunger Hurled sa a stone'from out oi a
Hungering hard as frost that catapult.— (Tennyson)
feeds on flowers. (Swinburne) |IL

No one i3 so laughable as when Hurry

he ishungry.— (Plautus) Hurried, like one distraught.
(T. B. Aldrich) SI

hunger
An intense
for light
and insatiable
and truth.— ( Hurried like a torrent through
a strait.— (John Davidson)
Hungry
Hungry as a bear. Hurried like moon-ray flashes
through the drifting snow.

( Hungry

Hungry
as a

as
church mouse.

a tired hound.—
(Miles 0 Relley)
Some like veiled ghosts hurry-
("The Christmas Prince")

Hungryas devouring flame.

(Ebenezer Elliott)
Hungry as the chap that said
ing past as though driven to' their
land
fear. — (
of shadows by shuddering

They hurried down like plo vera

»
a turkey was too much for one,
not enough
Holmes)
for two. (O. W.
that have heard the call.
»
Hurry. ..like the leaf in a roar-
ing whirlwind.— (Tennyson)
Hungry as the jaws of a gaol.
(" Jacke Drums Entertain- Hurt
 : | K

Hurt ( 223 ) Ideas

Hurts one like the day let

suddenly on sick eyes. (E. B. J

Browning) Hustle
Hustle like fierv-eyed dragons.
Husband
Husbands are like apples,they
-(Henrik Ibsen) ' H
|

shouldn't
ripe. — ( l>3 picked till they are !

air.
Hustle about
— (D. G. Rossetti)
me like pent-up
||

Husbands, like spectacles, to |

How close-packed the mob is,

every age, from fifteen to four- they hustle like a herd of swine.
score.— (Goldsmith) (Theocritus)
t
You're not married; if you Hypocrisy
|

were, you would know that being !

Great hypocrites are the real
a husband is a whole-time job.— atheits. -(Bacon) ff:
{Arnold Bennett) i
Ei All uneducated people are
hypocrites. —
(Hazlitt)
Hushed
Hushed, as in waiting for a
inrd to sing. (Richard Hovey)
]

I which
Hypocrisy is the homage
vices pays to virtue. ( )'

Hashed like an infant on its |

For neither man nor angel
mother's breast. (Gerald Massey) can discern hypocrisy the only
evil that walks invisible, except to
Hushed, as if
retired.- (Otway)
nature were God above.- (Milton) (
Hush as death. (Shakes- ! Hysterical
peare)
Hush as midniglit. ( )
Hysterical as a
chickens.— (Irvin S.
tree
Cobb)
full
||
of

Hashed soft as the leaves

^.nd the grasses are hushed if the |
I
storm's foot draws near. (Swin- j

burne) Ideas
Our
ideas, like orange-plants,
Hush'd as a sick man's room spread out in proportion to thQ
—
eon) ,
when he taketh repose.

Hushed as the un breathing

(Tenny- size of the box which imprisons
the roots. (Bulwer-Lytton)

air, when not a leaf stirs in the |

mighty woods. ( Wordsworth) Ideas are for the most part

 )

Ideas ( 224 ) Idleness

like bad sixpences and we spend Idle

our lives in trying to pass them Idle as digging in the bottom
off on one another. (Samuel But- of the river for the stars we see
ler) reflected on the surface.

Ideas are like shadows sub-

stantial
grasp
enough
them.— ( until we try to
——
Idle as railing at a deaf man.

Served to
jaded ideas.— ( recruit his own I

I
Idle as to aim at inscrutable
things beyond the moon. (
As idle as a dial when the sun
A
fixed idea is like a gimlet; sulks in the clouds. (Alfred Aus-
every year gives it another turn. tin)
To pull it out the first year is like Idle as the stroke of a cane on
plucking out the hair by the roots; the hide of rhinoceros.— (Bulwer-
in the second year, like tearing Lytton)
the skin; in the third, like break- Idle, as the dreams of maida
ing the bones; and in the fourth, (Walter Harte)
like removing the very brain it-
self.— (Hugo) As idle as a painted ship upon
a painted ocean. (Coleridge)

Idle as a summer noon.

Au idea, like a ghost (accord- (Omar Khayyam) S
ing to the common notion of
ghosts) , must be spoken to a little Looks perhaps, and fool-
idle,
before it will explain itself.— ish, like a hat on its block in the
(Dickens) ( store.— (Joyce Kilmer)
« S
f Idle, and mean as a collier's
Our
made up
(Jonbert)

fA
ideas, like
of lights
#^
pictures, are
and shadows.

fixed idea is like the iron

whelp.-(Kipling)

Idleness
There is no greater cause of
melancholy than idleness.— (Bur-
rod which sculptors put in their ton)
statues. It impales and sustains.— Idleness overthrows all.

(Taine) (Burton)
Idleness is only the refuge of
Ideas are like beards; men do weak minds.— (Earl of Chester-

Bot have the in until they grow field)

up. (Voltaire) m
An idler is a watch that want*
Idleness ( 225 ) Ill-natured

both hands, as useless if it goes as sweetest life. — (Sophocles)

when it stands. (Cowper)
(hands Our lives are usually shorten-
ed by our ignorance. (Herbert
Spencer)
Of all our passions, the one we (£
are least cognizant of
(La Rocheioncauld)
is idleness.
Ignorant as a
Ignorant
pig. — (
want.
Idleness
— ( is the

Idleness feeds on the empty

mother of Ignorant as a bookseller.—
(Coleridge)
As invincibly ignorant as a
day as a chameleon on the air. t(^wn-fop judging of a new play.

^
(Richard Hovey) (Dryden)

Ignorant as a raw kitchen

Idly
As idly as a babe that sees the
painted pictures of a book.
^ —
wench. (George Meredith)

The ignorant person is like a

^
(Bayard Taylor)
cE?
Ignorance
cock out of season, which crowa at
midnight.— (Osmanli Proverb)

ignorance makes the ch^ld

'Tis Ignorant as a child. (Tho-
sublime.— (G. Barlow) reau)
Ill-gotten gains
The only useful conquests, the
only conquests which leave no
sort of regret behind, are the con-
( Ill-gotten gains work

Ill-humor
evil.

quests one makes over ignorance. He threw out phrases of ill.

-(Napoleon I.) humor. —
Illimitable
From ignorance our comfort
flows, the only
wise.- (Prior)
wretched are the sea.— (
Illimitable as the boundless

Illiterate
Illiterate as the lowliest hed-
Ignorance is the curse of God, ger and ditcher. (Eugene Field)
knowledge the wing wherewith
vfQ 11 y to heaven. (Shakespeare) Ill-natured
Ill-natured as an old maid.
« (Congreve)
Exasperated by what seemed In working evils for another a

(
a wilful pretense of ignorance.

In knowing nothing is the

man works
(Hesiod) €
evils for himself.-^
 — B 1

Illness ( 226 ) Immortal

Illness
The surest way to health, say Hearts immaculate as light.-'
what they will, is never to sup- (J. G. Holland)
pose we shall be ill. — (C. Chur- Immaculate as fresh snow.
chill) (T. N. Page)

Illuminated Immaterial as a ghost.

Illuminated him as the burn- (Joseph Conrad)
ing taper lights up consecrated Immaterial as a moonbeam. ~-
plate. — (George Meredith) (Edgar Saltus)
Immediately
Illusion
Illusion like the tints of pearl,
Immediately, like a repeating
clock of which the spring has been
or changing colors of the sky, or
ribbons of a dancing girl that touched. — (G. B. Shaw)
mend her beauty to the eye.
(Emerson) Immense

us.— (
Immense objects which dwarf

( His last illusions crumbled.

What youth deemed crystal,

Immobile
As immobile as an nnruftled
lake on a perfect summer's day.—
(D. R. Anderson)
age finds out was dew. (Brown-
ing)
Immobility
Like Dead Sea fruits, that Immobility lay on his liir.bsF
tempt the eye, but turn to ashes on like a leaden garment. (Joseph —
the lips.- (Moore) Conrad)
Immortal
Illusive
Illusive like a dream— ( Immortal
(Mathilde Blind)
as the stars.

Imagination
Reason is to imagination as
Immortal
(Swin burne)
as air or as fire is.—
^
the instrument to the agent, as the Immortal as art and as love.
(Swinburne)
to the
^^
body to the spirits, as the shadow
substance.— (Shelley)

Immaculate
Immortal as the sun. (Ar-
thur Simons)
Poetry is the first and last of
—

(
—^
Immaculate as an angel. all knowledge: it is immortal a»
) the heart of man.— (Wordsworth)
Immaculate as a sheet of white H
paper: — (Samuel Foote) iWl
 W
>

Immovable ( 227 ) Imperceptibly

Immovable

Mercury. —
Grenadiers
(
Immovable aa the

stood
figure

their
of
Impartial
battle.— (
Impartial
as bullets in a

ground immovable, like rocks,

steadily spouting fire-torrents. Impartially as the grave.
(Carlyle) K (Kipling)
Impassive
Immovable
lamp-post.
as a
(Dickens)
pump or a
ivory.— (
Impassive as a figure of carved

Immovable
cliing in
as a leopard crou-
the jungle. (Flaubert) ( Impassive as an Indian

Impassive as the copper head

idol.

Immovable as a picture. ( on a penny.— (Kipling)

Immovable, aa if it were
(
Impassive as an angel. — (Sir
painted on the wall. (Haw- Richard Steele)
tbDrne) Impatient
Immovable
scent of quail.— (0.
as a setter at the
Henry) ( His impatient scorn expired.

Impend
Immovable in the flow of the Impends, like a crag oyer the
rout as rock a in running water. brow of a lofty precipice. (0. W.
(Hugo) Holmes)
Impenetrable
Immovable,

their doors. —
the owner's
like
names, cut in brass, and nailed to
(Thomas Holcroft)
( Impenetrable as a hedgehog.
Ifl

Impenetrable as granite. -
(Ouida)
Immovable
-(Kingsley)
Immovable
as a

as
man

the
of iron.

eun.
( Impenetrable as

Impenetrable to the view as

rhinoceri.

(Theognis) the deep blue of a glacier. D

Immovably Annunzio)
As immovably as the pillars
that prop the universe.
Ames)
(Fisher
Impenitent
Impenitent as a stone. (
Impalpable Imperceptible
Impalpable as stars-beams in Imperceptible as the spots on
Jeep seas. (Paul Hamilton the sua or the shadows on a
Hayne) sunlit seat. —
(Swin bnrne)
Impalpable as a rainbow on Jfe

the clonds.— (Miss Mitford) Imperceptibly

 ^ R )

knperceptibly ( 228 ) Impossible

Imperceptibly as old age -(Carlyle)

eoroes on.—(W. S. Gilbert) Implacable an adversary as a
wife suing for alimony.— (Van-
Imperfect i
brugh)
Imperfect as discourses in a
dream. (Geonge Granville) Implacable as the wind.
(Virgil)
Imperfection Important
Our inborn human imperfec- Important as a militia officer
tion is part of the order of things, \
on a training day. (.). R. Bart-
like the constant deformation of j
letts)
the petal in the plant.— (Taine) I
B

« Imperishable
I

I
Important as life eternal and
death eternal.— (Carlyle)

Imperishable sis eternity. Important as the linch-pin.«—

(P. J. Bailey) j
(0. W. Holmes)
Impersonal Imposing
Impersonal as the justice 'of Imposing as a set of solid gold
God. -(Hugo) - teeth.— (Rex Biach)
iEit
Impertinent Impossibilities
Teased
tions.- ( witii impertinent ques- A
wise man nevef attempts
impossibilities. (Massinger) &
Imperturbable Impossible
Imperturturbable as diplo- Impossible! Never say that
matists. -(Balzac) j
foolish word to me! (Mirabeau.)
Impervious I

Impervious as a statue
Bight and sound.
»^
— (Oaida)
Impetuous
As eager flames, with opposi-
to all

i
—
say.
Impossible is a
— Collin D'Harleville)
Impossible as an echo with-
out a voice to start it. )
word

(
I never

tion pent, break out impetuous

when they find a rent,
Granville)
W
^ (George Impossible as for a blind
to describe c^lor.
S
( ruan

(Joubert) «
Impetuous as

Impetuous as a wild boar.

a poet.
j

I
Impossible as for a lawyer to
feel corapaasion gratis. (^±)
ffi
—
(Sir Walter Scott) Impossible as for one buried
Implacable alive to lift his gravestone.

Implacable as the voice of doom. ft

 * » )

Impossible ( 229 ) Impossible

S
Impossible as for the full-gro-
(
wn
eggshell. — (
bird to live imprisoned in the

(
Impossible as to replace a
hatched chicken in its shell.—

Impossible as for the

the moon to come down.
man
( in
Impossible as to
eternal flood of time. —
stein
)
the

Impossible as for the poles to

eome together
emshed.— (
till the earth is
man white.— (
Impossible as to wash a black

Impossible as for widows to

( Impossible as to wet the sea.
feed on

Impossible
^
dreams and wishes; like
hags on visionary dishes.

as
IB

to count
^(
the
a full
Impossible as it would be for

(Dickens)
balloon not to go up.

waves. —( A little girl without a doll

is almost as mfortunate and quite
as impossible as a woman without

at the same time. (

Impossible as to hiss and
)
— ^
yawn children.- (Hugo)

As impossible as that a man

with a net.- ) (
Impossible as to hold the wind
should walk in procession at his
own funeral. (Thomas Paine)
Impossible as to join in a
procession and look out the Truth is as impossible to be
window. — .
soiled by any outward touch as
the sunbeam.— (Miltou)
Impossible as to jump away
from your shadow. — ( Impossible as to cut fire into
steaks, or draw water with a
Impossible as -o mend & bell. fish-net. —
(Rabelais)
p
A
Impossible as to paint a Impossible as a centaur or a
sound. —(
Impossible
days that are
as
past.
to
—
recall the
griffin. —(Jonn Skelton)
^
Impossible as to get the whole
J|

music of the spheres into a sonata.

and
Impossible as to reconcile cats
rats or hounds and hares. —.
j

!
|
(Robert Louis Stevenson) ]]
^
 )

Impotent ( 230 )

Impotent j
lying still.— (Fielding)
Impotent as "the strengthless

"
tribes of the dead."— (Andrew
Lang)
Impressions
" Incessant streams
Incessant
supplies
like the red star that fires th'

(
I

Susceptibility to fleeting im- *

autumnal skies.— (Homer) "1
pressions.— *r
the sound
Incessant.... as of
All was a vague jumble of I the sea.— (Mary Johnston)
chaotic impressions.— () I

Like a broker's mouth, he

Improvidence I
speaks incessantly. (Osmanli
Buy what thou hast no heed Prov.)
of, and ere long thou shalt sell Incessant as the squeaking cry

&
thy necessaries.— (B. Franklin) ;

of a monkey. (Ivan Turgenev)

Incomes
people take no care for the
If Our incomes, like our shoes,
future they will soon have to if too small, will gall and pinch

.
sorrow for the present. (Chinese I us but if too large, will cause us

^ stumble and
prov.) to to strip.— (C. C.
I

Impudent Col ton)

Impudent as a young barrister

(
after getting a verdict by mistake. zm
Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible as a man
Iiiacessible starting a long journey without
Inacessible as the best de- a good book. (Lamartine)
fended fortress. (Fieiding) I

Inacessible,
cliff.- (Schiller)
like some tall I
( All was incomprehensible.

Incompreheusion

Inanimate
Inanimate
as statul. j
( She frowned incomprehension,

Incongruity
Inanimate as the picture on Those who make the shoa
—
^
a pc8:al card.
B
I
dt> not feel it pinch, and those
who feel it pinch do not know

^
I

Inborn how shoes are made. (Sir F.

Inborn, as fragrance in the
heart of flowers. (Ouid a) —
j

I
Pollock)
-
^^
Incongruous
Incapable As incongruous as a blacks-
Incapable as quicksilver of mith with a white silk apron. — (
fncongrnous ( 231 )
Indefinite

Incongruous
grave-stone or a
as a joke
ledger. — (on a

like the
Incorruptible
Incorruptible, unending, free
moon's golden road up®n
Incongruous as a merry dirge, the sea.-(F. W. H. Myers)
or sacramental bacchanal. (P. J.
Bailey) Increase

Incongruous as
dreds at a funeral. — (J.
a wedding-
M. Barrie)
a fatal fire.— (
Increase like wind and oil on

Inconsistent
Inconsistent as the seas or as
Increase, like a spreading sore.
-(Andrew Lang) :
the wind. -(Fielding) Increase as fast as the calendar
of saints. —
(Thomas Paine)
Inconstancy 8
Maidens' hearts are always noft Increase ray fury, as the beat-
would that men's were truer!
(W. Callen Bryant)
ing of a drum stimulates the
soldier in courage. (Poe) '
With men and women His Incredible
alike the way, to hate tomorrow Incredible as the fulfilment

Thompson)

Woman
^
what they love to-day.

changeable we find,
as a feather in the wind.
(D. W.

(Italian 1
of an amazing and startling dream
in which he could take the world
in his
— (Joseph
arms al the
Conrad)
suft'ering world.

prov.) i

Inconstant Indecision
Inconstant as the wind. —( Half the failures in life arise
I
from pulling in one's horse as
Inconstant as the shadows we he is leaping.— (J. C. Hare) •

survey. —
(Samuel Boyse)
I

Indecorum
Incanstant as the moon. A
great indecorum, to use
(Samual Butler) men like old shoes or broken
Inconstant as a ship with a glasses, which are flung to the
broken helm. —
(Egyptian) dunghill.— (Robert Burton)
I

More inconstant than the

wind. — (Shakespeare) Indefinite
Indefinite, like the quality of
Inconstant as the waving sea. the best manners. (S. Weir
'

(Earl of Stirling) Mitchell)

 ) —

Indefinite ( 232 ) Indistinct

Oppressed by the indefinite- meticulous niceties. —

neBs which hung in her mind,
like a thiclc*4summer haze.
¥
— ( Indifferent

Independence
5B
Too poor for a bribe, and to
and my left* — (
Indifferent as ray right hand

importune, he had not the method Indifferent as rain.— (G. K

of making a fortune.— (Gray) Chesterton)
Indifferent as the moon.—
j
(Charles Reade)
He earns whate'er he can, and Contemptuously indifferent to
looks the whole world in the face*
for he owes not any man.— (Long-
iellow)
j
(
the tyranny of public opinion.—

Indifferently
Indifferently as the herring's
Independence, like honour,
a rocky island without a beach.
(Napoleon)
is
I

j
backbone doth
of the fish. — ( lie in the midst

\ As indifferently as a boy
There are persons who are so .
x
plucks down a cranberry boiuh.
independent that you cannot (Ouida)
depend upon them. (C, H. j

%urgeou) ® Indignation

In the end injustice produces

—
independence. (Voltaire)
j

^ Scorched with the lightning

momentary indignation.— ( of

^
Indispensable
hun«
It is easier to control a
dred thousand men in battle than
to subjugate the mind of one
I
( Indispensable as your skin.—

Indispensable as clean linen.

thoroughly conviHced individual. -(Emerson) 3
— (Voltaire) Indispensable as the majestic

Independent as a' bird.-- ( (Shelley) :^

laws that rule yon rollinq; orbs.

Indistinct
Independent as if he had Indistinct, like a vapor ex-
paid two-pence for a park chair.— haled by the earth. —
(Joseph
(Harry L9011 Wilson) flj Conrad)
tL Indistinct, like language
Indifference uttered in a dream.— (Cowper)
Sublime indifference to con-
temporary usage and taste. ( Indistinct like the echo of a
symphony dying away. (Flnu- —
Magnanimous indifference to bert)
 g )»

Indistinct ( 233 ) Infamjr

Indistinct as water is in the two real physicians of roan-

water. (Shakespeare) I
kind.— (Rousseau) -
I

Indistinctly visible as through liches consist in the great

a white gauze veil.— (Mrs Trol-
lope)
Indistinguishable
I
number
(Voltaire)
of industrious men.
S :
Indistinguishable. ..like a cele- Diligence is the mother of
brity in a crowd. —
(J. M. Barrie) good fortune.— (Prov.)

Individuals Industrious
Individuals, like nations, Industrious as an ant. -
must have suitable broad and
natural boundaries, even a con-
siderable neutral ground, between
j
(Henry k Sienkiewicz)
Industrious as a bee.— ( )-

them.— (Henry D. Thoreau) Ineffectual

S
Indolent
j
tomb.— (
Ineffectual, as plaint from a

Indolent as an old bachelor.-—

(Goethe)
Indolent, like the face of a
i

j
ing at a vulture. (
Ineffectual, like geese
—
babbl-

happy lotus-eater. (Robert Ineradicable

Hichens) Ineradicable, like some persist-
Indolent, as a lazy breeze of ent vegetable growth, because its
midsummer. (James Whitcomb seed is an element of the very-
Riley) soil out of which it springs.
Indolent as a warm rain. (Talter Pater)
(Trumbull Stickney)
Indulgence Inert
Constant indulgence of wily Inert as a dead body. — (Hugo).
(
stratagem and ambitious craft.
Inevitable

There
Industry
nothing truly valu-
is
I

j
Inevitable as the unfolding
of the lily bud to the sun. — (
able which can be purchased Inevitable as the brute mother
without pains and labour. j
shield her young from attacks of
(Addition) i
the hereditary enemy. (George
j
Eliot)
Industry a loadstone
is to
draw all good things. — Infamy
s old infamy will pop into
The
Temperance and industry are ' daylight like a toad out of a
Infamy ( 234 ) Injuries

fissure in the rock. — direction,have great influence on

the public mind. (Burke) —
g
Infamy was never incurred for
nothing. —( Ingratitude
m The good received, the giver
Infectious is forgot. — Congreve)
More infectious than the
poison of the spider. — On adamant our wrongs we
allengrave, but write our benefits
Inference upon the wave. (Dr. W. King)—
Inference are like shadows on
the wall they are thrown from
an object, and are monstrous Blow, blow, thou winter wind!
distortions of it.- (George Meredith) Thou art not so unkind as man's
ingratitude; thy tooth is not so
keen, because thou art not seen
Infidelity although thy breath be rude.
Infidelity, like death, admits (Shakespeare)
oi no degrees.— (Madame de
Girardin)

Infinite I hate ingratitude more in a

Infinite as the dividing of the man than lying, vainness, babbl-

sand.- (
foam and the sifting of the sea- ing,
speare)
drunkenness. (Shake-

Inflamed Injuries we write in marble,

Inflamed as spirits damned in kindnesses in dust.— (Prov.) !Lffi
hell may feel.— (Boiardo)
Inherent
Gloriously inflamed... like an Inherent ae the sheen of a
aerial mist across the sky. (E. — bird's plumage, as the texture
W. Faber) of a flower's petal. (John
Inflamed like the crimson Burroughs)
rose.-(Oersian)
Inflexible Inherent, like the aw's of

( Inflexible as a granite block.

Inflexible as an oak.— (Gold-

gravity.— (Fronde)

Injuries
flmith) A wound, though cured, yet
Influence leaves behind a scar. — (J. Old ham)
Writers, especially when they ffii

act in a body and with one Oblivion is the remedy for

 t ))

iajuries ( 235 ) Innumerable

injuries. — (Seneca)
Innocent
Kindnesses are easily forgot-
ten, but injuries! what worthy
man does not keep those in mind?
(
Innocent as a cloistered nun.

Innocent as a dove. —
-(Thackeray)
Iunocant as a flowers.
A worthy man is not mindful

^
of past injuries.- - Innocent as angels.— (Balzac)

of
Injurious
Injurious as the tainted breath
fame.— (Thomas Yalden)
( Innocent as new-born babe.

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

-(William S. Gilbert)
r
The injustice done to an Innocent as the wayside fly.
individual is sometimes of service — (Cyril Harcourt)
to the public. (Junius) Innocent as sleep. —
(Aaron
Hill)
I should wish
neither, but Innocent as youth before its
had I to choose, I
of necessity charm is spent. —
(G. E, Mont-
would rather suffer unjustly than gomery)
— As innocent as a devil of two

^
act unjustly. (Plato)
Jfc years old. —
(English Proverb)
IS
Unjust rule "ever endures Innocent as grace itself.
perpetually. — (Seneca ) (Shakespeare)
Innocent as the age of gold.
Ink (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A
small drop of ink, falling
ike dew, upon a thought, produces Innocent as a child unborn.
^that which makes thousands, per- (Samuel Wesley)
haps millions, think. (Byron)
Innumerable

Innoceace
Innocence is like an umbrella:
Innumerable as the gay motes
that people the sunbeams. — (
when once we've lost it we must
never hope to see it back again. Innumerable as the stars of
-(Punch) night.- (Milton)

Innocence is like a polished

»rmor; it adorns and it defends.
Innumerable as maggots.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
A
^ ilffl

(South) As the sand which is by the

 i )

Innumerable 236 ) Inspire

sea shore inuumerahle. (New Insinuating as a corkscrew

Testament) boring into a tender cork. —
Inoffensive Olfi
Inoffensive as the stone with Inspiration
which, at play, a boy makes ducks My soul within me burning
and drakes.— (Dnraas) with hot thoughts.— (^Eschyl us)

Inoffensive as a glass of water. | Great thoughts, great feelings

-(Hugo) came to him like instincts
Inquiry unawares. — (R. M. Milnes)

in
A
her gaze. — (
sad inquiry seemed to dwell

Insipid
I nqu is i tiveness Insipid company as a looking-
Avoid a person who asks i
glass.— (Reaconsfield)
questions, for such a man is a I

talker; nor will open ears keep \

Insipid as an old acquaint-
faithfully the things entrusted I
ance.- (CDlley Cibber)
them.— (Horace) m
^
io
things like sand-

^
Insipid
wiches of veal. (Hood) —
Inquisitive people are all ill-
natured.— (Plautus) and dull as a drone,
Insipid,
IB though near to each other as sister
Inseparable and brother, they both, take their
as a shadow to
Inseparable, |
airing alone. (Robert Lloyd)
a body.— (Robert Burton)

Inseparable as finger and i

Insipid, as a garden much
thumb.— (Farquhar) watered. — (Horace)

love.
Inseparable as beauty
— (Mrs. Jameson) ^ and

(
Insolence
Despite her pretty insolence.
S
Iusidious

(
Insidious as the odor
leaves. —
of poppy weapon.— (
Ill-bred insolence was
1§
his only

Insignificance Inspire . >,

'Tis not to die we fear, but to Kindred thoughts inspire, as

die poorly, to
af multitude.— (Fletcher)
fall forgotten, in summer clouds flash forth electric
fire.— (Samuel Rogers)
SHI 5
^
Insinuating eyes.—
An
(
inspired
).
ray was in hia
Instantly ( 237 ) Intercede

Instantly

the barrel. — (
Instantly, like a bullet from

Intangible
Intangible
as a shadow.—
Emotion extinguished in- (Balzac)
stantly, like a lighted match in Intangibleand indescribable
a water-butt. (Hermann Suder- as the tints of morning or evening.
mann) — (Henry D. Thoreau)
S
Instinctive Intellect
Instinctive in her as its song The
intellect of the wise is
to a bird, as its swiftness to a like glass: it admits the light of
chamois.- (Onida) heaven, and reflects it. (J. 0.
Hare)
All was instinctive and spon-
taneous. —( The highest intellects, like
Instruction the tops of mountains are the first
He that shortens the road to to catch and reflect the dawn.
knowledge lengthens life. (C. C. (Macaulay)
Colton)
The true vv:iy to render age
If wisdom were offered me vigorous is to prolong the youth:
on condition that I should keep of the mind. (Mortimer Collins)
it close and not communicate it, ill

I would refuse the gift. (Seneca) —

AH the wise agree that mind
is to us a king of heaven and of
A nod for a wise man and earth. -(Plato)
a rod for a fool. (Hebrew prov)
A cunnincr intellect patiently

An injury
Insults
is much sooner
its design.— (
diverting every circumstance to

forgotten than an insult. (Lord Intense

Chesterfield) Intense as life. — (Theodore
# Winthrop)
Insults are like bad coins; we Intense as the cling of the
cannot help their being offered sun to the lips of the earth.
to us, but we need not take them, (Richard Hovey)
(a H. Spurgeon)
Intent
Het not thy foot to make the
blind to fall; nor wilfully offend
Fine precision of intent. (
thy weaker brother.— ( Intercede
Intercede ( 238 ) Inventors and Inventions

Intercede like an angel of Wildly intoxicating as a mad

mercy. —
(Dumas) gallop. — W. H. Ainaworth)
»
Interest
An impersonal and slightly Intricate as a thicket. (Hugo)
ironic interest. —
15
Intrigue
Her eyes were
ing intarest. — ( full of wonder- Intrigue of state, like games
of whist, require a partner, and in

A
"rest.— (
profound and absorbing

Interlocked
in- both, success is the joint effect of
chance and skill; but the former
differ from the latter in one parti-

Interlocked like a couple of

preposterous gladiators.
kens)
(Dic-
cular—the knaves rule the kings-
— (C. C. Col ton) ^
Intermingled
Intermingled like the tares (
among the wheat. (Bacon) Intrude
Intrude like comets" on ths
Intermittently
heavenly solitude. (Matthew
Intermittently, like the click
of a blind man's cane. —
(Irviu S.
Arnold) S
Cobb)
Intimacy Invaluable as the virtue of
Familiar and endearing inti-
conformity in the army and navy.
macy. — (Henry D. Thoreau)
Intimate
Intimate, fluctant, free, like
the clasp and the cling of waters. Invariable as the laws of gra-
(Bliss Carman) vitation. —
Invariable as the waxen image
Intolerable as a fortunate fool. of a little oldlady under a glass
— (Sydney Munden) case.— (George Eliot) fg^?
13
Intoxicated Inventors and Inventions
Intoxicated as a colt that has Invention breeds invention.
been turned into a meadow. No sooner is the electric telegraph
(Guy de Maupassant) devised than guttapercha, the very

«
Intoxicating
Intoxicating, like all joys that
re soon lost. (Jules Sandeau)
(Emerson)
K ^
material it requires, is found.

Invention is the most ex-

pensive thing in the world. • It
K
Inventors and Inventions ( 239 ) Irritation

takes no end of time and no end

of money.— (G. B. Shaw) Irksome
It is irksometo them so to
B live, as to a bird in a cage, or a
In the arts of life man invents dog in a kennel. — (Robert Burton)
nothing; but in the arts of death
he outdoes nature herself, and
produces by chemistry and mac- Iron
hinery all the slaughter of plague, He
percevied the iron hand
pestilence and famine. (G. B. within the velvet glove. —
Shaw)

Irrecoverable
Inventive as a lump of
As irrecoverable
Inventive as an excuse.— (f^c
Si 5,
Invigorating
(
butter in a greyhound's mouth.

As invigorating as a bath of Irreparable

salt water when the skin

^
off.— (James Huneker)
jg
^
is peeled
Hr
as taking
Irreparable
life.— (Sir Richard Steele)
away

Inviolable Irresistible
Inviolable as recorded oaths.—
(Robert Jephson) (
Irresistible
gravity.—
as the force of

Invisible Irresistible, like a man with

Invisible like the gods. —( eight trumps in his hand at a
whist table. —
Invisible, as a nose
on a man's
face, or a weathercock on a steeple. when from some
Irresistible as
— (Shakepeare) peak into the plain thunder
tall
and smoke and crash the rolling
rocks.— (Edwin Arnold)
Involuntarily
Work involuntarily, like the Irresistible as the needle to
heart.— (Schopenhauer) the pole.— (Bui wer-Lytton)

Involved Irritating
Involved like a cart involved Irritating as a hundred needles
in mud and muddle. (Stephen forgotten in an armchair.— (Da u-
Crane) det) ff
Inwoven
- Inwoven,like sunlight through Irritation
acacia woods at even.— (Shelley) A first faint trace of irritation.
 ^ «
H

Issue ( 240 ) Jealousy

( Issue
Jaunty
Jaunty as the pimble flit of a

( ;
Issuing, as from a fountain.— cabaret dancer in midnight season
fQrm. — (Grantland Rice) 31

Jaw
J A jaw like a nutcracker. —(

Jabbering like rocks. — ( A jaw like a vise. — (

An old lady with a jaw like a
Jaded flatiron.— (Maurice Hewlett)
A little jaded
exertions. — ( by gastronomical

Jealous as a barren wife.

(Congreve)
Like sweet bells jangled^ oat Jealous as a pet greyhound.
of tune,and harsh. (Shakespeare) (Hugo)
Jealous as a .Spanish miser.
g (Charles Macklin)
Jar
Jarred on
the ear like a As jealous as a nine-day's
squeaking lead- pencil. (William lover.- (H. C. Merivale)
Archer)
Jarred horrid, like the rusted Jealous as a Barbary cock
hinge upon a door of hell, like the pigeon over his hen. (Shakes-
shrill scream outbursting from a beare)
frightened charger's throat, like Jealous as a couple of hair-
the rasp of a tang of brass against dressers.— (R. C. Trench)
an iron gate.— (Hugo)
A jealous woman belie vob
m everything her passion suggests.
(Gay)
Jars like a butting ram.—
(William J. Lampton) Jealousy
Jealousy is like a polished
Jarring glass held to the lips when life's
Jarring sound, like a cracked in doubt; if there be breath, 'twill
bell.— (Michael Drayton) catch the damp, and show it.—
(Dryden)
Jargon i

Jargoning like a foreigner a j

his food.- (Longfellow) j Love is strong as death: jeal*

ousy is cruel as the grave.— (Song

 )

Jealousy ( 241 ) Joy

of Solomon)
Join
Whatfrenzy dictates jealousy Join burre
as to burre
Relieves.- (Gay) (Alexander Barclay)

Jealousy is always born with Joined like a five-fold twisted

love, but does not always die with cord.- (John Da vies)
it. — (La Rochefoucauld)
Joints

which
Jealousies
pricked
blood to tingling.
and

—
their
animosities
sluggish, ( Like a fishing rod,

Joker
all ioints.

Practical jokers, like physi-

Jerk cians,seldom take their prescrip-
Jerking... like the lid of a boil- tions with pleasure. (Joseph
ing pat. — (Bliss Carman) * Jefferson) g
Jerked his head like a bird. Jolly
(Dickens) Jolly as a shoe-brush. (Ed-
Jerky like a clockwork snake. win Booth)
— (H. G. Welle) Jolly as a country host.
(Andrew Marvell)
Jest
Good
like dogs. (
jests bite like
—
lambs, not As
Whitcomb
jolly as a
Riley)
Jostle
play. (James

like sweetmeats,
Jests,
often a sour sauce. ) — ( have Jostled like a crowd of people
rushing to catch a train. (
He makes a foe who makes a Joy
jest. (Gay) Joy is like a fitful gleam, dis-
cerned through shadowy mists of
My way oi joking is to tell the dream. -(Grant Allen)
truth. It's the funniest joke in
the world. —
(G. B, Shaw) It was sheer, exuberant, in-

Jingle.. .like
Jingle
rattling hand-
stinctive,
joy. ( unreasoning, careless

cuffs.— (Irvin S. Cobb) Their j)y like sunshine deep

and broad falls on my heart. — (^c
Jingled like a carriage horse. -
(Kipling) For joys are gone, when
tiiat
Jingle like a crate of broken remembered like flowers
again,
Crockery. —
(W. J. Locke) bereft of their sweets by the frost,
 i

( 242 ) Joyless

are poor withered things that do Joy in this world is like a

but retain the thorns of the rose, rainbow, which in tbe morning
when its fragrance is lost. fE. F. only appears in the west, or to-
Andrews) wards the evening sky; but in the
latter hours of day casts its trium-
phal arch over the east, or morn-

eyes. (
Joy rioted in his large dark ing sky.— (Richter)

IW
Joy like the joy of a leaf that (? S
unfolds in the sun; joy like the Joy'd as the spring, when
joy of a child iu the borders of March his has spent, and
sighs
sleep.— (Richard Hovey) April's sweet rash tears are de-
coy d by May. —
(Davenant)
Joy is like restless day; but h m
peace divine like quiet night; lead 5
me, —
Lord, till perfect Day shall Joyfui
sbino through Peace to Light. Joyful as flowers when they
(Adelaide Anne Procter) 1^ are filled to brim with dew.
. ffi 3 ^^ [ —
^ As bitter wormwood never
Joyful as a nest.

Joyful as a fly. (Arabian

dotii delicious honey yield, nor Nights)
can the cheerful grape be reap'd Joyful as the back of a grave-
from thistles in the field; so who, stone. (Northa U's "Folk Prases")
in this uncertain life, deceitful
joya pursue, they fruits do seek Joyful as the shepherd beaia
upon such on which
trees it never a strayed larnb to the fold.
grew. — (Florence Wilson)
^ (Charles Reade)

Joyful as the light.-— (C. G.

Rossetti)
Joyful as the sea. (Swin-
Joy is like the ague; one good burne)
day between two bad ones. Joyless

^
(Danish Proverb)
H
Great joys, like griefs are
— Marmion)
Joyless the winter days
as.
which bound I he earth under
bands of iron and let no living
Bilent. (S. thing or creeping herb rejoice or
procreate.-(Oukia)

^
Earth's sweetest joy is but dis-
guised woe. —
(W. Druramond)
|

Joyless as the blind. — (Word

 ^
*

Joyful ( 243 )

worth)

Joyous as a child. () 'Tis with our judgments as out

watches,— none go just alike, yet
^
lark. (
Joyous as the
—
trill of a sky-
each believes his owu. (Pope)
^
Jump
Joyous as the song of
wren. (J. Fenimore Cooper)
the Jumping about
a thunderstcrm. — ( like a toad in

Joyous, like
^
a rising star. Jumped
May-fly. — ( at it like a trout at a

(John Hay)

(Shelley) &
Joyous as the moruing ray.—

Joyous ba the cadence

sea.— (Bayard Taylsr)
of the
Jumped

Jumps, like
like 3 bird for a berry.

a sole from tha

pan.- (Hood)
Joycvis as the laughter of a June
Theroses make the w@J^jd so
child.— (Celia Thaxter)
sweet, the bees, the birds have
Jubilant such a tune, there's such a light
and such a heat and such a joy in
Jubilant as old sleigh bells.—
]^
(James Whltcomb Riley)
June.— (G. Macdonald)
»
Judgment
Why is it that we so constant- Justice is so fine a thing that
ly hear men complaining of their
one cannot buy it too dear. —
(L«
memory, but none of their judg- Sage) i
ment?— (C. C. Colton)
B Justice is lame, as well na
To perceive is to feel; to com- blind amongst us.— (T. Otway)
pare is to judge. Judging and
feeling are not the same thing.— Nothing becomes a king ao
(Rousseau) much as the distribution of justice.
War is a tyrant, as Timotheus
Before you answer 'Yea' or expresses it, but Pindar says jus-
'Nay' hear what both sides shall

like
—
The judgment
^
have to say. (D. W. Thompson)

of the wise
gold, distinguished for its
is,
tice is the rightful sovereign of tha
world.— (Plutarch)

( ^
superior weight. (Demophilus) The love of men, derived from
self-love, is the principle of human.
 H S -g
)

Justice ( 244 ) Keen

justice.— (Rousseau) Keen as' Jove's lightning

IE wing'd athwart the sky. (Wil-

)
j

j
Ham Broome)
Justice is fled and truth is
now no more. — (Virgil)
j

Keen as a poniard-thrust.—
(Eliza Cook)
— '
i

Extreme justice is an extreme Keen as a hawk. (Hood)

injury.- (Voltaire)
IE Keen like a epear. — (Sidney
Justice is like the north star, Lanier)
which is fixed, and all the rest Keen as a sword. — (Kilping)
revolve about it. — (Confucius)
Keen as a wolf. (James Mont-
Human justice, like Luther's gomery)
drunken peasant, when saved Keen of glance as a falcon.
from falling on one side, topples (Ouida)
over on the other.— (Hazzini) Keen as a blinded man...
smells in the dark the cold odour
of the earth. (Stephen Phillips)
Justice, like lightning, ever
should appear, to few meu ruin, Keen as undrawn sword.—
but to all meu fear. (Thoraas (Frank Richardson)
Randolph)
Keen as is razor's edge in-
visible - (Shakespeare)
K

(A. A. Adee)
Keen
Keen
Wit as keen as archer's dart.

as a bride. —
^
Keen as the engine
tortures and which kills.
ley)
Keen
(Swinburne)
as
I
a sword's
which
(Shel-

edge.

Keen as burns the passion of

(Keen as the sight of

Keen, like the horn of the

an eagle. the rose.
Keen
—
as death to smite. —
fn '
cosped moon. — ( Ar/»bi.va Nights)
( Keen as iron in the flesh.

(
Keen
ing bankruptcy.

As keen
as the torture impend-
— (Balzac)
as a miser after his
^ (
H
Eves as keen as pain.

Keen as the fire's

A
own
—
fang.

pav. — (Jules Q. de Beaurepaire) Keen as thd heart's desire.

(Swinburne)
fit Keen as the manslayer's knife.
Keen ( 245 ) Kindness

)
lace)
Keen as the sea's thrill towards Kind as hovering dove. (C.

a kindling star. — G. Rossetti)

Like the sunlight kind.—
Keen as a sabre froiii its (Swinburne)
«heath.-(Whittier)

Keen and eager as a

A
fine-nosed
( Kind as harvest in

Kind as the fostering

autumn.—

air. —
hound.— (Wordsworth)
Kind as the sun in heaven.
His face was keen is the —( ia
wind that cuts along the hawthorn She meeker, kinder than the
fence. — turtle-dove or pelican. — (George
Wither)
Kill Kindle

( Kill like lightning flashes.—

feaster
Kindling like
when some wild chorus
(0. W.
a Christmas

like
ag
Kill one another by the look,
cockatrices. (Shakespeare)
shakes the vinous air.
Holmes) g
ger)
Killing as a plague.— (Massin- Kindled
June.- (Swinburne)
like as
^
heaven in

lisk's.- (
Looks. ..as killiug as the basi-

As killing as the canker to the

Heart kindling as the heart of
heaven. —(
rose.- (Milton) Kindling, as dawn a frost-

patient.

Kind
(
Cure the disease and

Kind
as a kite. —
kill the bound
^ precipice. —
Kindling as a rose at breath
of sunrise. —
Kind as a turtle. — t Kindles and burns, like a
fiery star in the urip^r air.
As kind as the month of may- (Whittier) i&
ing.— (H. 0. Beeching)
S Kindly
Kind as is the life of love. Kindly as night dew.— (V. J.
("Jacke Drum's Entertainment^) Bailey)
Kindly as the spirit of society.
Kind as kings upon th«ir (Wordsworth)

S lie's
^
coronation day.— (Dryden)

as kind as r.ew fain

Kindness
Kindness, nobler ever than
April showers. (Richard Love- revenge. —
( Sh a k es pea re)
H
 g

Kiodness ( 246 ) Kneel

Little actakindness are

of
stowed away in the heart, like
kings,
crown.- (Defoe) ^
though they possess the

bags of lavender in a drawer, to The power of kings is but a

^(
sweeten every object around them. grant from Heaven of doing good.
IE W.
Somerville)

To do a kindness to a bad man Kiss

is like sowing your seed in the sea.
(Phocylides)
, Her
plosions. — (
kisses were like tire ex-

Kissing... is as a prologue to a
Little deeds of kindness, little
words of love, help to make earth play. —
(Fielding)
happy, like the heaven above
(Julia A. Carney)
The kisses of thy deathless
lips, like strange star-pulses,
throbbed through space.— (Paul
Nothing is so popular as kind-
(Cicero)
Hamilson Hayne)
ness.

Kiss as close as a scallop.

That best portion of a good
(Ben Jonson)
man's life, his little, nameless, Came kissing like rich airs
unreinembered acts of kindness secret shores to those who
jBrom

—
and of love. (Wordsworth)

Kindness, like grain, increases

sail into the eternal
(Gerald Massey)
dawn.-—

by sowing. (English Proverb) Kisses as unctuous as oil.

(Francis S. Saltus)
King
Kings are like stars,— they Kisses like sweet, sad, subtle
rise and set, they have the worship scents of myrrh. —
df the world, but no repose
(Shelley)
^^
Kisses are like grains of gold
or silver found upon the ground,
Titles are shadows, crowns are of no value themselves, but pre.
empty things, the good of subjects cious as showing that a mine ia
is the end of kings.— (Defoe) near. —
(George Villiers)

A patient man's a pattern for

a king.- (Dekker) Kneel
Knelt like a child marble-
When kings swords of
the sculptured and white that seems
justice first lay down, they are no kneeling to pray on the tomb oi a
 | .

Kneel ( 247 ) Knowledge

knight — (E. B. Browning) the more a man gets, the more he

»6

Kneeling... like a painted lady

craves— (Josh Billings)

Knowledge, when
. wisdom
on an altar tomb. —
(Maurice Hew- too weak guide her, is like a
to
lett) headstrong horse, that throws the
rider.-(Quarles)
Knit
His
gloomy. — ^
brow

Knotted
grew knit and
For knowledge itself is power.
Bacon) 4
Knotted like water-snakes.— Is it not knowledge which
(Shelley) doth alone clear the mind of all
Know perturbations? (Bacon)
I know hira as well as if I

had gone through

lantern. — ( ©
him with a
hid
The
in
sovereign ty of
knowledge. (Bacon)
man

j
lieth

.»
I know him like a book. —( How small is our kuowI«d^e
in comparison of our ignorance!
Knowing it as the moon her -(Baxter)
traditional influenca upon the
tides.— (George Meredith) There is no knowledge which
is not valuable. Burke)
To know as well as a beggar
knows his dish. (James Pilking- Grace is given of God, but
ton) knowledge is bought iu the market.
To know is not to know, — (A, H. Ciough)
unless someone else has known
that I know. —
(Lucullus) Knowledge and wisdom, far
from being one, have oft-times no
The more men know, the connection— (Powper)
more they deceive themselves.
The only way to avoid error is Knowledge is the antidote to
ignorance. (Rousseau) fear. — (Emerson)
Time and industry produce
Knowledge every day new knowledge.
He picked up knowledge to (Hobbes)
wear it on his head like the

(
plumes of horses in a parade. If a little knowledge is
dangerous, where is the man who
has so much as to be out of
Knowledge is like money, danger?- (T. H. Huxley)
 £ ^
W

( 248 ) Labour

j
gloomy paths of its own; but in
I
the possession of a man of busi-
The distributions and parti- j
ness, it is as a torch in the hand
tions of knowledge are. ..like the of one who is willing and able
branches of a tree, that meet in I
to show those who are bewildered,
the way which leads to their

^^
a stem, which hath a dimension I

and quantity of entirehess and prosperity and welfare. (Sir

continuance

^
before
discontinue and break itself into
arms and boughs. (Bacon) —
it comes to Richard Steele)

^ |§

The only thing we do not

Knowledge is like capital: the know is how to bs ignorant of
moT^ ther<3 is in a country, the we cannot know.

^
that which
greater the disparities in wealth
between one man and another.—
(Bulwer-Lytton) i
^
(Rousseau)
jHsIH

Most men want knowledge,

not for itself, but for the superiori-
Knowledge like a great ty which knowledge confers.—
rough diamond; it may do very (Sydney Smith)
well in a closet by way of cariosity,
and also for its intrinsic yalue;
but it will never be worn or shine,
if it
field)

^.
is not polished.
^(Chester-

Labour
They who always labour can
A little knowledge in some have no true judgment. (Burke)
people is like little boys
mysterious
throwing
lakes.
*
stones into Labour makes us insensible
They make a great chatter but to sorrow.— (Cicero)
the silence was more wonderful.

^ ^
— (Richard Ls Gallienne)
I have found out, I repeat,
the true secret of happiness, labour
Knowledge, like our blood, with independence. (Mine D — f

must circulate. (Denham)

« &
Arblay)

Honest labour bears a lovely

that eort
him who
Knowledge
of
carries
of

only to pass through secret and

books is like
lantern which hides
it, and serves #
face.-(Dekker)

Life gives nothing to mortal

Labour ( 249 ) Lament

^ ^
except with great labour. — ( Labyrinth you there, like
hid scent in an unbudded rose.
a'

Xever is work without reward, (Keats) «

or reward without work. — (Li vy)
Laced
Laced, like an hour-glass,
Labour is often the father of exceedingly small in the waist.
pleasure.- (Voltaire) -(Thomas Moore)
Freedom, hand in hand with l»ady
labour, walketh strong and brave.
-(Whittier)
Ladies,
wait to be chosen.
like
(
barristers,
—
must

All things are full of labour, A fine lady is a squirrel-

man can no]; utter it: the eye is headed thing, with small airs and:

—
not satisfied with seeing, nor the small notions; about as applicable
ear filled with hearing. (Ecclesi- tc the business of life as a pair
astes) of tweezers to the clearing of a.
forest. —
(George Eliot) *
Eight hours' work, and eight
hours' play, eight hours' sleep,
,
—
and eight bob a day. (Australian Ladies, like variegated. tulips,
sayiug) show 'tis to their change half
their charms we owe (Pope) .
Naething is got without pains,
but an ill name and long nails.
(Scottish prov.) Great ladies, like great mer-
chants set but the higher prizes
The labouring people are only upon what they have, because they

(
poor because they are numerous.
first offer. —
(Wycherley)
^
are not in necessity of taking the^

( Laboring like galley slaves. ——

Labored heavily like a tramp Lagged

Lag
behind, like boat
freighter in a heavy sea. (PI D. against the tide and wind.—
Price) (Samuel Butler)

Labours like the drops of rain Lament

on the sandy ground. — (Sir Lament like a virgin girdect
Walter Raleigh)

labyrinth
of her youth.
^
with sackeloth for the husband
(Old Testament)E
 S )

lamentation ( 250 ) Lank

Lamentation
lamentation, like some old
I

A Music is the universal langu-

prophet wailing. (Longfellow) age. -(John Wilson)

Lamentation is the only Languid

musician that always, like a Languid as one from slumber
screech-owl, alights and sits on newly come. — (Lord De Tabley)
the roof of an angry man.— $
(Plutarch) As languid as a lilied pond.
* (Norman Gale)
A mind languid as a drooping
[Language wing. — (Jayadeva)
Languages, like our bodies,
are in a perpetual flux, and stand Languid, like a lovesick maid.
in the need of recruits to supply (Swift)
those words that are continually Languidly
—
^
falling, through disuse. Felton) Languidly, as voluptuously, as
a water-lily at rest on the water's
breast-(Ouida)
Written language is like a
mirror which it is necessary to Languish
have in order that man know Languish like a withering
himself and be sure that he exists. flower.— (Otway)
— (Lamartine) Languish as the leafe fan
from the tree (Spenser)
Language rises like a spring
aibong the mountains, it increases Languisheth as lily drooping
into a rivulet, then it becomes a to death, as a drought-worn bird
liver (the water is still unpollut- with failing breath, as a lovely
ed) but when the river has passed vine without a stay, as a tree
through a town the water must whereof the owner saith. "Hew
be filtered. And Milton was it down to-day" (0. G
Rosselti
mentioned as the first filter, the
first stylist.— (George moare)

(& ) flij " "

Languor

Language is the amber on

( The artificial

An atmosphere
1®
smile of languor.

of extraordin-
which a thousand precious and ary languor. —(
Ijank
subtle thoughts have been safely,
-embedded and preserved.— Lank as an unthrift's purse.—
(Arcbbp. Trench) (Bonne)
 )

Lank ( 251 ) Laughter

Lank as a ghost. (Words- A laugh like a suffocating

worth) wheeze.- (Lever)
Lap Her laugh is like a rounde-
Lapped her like a vapor. lay so ringing sweet and clear.
(Hood) (James Whitcomb Riley)
Lapse
Days, weeks and mouths Her laugh is like sunshine.
lapsed like soft measures, rhym- (Francis S. Saltus)
ing each
Holland)
with eacli. (J. G.
Laugh like a loon — ( )

(
Lapse into pathos arud absur-

( (
dity.— Laughing like a stentor.—
A lapse from the well-ordored
decencies of civilization. Laughed like a bell. (R. D.
Black more)
Lash Laugbted as if he had drowned
Lashing her face like the wing a dog— (Browning.)
of a raven driven by the storm.
(Lamartine) IS Laugh on one side, like the
masks of the ancients. (Dumas)
Lasting
Lasting, as the lilac crocus of Laughed as incessantly as a
autumn. — (Tupper) bird sings.— (Guy de Maupassant)

Late Laugh liks a swarm of flies.

Comes too late; 'tis like a

pardon after execution. (Shake- He laughed like the screech
speare) M of a rusty hinge, (James Whit-
Laugh comb Riley)
Her laugh is like rare wine.
(Robert Bridges) Laugh, like parrots, at a bag-
piper.— (Shakespeare)
Her laugh is like a singin'
brook that bubbles as it passes. Laughed, like a happy foun-
(Sara Walter Foss) * tain in a cave brightening the
lMf gloomy rocks. (Alexander
Gave a short laugh like the Smith)
closing of a padlock. (0. Henry)
Laughs like beech-leavea
Whose laugh moves like a ringing in the light. (Trumbull

(
bat through silent haunted woods.
) ««
Stickuey)
Laugbter

( A laugh of jovial significance. Laughter rich as woodland

thunder.— (Emerson)
 )

Laughter ( 252 ) Law

Lavish as the moon. — (Nora
Laughter and tears are meant Hopper)
to turn the same machinery of Lavish, as all the dew were
sensibility; one is wind-power, and turnd to gem^ (Gerald massey)

— (0. W. Holmes)

ifiig
— —
the other water-power that is all.

Laughter like a chime of bells

Laws are like cobwebs, the
small flies arc caught, the great
break through. ( Anacharsis)

-(Charles Reade) h
Soft laughter as of light that So he that goes to law, as the
stirs the sea with darkling sense proverb is, holds a wolf by the ears,
of dawn ere dawn may be. or, as a sheep in a storm runs for
(Swinburne) shelter to a briar, if he prosecute

Laughter soft as tears. — ( his cause he is consumed, if he sur-

For as the crackling of thorns
under a pot, so is the laughter of
the fool.— (Old Testment)
Sweet laughter in mirthful ness
artlessly flowing like zephyrs at
play through a fairy flute blowing.
R. D. Williams)
And laughter oft is
art to drown the outcry
heart.— (Hartley Coleridge)
There is nothing more un-
becoming a man of quality than
to laugh.— (Oongreve) ^
Nothing is more foolish than
fooliah laughter.— (Catullus)
And the loud laugh that spoke
the vacant mind. (Goldsmith)
Laugh not too much: the witty
aughs least.— (Herbert)
cease his suit he loseth all; what
difference?— (Robert Burton)
I m
Law is a bottomless pit. — (J.
Arbuthnot)
Laws are generally found ta
be nets of such a texture, as the
little creep through, the great
but an break through, and the middle-
of the sized alone are entangled in.
(Bacon)
S W
What is a law if those who
make it become the forwardest to
break it?- (J. Beattie)
People crushed by law have
no hopes but from power. If laws
are their enemies they will be
enemies to laws; and those who
have much to hope and nothing
to lose will always be dangerous
%

liavish
i

1
it- ^
more or less.— (Burke)

'
 (

Law ( 253 ) Law

s never die. (Coke)

Laws like houses, lean on
the another. — (Burke) Law should be clear, precise,
l consistent. To interpret it is to
There are two, and only two, corrupt it. — (Napoleon)
equity and
foundations of law
utility. — Burke)
^
That which is a law to-day
none to-raorrow. (Burton)
is
Law being a tyrant over men,
compels many things to be done
contrary to nature. (Plato)

Where law ends, tyranny We must not make a scare-

— (Lord
begins.

Extreme law
justice— (Cicerq)
Chatham)

is extreme in-
gp^
crow
fear the
speare)
of

Mercy
birds of

loosens
^
the law setting it up to
prey.

the
(Shake-

law.—
ft

What natural reason has (Publilius Syrus)

established among all men we In the most <v)rrupc state
call the law of nations, (Galus) there are the most laws.—
yt a (Tacitus)

Good laws are produced by The law is good, if a man use

had customs. — (Macro bius) it lawfullly. — (I Timothy)

The atrocity of laws prevents Lawsuits consume time and

their execution. (Montesquieu) money and rest and friends.
Prov.)
There is no worse tyranny The knowledge
of the law is
than that which is exercised under like deep well, out of which
a
cover of the law. — each man draweth according to
I the strength of his understanding.
But iu every matter the con- (Coke)
sensus of opinion among all
notions is
laws of nature.
to be regarded as the
— (Cicero) •
Law and
in eternal enmity. — (
arbitrary power are

Law is king of all. —

Laws are so framed that they
shall spaak in all matters always
with one and the same
(Cicero)
voice.
.
tyrranny.
Bad laws
— (are the worst sort of

Laws and institutions are con*

The laws sleep sometimes, but stantly tending to gravitate like
Law ( 254 ) Lay

to true time. — ( ^
clocks, they must be occasionally
cleansed, and wound up, and set
ed
A lawsuit
dispute,
Lawsuit
is like an ill-manag-
in which the first
object is soon out of sight, and
the parties end upon a mattej:
Solon used to say that speech wholly foreign to that on which
was the image of actions; ...that they began. (Edmund Burke)
laws were like cobwebs, for that
if any trifling or powerless thing
fell into them, they held it fast; Iiawyers
while if it were something weigh- A lawyer
is a gentleman who

tier, it broke through them and rescues your state from your

…^ )
was off. (Diogenes Laertius) enemies and keeps it to himself.—
(Lord Breugham)

,
Law is like a sieve, it is very
easy to see through it, but a man
If there were no bad people,
there would be no good lawyjrs.
(Dickens)

must be considerably reduced Lawyers ars always more

before he can get through it.—
(S. G. Morton) ^ ready to get a man into troubles
than out of them. (goldsmith)

Laws are not made like lime-

twigs or nets, to catch everything The first thing we do, let's
that toucheth them but rather like kill all the lawyers (Shake-
sea-marks, to avoid the shipwreck speare)
of ignorant passengers.— (Sir Philip
Sidney) Fools and obstinate men make
rich lawyers. (Spanish prov. )

Fools and perverse fill the

The law is like the axle of a lawyer's purse. —
(Prov.) SKffii

carriage you can turn it wherever

you please. (Russian Prov.) Lay
Lay like a bank of stage snow.
-(0. Henry) S
Lawless as a town bull.
< Lay, like a smile upon the lip.s

Lawless as the sea or wind. of sleep.- (Ruskin) g

{Waller)
Lawless, like the stormy wind. Lay, like winds that die in
-(William Wilkie) water.- (Shelley)
 S )

lap ( 255 ) Lean

In silver slumber lay, like Bides in the whirlwind and

the evening starre adorn'd with directs the storm. (Addition)
dewy ray.— (Spenser)
Great men are the guide-posts
But he lay warrior
like a and landmarks in the state.
taking bis rest, with his martial (Burke)
cloak around hi in. (Charles An two men ride of a horse,
Wolfe) one must ride behind. (Shake-
speare)
Iiaziness Ten good soldiers, wisely led,
Laziness is a good deal like will beat a hundred without a
money the more a man has of head.— (0. W. Thompson)
it, the more he seems to want.
(Josh Billing)
An army
of stags led by a
Lazy lion would be more formidable

of a well. (
Lazy as a toad at the bottom
—
than an army of lions led by a
stag. — (Latin pro v.)

Lazy as Ludham's dog that m

leaned his head against the wall
to
(
bark.— (Thomas Fuller)
)
Leaks like a
Iieak
sieve. — (
Lazy as a ship in the dold- Laeking like a lobster- pot.
rums. (William D. O'Connor) (Kipling)
One leak will sink a ship; and
»
Lead (
ojie sin will destroy a sinner.

Leads the passions like the orb

that guides, from pole to pole, the
palpitating tides. 0. W. Holmes)
j

i
Lean as a
Lean
dog in Lent. (
Leene was bis hors as is a
Leads them like a tbyig made rake.— (Chaucer)
by some other deity than nature. Lean as a lantern. — (Lang,
-(Shakespeare) © land)
Lean like bull-beet (Richard
Lead thee,as a staff directs
the blind.- (Swift)

Led lovingly like hound in

huntsman's leash or child by
finger.- (Swinburne) !
Mather)

Shad well) ^
Lean as a skeleton. (Thomas

Leaner than fleshless misery.

-(Shelley)

« As lean as a lizard. — (James

Leadership Smith)
 )

tean ( 256 ) Learning

Lean as death. (Tennyson) He leaped like a man shot. —

« (Robert Louis Stevenson) '

They leaned towards each

other like young saplings weak- Leap, like moody madness to
ened at the root.-— (Grace Mac- the changing moon. —
(John Stru-
Gowan Cooke) thers)
Leaps clear as a flame from
Leap the pyres of the dead. — (Swin-
berry.-
Leap
( like a cock at a black-

Leaps, like happy hearts by

burne)
Leaps up as red
ling in a royal cup. —
wine mant-

holiday made light. (Bernard —

Barton) Leaps up as the foe's heart
Leaped like a shot rabbit. leaps.
(R. D. Blackmore)
Leaps like a young horse who Leap, like the noise of a flame
bites against the new
in his bit of fire thatdevoureth the stubble,
teeth, and tugs and struggles as a strong people set in battle
array. - (Old Testament)

^
against the new-tried rein. (E. B.
Browning)
Leapt like a passing thought.
Leap such leap as lands the -(Tennyson)
feet in henven. (Robert Brown- Leapt as lightly as weanling
ing) fawns that leap around the doe.

that
Leapt like a tongue of
cleaves the smoke. ( fire -(Theocritus)

Leap like a caressing angel.—

Leaps like a bared sword. (N. P. Willis)
(Lilpiug) Learning

( Leap
m
like
n
Leaped as if stung by
trout in May.

an
j

j
Learnihg is like a lark, that
can mount, and sing, and please
herself, and nothing else; but may
electric shock.— (George B. Mc know that she holdeth as well as
Cutcheon) the hawk that can soar aloft,
Leapt like a leaping sword.— and can also descend and strike
(Joaquin Miller) upn the prey. —
(Bacon) $I5J
-

Leap away lyke froges.

(John Skelton)
Leaped Jike a roebuck from
4
? ^» S f*

the plain. (H. and J. Smith) All men naturally desire to

know. — (Aristotle)
Leaping like wac^on kids in
pleasant spring.— (Spenser) There is no power on earth
B which setteth up a throne or
 ®

Learning ( 257 ) Learn inf

chair of state in the spirits and has learned so much, wisdom is

souls of men, and in their cogita- humble that hie knows no more.
tions, imaginations, opinions, and I
(Cowper)
beliefs, but knowledge and learn-
ing.— (Bacon) i

Learning alone, of all things

in our possesion, is immortal and
divine.— (Plutarch) H
Many
teachers. — (
learn more than their
A little learning is a danger-
ous thing; drink deep, or taste not
The young ox learns to plough the Pierian Spring. There shallow
from the older one. ) draughts intoxicate the brain, and
g drinking largely sobers us again.—
It is always safe to learn, (Pope)
even from our enemies, seldom

our friends. (
safe to venture to instruct, even
— Take from the learned the
pleasure of making their learning
^^ Learning will be cast into the
IIS

heard and their learning will be

worth nothing to them. (Rous-
mire, and trodden down under seau)

(
the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Learning makes most men
more stupid and foolish than they
Man has a natural desire to are by nature. — (Schopenhauer)
know, but th
interest, th'
one half
other
is
show.
for
— (&
mm
No man
^ ?ra

wiser for his learn-

is
Butler) ing. Wit and wisdom are born
with a man.— (Selden)
Learn, but. learn from the
learned. -(Cato)
Learned fools are the greatest
The mind is slow in uulearn- j
fools.— (Prov.)
ing what it has been long in
learning.— (Seneca) Wear your learning like your
SI watch, in a private pocket, and do
Much learning shows how not pull it out and strike it merely
little mortals know. (Young) to show that you have one.
(Chesterfield)
Learning makes the wise
wiser, but the fool more foolish.—
(Prov.)
[

I ' Learning is like mercury, one

Knowledge is proud that he 1
of the most powerful and excellent
Learning ( 258 ) Lenient

things in the world in skillful crane whose neck he craves for his
hands; in unskillful, the most chirurgian.— (Joseph Hall)
mischievous. —
(Pope)

Leers at me with eyes askance

Learning, like money, may be

^
like a seducer. (Nietzsche)
of so base a coin as to be utterly
void of use. —
(Shenstone) 1
Leered at her like a satyr.—
(Thackeray)
Learning, like the lunar
beam, affords light. — (Young) Legends
Fable is the elder sister of his-
Leave tory.- (Voltaire)
Leaves... as silent lightning
leaves the starless nrght.
ley)
(Shel-
£ There are no ancient
except fables. —
histories

Lecherous Legislation
Lecherous as a he-goat. ( Bad laws are worst sort of

As lecherous as a she-ferret.
(Beaumont and Fletcher)
— tyranny.- (Burke)

Poets are the unacknowledged

Lecherous
(Shakespeare)
as a monkey.
legislators of the world.— (Shel-
ley)
No laws, however stringent,
i ^
Lecture can make the idle industrious, the
A new lecture is like any new thriftless provident, or the drun-
tool. We use it with
for a while ken sober.— (S. Smiles) JS
pleasure. Then it our
blisters
hands and we hate to touch it.
By- and- by our hands get callous, Leisure
and then we no longer have any
sensitiveness about it. But if we
give it up the callouses disappear;
( At leisure, as a laird dies.—

At leisure, as flax groweth.—

and if we meddle with it again, (William Camden's "Remains")
we miss the novelty and get the ffi
Leisure is time for doing some-
^^
blisters.- (O. W. Holmes)

^ ^
thing useful,— (Dr. N. Howe)

Leisure without books is

death, burial alive.— (Seneca)

I»eer Lenient
Leers like Aesop's fox upon a Lenient as soft opiates to thi
 J ~

Leprous ( 259 ) Liberty

mind.— (Cowper)
God who gave us life gave ua
Leprous liberty at the same time. (T.
He was leprous as snow.— Jefferson)
(Old Testament)
The liberty of the individual
Letters (Correspondence) must be thus far limited: he must
As keys do open chests, so not make himself a nuisance to
letters open breasts. (J. Howell) other people. —
(J. S. Mill)

*
Level as a pond.—
Level
( ly
None can love freedom hearti-
but good men; the rest love not
Level as a sea. (Lord De freedom, but licence. (Milton)
Tabley)
Level as a plain. — ( ^—
The more the state extends

( The sea is as level as 8 mirrer.

Lewd
itself, the more liberty diminishes.
-(Rousseau) ^
Lewd drunkards that
as fall Liberty, when it begins to take
out.— (Samuel Butler) root, is a ph.nt of rapid growth.
(Geo. Washington)
Iiiar
Liberty and union, now and

^
Liars act like the salt miners,
they undermine the truth, but for ever, one and inseparable.—
leave just so much standing as is (D. Webster)
necessary to support the edifice.
(Richter) Liberty! how many crimes

Libertine
Libertines are hideous spiders,
are committed
(Madame Roland)
in thy name!—
! ,
that often catch pretty butterflies. Liberty has its root3 in the
-(Diderot) hearts of the people, as the tree in
the hearts of the earth; like the
Liberty tree it raises and spreads it»
The love of liberty is the love branches to heaven; like the tree
of others; the love of power is the it is ceaseless in its growth, and it
love of ourselves.-— (Hazlitt) covers generations with its shade.
(Hugo)
I know not whatcourse others a
may take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death! (Philip
Henry) When liberty is gone, life
 )

Liberty ( 260 ) Lie

grows insipid and has lost its re- A library ia but the soul's
lish.- (Addition) burial ground; it is the land of
shadows. —
(H. W. Beecher)
The only liberty I a mean, is
liberty connected with order; that L»ie (Noun)
not only exists along with order A lie is like a vizard, that may
and virtue, but which cannot exist I
cover the face, indeed, but can
at all without them.— (Bnrke) j
never become it — (Robert South)
ft I

A great lie is like a great fish

A day, an hour of virtuous i
on dry land; it may fret and fling,

in bondnge.— (
liberty is worth a whole eternity i

!
and make a frightful bother, but
it cannot hurt you; you have only

to keep still and it will die of

Liberty, too, must be limited
in order to be possessed. ( itself —(George Crabbe)

*
Among a people generally

(
corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
longer
A
-(Luther)
lie is like
it is
a snow- ball; the
rolled, the larger it is.

Liberty will not descend to a

people; a people must raise them- Lie (Verb)
selves to liberty. It is a blessing
that must be earned before it can
be enjoyed.— (C. C. Colton)
plate. (
Lie as fast as dog can lick a

Lies like an auctioneer. —(

There are two kinds of.liberty Lies like a tooth-drawer.— (J^
the liberty of anarchy, which is
death, and the true liberty, which Lie like a political program.
alone is worth a wise man's caring t

— Harold
for, the liberty which is made
©
Lie like a gas meter.

—
possible, by obedience to rational
authority.— (Froude) ^ Brighouse)

kan.
Swere and
- (Chancer)
He lies like a
lye as a woman

hedgehog rolled

it
geon)
If
all
you love liberty don't keep
for yourself.

Library
(C. H. Spur-
^
up the wrong way, tormenting
himself

The
with

roses lie
prickles (Hood)

upon the graea

Life ( 261 ) Life

( ^
like little shreds of crimson silk.--

Lies like a smile of sunshine

Life, as a windmill, grinds the
bread of life.— (Lord De Tably)
&
amoDg
:
& lilies. — (Gerald
Lie like a book of anecdotes.—-
(Hannah More)
Massey)
a train of moods like a
Life is

string of beads, and as we pass

through thSm, they prove to be
many-colored lenses which paint
the world their own hue, and each
Life is like a tale ended ere shows only what lies in its focus.
'tis told.— (T. B. Aldrich) (Emerson)

He most lives who thinks

most, feels the noblest, acts the
^ ^
best.- (P. J. Bailey) Man's unto a win-
life is like
ter's day, some break their fast
and so depart away, others stay
Life is but a day at most dinner then depart full fed; the
sprung from night, in darkness longest age hut sups and goes to
lost.

^
Life
(Burns)

is an incurable disease.
bed. Oh, reader, then behold
and see, as we are now so must
you be.— (Bishop Henshaw)
(Cowley)

is
Youth is a blunder; manhood
a struggle; old age a regret —
!&
(Disraeli)
This life, which seems so fair,
Glory
bought at the cost
is of is like a bubble blown up in the
happiness; pleasure at the cost of air by sportive children's breath.
health; favour at the cost of inde- — (William Drummond)
pendence. < Pierre Gaston)

H Life is like a game of whist. I

the greatest good, and
Life is I don't enjoy the game much; but I
death the worst evil.— (Heine) I
like to play my cards well, and
i
see what will be the end of it.
In life, as in chess, one's own i (George Eliot)
pawns block one's way. A man's I

very wealth, ea9e, leisure, chil-

dren, books which should help
I

Make the most of life you

him to win, more often checkmate may short and wears away,
lifa is
—
I

him. (Charles Buxton) —

^ i (W. Oldys)

Life .s long if you know how

 j
i||i|
j

Life ( 262 ) Life

to use it.— (Seneca) Life is like yon fisher's boat

:t of
Life
value
is

goodness.— (Seneca)
like a tale;
is not its
what makes
length but its
i

gay she quits the friendly shore.

(W. H. Loatham) ^
Life is, after all, like baccarat
1

or billiards. It is no use winning

(
of life.
Slender experience
—
of the facts j
unless there be a gallery to look
on and applaud.— (Ouida)

( A detached segment of life. |

—(
Life flowed in it's accustomed I Like a morning dream, life
stream. becomes more and more bright
A man can have but one life, the longer we live, and the reason

—(
and one death, one heaven, one of everything appears more clear.
hell. (J. P. Richter)

He sacrificed the vulgar prizes >

of life. — Life, like the water of the

Men deal with life as children i

seas, freshens only
upwards. — ( when it ascends

with their play, who first misuse,

then cost their toys away. )

g
:
( After all, life is like soda-
water. Childhood, effervescence
corked down and wired, manhood,

life. — (
He was utterly detached from I

i
some sparkle, more vapidity; old
age, empty bottle, cart it away
—
Her
ambitions.
life
— ( had dwarfed her •
with the rubbish.
son)
(T. W. Robert-

Feverish tide of life. —

^
up in the air.— (
This life is like a bubble blown |

colored
Life,

radiance
like
glass,
of
a dome of many-
stains the white
eternity.— (Shelley)
To drag life on, which like a El ft
heavy cbain lengthens behind
with many a link of pain. — Life is like a beautiful and
winding lane, on either side bright
flowers, and beautiful butterflies,

& —(
auisite
He braced himself to the ez-
burden of life. — l ) and tempting fruits, which we
scarcely pause to admire and to
taste, so eager are we to hasten to
Perpetual gloom and seclusion |
an opening which we imagine will
oUife. be more beautiful still. By degrees
 —

Life ( 263 ) Life

as we advance, the trees grow things are yours. — (Lord Fisher)

bleak; the flowers and butterflies
fail, the fruits disappear, and we
find we have arrived to reach a
desert waste. —
(G. A. Sala) This world's a city with many
a crooked street, and death the
market place where all men meet,
iflife were merchandise that men

§ - could buy, the rich would live

and none but poor would die.
(Henrv Devall's Epitaph)
fe
Our life is like a jourt ey on
which, as we advance, the land-
scape takes a different view from
that which it presented at first, and cup is nectar at tihe
Life's
changes again, as we come nearer. brink,midway a palatable drink,
— (Schopenhauer) and wormwood at the bottom.—
(Jas Smith)

Life is wine; who would drink

it pure, must not draw it to the Life is but a day. What does it
dregs. —
(Sir William Stemple) matter whether it finishes towards
evening or towards the morning?
To live is to do battle. (Voltaire)
(Seneca)
Desire not to live long, but to
It matters not how long you how long we
live well; live not
have lived but how well.— (Sene- but
years, actions, tell.— (R.
ca)
Watkyns)
The web of our life is of a
mingled yarn, good and ill toge-
Round and round the unseen
ther. ( Shakespeare) hand turns the fate o mortal
man; a screech at birth, a grane
The vanity of human life is (groan) at even, the flesh to earth,
like a constantly passing
river, the soul to heaven. (Scottish
away, and yet constantly coming rhyme)
on.- (Swift) $1

Fear less, hope more; eat less,

chew more; whine less, breathe We ecream when we are born,
more; talk less, say more; hate we groan when we are dying; and
less, love more; and all good all that is between is laughter and
 ) )

life ( 264 ) Light

crying. (Old Rhyme)

Lifting my heart to her, as the
My life is like a stroll upon spring wind lifts the clouds.— (R.
*he beach, as near the ocean's D. Blackmore)
^dge as I can go. (Henry D.
Thoreau) Lifting his feet like a knife
grinder. —
(Da udet)
My life like the summer
is
rose that opens in the morning Her favour lif« him up, as the
8ky, but, ere the shades of evening sun moisture. — (Sir Thomas Over-
close, is scattered on the ground bury)
—
:
to die. (R. H. Wilde)
Light (Adjective)
Light as the leaf that sum-
Man's life is like unto a sum- mer's breeze has wafted o'er the
mer's day: some break their fast
and go away; other stay dinner
and depart full fed; the longest
age but sups and goes to bed.
^
glassy seas.— (Anacreon)

Light as flake of foam. (Hans

Christian Andersen)
(Old Epitaph) 5 Light and clean as the foam-
ing surf that the wind severs from
the broken wave.—
E
(
The life of love is better than Light and speedy as a steam-
the love of liie.— (Prov.) roller. —(
Lifeless
Lifeless as the grave. ( (
Light as a sack

Passed as light as October

. of featherd.

Lifeless as a string of dead

fish.— (G. K, Chesterton)
( leaves blown over the forest floor.

Light as the leaf of the aspeu.

Lifeless as lumpish as the
bagpipe's drowsy drone.
^loyd)
mouse
(Robert
(
(^
lair.
Light as the
—
spider's
$61
silken

^
Lifeless as a in an
exhausted receiver. (William Light as thistledown. —
Mathews)
Light as vain praise. — ()
Lifeless as the icy moon.—
(Lewis Morns)

Lifts
innccence.- (
Lift
the head like conscious
^
Light as whipped cream. — (M

Oaths as light
& as wind. ( t)
Light ( 265 ) Light

Light enough to float

sweat of an ice pitcher.— ( in
)
the Light as an empty dream at
break of day. — (Dryden)

—(
Light-hearted aa a robin.

As light aa leafe on tree.

Light
morning dream. —
as the
( vapours of &

(Old English Ballad) Light as the light. (Farqu- —

har) B
Light as hope. -- (Bandelaire)

Light aa a wind-blown leaf.

Light as the feather on the
head of beaux. (John Gay) '
(Charlotte Becker) R Light like a sunbeam shatter-
m ed into mist.— (Richard Hovey)
Light as cobwebs. (R. D.
Blackmore)
Light-footed as a hare. (H.
Light-hearted as a boy. — (
H. Boyesen) Light as a rustling foot on last
Light as the fabric which year's leaves. —
(Jean Ingelow) .
smells in the ambient air.
(Samuel Boyse)

Light as feather whisk.

Landon) ;
Light as love's angel. (Miss
U
(Robert Browning) Light as fairy footsteps. —
Light as the whispers of a (Evan MacColl)
dream. (William Callen Bryant) As light as a leaf unbound
from the grasp of its parent tree.
Light as a faint wreath of (Ernest McGaffey)
snow that trem blest to fall in the
wind. (Robert Buchanan) Light as the flying seed-ball.
(George Meredith) tf»
Light as day. — (Bunyan)
Light as a bubble that flies
Light as winds that stir the from the tub, whisked by the
willow.— (Alice Oary)

Light as leaf on lynde.—

(
laundry-wife out of her suds.
W
(Chaucer) Steps. ..light as though a wing-
Light as the busy clouds. ed angel trod, over earth's flowers^
(Coleridge) and feared to brush away, their
Light as the sea-fowl rocking delicate hues. (H. H. Milinan)
in the storm. (J. Fenimore Coop-
er)
Light as a snowflake (Aus- Light as the angel shapes thai
tin Dobson) bless an infant's dream. (Thomas
 •

light ( 266 ) Light

Moore) perses.- (
Ligh t as floating lea! of or-
Light as the bridegrooms chard snow, loosed by fhe pulse of
bound to their young loves. —( spring. —
(Bavard Taylor)
JL) ^
Light and feathery as squirrel- Gallop... light as any antelope
tails. -(John Mair)

Light as the breeze that brush-

(
upon the hills of
(
the Gavilon.

ed the orient dew. —

(Samuel Ro- Light as the singing bird that
gers) E wings the air. (Tennyson)
Light as a happy wave.
(Schiller)
Light as a dry leaf in the
—
Light as the dancing
borne on the silvery tide.— ( skiff winter

A
woods. (Celia Thaxter)

step as light as the summer

— (Whittier) E
into space« (
Light as the rainbow's leap
—
air.

wave
Light as a buoyant bark from
to wave. (Wordsworth)
Trifles light as air.— (Shakes-
peare)
Light as a sunbeam along the
Light as the mote that danceth
—
(H and J. Smith)
hills. —(
in the beam.

Light as a lady's plumes.

Light
purses.— (
Light (Noun)
gains make heavy

(Southey) Tender light, like the first

garb in peace.—
5
(
Light as a warrior's summer- moonrise of midnight. (Byron)

Light as a laugh
(Swinburne)
of glee. — Light as of dawn beyond the
tomb. (Hugo)— ^
Heart is as light as a leaf on a Happy light, like those
tree. — dream-smile. which are the speech
Light as a spring soutb-wiud. of sleep. —
(Gerald Massey)
(

(
^
Light as laugh of flame.
the
A
redder light shone through
as if the very gates of
dell,

( Light as riotous insolence.

A hand at the door taps light

I
hell swung suddenly ajar.— (Whit-
tier)
: s
^ (
the hand of my heart's delight.

Light as the spray that dis-

I down
A blazing blue sky
torrents of light.—
Q g
(poured
 •
light ( 267 ) Likely

i g ht»—
m
(
His conscience
;
leapt to the

an apple,— (
As like as the two halves of

. All the world was flooded with

a soft golden light. — ( As like each other as a sword
—
All the lesser
into insignificance.

I>
?
—
ghtei'
lights
—
paled
and scythe. (P. J. Bailey)

As lyke as one
another.-(Lyly)
jft

pease is to

Lighter than vanity. (Ban- — As like him as eagle to an

yan) eagle. (Ouida) f
Lighter than any linnet's ^
feather.- (Richard Realf)
)
Lighter than dandilion down.
Like a leaf on a withering
limb, the fluttering life still clung
to him. — (T. Buchanan Read)
— (Philip H. Savage) fit $
No more like than chalk and
Lightly cheese. (Samuel Rowland)

swallows.— (
Lightly as the

Lightly and softly, as a queen's

skimming of
Alike as my fingers
fingers. (Shakespeare)
is to my
lit

languid and imperial arm which

crowns among her lovers. As like him as flakes
scatters
(Robert Browning) -(Josh
As
Billings)
like as hand to
of snow.

another
^
Set as lightly as a mouse- hand.— (Robert Browning)
; rap.— (Maurice Hewlett)
Like as chalk and coles.—
Lightly as swimming shadows (James Hurdis)
•dusk the lake. (Gerald Massey)— As like, as rain to water, or
devil to his dam. — (
Lightly

(Ouida)
as

@
a kite rushes
through the gloom of the dawn.

Lightly as bird on wing.

-(Samuel Ward)
^ As like
an apple. —

As like
(this as a crab

you, as cherry
is like

is
j
"
to
Lighting
The spaar-tongued lightning
cherry. —(
slipped like a snake. — ) Day like to day, face like to
A face, waves in some calm
as sea.
Like — (William Wats.m)

An
About
oyster. — (
as like as an apple to
Likely
 .

Likely ( 268 ) Linfer

( ^
Likely as to see a pig fly.—

As lykely to obtain thy wish,

taloupe. -(O. Henry)

Linger
as the wolf is to catch [eat] the
moone. (Lyly) ( Lingers
)
likean old faith.—

Lingered... like innocent birds

Limb loath to be gone from the spot

fali of shoulders,— (
Graceful length of limbs and where their nest has been. (J.
M. Barrie)

Iiimber The soft memory of her virtues

( Limber

Limber
as

as
a watch chain.

a lover. — (Josh
...lingers like
(William Cullen Bryant^
twilight hues.—

Billings) Linger there, like hopeless

His back as limber as a canker love without despair. (Rufus
worm's.— (0. W. Holmes) Dawes)

Limber as a frog. — (Kilping) •

Lingering about like a bailiff.
-(Dickens)
Limber aa eelskins. -- (Middle- I
Steals lingering like a river
smooth. —
^
ton)
Limber as a washed paper I am lingering yet, as some-
collar. — (Stephen Smith) times in the blaze of day a milk-'
and-watery moon stains with its
Limitations dim and fading ray the lustrous
Whether you fill it from the blue of noori: (0. W. Holmes)
sea or from a tiny stream, the
vessel will not contain a single
drop more.— (E. Augier) ^ of
Ling'ring now, like the last
the leaves left on autumn's
sere and faded bough. (Thomas

Limp
Limp
as a rag.— ( Moore)
v
Lingered in the air like dying
Limp as a glove. — rolls of abrupt thunder.— (Sainte-
Beuve)
Limp like cut vine-twig.
(Robert Browning) Lingering like an unloved
guest. — (Shelley)
limp as a chewed rag,
(Kipling) Lingering a minute, like
Lined outcast spirits, who
wait, and see,
Lined like the rind of a can- through the heaven's gate, angels
 ))

Linger ( 269 ) Lip

within it. — (Thackeray) His ip3 seemed to be parted

in a good-humored smile.

Linked,
wreath. — ( like
Link
ro3e-budg in a ( She had lips,

Lips, as smooth and tender..,

like pinlw.—

Linked like a river by ripples

as rose-leaves in a coppice wild.
(Thomes Ashe) ^
old) ^
following

His vulture
ripples.

nature
(Edwin Arn-

had
Curving lips like wave half-
furled.— (Alfred Austin)
already linked itself to this pcor
little soul as a spider binds a
fluttering insect in its web, which
the little thing tries vainly to
of
Lips like rosebuds peeping out
snow. —
(P. J. Bailey) #
break.— (Paul Bourget) Music lives
like a nightingale in roses.
within thy
(
lips

Her lippes were like pome-

Linked each to each by labor, granate blossoms. (Arlo Bates)
like a bee.- (Hood) > A lip like ripest cherries.
Link in sympathy like the (Beaumont and Fletcher)
keys of an organ.— (Whittier)
Lips curved like an archer'a
Lionized bow to send the bitter arrows out.

( Lionized bv fashionable society.

Lip
E. B. Browning)
S§
Lips shook like a rose leaning
A lip like persuasion's calling o'er a brook, which vibrates
on us to kiss it. — (Anacreon) though it is not struck. —

shells.
Lips
—(
just tinted
^like pinK
Lips with such sweetness as

(
wine.
Lips that flamed
—
like scarlet fills the rose in which a fairy
sleeps. —
( Bui wer-Ly tton )

—(
Dainty lips like double carne-

^
lian. Lips like the red of Christmas
mm (Frances Hodgson

exultant smile. — (
His lips loosened in a furtivoly
^ holly.
nett)
Her
Bur-

lips are like the cherries

ripe that sunny walls from Boreas

( She curled her fastidious lip. screen. They tempt the taste and
charm the sight,— (Burns)
 S

( 270 ) Listen

that of a gourd.— (°Vikram and

the Vampire") fll

Her lips are like two badded Through the open lips shone
roses.— (H. Constable) I
visibly a delicate line of pearl, like
a white vein within a rosy shell.
J

Like rubies are created their ~(N. P. Willis)

two lips. -(Fazil.Bey)

(
I

Lipp'd like a lily, and as

Lips as rounded as a cherry.
-(Edmund Gosse)
*l
^ white as it.

Like sunset were her lips.—

( ?& JLips

Her
like warm carnations.

lips are roses over- washed

(W.

ing
B. Yeats)
Her lips lyke cherries charm-
men to lyte. (Spenser)
with dew, or like the purple of
Lip3 like rose-petals blown
—
Narciss flower. (Robert Greene)
apait. — F. L. Stanton)
I

With lips, like hanging fruit, Lips like blood spilt on it.
whose hue is ruby 'neath a bloom (John M, Synge)
of blue.— (T. Gordon Hake)
Lips, parting like a loose bow,

^
+.hat just haa 1 vunched its arrow.
Lips that spoil the ruby's -.Bayard Taylor)
praise. — (John Harrington) I

My lips are like a thread of

Reti lips like a living, laugh- I
scarlet — (Old Testament)
ing rose. —(Laurence Hope) |E

^ (
i

Hi3 iips like lilies, dropping

A quiet smile played around
his lips, as the eddies and dimples
of the tide play round the bows
I ?
sweet-smelling myrrh.

Lips like the carmine's ruddy

—

of ships.— (Longfellow)
' alow. —
(Francis S. Saltus.)
SI
«
g Lips, like
— (George
roses droppinqr

Lips, thi t open like the morn

breathing pjrfuines, on such as
j
^
myrrh. Sandys)

^ Lips.. .like roses ere they blow,

dare approach them. (Philip -(John G. Saxe)
j

Massinger) Ruby lips. ..like rosebuds in

I spring.— (Stephen Smith)
Lips. ..like a ripe raspberry. I # 3 IS
(Catulle Mendes) Listen
Listen...! ike a stag who:e my-
The red colour of her lips like sterious faculties had detected th«
Listen ( 271 ) Lhre

footsteps of the distant hounds Better a little loss than a long

in the gale.— (J. Fenimore Cooper) sorrow.— (Langland)

Lost
Listened like one in whom a I would ratner have lost
train of novel idea had been I honourably than gained basely.—
excited by the reasoning of the I (Publibius Syrus)
other. —
Lithe
It is like eating vanilla cream Lithe as a panther. — (T, B.
in Paradise listening to beautiful Aldrich)

«
—
music (Camille Lemonnier)

Holding his breath and listen-

Lithe as a snake.

Lithe as a tiger. —
—
[
ing. ..like a burglar who is going •Lithe as a feather duster.
to break into a house.— (Guy de (Gelett Bargess)
Maupassant) Lithe as a rat. (Frank
Danly)
Listened like a cushat dove Lithe as willow. (Richard
that listens to its mate alone.— Hovey)
(a G. Rossetti) Lithe as lips that cnrl in
touching you.— (Swinburne)

intent
He
(
listened greedily and gazed
I»ive
Listeners
It takes two to speak the
Live like a king.-
Live like a lord. — (
truth one to speak, and another
t6 hear.-(H. D. Thoreau)
——— — Live like a prince. — )

—
Listenless
( ; Live like fisrhting cocks.

» Listenless
stricken air.

The pen
—
as the summer-
—
(Swinburne)

Iiiteratare
is mightier than the
I

I
Will
wanton
Fletcher)
live
vines.
together
(Beaumont
like two
and

B word. (Lord Lytton) J8g«

J

He would live like alamp,

7J to the last wink, and crawl upon
I

Literature and fiction are two the utmost verge of life. (Bry-
entirely different things. Liter-
ature is a luxury, fiction is a
I
den)
@
necessity.

3R
—
(G. K. Chesterton

i
Houses are
and not to look on.
built,

( to live
)
in,

Loss I live in the town like a lion

 )

Live ( 272 ) Lonely

in his desert, or an eagle in his (Shakespeare) ig

rock, too great for friendship or
Society, and condernend to solitude
by unkappy elevation and dread-
( He made a loathsome object-

Lock
ed ascendency. (Dr Johnson)
—(
Locked

Locke'd up
^
in, like a fly in

like
amber*

veins o!
metal.- (Keats)
Iiively Locked as in a wrestle to-
Lively and changeable, like
a flame in the wind.
85
) ( gether— (Swinburne)

IiOll
"5

Lively as a cricket. Lolling, like one indifferent,

.
fabricates a heaven of gold.
As lively as tints of young (Charles Lamb)
Iris bow.— (J. G. Cooper)
Iione
Lively as a chaffinch. As lone as a churchyard.—
(Dumas) (Bulwer-Lytton)
Lively as the smiling day. Lone as the corse within its
(Aaron Hill) shroud, lone as a solitary cloud,
single cloud on a sunny day, while
Holmes)
Lively as a squirrel.

Lively
(Lover)
Livid
as grasshoppers.
(0. W.
all the rest of heaven is clear.
(Byron)
B
^
As pale and livid as any skull Lone like an eagle's nest.—
unearthed from a graveyard. (Miss Landon)
(Baizac) Lone as incarnate death.—
m (Shelley)
Lonely
Lip9 a& livid as the opening
lilac-leaves— (0. W. Holmes)

Iioathe
( Lonely as a deserted ship.—

Lonely as a ghost*— (
Loathe worwe than a leper's
mouth.— (Swinburne) Lonely as a crow in a strange
country.— (Joes ph Conrad) ffl

Loathsome
Loathesome as to bring sea to There is nothing so lonely in
him who languishes with thirst. the world as the girl who hag
-(Akenside) got to look after herself. —
Loathesome as a toad.— As lonely as the sun. (8ir
 — *

lonely 27^ ) Look

Francis H. Doyle) Long and slender, like a cat's

Lonely in her gloom as a pale elbow. (Thomas Fuller)
Angel of the gro^e. (Thomas

§
Moore) Her sorrow as long as the

^
passage of numberless ages in
Lonely as the home of king slumberless song. (Swinburne) —
when the slow hours on leaden
wings oppress the friendless great.
— Cewis
<
morris)
( Long as a Devonshire Lane.
Devonshiae

Lonely, as sovereigns are. Long as a Thanksgiving

(Ouida) sermon. (J. R. Bartlett's "Dic-
LoneW as a catamount. (Sam tionary of Americanisms")
Slick)
Lonely as in a garden-close Long as the spear of Aaron.
fllumbers the solitary rose. (Charles B. Loomis)
(Arthur Symons) Aarom
Look
Lonely. ..as
crow a on the His look was like a sad
sands.— (Word Sworth) embrace. (Matthew Arnold) .
that
hills.—
I wandered lonely as a cloud

(
floats on high o'er vales and
Looked as
down your throat'
if

— (
he would jump
^
IS
Iionesome
Looked as
bedstraw.— ( if he had eaten his

sea. (
Lonesome as a bell-buoy at
—
Lonesome as a walnut railing
He looked like a composite
picture of five thousand orphans
in a barrel — (Edna Ferber) too late to catch a picnic steam-
boot.— (O. Henry)

(Long

Long
as a
B
as
Long
day without bread.
S
the moral law. .
To look
already.-

She look
(Sir
as
John)

like an old coach

^
he were hanged
if
.

^3
<

Long as an epic. (Bulwer- new painted, affecting an unseemly

Lytton) M smugness, whilst she is ready- .to
Face as long as an under- drop to pieces. (Vanbrugh)
lakers. —
Longer ^han a lawsuit, -- Shakeapeare says,' we sat re
^Thomas Dekker) creatures that look before and
 Ii
i a B n

Look ( 274 ) Lost

— (James
after, themore surprigtng that
we do not look round a little and
i

j
along the downs.
son) ? I: ) Thom-
see what is passing under our
very eyes. — ^^ P
J
The reins
ribbons.— (Lewis Wallace)
loose as flying
18

I/)ose
the sky.— (
as a cloud-wreath on

candle. (
She looked like a tall golden

She looked like the picture

Loosely like
Loosely
embroidered
robes thrown o'er some funeral
of ayoung rapt saint, lost in
heavenly musing.— ( bier. —(John Brent)

Loquacity
SI

Loom Whose loquacity, likean over-

Loom in the distant landscape full bottle, could never pour forth
of the past, like a burnt tower a small dose. — (Charles Eliot)
upon a blackened heath. (Long- eft

fellow) a
Lorn
Loose Lorn as the hung-up lute,
Loose as the stubble in the that ne'er hath spoken since the
field.- (George Croly) sad day its master-cord was
broken! (Thomas Moore)
Loose as a vine- branch blow- j
;
ng in the uioru.—( Austin i Lost
Dobson)

Loose as eggs in a nest.

Lost, like a river
an unknown sea. ( running into
)

(W. S. Landor) n Lost like a predestined soul.

Hang loose about him, like
a giant's robe upon a dwarfish Lost, like autumnal leaves,
thief.- (Shakefpare)

Loo.se, as the
f
flame that i
when north winds
greve)
Lost
;
himself in
rage.
g
Con-

thought as
flutters on the grate. — (Alexander though he had fallen out of the
Smith) world.— (Joseph Conrad) ftt
j

Loose, like a cornet's refluent

tresses, hung her heavenly hair I
Lost, like a star in day
dispersed. —
(Southey) (Henry Ellison)

Loose as the petals of roses As lost, as any needle in a

discrowned. (Swinburne) stack of hay.— (Hood) S
Loose as the breeze that plays Lost like the lightning in the
 ag f

Lost ( 275 ) Load

sullen cloud.— (0. W. Holmes) I

boreas issues forth, to bring the
€ sweeping whirlwind from the
—
)
J

Lost like stars beyond dark north. (Walter Harte)

trees.— (D. G. Rossetti)
I

Loud as the storm- wind thnt

Lost like the light flickering tumbles the main. (0. W.
or a cottage's fire— (Sir Walter Holmes)
Loud, as the shout encount*
I

Scott)
Lost as in a trance.
Tegner)
(Esaias ring:
'
armies yield. — (Pope)

Loud
mer.— (
Loud
as the blows of a ham- tempest
Loud as the surges
blows« — ( when the

Loud as the voice of an auc- Loud as cavalry to the charge,

tioneer. — i
George Meredith)
mm
Crying your name as loud and
I

Loud as the clank of an

hastily as men i th' streets do ironmonger. — (Shelley)
fire.— (Beaumont and
^
Fletcher) I

I
that
Dreadful sounds, loud as tides
burst their bounds. (John
Louder than harvest thunder- j
Scott)
storm.— (R. D. Blackmore) Loud as the voice of nature.—
(Shelley)
j

Helpless, naked, piping loud, Loud as the summer forest in

like a fiend hid in a cloud. the storm, as the river that roars
—
I

(William Blake) ® j
among rocks. (Southey)
i

As lowde as bloweth wynde

belle.— (Chaucer) Loud, as when the tern pest-

Loud as a
(Coleridge)
king's defiance, (
tossed forest roars to the roaring;
wind.—

Tumultuous and very loud...

an immense and
like the roll of
remote drum beating the charge
I
Loud
whirlwinds blow.—
as when
( the wintry

oi the gaJe. (Joseph Conrad)

Loud as Jupiter's thunder.

(PierceEgan)
g
j

(Spenser)

stormy
Loud

Loud
as

as
spring makes all
larke

the
the
in

winds
^ayre

when
—

Loud as the trumpet rolls its woodland rage and ring. (Swiiw
sound. (William Hamiltoc) burne) ^
!M Loud
as when bJust'ring ' Loud as when the storm at
 )

Loud ( 276 ) Love

ebb-tide rends the beach.

Sf
— ( notes of a solvent debtor,
interest.— (Balzac)
bear

Loud as the trumpet of surviv-

ing Fame— (Walter) But to see her was to love.—
-,

Loud as the ocean when a Love but her and love for
tempest blows.— (Willian AVilkie) ever. —( II
Earth shakes beneath them,
Loud as the silver trumpet's heaven roars above, but nothing
—
martial

Loud
noise.

as any mill. — (Words-

love. — (
scares them, from the course they

worth)
Lounge
Lounged like a boy of South.
( A luicewarin and selfish love.

Love is not to be reasoned

(Bobert Browning) * down, or lost in high ambition
and a thirst of greatness; 'tis
IiOve (No nu) second life, it grows into the soul.
J,like the rose: so sweet,
ove is —(
that one always tries to gather
it in spite of the thorns.
Youth
Pleasure calls for love.—
calls for
(Pleasure,

Chance cannot change

ove, nor time impair. -—. ) ( my

cure.
Bat
— (love's a malady without

Love is like the sunbeam that Like threads of silver seen

gleams through the shower and throngh crystal beads let love
kisses off gently the dews irom
j

through good deeds show.—

the flower; that cheers up the
I

(Edwin Arnold)
blossoms and bids them be gay,
and lends the fragrance that
perfumes the day. — ( I

month
Love is
it
like the
may not
rose,
see,
and a
ere
— (P.
it

withers
Bailey)
where it

^grows.

«
J.

bWden. — (
Love like a cough, can't be

Love, like fire, cannot subsist

In love, a
a lyre thai surrenders its secrets
only to the hand that knows how
woman is like

•wit'howt continual movement; as

- (Balzac)

^
to touch its strings
soon as itceases to hope and fear,
it oeasss to exist. —^ ft

Love is like yourth, be thirst?,

like the he scorns to be his mothor's page;
She wrongs of love,
 ii

Love ( 277 ) Love

but when the proceeding times Love, like death, levels all
assuage the former hoat, he will ranks and lays the shepherd's

hours
mont)

n
^
complain, and wish those pleasant
again.— (Francis Beau-
crook beside the sceptre.
wer-Lytton)

Love's very
At first
(Bul-

much
we go souse to the
like bath-

Lav is like the measles, one bottom, ir we're not drowned, then
kaut alwus tell when one ketched we gather pluck, grow calm
it and ain't ap tew hav it severe strike out gently, and make a deal
but oust, and then it ain't kounted pleasanter thing of it afore we're
much unless it strikes inly (Josh d on e. —
Billings)
ifii

Love and sorrow twins were

^
And love may be expelled by
-
morn.
"born on a shining showery

^
olbor love, as poisons are by
(Dr. T. Blacklock) poisons. —
The moon returns, and the —Love is a fiend, a fire, a
spring, birds warble, trees burst heaven, a where pleasure,
hell,
into leaf, but love once gone for paine, and sad repentance dwell.—
ever and all that endures is the (R Barnfield)
grief.— (Matbilde Blind)
:
$ Love has a thousaDd varied
Love will fmd its way through
paths where wolves won Id fear to
prev.- (Byron)
(
notes to

-
move the human heart.—

Oh, my
luve is like a red, red
rcse that's newly sprung in J ui|e;
A loving heart is the begin- j

ning of all knowledge. — (Cailyle) I oh, luve is like the melodie that's
i
sweetly t>]ay'd in tuue^— 'Bumb)
In hell and earth and seas aiui j
f

heaven above, love conquers all. j

— Love increasad by injuries,

^
is
and we must yield love. i.Dry-
Jen) j
ui* ihe sunbeams are more gracious
after a clo-jd. Robert Burton)
Women's on
love, like lichens i

a reek, Will still grow where 3vsu i

charity can find no soil to nartar ,a L37e is a fire that bnriis and
itelf.— (C. N. Bovee; fe
1 j sparkles m men as naturally as
in cbr i coals Sam uel Butlsr)
(

\ *
 )

Love ( 278 ) Lo?e

Love in extremes can never No, there's nothing half so

long endure.— (Herrick) sweet in life as love's young
—
dream. (Moore)
Truth is for ever truth and love
is love. — (Leigh Hunt) Men have died from time to
time, and worms have eaten them,
Love is like the measles; we but not for love. (Shakespeare)
allhave to go through it. — (J. K.
Jerome)
Love, like the cold bath, is
True love is like the aparition never negative, it seldom leaves
of spirits; everyone speaks of it as where it finds us; if once we
but few have seen it.— (La Roche- plunge into it, it will either heigh-
fouca uld) ten our virtues or inflame our
vices. — C. C. Col ton)
Softened by the solicitude of
untiring and anxious love. — (
Leaping from lambent flame No sooner met, but they look-

(
into eager and passionate fire.

All love at first, like generous

ed; no sooner looked, but they
loved; no sooner loved; but they
sighed; no sooner sighed, but they
wine, ferments and frets, until 'tis asked one another the reason.
fine; but when His settled on the (Shakespea re) S
lye, and from the impurer matter it
free, becomes the richer still, the

the colder. — (
older, »nd proves the pleasanter,

& I
powerful love! that in some
respects makes a beast a man; in
some other, a man a beast.— (
bles,
Love-passions are

something
by which men
else. — (Samuel
like
still
para-
mean
Butler)
did run smooth. — (
The course of true love never

Love
burns as
urns. —
in
tire
•

your heart
in antique
as
Roman
idiy
leveller of
^^
Love, like death, a universal
mankind. (Con^reve)

Love, like a greedy hawk, if

we give f/ay, does over-gorge him-
g

K self with his own prey. (Abraham

In their lirst passions women , Cowley)
love the lover, in others they love
in f
« k Love, like lire, when once
Love ( 279 ) Love

blown into a Look as it is with some true

^
kindled, is soon
flame. — (Fielding) April day, whose various weather
stores the world with flowers; the
Our hours
in absence,
in love
crutches.— (^
havo wings;
)
sun his glorious beams doth fair
display, then rains and shines
again, and straight it lowers, and
Love, like a scene, at distance twenty changes in one hour doth
should appear, but marriage views prove; so, and more changing
a woman's

—
the gross daubed landscape near. is love. (Phineas
-(Dryden) Fletcher)

Love is most like an owl that

cannot fly, though wings he has,
and lurks in every hole. Beware
of him; the villain, old in sin,
shuns the front door, and by the
back comes in. (Folengo)
Love is like a landscape which
doth stand, smooth at a distance,
rough at hand.— (Robert Hegge)
HU

Love, like the opening of

R heaven to the saints, shows for a
Love like a little bird is made, moment, even to the dullest man,
that hops about from bough to
bough: into my bosom it has
strayed and at my heart is pecking
now.-(Goldoni)
the

,
possibilities
race.— (Arthur Helps)
of

Love rushed through him as a

the

IT
human

12 river in flood. (Maurice Hewlett)

Who does not know to love
has but a faithless heart. (Vol- — Love is like a well profound,
taire) from which two souls have right
When one is in love one begins to draw, and in whose waters will
to deceive oneself. And one ends be drowned, the one who takes
by deceiving others. (Oscar the other's law. (J. G. Holland)
Wilde) 12

Love is like a charming rom- Love is like spring: it laughs

ance which is read with avidity, through the cold and the snow;,
and often with such impatience it perfumes tha night and flour-
that many pages are skipped to
reach the denouement sooner.
(Thomas Marechal)

ft S
ishes
Houssaye)

Love
^
under graves.

is
B
(Arsene

like epidemic diseases,

the more one afraid of it, the moret
 m* * —

love ( 280 ) Love

is one exposed to it.

^(
Love's like the measles all
)

L»9ve, like death, makes all

—
the worse when it comes late in
life.

—
(Douglas Jerrold)
distinction void.

Love, like men, dies oftenor

^
(Matthew Prior)

of excess than hunger. (Richter)

Love, like beauty, strong to
lure; love, like joy, makes man
her thrall, strong to please and Love's as cunning a little tiling
conquer all.— (Ernst Lange) as a hummin'-bird upon the
wing. (James Whitcomb Riley)

Tis love, like the sun, that Love is ike a red-currant it

gives light to the year, the sweet-
est of blessings that life can give;
our pleasures it brightens, drives
43orrow away, gives joy to the
night, and enlivens the day.
(Edward Moore)
firsttastes sweet, but afterward
—
shuddery. (T. W. Robertson)
Love, like other little boys,
cries for hearts, as they for toys.
(Earl of Rochester)

' Love, like flowers, endureth

Love, like the creeping vine, but a spring.— (Ron sard)
withers if it has nothing to em-
brace.— (Nisumi)

Love, like the flower that

courts the sun's kind ray, will
flourish only in the smiles of day. it
Love is like a lovely rose the
world's delight.— (C. G. Rossetti)

Love like the moon: when

is
^
does not increase, it decreases.
— (John Langhorne)
^ True love, like the eye, can
bear no flaw. (Lavater)
(Sequr)

for
Love is like a child, that longs
everything that he can come
by.- (Shakespeare)
JS
» g True love is like ghosts, which
e^ery'body talks about and few
Love gotten with witchcraft,
Is as unpleasant as fish taken
with medicines unwholesome' —
(Lyly)
^
have seen.
ill
(Rochefoucauld)
M
Love is like a tune that's
{!
A

Love before marriage is like a played, and life a tale that's told.
too short preface before a book -(W. W. Story)
without end. (J. Petit-Senn)
Love ( 281 ) Love

Love is an April's doubting reward.

day; awhile we see the tempest
lower; anon the radiant heaven Love, like fortune, turns upon,
survey, and quite forget the flit-
ting
stone)
shower. (William Shen-
a heel, and is very much given to
rising and falling. — ( )

Love, like a bird, hath perch'd

upon a spray for thee and me to
True love, like the lightning
that flashes, must kindle from eye
to eye and strike into the heart.
hearken what he
Watson)
sing?.
'
(William

(Franz von Suppe) Love. ..as pure as a nsjel- wor-

k ship, when the just and beautiful
of heaven are bowM in praver!

death.
Love
— (is awful as immortal (Whittier)

Love as strong as that which

Better is a dinner of herbs
where love is, than a stalled ox
and hatred therewith.— (Old Tes-
tament) 'tia
,+
binds the peopled universe. ('

Love, like ambition, dies as

enjoyed. (Thomas Yalden)
—

4: ^
The love of a woman is like a Your love shall fall about me
mushroom, it grows in one night like sweet rain. —
and will serve somewhat pleasant-
ly next morning for breakfast, but Iiove (Verb)
afterwards waxes fulsome and
unwholesome. (Cyril Tourneur) ( Love as a cat loves mustard.—

( Love as a guardian angel.

As reeds and willows love the

Emotional effusions are like
licoriceroot. When you take your
first suck at it, it doesn't seem so
bad, but
in your
it

mouth
leaves a very bad taste
afterward. —
(Tur-
idle
mont)
to
^
water side, so love loves with the
abide. (Francis

Love as the devil ioves holy

Beau-

genev) water.- (Swift) ^

My loved and loves him

spirit
la love as in war, a fortress yet, like some poor girl whose
that parleys is half taken.— heart is set on one whose rank
(Marguerite de Valois) exceeds her own. (Tennyson) -
Loye, like virtue, is its own
 »

love ( 282 )

Love him as Frenchmen love

Napolean.
^ (Swinburne)

LtOTelinoss
Loveliness stays like the light,
St
i

Lovely as the lord

(Ramayana)
Lovely as the smiling infant
spring.— (Sir Walter Scott)
of night.—

after the sun is set. —

(Richard
Shell) Lovely as a budding rose.
Lovely (Southey)
Lovely as the
the wood. — ( first green in
of (
Lovely as the youthful dreams
hope.-
Lovely as an angel's dream. Lovely as a landscape in a
{Emily Bronte) dream. (Tennyson )
Lovely as all excellence.
(William Browne)
Lovely as the violet. (T up-
# per)
Lucid and lovely as the morn-
Lovely as spring's
ing star. —
(Michael Bruce)
(Wordsworth)
first rose.

ft

Lovely as love. (Byron)

Lover
Lovely and piteous, like a Lovers are like walking ghosts,
frosted ilower.-— (Helen G. Cone) they always haunt the spot of
S their misdeeds. (George H.
Lovely as the morning. Boker)
(Barry Cornwall)
Lovely as lilies ungathered. Lovers like sick folks may say
(Harriet E. Hamilton King) I what they please. (Jeremy Col-
!
lier)

Lovely as is the maiden moon Young lovers, like game cocks,

in May.— (Walter Malone) are made bolder by being kept
I

without light. (Vanbrugh)

Lovely as a bridegroom.
<Miss Mitford)
Lovely as
;^
an
infant's dream A
lover is like a hunter, if the
on the waking mother's breast. game be got with too much ease
(James Montgomery) he cares not for it. (Robert Mead)

Lovely as the first beam of the itii

fiun.-(Oasian) The quarrels of lovers are like
Lovely as adolescence.— (Oui- summer showers, that leave the
da) country more verdant and beauti-
Lovely as an obelisk in a ful.— (Madame Necker)
iesert.— (T. N. Page) ft XB
 —

Lover ( 283 ) Lull

I»owly

is
A lover without indiscretion
—
no lover at all. (T. Hardy)
Lowly
Cawein)
Lowly as
;
as a flower.

a slave.
(Madison

(Tupper)
No woman hates a man for
being in love with her; but many Loyal
a woman hates a man for being a Loyal as a dove. —
friend to her. —
(Pope)
Loyal to her plighted faith as
is the sun in heaven. (John
For love is blind and lovers Ford) Z
cannot see the pretty follies they
themselves commit.
peare)
(Shakes-

Loving
^ Loyal as the Liberty on a
golden ten-dollar piece. O, W.
Holmes)

Loyal as prairie scout. (Amy

Loving as a mother's voice. Leslie)
(Carlyle) Lucent

Low
Low
as the grave. — ( moon.
Softly
—
lucent as
(Lowell)
Lucid
a rounded

Low as horse's hoof. Scotch Lucid as a Japanese sphere of

Ballad)
(

rockcrystal. — (O. I Holmes)

Low as zephyr, telling secrets
to his rose.— (T. L. Beddces) Lucid and lovely as the motn-
ing star.- (John Logan)
Lying low, like a malignant
littleanimal under a hedge. Lucid as the dawn. (John
(Joseph Conrad) Skelton)
Lucid as daylight. (S. G.
Low asbushy bramble.
a Tallentyre)
(Charles Macklin) Luck
mm Shallow men believe in uck
Low as a baboon's forehead. believe in circumstance. ..strong
(Sydney Munden)
lift ) men believe in cause and effect.
(Emerson)
……
( As low

Low
as hell's

as broken crown.
from heaven.

(Swin-
Lull
Lull'd like the depth of ocean
burne) 8t when at rest.— (Byron)
liower
Lowers like a storm-flushed Lulling as falling water's
moon. — (Swinburne) —
hollow noise. (John Gay)
a
Luminous ( 284 ) Lustrous

Iiuminous ders, paintings, and best pride, ia

Luminous as jelly.— (Ambrose but a fairhouse built by a ditch
Bierce) side. — (Thomas Middleton)
Luminous as a pauther's skin.
-(Sir A. Con an Doyle) 16
Our headlong lusts, like a
As luminous as the sun's in- young fiery horse, start and flee
tensest beam, — (Charles Sangster) raging in a violent course. (Isaac
Watts )
Luminous as a lit-up ballroom.
— (H. de Vere Stacpoole) Lusts are like agues; the fit is
not always on, and yet the man is
L»nre not rid of the disease; and some
Lured as the fowler lures the men's lusts, like some agues, have
bird. -(Lope de Vega) not such returns as others.
(Herbert Spencer)
Lurk
Lurk behind, like a concealed
root. (Cervantes) Lust, like a lawless headlong
flood, impregnated with ooze and
Lurked as comfortably as a mud, descending fast on every
shy bird in its native thicket. side, once mingles with the sacred
(Joseph Conrad) tide, farewell the soul-enliv'ning
scene! The banks that wore a
Lurks like embers raked in smiling green, with rank defile-
kshes. — (Dryden) ment overspread, bewail their
—^ —

^^&
flow'ry beauties dead. (Cowper)
Lurks and clings as withering,
damning blight. — (George Eliot)

Lurking. ..like a concealed

enemy.- (Fielding) Lustrous
Lustrous, thick like horse-
Lurk, like a snake under the
hairs.— (Robert Browning)
innocent shade of a spread sum-
^
^
mer-leaf. (Thomas Middleton)
5 peare)
Lustrous as ebony.

Lustrous as laughter.— (Swin-

(Shakes-

Lurking a savage thing

like
burne)
crouching lor a treacherous spring.
— Lustrous aa the day. (John
(Maurice Thompson)
Taylor)
IiUSt Lustrous as sun-set. — (Thomaa
Base lust, with all her pow- Wade)
 | — .

Luxurious ( 2 5 ) Maid

Ii.nxnrions |
-(Cervantes)
Luxurious as a cluster of Mad. ..like the warrior in the
grapes. — (William M. Reedy) % fight. — (Barry Cornwall)

Luxury Mad aa a drunken squaw.

Luxury, like wine, both sti- (Alfred Henry Lewis)
mulates and weakens. (Alphonse j

Karr) Mad as the vexed sea.—

(Shakespeare)
Lying Maddening
A liar is always prodigal of \

Lived maddeningly, like a man

oaths.- (Corneille) who'-has a drumming in his ear.

sists
The

(Erasmus)
art of speaking well con-
largely in lying skilfully.—
I

J
(Maurice Hewlett)

There
^ Madness
a pleasure sure in
is
being mad., which none but mad-
Lying's a certain mark of i
men know.— (Dryden)
cDwardice. —
(T. Southern)
Magic

whilo
boots.
A lie travels
truth is
(0. H. Sparsreon)
round the world
putting on her
I

j
Go straight as
the inner meaning.
if

^
by magic, to

Maid
There such a thing as rob-
is
j
The
spotless in aid is the
bing a story of its reality by trying j
blooming rose which on its native
to make it too true. (Oscar stem unsullied grows. (Ariosto)
Wilde)

Maidens, like moths, are ever

caught by glare, and 'Mammon
M wins his way where seraphs might
despair.— (Byron)

Mad
Mad
as a h«iUer. — (
Mad as a rat in a (
trap.— this
Maids are like contentment
life, which all the world have
m

Mad as a wet cat. (

—
sought, but none enjoy'd.— (Sir
John Davies)

Mad as a bull among bumble A maiden is like a half-blown

bees.— (J. R. Bartlett) damask rose, fair as a dream aild
full of the sweet fragrance of the
He is as mad as a March hare. parity of davvnthg woman hooJ.—
 )

Maid ( 286 ) Man

^
^
(Annie E. Lancaster)

&
getting right into one, except by
a fluke.— (Samuel Butler) 1tn

Majestic
Majestic as a statue. ( Man is like to vanity: his days
Majestic as the sun at noon. are as a shadow that passeth
(Oriental) IE away. — (Old Testament)
Majorities
Dscision by majorities is aq Men, musical instru-
like
much an expedient as lighting by ments, seem made
to be played
gas. (G! adstone) upon.-(0. N. Bpvel)

Malevolence and Malice Men are like old ships, easy

Willing to wound and yet owed, but hard to steer. (Robert
afraid to strike. — (Pope) * Bridges)
ft

Malice Man
is like a book. ..the com-

( Her eyes danced with malice.

B
Man
monality only look to hi« binding.
— (Bulwer-Lytton)

Man is a social creature, and Mau is like a napkin, the

we are made to be helpful to each mere neatly the housewife doubles
other; we are like the wheels of a him, the more carefully she lays
watch, that none of them can do on the shelf. — (Robert Burton )

their work alone, without the

(
^
concurrenca of the rest.
Tall men, like tall houses, are
usually ill furnished in the upper
stdry. -(Bacon)
Some men are like a brook,
noisy but shallow. — The majority of men are like
animals— they take fright and are
Man is like
sharper for being stropped.
7J
a

Some men, like wagons, rattle

razor,
(
the
^
reassured by trifles.

A man is like unto a fort in

(Baizac)

them. — (
most when there's nothing in a strange land, easy to capture,
but hard to hold; but a woman of
virtue is like an eel in a bathtub,
Weare like billiard balls in not easily to be acquired, but
a game played by unskillful play- difficult to lose. —
(Gelett Burgess)
ers, continually being nearly sent
Into a pocket, but hardy ever 5t »
 — *
«

( 287 ) Man
before the lees of clownishness be
Such men grew wiser as well settled.— (Feltham)
as better, the farther they dedart-
ed from home, and seemed like As no two pots will boil alike,
rivers, whose streams are not only so with men; they seethe in
increased, but refined, as they trouble with a difference.—
traveled frooa their source. (Maurice Hewlett) ifii

^
(Goldsmith)

A bad man is like an earthen

Wise man, like wine, are best vessel, easy to break, and hard
when old; pretty women, like to mend. A good man is like
best when young.—

^
bread are a golden vessel, hard to break,
(Sam Slict) and easy to mend, (Hitopadesa)

Some men are like musical

glaeses— to produce their finest Men, like peaches and pears,
tone, yon must keep them wet. grow sweet a little while before
(C^widge) they begin to decay. (0. W.
Holmes)
Great men, like great cities,
have many crooked arts and dark As is the race of leaves, such
alleys in their hearts, whereby is that of men; some leaves the
he that knows them may save wind scatters upon the ground,
him'self much time and trouble. and others the budding wood
(0. C. Colton) produces, for they come again in
the' season of spring. So, is the
race of men, one springs up and
the other dies. (Homer) —
Great men, like comets, are
eccentricin their courses, and
formed to do extensive good, by
^TO ii

minds.- (
mode3 unintelligible to vulgar Man
shaken that
is like a tree
its fruit
which
may drop
is

'^P!iff

A
;good
m
i
man, like a well
to the ground

A man whose
^
(Lamartine)

great qualities
trained wrestler, ought to struggle want the ornament of superficial
against adversity with the whole attractions, like a naked moun-
is
energy of hia faculties. (Demo- tain with mines of gold, which
pbihis) will be frequented only till the
treasure is exhausted. (Dr.
Johnson)
Men are like wine, not good
M an ( 28B ) Man
Most men are like plants:
Good men, like the sea, they possess properties which
should stiU maintain their noble chance discovers. (Saint-Real)
tastes in midst of all fresh hum-
ours, that flow about them, to
corrupt their streams, bearing no Men, like butterflies shew not
season, much le33 salt of goodness. their mealy wings but to the
— (Ben Jonson) summer; and not a man, for being
{
simply man, hath any honour.—
(Shakespeare)
Wise men are like moorlands,
ride as far as you will on the
j

sound ground, you are sure to Man, like this sublunary

come upon a soft place at last. world, born the sport of two
is
(Kingsley) cross planets, love and scorn.
(Sir Edward Sherburn-)

Great men stand like solitary

towers!— (Longfellow) 4^ Man, like everything else
that lives, changes with the air
Great men are like meteors: that sustains bim.— (Taine)
they glitter and are consumed to
enilighten the world. (Napoleon)
Men like bullets, go farthest
Men are like money: we must
when they are smoothest. (J. P.
take them for their value, what-
(Madame Richter)
ever may be the effigv.
Necker)
)^ It is in men as in soils, where
some times there is a vein of
A man, like a watch, is to gold which the owner knows not
be valued for his manner of going. of. (Sw ift) *
— (William Penn) K
Great men are like oaks,
Man is like horse-radish: the under the branches of which men
more it is grated the more it bites. are happy in finding a refuge
-(J. P. Richter) in the time of storm and rain,
*n but wlieu they have to pass a
Me a are weathercocks, which sunny day under them, they take
are never constant or fixed, but pleasnre in critting the bark and
—
when they

^
«r rusty.
lil
are,
— Rousseau)
W
:«
they are worn out
r
fel' ^»
I

I
breaking; tho branches.
istocl^r
^
(Them-

^^
niw s s
 m

Man ( 289 ) Man-Worship

pleasure... they govern us in all

Great men are like great bells; we do. — (J. Benthain)
every sound they utter strikes
our ears with the noise of thunder.
~(J. Penford Thomas) Man seeks his own good at
the whole world's cost. (Brown-
ing)
Man's like the earth, his hair Man is the hunter woman is

like grasse is grown, his veins his game.— (Tennyson)

the rivers are, his heart the stone
— ("Wits Recreations")
every
Every
moment one
monent
is
dies a
born.— (
man,

Manfully, like one who speaks Manners

—
the honest truth. (Southey) manners ate
Fine like per-
sonal beauty,— a letter of credit
Manifest everywhere. — (0. A. Bartol)
As clear and as manifest as
the nose in a man's face. (Robert
Burton) Manners. ..like a great rough
Manifold diamond, it may do very well in
Manifold as are the passions a closet by way of curiosity, and
of uncertain man. (Samuel also for its intrinsic value.
Daniel) (Chesterfield)
Mankind
The world is like a vast sea;
mankind like a vessel sailing on Manners, like fashions, still
its tempestuous bosom. Our from courts descend, and what
prudence is its sails, the sciences the great begin, the vulgar end.
serve us for oars, good or bad — (Paul Whitehead)
fortune are the favovrable or
contrary winds, and judgment is Everyone's manners make his
the rudder, without this last, the fortune. (Cornelius Nepos)
vessel it< tossed by every billow,
and will find shipwreck in every Man's Ages
breeze. (Goldsmith) At twenty years of age, the
will reigns; at thirty, the wit,

m
^
^^
Nature has placed mankind
and at forty,
(H, Grattan)
the

Man-Worship
This thing of wan-worship I
judgment.—

under the governance ef two am a stranger to; I don't like it; it

sovereign masters, pain aud taints every action of life, it ia
Man-Worship ( 290 ) Marria»e
like a skunk getting into a house- war to men;
the battle causes
long after he has cleared out you fear, but
the sweet hope of
smell him in every room and winning at the last still draws
closet, from the cellar to the them on.— (Nathaniel Lee)
garret.— (David Crockett)

^ Many
As many lives as a cat.
all
Marriage is like a flaming
candle-light placed in tbe window
on a summer's night, inviting
the insects of the air to come
and singe their pretty win^Ietsr
(Bunyan) there.— (English Song)
As feele (marfy) as of Ives ifri

ben on trees in somer. (Chaucer)

1 You know some af our Grub
As many as the phases of the Street witscompared marriage to
mind's emotion. — (Hayden Sands) a country dance, which scheme I
extremely approved, but when I
The many fail; the one suc- read it I thought it should have
ceeds.- (Prov.) been set to the tune of "Love
forever"; but they say it never

( Her limbs ran

March
to marble, -- did go to that tune nor ever
would. — (Elizabeth R. Montagu)

March like a rough tumbling

Btorm. (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Marriage
Marriage is like to casting dice.
If chance bring you a virtuous and
good-tempered wife, your lot is
happy. If you gain instead a
gadding, gossiping, and thriftless
quean, no wife is yours, but
everlasting plague in woman's
garb; the habitable globe holds
not so dire a torment anywhere.
(Epicharmus)
.
It is a sign that nothing will
asswage your love but marriage:
for such is the tying of two in
wedlocks, as is the tuning of two
lutes in one key, for striking the
strings of one, strawes will stir
upon the strings of the other, and
in two mindes linked in love,
one cannot be delighted, but the
other rejoiceth. — (Lyly)

W
Marriage to maids is like a makes
Marriage
^ is

beautiful,
a tie which hope
which happiness
 )

Marriage ( 291 ) Marriagt

preserves, and which misfortune For any man to match above

— 'g"—
strengthens. (Alibert) hisrank is but to
-(Massinger)
sell
^
his liberty.

We People say that May the

should marry

^
to please is

ourselves, not other

Bickerstaff)
a
people. (I. tth
wives.- (Ovid)
in which to
'
marry bad

Tis pity learned virgins ever Marry too soon, and you'll
wed with persons of no sort, of repent too late. A sentence worth
my meditation; for marr age is a
education.

yet
Though women
wedlock's the
(Byron)

nre
devil. (
angels,
serious thing-
^ (I.

have often thought that if

1
^€
Randolph)

only one could prolong the joy

Marriage is the great civliliser
of love in marriage, we should
of the world. — (Robt Hall)
have paradise on sartli. That is
a thing which has never been
The sum of all that makes seen hitherto. (Rousseau)
a just man happy consists in the
well choosing of a wife. (Massin-
i
lit
ger) Marriage itself is nothing but
#
cages.
I f
. happens aa
The birds outside despair
one see3 in ^
a civil contract.

A young man married

(Selden)

is a man
of ever getting in; those inside that's married (Shakespeare)
are equally desirous of getting
out.-(Muntaigne) Men are April when they woo,

^ Choose not alona a proper

December

^
(Shakespeare)
when they wed.

mate but proper time to marry.—

(Cow per) ffl

^
Hasty
veth well. (
marriage seldom pro
— )

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft It is a woman's business to

compared been to public feasts, get married as soon as possible,
whers meet a public rout; where and a man's to keep unmarried
they that are without would fain as long as he can. (G. R. Shaw)
go in, and they that are within fe,
would fain go out. — (Sir John
Davies) If marriages are made in
A Heaven, they should be happier.
— (I. Southern)
Marriage ( 292 ) Maxim
tasteful, and the storms danger-
The marriage sate, with and ous: one seldom sees a new object,
without the affection suitable to 'tis still a deal of sea, sea; hus-
it, is the completest image of band, husband, every day, till

^
Heaven and Hell we are capable

^
one's quite cl->y'd with it.

of receiving in this life. (Steele) (Aphra Bulin)

B
H

'Tia just like a summer bird-

cage in a garden, the birds that Marrying a widow
is an easy
are without despair to get in; and business, likeleaping the hedge
the birds that are within despair where another has gone over be-
and are in a consumption, for fore.- (Vanbrugh)
fear they shall never get out.
(Webster) Marrying to increase love

&
is

like gaming to become rich.

(Wycherley)
When a man marries his
trouble begins.— (Old Nursery Mars
Rhyme) Mars like the curse one a
woman's lips. (Edward Peple)
Married people, for being so
closely united, are but the apter
to part: as knots, the harder they The master who fears his
are pulled, break the sooner. servant is less than a servants
(Swift) (Publilius Syrus)

Match

like
Marry
Every man who marries is
the Doge who weds the
evenly matched as
As

^
cubes of the same size. (
It
two

Adriatic sea: he knows not what Mature

he may find therein, treasures, Matured like flowers by the
pearls, monsters, unknown storms. light of the sun. —
Heinrich Heine)
Venice Maxim
A maxim is like the seed of
a which the soul it is
plant,
thrown into must expand iuto
Marrying leaves and flowers and fruit.
like going a
Marrying... .t'is (Madame de Sartory)
long voyage to sea, where after
a while even the calms are dis- 3
Maxim
Maxims... hava the same use
with the burning-glass; to collect
the diffused rays of wit and learn-
ing in authors, and make them
point with warmth and quickness
upon the reader's iinagination.
&
^
(Swift)
^ May
( 293 ) Meek
Meaningless as the boom of
waves in a drowning head.
(Edith Wharton)
Meditative
Meditative, like a girl trying
to decide which dress to wear to
—
the party. (0. Henry)

Meek
He was as fresh as is the Meek as a mouse. — Jfl
month of May.— (Chaucer)

A hot May makes a full

Meek as mustard.— ( )

churehyard. — (Prov) g& Meek as a violet. —

Mean as a
Mean
miser.— ( Meek
gray.— (Joanna
as a matron
Baillie)
in mantle

Mean as an earth-worm (Da- Meek as the turtle-dove.

11183) (Robert Blair) Ml
— (Miss
Mean
Mulock)
Mean
as

as
falsehood.

and dead as
dust,
As rneke as ever was any
—
lamb. (Chaucer) —^
derams.— (William Watson) As a lamb she sitteth meke
and still, as leef on lynde. [Linden
Meander tree]. —

^
Meandered... like a lazy brook
among water-meadows. (Maurice Meek as any baby. — (Mauriee
Hewlett) Hewlett)
Meandering... like a silver Meek as the gentlest of those
scarf outblown on the fluttering who sunny valley lie

^
in life's
of the gale. —
(Frank Waters) sheltered and warm.— (Thomaa
M Moore)
Meaningless
Meaningless as shredded hay. Meek as a saint. (Pope)
— (Franklin P. Adams) in
f

More meek than lambs.

Meaningless as an imprint on (Theoritus)
a wornout coin. — Meek, like to a bankrupt
beggar.— (Shakespeare)
Meaningless like the head oi
a corpse.— (Joseph Conrad) She meeker, kinder than the
turtle-dove or pelican. (George
 S

Meek ( 294 ) Melodious

Wither) a child that was spending its

infancy without playfulness.
Meek and patient as a (Hawthorne) f|
sheathed sword. — (Wordsworth)
Melancholy as midnight.
Meet (Ben Jonson)
As meet as a rope for a thief. Melancholy as a cat. (Byly)
— (John Hey wood)
A melancholy strain, like the
Melancholy low moaning of the distant sea.—
Melancholy as a graveyard (Poe)
on a rainy day. — Melancholy
warren.— ( as a lodge in a

plume.— (
Melancholy as a hearsa-
Melancholy is a kind of demon
that haunts our island, and often
Melancholy
coach in a snowstorm.
as a
(
mourning-
)
wind.— (
conveys herself to us in an easterly

^
lemou. — (
Melancholy as a squeezed

—(
It is a very dreadful melan-
choly when it is a case of melan-

^
Melancholy as a tailor.
choly without any cause. (Pierre
Melancholy as the moon at Ballanche)
full.-(P. J. Bailey)
Mellow
Melancholy as a quaker meet-
ing-house by moonlight. (J. R. ( Mellow as the far-off lute.

Bartletts)
Melancholy... like a gamester
that has lost his money. (Beau- —
Mellow, like a plum which
hag hung in the sun. — (
mont and Fletcher) Mellow as the anger of waters
in caves of the sea-shore. (John
Melancholy as an unbraced W. de Forest)
drum.- (Mrs. Centlivre)
Mellow like the sunlight.—
Melancholy sound. ..like the (Mary Johnston) RS-

weeping of a solitary, deserted Mellow, like a peach that is

human heart. (Guy de Maupas-
sant)
Melancholy as a slighted
ready to drop in your lap.
(Lover)
Mellow
S ^
as a lamp in a lighted
damsel. -(Goethe) room.— (Alice Duer Miller)

Melancholy, like the voice of Melodious

 H

Melodious ( 295 ) Melt

Melodious as the strain that

floats on high, to soothe the Melted as in a crucible.
sleep of blameless infancy. (John (William W. Stofy)
Loyden',
Melt away into the darkmes^
like a snow-flake in the water.
Wild wordless melodies of (Ha-o)
love like murmur of dreaming
brooks in Paradise. (Theodore Melt like gold refined. (Jeaa
Watts Dunton) Ingelow)
Melts in, like the smile that
Fragments
melody. — ( of most touching
11
sinks in the face of the dreamer.
(Ebenezer Jones)

( A gush of entrancing melody.

Melt
Sweet pleasure melteth, like
the bubbles when rain pelteth.
Melts like the fitful vapor. (Keats)
(Grant Allen) g

nold)
Melts like a passing smoke,
a niglitlv d re a m . —
( M att he w Ar- its
Melted, as the rose blendeth
odour with the violet. ( )•

Melted as a star might do, Melts like a pearl in pot of

still smiling as she melted slow. vinegar.— (J. H. McCarthy)
(E. B. Browning)?
Melting, like mist, away.
Melts in the furuace of desire, (Thomas Moore)
like glass, that's but the ice of
lire.-(Samuel Butler) Melted like vapor in the sun.

Melt,
(By roil)
like man, to time.
j

^
—(George
5"

Fond
P. Morris)

duties melt away like

Melt like two hungry torrents. April snows. (Miss Mulock)
— (George Chapman) !

Like frost work in the morn-

Melting, like ghosts before the ing ray, the fancied falric melts
rising sun. (Charles Churchill)
—
away.— (Sir Walter
iS
Scott)

falls

(0. \V.
'A
Uttid
^
Melt like strangling snow that
on fire.— (Aaron Hill)

like
Holmes)
an image of snow.
Melt,
(Shelley)

spray.
^Telt
—(
like cloud

away,
to

like
cloud.

dissolving

Melting as a lover's prayer. Melts away like moonlight in

(John Haghea) the heaven of spreading day.—
 J

Melt ( 296 ) Mendacity

( entice a quarter of a
(Nikolai V. Gogol) ' kor>ek. —
He melted like a cloud in the ^—
)
silent summer heaven. — (Tenny- (
son) 3 is the memory of de-
Sweet
Melt away as waters which parted friends. Like the mellow
•run continual. — (Old Testament) rays of declining sun, it falls ten-
derly, yet sadly, on the heart.—
Melt like wax. — (Washington Irving)

Melt as an iceberg in the

tropics.- (Tupper) Memory is like moonlight, the
reflection of brighter rays from an
Melt. ..like the sun from the object no longer seen. (G. P. R.
day. -(John Wilson) James) fi^Il

The sharp hail rattles against Memory, the warder of the

like tears.— (
the panes and melts on my cheeks brain.— (Shakespeare) IE

Much memory, or memory of

Memory many thing is called "experience"

hand
Like to a coin, passing from
to hand, are common me-
mories, and day by day the
"
(Hobbes)

A
fE

constant stream of rhyth-

sharpness of their impress wears mic memories. — ) IB
away.— (Arlo Bates) IB If!

H
Memory books
like that
IB
and field.— (
Memories plucked from wood

remain a long time shut up in

the dust needs to be opened from
time to time; it is necessary, so to
speak, to open the leaves, that
it may be ready in time of noed.
(
ing

( Forever sings
^
Lights and shadows of reviv-
memory crossed her face.

itself in memory.

(Seneca) Haunt the

memory. — ( Mend
recesses of the

Memory is like a purse, if it Mend as sour ale in summer.

be over-full that it cannot shut, (Haywood's "Proverbs")
all will drop out of it.— (Thomas
duller) iEtg IW Mendacity
IS We that mendacity,
believe
His memory was like a miser's likemarriage, is essentially
pocket, from which you cannot human convention and that in
Mendacity ( 297 ) Merry

heaven there is neither lying nor I thereof. (Pil pay) U

giving the lie. — (New York Sun)

Merchandise
© |

remain
True
inside the
merit,
oyster, is
quiet until
like

it
the pearl
content to
finds an
Good honest merchandise opening.- (Punch)
easily finds a customer. (Plautus)
« Merit, like the show inside
Merciless the circus, iscomparatively
of

( Merciless as a

Merciless as ambition.
male tiger.

(Jou-
little use as drawing card; it is the
bluff and buncombe, the banging
drum and megaphone of the
bert) barker, which is the successful
Merciless as waste desire. magnet. (Leslie de Vaux)
(John Payne)

Mercy
As freely aa the firmament
:*
embraces the world, so mercy
and Merry
must encircle friend foe.
(Schiller) & ( Merry as a haystack sleeper.

strained.
The quality
It droppeth,
not
as the
of mercy is
^ Merry as a two-year-old. — (f^

gentle rain from heaven upon the

place beneath: it is twice blessed;
it bles3eth him that gives, and
( Merry as

Merry
t
crickets in

as flower in
an oven.

May. (
^
bim that

^
takes. (Shakespeare)
Merry as mice in malt. (
Mercy is like a rainbow, we
must never look for it after dark.
yan) ^
Merry as the maids.

Merry as a kitten.— (Burns>

(Bun-

— (Samuel Squire)
\ Merry as » marriage bell.-—
Merit (Byron)
True merit is like a river; the As merry as a fiddler.— ("The
deeper it is the less noise it makes. Christmas Prince")
-(Halifax) Merry as the month of May.
W (Barry Cornwall)
Merit is like inusk, which Merry as birds ou the bough.
although, remaining concealed (Frederick the Great)
through the diffusion of its per-
fume, the nostrils are apprised As merry as king in his de-
 5

Merry ( 298 ) Mild

light. — (Robert Greene) Middle Classes

Froth at top, dregs at bottom,
Merry as spring groves full of but the middle excellent. (Vol- —
"birds. — (Gerald Massey) taire)

Merry as it were June.— (Miss Midnight

Hulock) fig Not to be abed after midnight
Merry as singing birds. (C. is to be up betimes. — (Shakespeare)
E. Norton)
As merry a grig. — (English
<',s Mighty
Proverb) Mighty as an ivy-suffocated
A a merry as the maltman. tower against a field of johnny-
(Scottish Proverb) jump-nps.— (Amy Leslie)
-Merry as the day is long.— ^
(Shakespeare) Mild
As merry, as when our nup- Mild as the' ev ling's humid
tial day was done, and tapers
burned to bed ward. — ( ^—
ray. (Thomas Blacklock)

Mild as an English summer

IS

Merry as an ape. — (Swift) lingering on the brink of autumn.

— (Bulwer-Lytton)
Meshed il
The red is in ebbed in the Mild, as a mother with her
brown, like a rubied sun in a child.— (Coleridge)
Venice sail.— (Francis Thompson)
*t Mild as any lamb that ever
Method —
pastured in the fields. (Dickens)
Method like packing things
is

in a box; a good packer will get in Mild as any maid.— ^Michael

lialf as ranch again as a bad one, Drayton)
Sir Richard Cecil) Mild as the gentlest season of
the year.— (Francis Fawkes)

Of method this may be said, Mild as the voice of comfort to

ifwe make it ou^ slave, it it well; despair.— (Walter Harte) " IE
but it is bad if we are slaves to
method.— (C. C. Colton) Mild as summer's mildest
shower. — (Reginald Heber)

Standing exactly
Middle
the mid-
Mild as
(Aaron Hill) ^&
sighing saints.—

^
in
dle of his face like the white in
the centre of a target.— ( Mild, like the soft snoring
child.- (Hood)
of a
Mild ( 299 ) Mind

Mild as a star in water. Mild as a dove. — (Shakes-

(Keats) peare) '

Mild as grazing ox unworried Mild as very sleep. — (I^J±)

in the meads. —
i)
All mild and gentle as the
— (C.
J.

m
Mild eye like the dawn.
Kickham) P
silver moon
aboon.— (Esaias Tegner) —
sitting heaven's blue

Mild, as the never wrathful Mild as the kisses of connubial

dove. —
(John Langhorne) IE love.— (Henry Kirke White)

Mil-d as a saint whose errors Mild as the murmurs of the

are forgiven. —
(William Livings- moonlight wave. )

ton)
M Id as the zephyr, like zeph- Mild as the opening morn's

Mild at the
^#
yr that throws its sweet-breathing
May.— CEdward Lovibond)

call of spring to
serenest
head)
ray.— (William White-

Mild as the close of summer's

softest day. —
buried flowers. (George Mac- Mince
Henry) Mince like a maiden bride.
Mild us an evening heaven (Nicholas Breton)
around Hesper bright. — (George Minced like a nestling's food.
Meredith) -(Bayard Taylor)

Mild as the April eve.— (Wil- Mind

liam J. Mickle) Old minds are like old horses;
Mild, like the hour of the you must exercise them if you
setting sun.— (Ossian) wish to keep them in working
.

order. (John Adams)

Mild as the moon's light.
tJokn.Payne) Little minds, like weak
Mild as the lamb. (Ambrose liquors, are soonest soured.
Philips) '
Mild as op'ning gleams of The mind is like a sheet of
promised heav'n.— (Pope) white paper in this, that the
impressions it receives the often-
Mild as the murmurs of the est, and retains the longest, are
bird of woe. — (Mrs. Mary Robin- black ones. (Edwin Arnold)
son)
Mild as the opening morn of
May. — (William Shen stone) The mind's action is like that
of an engineer who works under
Mind ( 300 ) Mind

water. goes down in a diving-

He liquor of observation. (Drydon)
bell, and hidden.
is The work
progresses, aDd the structure rises,
but it does not show above water The mind is like a trunk. If
at all. but it is deep-
It is there, well packed it holds almost every-
seated and concealed .— (Henry thing; if ill packed, next to
Ward Beecher) nothing. —
(Julius C. Hare)

1 Minds like fine pictures are

.
by distance proved, and object*
Oar minds are like certain proper, only as removed. (Walter
vehicles,— when they have little Harte)
to carry they make much noise am
about it, but when heavily loaded Sick minds are like sick men.
—
they run quietly. (Elihu Bar- that burn with fevera, who when
ritt) they drink, please but a present
taste, and after bear a more im-
Successful minds work like a
gimlet, to a single point.
Bovee)
(C. N.

wise man's miDd, as Seneca

A
e
^ ^^
patient fit

g
(Ben Jonson)

The mindof man is like the

'
holds, is like the state of the world sea, which neither agreieable ta
is
above the moon, ever serene.— the beholder nor the voyager, in a
(Robert Burton)
( ) calm or in a storm, but is so to
both when a little agitated by
gentle gales; and so the mind,,
A weak mind is like a micros- and easy
when moved by soft
cope, which magnifies trifling passions or affections. (Charles
things, but cannot receive great Lamb) -

——
ones. (Chesterfield)

The mind, when imbued with

the lessons of wisdom, is like a The mind is like the eye, for,
charioteer; for it restrains the
though it may see all other objects,
desires implanted in us, and brings
it cannot see itself, and therefore
ua back to virtue. —
(Demophilns)
cannot judge of itself. (Philo) *C,v

:^ V "
^ g

For 'tis the mind that makes

His mind was like a bottle,
the body rich; and as the sua
extended with the delectable
Mind ( 301

breaks through the darkest clouds, it with various seodi^. so is the

o honor peereth in the meanest mind by exercising it with dif-

labit. What, is the jay more ferent studies. — (Pliny)

precious than the lark, because »
his feathers are more benntiful.
(Shakespeare) various is the human mind;
f4 3 such are the frailties of mankind;
What at a distance charmed our
eyes, upon attainment, droops and
As the soil, however rich it dies. (John Cunningham)
may be, be productive
cannot 1ft

without culture, so the mind with- H

out cultivation can never produce Oar ininds are like our stom-
good fruit. (Seneca) achs; theyare whetted by the

^ it

The chaste mind, like a

change of their food, variety sup*
plies both with fresh appetite.
(Quintilian)
polished plane, may admit foul
thoughts, without receiving their
tincture.— (Slerne) The mind is like a mirror
swung in space, and whirling on a
thread. Now it reflecteth the
The mind is free, vvhate'er heavens, and now the earth. Now
afflict the man. (Drayton) doth the lightning write hierogly-
phs upon it, and anon some deep,
Mind ever the ruler of the sea monster glooms it with his

—
is

universe.— (Plato) bulk.— (Araelie Rives)

; Some minds are like an open
fire how direct and instant our
communication with them. ( His mind leaped gladly to

The man who never

opinion is like standing water,
alters his thought. — (
meet new issues and fresh tides of

(
and breeds reptiles of the mind.
1
j
Mindless
Mindless as the beasts that
browse.— (Violet Fane)
Their minds rested upon the i

thought, as chasing butterflies Mingle

(
might rest together on a flower.— Mingled. ..like the fragmento
of a couple of broken
slides swept up together.
lantern
(R. C.
As land is improved by sowing Bates)
Mingli ( 302 ) Miser

pleasure brings, but honest minds

Our two spirits mingled like are pleased with honest things.—
scents from varying roses that (Beaumont and Fletcher) jE
remain one sweetness, nor can
ever more be singled. (George
Eliot) Mirth makes the banquet
IF sweet.- (Chapman)
jfii

Mingled
I

in these vulgar con- Mirth is like a flash of light-

troversies like a knight of romance ning that breaks through a gloom
among caitiff brawlers.— (Heuty of clouds and glitters for a mo-
Hallam) ment. Cheerfulness keeps up a
I
daylight in the mind, filling it
' with a steady and perpetual sere-
Mingle into one, like blended nity.-(Dr. Johnson)
streams that make one music as I

they run. —
(Hood) B
I

They had mingled their hearts

together as they grew up, as two
sapling planted near, mingle
I
pound
(
An ounce
of
of mirth
sorrow.— ( is w)rth a

thoir branches as they become

trees. (Hugo)

Mingle... like sunshine

k ^ and
Mirth, like light, will
often take
and decay.
its birthmid darkness
(Miss Landon)
all too

rain — (William Knox) Mirthful

Mirthful as an undertaker's
— (Balzac)
^
Mingling foes, like billows !
mute.
dash'd in conflict. (James Mont-
gomery)
I

Mischievous
My soul is commingled with Mischievous as a kitten. —(
thine as water is mingled with IS
wine. —
(Oriental)
I

Mischievous ss a monkey.—
(Balzac)
Meet and mingled like human Mischievous as a marmoset.
fear and hope. (A. J- Rvan) (Ouida)
i& * Miser
Miracles The wealth of misers, like the
Miracles are to those who evening sun sinking below the
believes in them. (Proverb) contributes nothing to

Mirth
For wicked mirtb never true
horizon,
the enjoyment

^
(DemophHus) ^ of mankind.—
»
 ^ w —

Miser ( 30S ) Moan

The miser swimming in gold conversation by em. (William

seems to me like a thirsty fish.— Wycherley)
(J. Petit-Sen n)

Miserable Mistrustful

apple. — (
Miserable as a frost-bitten
it. — (
He was dimly mistrustful of

—(
j

Miserable as the fifth act of a Misty

tragedy. E Misty as a shape in a dreara.
Misery (George Meredith)
Meagre were his looks, sharp U

,
I

misery had worn him to the Misunderstanding

bones.— fSliakespeare) Mal-in formation is more hope-
less than no information. (C. C.
Misfortune I
Colton)
The amiable fortune decey- Mix
veth folk; the contrarie fortune Mixed together like jack-
techeth— (Churcer) straws.— (Irvin S. Cobb)

Fortune is not satisfied with Are mixed as the mist of some

injuring a man ony or.ce.— (Pub- devilish dream.— (Kipling)
lilius Syrus)
Mix them up like self-dss-
V f
Mishap i
troying poisons in one cup.
Mishaps are like knives, that (Shelley)
either serve us or cat us, as we K
graep them by the blade or the Mixture
handle. -(Lowell) A
(
well-bred mixture of bold-
ness and courtesy. )

Mist Moan
—(
Seem to swim in a sort of Moaned like a chafed spirit

(
blurred mist before

Mistress
the eyes. i warring with
ilM
its lot.

^loaned like a dismal autumn

Mistress like friends, are lost wind. —
T. B. Aldrish)
by letting 'em handle your money.
(Vanbrugh) Moaned like a drinker in
I grievous plight (Arabian Nights)
Mistresses are like books. If i

you pore upon them too much, Moan like the doves. (As-
they doze you, and make you syrian)
unfit for company; but if used Moans like a dying hound.
discreetly you are the fitter for (Henry H. Brownell) ^
Moan ( 304 ) Molded

doing the greatest mischief after

Moaned like some stricken the cause which first set them in
thing. ..strangled own

…
with its motion has ceased to act. (C. C.
despair.— (Don Marquif) Colton)

Moaning, like the voices of

^—
departing in pain.
spirits — (Owen
Meredith) Mockery
A wild and desolate moan, as
a sea heart-broken on the hard
brown stone.— (Joaquin Miller)
( Mockery crept into her

M(:dern
ton&.

Modern as an arc light.—

(Amy Leslie)
Moans like a tender infant in Modest
its whose nurse had
cradle, left Modest and shy as a kuii.
it.-(Otway) (William Cullen Bryant)

Moan, like me who hath lost In her modesty, like a star

the last and best. (T. Buchanan among earthly lights.— (Carlyle)
Read)
Modest as a flower.— (Elia
As running rivers moan on Wheeler Wilcox)
their course alone, so I moan left Modest as the violet in dewy

Moan like
autumn days.
^
alone.— (C. G. Rossetti)

the waves at set af

(Eliza Scudder)
dell.-(F. A. Fahy)

ing.
Modest as a maid a-christen-
— (Charles Macklin)

Moaned. ..like a dirge.— (Frank Modest as justice. (Shakes-

Waters)
Moans. ..like
ill-ehut casements.
ing)
wind
(E. B.
through
Brown-

— (Ghar-
peare)

beth
Modest
S. P.
as a primrose.
Ward)
Modishness
»(Eliza-

lyle)
Moan like nightbirds.

Moan, like the voice of one

of the hour. (
Obsessed with the modishness
—
who crieth in the wildness alone. Moist
— (Longfellow)
Mob
( Moist as a cold toad's akin.

Moist as a desert with dew.—

The mob, like the ocean,
very seldom agitated without some
is (Swinburne)
Molded
^^ W
cause superior and exterior to
itself; but... both are capable of of adversity. — (
Molded by the austere hand
SI
Molten ( 305 ) Money
war bad shots between wind and
Molten water hurt it exceedingly; there
Molten as lead.— (Swinburne) is danger of capsizing. But de.
raocracy is a raft. You cannot

^^^
Momentary easily upturn it. It is a wet place,
Momentary as a sound. but it is a pretty safe one.
(Shakespeare) (Joseph Cook)
Moments
Moments
insipidity.—
;
(of utter idleness and

Monarchy is like a work of

In moments of swift and mo- nature, well composed both to

mentous decision. — grow and continue. (Bacon)
k
Monarchy
Never does liberty appear Monday
more pleasing than under a Monday is parson's holiday.
righteous King.— (Claudian) (Swift)

The Princeexists for the sake

of the State, not the State for the
Monday is the key of nil the
week.— (Proverb) -75 -
sake of the Prince. (Erasmus) Money
Wealth is a good servant; a
The
priuce is not above the very bad mistress. (Bacon)
laws, but the laws above the

'
prince.— (Pliny the Younger)

A King may be a tool, a thing

little
(Bacon)
Money
use unless
is like manure;
it
of

^
he spread.
very

of straw; but if he serves to :

frighten our enemies and secure Monn y is like promises, easier

our property, it is well enough; a made than kept. (Josh Billings)
scarecrow is u thing of straw, but

^:
it protects the corn. (Pope)

H
Princes are nional, tb^ com-
M§ '
IMoney is like the manna of
tha wilderness: sweet and whole-
some if it is gathered and used by
faith each day: breeding worms
if hoarded by doubt. (Hugh O. —
monwealth immortal. Taci- i
^
is ( rontlcost)
tus) B W
iffi

A doubtiul throne is ice on Money is like whiskey: a cer-

summer sea. (Tennyson) tain quantity of it improves the :

5 condition 'but too much brings

1

,,
'

A monarchy h like a -man-of- about bestiality,— (Channing Pol-

lock)

A man without money is like

( 306 )

^
A
Monotone
melancholy monotone beat
Moonlight

a ship without sails.— (Dutch on one's heart.— (

Proverb)
His money comes from him Monotonous
like drops of blood. (John Ray's
"Hand-book of Proverbs") I
Montonous
charity children.
as
— ( the dress of

A man without money is like Monotonoug as mutton.—

bird without wings; if he soars he I
(Richard Le Gallienne)
falls to the ground and dies. I

(Roumanian Proverb) Monotonous as the sea.

i
(Richard M. Milnes)
Public money is like holy

H. — (
water: every one helps himself to Mood
His mood yielded. — (
( ^
Without money
(
I

all things are The clouded, restless, jaded

vain. — mood.—

except
Money,
it
is like
be ppread.
muck, not good
(Bacon)
Moods of malicious reaction
and vindictive recoil.— ) (
Money, which is of very ( Endlessly shifting

Moody
moods.

&
uncertain value, r.nd sometimes
has no value at all and even less. Moody as a poet. (Thomas
-(Carlyle) Shad well)
Moon
Use alone makes money not a
contemptible stone.— (Herbert) soft as snow.- (
The moon on the tower slept

Make money! If you can, Dim opalescence of the moon,

make money honestly; if not, by —(
whatever means you can, make Moonbeams

^
money.- (Horace) T ^ ^ The moonbeams
(
rest like a
IE

Men who make money rarely

^
pale spoUess shroud.
A
Moonlight
)

saunter; men who save money

^
rarely swagger.

do
If
lie
money go
(Lord Lytton)

open.— (Shakespeare)
before, all ways
ifi
^
(
mist,

(
The moonlight like

The moonlight
^
upon the mesa spreads.
a

lay like snow.

fairy
Mope ( 307 ) Motionless

Mope Moth
Mope
changing
like birds that are
feather.

Mopish
(Longfellow) the
The
star. (
desire
—
of

Mother
the
^
moth for

I am as mopish as if I were Who ran to help me when I

married and lived in a provincial fell, and would some pretty story
to\vn.-(G. H. Lewes) tell, or kiss the place to make
it well? My mother!— (Ann
Morality Faylor)
Morality knows nothing of
geographical
tinctions of
boundaries or dis-
race. —
(H. Spencer)

Morality was made for men,

and not man for morality.
^ (T- I
in
Mother is the name for
the lips and hearts of
children. —
(Thackoray)
Ifti
God
—
little

Zangwill) One good mother is worth a

hundred schoolmasters.— (Prov.)

Morals
In morals as in metals ..you There is no mother like my
caunot work gold withont support- mother.— (Prov.)
|

ing it with alloy.— (Ouida)

Morn motion.—
An
(
impervious beckoning

Morn, in yellow and white,

(
Motionless
— (
^
came broadening out of the ! Motionless as a corpse.
mountains. —
; Morning stone. — (
Motionless as a figure cut in

(
The

&
silvery
tranquil vision
morning
fills the world.
like a
( Motionless as a monument.

Motionless as the fixed rock.

-(Edwin Arnold)

of
Grim and
the morning. — (
sullen after the flush Motionless as a babe asleep.
(Alfred Austin)
Motionless as a tombstone. ~^
Mortal (R. D. Blackmore)
Mortal as an old man's life. Motionless as a statue.—
(Shakespeare) (Fern an Caballero)
Motionless, as it thunder-
Mortiility stricken.— cHugo)
Mortaiitj weighs heavily on Motionless, like one who seea

^
me like unwilling sleep.
B
(Keats)— but
(Dam.s)
does not understand.—
Motionless ( 308 ) Mourn

Motionless as a king's mummy

^^
in a catacomb.— (Flaubert) &
Motionless as a pool.— (Virgil)

^[otionless as an idol. — (Whit-

Motionless, like a woman of tier)
wax. — (Maurice Hewlett)
m. Mottled and dappled like an
Standing as motionless as April trouL —
pillar set to guide n wanderer in
f
a pathless waste. (Jean Ingelow) Mount
Mounts as a soul from flesh
escaping.— (Bliss Carman)
Postured motionless like nat-
ural sculpture in cathedral cavern. Mounting like a flame. — (C
Keats) G. Rossetti)
X Mountains
Stoodmotionless. ..like some
not in myself, but I
I live
exquisite chrys-elephantine statue,
become, portion of that around
all ivory and gold. —
(Charles
me: and to me high mountains
Kingsley)
hum hum-

^
are a feeting but the of
nn cities, torture. (Byron)
Motionless as a spectre. — (Gkiy ffi

de Maupassant)
Motionless as tho distant
purple hills on which the shadows Mont Blanc is tke monarch of
of the white clouds rest. — mountains; they crowned him
(R. K> t

Munkittrick) long ago on a throne of rocks,

[1

^ !1 ^ (^
in a robe of clouds with a diadem

As motionless as death.— of snow. (Byron) —

(Thomas L. Peacock) .
Motionless, like a bereaved
The mountain shadows

&^ ^
creatnre. (Charlss Reada) raing-
lino , lav like p:)ols
1
above the earth.
Motionless, if sha were —(
The solid mountains gleamed
seeking in her mind t<he explan-
ation of some mystery or the key
of son" riddle. (Jose Sel.aja?) ^ ^
like the

The
unsteady sea.— (^C-^)

mountains loomed up
»
a
Motionless, as a stone above
grave. (William W. S:ory) «« ^
dimly, like
m t. —
phantoms through the

^.^^m^wm
Mourn

) ^^
Stood motionless, as if trans, Mounnted like a turt!
fixed. - (Ivan Vszov)
Mourn ( 309 ) Mouth

wind
umn
grievittg in the pines in

^
night. — (Barry Gdrnwall J
aut- He
whirlpool.
had
— (
Her mouth turned up
a month like

vol up*
a

Mourn
(Swinburne)
like a

Mournful and low, like the

bov beaten.

|
taously like
of Frigoue.—
Fd gone
(the antique maska

song of tomb.— (Oisian) That little mouth is like in

this,the rose-bush that so fair is,
for sly envenomed serpents hiss
Mourn like a turtle-dove but
in dark leaves where their lair
late robb'd of his mate.
aandya)
Mourn like
(George

a
^
sick child.
is. —
(Heinrich Heine)

(Alexder Smith)
Mourn'd like a living thing A dainty mouth like a crimson

distressed. — (Whittier) rose. —

A rnouth like the whalo that
Mournful
Mournful
as the grave. ( swallowed a whole fleet.— (Thoinaa
Lodge)
Mouth that looked like a red
Mournful
the seas. — ( as the rhythm of
gash from a sabro cut.
Manpassant)
(Guy de

His mouth opened like the

dying
A voice as
light in
vague reminder
ly set
mournful as the

of
the
death
the heavens, and the
in
west
is
for a
divine-
end of a sawmill. (Ed^ar W.
Nye)
His mouth quivered
pleas ure.- ( with
^
sun above gives the same warning Mouth tremulous light as a
that is given here on earth by sea-bird's motion oversea. 'Swin.
flowers and the bright insects of burne)

!
the day.-(Balzac)
M—
( ^
athirst
Her month was
that pants for drouth.—
as a

13
rose

iTti

—(
Mournful as the dancing of Red mouth like a venomous
—
dead leaves. (Gerald Massey) ^ flower. ff^

R
Mournful as the dead below.
M. Milnes)
( Mouth sweeter than

A red mouth lik , a

cherries.

wound.
(Arthar Symons)
Mournful, like the voice of
one who raves. (Calia Thaxter) As a pomegranate, cut In
twain, white-seeded, is lier crimson
mouth.— (Oscar Wilde) "
Mouth 310 ) Muhitadd

deserted fane. — (Shel lev)

Mouth
(Verb)
Mouths a sentence, as cars
—
—
mouth a bone. (Churchill)

Move
Squirrel -in the
movement. —
cage kind cf

Moving
spheres.— ( ^ like the
constantly,
Muddy
Muddy
as a little pigeou-toed

ate.— (
She moved like mirth incarn-

Gently she moved in the

drum mer
(George Col man)
after a long march.

calmness of beauty, moved as the Muffled

bough to the light breeze of Muffled and dumb like bare-
morning.— (Arabrian) ; If foot dervishes. (Emerson)
ff
Moving like heaven still in Multiply
the self-same
Fletcher)
A wizard
moving. (Phineas

wind did faintly

Multiply
vermin.-(Hugo)
Their forms
in
^
and features
'swarm?, like

move, like a whisper through a multiplied, as the reflection of a

dream. — (Owen Meredith) light between two burnished
mirrors gleams, or lamps upon
When everything moves a bridge at night stretch on and
equally, nothing moves apparent- on before the sight, till the long
— (Pascal) —
ly: as on a ship. vista endless
low)
seems. (Longfel-
^
Moving, like a skeptic's
thought, out nowhere into Multiplied Vi&q grasshoppgrs

^
of
naught. (James Whitcomb upon the face of the land.
Riley) (Rabelais)
Mulitiply as tiio bud of the
M)ved one like the finest field.— (Old Testament)
eloquence.-- (Alexander Smith)

Moveless
Moveless as a worm beneath
of heaven.— (
Multiply thy seed as the sta-a

a stone which some one's stum- Multiply like insects in the

bling foot has spurned aside. (E. — sun. — (Charles Wagner)
B. Browning)
Multitude
Moveless, aa a long- forgotten Applause waits on success; the
iyre suspended in the solitary fickle multitude, like the straw
dome of some mysterious and tliat floats along the stream, glide
Multitude ( 311 ) Murmur

with the current still and follow Murderous

fortune.— (Franklin)
( Murderous as a

Murmur (noun)
cannon ball.

Even as the sand that is upon A vague and monotonous

the so a shore in in altitude. — (Old murmur, that of the waves
like
Testament) on a shore where the wind dies
As the stars
multitude. —
That great
( enemy
of heaven

of
for

reason,
(
away with approaching night..—

virtue, and religion, the multi- Murmurs passed along the

tude.— (Sir T. Browne)

Learning will be cast into the

(
valleys, like the banshee's lonely-
croon.—

mire and trodden down under the A murmur

hoofs of a swinish multitude.
(Burke)
'
Multitudinous
^ bees
stilled

A
hidden
linden trees.
like the
among
—
sough
the noon-
(Lowell)

half-breathless miirmur of
oi

.
Multitudinous tongues, like
the whispering leaves of a wind-
amazement and incredulity. (
stirred oak. — (Hawthorne) A deep sullen murmur. ..like
the moaning noise that goea
Like coral insects multitudin- before the whirlwind on the deep.
ous.— (Jean Ingelow) -(Macaulay)
Multitudinous as the desert
sand borne on storm. (Shelley) Murmurs, like the sea's, dying
uncomprehended. (T. Buchanan

Mum as
Mum
an oyster. — ( Read)
A murmur like the winds
that break into green waves the
Mumble prairie's grassy lake. (Whit tier)
M arable as if he were at his
matins. (Thomas Lodge) Murmur (Verb)
Murmur like a dreaming sea.
—(
Murder, like talent, see ins oc- I Murmur like bees at honey-
casionally to run in families. I ti me.
(G. H. Lewes) i Murmuring like the sound of
the sea. — (Robert Hugh Benson)
Murder,
tongue,
speare)
B
will

•
though
speak.
it

^
have no
(Shake-
i

j
Murmured
D, Blackmore)
Murmur
like

like a
a

hive.
shell.

E,
— (R.
B.
 Murmur ( 312 ) Music

Browning) hour the summer breeze moves

Murmur
cffseas.— ( like the inoan of far-

They murmureden as dooth

elmy vale.— (Southey)
o'er the

Murmur... like breathings

.

of a
a swarm of been. (Chaucer) shell.— (Elizebath 0. Smith)
-

Murmured like a whispering Murmurs as who talks in

— (Aubrey
^priest. De Vere) dreams with death. (Swinburne)

spring.— (
Murmured

Murm'ring
like

they
the gales of

move, as
Murmur
the trees.—
like the
(S.
wind amon^
G. Tallentyre)

when old ocean roars. (Homer) The verse murmurs... like the
moan of doves in immemorial
Murmured like the humming elms. — Tennyson)
of a bee. — (Hood)
Murmur like the wind in the A veiled stream murmurs like
leaves. — (Mary Johnston) thoughts of heaven in a dream.
(Thomas Wade)

,
Murmur
seashore.

Murmur
dead leaves.—
as of waves upon
(Longfellow)

(
like
)
the rustle of
a

bees
Murmurous
Murmurous
as the August
that fill the forest deep
around the roots of trees. (Arthur
Murmuring her ears like
to Symons)
to a falling stream, which, passing
slow, is wont to nourish sleep and

^
quietness. (Sir waiter Raleigh) Muscles aa teuse as those of

.mm
Murmured like seas that are
(
the tiger waiting for his leap.

Music
tempesting.— (C. G. Eossetti) Music at meals is lik§ a
«il carbuncle set in gold, or a signet
Low like dirge-wail
quiem they murmured. — (D. G.
Rossetti)
or re-

(
of an emerald highly bimi"'jed.
i|£

calls
Murmurs... like a bell that
to prayer.— (John Ruskin) ( With music sweet
Sit
as love.

Murmured
bee.-(Shelley)
like a noontide
^
serpent's hiss.— (
Their music frightfal as the

Murmuring like the ocean The music almost died away,

—
roar.
Murmur ...as when at twilight ( ^
then it burst like pent-up ii rod.
Music ( 813 ) Mute

The music of Oarryl was like Music's the medicine of the

the memory of joys that are past, mind. — (J. Logan)
pleasant and mournful to the soul.

^^
— (James Macpherson) Carryl

Rippling music like the swoet

Philosoply
music- (Plato)
is

The only universal tongue.

Ifhe highest

babble of brook over stones. (Rogers)

(Harriet M. Miller) Music is the real universal
speech of mankind.
Music as sweet as the music
which seems breathed softly and Musical
faint in the ear of our dreams.— Musical as brooks that run
(Whittiw) oer yellow shallows in the sun.
(T. i3. Aldrich)
Music exalts each joy, allays

every pain. — (
each grief, expels diseases, softens
roof. — (
Musical as

Voice musical as birds

rain drops on a

or
Music has charms to soothe a brooks.— (Aubrey Pe Vere)
savagje
bend a knotted oak.— (
breast, to soften rocks, or ii
Musically as the pine cone to
breeze. (George Gilfillan) '
Music, the greatest good, that Musical ns the holes of a flute

have below. (
mortals know and all of heaven we
— g
without the flute. (0. Henry

Bells, as
—
musical as those
Music isthe stalk and flower that, on the golden-shafted treetr
of health, and most remedial.
(J. D. Tidson)

What passion cannot

raise or quell?— (Ory den)
Music
breezs.
^
of Eden, shake in the etersal
(Thomas Mooro)

Mutable
Mutable as the wind. (Ric-
Emotion, not thought, is the hard L. Stoker)
sphere of music— (H. R. Haweis) Mutable as sand. (Swin-
burne)
Of all noises. I think music Mute
the least disagreeable. (Johnson)

Music is the only sensual

( Mate

Mute
as a funeral procession.

as death. —
pleasure without vice. (Johnson)
Mute as fate.— ( ,
Mule ( 314 ) Mystical

underground. — (Longfellow)
Mute as fishes. — (Balzac)
Muttering like smoked

;
bees.
Mute as snow. — (E. B. Brown- (Swinburne)
ing)
Mute, like one who pondered Mutters like a dim despair.

^
on strange and unaccountable
events. — (J. Fenimore Cooper)

Mute as the wine

(Bartholomew Dowling)
we drink.
tumn
(Frank Waters)

Myriad
sent,
Myriad
as the leaves by
forest aisles and
up
An-

down. (Margaret K. Sangster^

As mute as
(Dumas) ffi ;the tomb.
Mysterious
Mute as a maiden. (Swin-
burne)
As m ute and motionless as
( Mysterious as

Mysterious as a
a rose

star.
leaf.

—(
—(
^
statues.— (Goldsmith)
Mysterions as the sea.
Stood mute as silence was in
Heaven. —(Milton) ft Mysterions as an echo. (John
Mute as if I tongaeless were. Billings)
^.eorge Sandys) Mystery
Mystery magnifies danger as
Mute as fox's 'mongst mang- the fog the sun.— (C. C. Colton)
ling hounds. — f Sir Walter Scott) B
Everything unknown [i.] [e.
Mute as the mouth which felt
death's wave o'erflow it.
burne)
(Swin- —
mysterious] is taken for something

[]
transcendent.

(
Intimations
(Tacitus)

of
^
un penetrated

She nodded
Mutely
mutely. — ( mysteries.-

As great a mystery ai the

Mutely as birds skim through
air. — (Bulmer-Lytton)
serpent-crest of the king's crown
on the pillars of Egypt.
«
(
Mutter
Muttering like the murmur of Mystical
hurried priest dispatching a Mystical. ..like a singing in a
prayer.— (Hugo) dream.— (E. B. Browning)

He sits muttering in his beard. Mystical as some dreamland

His voice is like a river flowing arched with unfathoined azure.—
Mystical 315 ) Nation

(James Whitcomb Riley)

Mystical as an astrological
symbol. (Richard Le Gallienne) Names like jewels flashing the
night of time.— (Joseph Conrad)

N is
A
name without merit
great
an epitaph on a coffin.
like —
Naked (Madame de Puisieux)
Naked as
: an Indian's back.

2saked as night
t
—
A good name is like sweet-
smelling ointment. ) (
Xaked as graces^ — ( Strong towers decay, but a

Naked as a frog. (Beaumont (

great name

Thy name burns

shall never pass away.

and Fletcher)

^
like a gray

Cawin)
Naked as a flower.

Poor and naked as a

(Madison

fakir.
and
( A
flickering

man's name is not like a

candle flame.

(Joseph Conrad) mantle, which merely hangs about

him, and which one perchance
Like winter-earth, naked. safely twitch and pull, but a
(Cowley) perfectly fitting garment, which
Naked as a peeled apple. like the skin has grown over and
(0. W. Holmes) over him, at which one cannot
m rake and scrape without injuring
Naked man

^
as a ueedle. (Lang- the himself. (Goethe)
land) «
Naked as iny uail. (Masaing-
er)

sea.
The country
— (Jules
is naked as the

Sandeau) ever.—
A
(
good name endureth

Xarrovv
for

Naked as apes. (Voltaire) The nations narrow and ex-

pand, as tides that ebb, or tides
Naked as tower. — (Words- that flow.— (Lord De Vabley)
worth)
Name Nation
Women's good name, my Like men, nations are purified
lady, is like curded milk, the and strengthened by trials.
least dust fouleth it, and like (Samuel Smiles)
glass,which, if it cracked, may not
be mended. (Arabian Nights) Every nation seems to me like
 316

" Naturally
( )

a plant, of which the lower class

is the root, the middle class the Natural to die as to be born.
stem, and the upper class the (Bacon)

^
flower. (Pierre de Coulevain) Natural as the bee tow the
flower.- (Josh Billings)

Nations, like individuals, live Natural as dancing bears to a

fnd die; but civilzation cannot bagpiper. — (Tom Brown)
die. — (Giuseppe Mazzini)
m Natural as to eat, sleep, and
A
warring nation, like an —
wear a nightcap. (John Ford)
orator, should know when to stop.
(New Republic) Natural as bird -notes. — (Haw-
That country
which nourishes
is the richest
the greatest
thorne)
Natural as daylight.— (
number

^ and happy Natural as dunghill steam.—

of noble
human beings. (Husldu) # (George Meredith)

Righteousness exalteth a Natural as sunlight on the

nation. — sea. — (Oscar Wilde)
Natural
Natural as the breeze that Natural as dreams to feverish
stirs amongst the forest trees. sleep. — (Wordsworth)
(Sarah F. Adams)

tree.
Natural as
—
for ivy to climb a
May. — (
Naturally as a bird warbles in
f
As naturally as a chestnut
Natural as life. —
shell. — (
bursts its pod, and a chicken its
«|

( Natural as milk to a

Natural as nature. —
calf.

of a
Naturally as fungus grows out
dying tree.—
As natural as that a genius Naturally as pigs squeak.—
should wear queer clothes. — (Samuel Butler) ff
As naturally as the descen-

( Natural as whoapiiig to owls.

Tis as natural for women to

dant from a line of suicides thinks
of killing himself. — (Hawthorne)
4J!

pride themselves in fine clothes Naturally as the bleating of a

(
as 'tis for a peacock to spread his
tail.
sheep.- (William Hazlitt)
Naturally ( 317 ) Naught

Naturally as needles turn to changing, in her aspect mild.—

the loadstone. (Frances Little) (Byron)

As naturally as bees swarm Habit can never conquer

and follow their queen. — (Henry j
nature; she is for ever unconquered.
D. Thoreau) -(Cicero)
Nature I

Nature, like man, sometimes In nature there is nothing

weeps for gladness. (Beacons- —
melancholy. (Coleridge)
field)
Fine natures are like fine Nature is but a name for an
poems, a glance the first two
at effect, whose cause is God. (Cow-
lines suffices for a guess into the I
per)
beauty that waits you if you read Nature is more powerful than
'
on.— (Bulwer-Lytton)

Our nature is like the sea,

which gains by the flow of the
I
i

I
education;
everything.
k
time will
—
(Disraeli)

Happy the man, who, study-

—
develope

tide in one place what it has lost ing nature's laws through known
by the ebb in another. (Sir effects can tract the secret cause.
Richard Cecil) -(Virgil)
A
Take God from Nature, no-
Nature, like a loving mother, thing great is left. (Young)
is ever trying to keep land and
sea,mountain and valley, each in \ In those vernal seasons of the
hush the angry winds
its place, to year, when the air is calm* and
and waves, balance the extremes pleasant, it were an injury aud
of heat and cold, of rain and sullen ness against nature not to
j

drought, that peace, and harmony | go out and see her riches, and
may reign supreme.— (Elizabeth i partake in her rejoicing. (Milton)
Cady Stanton)

Nature, like oil, will rise up-

Nothing is great but the inex- j
permost.— (James Ralph)

^
haustible
(Emerson)
wealth - of nature

Nature is not governed, except

by obeying her. (Bacon)—
.
|

The
&
finest qualities of our
nature, like the bloom on fruits,
cai>be preserved only by the most
delicate handling. (Henry D.
Thoreau)
Dear nature is the kindest
mother still, though always Naught
Naught ( 318 ) Needfnl

He
HaMgbt.— (
could

Xavy
do absolutely apple. —
As necessary
(Robert Burton)
as churches.—

Naval matters involve

expenditure. (Cicero)

Near jjjft
great

&
Necessary ...as friction in
chanics.— (C. C. Colten)

Necessary... as one's digestion.

— (Thomas Hey wood)
me-

Near
penny. (
as two ha'pennies
^ for a

Necessity
Near
Another. (
as one
)
second is to
man
Necessity
a
makes an
knave.— (Dafoe)
honeet

Near as the bark to [the] tree. Neck

—(William Camden's "Remains") Her neck is like the neck of
doe. (Arabian Nights)
More near and near, like

round.
^
doves about a dovecote, wheeling
—
(Tennyson) ( Aa neck like an ingot

A neck as white aa whale's

of silver.

Nearsighted
Nearsighted as a mole. ( bone, conxpassed with a lace of
atone -— (Robert Greene) '

Neat
Neat ae a nail.— ( Her neck like a stately tower,
where love himself imprisoned

Neat as a new pin. (—

lies, to watch glances, every hQur,
from her divine and sacred eyes.

Neat as fresh -spring lierljs.—

(George Eliot)
(Thomas Lodge)
)^ H

Neat as wax-work. (Hjnry Thy neck is like the swan,

the pearl. — (Lover)
J. Finn)
Neat as a postman's knock.
^
and fair as
lri ^
(George Meredith)

Necessary ^
Her snowie neck lyke
n\arble towr^.— (Spenser) ?to a

to lire.- (
As necessary as breathing is Thy neck is

Need
aa tower of ivory.

Necessary as for the butterfly Need ...as pansiea need the

—
come a butterflv. — (
to escape from the worm to be-

^
dew. )

Needful as the sun.

25

(Grant
A3 necessary as skin to the Allen) S
Needful ( 319 ) No4

As needful to the fore&t-tree I

as sun and gentle shower.-— (Tuj> The »ight like a battle-broken

per) B I
h«et is driven before. — )

Neglected I
in
Neglected, as the moon by Nimble
day.-(Svwft)

A
Neigbbors
bad neighbour is as great
I
Nimble
barrel.— ( a« a bee on a tar'

^
as evil as a good neighbour
advantage. -(Hesiod)
is an
I
( Nimble as a cow

As nimble as wireless spark,

in a cage.

Xervous that hurdles th e ether, pole vanlts -

mouse in a wall.— ) (
Nervous as a eat that hears a I
the oeeans and circles the ends of
the earth in a flash. — (
Xervous as a witch. - ( I

—(
Xervous as a
Marion Crawierd) ^
watch.— (^F.

Xervous as a mouse.— (G. B.

Shaw)
Nimble as a lizard.

Fimble as an

Kimble as rose.
efel. —
(Carlyle)
•

Nestles
She nestles like a dove.— ( Gamble as thought. (Cer-
vantes)
New K^m ble, like a shadow. —- (John
New as day. — (Ben Jonson) Fiabclrer)
Kimble as a bare. — (Swift)
New as sight. (France TO
Thorn psron) JRimble-fingered as a harper.
News -(John Taylor) ^
For evil news rides post,, while
good news baits. (*Milton) Nimbly
=P Nipobly as juggler's balls from
As cold waters to a thirsty cap *o aap. (James Puckle)
soul,
eountry.— (
so is good news from a far

Nodded
Nod
like a— plume. ' (Dic-
As nioe as ninepence. — ( I
kens)
Kodded
with blossoms.
like hollyhocks
(Longfellow)
heavy

Night
Night passes lightly in the Nodded her head like a man.
open world, with its stars and
dews and perfumes.— ^Jg( darm.
a
— (Charles Reade)
Noise ( 320 ) Noisy

Xoise Noiseless as if velvet-shod.

As Louch fuss and noise as a (Whittier)

stairs.— (
dne-egged man falling down- I

I
Noiselessly
Noiselessly
as the daylight
comes back when night is done,
Make a noiso like an assess- and the crimson streak on an
ment.— (O. Henry) ocean's cheek grows into the great
sun.— (Mrs. C. F. Alexander)
Noiseless
Noiseless as a shadow. ( B
Noiselessly as the springtime
Noiseless as a lapwing. — j
her crown of verdure weaves, and
1
(
Noiseless as the circulation of
the blood. —
all the trees on all hills open
their thousand leaves.— ) (
Noiseless
storm before
sa
as
tlie
the gathering
tempest. ( I
Glide noiselessly as spirits of
the night. —
(Michael Scott)
'
Noiseless as the sunlight.
(Thomas Ashe) As noiselessly as fairies' feet
Noiseless as a bright mist rolls that press the demiropt grass.
I

down a hill. (Charlotte Bronte) I

(John Payne)

As noiseless as the trail of the Noisy

— (T. —
swift snake. G. Hake)
^ Noisy as a boiler-shop.

(
AaronHill) ^
Noiseless as night's soft shade.
1

I
Noisy as a menagerie^—

Noiseless as fear in a wide

wilderness.— (Keats) ( Noisy ns a creditor's meeting.

Noisy as a flock of erow-black-

(
Noiseless as the passing raoun-
min.— (
birds in the migration season.
tain

(Kipling) ^
Noiseless as a black shadow.
'

Noisele88...as tlie falling dew.

^George Mac-Henry)
,
down
Noisy ae h cook stove falling
stairs. —
Noisy as burial-k )wler8
^ g
at full
cry. — i
Noiseless as sleep. — (T. Buch-
anan Read)

( «
Noiseless as the years descend
Noisv as
W. Holmes)
a kettle-drum.
^; ^ (O.

( Noiseless as the owlet's wing. Noisy as at

Meredith)
b fair. (George
'
Noisy 321 ) Numerous

Noisy as women bathing in a A novel typically as far

is
river. —
(Osmanli Proverb) P removed from a play as a bird
is from a fish. ..any attempt to
As noisy as a hen with one transform one into the other is
chicken. —(Charles Rende) apt to result in a sort of flying-
fish, a betwixt-and-between-thing.
Nonsense (Bliss Perry) ^ |l

Nonsenss like swimming on

a carpet. (Charles Reade)
Novelty
Low nonsense is like that in It is the nature of man to be
the barrel, which is altogether greedy for novelty. (Pliny the
flat, tasteless and inspid. High Elder) g§
nonsense is like that in the battle, Nude
which has in i-eality no more As nude as a raw oyster.
strength and spirit than the other, (Irvin S. Cobb) !^
but frets, and flies, and bounces, Numb
and by the help of a little wind Growing numb from the feet
that is got in it, imitates the up, like one stepping deeper and
passions of much nobler liquor. deeper into stream of ice. (Edgar
(Sir Richard Steele) Lee Masters)

^ W
Numberless
Numberless a& are the dead.
Nose (P. J. Bailey)
Flabby nose like a brinjall, 01 Numberless as the gay motes
egg-plant. — (Arabian Nights) that people the sunbeams. (Mit- —
ton)
Sharpnose like a sharp Numerous
autumn evening, inclined to be Numerous as grains o. silver
frosty towards the end.

Noso like a
;^
(Dickens)

promontory.
in
( the bowels of the Rockies.

Nuiiieroua as hailstone.— (fife

(Robert Barton) tfp

Nothingness Numerous as insects on tbfl

^
Precipitated into
— (
mysterious banks of the Nile. — (^

^
depths of nothingness.
Numerous as the mouths of
Novel the Ganges.
A novel, like a bundle of C3

( .(
wood, the more fagots it contains Numerous a.S the holes in the
the greater its value.— (Bui wer- mantle of Diogenes.—
Lytton) Diogenes
IKtl
 ( 322 ) Oblivion

Niimi9r6u3
forest. —
Numerous
( as

as the
the leaves

mouths
of

of
wheu the tempest is o'er, and that
the vessel leaves tumbling, they
fallfrom protesting to cursing.
—
^ ^
the Nile. Ife (John Webster)
n
Numerous
Cheshire cheeFe.
Cheshire
as
— (maggots in a

made
Lover's oath are like letters
of glass, that glisten fair,
Numerous as the pearls of but couple uo restraint. (Zeno)

^
morning-dew, which
herbs and flowers.--— ( hang on

n^ffjOaths are but words, and

heaven. —
Numeious
(
As numerous as the

as sands
stari

Upon the
of
I
words but wind.— (Butler)
l?i

Obdurate
ocean shore. —(Philip Freueau) Obdurate as the grave.
I (Welsh Ballad)
Numerous as unsold shares in Obedience
an over-capitalized mining com- Passive obedience, like jump-
pany.— (F.G Griffith) ing off a castle-roof at the word of
a czar. — (Emerson)
Nutn'rous as birds that o'er
—
the fore&t play. (Walter Harte)

Numerous as the fish that sail

the wide sea over.
Song)
(Italian Love
success,
Obedience
the
(.EscUylus)
is

Obedient
^
the mother of
wife of safety.—

T
Numerous as shadows haunt-
— (
Obedient as the needle to th e
ing fairily the brain.— (Keats)

Numerous
(Gerald Massey)
as a —night, of stars*
S
Numerous as leaves that strew
poie.
Obedient as
(George Meredith)
a
^
puppet.
0&|&

^
Obedieut as the scabbard.
(Shakespeare)
the autumnal gale. (Shelley) Obediently
Obediently beut as a willow
Numerous as the hairs of his ',
wand.-(Ouida)
head. - (Paul Wiggins) i
Obey
Obeyed, as the she-wolf obeys

o SB
Obey,
^*
bor mate, with u growl. (Hugo;

like children under

Oaths paternal sway. (Sauthoy)
Lovers' oath are mariners'
prayers, uttered iu extremity; but
'^«
^viso
Obi vion ( 323 ) Occupation

The man who never alters hia

livion.-(^S) ^
Remorselessly swept into ob-

Obnoxious I
opinion is like standing water,
and breeds reptiles, of the mind.
Obnoxious as an alligator.— (W. Blake)
(Tom Taylor) 1

Obscure
Obscured as with a veil. —(
^
Obstinate
Obstinate as a mule. — (
Obscurely Obstinate as death. -^-(Dryden)
Moves obscurely like the hand
of fate. — (Aaron Hill) Obstinate as a pig, will neither

^ f lead nor drive. —

(Thomas Fuller)
Suffered
scurity. — ( to languish in ob-
Obstinate
berg)
as sin. — (Strind*
His observations are like a Obtuseness
sieve, that lets the finer flour pass,
and retains only the bran — (
An unsuspected moral obtuse

things.

wide. — (
^
— (Samuel Butler)
Not deep the poet sees, but
of ness.

( Obvious

Obvious as
Obvious
as circus

noonday
parade.—

suu.—
Men are born with two eye?, (Robert Browning)
but with one tongue, in order that Obvious as stars on a cleat
they should see twice as much as night.— (Alfred Henry Lewis)
they say— (C. C. Col ton) 1
Obvious as the midnight stars.
The differencd between land- — (William I. Mickle)
scape and landscape in small; but
there is a great difference between Obvious as the gloss upon m
the beholders.— (Emerson)

One mau does not

tbing.- (Euripides)
see anv-
^
new s lk hat —(H. G. Wells) 91

Occupation
Business whets the appetite
For him there's a story in and gives a taste to pleasures as
every breeze, and a picture in exercise does to food. (Lord
every wave.— (Moore) Chestarfield) »M
Aa the oxe most apt fot
is
as
bonnet and the hoopskirt
the
— (
coalscuttle the plough, the
horse for thft
carte, and hound for hunting: ao
ought men to chuse that o ecu pa*
tiou, and trade of life wheruuto
Ohstinacy by nature they are most apt. AS
Occupatioas ( 324 ) 0\i
he which hath 110 house of his Offensive... as smell of cooking
owne, wandereth here and there: in the drawing room. — (Edith
so he which followeth no certaine Wharton)
trade of life, must foolishly assay
many sorts and chaunces. Office
(Robert Cawdray High offlce is like a pyramid:
tt A only two kinds of animals reach
W the siimmit, reptiles and eagles.
m
h
Odd
-(D'Alem bert)

Office (Public)
! t
jg

Odd as the gesticulations and Great positions render great

antic motions of the Satyrs. men still greater; small positions
(Bacon) make little men smaller. (La
Bruyere)
Odorous
Oiorous as an augel's fresh- Oily
culled crown.— (P. J. Bailey) Oily as the king's constable's
lamp. — (Dr. Johnson)
Odorous as a bDnquet. (Hugo)

Odorous as incense gathered Old as a serpent

Old
( —
in
B [
the skies. (Richard Savage)
Old as circus (
jokes.
Odours
is like precious odours,
Virtue Old as creation. — ( )

most fragrant when they are

incensed and crushed. (Bacon) Old as man.— (
ill,
The good are better
as odours crushed are sweeter
made by Old as poverty.— (
IS ^
itill.- (Rogers) ®
( Old as the age of stone.

Off
Off like a snip. — ( Day)
Old as
Old as my
hills. —
little Anger. — (John
Offence As old as fate. — (Lord De
O! my offence rank, it
is Tabley)
•mells to heaven.
«

eyes.
Offensive
(Shakespeare)

Offensive aH the sun to weak

— B
Ever old aud ever new
-(George Da Maurier)

As old
(W. H. Mallock)
as human
^ as love.

nature.-

9M» As old as heartache. —(Mere-

Old ( 325 ) Opeu

dith Nicholson) His head was silvered oer with

As old as the itch. — (Spanish age,and ong experience made
S him sage.- (Gay)
Proverb)

Shaw) ^
Old as th",

Old ns ths earth

(Arthur Symons)
shepherds. — (G.
is old.—
B. K
Old age plants m.^re wrinkles
in the mind than in the face.
(Montaigne)
A'

Wax old like a uarment. His golden locks time hath to

(New Testament) silver turned; time too swift!
Old aa hope. (Francis swifness never ceasing!— (J
Thompson) Peele)
Old age
The man of wisdom is man Old men for the most part
of years. — (Young) are like old chronicles, that give
The feet are slow when the you dull but true accounts of time
head wears show. — (Prov.) past, and are worth knowincr only
S on that score. — (Pope)
Doubts, horrors, superstitious US £
fears saddened and dimmed des-
cending years. — (Scott) Oozing
The damp oozsd up through
Old age is reputed to ba the thick brick floor like water
incorrigiblel; for myself, I believe through the sides of a moorish
one ought to think of correcting jar.- (Balzac) N
one's errors even when a hundred
years old.- (Voltaire)
Oozing like a leg of mutlou

( The chill of forlorn old aso. on the spit. T. F. M^agaer)

Men of age objact too much,

consult too long, adventure too
—
Opaque
Opaque
as the sky. — (
^
little, repent too soon.
K
(Bacor)

Tis tlie defect of age to rail

Open
Browning)
Ooen
Open
as
(Adjective)
a smile.— (E. B.

as shore to sea. (Rose

at the pleasures of youth.— (Mrs T. Cooke)
Centlivre) l£ Open as the mid-day. — (R.
Davenport)
No one is eo old that he does Open as the inn gates to
not tliink I13 has a year t

^
-(Cicero) R ^
live. :> receive
coingne)
Wide opea
guests. (George

like
Gi s-

the church
Open ( 326 ) Opiniicn
portals when the bride and bride- generated in hi>h, pi 'cos. — (C. C.
groom enter. — (O. W. Holmes) CoIton ) f
Social opinion like a sharp
Open as a plate. — (George knife. There nre
is

foolish
people
Meredith)
who regard it only witli terror,
Minds open as a well-read and dare not touch or meddle
book. — (Charles Sangster) with it; there are more foolish
people, who, in rashness or de-
Open as day for malting
charity. — (Shakespea Ire) fiance, seize it by the blade, ml
get cut and mangled for their
pains; and there are wise people,
Open (Verb) who grasp it discreetly by the
Opened inertly like hands of handle, and use it to carve out
the dead.- (Hugo) their own purposes.— (Mrs. Jame-
To lay
oyster.
Knave")
— (" A
oneself open like an
Knack to Knowe a
son)

, ft

The dreadful Opinions! they are like the

truth was
ooened like a gulf. — (Jame.n S. clothes, we wear, which warm
us, not with their heat, but with
Knavvles)
ours.- (Walter Pater)

Open-mouthed
Opsn-mouthed like a crow
at a walnut. — (Balzac) Opinion is like a pendulum
and obeys the same l.iw. If it

Open-mouthed as a young goes past the

center of gravity
on # one side, it must go a like

—
child wondering with a mind at
fault.— (George Meredith) distance on the other; and it is
only ofter a certain time that it
finds the true point at which it

Old

delled,
operas aie

retrimmed
Opera
like old
bonnets: they ought to be remo-
from time to
can remain
hauer)
at rest.

^ — (Schopen-

tirae.— (A. E. Housman) Opinions, like fashions, always

it H descend from those of quality to
An opera, like a pillory, may the middle sort; and thence to
be said, to nail our ears down the vulgar, where they aro drop-
nnd expose our head. — (Young) ped and vanish. — (Swift) .tJOLiS
JtlfJ— if S gjJ

Opinion Some praiaa at morning w h a

Opinion, like showers, aro they blame at uiglit, but abwaya
Opinion ( 327 ) Opportunity

think the last opinion right.— In war, opinion is nine parts

(Pope) in ten.- (Swift)
mm Opportunity
Whenever opposite views are wise man will make more-
A
held with warmth by religions- opportunities than he fin ( p.—

minded men, wo may take it for (Bacons)

granted there is ^ome higher truth
which embraces both. All high Youth, once none, is gone:
truth is the union of con trad ic-
tioiw.— (F. W. Robertson) ^ deeds, let escape, are never to
be done. —
(Browing)

R ^
ffii

Tieniember that all things are

it is
We
hot;
must baat the iron while
but we may polish it
at leisure.— (Dry den)
only opinion and that it is in
you power to think as you please. The man who loses his oppor-
-(Marcus Aurelius) tunity, loses himself. (G. Moore)

The absurd man is he who Jupiter himself cannot bring

never changes his opinions. back lost opportunity. 'Phce-
(Barthelemy) IP drus)
Knosv the propar season.
We are more inclined to hate (Pitta cus of Mitylene)
one another for points on which Oh how bitter a thing it is
we differ, than to love one another to look into happiness through
on points on which we agree. another man's eyes.-— (Shake-
(C. C. Coltton) speare)
N
Opinions are like fashions, There is a tide in the a flairs
beautiful when we first assume of men, when, taken at the flood,
them ugly when we discard them. leads on to fortune; omitted, all
-(Theodore Jouffroy) the voyage of their life is bound
m shallows and in miseries.—
Ve tire all of of us more or (Shakespeare)
less the slaves of opinion.
(Hazlitt)
There is nothing either good Lost opportuni'tes are like
or bad but thinking makes it so. precious jawels locked in the
(Shakespeare) casket of regret, whose key is
held in the unchanging past.
Opinion is ultimately determ- (

lined by the feelings, and not ifti

—
by the intellect. (H Spencer) M. Opportunitays, like eggs, don't
kum but one at a tima. —
(Josl>
Opposed 328 ) Orator\

Billings) to flay them.— (Suetonius)

Opposed
Opposed as the two poles.
(Robert Browning)
Opposite
A heavy oppression seemed to
brood upon the air.— gS (
( Opposite as black and white.
mood. —
An optimistic after-dinner-

( Opposite as fire and [^water. Optimism

The world is a looking-glass,

( Opposite as oil and vinegar.—

Opposite as day and darkness.

and gives back to every man the
reflection of his own face. Frown
at it and it will in turn look sourly
Thomas Dekker) upon you; laugh at it and with
it,and it is a jolly kmd Compan-
Opposite as the spheres. ion. — Thackeray)
(Huge)
Opposite as men's thoughts

^
and words. -(Lyiy)

Opposite as heaven and hell.

— (Wordsworth)
The
extent, a poet. (Emerson)
Oratory
orator must be to a certain
—
Opposition He who would be a good orator
Opposition to a man in love
is

^
like oil to fire.

Without contraries
gression.-
—
(Ouida)

(Wm. Blake)
is no pro-
ought to be just, and skilled in
the knowledge of things just.
(Plato)
Gieero used to ridicule loud
speakers, saying that they shouted
because they could not .speak, like
No government can be long lame men who get ou horseback
secure without a formidable op- because tliev cannot walk.—
position.— (Disraeli) (Plutarch) Cierco
AS ; 1C- ' H^f fi ^5^5
Oppressed like foul air. "Young man" he (Phocion)
(Dickens) said (to Lsosthenes) "you» spee-

—
Oppresses like a crown of gold.
(Alexander Smith) i§ ^ i
ches are like cypress- trees; stately
and
of
tall,
them".
but no fruit
(Plutarch)
to corno
Phocion
Oppression m Leothenes
Ideal oppression ...something
like a fly serving spiders.— (Hugo) There are three qualities
which an orator ought to display,
It is the duty of a good namely, that he should instruct,
shepherd to shear the sheep, not he should move, and lie should
Oratory ( 329 ) Out
delight. — (Quintilion)
Ornament
Oratory, like the drama, The world is still deceived'
abhors lengthinesa; like the with ornament. f Shakespeare)
drama, it must keep doing.—

^
(Bulwer-Lytton) For loveliness needs not th<i
foreign ail of ornament, but is,
when unafiorned, adorned the

of all
Good order
good things.

Method
is

good in all things.

is
the foandntion
— t'Burko)
ni ost .
— '

Ornamental
^
T ho m hoi] )

Ornamental
a.s a band-wagon.
Order governs the world. The
devil is the author of confusion.— Ornamental as the signs of
(Swift) old London. — #
Ordered as the morning light. Oscillated
(Tupper) The earth... osciilate.i like a
thin crust beneath our feet.—
Painful orderliness, like a (Charles R. Darwin)
city procession under the conduct
of the police. — (George ineredith) Ostentation
Rich windows, thai
exclude
the light, and passages that lead
to nothing.— (Gray)
Orderly, like fresh veiled nuns.
-(Balzac) Does it come to this, %hat
Oriental
Oriental as a rug. - ( )
your knowledge is nothing to you
unless 3ome other person knows
that you know it?— (Persiua)

( Original as original sin.

Out
Originality
All good things which exist
In
through
and
cloth.
out
— ( like a need I

(
are the fruits of originality.
Come out like beetles when
the lights are out. (J. M. Barrie)—
W
That virtue of originality that Out like a burnt taper's flarrie.
men so strain after is not newness, (R H. Dana.)
as they vanily think; there is Go out, like an untended
nothing new. It is only genuine- lamp. (Schiller) tH
ness. (Ruakin)
Outburst ( 330 ) Painted

Own
A sadden
burst of feeiin^— (
uncontrollable out-
IT
Man
seeks his own good
the whole world's cost.—
at

Outlook
The man who sees both sides P
of a question is the man who sees
absolutely nothing at all. (Oscar Packed
Wilde) Packed like, the I^avas in a
Outrageous closed book. — (O. W. Holmes)
Outrageous as the sea, dark,
wasteful, wild. — (Milton) Pain (Noun)
Pain... like the bitterness of
— (Thomas Hardv)
—(
Outspoken
Outspoken as a north-wester. …
dissolution.

Pain and pleasure, like light

Outs poker ne ss and darkness, succeed each other.
Speak thy purpose out I love -(Sterne)
.not mtstery or doubt. (Scott)
¥ They
His heart's his mouth: what
his breast forges that his tou^ue

©
must vent. (Shakespeare)
woman
Testament)
shall be in pain as a

^
that travaileLh.
If ^^
(Old

Over com*
Overcome us like a summer's
cloud.— (Shakespeare)
pain.
loves to
(Tennyson)
^
There are two things to be
sanctified— pains and pleasures.
(Pascal)
He make parade of
VM
Overtake
Overtake. ..like sea wayes. Nothing begmg and nothing
(I. Edgar Pemberton) ends that is not paid with moan;
Overturned lor we are born in other's pain,
Idols are overturned like new- and perished in our own. — (F.
mown Thompson)
k^)
grass. (Sigmiind Krasins-

Overwhelm Her eyes

^ ft ^Jt
dilated vith pain
Overwhelmed, like the miner aiid fear, — (te] g
Upon whom a roof has just fallen.
— (Dumas) Sift38 Painful

O'erwhelining his
like misty vapors
fair
when they
sight,
blot
Painful, as a -visit to the den-
tist.— (Guy de Maupassant)
®
^
the sky.— (Shakespeare) WiWU Painted
Fainted like the leaves of
Painted ( 331 ) Pale

Autumn. — (Longfellow)
Grew pale, like a flower that

ing. — (
Painted like the sky

Painting
of morn- is eut off. — (Assyrian)
Pale as a mooi) that moves
As is painting, so it is poetry: alone through lonely space.-—
so»ne pieces will strike you more (Alfred Austin >

if you stand near, and some, if

you nre at a greater distance: one Pale as snowdrift in the frost.

lovee the dark; another, which is (CX D. Bell) m
not afraid of the critic's subtle Pale as the moon before the
ja.digment, chooses to be seen in solar ray, (Samuel Boyse)
t^c Tight; the one has pleased
once, thai other will give pleasure Pale as a white stone. (Char-
t>f ten times repeated.— (Horace) lotte Bronte)
Pale as baby carved in stone.
-(E.

^
B. Browning)

Pale. ..as one who saw an

(
Pale
Pale as an angel of the grave. (
ecstasy beyond a foretold
)• '
as croeus grows close
Pale
agonv.—
""

nun.- (
Pale and grave as a sculptured beeide a rose-tree's root.— ('
^
( Pale as a drifting blossom. gavoy.—
Pale
(as the silver cros9 of

—
Pale as linen.

Pale as parchment. — )
Lytton) ^
Pale as a spectre.— ( Bulwer-

Pale like only lily. (Burns) —

•

worm.— (
Pale as the gleam of a glow-
)'
Pale aa 'ashes, or a
(Samuel Butler)
^
clout.—-

(
;

Pale aa the haggard features Pale as death. — 1

of despair. —
Pale as a candle. (Dickens)
Pale as the rose-leaves wither-
ed in the northejn gale. — ( Pale as a nauffin.— ( M
Pale
ch 2 eks.- (
as turnips were his
bv
^
Pale as
tlie
3t
fires
night.— (Dryden)
when mastered

Pale
promised death. — (
with the sickness that Paie as a ghost.— (Dumas) M
Pale ( 332 ) Palt

Pale as a sheet. — Pale as pale November dawn.

-(Amy Leslie)
Pale like a white, bright boat
in the sky's vast seas. (Margaret Pale as is the face of one who
Ewing)

Pale and thin as an autumn

moon'.-(F. W. Faber) ^
sinks exhausted in oblivion after
a night of deep debauchery.
(George Cabot Lodge)

(
^ —
Pearly pale, like a white
transparent veil. — ( Pale as light. —
Pale aa a lily crowned with
moon-light.— (Gerald Massey)
— (Chaucer)
Pale... as

Pale as
any

a
lead.

witch.— (Richard
Pale as a pearl. — &
Cumberland) 35 Pale as the sister of death.
Pale as driven by a beating (George Meredith)
storm at sea.— (R. H. Dana) Pale. ..as the icy moon.
(Lewis Morris)
Pale as a new cheese. Pale as marble. (Robert Mor-
(Thomas Dekker) ris)
Pale as a wreath of Alpine Pale as the angel of consump-
—
snow. (Lord De Tabley) tion.— (Henri Murger)

Home)
Pale as wordless

Pale as
^
frosty
grief.

snow-drops.
(F. W. Pale
(Oriental)
as despairing

Pale as tho ended night.

woe.—

(Hood) (John Payne)

Pale like cheeks that
chill of affright.—
?a
( feel the Palo as a rain-washed rose.—
(Agnes Repplier)

^Pale as a lover dying of des- Pale aa blossoms. (James

pair.- (Arsene) Whitcomb Riley)
Pale as the fair changing
Pale as a corpse.-^- (Hugo) moon. — (C. G. Rossetti)

Pale she was as lily yet un- Pale and meagre as a court
smiled on by the sun.— (Jean page.— (Fielding) Ifti

Ingelow)
Pale as a mooubeam.— (Flau-
Pale as the moonlight beam.— bert)
(Mrs. Inglis) Pale as brow of one on whom
"
Pale as
stone.- (Keats)
smooth-sculptured
« the axe is falling.
; If
Pale
(Goethe)

whom
ft

the fates as-

Pale ( 333 ) Pallid

g^nd. —

Pale as a whitewashed wall.

saken
Pale as the
skies« — ( moon in slar-for-

(Schiller) Paler than young snow.

Pale and wan, as watchlight
by the bed of somt departing More pale than the meadows
man.— (Sir Walter Scott) of Anjou— (Andrew Lang) Anjou

PaJe Like the white shore of Skies as pale, as moonlight in

Albion.-(Shelly) a shadowy sea. (Arthur Synions)
Pale as Jephtha'3 daughter.—
Tennyson) Jephtha Pale as a tear. (John B.
Pale as Paris plaster. (J. E. Tabb)
Planche) Pale as the passing of a ghost.
Pale hs any clout in the versal -(Tennyson) ^
world. (Shakespeare) Pale sad faces liks faint flames
dving. —
G. S. Viereck)
Pale, as if a bear was at his M
heels.
Paled

moon. —
Pale
( lustre like the silver
-(Ouida)
Paled, as a candle by the sun.

Paleness
!^
n
Pale as his shirt. — ( Paleness, like winter.
mont and Fletcher)
(Beau-

A .leath— like paleness. ..like

—

Pale as the breath of blue one who trembling waits his fatal
smoke in far woodlands. (Wil- doom.— (Ariosto)
liam Sharp)
Pale as yonder waning moon. A sudden pale, like lawn being
-(Shelley) spread upon the blushing rose.—
Pale and pure as a maiden (Shakespeare)
secluded in secret and cherished
in fear.— (Swinburne)
Pallid
Pallid &b coffined clay.—
Pale and sweet as a dream'8 (Emily Bronte)
ddlight. — Pallid as saint. (E. B. Brown
ing)

( Pale as grass or later flowers.

Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf.

Pallid as the
zer Elliott)
Grew pallid
snow.—'(Ebene-

and shrank, as a

Pale at the glimmer

on moonland meres.— ( of stars
taper in sunlight sinks faint and
aghast. (T. Buchanan Read)
«
Pallid ( 334 ) Paralysis

Pallid as a ghost.— (Words- Panting, like a bird that, has

worth) A often beaten his wings in vain
Palpitate against his cage. (Dryden) —
Palpitating at the least emo-
tion like t lie nostrils of an amorous Softly panting like a bride.
ti-ross. Gautier) (Robert Herrick)

^
Pante'l like a forsre bellows.—
Like the birch- leaf palpitated. (Hugo)
(Longfellow) * Panting, like a run-down hare.
Palpitant as men's pulses (Douglas Jerrold)
palpitate between the flowing and
ebbing tides of fate that wash Panting like a wrestler lying
their lifelong waifs of weal and under the knees of his successful
woe through night and light and opponent. (Guy de Maupassant)
twilight to and fro. — (Swinburne)
Panting, like an engine with
its steam up. —
(J. R. Planche)
Pamper
of their paunches,
Pampering Pauiing, and swept as by the
like a monk that maketh his
jubilee.— (Hugh Latimer)
sense of death.
g ,
(Swinburne)

Pang
breath.- (
Panted like a sick man's fitful

A pang as hot as death's* is

chill with fierce eon v ulse.— (Keats)
,
feels
Panted hard, like one that
a nightmare on his bed.
.(Tennyson) ^
heart.-
A
(
great pnng

Pant
gripped her
As the hart panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul
Panting like the hounds of after thee, O God.— (Old Testa-
Summer, when they scent the ment)
stately deer.— (W. E. Aytoun) <?

B Paradise
Pant like a netted lioness. — A fool's paradise is better than
(E. B. Browning) a wiseacre's purgatory- — (^/^ )

m
Pant like climbers. — Paradox
Virtue itself turns vice, being
Pant as in a dream. (Cole- [
misapplied, and vicj sometiine's
ridge) '
by action dignified. (Sliakes-
Panting like a spent hound.— peare) ifii

(Sir A. Conan Doyle) ,

iTri

JS
Paralys is ( 3«5 ) Parties

Serenity
death. — ( of paralysis and sling. — (Charles Reade)

that comes
Parch
Mouth parched

former dnys.— (Dumas)

like a shade
to salute friends of
Parties
^
Parted thence, as pearls from
diamonds dropped.— (Shakespeare)

Party divisions, whether o»

Parch'd like the fallow desti- i the whole operating for good or
tute of corn. — (Francis Fawkes) evil, are things inseparable from
free government. —(Burke)
Pardon
God pardons like a mother
who I believe that without party,
kisses away the repentant
tears cf her child. — (Hen rv Ward parliamentry government is im-
possible.- (Disraeli)
Beeclier) i
Parents He serves his party best who
Lovers grow cold, men learn
serves the country best. —
(R. B.
Hayes)
to hate their wives,
parents* love can last our
(Browning)

Paris
^ and only
lives.
I

i
Government is like an hour-
glass; when one side is quite run
out, we turn up the other and go
on again. -(D. Jerrold)
When good Ainericaus die
Party spirit, which, at best, h.
—
they go to
Appleton)
Paris. (Thos. Gold
^ \
but the madness of many for the
?ain of a few. (Pope )
'
Pakks
Public money is sea rely ever When two parties divide a
s^p well employed as in securing kingdom, no more pleasures, no
bits of waste ground and keeping more tranquillity, no more ten-
them as open spaces. (Sir A.
derness, no more honesty! (Vol-
Helps) taire)

Paroxysms

^
It is true that there are always

oi
Over and over the paroxysms
longing submerged her. — & two parties amongst us [felie Eng-
lish] which fight with the )en
and by intrigues; but it is also
Parted true that they always unite to-

3 ^
Parted like a scattered flock
before a lion.— (Sydney Dobell)

Parted like a stone from a

gether when it is a question of
taking arms in defence o£ country
and liberty. These two parties
watch over each other: they mu.
Parties ( 336 1 Pass

taally prevent any violation of

the sacred depositary of the av;
the shadows. — (
they hate each other, but they Passed^ like the foam of the
love the state; they are jealous wave.— (Jane Barlow)
lovers who serve \yith emulation

^(
the same mistress.— (Voltaire) * As shadows and

^
cast by cljoud
sun flit o'er the summer grass, so,

^ ft in thy sight, almighty one

W
Ifti

j
i
earth's generations
liam Cullen Bryant)
pass.
.;^'
— (Wil-

Parting
When we two parted in silence Passed away as fairies vanish
tears, half broken-hearted
at the bi^ak of day. (Hartley
and to j

(Byron) Coleridge)
sever for years. I

Thy grace must pass as un«

Since there's no help, come
remembered things. (Lord De
^
^
I

Tabley)
let us kiss and part. (Drayton) — I

Time passed away as a tale

I which is told.— (Dickens)
In every parting there is an
image of death. (Geo. Eliot)

(
I

Passed otflt as quickly as a

Pass
sunbeam. — B
New generations pass, like
Our memory passes like a shadows on the grass. — (Julia C.
ripple in the water, or a breeze in j
R. Dorr)
the air. (Amiel) fB Passed like a meteor.
(Dumas)
Passes like a mode. -( ) \

Pass away as in vision.—

(Frederic Harrison)
Passed
cavalry.— ( like an uncurbed The generations pass, like
autumn's fruits, gatriered, con-
sumed, <and springing fresh to

( Time passes like the wind. life. — (James A. Hillhonse)

* R
Passed along the waves like the
chari'ot
sen)
of Neptune.— (Munchau-
Neptune
(Hugo)
Passed
? away

Pass away as flowers that

like waves.

I bloom at morn, at eve decay.—

Shadowy faces, known in (Francis Sc (tt Key)
dream,
stream.
pass
— (a as petals upon
»
a
When she had passed, it seem-
Passed like a pi an torn into music. (
ed like the ceasing of exquisite
— SB »
Pa" ( 337 ) Pass

2
Pasfied Ilka a
(Macauky)
dream away.

Oh, why should the spirit of

^
a windy skv.
~ — (A. J.

Passed away, like shadows of

the raoon.— (Adelaide A. Procter)
Munby)

mortal be proud? Like a swift-

fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, Pass away, iike the remm-
a flash of the lightning, a break brance of a guest that tarrietb but
of the wave, man passes from a day. —
(C. G. Rossetti)
life to hie rest in the grave.— •

(William Knox) Pass'd by me as miser-3 do by

f beggars. (Shakespeare)

Passed, like a cloud on the

Little troubles pass like little blast.- (Shelby)
ripples in a sumny river. (W. S. Must pass, as g»i»ins of sand
Land-or) must fall, beneath the infinite
calm sea of ages and eternity.—
Passed like the mournful cry (Harry B. Smith) il3

of sunward sailing cranes.—

(Longfellow) Passed away like su miner
clouds. — (Southey) 5
And pas3 as love and sorrow
^ They p^ss like a shade away.
Tames Macpherson) ^ pass, as
glass,
shadows flashing down a
as dew-flowers blowing iu
Thoy p3ss like a breath from flowerless grass. (Swinburne)
the face of a glass. (Don Mar-
quis)
Pass awg,y, like a thin cloud Passes as the grey dew from
that melts across the moon.
(James Montgomery) (
the morning monntain grasses.

Pass as the flight of a year.

Passed like autumn
withering in the blast. — (
foliage
Passed, like a sudden squall
that tears the sea, yet leaves a

jnists
Passed
(Thomas Moore)
All
like a day-dream.

gently pass away, like

that flee from a summer
(Bayard Taylor)

Pass like
^^
sun to smile. the billows down.

a light.
^
(Senney-
sea. scn)
Passeth away as a cloud.
All my
days passed like an (Old Testament)
empty vision.— (Lewis Morris >

Pa3s'd, like swift clouds across

river.- CM-b) ^^
Pass through thy hand as a

Fassedj like a" sweet but trau«

M
Pass ( 388 ) Passion

isent dream.— (Frank Waters) murmur, but the deep are dumb.
-(Sir Walter Raleigh)
As a cloud of the sunset, slow
melting in heaven, as a star that Our passions, like the seasons
is lost when the daylight is given, turn; and now we laugh, and
as a glad dream of slumber, now we mourn. (Nicholas Rowe)
which wakens in bliss, she hath

from this.-(Whittier)
^
paaa'd to the world of the holy
jfii'H

Pass, like shadows through a

II
like

saye)
A man
a
without a passion is
waiting for wind
vessel
and not budginj?.— (Arsene Mous-

are cheap things,

Passion g
common
twilight land.— (Oscar Wilde)

Passed
H
like
swept away.— ( Wordsworth)
a fancy that is ^ as nuts, and just as often
rotten.— (George W. Lovell)

Passions among pure thoughts

hid like serpents under flowerets
Passages sleeping. — (Thomas Moore)
Disfigured by passages of

(
solemn and pompous monotony. Passion, like the sun at noon,
that burns o'er all he sees, awhile

(
^^^
as warm, will set as soon then,

Passion call it none of these. — S

B

( ^^
Passions are like fire and water,
goo 1 sorvn nts, bat bad masters. Passions aro like storms which
)
full of the present mischief, serve
The passions are like fire,
to purify the atmosphere. (S'ir —
useful in a thousand ways and
George Ramsay)

.^
dau^orouti only in one, through
their excess. (C. N. Bovee) Conscience the voice of the
; ) ass ions
is

soul; passions are the voice of the

are like roses, the body. Is it astonishing that
you cut them, the more they

^^ these two languages are

mor.') often
grov/.— Arsene Houssaye)
(

Our passions
are like convul-
-
contradictory?— (Rousseau) 75r

^ (
sive which, though they make
fits, His passions ventei them-
snee".—

^^
us stronger for the time, leave selves with J

us weaker ever after. (Pope)

Passions
fT

are likened best to

sioii.
Fitful
— ( tumults of noble p.ta-

a;

floo'is and streams; the shallow Passionate

Passionate ( 339 ) Patient

( Passionate
>

Passionate men,
as

like fleet
young lcve. Alien paths
junketing?.— ( and irrelevant

;(
hounds, are apt to overrun the Patience
seem. — Our patience will achieve
more than o u r^f c r ce — ( B u r k e '
)
K .

The passionate are like men

©^
standing on their heads; they see Patience is bitter, but its
all things the wrons: way.— fruit is sweet. — (Rousseau)
(Plato)
Patience under misfortunes is

(©
Passionate as the
Hun
Pi.ssive
Him. — like opiates in a fever; toasuig
tumbling only
temper.- ( irritate tkt
|nd
dis-
'fe

( / V3 as a in o n viment.

Passive as a tabbv-c?
Patience b so like fortitude,
that she seems either her sister

Passive-like dead bodies, with

open, fixed eyes. —
(Joseph Cr»nrad)
or her daughter.

A
( Aristotle)

mun
without patience
poor
^
k is ..like a lamp without oil.
Passive and tractable as a (Arabian Proverb)
chil'J. — Jll

by.
Pr.st
The past is like a funeral gone
The future comes like an
Patient
Patient as rocke.— (
unwelcome guest. (Edmund Patient, like a marble man.
Gosse) (E. B. Browning)
B
The terrible past lay aftar, Patient as a stone. (Charles
like
night.
a
— (
dream lift behind in the G. Duffy)

§
Patient as a god. — Dumas)
Pat Patient as death. (Maurice
Truths, as pat as paving Hewlett)

^
stones in cities. -~(N. P.

Pathetic
Willis) As patient under injury as
any Christian saint of old.— (J. G.
Holland)
Pathetic as an autumn leaf. Patient as destiny. (Robert
(George inoore) G. Ingeraoll)
Pathetic as the violets that Patient as an ant. (Keata)
bloom on a grave. (Oscar Wilde)—
Patient as a hen-bird. — (tfeife)
Path S •
Patient 340 ) Peace

Gazing patient at the sky;i Pause

like some marble carven nun, A pause a pause aa
felicitous
with folded hands w hen wcrk is of a thoughtful reasoner. (Bul-
dene, who mute upon her tomb wor-Lytton)
doth pray, till resurrection day.
-(Kincsley) H Paused
Paused, like some slow ship
with sail unfurled waiting, in
Patient as sheep.

Patient as a gentle stream.—

(Shakespeare)
(Macaulay) sea by scarce a wavelet curled.
(George Eliot)

Peace
^
< Patient as the famale dove. Like the rainbow, peace rests
upon the earth, but its&arch is
Patient as the lam*)
(George Wither)
Patiently
!& is she.— lost in heaven.— (Bulwer-Lytton)

as an old
Patiently worn Pienty is the child of peace.
horse. — (George Meredith) (W. Prynne)

Patiently as the spider weaves

the broken web.— (Bulwer-Lytton)
there
Saying pjace,
is no peace. (
peac^;
)
when

s Peace maketh Plenty, Plenty

Patriotism maketh Pride, Pride maketh piee
He who
can love nothing.
w
loves not his country
(Byron)
[pleasure,] Plee
Poverty raaketh
maketh Poverty,
peace. (
Who loves his country cannot
bate mankind. (Chestertion) Peace is to be produced by
w victory, not by negotiation.
Dear are our parents, dear are (Cicero)
our children, our neighbours, our
companions: but all the affections Peace itself is war in mas-

^
of all
own
men are bound up in their
native land. (Cicero)

True patriotism is of no party

querade.-(Dryden)

Plenty breeds
Envy; Envy, Warre; Warre, Pover-
Prldej Pride,

ty; Poverty, humble Care. Humility

-(Smollett) breeds Peace and peace breeds
Patterings Plenty. Thus round this world
Patterings like
.rain.— (O. W. Holmes)
IC
an April's
« doth roale alternately. (Robert
Hayman)
^BW W
^>J
Peace ( 341 ) Peep

Peace
^
hath her victories no
Peals like the eternal thun-
ders of the deep. (Byron) ilU
less renowned than war. — (Milton
Pearls
Peace brooded over all. ( Pearls are like girls, they re-
quire as much attention. (B3a- —
Peaceful consfield)

and Fletcher) ^
Peaceful af sheep.— (Beaumont
=
Pedantry
Pedantry
in learning is like
hypocrisy in religion, a form of
Peacetul «ns the advance

^
of
—
summer. (M. D. Conway) knowledge without the power of
S it.— (Addison)
Peaoefnl as stars at twilight.
(Hugo) Pedantry and taste are as
Peaceful as two pups in a inconsistent as gkyety and melan-
basket— (Alfred Henry Lewis) choly.— (J. C. Lovater)
k
Peaceful. ..as n virgin lake. Pedigree
(Lowell) Adegenerate nobleman, or
Peaceful as summer woods. one that is proud of his birth, is
(George MacDonald) like a turnip. There is nothing
Peaceful as hired hand. good of him but what is under,
(James AVhitcornb Riley) ground. —
(S. Butler)

Peaceful as clew-mist from an

evening skv. (Bayard Taylor) Better be the best of a bad
family than the worst of a good
—
green on Sunday.
H
)(
Peaceful as a village cricket- one. (Gregorius Nazianzen)

Peel
Peaceful as falls the dew.— Peel, likeslippery elms in
(William Winter) spring. (Eugene Fitch Ware)
Peaceful as the morning.
(Wordsworth) Peep
Peacefully Peep like Venus
rising from
Sleeping, as peacefully as a her shell. (James Montgomery)
little girl tired of playing.— (Guy SJII
de Maupassant) vm
Ran the sweet strain peaceful- Countless eyes, peeping like
ly like a river in. its flow. (Ella stars through the blue evening
B. More) skies. — Thomas Moore)
•
Peal Peep, like mos^-grown rocks,
Peep ( 342 ) People

half-seen, half bidden in the they must be set flyingr to bring

copse. — (Sir Walter Scott) in more. — f

Peeps like a star o'er ocean's

western edge.— (Shelley) Pensive

Peeping like modest virgins

from secluded bowers. (Fanny
-(Balzac) .
Pensive as a sailor in a coach.

Pensive as a wel fed kitten.

Forester) (Josh Billin-s) f^g
Peeping and peering like an Penuriousness
excited parrot. (Kingsley) A cold, hard frosty penurious-
H
Peevish
Peevish as a sick monkey.
risti" (
ness was his prevalent cliaractte-
— SS ! Tii

(Jame Puckle) People

some
—( ^ ^
Peevish and impatient, like
ill-trained man who

Pellucid
is sick.
Impatient people, according
to Bacon, are like the bees, and
kill themselves in stinging others.
(GeorgvJ Eliot) Bacon
^
Pellucid as a pearl. — (Robert It is with narrow soulM people
Browning) as with narrow necked bottles,
Penalty the less they have in them the
The penalty
derbolt from
SI
ialls like
heave 11. —
a thun-
Jf«] it out. — "Swift) ^
more noise they make in pouring
5Hl£
^
Pendant The
voice of the people has
Pendant like berries on the about it something divine; for how
branches.— (Munchausen) otherwise can so mauy hends agrroo
together as one? — l^i^ u7-

Penetrate Ife W it
Penetrating as fear. —
Peoples, like planets, possess

( Penetrates
^
Penetrating as the east wind.

like a vaper.
the right to an aclipae. And 11
is well, provided that the light
returns and thnt the eclipse <loes
:

(Hugo) not degenerate into night. avii

Penetrated liim like a gimlet. and resurrection are synonvinnnp.
(Guy de Maupassant)

lid
Penny - vise
not penny- wise; riches
^
-(Hugo) rfSff

The people in mass are like

^!
^^ ^ -- i 61

have wings, aud sometimes they '

metal in the one; and, as all ll'o
fly away of themselves acme times iron that ever came from a Sdii
People ( 343 ) Perish

mine would never hew a block

or divide a plank until it was Perfection
fashioned into the shape of a Complete in perfection as a
hatchet or a saw, so the strength great line in poetry, as the flight
of a people can never perhaps be of a bird, as the curve of a falling
made capable of producing much wave. —
(Richard Le Gallienne)
effect in war, till it is extracted
partially and moulded into that No one can be perfectly free
factitious aud highly polished till are free; no one can be
all
instrument called an army. perfectly moral till all are moral;

^^^
(Sir Archibald Alison) no one can be perfectly happy till
M all are happy. (H. Spencer)
m IJ

1C-—
I

I
^ ignite

^ fi'

(
Perforate
Perforate ike a civil war bat-

If
Perceive
a fool be associated with a
man all his life he will perceive
the truth as little as a spoon
tle flag.—

(Thomas Wade)
Perfoiinance
^^
Perforate like a honeycomb.

And what ho greatly thought

(Buddha)
^
perceives the taste of

Perception
soup.
k he nobly dared.— (Pope)

Perfume
A woman smells be3t when
—
He that on the giam's
sits she sraell nothincr.
;E
(Plautus)

^
shoulder sees further than the
giant.

An
—
(French prov.)

exquisite percsption
things beautiful and rare. ( of
I

He waa perfumed
liner.— (Shakespeare)
l$
Perilous
like a mil-
M

The crisis was perilous, but

Perdition not without its charm: such as au
The gates of hell are open Indian, perhaps, feels when he

^
night ami day; smooth the descent
and easy the way. (Dryden)

Perfect
ships over the rapid in his canoe.
(Hugo)
*r
i:
;!i|
fiS

rtii

Perfect
chart. —
Perfect as
( as an astronomical

the dew-bead. (
Perish
Perish. ..like a microbe in hot
water. —
(George Eliot) ifl They perish as a robe out-
A poem roun I and perfect as worn, as faded leaves they float
n 3tar. — (Alexander Smith) away.— (Lord De Tabley)
 Perish ( 344 ) ion

»11
Perish like leaves. — (Emer- What
harder than rock,
is
eon) j
what than water?
softer Yet
Perish as the summer fly. hard rocks are hollowed out by
(H. A. Jones)
Perisheth, and is past by, like
the pearle in the fable. (Ben
:^
|,^oft water.- (Ovid)

No rocks so hard but that a

Jonson) wave may beat admission

^(
j
little in
Perisbed with him like a a thousand years. (Tennyson )

rocket which falls and quenches

its light in earth. (Edgar Lee God is with those who per-
Masters) I
severe.—
Persistent
Perished like the pageant of a
dream.— (T. L. Peacock) ( Persistent as

Personage
a mosquito.

Perish, as haze in sunrise on

the red sea-line. (Swinburne)
An erect,
imposing, personage.
martial,
— ( majestic,

sleep.— (
Perish as the snow built up of
Do not
Personalities
attack persons
expose'the vices.— (Martial)
but

Perish forever like his own

dung.— (Old Testament) Persons
Vain and frivolous persons,

^ out flame.- (
Perished utterly, like a blown- like empty vessels, are easily lajd
hold of and borne along by the
ears.— (Demophilus) $?f|j ^
Permanent a
Permanent as marble.
(Bayard Taylor) Persuasive
Perplexing Persuasive as the tongue of
Perplexing as the question: seraphs. —
(Thomas Blacklock)
<r
Do
angels even come back and
pay their debts?"
1^ IK
—
1
^ Persnaion
Men are more eloquent than
Persistence j
women made, but women aro
Persistence. ..like the obstinacy i more powerful to persuade.
of a rancid odour clinging to the (T. Randolth)
hair.- (Hugo) I

He who has the truth nt Itis

"

If the fool would persist iii heart need never fear the want of
his folly he \vould become wise.-— persuasion on his tongue. -- (Rns-
, <Wm. Blake) ,®A:J kin) &
Pert ( 345 ) Pick

Pert
Pert as a school-girl well can
be.-(W. S. Gilbert)

Pert as a circus pony.

-

(Joel
thrust. — (
The phrase was

Physician
like a spear-

Chandler Harris) One prompt physician, like a

scalier plies, and all his art, and
Pervade

^^
all hia skill applies, but two phy-
Pervading his frame like rag- sicians, like a pair of oars, convey
ing; fiver. — (Damas) g§ you soonest to the Stygian s4iores.

Perverse
Perverse as a camel, which
can neither be stopped when' he is
^ Physicians, like beer, are best
IUJ

restinsr.- (
going nor moved when he is when they are old; and lawyers,
like bread, w hen they are young
and new. (Thomas Fuller)
^
Perverse as a4iog. (Smollett)
m\ti^ A skilful leech is better far

Inconceivable
reasoning.—
Perversion

( perversion of -(Butler) —
than half a hundred men of war.

This is the wSy physicians

mend or end*us.— (Byrou)
Perversity
Mentake more pains to lose Every physician, almost, hath
theuiselvoa th.in would be re- his favourite disease. (Fielding)
quisite to keep them in the right
rond.-(K. II. Digby) A body weakens the
feeble
mind. Hence
the empire of
..

Phantasmagoric medicine, an art more pernicious

Phautasrnagorid, like a mirage to men than all the ills it pretends
beyond the Korizon. (Richard Le to cur&. — (Rousseau)
Gailienne)
Ehilosopliy
As swallows give us imtima- A physician is a man^ who
tion of fair weath^'So the lemons pours drugs of whlth lie 'knows
of philosophy point out to us the little into a body of which he-
way to attain tranquility of mind.
— (Demophilus)
knows less.
^
— i

Pick

a
Philosophy evolved
ast spider's loom. — (
itself,

'
like Picked out like kernel from a
nut.~(R. C. Bates) {li
Pick ( 346 ) Pinned

^ ^#
6 Piercing as tho mid-day sun.
Pick as clean as a bone. — (Shakespeare)
(Samuel Wesley) Piercing, like the morn, now
Pictures "
ithas darted its lustre on all hid-
A room hung with pictures is den things. —(Shelley)
a room hung with thought. — (Sir
Joshua Reynolds) Piled
Piled ...like sacks of wheat in
S:)niething indescribably reck- a granary.— (Longfellow) IT
less
ture.
@
— (
and desperate in such a pic-

Pillowed
Pillowed
upon its alabaster

Picturesque as the
architecture of the snow."

As picturesque, as the figures

(
"frolic
arras
with sweet
like

^(
to a
toil.

Pinch
child
—

Pinch like a trap that shuts.

o'erwearie*!

Barham) .\
we see in an arabesque. — (R. H. (Swinburne) IVilS!
Pine
Like an eagle caged I pine on

steel.
Pierce
Pierced like pard by hunter's
- (Byron)
this dull unchanging
(Epes Sar^eut)
ft
shore.
^
Pines she like to the hyacintli

like a
When
(
the fever
knif&—
pierced me out on the path of the hill-top;
shepherds treaJ it aside, and its

^ ^^ ^
purples lie lost on the herbage.—

—(
These thoughts pierced me (Sappho)
like thorns. Ifii

Pink
Pierce as the lightning flashes.
-(Eliza Cook)
He pierces like a ladv's
— (Qsmanli Prov.)
needle. shell. — ^
Pink as the lip of the sen-

( She flushed an agitated pink.

^
It shall as level to your judg-
ment pierce as day does to your Pink as the cheeks of sweet-
«ye.— (Shakepeare) and-twenty. (Temple Bailey) ffk
*T
Piercing
Piercing as light.— ("M^^s Pink as a rose leaf
(Frank D. Sherman)
is pink.

Piercing. ..as the air. — (Francis

Fawkes) Pinned to the mire of the
Pious ( S47 )
m
murky, the charnel river like fair
fresh flowers on the filthy breast
(Jobn C. Neihardt) #
—
^
of a kajr. (Agnes Lee)

Pious
am
As pitiless to them as the
Hyrcanian tiger to a lamb chop in
the original wool.— (New York
Pious as broken-kneed post- Sun) Hyrcanian

^—@
hprse. (William B. Bernard)

Pious as virgin enclosed. iron

Pitiless
hammer.— (Ouida)
as the strokes of
§S
an

(Maurice Hewlett)
Pitiless as hail from heaven.
Pirouette (C C. Fraser-Tytler)
Pirouetted like a bit of iantoc-
ciHi.-(Ouida) fl Pity
Piteous As much is to be taken of
pity

Piteous as a spirit wailing in a

a woman weeping, as of a goose
world of tears.— (Gerald Massey j
going barefoot —
(Robert Burton)
i4 I
t
Pitiable Then
cherish pity, lest you
Pitiable, like every ignorant j
drive an angel from yonr door.
mau who wins a triumph.— (Hugo) I (Wm. Blake)
j

Pity is sworn servant unto

Pitiful he that's hired forth love; and thus he sure, wherever
<leath and loves the slaying yet it begins to make the way, it lets
better than the hire. (Swin- the master in.— fS. Daniel)
burne)
T
Pitifully Pity melts the heart with love.
Pitifully as a poor girl of the -(Dryden)
pavement will pretend to be a Can you pretend to love and
clergyman's
Shaw) W
daughter. (G. B.
twins. — (Dryden)
^
have no pity? Love and that are

^
Pitiless "It is a hard thing," said Age-
Pitiless as northern night.— silaus, "to be pitiful and wise at
W. Barber) the same time." (Plutarch) Age-
silaus
Pitiless as night.— (Ambrose Of the paths that lead to a
all
Bierce) woman's love pity's the straight-
Pitiless as the grave. (Gerald est. (Fletcher and Massinger)
Massey)
Pitiless as driving bleet.— •Soft pity enters ut ai]
Pity ( 348 )

gate. — (Shakespeare) *
As plain na noon-day.
Pitv swells the tide of love.— (George H. Boker)
(Young) S She dreses as plain as the lily
Place
The place was like soma en-
chanted town of palaces- — (
that modestly }?rows in the valley.
—
?
(Patrick Bronte) ^
Plain as truth. — CGhapraan)
Placid
Placid as a duck pond.— ( Her dress as plam as an um-

Placid as a mill-pond. ( brella cover. — (Joseph Conrad)

(
Placid as a scarecrow
field of scoundrels. —
in a
PJnin
Davies)
as
; plainness.

As plain as water's water.

(John

(George Eliot)

—(
Placid as a soft-shell crab in Plain as a pikestaff. — (Samuel
plate of parsley. Foote)
As plain to everybody as tho
Placid as Paradise. (Edwin sun.— (Dickens) >A{

^
Arnold) Plain as a dropped egg on a
Placid as a hearthstone.
(Eugene Field)
Placid as a swan that drifts in
a dream.- (Lowell)
^
plate of harsh. —
(Sewell Fend)

Plain as the way to market.—

(Franklin) : ^
Plain as vhe suulight.
Plain (Froude)
Plain' as a hat on a rack.— ( As plain as the moral law.

Plain as a steeple. — ( (Bret Harte)

As plain as the round shield
oi the sun blazing on high.
Plain as a pack-saddle, (James Huneker) K fl&I

Plain as fhe shepherd nymph Plaine.-.as tlie high way.—

in russet weeds. — ) (Lyly)
Plain as the sun in heaven.
Plain as two and two make (Macaulay)
four.-(RUl) Plain. ..as a rudimentary sum
Plain as ypur own ininiken> in arithmetic— (George Meredith)
breeches. —
( Bea u mon t and Fletch-

er) Plain as the light in the sau

Tho plains to northward or as the irmn in the moon.
change their color like the shim-
mering neckjs of dove. ^~ ( (Otway)
Plaiu as the
B
man with Ian-
Plaii ( 349 )

tern.

(
-(Hood)
Plain as whisper in the ear.
A play is like a cigar,
requires judicious puffing. — ( H

As plain
stone.— ( as a hole in a grind-

Plain as print. — (Lover)

Most plays are like pills; if
you swallow them whole they are
sweet; but, if they are chewed,
like a pill, you will, like the
Plain as a nose in a man's critic, find them bitter. —

^
faca.- (Rabelais)
Plain as way to parish church. L

Plain and smooth like a A play, like a bill, is of no

Quaker's meeting. (James Smith) value till it is accepted; nor indeed
when it is very often. (Fielding)
Plain as the sun at noon-day.
(Sterne)
Plain as a weed. (Bayard She played with a hundred
Taylor) possibilities fitfully and discaF-
Plain as the glistening planets sively as a musician rung., life,
shine when winds have cleared the fingers over a key board. (f^) -

skies. (Robert Louis Stevenson) ^

Plainly A play is like a picture: the
Plainly as heaven sees earth actors are the colors, and they
"and earth sees heaven. (Shakes- must blend with one another if a
peare) perfect work is to be produced.
Plainly as
mark a soldier. — (
shoulder-straps (Joseph Jefferson) ©»
Planet A play is like a cigar; if it is a
She saw this planet like a star failure no amount of puffing will
hung
even.- (
in the glistening depths of make it draw, but if it is a success,
everybody wants a box. (Henry

(
J. Byron)
^
& m
Plastic as potter's

Platitude
clay.
— ftii

Playful
—
( Stale and facile

Play
platitudes. Playful as a frolic boy.

Playful as a rabbit. — (George

A
all leaves.
bad play
— ( is like a cabbage, P. Morris)

A
Playwright
wise playwright should acl;
 ( 35C )

like the man who gives a magni- (0 33 ian) 31

ficent feast: he should
seek to
delight the spectators, that each' Pleasant as budding tree.—
on departing may feel ho has (G. G. Rossetti)
eaten and drunk just the things Pleasant as a scented month
he would chiefly have chosen him- to kiss.— (Swinburne)
self: not set but one dish for all
palates, one writing for al I sorts of Pleasant as roses in the
tastes.— (Astydamus, Junior) thickets blown. — (Wordsworth)

^— (
ifii Pleased
Pleased as punch: —
— r
jfeSJ5r

Plead Pleased, as infants are with

Plead like angels, trumpet- I
sleep. — (Sir William Davenant)
tongued.— (Shakespeare) I

Pleasure
Pleading like a frightened But pleasures are like poppies
child. —
(Robert Louis Stevenson) spread, you seize the flower, its
I
bloom is shed; or like the snow
Pleasant j
falls in the river, a moment white
Pleasant as a wave. (Lord then melts for ever; or like the
De Tabley) j
borealis race, that flit ere you can
Pleasant as health. (Gerald j
point their place; or like the rain-
Griffin) bow's lovely* form, evanishing
As pleasant about the house j
amid the 8torm.— (Burns)
as a gleam of sunshine, falling on
the floor through a shadow of |

twinkling leaves or as a ray of

firelight that dances on the wall,
while evening is drawing nigh.
I

|
^ Pleasure, like an over-fed
(Ha wthorne) lamp, is extinguished by the
excess of its own aliment.—-
(Hannan More)
Pleasant as the ghower which
fallson the sunny field. — (James Pleasures like the flower, frail
Macpherson) and ^fleeting ever, now decks the
bower, now 'tis gone for ever.—
IMeasant as the thunder of i
(Frederick Reynolds)
he&ven, before the showers of ^
spring. —( ^^ # Pleasures are like liqueurs:
they must be drunk but in email
Pleasant as the gale of spring,
thgA, sighs on the hunter'» ear. ^
glasses. (Romainyille)
Pleasure ( 351 ) Pluck

( Sweet is pleasure after pain.

desert. — (
Plentiful as sage brush in the

Pleasure
tires as much. —
is labour too, and
shore.- (
Plentiful as shingles on the

Plentiful as plebeians in Ox-

All pleasure must be bought ford Street. — (Samuel Warren)
at the price of pain. The difference Oxford
between false pleasure and true Pleutitude
is just this: for the true, the price Spiritual sweets to plentitude,
as bees gorge full their cells.

—
is paid before you enjoy it; for
the false, after you enjoy it. (Keats)
(John Fostfer)

B
A pleasure
life of is therefore IS
Plenty as
Plenty
the grass.— (
the most unpleasing life in the As plenty as blackberries.—
world.— (Goldsmith) (Shakespeare)
Each extreme to equal danger
Our pains are real
things, but
all our pleasures but fantastical.—
(S. Butler)
8eprate friends. — (
tends, plenty, as well as want, can

If
)

~ Plenty is the child of peace.—

Pleasure is very seldom found (William Prynne)
where it is sought. (Johnson)
S Pliant
Wicked men, for the most Pliant as a glove. (Balzac).
part, delight in false pleasures,
but good men in the true plea- Pliant as a reed, — (Charlotte

death
^
sures.- (Plato)

Exclusive
of
pleasures are the
pleasure. (Rousseau)
Bronte)
Pliant 'as the torrent flows.
(John G. Cooper)
Pliant as a w*nd of willow.
:^
A man of pleasure is a man of
(Longfellow)
Pliant as wax. (James
pains. -(Young) Shirley)
Piiant as the air. (Bayard
And
pleasure rings as surely Taylor)

^(
in her train, remorse, and sorrow,
ar.i psin. —
Plentiful
— (Eliza
Plod
Plods on like a steed in a mill.
Cook)

^ (
Plentiful as bacteria in bad Pluck
mrtter.-- Rucked like a berry from a
4 bush. — (R. C Bntes) ^^
Plumed { 352 ) Puetry

mortal men. — (Emerson)

Plumed
Plumed
like a hearse.— ( Poems like pictures ave: soma
charm when mgk, others at

—(
Plump distanoe more delight your eye;
Plump as an orange. that gives us pleasure for a single
JE
Plump ( view; and this, ten times repeated
— (P.

^~
as plenty.— still is new. Fwihcw)
Plump as a peach.— (Diekens) $
H
Plump as ripe clusters.
(Richard Duke) Is poetry, perhaps, 'a disease oi
Plump as pudding. — (Haw- humanity as the {^tirl is the
thorne)
Plump
Herrick)
as a cherry. (Robert
morbid matter
oyster?- (Heinje) ^
of tk^ diseased

PI u Dip as a partridge. Poetry is the bau4 mail! to

(Lover) ^
PJump
E
as mastiflfs. (PlautusJ
Imaginstion aod Fancy. (Keble^
i^ife
—
Let jus deam tke gloaious art
Plump, like skins of
tiny of Poetry a kind of medicine
wine. — (James Whitcomb Riley) divinely bestowed upou man.—

As plump
(C. G. Rossetti)
as plump can be.
CKoble) il
^
There is as much difference
Plunge between good poetcy and fine

( Plunged like

Plunging like the

a mad

sea.
horse.

(J. G.
verses, as between the smell o£
a flower garden, and a perfumer's
shop. — (Julius C. Hai^)
Holland) ft
Poetry ,

Poetry, in my opinion, if lik" Wisdom, and poetry are like

a tender virgin, very young and j
fruit for children, unwholesome
extremely beautiful, whom divers if too fresh.— (W. 8. Land or)
other virgins— namely, ail other
sciences make it their business ^

…… ^
to enrich, polish, and adorn, --y
(Cervantes)
1« …
ffii ^
1

week.-(W.
Poetry
the Sabbath
•

is

B.
to philosophy *.liat

^
is to th« rest of the

Yeats) €
A poet does not work Ijy The essence of all poetry ia

^
iquare or line.-(Cowper) ?^aA

Poetry i3 the consolatiou oi

to be found, not in high-wnn^bt
subtlety of thought, nor in pointed
clevernusa of phrase: )mt in thu
Poetry ( 35S ) Poets

depths of the heart and the roost Not deep the poet sees, bufc
the men who
sacred
write. —
feelings of
(Keble)
ft
— .wide.— (M. Arnold)

Poets, like angels, where they

once appear, hallow the place.
Poetry rs the devil's wine.
Augustine)
v
Poetry w hich has been defined
(John Norris)
ft ! 6
Poets are like birds: the least
as the barmoi^ous unison of man thing makes them sing.

^
(Chate-
with nature.— XCarlyle) aubriand)

Poetry, therefore, we will call For party poets are like wasps,
Musical Thought. —
(Carlyle) who dart death to themselves and

^
(George
to their foes but smart.
All high poetry is infinite; it Crabbe)
is as ftie tirst acorn which con-
(
tained

t)
all saks
•
feptentiality.

# Poets like lovers, should be

bold and dare, they spoil their
A great pp^m is a fountain for business with an overcare.
ever overflowing wi*h the waters (Dryden)
of wisdom and delight. (Shelley)
ffl Poet 8, like candles, a re all
Poetry is the record of the • puffers, and critics are the candle
best and happiest moments of the
happiest and befit mindg.
ley)
(Shel-
enuffers.— (Robert

The authors
^
Lloyd)

are like untrained

boys trying to sing: the one aim
As civilization advances, of each is to sing as loud as he
poetry almost necessarily declines. can. Whether they are singing
-(Macauluy) sweetly and in tune they neither
—
life
A poem
expressed in
(Shelley)
is the very image of
its eternal truth.
know nor care. (Keble)

As fire is
in

^
kindled by fire, so
Poetry is of all humane is a poet's mind kindled by contact
learning the most ancient and of with a brother poet. (Keble)
most fatherly antiquity, as from
whence all other learnings have
taken their beginnings. — (Sir P. The true pqet is all knowing;
Sidney) 73r he is an Actual world in miniature,
cNovalis)
Poets
Poets ( 354 ) Pollute
And poets evermore are scant
of gold.— (E. B. Browning) Poisoned his life, as a rusted
nail driven through an oak-tre«
There is a pleasure in poetic in its prime corrodes and kills.—
pains that only poets know. — (Ouida)
(Cowper)
Polished
A poet is as much privileged Polished as the bosom of a
to lie,an ambassador, for the
as star. — T. U. Aldrich)
honour and interest of his country.
-(Dryden)

Poety have morals and man-

ners of their own.
^
— (Thos. Hardy) Polite as wax.
Polite
Polite as a dancing master.
(Josh Billings)
(0. Hemy) —
Beggar envies beggar, and Politeness
poet poet.— (Heine) Politeness is like an air
cushion; there's nothing in it, but
The poetry of Dante may be
considered as the bridge thrown
over the stream of time which
unites the modern and ancient
it eases the joints wonderfully.—

(W. C. Gannett. )

Politeness is to goodness what

^
world. (Shelley) ( words are to thoughts. (Joubert) —

^
Politeness has beeu well
Poignant defined as benevolence in small
Poignant and silent like the
things. —
(Macaulay) *gf« |^
terrible questioning of one's con-
science.— (Joseph Conrad) Politeness costs nothing and
gains everything. (Lady M.
Point Wortley) |« R
Points like death's lean lifted
finger.— (Robert Browing) Political
Political mon, like goats,

( Pointed

Pointed
Pointed
as a

as
wasp's sting.

a poniard.
^
usually thrive best among equali-
ties.- (W. S. Landor)

Politicians
like the
Politicians, earth,
(Thomas Nash) are flattened at the poles. —
Poise
Poise of humming-birds
as Pollute
hanging in air— ^F. W. Myers) — ,
B Polluted as a harloi.
Pompous ( 355 ) PoftttFf

Pompous
Pompous
as an undertaker.
( I wish that we two were ft
(Thackeray)
Poor
Poor as a cab-driver in Venice.
are.- (
pair, as these happy gloves hei»
1S

—(
Poor as a rat.— ( I send to you a pair of Gloves
If you love me,
Leave out the G,

( Poor as skunk's
15
As poor as winter. —
misery.— And make a pair of Loves.
(Gloves)

2 Gloves G
Poor as wood.— (Josh Billings)
Positions
As poor as some church High
positions are like sud>
mouse. — (Lord De Tabley) mit of high steep rocks. Eagles

Poorer than a retired Spanish

t-nsicrn.— (Fortserre)
and reptiles alone can reach
them.— (Madame Necker)

Positive
^
ffi

Poor as a sheep new shorn

(George Peele)

less.— (
Poor as virtue and as friend-
- Positive as the earth
-(Shakespeare)
Possibilities
M
that cannot be done
Since
is

^ firm.

Poor as a pauper's pottage. which you wish, wish what can be

-(John G. Saxe) done.- (Terence)

Seager)
Poor as
^
Pop
truth. (Francis
The
Posterity
ye sow, another
seed
reaps; the wealth ye find, another

pea. — (
Popping about like

Popular
a parched keeps; the robe ye weave, another
wears; the arms ye forge, another

^
(G.
Popular aa

13. haw)
love. — (Lainartine)
Popular H3 the film drama.
bears.— (Shelley)

to
People will not look forward
posterity, who never look
til

Posies
So let our love as endless
(
backward to their ancestors.

prove; and pure as gold for ever. Posture

( Merrick) Posturing as proudly as a
matador. —
(Julian Street)
Voa and I will lovers die.—
Potfaer ( 356 ) Power

Pother worth more than all the gold

*bout?
And what
— ( Pounce
is all this pother on Africa's sh^r .— (Wm. Blake)

Pounced like a kite on a The labouring people are only

chick.

n …
Pounce
—
like a vulture. ( poor because they are numerous.
-(Burke)

Pounced ... like lightning.— Poverty, the reward of honest

(Wilkie Collins) fools. -(C. Gibber)
Pounced like a falcon.—
(George Meredith) The greatest man in history

jrending
on wave.—
sea
Poured
Poured hia heart out like the

(in passionate wave

all
^.
was the poorest. (Emerson

Poverty is the discoveaM of

the art?.— (Apollonius)
)

Pout Xo one should praise poverty

Pout like a disappointed child. but he who is poor. — (St. Bernard)
— (Charlotte Bronte)
ft Few, save the poor feal for
Pouting the poor. (L. E. Landon)
Pouting lip like the print
upon a pound of butter. — (Samuel Power
Foote) Power, like the hasty vine,
Pouting like the
roses in July.
*
— ( snowy buds o climbes up apace to the supporter,
but if not skilfully attended and
dress'd .instead of spreading and
With laughing eyes and dewy |
bearing fruit, grows high and
lips,pouting like the purple tip j
naked, and then, like empty title,
that points the rose's bud. being soon useless to others,
^
^
becomes neglected and unable to
(Catullus) H 31

^^
support itself. (Sir William Dave
Poverty nant) ifii

Poverty is like an upper story,

^^^ ^
irii

*
since the poor take precedency of

^
mlL-(Pilpay)

From poverty
(
I

^ Increase of power

^
to virtue the begets in-
way is obstructed.- - ) ifri
j

crease of wealth. — (^
iMf I?

( ^Fettered by poverty and

The pjor man's fatthing

toil.

is
I Power, like the diamond,
dazzles the beholder and also tho
wearer; it dignifies rfieanness: it
Power { 357 ) Prate

magnifiee littleneisf to what is Praise

con<temptible, it gives authority; Praise like gold and diamonds
to what is low, &xalt«tin. (C. C. owes its value only to its scarcity.
Colton) Dr. Johnson)

ffi As the fining pot for silver,

strange de&ire, to seek
It is a and the furnace for gold; s) is a
power and lose lLbeivfry. (Bacon) man to his praise. — (0d Testa-
Ifii ment)
The greater the pewer the
more dangerous the abuse. — ( For oh! Eternity's too short to
utter all thy praise. ) ( ,
Power, like a desolating
pestilence, pollutes whate'er it |
Praise to a young wit is like
touches.— (Shelley)

Powerful
rain to a tender flower.

Praise is
(Pope)

like
;^
ambergris; a
Powerful as the tyranny of I little]whiff of it, and by snatches,
fashion. (J. H. St. J. de Creve- i isrery agreeable; but when a man
eoeur) f holds a great lump of it to his
Powerless nose, it is a stink and strikes
Powerless as an infant. ( you down.- (Swift)

Powerless as gTubs, ( Praise is deeper thau the lips.

Powerless as stubble exposed (Browning)
to the draught of a furnace.—

&
(Charlotte Bronte)

Powerles8...as a stone (E. B.

still
The bad^when
worse. — (Philostratus)
praised become

Browning) Prance
Powerless
passeth idly by.
as the wind
—
(Shelley)
that
( Prance like uncurbed cavalry.

Pranced round it like a pair

Practicable ofcannibals about to eat a victim.
Those things which are not -(Balzac)

(
practicable are not desirable.
Prancing like a bean-fed horse.
-(Kipling)

Practice
Practice
is best master. Prate like
Prate
a parrot. (
(Oicero) K
Practice is-everything.—
.
( ..
)
Prating of the stars like an
old soldier of his scar?. — (P. J.
Prattle ( 358 ) Presence

Bailey) Precious, as are the conceal'd

Prattle com for ts of a man, locked in a
Prattled like a babbling brook. woman's love. (Thomas Lodge)
-(C. S. Calverley)
I

Prattle like a magpie.—- More precious than the rich-

(Congreve) S| jewell'd coffer of Darius. (Shake- —
Prattlers, like swallows, des- ! speare) Darius
troy the pleasure of conversation
by incessant loquacity.— (Demophi- I

Precious as is friend.-— ("Wit

lus) Restored")

Prattles like a child at

— (Coventry Patmore) ^play.
I

j
More precious far than that
accumulated store of gold and
orient gems, which, for a day of
need, the Sultan hides deep in

(
I

He lent no countenance to ancestral tombs.— (Wordsworth)

the insensate prattle. )
'
j

Prayers j

God puts our prayers like rose- Prejudice

leaves between the leaves of his Cleansed of prejudice and self-
book remembrance, and when
of interest. —
the volume is opened at last, He airily lampooned their
there shall be a precious fragrance most cherished prejudices.
springing
Spurgeon)
^
from them. (C. H.

Preach
Prejudice,
makes everywhere
lives
live on.
like

— (Thomas Paine)
its

where there seems nothing

the spider,
home, and
to

A woman preacher is like a A S

dog walking on hia hind legs. It
is not done well; but you are Prepared
surprised to find it done at ail. Prepared as a bride adorned
Dr. Johnson) j for her husband (New Testa-
fl j
ment)
« Preposterous
Precept
Irecepts are like seeds; they
are little things which do much
good.- (Seneca)
j

I Brougham) …
'Preposterous. ..as natural color
upon a fashionable check. (John

Presence
—
Jii

Precious Whosoever hath a good pres-

(Hafiz)
Precious
^ ss enterprise.— I

!
euce and a good fashion, carries
continual letters oi recomoaen-
Presentation ( 359 ) Pride

dat ion .
( angei.— (Hendrik Conscience)

Presentation Prpttv as a seraph. (Gautier)

A
ation.— (
vivid and arresting present-

Preserved
I

— (Amy ^^
Pretty as a resebnd debutante.
Leslie)
She was well preserved by a j

tranquil existence, like winter |

Pretty as a diamond flush.
fruit in a closed cupboard. (Guy I
(Alfred Henry Lewis)
de Maupassant)
Pretty, like a toy cowboy with
Press a chamois shirt and a nine-dollar
Pressed in ray heart, like j
sombrero.— (Edgar W. Nye)
flowers within a book.— (Long-
fellow)
Pressed her like corn that has Prey
been crushed in the mill. (Guy
de Maupassant) ^ Prey. ..like a fox in midst of
harvest-tirae. (Marlowe)

Press one as men press a Prey on itself, like monsters

sponge. ("Republica: a merve of tbe deep. (Shakespeare)
Enterlude") "
Pretense Prick

( Cloaked in prim pretense.

Pretty
Pricks
speare)
like thorn. — (Shake-

Pretty
patch. ( as a Pingree potato
Pingree
'Tis as natural for women to
pride themselves in fine clothes

Pretty as a red wagon. ( tail. — (

as 'tis for a pea cook to spread hia

( Pretty as a September peach.

Pretty as
-
a picture. —(
Pride is

acacia, that lifts

above
like

its neighbor plants

it
the

forget-
beautiful
head proudly

ting that it too, like them, has its

She was as pretty as the roots in the dirt. —
(C. N. Bovee>
spring time. — (Balzac) IS

Pretty as a peach such as

school boys always long for when Pride, like thy magnet, con-
they're hangin' out of reach.— stantly points to one object; but>
(Phoebe Gary) B ! unlike the inagnet, it has no
A
A little girl, pretty as an
attractive pole, but at a}i points
repels.- (C. C. Col ton) ^
 ( 360 ) Priaciplt

( Animated by noble pride.—

times
Pride, like ambition,
virtuous and sometimes
Ticious, according to the character
is some-
( A
;
flood of pride rose in him.

in which it is found, and the object Prime

to which it is directed. — (Fulke j. Prime as a fiddle. —
<Jreville)
It Prime as goats. (Shakes,
Pride is like vapour which peare)
ascendeth high, and presently Primitive
vanishes away. (Plutarch) — Primitive. ..like the praam
and the canoe.— (Hugo)
Pride, like laudanum and
other poisonous medicines, is Prince
beneficial in small, though in- Princes, like beauties, from
jurious in large quantites* No their youth are strangers to the
man who is not pleased with voice of truth.— (John Gay)
himself, even in a personal sense, j

<;an please others. (Frederick The name of a prince is like

-Saunders) j
the sweete deaw, which fajleth as
well vppon lowe shrubbes, as
hygh trees, and resembleth a true
glasse, where-in the poore maye
Earthly pride is like the pass- see theyr faces with the rych; or a
ing flower, that springs to fall, cleare streanie wherein all maye
and blossoms to die.— (H. K. drincke that are drye: not they
White)
..
Pride, anger,
like builds
onelye that are wealthy. (Lyly)
'
among the stars; but pleasure, JS
-lark like, nests upon the ground. Princes are like to heavenly
(Young) bodies, which cause good or evil
times; and which have much
Pride is at the bottom of all veneration, but no rest. (Bacon)
great mistakes. (Ruskin)

When
cometh shame. —
pride
(cometh,
||
. then
A
Principle
good principle was never
fouud solitary in any breast.—

(
j

Regarded with an exulting j

(Jane Portion)
rid e._ fH

—(
j

Pride working busily within Principle, like troops of tbe

>er. line, are undisturbed,, and stand
I^incipl< ( 361 ) Progrcsr

fast.-(Richter)

They have as many principles

as a fish has bones.— (^c^)
- Prodigal as winter
(Francis Ledwidge)
rain.

As prodigious as that of the

Print sun's swift motion of heavens.
He that commeth in print (Robert Burton) Ift

because he woulde be known, is

like the foole that commeth into Prodigality
the market because he would be
8 eene.-(Lyly) gality.
Immense and
—
careless
;prodi-

Privacy Products
No more
ftsh.-(Iryin
privacy than a gold-
S. Cobb) siice. — (
Products of dreaming indol-

Productive
Private Vigorously productive, aa
Lote should be as private a those fabulous dragon tetiHl.
sentiment as a toothbrush. — (O. (Milton)
Henry)
Productive as the sun. — (Pope)
Privilege
Kings will lose their privilege, Profitless
as stara which have completed Cease thy counsel, which falla
their time lose their splendor. into mine ears as profitless as-
(Dumas) water in a sieve. (Shakespeare)

P -ize
Prized as a stray Profound
K
gift.
'
(Thomas Talfourd)
( Profound as an allegory.

Probe
Probing with a cautious touch, ( Profound as an Arctic night.

like a treasure-seeker in
cavern.— (Hawthorne)
a dark
( Profound as a genuflection.—

and
A
(
Process
great process of searching
shifting. —
As profusely as a raspberry
furnished with seeds.
«
) ( is-

Prcgressly
Procession A common progress; like ves-

—(
The days passed in a stately sels on a common tide. (Daniel
procesaion. Webater)
Prodigal
Progress ( 362 > Property

Progress is the law of life;

man
ing) .
is not man as yet. (Brown-
part of nature.— (H. Spencer)

— …
Nature revolves but man ad-
The progress of mankind is vances.- (Young)
the incoming of the tide, which m
for any given moment is almost
as much retreat as an ad-
of a
vance, but still the tide moves
Progressive
Progressive as tiine^— (
on.- (Sir A. Helps) ii Progressive as a stream.
5l§ (Cowper)

The history of England is Prologues, like compliments,

^
emphatically the history of pro- are loss of time; 'tis penning bows
gress,— (Macaulay) and making legs in rhyme.
(David Garrick)
Virtue, if not in action, is a
vice; and vrheu we move not Prologues are like a forlorn
forward, we go backward.
hope, sent out before the play, to
(Mas-
singer)
skirmish and to scout. (P. A
Motteux)
One must draw back in order
W
Prominent
to leap further. (Montaigne)
Prominent aa a ten-cent lemon
on a fruitstand.
The long succession of the
generations of mankind should Promise
be regarded as a single man, ever Promises are like pie-crust,
living and ever learning. (Pas- made to bs broken. — i^) |g
cal)
51
ifii
Promises are like Adonis'
And to-morrow's wiser
still
gardens, that one day bloom'd
than to-day. We think our and fruitful were the next.—
fathers fools, so wiser we grow; (Shakespeare) Jib
our wiser sons, no doubt, will
B
think us so.— (Pope) g [J Prompt
as powder to the lin-
Prompt
« stock.— (C. G. Duffy) AIB
Not to go back is somewhat to
advance, and men must walk at
least before they dance.
iigp^ll ^(Pope)

Progress, therefore, is not an

accident, but a necessit/...It is
falleth
blown
Property
level
into
Property

(Catherine Sinclair)
is like snow; if it
to-day, it will be
<lrifts to-morrow.
Proportion ( 363 ) Proud

B B«P
Proportion Proud as the man who got
Proportioned like the columns rich manufacturing soldiers' shoes
of the temple. —
(Byron)

Prospect
leather.- (
out of paste- board instead of

Proud as any queen, — (George

prospect.- (
Stung by the splendor of tha
Barlow^
Proud as a mulatto in a negrq
Prosper congregation. — J. R. Bartletts)
Prosper as gardener's crops do
in the rottenest ground. (Middle- Proud as the Pope behind the
ton) peacock-fans, — (Robert Browning)
Prosperity Proud as a free born peasant.
Prosperity destroyeth the fool, (Byron)
it is like poison, like ratsbane. Proud as a peacock,— (Chau-
(Thomas Hooker) cer)
Proad as a peer. — (Bret Harte)
adversity. — (
Fluctuations of prosperity and

Prosperous
Proud as
(Richard Le Gallienne)
a young bull.—

Prosperous as the angels are.

— (E. Browning)
B. Proud as a hen with one
Protest chicken.-(B. Lowsley)

the inward protest.— 5 (

vShe stilled and trampled on
Proud as the day
(Lyly) B
is long.

Protestation* Proud as a lion when passion

.
testations.- (
He laughed away my
#
pro- stirred.

Proud
(E iwJn Markhaui)

as an einperor. — (Misa
Proud
Proud as a C3ck. ( )
Mulock)
Proud as a lord's bastard.

Proad as any prince. ( (English Prov.) |g

( Proud as a government mule.

Proud as the proudest
church disruitaries.— ( of

g
Proud as a fcm««*~ ( Proud as an empress on her

Proud as a pojjin-ja.y.— ( marriage-day. — (Charles Sangster)

(&
Proud as a tiger-lily. ( new
Proud
to{u
as a boy with a brand-
— (Jobn G. Saxe) |g
Proud ( 364 ) Puir

of its only other perfect lover i»

Proud Hs an enjoyer. (Shakes- echo. — (Sir Walter Raleigh)
peare) *
Proud as a child who will
what he would.— (Arthur Symons) Public Service
The nobleai motive is the
Proudly public good.— (Steele)
Proudly, like a bold swimmer.
-r-(Hugo) you do anything well, grati-
If
Flow. ..as proudly as Tiber by
Rome. (Edward Lovibond) ^ tude lighter than a feather; if
is
you have done anything 'wrong,

^ ^
the people's wrath is heavy &&
Proved lead.-(Plaatus) 1B^C
Proved like steel in tempering ;^ IW

^
fire.- (Byron )

Proverb
Puff (Noun)
Puff like a paragraph praising
Proverbs, like the sacred books a pill. — 0. W. Holmes)
of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the institutions. (Emerson) Puff (Verb)
Puffed himseif up like a ship
Proverbs are like arrows; they in full sail.— (Mans Christian An-
not only fast but straight. derson) ,
^
fly
(Josh Billings) Puffing out likei canvasL in a
gale.- (^ ) ;^

onion.
Provocative
Provocative
— (Hawthorne)
of tears as an blacksmiths — (
Puffing like the bellows of a

Puffed like a swimmer in the

Prowl breakers. —
(George Meredith)
Prowl, like stealthy cats. fi?

(Frederick S. Cozzens) Puffed like a leaky steam

pipe. — (0. Henty) S
Prudence
Prudence
less it be prompt.
is of
— (
no service un-

A.
Puffy as a
Conan DoyU)
Puffy
cheesecake.
^ (Sir

A calm
prudence.- ( and premeditated
ra>)
i Puffy as « bolster.

Pulee
(Tliacke-

Public His pulse leaped anew. (

The public, like the delicate
Greek Narcissus, is sleepily en- Pun
amoured of itself; and the name People that make puns are
Pan ( 365 ) Pure

likewanton boys that put coppers (Elbert Hubbard)

on the
railroad tracks. They II
amuse themselves and other chil-
dren but their little
upset n freight train of conversa-
trick may Pure
Pure
as a virgin's kiss.— (
tion for the sake of battered wit- Pare as a wild-flower. —
^
ticism.- (O. W. Holmes)

( Pure as the naked heavens.—-

Pure as the azure above them,

A pun is like a stumbling- —(
blo»k, that a man cannot always Pure as the snowy leaves that
avoid without hitting his skins fold over the flower's heart, —(
himself from it tlie better.—

»
(James Quin) «
against it, but the sooner he clears

storm.
«L
Some gleams oi feeling pure

— (
and warm as sunshine on a sky of

Punctual
Punctual as a bride at a wed-
ding. —(Balzac)
Pure as crystal.— (
Punctual like morning. flake.
Pure
— ( as heaven's snowy

—(
(James Whitcomb Riley) Like infant's slumbers, pure
and light..

moment
Punctual
sworn.
as lovers
(Young)
to the
Pure as love's heart is. (
*
Anger
Punishment
to be very specially
is
Pure as mountain dew. (
Pure as purest crystallization.
avoided in inflicting punishment.

on
(Cicero)
He that will not use the rod
his child, his child shall be used
as a rod on him. (Fuller)
Pure
modesty .
— (
as the blush of maiden

Pure as the dream of a child

^(
just descended from the heavens.
The stroke of the whip make-
th marks in the flesh; but the

^(W
stroke of the tongue breaketh
bones.—
Pure aa the lily.- (
Punster ( Pure as the saints above.

\ punster
what a burro
is

ia
to
to
a humorist
a horse. ^ Pure as the pines.
ife
— ||
Pure ( 366 ) Pure

a bird. — (
Pare as the unsullied wing

Pure and pointed as a

ft
star.
of
Pure as the angel
above,— (J. D. Drake) #t
forms

(P. J. Bailey)
Pure as winter snow. (F. A.
Pure as the dead. — Fahy)
?f
As pure as the
burns u pon an altar.
flame
— (Balzac)
that
Pure as unwritten papers.
(John Ford)
Pure as consecrated water.
«
(Gantier)
Pure as the breath of a white Pure as the summer sun of
male infant. (Josh Billings) southern heaven.— (W. S. Gilbert)
5
gells. —
Pure
(
Pure az the utterances ov an-

as the dawn of heaven's

Pure
Lytton)
as the sky.

Pure as the prayer which

(Bulwer-

unclouded day. (Thomas Black- childhood wafts above. (Byron) —

lock)
Pure as the silver from the Pure as the first blush of day*
crucible.— (Robert Blair) (Oalderon)
As pure as gold yfined.
As pure and glad as be whom (Chaucer)
first God in Eden placed. — (Robert Pare as the ba be. ( Coleridge)
Bridges) ft ifii

^
Pure...liks aureole round tlie
Pure expanse
as the of forehead of a saint.— (Aubrey De
heaven. — (Henry Brooke) Vere) ©
Pu re as blossoms, which are Pure as the stars in yon blue
newly blowne. (William Browne) sky.- (Dr. John Doran) *|

<1S

m%
Pure as the grapc3
B. Browning) 1 in wine. Pure as a burning ember.—
(Hugo)
Pure as spirits. — ift

Pure as chalk. (Robert

Browning)
Pure as the Arctic fox that
suits the snow. — ( ; ^
Pure as the thoughts of infant
innocence.-— (Dr. Johnson) t^M

^
Pure as the ice-drop that froze
Puie as bads before they blow. on the mountain. (Keats)
— (Michael Bruce)
As pure from sin and stain, as
Pure as the
pine. —
breath the
of
(Julia C. R. Dorr)
his when £den held his virgin
heart.— (John Keble) ^
Pare ( 367 ) Pure

HI
Pure as the snow-rob'd angel

(Kingsbury) «
Pure as the light of day.

Pure like the he&rt of water,

that guards the holy altar.
(Wlllinm J. Mickle) *i

you are pure like the eore of Pure as sanctity's best shrine.
earth. (Goethe) — (Thomas Middleton)
ft itt
Pure as smooth-carven mar- Pure as the white clouds, that
ble.— (Ian Hamilton ) sail round the moon.— (Miss Mit-
ford)
Pure as infant's brow. (Paul Pure as angel thoughts.
Hamilton Hayne) if* (Thomas Moore)
Pure as the dew that filters
through the rose. (O. W. Pare as the wishes breathed
Holmes) Sg in prayer. (Poe) *l

block.— (
Pure as the quarry's whitest
Pure as the summer skies.
(W. M. Prald) |t B
Pure as starlight shall their Pure and chaste as the falling
deeds of daring glow. — (W. D. snow.-— (T. Buchanan Read)
Howells)
Pure as the dove.— (0. G.
Pure as purest vestal virgin. Rosaetti)
(Sigmund Krasinski) Pure as a wreath of snow on
iWl A April flowers (James Montgo-
Pure, as the charities of the mery) «L
skies. — (John Logan) Pure as the young moon's
coronet.— (Thomas Moore)
Pure as the white stars sweep-
ing through the sky. (Mahab- Pure as any maid. (Lewis
harata)
Pure as the wild white rain.
(Edwin Mark ha ru)

Pure as the
f
first
^
opening
IS

of
Morria)
Pure as the pure in heart that
shall see God. —
(Misa Mulock)

Pure as the sunbeams gild the

the blooms in May.— (Marston) placid deep, when zephyrs close
*l their wings in listless sleep.—
She is as pure, as good, and as (Andrew Park)
beautiful as an an^el. (Guy de
Maupassant) It j» Pure as a bride's blush.—
(Coventry Patmore)
As pure ae April's snowdrops
«re.— (Owen Meredith) Pure as any go wan [daisy].—
Pare C B68 ) Purge

(H. Riddell)
As pure and clear as the
cherry-blossoms blow in the land dew.
Pare
— ( a3 the dawn and the
SS
of
?
Thua-and-So. (James Whit-
comb Riley) t
I

( Pure as the depth of pain.

Pure as a joyous prayer. ( (. Pure as the wind and the sun.

Pnre aa truth. —
Pure a a virgin purity,— (0. G.
Rossetti) Pure as morns of paradise.
As pure as a mountain spring. (Bayard Tayor)
- (Ruskin) Purer th,an snow.— (Old Testa-
Pure as thougts that
saint— (A. J. Ryan)
thrill a ment) ;
Pure words: as silver tried in
a furnace of earth, purified seven
Pure as grace.— (Shakespeare) times.

( Pure as sin with baptism.

*i ii»
Pure as speechless infancy.
Pure as the breath of dawn.
-(Cilia Thaxter) «L«

(Shelley) II Pure, as is the lily or the

Pure as an infant's thought. mountain snow. (James '
Thom-
-(Southey) if* son)
Pure and painless as a virgin's Pure as the snowy leaves that
dreams. (Swinburne) >| fold over the flower's heart of
gold.— (Henry Van Dyke) II

the world. — (
Pure as at the daydawn of
Pure as melting dew.

— ( (Garcilaso de Vega)
Pare as

Pure as
faith.

Eden's dew. —
S
( ^
Pure as the snowflake ere it
falls and takes the stain of earth.
-(Alaric A. Watts)
«
*t
Desire pure aa babe's
nestles toward the breast. (that
Ifii

(Whitti*)
Pare as
Pure
^
as

the
An gel- worship.
IB
mountains of
Pure
snows.-
Pure
( fire

as heaven.
or

—
flowers or perpetual
ter)
Pare aa
snow.— (William Win-
1«
nature is.— (Words-

nag
Pure as love's heart is« — ( worth)
:i: ii^stiiwti'
Purges as with
n>;
1
':.":8".
fireof pur-
,

Pure as one purged of pain gatory. (Swinburne)

that passion bore. fH R >'.
 m
Purified

Patified from passion's stain,

( )

^
Puzzle

like the moon, in gentle splendour

ruling o'er, the peaceful main.
(Bernard Barton)
Cheeks
purpose and feeling.
ISI
fuf rowed
(by strong

Purposeless

Coppee)
Purified as by

Purity
>«
fire. — (Francoipi
hay.— (
Purposeless as to give a goose
g

sent
The purest
into a
soul that e'er was
clayey tenement — Pursue like a shadow. — (
(
(T.
S
Carew)

Blest are the pure in heart,

for they shall see our God.
(Keble) «L
Pursuing like a whirlwind.—
(Samuel Butler)
The howl pursued me like a
vengeancejjf—C Joseph Con red)
^
Purple Pursued as hawk pursues its

Purpled ae with stains of prey. —

(Edna Dean Proctor)
wine.-(T. Aldrich) *
Pursued like raging hounde.—
Purple, crhnson, and scarlet, (ohelley)

nacle.— (
like the certains of God's taber- Pursued them like the
-(Voltaire)
Push
furies.

of
The deep and solemn purple
the snmmer night.— i ( Pushed like a fencing master.
-(Colley Cibber)

Purple as a pan&y. ( Pushed,

native sea.
like a fish to its
(George Meredith) |Q

Purple like that of a prelate. Push on like ambition.

— (John Dennis) (Sydney Munden) M
Purple. ..like robes of a king. m
(Robert Noel) Puzzle
Purple like the un plucked Puzzled as a hen when her
—
plum. (Elizabeth D. Stoddard)

Purple, like the blush of even.

water. — (
ducklings suddenly take to the

-(Wordsworth) A puzzled look, like i forei-

gner trying to catch the meaning
Purpose
Purposes like eggs, unless they
be hatched into action, soon run
into rottenness. (Samnel Smiles)
of words in a language he does

,« *
not. understand.
—
—
Balz&c)
H
&
Quail ( 370 ) Quick

Quarrelsome
Q Quarrelsome, like a sparrow.
(Dickeiw
Quail Qiiarrelous as the weasel.
Quails like a naughty child. (Shakespeare)
(G. B. Shaw) Queer
As queer as Dick's haU)and,
Quake made of pea-straw, that went

( Quake like an aspen

Quaking like an owl oat in

leaf. nine
not meet at
Diek's
times round, and
last. —
would

the sunshine.— (Balzac) g

Elflg B Quench
Quaked like river-shaken Quench in tears like a star in
rash.— (William Morris) the sea. — (P. Bailey)

Quaking and quivering like Qnenched ... like torch- flame

a short
ducking.- (
haired puppy after a choked in dust.— (Robert Brown-
ing)
Quenched likti
A
a consumed
Quarrel torch.- (Spenser)
Thua love and quarrel (April
weather) like vinegar and oil Quenched & 9 a flame. (Swin-
together join in an easy mingled burne)
strife, to make the salad up of Querulous
Jife.— (Robert Lloyd) jlfc Voice was sweet indeed, but
it was thin and querulous like
that of a feeble slave in misery,
Potter quarrels with potter, who despairs altogether, yet can-
poet with poet, and beggar with not refrain himself from weeping
beggar.- (Hesiod) and lamentation. (Coleridge) ^

if
Quarrels would not last long
the wrong were only on one side.
! S 16

La Rochefoucauld) Questions
The men may ask a
greatest
When two quarrel both are foolishquestion now and then.
In the wrong.— (Prov.) (John Wolcotl ft' 15}

m Most questions are like a

The quarrels of lovers are like plank: have two sides. (Sydney —
•showers that leave the country Munden) ffiin— ffli
more veFdant and beautiful. Quick
(Madame Necker) fft Quick as a flash. —
w
Quick ( 371 ) Qaitt

Qiiick as an arrow. — ( grey-hound's mouth. (Shake-

Quick as a winfc.— ( speare)

Quick as the morning ray, or

Quick as gunpowder.
A
( ev'ning beam. (William Thom-
son)
Quick as the lightning's flasb,
— (Juan
wing. (
Quick as the flash

Quick as the twinkling

of a qnail's

of a
Valera)
Quickening
Quickenning as sunshine.—
bed-post. — (Frank Harris)

—(
Quick as hell can scorch a Quickly
feather.

Quick as a stab. (J. M.

Quickly as a cabbage bed
produces suails. — (
Barrie) Quickly as a scalded cat goes
Quick as greased lightning.—

Quick
Bartlett)
as a darted beam
« of
through a back window.

As quickly as iron in the fire

light. — (K. D. Black more) passes through the various stages
ffl between warmth and white heal.
Quick as a fear. (E. B. -(J. M. Barrie)
Browning) M A
ed tree.— (
Quick as finches in a blossom-
—
Quickly as iron to the magnet.
(Helen H. Jackson)

Quick as thought.-— (Thomes Quickly as a dream that dawn

Carew) devours. — (Eugene Lee-Hamilton)
Quick as an eyelid's beat.—
(Oavalcanti)
Quick of scent as a vulture.—
(Cumberland) ^
Quiet
Qaiet as a graveyard. — (
Quick a» a dart. (Goethe) — Quiet as a wasp in one's nose.

mHChange quick, like eyes that

—( i

Quiet as death. —
brighten. — (J udah HaLevi)

^ (
Quiet as dreaming trees.-—
Quick as barrels popping at
a bird. —
(George Meredith) Quiet as murder. —
Quick
ffti

as torrents run. — ( ( Quiet as the hush of evening.

Quick as wings. —

Thy wit is as quick as the

a
As quiet as the lightning
flyon a feather-duster. —
»
( of
Qniet ( 372 ) Quiver

Quiet as two kittens. — ( (Elizabeth S. P. Ward)

Quiet people are dangerous.— Quiet as a nun breathless with

La Fontaine) adoration.— (Wordsworth)
Quiet as a woman the first day
and a half after she's married.—
(Beaumont and Fletcher)
(t
Quiet as a nun,s face» — (
Quieted
Quiet as despair. (Robert Quieted like love overcoming
Browning) strife.— (Adelaide A. Procter)
Quiet as are quiet skies.
(Ellen Burroughs) Quietly
Quiet
CDickens)
Quiet
^
as
as

a
a sepulchre.

sleeping boa.
Float
winnowing
quietly,
by. — (F.
like
W.
Ansels
Fabe^f"

(Hamlin Garland) Quietly as a cloud. (Kipling)

Quiet
Henley)
, Quiet as
as

if
a statue.

shod with
(W.

felt.
E.
( Qaietly as a cloud he stole.—

As quietly as spots of sky

(Hood) among the evening clouds.
Quiet as a mouse. (Arsene (Wordsworth)
Houssaye)
Quiet as a stone. (Keats) Quietness
Quietness like the serene glow
Quiet as a nest of monasteries. of a halo. —
(Joseph Conrad)
(Amy Leslie)
Quiet as a heart that beats no Better is a handful with
more. -(Longfellow) quietness, than both the hands
full with travail and vexation of
—^^»
( Quiet as the tranquil sky. spirit.— (Old Testament)

Quietude
(Gerald Massey) »
Quiet, as of dreaming trees.—
Quietude which seemed to

»
Quiet as at anchor in a dead
calm. (Munchausen) J|?in
him
water. — (
beautiful as clear depths of
11^

As quiet as a settin' hen.— Quiver

(Scottish Prov)
Quiet as a larab.— (Shake- ( Quiver like a fiddle string.

•peare)
Quiet
burne)
as the sun. (Swin- ( Quiver like a leaf
a
Quiver like jelly.—
in the wind.

( )

Quiet as a moonbeam.
Qaiv«r ( 373 ) Radiant

Quiver, like a weed in water.

— (R. D. Blackmore)
<D. G. Rossetti) ^
Quiver. ..like weeds unfolding
in the ocean. —
(Shelley)
Quivering like an eager race,
horse to start. — * Quivering as when life is hard
on death.— (Swinburne) n
Quivers like the tail of swine
gladdened by a corn feast. Quiver, like jewels in the
(Aubrey De Vere) river. — (Theodore Tilton) ^ifi

Quivering. ..lik^ a cunning

animal whose hiding-places are R
surrounded by swift-advancing Race
flame. —
(Geonge Eliot) Races as dust and surf of the
sea.— (Swinburne)
Quivered like a harp of which
(he strings are ready to spring. Radiance
(Flaubert)
Quivers as if it were ripped
with frost.— (Lolfdasa)
Shedding radiance
smiles of God. — ( like the

«S Radiant
Radiant... as moon that breaks
Quivered. ..as a breakwater-
a stormy night. (^Eschylus)

…
ward-racing seas.
^
pile quivers to the rush of land-
(Kipling)

Quivered like a willow wand,

—(Joaquin Miller)
…
Radiant. ..like a young moon.
-(Arabian Nights)
Radiant as morning. (Alfred
Tremulous quiver, like an Anstin)
arrow full drawn by the strong. Radiant like a diamond.—
(Eugene Barry) (P. J. Bailey)
S Radiant... like paths of the
Quivering. ..like a vibrant gods.-(Carlyle)
music-string stretched from moun- Radiant as the day. — (Sir
tain
ing) …
peak to sky.— (E.

-
B Brown-

Quiver, as if they stood upon

Srmuel Ferguson)
Radiant as the queen of love.
Homer)
Radiant as the blossomed lea,
the verge of an imminent peril. — (Philander Chase Johnson)
—(George W. Curtis)
Radiant as the starry night.
Quivering like a man's hand "Lays of Ancient India") i
when he raises it to say irood-bye.
-(Kipling) Radiant as snow.— (Owen
Quivered like forest-leaves. Meredith)
Radiant 374 ) Rampant
Radiant as summer son in Like a wild thing, suddenly
morn. (James Whitcomb Riley) aware that it ia eaged, which
flings and bruises all its body at
Radiant as a lark.— (Owen the bars, he rose, and raged.
Seaman) (Jean Ingelow)
Radiant as the air around a
star. — (Shelley) Eaged like a fury.— (J. R
Pianche)

of
Radiant, like
the dawn.— ( the phantoms Raged within
scorpion's nest built in
trails.- (Shelley )
ine, like
my
a
en-
IS
Kadiant aa the bloom of day.
(William Thomson)
Radiant as hope, when hope
was young.— (Alaric A. Watts)
i:
Rage. ..like
a seething pot.— (Tasso)

Raging like one mad

boiling
^
liquor in

in flight.
15

Kadiant as sunlit clustering - (Theocritus)

golden-rod.— (C. P. Milson) Ragged
as the mouth of a
Ragged
Radiate Cornish cave. —- (G. K. Chesterton)
Radiate like the stars. Cornwall

^—
(James Montgomery) ^feftn As ragged and dirty as a Leith
Rage (Noun) carter's pony. (Scottish Prov. )

Half choked by a rising Leith

paroxysm of rage.— Rail

Raged
Rage
like
(Verb)
Satan with a
Rail like a rude costermonger.
(Beaumont and Fletcher) ^
i

toothache. — Raillery
S Riillery, like salt, should be
Kage like a lion. (Robert used sparingly. —
Damophilus)
Burton) ^
Immeasurable thirst raged as Railroads
a flame. (Lord Dd Tabley) Railroads are l.ke the human
race, they haye their stopping
Raging like an unexpected places and their termini; but
fjre.- (Goethe) unlike the human race they cau
Rages... like a leopard caged. make a return journey. (E. P. —
— (Maurice Hewlett) I5J

^
Day)
II
Kage like a thirst. — Rally
Rally like bees. — ( >

Hector rages like the force of

fire.- (Pope) Hector A; ; Rampant
Rampant ( 375 ) Rare

Ea in pant, like a lion roused sun. — (Aaron Hill) If

to wrath. —
(Charles Harpur)
Rapid as the storm - wi nd.-»-
Rang (Hafiz Pasha)
My head rang like n guard- Rapidly
room gong. — (Kipling) Rapidly as drummer-sticks.
(George Meredith)
Rang like a bell. — Rapt
Eapt as sleep. (Hamlin Gar*
Rang out like hollow woods, land)
at hunting-tide.

Rank
— (Tennyson )

Rare as a blue
Rare
rose. (
Rare as a sunflower in th&
Rank as any pole-cat, (Ben
—
desert.
Jonson) K
Rank as pumpkin-pips.
(Owen Seaman)
Rank as a fox. — (Shakespeare)
li
( Rare as a snowbird in hell.—

E
Rank
^
as any flax-wench. —(
Rare as venison
man's fcitchen. — ( in a poor

Bare as a winter swallow.

. Rankle (Balzac)
Rankle like poisons in the As rare almost as hedge-rowa
soul. — (Tupper) in the wild. — (Cowper)
Ransack
Ransacked like an old work- As rare to see the sunne with-
box.— (William Archer) out a light, as a fayre woeman
without a lover. (Lyly) —
Rapacious
As 8 vulture rapacious.— As rare as wings upon a cat,
(Smollett) or flowers of air, a rabbit's horns^
Rapid . or ropes of tortoise- hair. (Orien-

horse.- (
Rapid aa a charge of Arab tal)

Rare as a comet. (James

II

Rapid as lightning.— (William Ralph)

Bar tram) Rare as a play that does not
Rapid as the winds of spring. yawn you, or a woman that does
—(Cuchulain) not deceive you. — (Charles Reade)
Rapid as the shadow of a
cloud.— (Thomas Hardy)
S Rarer than a phoenix.—
Hftpid m the ev«r- wheeling
Rare ( 376 ) Reader
I ii
— '
'
— ^

Hare to be found as black Rave like beasts stupefied.—

swans. — (Daniel Rogers) (Robert Burton)

Rare as the stars upon a Rave like a man in bedlam.

clouded night. (Louise Morgan (George Colinan)
Bill)
Like snow at midsummer, Raved like a fiend. (J. G.
exceeding rare. (John Taylor) Holland)
® 3 Bave ike a fury.— (W. S.
Bash Landor)
Eash as fire. — (Shakespeare) Raving like a mad creature.
(Jane Porter)
Rattle
She rattles away like a wo- Ravenous
man's tongue* (W. H. Ainsworth) Ravenous as winter wolf.
(Coleridge)
Rattled in his ear like coins Ravenous as the fitful sea. —
dropped on a barroom —( (Swinburne)

»
floor.

; Ravenous as a prairie's fiie.

drum.—
Rattled
( like a parchment (Frank Waters)
Ravish

( Rattle like peas in a bladder. Ravish like enchanting har-

mony. (Shakespeare)
Rattle in the
flourish of trumpets. (
ear like a
Raw

nets
Battled like a pair of casta-
(Daudet)
.
(
The air was raw and pointed.

Rays
His bones rattle in his skin, Bays springing from the east
like beans tossed in a bladder. like golden arrows. —
(Philip Massinger)
Beach
Rattled like shutters in a Out of reach of him, as the
blast. — (Elia Wheeler Wilcox) sun! As the star— a million, mil-
lion times beyond the sun. — CJ. S.
Rave Knowles )
Raved like a bedlamite*— (
Rave like a madman. — ( <a
React like the
C. Colton)
React
pendulum.—
.

Rave an epileptic dervish.

like Reader
^-(Robert Browning) Like the tiger, that seldom
desists from pur.sv»ing man, afte/
 Reader ( 377 ) Rebellious

having once preyed upon human Ready as bird that sees tho
flesh, the reader, who has once sprinkled corn. (George Eliot)
gratified his appetite with calum-
ny, makes ever after, the most Ready all, as echo, waiting for
agreeable feast upon murdered a call.— (Thomas Moore)
reputation.— (Goldsmith)
Hestood ready for the battle
RIJ like a bull that has whetted hi»
n horns.— (Pentaur)
Readily
Readily as the smith can labor Ready as a borrower's cap.
at his forge. (Shakespeare)
« Real

hollow. — (
Readily as water rushes into n Real as the violet3 of April
days.— (Martha G. Dickinson)

Met the gale as readiJy as the Heal as the staia. — (Richard

butterflies meet the sun. (Eliza Le Gallienne)
Cook) S Real as a hand. (Vance
a Thompson)
Readily as condemned men Reason
take reprieve. —
(Swinburne) Reasons are like liquors, and
there are some of such nature as
Beading none but strong heads can bear.—
Much readingis like much (Edmund Burke)
eating, wholly useless without
digestion. (Robert South) Reason is to faith as the eye ia

to the telescope. (John Caird)

Reading maketh a full man;
conference a ready man; and writ- Reason, like virtue, in :t

ing an exact man. — medium lies: a hair-breadth more

might make ua mad, not wise.
A
vigor.— (
graceful

Beady
readiness and (Walter Harte)
^ Ifli

Ready like
cold weather. — (
a porcupine for Humao reason is like a drun-
ken man on horseback; set it up-
on one side, and it tumbles over
Ready
for the
like the golden censer
aloes and cassia. ( on the other.— (Luther)

flebellious
.

'

^
Ready
(Carlyle)
as primed cannon.

m
Rebellious
(Thomas Hey wood)
as the
W
sea.
B ^
 ( 378 ) Red

Recede Like an over-charged gun,

Receding as the skies. — (Ro-

^
recoil. (Shakespeare)
bert Leighton)
Receding as a dream recedes.

+
Recoils, and climbs and closes,
-(Swinburne) as a wave the sea turned back.
of
Receding as a cloud in air. — (Swinburne)
(Bayard Taylor)
m Recreation
Receded, as mists fade before is intended to the
Becreation
a morning sun. — (Barrett Wen- mind, as whetting is to the scythe;
dell) to sharpen the edge of it, which
Reckless otherwise would grow dull and
Loud-voiced and reckless as blunt. He, therefore, that spends
the wide tide-race that whips the his whole time in recreation, is
harbor-month!— (Kipling) ever whetting, never mowing: his
grass may
grow, and his steed
Reclined starve. As contrarily he, that
Reclined like some vacuous always toils and never recreates,
beauty lounging in a guarded is ever mowing, never whetting;

harom. — (O. Henry) labouring much to little purpose:

as good no scythe^ as no edge.
Recognition Then only doth the work go for-
About as much chance of re- ward, when the scythe is so sea-
cognition as would the breathings sonably and moderately w betted,

(
of a lute under an elevated train. that it may cut; and so cuts, that
may have the help of sharpening.
I would also so interchange, that I
Recoil neither be dull with work, nor
Recoiled as. ..he had seen a idle and wanton with recreatien.
snake
rad)
in his path.

Recoiled as
creature touched
S—
if
(Joseph Con-

an
unclean
him.— (Richard
(Joseph Hall)

^^
7J
7J

H. Dana, Senior)
^ V
Recoiled from its purpose, as
from the verge of a crag. (Long-
fellow)
Her imagination recoiled. —
^ ffti

it JS
I(ecoi!ed, as if she Lad been Red
face to face with an appHrition. Red as any rose in June
(Guy do Maupassant) ftj (C. F. Alexander) &
Red ( 379 ) Red

Red, like a cardinal. — (Leonid

— (Chaucer)
Andreyev) jfc
Red as a beet.— ( • Red

Rede
as a fox.

as blood.— (
Red

Red
as a blister.

as a brick.
—
*C
Rede as rose.— (
mx Red as a tile. — Daniel Defoe)
Red as a cherry. — iJldttl

(
i

lied as beetroot.— (Dickens)

Red as a coal.— iSUtt I

UWI^ ^iic-rgir^h#da«Sj Red as gore.— (Michael Field)

Red as a
i

danger signal. —(
Red as if he were going to
—(
Jit j

Red as a hunter's face. I

choke.— (George MacDonald)

— — (Fielding)
I

Red as a petticoat. Red as baef.

Red as a red wagon. — Red as the sangaree. (Ri-

ilt
Red as aeoka flowers. ( chard Garnett)
&
*t

—
*C
Red as a turkey-cock. — ( Red
(Gibbon)
as deep as bull's blood.

Red as the blood -drops from a

Ifil

Red
— ( as fields of heather on wounded heart. — (Frank W. Gun'

[^
fire. *t saulus)
Red as the fire of a pipe. —( Rod as coral. (Anthony
* Hamilton)
Bed as the fire in a stove. Dry red, like old blood.—
Jfe (Maurice Hewlett)
Glowed red, like the ishrik
seeds, fresh fallen, unbroken, With hue as red as the rosy
bright.- (Arabic) bed which a bee would choose to
ishrik seeds (^fi ^) dream in.— (C. F. Hoffman)
Red as a plum. (R. D. Black-
more) Red as the beaoon-light.—
Rad as with wine out of sea- (Hogg)
son.— (E. B. Browning) jfe Red as an angry sunset.
(Jean Ingelow)
Face of him. ..red as that of Red as the rose is red. (Omar
foggiest rising moon.— (Carlyle) Khayyam)
law Red as slaughter. (Kij)ling)
Bed as the highest colour'd
Gallic wine. — (Cbatterton) jfcto Red as the fire oi a furnace.—
Red ( 380 ) Reel

(Lamartine) Jjtt

(
1

Red as a beacon the wind has

^^
upblown.— (Sidney Lanier)

Nose had goi as red with pas-

Red

Red
as hot
jfa:

as love or
browa of shame.

shame. (
sion as the protuberance of a tur-
key-cock when gobbling out Us ( Lips red as morning's rise.

unutterable feelings of disdain.—

(George Macron a Id)
Ked as the rains of hell.

Red as a poppy '(Thackeray)

[S (
Red
Meredith)
as murder. (George
Red as mountain-ash berries.
— (Zacharias Topelius) |T ^
( Red

Red
as

as a
the

dawn.
British Army.—

(Henry Mor-
Red

*C
as
(Theodore Watta Dunton)
the reddest ruby.—
j|t

ley) Red as the banner which

Red as a lobster.—- (Thomas enshrouds the warrior-dead when
Nash) strife is done. — (Whittier) feiD
Red as a mazer from an alder-
tree. (Robelais) Red as ruddy clover.— (Word-
sworth)

(T.
Red... as the forge's
Buchanan Read)
mouth.—
jfcto might
Red
be.
as the
— (
Redolent
print of
ifoJtn
a kiss

Red as from the broken heart. Redolent... as a clover-field of

D. G. Eossetti) ffi I
honey. —
(George W. Curtis)

Red, like

lied as fire.
a ruby. (Euskin)

(Shakespeare)
and vociferous. — B (
The day was at once redolent

*t Redolent with the homely

( (
(
Red
Red
^
as Mars«—
as new-enkindled

Red, as it had drunk the

evening beams.— (Southey)
fire.
j

I
scent of old-fashioned herbs and
flowers.—

Reek
Reeking as if wfth a cloud of

{
incense.— (Max Nordau)
Ked did show like roses in a I
18
)ed of lilies shed.— (Spenser) Keeked as a wet red grave.

^ Kad

Red
as dawn.

as hate. — (
(Swinburne)
I

i
(Swinburne)

( « Reeked as fumes from bell.—

N
Reel -'
Reel ( 381 ) Regrets

Reel like masts on ocean's like reflections in water a pebble

swell.— iO. W. Holmes) will disturb them, and make a
^
Reeling, to and fro, like a
dull pond sparkle. (George Eliot)

reed. -(Hugo)
He reels like a ship that has
met with waves raised by the Reform
southeast
verb)
wind. (Osmanli Pr (- Reform, like charity,
begin at home. — (Carlyle)
Q
: must
(iff

Reel likj a leaf that's drawn Refresh

to a water-wheel.— (C. G. Rossetti) Refreshes like the first gush of
spring, or the break of an April
Reel as any reed under the shower. (Donald G. Mitchell)
wind. — (Swinburne)

(
Reeled as waves wind-thwart-
ed on the sea. —
' after a
Refreshed
shower.— (
like

Refreshed, as men in barren

dusty
'
grass

-
The
sea reeled
wine-vat splashing. (
round
)
like a
I

I
lands in draught are soothed by
hearing the glad fall of a welcome
rain.-(Ouida)
Reels like a falling cedar.
I

(Tasso) Refreshed as by the sight of

Reels, as the golden autumn ! fresh grass in mid-winter or early
woodland reel 3 athwart the smoke ' spring. (Henry D, Thoreau)
of burning weed a. (Tennyson)
B Refreshes me like a tonic.
Reel to and fro and stagger (Israel Zangwill)
I

like a drunkard. (Old Testament) 1

IS Refreshing
Refines Refreshing like a quaff from a
Refines
Browning)
as by fire. (Robert
(
crystal spring to a dying man.—
^
(
I

Refinement Refreshing as descending rains

Some exquisite refinement in |. to sunburnt climes.— )

(
the architecture of the brain.—
)
Reflected
*l
To
Refreshment
in the shade on a fine
sit
Reflected each in
like stars in a lake.— ( the other
I

I
day and look upon verdure is the
most perfect refreshmant. - —
H
(
Reflection I

All serious reflectioua are Regrets

Regrets ( 382 ) Religion

— (Mary
( A harvest of barren regrets.

Regret (Verb)
tfuly wise avoid them.
Beauchamp)
A.

Regretted like the nighting-

ale's last note.— (Wordsworth) ^ Relent
Relent her as blooming spring
Regular
.Regular as sunrise. ( unbends the brow of surly, savage
winter. — Burns) ^

(Dickens)
Regular as military drums.—

Regular as the private garden S3

Relentless
Relentless as fate.— ( )

of a Grand Duke. (Arsene Hous- Relentless as a curse.— (George

wye) Eliot.)
Regular as a lath. (Lowell) As relentless as a Greek trage-
dy.— (James Huneker)
, Regularly
Regularly as light and shadow Relentless as an invalid.
on April days. (J. Fitzgerald (George Meredith)
Molloy) Reliable

(Sir
Regularly as
Walter
clock-work.
Scott) ( Reliable f t an old wheel-horse.

Relief

voice. —
Rejoice
Rejoice as at our first love's
(Lord De Tabley)
relief.-
mm
(
His accents breathed profound

$ Religion
Like the mother of some vic- Without a belief
in personal
tor chief rejoices.— (Aubrey De immortality, religion is surely like
Vere) an arch resting on one pillar, like
a bridge ending in an abyss.
Rejoice like grasshoppers on (Max Muller)
summer
JCB !b^i
days. (Homer) ««
Rejoicing like a cloud of morn. is like the
Religion fashion
-(Shelley) one man
wears his doublet slash-
Rejoinder ed, another laced, another plain,

der. — (
He murmured
Relations
a civil rejoin- but every man has a doublet. So
every man has bis religion. We
differ about trimming. (Selden)
Kelations are like drugs,—
useful, sometimes, and even
pleasant, if taken in small
quantities and seldom,— and the
Relish ( 383 ) Renowned

Relish
To have a relish for ancient Remote
Remote
as a dream. (
coins, necessary to have
it is
contempt for the modern. — ( a
Remote like echoed voice of
one the tombs among. — (Aubrey
Reluctance De Vere)
After a
ance. — ( first

Reluctantly
moment of reluct-
song,
made us
Remote, as the dead lords of
great masters who have
what we are. — (Jean
Ingelow)

…
Reluctantly... like the steps of
a bride to the altar. (Denald G.
Mitchell) Remote and minute as the
Rely chief scene of our infancy.
On Thee let my spirit rely (George Meredith) fB
like some rude dial, that, fix'd
an earth, still looks for its light Remote as the stars are.—
from the sky. — (Thomas moore) (Charles L. Moore)

Remain
( Remote as the hidden star.—

Remoteness
Remaining, like marten-holes
iu a sand-cliff. —
(Thomas Hardy) ness. — (
Subtle suggestions of remote-

Removes
The
disease.
Force
—
remedy

is
is

not a remedy.
worse

(
than
fire. — (
Two removes are as bad as a

Rend
Rem onstrance Whose rage doth rend like
sugared
cajoleries. — ( remonstrances and interrupted
speare)
waters.

Renew
(Shake-

Remorse embers
As touch'd with
Remorse, the fatal egg by Plea- sulphurs do renew, so will her
sure laid. — (William C >wper) sight kindle fresh flames in you.

( Remorse

Remorseless
begets reform.
(Francis Beaumont)

from-
Renew
^ ^!^5
the youth, as eagle
the nest.— (C. G. Rossetti)
Remorseless as an infant's |
I

bier. -(Keats) Thy youth is renewed like the

Remorselessly eagle's. — (Old Testament)
Remorselessly as the ocean j

moves in upon the shore.— (O. W. I Renowned

Holmes) Renowned as the sun.—
Rent ( 384 ) Resemble

(Homer)
Bent
( 8W
Reproduce
Is rent as carrion by the He could have reproduced like
vulturous beaks. -^(Swinburne) an echo. — (Joseph Courad)

Repeating Reproof
Repeating.., like a drunken Reproof medicine like
is a
man .with a tune in his head. mercury or opium; if it be im-
(Richard Le Gallienne) properly administered, it will do
I
harm instead of good.— (Horace
Repel Mann)
I

Repel one like a cudgel. (C.

I

N. Bovel) Reputation
Repetition Reputation, like beavers and
To tease by ceaseless repeti- cloaks, shall last some people
tion; likethe unvaried continued twice the time of others. (Don*
—
j

action of a bore. (Samuel Rich- i

glas Jerrold)
ardson)
13 The reputation of a man is
Reply like hisshadow; it sometimes
He

^
monosyllabic
made the
replies. (
politest
)
of follows and sometimes precedes
him, sometimes longer and some-
times shorter than his natural
Repose (Noun)
Half-repose,
keeping sheep.
like a shepherd
(E. B. Browing)
size.— (French Prov. )
^g
Repoae like that
— (Bulwer-Lyttou)
of a sphinx. ( His reputation had withered.

Keputation, like other mis-

tresses,is never true to a man in
Repose (Verb) his absence. (Wycherley)
Repose, as feebler winga do

^
iu a quiet nest. (George Eliot)

who nightly
Good repute 19 like fire: once

^
Repose, like birds kindled, it is easily kept alive;
nestle iu the trees, — ("Hymn to but when extinguished, not
Time") eastily lighted again.— (Plutarch)
Koposes, like relics in an urn.
-(Wordrsworth)

(
|

Reposeful Requisite
Reposeful as a statue.

A
Reproach
faint accent of reproach.
I

i
Requisite... as
weapon. — Lyly)

Rc»emble
…
Steele iu
.

a
Resemble ( 385 ) Rest

Resembles, as a pastoral re- Resound

semble a symphony. — Alfred Voice, resounding as a brass
Ayres) trumpet.- (Gautier)
Resemble. ..as much as an
apple doth an oyster. (Shake- Resounding, like the blast of
speare) funeral trumpets.— (Longfellow

Resentment Resounds like heaven's thun-

( A deep a brooding resentment. I

i
der.-(Shaksepeare)

( She cherished no resentments.

; I
Respect
contradiction,
Respect
forbade
—
downright

Resistant I

Something resistant and inert, Respectable

like the obstinate rolling over of Respectable as a long face.

Resistless
^(
8 heavv sleeper after he has been
called to get up.-

Resistless
as the
ifil

wind.
-(Bulwer-Lytton)

sun. —(
Resplendent
Resplendent as the noonday

(Thomas Blacklock)

Resistless as a flash that

(
Resplendent as the autumn
moon. —
Resplendent as a bridegroom.
•strikesfrom heaven. (Robert — (Gregory of Nazianzus)
Jephson)
Resistless as the spirit of the Resplendent as the summer
night. (Charlotte Brooke) noon.— (Thomaa Moore) |C
-
IE
Resistless as a cannon ball. Resplendent as a beam of the
(Jeffery Farnol) morning star. — (J. I. Trowbridge)
Resolute

man. — (
Resolute as a drunken Irish-

I
Respond as
the magnet.
Respond

—
steel answers

•
to

Resolute as thunder. (John I

Ford) Responsive
Resolute as iron. (Hawt- Like the tun'd string respon-
horne)
Resolve
Resolving what I had heard,
I

^
sive to the touch. (Richard Jago)

Best

(
like a curious man over a riddle.

^ At rest, as the ark

temple.— (Bacon)
in the
Rest ( 386 ) Retain

Rested on him as lightly as bore thee on thy wanderings.

freckles on his nose. (Alice (C. E. Norton)
Caldwell Hegan) A R
Restless as the desert wind.
Rest, like beauty nestling in (Albert Bigelow Paine)
a young man's breast.— (Charles -
Lamb) Restless as a broo',. (Hiram
Rick)
Rested strange wise, as
in Restless as a veering wind.—
when some
worn
creature utterly out-
sinks iuto bed and lies.—
(Wordsworth)
Restless as a gypsy. — (
(D. G. Rossetti)

Restless
gipsy
Restless as ambition. (
Restless •" as
the winds. Restless as leaves. —
(Aphra Behn)
Eestless as the nest-deserted Restless as quicksilver. —
bird. — (E. B. Browning)
Restless as the sea. — (Alfred
Restless, like a whose
dog Austin)
master is absent. (Dumas) Restless as a riot. (Rex
' Beach)

on
Restless
warm summer's
as a blue-
day. (
bottle fly

oil
A
Restoration
restoration is like an old
painting, blackened by time,
Restless as the fire that blows and revarnished.—- (Hugo)
and spreads and leaps from high
to higher where'er is aught to Restored
seize or to subdue. (George Eliot) Restored like a re-appearing
star. — (Wordsworth)
Restless as the winter storm. Restraint
-(Reginald Meber) This like English
restraint
mastiffs that grow fierce with
Restless as water that winds tying, makes her too passion-
onward through the plains. ately apprehend those pleasures

^
she's kept from.— (John Webster)
(Hugo)

Restless as butterflies. (Leigh

Hunt) Chafed at the restraints im,
He was as restless as a wild posed on bim. —
beast in a cage. —
(George Mac-
Donald) Retain
Restless as if fluttering wings Retained their wouted vigour
Retain ( 387 ) Reverie

...as clocks once set in motion do

yet go, the hand being absent. As a dog returneth to hifl
(William Cartwright) vomit, so a fool returneth to his
folly. —
(Old TestfHiient)
Retire M W
Gloomily retired; like clouds Returning like the patriach'a
ttiat long having threatened rain,
vanish behind the hills.— ( dove, wing-weary from the eternal
sea.— (Whittier)

Returning, like a ghost unlaid.

Retire within himself, like a -(Wordsworth)
tortoise when attacked. (Volt- — Revealed
aire) Through the driving mists
Retire as noontide dew. revealed, like the lifting of the
(Wordsworth) Host, by incense-cloud almost
Retired ...like the moon in the conceald. (Longfellow)
West, when she foresees the shower
and hides her fair head in a cloud.
— (James Macpherson) ii of bees in a glass hive. ) (
Reveald his doings like those

Calmly retire, like evening Revel

light.— (Nathaniel Cotton) Bevelled is my changeful
dreams, like petrel on the sea.
Retort (Emily Bronte)
—
( Retort leaped to his lips.
Revenge
Retreat
( Private revenge is wild justice.

which
Retreated. ..like

spring.
ft
draws
— (Dumas)
back

Return
… a
to
panther
take its

were
(Irvin
Reverential
Reverential,

S.
as

Cobb)
though he
handling sacred vessels.

( Return, like the postman.

Tender and

…
reverential... as a
Returning like dew that hath nun over her missal.— (0. W.
been to heaven, dropping in rain. Holmes)
(Gerald Massey)
Reverently
An echo returned on the cold Reverently as any pilgrim to

&
gray morn, like the breath of a
spirit sighing. — (Mrs. Norton)
»
the papal seat.
ing)
(E. B. Brown-

Reverie
Returned like a leaden
ing.— (Sir Richard Steele)
shill-
jg reverie.
Floating
— ( in the clouds of
Reverie ( 388 ) Rich

is
A certain amount of reverie
good, like a narcotic in discreet
conventional rhetoric
A
( )

doses.- (Hugo) Rheumatic

Rheumatic as two dry toasts.

trace behind.
IW
— (
Reverie, like a mist, leaves no — (Shakespeare)
& Rhythmic •

Revive
Revive, like a dash of cold swinging
Rhythmic
scythe. — (
as the swish of a

(
water in the face of the fainting.
Rich
She was like a fadiug plant
( Rich as flakes of virgin gold.

revived by showers of rain.

(Charles Reade) ^ Rich as a rose
(Joaquin Miller)
can be.

As rich with unconscious art

Nature revives, like a dim as the first song bird of may.
winking lamp, that flashes bright- (James Whitcomb Riley) i
ly with parting light, and straight
is dark forever. (Nicholas Rowe)
e
Rich as lords. —
m
Sad death, revived with her
Rich as mud. — ®
sweet inspection, an feeble spirit
inly felt reflection, as withered
Rich as the mint. —
weed through, cruell winter's tine,
that feels the warmth of sunny Rich in invisible treasures, like
beams a of unborn sweets and thick
bud
reflection, liftes up his
head that did before decline, and about the heart with ripe and rosy
gin 8 to spread his leafe before the beauty. -(P. J. Bailey)
faire sunshine. — (Spenser)
0—
Rich and as red as the mellow-
ing blushed of maiden of eighteen.
Revive as the corn. (Old (Luiz de Camoens) *
Testament)
Reviving
As reviving as a frieKd's visit.
Rich as the dawn.— (
— (Charlotte Bronte) Bich and ripe as autumn's
store. — (Hartley Coleridge)

(A. E. Housinan)
Rhetoric
^
As reviving as an epigram.
Rich as the merchant ships
that crowd the strand. —
(F-rancis
itesounding generalities and Fawkes)
Rich ( 389 ) Ridiculous

As feathers do lilt up, and Riches are like muck which

carry high, the foules and birds of stinks in a heap, but spread
the aife: So the riches and dig- abroad, make the earth fruitful.
nities of this world, are wont to —(
extol and carry men, into the air JE
and clouds of vanitie. (Anthonie — Riches, while
like
insects,

^
Fletcher) concealed they lie, wait but for
wings, and their season fly.
Rich as
"
a platter of gravy. (Pope)
(Sewell Ford)
Rich as newshorn sheep.
(John Hey wood) ffl
Rich as the rose's dye. (Mrs
Inglis)
& many
Worldly riches are
like nuts;
clothes are torn in getting
them, many a tooth broken in
cracking them, but never a belly
A wise rich man is like the filled with eating them. (Ralph
backe or etocke of the chimney, Venning)
and his wealth the fire; he receives
it not for his own need, but to
reflect ihe heat to others' good. Riddle
(Sir Thomas Overbury) Riddled like a pepper castor.

^& 5
Rich as an
(Osmanli Prov.)
alum seller.
— (Austin Dobson)

(Zola)
Riddled like a piece of lace.—

Ride
And as rich in having such
a jewel, as twenty seas, if all their
sand were pearl, the water, nectas,
Ride like the wind
the night.— ( through

and the rocks pure gold. (Shake- — Ridiculous

speare) Ridiculous as a wig on the
head of Apollo. —
Apollo
Eich...as the oozeis and A
lord without riches is like
bottom ti the sea, with sunken

( …
wrack and sumless treasuries.
a
ridiculous.
without
soldier
— (
arras very

Ridiculous as a lover.
Rich as Emperor-moths.— (Duinetrioa Bikelas)
(Tennyson) As ridiculous as to venture
Rich as for the nuptials of a your life for another man's quar-
king. — (* rel. -(Shad well)
Rich for the pillars which
support the sky. (William Ridiculous as to imitate the
Thomson) inimitable. — (Sir Richard Steele)
Riches
Ridgy

Ridgy as backs
chains.- (Hugo)
Ridgy
of dioud tain-
( 390 )

rags.— (Bunyan)

Thy righteousness is like the

^ Ring

Rife great mountains; thy judgments

( Rife as flies
1
at midsummer. are a great deep.
ment)
(Old Testa-

Right ag
Right
a glove. — ( Rigid
Rigid as a rock.

( Eight
]^
a! i

in
a golden guinea.—

—
. Rigid
( as if chiselled from

— Right as a nail.

Right as a right angle. —

stone.
Rigid as a sheet of metal.
(Balzac)

m
Right as rain. — ( Rigid as the will of
(William Cullen Bryant)
fate.

Right a,i i the Church of En- About as rigid as a concertina.

gland. —( — (Joseph Canrad)
Right as the day. — j Mm
Rigid as embodied duty.
Right as a conqueror. (Dandet)
(English Ballad)
Hight a 3 a
Barham)
trivet.— (R. H. ( Rigid as his starched collar.—-

Rigid as stone. (James B.

Right at» the town clock. Ken yon)
(Beaconsfield) Rigid as a Greek masque.
Right as a gun. (Beaumont (Brander Matthews)
and Fletcher)
Eight as a line. — (Jhqn Hey- Stood rigid, as if in a trance.
wood) (J. H. McCarthy)
Eight as a fiddle. (Lydgate) Rigid as a prison's blank stone
wall. —(Margar^. E. Sangster)
Right as my leg.— (Ribealis)
Ring
Bight as right. — "The Puri- Ringing like mad. —
tan")
As right
(Skelton)
Righteous
as a ram's horn.
night.
Rings
— ( like a bugle

Ringing, as if a choir of golden-

in
*
the

Righteous as redemption. nested birds in heaven were sing-

(Swinburne) «| ing.— (E. C. Judson)
Righteousness
Righteousnesses are as filthy My heart riugs out in musics
Ring (
39:1 ) Rise

like a lark
palace of
hung
the
in the charmed
morn. — (Gerald
Rises and falls
upon roaring water. (like a
)
swan
T#^C

—(
Massey)

Ring
battle. —
as trumpets blown
(Swinburne)
for ^( Rise as a vapor.

Hose like sunlight from tho

sea.—
Rings as the blast
mirth when trumpets
heart for fr ay . —
of martial
fire men's April skies.— (
Rise like the white clouds on
{ft

Rising like springs ingathered.

Rings clean as the clear wind's — (K D. Blackmore)

on the rocks. — (
cry through the roar of the surge
Rising like water-columns
from the sea.— (Byron)
Ringed
Ringed like . curtain rods. Joy rises in me, like a sum-
(John Davies) mer's morn. —(Coleridge)
Ripe
As ripe and rosy. ..as a mellow Rose like a kite.— (Cowper)
littlepippin that had tumbled in 1
the weeds. (James Whitcomb Rose like a bewildering strain
music— (F. W. Faber)
^
Riley)

Ripe as the wine. (R. H.

of oriental

Rising like pillared fire.

Stoddard) (Arthur Henry Hallam)
Ripen
Ripened into speech, like the Rising in the middle of it like
sap that turns to nectar in the a lump of self-raising dough.
velvet of the peach. (W. W. — (0. Henry)
Harney)
Rising in the air like eagle on
The peril ripens like a wound the wing.— (Hood) ffi
o the flesh that gathers poison.
(Swinburne)

Rippled
Kose like dim
dream begins.— ( fancies when a

Rippled like flowing waters Rose red as a beacon the wind

by the wind. (Byron)— had upblown. (Sidney Lanier)

Rippled like an over-fleeting Rose like an exhalation.

wnve.-(Teimyson) (Milton)
n He (Burke) rose like a rocket,
Rise he fell like a stick.— (Thomas
Rise ( 392 ) Roar

Paine) ( )
Rise from the ground like
teather'd Mercury. (Shakespeare)
world.— (
One deep roar as of a cloven
Btff

With an angry broken roar,

Rises as ocean at the enchant-
ment of the moon. (Shelley)
like billows on an
their fury burst. — (unseen shore,

Rising as a shoreward sea.— Roar as of n n ocean foaming.

(S win burne) —(Shelley) 1^:!
Eose like dust before the Roar, like tiie din of wintry
whirlwind's force. —
(^ayard Tay- breakers on a sounding wall of
lor) shore.— (Bayard Taylor)
Rise up as a great lion.— (Old
Testament)
Rise as leaves on autumn's
whirlwind borne. (Whittier)
Boar
Roar as doth the
(Verb)
sea. — (
Rise, spring-doves
like
the startled wood. —
from ( Roar like a burning devil.—

Roared like a burning lumber

yard. —
Roars like a demon in torture.
Rivers that like silver threads
ran through the gfeen and gold of Roars like a lion. ( )

pasture lands.

Roam
Roars like a mad bull. (
horde.
Roam as wolves in a wolfish
— (.Swinburne) ( Roared like an angry sea.

Roared
( like mountain tor-

—
ftoar (Noun) rents,—
A single roar like the roar of a Roared and murmured like a
mortar-battery.

Roar... like
beast in pain. —
(Kipling)

the sound of a
mountain stream dashing or wind-
ing as its torrent strays.

Roared like breakers in the

night.— (Aubrey De Vere)
^— (Byron)

The roar of battle rose, like

roar of a burning forest, when a
strong north wind blows.
aulay)
(Mac-
Roared as by the
possessed.— (Goethe)

Roaring like a foundered

^evil one

Roaring like thunder borne horse. (Maurice Hewlett)

upon the breeze. — (John Ruskin)
Rear ( 393 ) Rolf

Roaring like a tempest.-— -(Wordsworth)

(Hugo) L Robust
Roars in the gloaming like an Robust as ever rural labor
ocean of seething champagne. bred.— (Wordsworth)
(Kingsley)
Bo a red like water which Rock
rushes from «a lock when the gates Rocked —
^
like a leaf.
are open. (Gamille Leraonnier) S
Rocked like a ship at sea. -
Roareth like the sea. (Old (

Testament) The earth rocking as a ship

Rough repetition roars in borne over the waves. (Samuel
rudest rhyme, as clappers clinkle Beal)
inone Gharming chime. (Bonn ell The burning phrase rocked on
Thornton) like ocean's tidal swell. — (Lord
De Tabley) ,
Koaring like a bear. (Wil-
liam Ward) Rocking like stately

food.
Roaring like a lion for his
(Robert Lloyd )

Roars like a flame that is

beneath the stately skv.
Rossetti) ^
Like sea-birds in the sunny
lilies
(C. G.

fanned.— (Longfellow) main, rock idly. —

(S^uthey)
B
Roared as if smitten by some Rocked like a mass of jelly
god.-(Lucian) that Has been invisibly shaken.
(Hermann Sudermann)
Roar like a devil with a man
in bi3 belly. (Andrew Mar veil) $E Head was on her breast,
rock'd like a nautilus in calm
— (John —
Roared like
Masefield)
a battle.

Boar like mad wave upon the

mid-ocean. (N. P. Willis)

Roll
?
shore. (Miss Mulock) Rolls like a whale in the sea.
m —(
Roars like a bull. (Mun- I rolled myself like a hedge-
chausen) hog against the sharp points ot
my own thoughts. — (Joseph von
Roars. ..like a swift pursuing

…—
hound.
a&
(Arthur O'Shaughneasy) Eichendorff) . t
Roar like ocean battling with Rolled in money like pigs in
the shore.— (T. Buchanan Read) mud. -(Hood)

Roar like lions for their prey. Rolls like a scow in the wak»
Roll ( 394 ) Rough

of a liner.— (Elbert Hubbard) Rosy as a peony. — ) t£

Rolled up like a scroll. (C. Rosy as pinks. — (C. S. Calver-

G. Kossetti) ley)

as a sweet morsel. ) (
Rolling it under the tongue
bert)
Rosy as

As rosy as
the

a bride.
dawn.— (Flau-
— (Hugo)
dumb
The purple heather
thunder. — ^ J)
rolls like
Rosy as a victorious candidate.
(George Meredith)
Rolled like the willowy and
iumultuMus sea. (Southey) Rosy as the morn. (Shelley)

dawn. — (Celia
(
Rolling like a wreath of snow.

Roll as waves that race and

Rosy as rifts
Thaxter) *t
Rosy as the candle-shade.
of

iind no goal.— (Swinburne) (Edith Wharton) *t

Rot
Roll'd about like t»tnbled Rot as corn ungarnered.—
fruit in grass.— (Tennyson) (Swinburne)
Rotten
Romans
The Romans were
ior that a man might better drive
like sheep,
Rotten as the
mushroom. —
@g
( gills of
«
an old

a flock of thein, than one of them; Rotten as dirt.— (Sterne) Jg

for in a flock, if you could get
some few to go right, the rest Bough
would follow.— (Ca to)

S
Rough
stale bread. (
like butter spread over
—
Root Rough as the back
Rooting
groundnuts.
... like pigs
arter
(Benjamin P. Shil-
hog.— (J. R. Bartlett)
Rough as hemp.
of a

(Carlyle)
^
hedge-

laber)
Rose-buds Rough as a storm.— (Dryden)

with snow. — (
They look like rose-buds filled

Heath)
Rough as bsarskins. — (Robart
Rosy Rou?h as
^
nutmeg-graters.—

…( Rosy ...like ripened peaches in

the morning light. — (R. H. Home)

Bosy-cheeked as a winter ap-

ple.—
(Aaron Hill)

^ Rough

Rough
as the winds.

as a Russian
— (Ot way)
bear. —
Round ( 395 ) Rouse

(John Taylor)
Bound (Adjective) Round as a dish.— (Rabelais)
—(
Round

Rmnd
Iffl
as a circus

as a dish. —
ring.
Round as a hoop. — (
R iund as a dumpling. — ( Round and
(Alexander Smith)
R^und as a
perfect as a star.

pearl or tear.
Round as a juggler's box. (Swinburne) U
< EI Round and pale as a pair of

pipe.
R)und
— (
K->und as a pearl.
as a length of stove-
El
— (
suet dumplings.

Round as a
(Thackeray)

kettle. (Samuel
II
Round as a rosebud. ( Wesley)
Round
der Wilson)
as a horn.
Iffl
(Alexan-

Round as a turnip. — .
Bound (Adverb)

Round as a windmill. ( —
Round and round
ing potful. — (J. M. Barrie)
like a boil-

ffil

Bound as the full (

moon. — R')und and round, like a

^
U
Round as the globe-— ( dance of snow in a dazzling drift.

Round as appille was his face. Round and round they flew,
— (Chaucer) as when , in spring, about a chim-
Round like wells. (Bacon) ney-top, a cloud of twittering swal-
BI lows, just returned, wheel round
Round and sound as a moun- and round, and turn and wheel
tain apple. (Robert Browning) again. (William Cullen Bryant)
Iffl

A round disc of fire, somewhat

(Hood)
^
like a guinea.
a
Round
(Havelock Ellis)

Iffl
as
ts
platter of dclf.—
Round and round
circle, like a
horse in a mill.
in the same
dog in a wheel, or a
(Robert Burton)

Round as a quoit. (Camille)

Lemonnier) Ofl Circles round, like the soft
Eound as pumpkins. (Guy waving wings of noonday dreams.
de Maupassant) IB] -(Shelley)
R^und as a tun. — ( Middleton) Round-Shouldered

Round as the shield

iathers.— (Ossian) B|
of my stone. — (
Round-shoulderv'd as a grind
Mil
Rouse
Roqse ( 396 ) Rale

Houses me, as with a cherub's Bi9

trump.^-(Colendge) Rudcjy read as any chery. —
H ("Squire of Low Degree") fein
Roused, like homeward wishe?
in wanderer's heart. (Edmund — His lips waxed ruddy as light.
Gosse) (Swinburne)
Rouse. ..like rattling peal of More ruddy in body than
thunder. —
(John Hughes) rubies.— (Old Testament)

to arms.
R)use and startle, like a call
(Grace King) : As rude
Rude
as rage. —
Roiiaed like a huntsman
the chase.— (Swiuburne)
m
, to Rude as a bear.

Ruffles
— Swift)

Rousing Ruffles as a breeze ruffles tha

Rousing as a bugle.— (Oaida) surface of a pond. —
Routed Ruffling out his cravat with
Routed ...like a lost army* a crackle of starch, like a turkey
—
(Swinburne)

rout. — (
Hsr wariness seemed put to
when it spreads its feathers.
?^»»
Rows Rugged
In rows, like figures in a sum. Eug^ed as burrs. (John Hey-.
(Dickens) wood)
Ruin
Ruddy Fell slowly into ruin, like sll

(Ruddy
*I
as a parson's daughter.

Ruddy like a winter apple.

dwellings to which the presence
of maa no longer communicates,
life.- (Hugo)
(Joseph Conrad) *T
Ruddy and fresh as the wak- Ruinous
—
ing morn. (Eugene Field) S^t Ruinous &s guilt.— (Thac-
keray)
Ruddy as if baked by heat Rule (Noun)
of sun or glowing forge. (Hood) Rules, like crutches, ne'er be-
Hi come of any use but to the lame.
-(Eobert Lloyed)
Ruddy as gold his cheek.—
(Matthew Prior) jfc He that hath no rule ever his.

light.
Ruddy

Ruddy
— ( his face as the

aa sunrise. — (
morning own spirit is like
broken down and without
(Old Testament)
a city that i»

» val:a.
Rule ( 397 ) Run

Rule (Verb) Running to and fro like a

Ruled as straight as sheet of frightened sheep. —
—
music-paper.— (Balzac)

Bumbling
3K

came
When arm in arm they both
swiftly running, like a pair
Rumbling like a restless tor-
rent lashing the mountain-side.
(^Eschylas)
of turtle-doves that could
asunder day or night. (
not live

Ruminate Running as if they had hot

Ruminates like an hostess coals in their shoes. (Bjornst-
that bath no arithmetic but her jerne Bjornson)
bralu to set down her reckoning. I

— (Shakespeare) J ust as a w heel,s that's running

down a hill which has no bottom,
Bun must keep running still. (John
Running like a high sea. —( Byron )

Running like a lapwing. —( Ran like hell-hounds (Ham-

St
…
lin Garland)
Kan like a madman. — Ban. ..as a wolfe, that taketh
HI
Run like a millrace. ( his praye. (John Gower)

Runs like a spout. ( ) (Hood)

Running

Run like
like a

fire
hunted deer.—

in summer
Run like fire thro igh stubble. furze.— (George Meredith)

Run like the devil.— ( Ruus

forest. — ( like the prey of the

( Running

Run
like the Devil's mill.

like the east wind. (

Ran, as in the terror of
dream. (James Montgomery)
a

Ift Run like water off a duck's

Eun —
like wildfire. back.— (Ray's "Collectanea")

Run like winking. — ( dau)

Ran like a shiver. (Max Nor*

Run lihe an young fawn. ( Running

(E. R Sill)
like a leaping wave.
)

Round my chair the children Ran, like scatt'red chaffe,

run like
gold.- ( little things of dancing which the wind away doth fan.
(Spenser)
Ron ( 398 ) Rash

Run like oil.— (Old Testa- Rush like clans from their
ment) hilis at the voice of the battle.
Run like the lightnings. — (J. J. Callahan) K
Run like win king. — )
Two souls, like two dew-drops,
9$ rushed into one. — (Carlyle)
Rush
(Noun)
A rushing like the rushing of |
Rush like rain. — (Ferdinand)
Freiligrath)
mighty waters. (Old Testament) |

Rush, like mountain torrent,

swollen by the melted snow.—
Sullen rush upon the air, j

(Goethe) fit
such as the unseen wings of spirits '

make.— (Whittier) —
Rush like a fiery torrent

Rush (Verb)
(Homer)

^ Rushed like fairies. (

bled brook.— (
Rushes... like a tempest-trou-
Rushed like a torrid hurri-
cane.- (Hood)
As the billows fling shells on Hushed upon us like a lava
the shore, as the sun pours light torrent. (Sigmund Krasinski)
o'er the sea, as the lark scatters

tothee« — (
Bong evermore, so rushes my love
ig bait.
Hash like gudgeons
— (Robert Lloyd)
to the

Rushed like a man insane.—

Bush, like a rocket tearing (Longfellow)
op the sky. (P. J. Bailey) Rushing aud hurrying about
ffi like a June-bug. — <
Kushed as a storm.— (John
Armstrong)
Rush. ..open-mouthed; like a
crow at a walnut. (Balzac)

The blood rushed like a burn-

,

i &
Rushed as a wind that is keen
and cold and relentless. —

Like prisoners from the dun-

geon gloom like birds escaping

(
ing torrent through his veins.
j
from a snare, like schoolboys at

ArmieB rush'd like warring

mighty seas.— (William Blake)
8^
Like an unruly del age, rushed
on.— (William Broome)
the hour of play, all left at once
the pent-up room, and rushed into
the open air. — > ^
'
Rushes like a boar against the
eboutiog cha^e.—- (Macaulay)
Rash ( 399 ) Sacrea

ness of the soul. (Richard HoVey

Rushed out upon the way-
farers like ambushed bandits.— Rustling. ..like autumn leaves
(George Meredith) that tremble and foretell the sable
I

j
storm. (Hood) —
Rushed like the hot blood in
the veins of a fever-stricken child.
I

The dead
laurels of the dead
—(Sydney Munden) I rustle for a moment
only, like
.

withered leaves in lonely ch iircli-

Rushing like a flood. — (E. H. yards at some passing tread.—
Plumptre) (Longfellow)
Rush. ..like ravenous wolves
in night's dark cloud, driven Rustling like a Hock of sea-
abroad by the blind rage of law- fowls. (James Macpheraon)
less hunger.— (Virgil) jjg
Rustling like a summer rain.
Russia
Russia, like the elephant, is
«$
Ruthless
rather unwieldy in attacking Ruthless as the sea. (Mau-
others, but most formidable in riceHewlett)
defending herself. She proposes Ruthless as a baby with a
this dilemma to all invaders— worm. (Tennyson)—
dilemma that Napoleon discovered
too late. The horns of it are short Ruthlessly
and simple, but strong. Come Rnthlessly as you lop a
unto me with few, and I will i
branch. (Richard Le Gallienne)
overwhelm you; come to me with I
151
many and you shall overwhelm
yourselves.— (C. C. Colton)

^ Sacred
ft

Rustle (Noun)
Thebes.
bes$
— (
Sacred as cats to a priest in
The-

(
I

The rustling of their gowns Sacred as Hmdoo gods.

bills. — (Emile

A
&
seems like the crumpling of bank
Angier)

silken rustle, like the meet-

ing of guests at a festival. (T.
I

i
to
Sacred as the crocodiles were
the ancient Egyptians.—
@
Sacred as shrine. (Bulwcr-
(
Buchanan Read)

Rustle (Verb)
Rustling like the secret dark-
j
Lytton)
Sacred as churchyard turf.
(Eliza Cook) ^
Sacred as an unvoiced prayer.
Sacred ( 400 ) Sad
— (George Meredith) Sad, like the sun in the day
of mist, when his face is watery
Sacred as the monarch's hall.
(Whittier)
Sad
and dim. (James
^
Sad as the wind that sighs
Macpheraon)

Sad as the sunless sea. — through cypress trees under rainy

(Franklin P. Adans) skies. — (Philip B. Maraton) ^
( Sad as

As sad
a waiJ

as fate.—
over the dead.

(
Sad as the shriek
night blast.
of the mid-
(Gerald Massey)

Sad as the gust that sweeps

eternity.
i
Sad
—
as
( if steering to dim
the clouded sky. —
(O. W. Holmes)

Sad as an image of despair.

Sad as the eyeball
behind a shroud. ( of sorrow
(Sigmund Krasinski) *g

waves
A
be. — (
song as sad
>

Sad as silence when a so»g

— as the
K
wild

is
I
Sad as raindrops on a grave.
CGeorge P. Lathrop)

My heart is as sad aa a blarck

(Alfred Austin) stone under the blue sea. (Lover)
spent.
g
Sad as wailing winds.

^
Sad as the groans of dying
innocence. — (Aphra Behn)
Sad as eve.— (Hugo)
Sad as a thousand sighs, when
the dark winds sod through the Sad as the last line of a brave
yews. — (Henry Brooke) —
romance. (George Meredith)

Sad as wisdom cut off from Sad my thoughts as willows

fellowship. — (E. B. Browning) bending, o'er the borders of the
« tomb.— CG. P. Morris) ifl

Sad as angels for the good

Man's sin. —
(Campbell) Sad as tears to the eyes that
are bright. —
(A. J. Ryan)
Serenely sad aa eternity.
(Carlyle) g Sad aa night. — (Shakespeare)
Sad as twilight. (George ©
Eliot) f| Sad as a lump of lead.—
Sad as the tears the sullen (Spenser)
winter
Henry)
weeps.
a&tt
(Ceorge Mac-
(George Sterling) ^
Sad as twilight on the deep.
Sad ( 401 ) Salt

(Coleridge)
Sad as a soul estranged.—
(Swinburne) Safe as my life. —
(R. Daven-

moon. — (
Sad as a wintry withering

Bare and sad as banishment.

port)
Safe as a stone in a peach.
(Alfred Head)
— (Swinburne) Safe as a fish.— ("Help to
Sadness Discourse ")
A little tinge of sadness floats Safe as a fox in a trap. —
upon her eye, like the haze upon (Kingsley)
a summer landscape. (Donald G. Safe as in the bank. (Richard—
Mitchell) Le Gallienne)
5 Safe as in bed. (Charles
A nameless sadness which

^ Reade)
is

always born of moonlight. — Safe as thy gold in the strong

box. — (William Somerville)
Safe
Safe as a tortoise under its Safe as hunted wolf within hia
shell.— (Alexander Adam) lair. — (Theodore "Watts- Dun ton)

Safe as a blockhouse. — Sag

Sags like a fisherman's hat.

breast.- (
Sate as a child on its mother's (Irvin S. Cobb)
Sagging down like a
wallet.— (Thomas Dekker)
Welsh

( Safe as a crow in a gutter.—

Saggy

( Safe as a mouse in a cheese. Saggy, like a paper bag full of

sour milk.— (Rex Beach)

( Safe as a mouse

Safe as a rat in a trap.

in a mill.

( Saggy as a sponge full

treacle.— (Angus McNeill)
of

Ifil

Safe as a sardine. — ( Sailed

Sail
skyward, like burnt
Safe as a thief in a mill. — onion peelings. (Robert Brown-

Safe as a wall of brass. — ( ing)

Our sail
shone.- ( like a dew-lit blossom

Safe as the Bank of England.

-(Bulwer-Lytton) Salt
Salt as a sea sponge. — (Owen
As safe and sacred from the MereditbX
step of man as an invisible world. Salt as the searWind. — Whiu
(
Salnta ( 402 ) Savage

«er) Satire
For satyre, that most needful
Salute as ceremoniously aa part of our poetry, it has of late
lawyer, when they meet after a
long vacation. —
(Middleton.)

Sane
& been more abus'd, and is grown
more degenerate than any other;
most commonly, like a sword in
the hands of h madman, runa a

dream. — (
About as sane as a

Sanctuaries
lunatic's tilt
out any
at all manner of persona with-
sort of
reason; and so ill-guided is this
distinction or

Sanctuaries where the passions furious career, that the thrusts

are most aim'd where the enemy

«
may, like wild falcons, cover
their faces with their wings.—
g
( is best arm'd. —
(Robert .Wolseley)

Sanguine as the morning

Bkies.— (Lord Da Tabley) *C Satire should, like a polished
razor keen, wound with a touch
Sanguine, like a globe of that's scarcely felt or seen. (Lady
blood. (Francis

Sank
Thompson) Marv Wortley Montagu)
in «
a sort of glass where-
Satire id

Sank into the bottom as a in beholders do generally discover

stone.— (Old Testament) everybody's face but their own.—
(Swift)
Sap
Sapped
water.
as
(Swinburne)
weak sand
& by
Saucy
Cook) ^
as
Saucy
the wave. — (Eliza

tion.— (
Sapped iD soft

Sarcasm
music of adula- Saucy, like a proudly waving
plume. — (John T. Trowbridge)

A true sarcasm is like a

eword-stick; it appears, at first Saunter8...1ike an idle river
sight, to be much more very leasurely strolling down a

^
innocent
than it really is, till, all of a flat country to the sea. (Dickens) —
sudden, there leaps something S
out of it sharp and deadly and
incisive— which makes you trem-
ble and recoil. (Sydney Smith)
7J
bead.—

chained.
(
Savage

Savage at heart as a
— (Edwin Arnold)
»
Savage
as a bear with a sore

tifjer

tH
Sayings ( 403 ) Scared

Sayings by innumerable streams, but it is

Great men's sayings are like extremely difficult to trace it to

—
Iver gilt; use wears the gilt off
the silver, and all sparkle goes
out of the sayings if they are
its source. (Punch)
^
repeated. — (Balzac) Scant
Scant as hair in leprosy.—
IP (Robert Browning)
Scald
Scald like molten lead.— Scant as winter underwood.
(Shakespeare) (George Meredith)
Scamper
off and disappear
Scamper Scanty
ke a flight of partridges. (Fer- Scanty as the gleaning after
an Caballero) harvest. —
(Tupper) Jft

Scampering as if the devil Scarce

drove them.— (Radelais)
31
Fitfully scampered like fire-
( Scarce as feathers on a fish.—

Scarce as furs in hell. (

fliesover the waste. ("Vikram
and the Vampire") Scarce as
bullfrog.— ( pin-feathers on a

ut
Scandal, like
when dry.
dirt,
— (Sir T.
will
BernArd)
rub Scarce as Scotch orators. (
In scandal^ as in robbery, the
receiver is always as bad as the
( • Scarce as snakes in Ireland.

Scarce as hen's teeth. (J. R,

thief. — (Chesterfield) Bartlette)
Scare
Scandal, like a reptile crawl- Scaring the ladies like a crow-
ing over bright grass, leaves a keeper. (Shakespeare)
trail and a stain. (Allan Cun-

^
ningham)

Scandals are like dandelion

seed 8, they are arrow-headed and
(R D.
Scared
Scared like a wild bird flies.—
Biackmore)

stick where they fall, and bring Scared, like to a man that
forth and multiply fourfold.— with a ghost was marred. — (Wil-
(Ouida) liam Dacbar)
——
Scared as a jack-rabbit that
Scandal, iike the Nile, is fed has heard the howl of a wolf.-*
 ( 404 ) Scattered

(Alfred Henry Lewis) Scattered like mown and

( withed grass. — (Goethe)
Scared look, like a bird's
— (Maurice
I

driven right into the fowlers

—
nest. (Miss Mulock) Hewlett) @
Scatter like smoke.

Scattered all along, like emp-

Scars tied saa-shells on the sand. (O.
Hath more scars of sorrow in VV. Holmes)
his heart than foeman's marks
upon his batter'd shield. — (Shake-
I

She scatters the spray as the

speare)
fe
Scathe
i
(
chaff in the stroke of the flail.

Love doth scathe the gentle

heart, as northern blasts do roses.
(Keats)
I

i
Scattered... as leaves
winds blow.

Scattered
—
like a
…when

mad
wild

sea.
Scatter '

(Lamartive)
Scattered like the bones of Scattered drops like beads of
dead bodies torn from one another wampun.— (Longfellow)
by wolves after the battle.

Scattered
lights —(
love as stars do
Scattered
flakes of snow. — (
were they, lik«

Scattered wide like silt and

wind.— (
Scattered like chaff before the

Scattered like a flock.— (E. B.

geaweed by the force and fluctua-
tions of the tide. —

…
Browning) Scattered ...like loose spray
Scattered with as little pre- before the wind. (George Mere-
meditation as the birds scattered dith)
their songs.

The people
(Bliss Carman)

1 love most are »

Scatter. ..as if they had been
ballons ia a wind. — …
scattered as the sands of the dry They scattered like a brood of
river beds fly before the fail partridges.— (Osmanli Proverb)
hurricane. (J. Fen i in ore Cooper) Sttia
Scattering, like hope through
fear.— (Richard Savage) ^:
Scattered like foam along the 18
wave.— (George Croly) Scattered like foam on the
torrent.- (Shelley)
Like the Jews, scattered.—
(Thomas Dekker) ^^\ Like a glow-worm golden in a
Scatter ( 405 ) Scold

dell ofdew, scattering unbeholden

its hue among the flowers
aerial Scattering, like birds escaped

the view.
B
— (^
and grass, which screen it from the fowler's net.

Scenery
(Wordsworth)

Fine scenery
is like fine music

Scattered, like a cloud of you have to fill it up with your

summer dust. — owu fine thoughts or there is no
S fineness in it. (Ellen T. Fowler)
Like sheep from the wolf, iH
scattering. (Southey)

Scattered thsm as crows.— Sceptics, like dolphins, change

(Swinburne) when dying.— lLady Blessington)
Scatter as wild swans parting >£
(
adrift on tho wan green waste. Schemes
Suddenly snuffed out in the
Scatter as leaves blown
the vfind. — (Arthur Symons)
down
(
middle of ambitious schemes.

Science
Scatteredabroad, as sheep The even the best,
science,
having no shepherd. (New Testa- mathematics and astronomy,
ment) are like sportsmen, who seiza
Scattereth the hoarfrost like whatever prey offers, even without
ashes.— (Old Testameut) SI being able to make any use of it.
(Emerson)
Scatter them as the stubble

the wilderness.— (
that passeth away by the wind of
Science is, like virtue, its
exceeding great reward.
own
(Charles
Scattered upon the hills, as Kingsley)

(
eheep that have not a shepherd.

Scatter like quicksilver.

Scintillate
Scintillate and snap like
(John Webster) sparks from an electrical conduc-
Scattered like dust before the tor.— (Edward Dowden)
storm.— (Lud wig Uhland)
Scintillating as a poet's rap-
Scattered ...like chaff before ture.— (Amy Leslie)
the winnower's fan. —(Whittier) |
I

Scold
Scattered like the chaff blown Rail and scold like butter-

(
from the threshing-floor of God. Ji
women.— (Robert Burton)
Scold ( 406 ) Seasoned

Scold like a wet parrot.

(Stephen Crane)
M«
Scold like shrowish wives at
tavern door.— (Hood)
^ Scud
Scud like a wild bird. —
Scorch
Scorched like a drop of fire Scuttle
from a brandished

…
torch. (Ro- Scuttle off.. .like a brace of

^
bert Browning)

Scorches like a cave-hid dra-

teal ducks getting out
way. — Irvin S. Cobb)
of a walrus'

gon's breath. (George Eliot) '^wot'J ""dSte* tmQU^Ki

Into the purple sea the orange
Scorched like
(Fitz-James O'Brien)
lightning.—

Scotched
(
hues of heaven sunk

A fawn-colored sea streaked

silently.

—(
Scotched but
IS
Scowl
not slain.
eat orange.- (
here and there with tints of deep-

Scowled like a thunder cloud.

— (Emily Bronte)
Crisp sparkle of the sea. (
Scowling like a winter sky,
(Mrs.
He
Mary)
evinced his displeasure by
woes of men. — (
The sea washe3 away all the

a
scowl.- (
contemptuous sneer or ft grim Sealed
Sealed as the voice of a frost-
—
bound stream. (Swinburne)
Scramble
Scrambling like a cat up a Seamed
wall. (Rabelais)
Scream
Seamed
(D'Annunzio)
as if

^by a
cflS
burn.

Scream, like a trumpet whin-

ing through a catacomb.
Bailey) H
(P. J,
Him Soar
Seared like hot iron.— (
Scribbler Sears like a brand.— (J. H.
For the scribblers are infinite, Newman) jtfe

mushrooms Seasonable

^
that like or flys are
bom and dye
time; whereas
small circles of
in
books, like pro-
verbs, receive t'heir chief value
mer. — (
Saa son able as snow in

Sea»oi3ed
5
sum-

from the stamp arid esteem of 8ea3oned as twin beams oi

ages tli rough which they have soundest oak. — (Bayard Taylor)
passed. — (Sir Williara Temple)
Sea-song ( 407 ) Secure

Sea-song !
escape. — (Balzac)
The sea-song of the trampling j

waves
;
is as muffled bells.
to
Secluded
)

j
A secret
cannot talk about
is yoa
like silence:
and keep it.
It is like money; when once you
it,

Secluded as an anchorite.-— I
|
know there is any concealed, it is
(Bernard Barton) I
half discovered. — (Paul Chatfield)
Secluded as a chimney corner.
— (John Burroughs)
i

-. Secrecy State secrets are like mortal

\

Dissimulation and secrecy are • poison: as long as that poison is in

like the alloy mingled with pure j
its box and the box closed, it is
j

ore: a little is necesary. and will i

not injurious; out of the box it
j

cot debase the coin below its pro- j

j
kills. — (Dumas)
per standard. (Chesterfield)

&
Secret (Adjective)
]
j

I
A secret
rock under tide.
at home
(Miss
is like a
Mulock)
Secret as rocks under sea. i

(T. L. Beddoes) A secret in his mouth is like

Serect as the grave.— (Byron) !
j
a wild bird in a cage, whose door
g j
no sooner opens, than His out.
Secret as the night.— (Con- j
(Ben Jonson)
greve) j

Secret as thought. (Francis j

Keep your own secrets, as the
Fawkes) j
seed keeps the color of the flower.,
Secret as a confessor. (John j
|
— (Alics Meynell;
Gay) j

More secret than a nest of : Secretly

nightingales.-— (Keats) Secretly as a lion in bis den.
(Old Testament)
Secret as the magnet-stone.
(G. P. Lathrop) Lielh secret, as a serpent.—
Secret as your midwife.
ward Sharpham)
(Ed- I (Tupper) -^
In secret, as a miser tells his
\
gold.-(N. P. Willis)
Secret as a coach-horse. |
i

(R. B. Sheridan) Secure

Secure as the grave, —
Secret (Noun)
Secrets are like maidens: the I Secure as in the cell of a
closer they are kept locked up, \
:

saint. — (Samuel Foote)

the more certain they are to
Secure ( 408 ) Sense

(Lowell) ;^
Secure as happy yesterdays. Self-praise
is like water poured
Self-praise
Secure as the firmament.—
XGeorge Meredith)
Secure, as evening shuts be-
brighter.- (
on fire to make it burn the

—
hind the day. (T. Buchanan Sensation
Read) W An unpleasant and heavy
Secure as sleep. (Shakes- sensation eat at his heart. —
peare)
Secure, as the orchard-turf.—^ Ineffable sensation of irritabi-
(Bayard Taylor) lity. — ( ^)
A delicious throng of sensa-

^ Secure as a mathematical
demonstration.-— (Theobald)

Seek
Seeking, like a bleating lamb
tions.
She was conscious
tuous rush
of a
of sensations.

Sense
—
tumul-

left out at night in shutting up An oppressive sense of strange

the fold.— (E. B. Browning) sweet odor. g
Seeks as does an old tailor his
needle's eye.— (Dante)
A haunting and
sense of insecurity.— ( horrible

Goaded on by his sense of

As rivers seek the sea, much etrange importance. —
more deep than they, so my soul
seeks Thee far awav.— (O. G. Ros- The senses are like the sun.
setti) & The sun makes the heavens in-
j
visibleand the earth clear; the
Seemly

^
senses obscure heavenly things
Seemly as a cow in a cage, a I and open up earthly ones. (Philo
dog in a doublet, or a sow with a Judseus)
saddle.
^ Seethe
fi

No more sense than a shoat

laigry sea.
m
(
Seething, like the waves of an
— I
(young pig) in pickle. (Thomas
Lodge) B
—
Plain good sense, like a dish
S elf-depre ciati on i
of solid beef or mutton, is proper
An odd little air of penitent I only for peasants; but a ragout of
self-depreciation. — folly, well dressed with a sharp
sauce of wit, is fit to be served up

( at an Emperor's table. — (Lord

I

Seliish j

Selfish as a fox.- Lyttelton)

S
Senseless ( 409 ) Serene

ment: iike gossamer gauze, beauti-

Senseless
Senseless as fliut. — ( fuland cheap, which will stand
—
no wear and tear. (Carl vie)
*
Senseless aa stones. (Thomas
Heywood)
Sensibilities ment. (
Mawkishly
— /
efte ruinate senti-

He
sensibilities.- (
smote her qaickening

His sensibilities were offended.

Merged in a sentiment ot

sion.- (
unutterable sadness and compas-
^
A prevailing
(
sentiment ot

^ U
Sensitive
Sensitive as a flower.

Sensitive as truth in heaven.

(Walter Harte)
— ( uneasy discouient.—

its
Sentiment, like religion, had
and its martyr-
superstition
dom.— (Henry Mackenzie) *
m.
Sensual Sentimental
Sensual pleasures aro like Platitudinous and pompously
soap bubbles, sparkling, evanes- sentimental. —
cent. The pleasures of intellect
are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever Sentimentality
enduring and climbing upward to
the borders of the unseen world.
— (John H. Aughey)
lity. — (
Guilty of girlish

Separate
sentimenta-

jEJl: H Separate them one from an-

j
other, as a shepherd divideth his
Sentences sheep from the goats. (New Tes- —
His [Bacon's] sentences bend tament)
beneath the weight of hie thought I

like a branch beneath the weight Sero

oi its fruit. — (Alexander Smith) Sere and dead as any leaves ot
j
summer shed from crimson bough.
I when autumn grieves. — (W. D.
Sentences are like sharp nai^g
which force truth
memory. — (Diderot)
upon our
Howells)
: Serene

Sentences level and

like a hurled lance. —
straight :

j
littie
Serene and ephemeral
smilmg sun.— ( as a

How
Sentiment
beautiful is noble senti-
Serene as a star in n
mist, -(Balzac) ? brief lit.
-
Serene ( 410 ) Shadow
Serene, like a deep, smooth, I that a lion's near.— (Hood) ffi
and etiJl lake. — (Buddha) .

Sarious as a pope. — (Frances-

Serene as night.— (Ryron) que Sarcey)
Serious as thd fifth act of a
Serene. ..like envoys from the tragedy. (Joseph Jefferson)
skies.— (Nathaniel Cotton) ^
Serious as taxes.— (George
Serene and calm, as when the Henry Lewes) B)I
spring the new-created
began. -(Dryden)

Serene as the
^
world

dawn.— (Hugo)
Served
Pride and, self-diagust served

battlefield. (
her like first-aid surgeons on the

Serene as a Quaker's meeting. Serviceable

— (James Ralph) 5L Serviceable as his inkstnnd. -
(George Meredith)
Serene as a winter sunset.
(Saint-Pierre) Set
Serene as summer in Arcadian Her jaw was set like a steel
hills. — (Charles L. Moor.) latch. -(Irvin S. Cobb)
5
Serene as light. (Isaac Sever
Watts) Sever'd, like a flight of fowl
—
Serene as day. (Wordsworth) scatter'd by winds and high
tempestuous gusts. — (Shakespeare)
Serenity
An
serenity. (
inexpressible fervor of Severe
severe. ..like a Greek
Stood
temple at mid-day in a southern
Serenely clime. —
(Bulwer-Lytton) jg
Serenely as the stars gaze I

through the air straight on each j

Severe as vengeance.
other.— (E B. Browning) (Cowper)
Shabby
Serious . Shabby as a sheepskin book.
Serious as an philosopher. (Austin Dobson)
(Miles P. Andrews) A— |

Shade
Shaded over, like rainy clouds
Serious as an owl.— ') just ripe for showering tears.
(Hood) * )!f
Serious as a doctor. (Dumas) Shadow
II Shadow. ..like a puddle of ink.
Jfe
Serious. ..as one would whisper Mark Twain) & ?
Shadow ( 411 ) Shame

How sweet and reasonable the passed.— (Michael Field)

pale shadows of those who smile

^(
from some dim corner of our Shaken a3 by a shudder.
memories. — »tE (Flaubert)
Shaking like an ague.—
Shadowy (William Harbington)
Shadowy, like hali-compre- Shaking as with the cold fit
hended notions that float dim of the Roman fever. (Hawthorne^
brain?.—
through

^
children's
(Charlotte Bronte) Shaking like pent up winds.
-(Robert Jephson)
Shake

( Shake

Shakes
like an aspen leaf.—

like jelly. —
Shaken
sea.— (Swiiibnrne)
like spray from the
Jg

Shake3 like flame. — (Swin-

Cease those aching sighs, burne) m^m^m
which shake the tear-drops from Shakes like a coward.—
thine eyes, as morning wind, with (Shakespeare)
wing fresh wet, shakes dew out Shake like a field of beaten
com. —
H ^
of the violet— (P. J. Bailey)
Shakes, like a thing unftrin.

( Shaken

Shake him up
off like a nightmare.

like a shirt in
after
Shaking...
debauch.
a
Stevenson)
like a drunkade
(Robert Louia

a hurricane.— (J. R. Bartlett) Shaky

Like the magnetic needle,
Shakes like a tenant recreant. shaky but steadfast. (Carlyle^
(Beanmont and Fletcher)
Shallow
Shakes witk passion, like a As shallow as a pan. (Booth
horse shaking off a fly. (Jules Tarkington)
Q. de Beauwpaire) Shame (Noun)
Shame

^ like a foul vulture

sits,
Shake like withered leaves. on a corse.— (J. S. Knowles)
(Allice Gary)
Shake like a shadow. (Guido
Cavalcanti) "^ —
him.
A
— (
river of shame swept over

Head shaking like one of those

drunken satyrs in th-s pictures of
Rubens.— (Dumas)
Deep shame
remorse.— (
Shame
(Verb)
and rankling

ilubens Would shame those stara, aa

Shaken as if an earthquake daylight doth a lamp. — (Shake^
Shame ( 412 ) Sharp

speare) So sharp that you could shave

a sleeping mouse without waking
Shamed as a Mayflower her.— (
shames an autumn leaf. (Swin-
burne) Sharp as the little end of
Shameful nothing.— (J. R. Bartlett)
Shameful ...as impotence in
love.- (Pope)
Shameless
Shameless as a nude statue,
Sharp, like the crack
pistol.— (R. D. Black mare) ^
of a

— (Sydney Mnnden) A pang as sharp as ever wren-

I ched confession from the lips of a
Shaped prisoner in the cells of the Inquisi-

.ide ^^
Shaped like an

Shapeless
olive. (George I
tion.— (Bulwer-Lytton) gl

( Shapeless

Shapeless
aa an old shoe.

as a shadow.
Like the prick of
duly sharp,- (Oarlyle)
a needle,

(Swinburne) Sharp as a winter's morning.

Sharp
As sharp as a razor,
7J
— ( Richard Cobet)
Sharp-sighted as a hawk.
(Richard Cumberland) g
$1

Sharp as a Bteel trap. — Sharp like the claws of raven-

ing beasts. — (John Fox)

( Sharp as a

Something sharp and

tiger's tooth.

brilliant
Sharp as the bee-sting. -—
(James Grainger)
like the glitter of a sword or a
forked flash of lightning.— ( Sharp like a quince.
(William Hazlitt) |R
Sharp as a handsaw. (John
As sharp as if he lived on
Tewksbury mustard. —
Tewksbury
( Heywrod)
Sharp as her needle. — (
hedgehog.— (
Sharp as the bristles of a Sharp as a beak.

Sharp as truth. — (
(Hugo)

( Sharp as the tooth of time. mm Sharp aa frost. (Eric Mackay)

Sharp aa vinegar. —
Sharp,
low's cry. — (
like the shrill swal- sword.
Sharp
— ( a3 the

Sharp as a sword drawn from

enchanter'a

a shuddering wound. (Alfred

Sharp ( 413 ) Shift

ffl Shatter
Sharp, as thistles are. (Ovid) Shattered as if a shell had
! exploded inside. (Joseph Conrad)
Short and sharp, like r.
•

donkey's gallop. (Samuel Pegge) Shattered, like a stranded

feffii I bark on the seashore. —
Sharp, as dirk rammed down
in its sheath. — (Duncan C. Scott) Shattered like so much glass.

I
—(
Sharp as my needle. (Shake- Shed
speare) Sheds gladness like a morn of
More sharp than Sled steel. sweet sunshine. — 9
—(
How

^
sharper than a serpent's Shed great thoghts as easily
tooth
child.—
it

( is to have a thankless
j
as an oak looseneth its golden,
leaves to the soil it grew on.
(P. J. Bailey)

(
j

Nose vva? as sharp as pen.

Sharp
Sharp
as his spur.
as
([
tenterhooks.
) j

I
like
fellow)
The
»
glory of the morn is shed
celestial benison. —
(Long-

(Skelton) Shed loose as the petals oi

Sharp as a terrier. — (Tom j roses discrowned on the floors of
Taylor) the forest. — (Swinburne)
Sharp as reproach. (Tenny-
son) Sheer
Sharp as a two-edged sword. The rays run sheer H3 fira

(
j

(Old Testament) from the sun through the dusk of

—
I

Sharper than the pin^wood. — (Swinburne)

Sharp as
a thistle.
a' thorn,

— C'Tow-
I

^ iH
Shelter
neley Mysteries, or Miracle Shelters him
as birds within
Plays") j
the green shade of the grove. —
Sharply (D. G. Rossetti)
Sharply as the biow which
breaks prison bolts and chains. Shield
(whittier) Shields me like an angel'a
win 2. — Mrs. Forrester)
Breaking as sharply as the ice
blade that loosens from' the eave Shift
—
to slice the air and splinter into
scales
Whitcomb
of fiying
Riley)
frost. — (James
^
j
( Shifting as a

Shift as the sands.—

weathercock.

( [
Shifting as the tints of the
Shift ( 414 ) Shim

rainbow.— CBulwer Lytton) •

Shifting,
(Cowper)
like the weather.— sword.—
Shines
( like the gleam

Shines like the polished ebony.

of a

Shift scenery
its like a —(
diorama.— (George Eliot) Shines like satin. —
She shifts and changes like Shines like shot silk in the sun-
the moon.— (Robert Uerrick) shine. —
Shifting like the
boundaries
of a dream. —(Charles L. Moore)
(Aristo)
Shine at
^
Shining like glowing flame.

all points like a

constellation.— (P. J. Bailey)
Shifted like restless clouds.—
(Shelley)

Shimmer
Shiiiimer
like silver.— (Ara- j
Shine like & diamond on a
dead man's hand. — (
bian Nights) Shine through them as live
Shimmered like the sun.— coals through ashes. —
(Scottish Ballad) 3

(
I

Shimmered ...like meteor-fires Shining like the dewy star

that haunt a fairv dell. (Bayard j
of dawn. — •
^
Taylor)

Shimmered like moon beams

doyes.— (
They shine as sweet ns simple

—
(
j

on dancing water. f Paul Wig- The scullion with face shining

gene) like his pans,-
Blue eyes shimmer with angel
glances,
the
like spring violets over
lea.— (Constance F. Wool-
Shine like
(Beaumont and Fletcher)
dragon's scales.—
^
8on)

—(
B
Shine
Shone like a glowworm's heed
I
Shines like a newly lit flame.
(Josh Billings)
Shone like a cherry by candle-
light —
(R. D. Black more)
^
—
j

Shines like armor.

She shines like the birch in
Shines like burnished metal. j
the sun-light'a play. (Hjalmar

—(
Shines like

(
«l

«
^fire in cat's eye.

Shines like frost in the moon-

j
H. Boyesen)

the wind.
Shone
— 0.
like flames blown
M. Brown)
in

light«-
Shine like immortals. — f ) Shone
grasae farre
like
off,
yealow flowers and
in one; or like tli •
Shine ( 415 ) Shine

mixture nature doth display upon Shone like the reflex of a

the quaint wings of the popinjay. thousand minds.
-(William Browne)
Shone like a sunbeam.
(William Sotheby)
Shine like the sun in the Shone like a single star, serene
firmament of heaven. (Bunyan) in a night of darkness. — (So uthey)

( Shines like a phosphoric sea.

Shines like snow. — )

Shone
sunshine. —(
like silver in
B
the

Shone like the brook that o'er

Shining like a bed of daffodils.
(Allice Gary)
Shone as the burned gold.—
its

^
pebbled course runs glittering
gavly to the noontide sun. (
(Chaucer)
Shine as brighte as sunne. Shone like the waves that
Thomas Churchyard) glow around a midnight keel in
liquid light ( i

Shining out like the gold

that'd been purged of its dross. Shyne as brightest skye.
(Eliza Cook) (Spenser)

Shine
sparkle in the
like gleams which
crowns of kings
( Shone as heaven's

Shone and shivered like wings

light.

barbaric — (J. G. Cooper) of angels blown by sun's breath.

(Swinburne)
Shine, like a veil before a B
holy shrine.
Cortissoz)
(Mrs. E. M. H.
star. ^
Shine as a cloud-con straininc:

tear
Shine with such lustre as the
that
manly cheek
flows down virtue's ( Shine like a burning brand.

,
for other's woes. Shining like the sunne in
(Erasmus Darwin) earth.-(Lyly)
Shone like love's eyes soft
Shine out like the spine of a with tears.— (Joaquin Miller)
frosty hill in the wintry sun.—
(Aubrey De Vere) Shine like golden ingots from
a fairy mine. (Thomas Moore)
Shine out like flowering meads
in spring. — B Shine like a goldsmith's shop
m in cheapside. (Thomas Nabbes)
Shone like mountains m the
morn.- (Shelley) Shine, like woodland flowers
Sliine ( 416 ) Shine

which paint the desert glades, and the head of some modern saint.
waste their sweetness in unfre- (A. E. Housman)
quented shades. (Ambrose
Philips) Their souls shine like living
torches.— (James Huneker)
Shines like rotten wood.
(Sir Walter Raleigh) Shone like the bubbling foam
about a keel.— (Keata)
Gleam and shine like jewels
in a stream of wine. (James Shone like a friendly twink-
Whitcomb Riley) ling star. (Frances Anne Kem-
ble)
Shine as gloriously as the Shining as the Alps, when
Venus of the sky. (Shakespeare) that the san gems their pale robea
with diamond. — ) 5?.
Shine like cherub's c-heekg.
(Dickens) A
smouldering fire, shining
Shining as a saint on a holy

^
lamps through
like rents in
pyx. -(Flaubert) sepulchres.— (Sigmund Krasinski)

Shine in heav'n as bright as Shone like an illuminated

doth the sun in his transcendent letter. (Richard)
might.— (Giles Fletcher)
Lakes. ..shining like polished

day.— (
Shine as bright

The winking buttons on the

as smiling mirrors.- (Lever)

Shone beneath, as the fire

^
gown shone like the lamps of through the
shines ashes.
London Town. (Norman Gale) (George Henry Lewes)
A
On
prince or bride no diamond Shone like ocean's snowy
stone half so gracious ever shone, foam. — (John Leyden)
as the light of enterprise beaming
from a youug man's eyes. v Shine as immortal poems.
(Hafiz;
*
The
Emerson)

wistful stars shine like

good memories. — (W. E. Henley)
ft (Longfellow)
Shone like a drop oi dew.
(Swinburne) W
Shining like
smitten tear. —
^
( a sunbeam-

B
Shone like the evening
-(0. W. Holmes) « star.
down
Shone
storm. — ^
like the star that shines
ffll

Shone like an aureole round . Shine sweet like stars whea

Shine ( 417 ) Shiver

(
darkness

Shone
feels
S
them strong.—

like suns aglow. — (

The ships, like sheeted
toms coming and going. (
phan-

Shiver

-
Shone like isles
(Bayard Taylor)
of tawny gold. Shiver as the swhnmer
he makes his first plunge. — (when

Like
shines.- ( a sheathless sabre... Shivered like a
when he smelt gunpowder.
tyrant king
(
Shines like fires in swamps. Shivered as if in a deadly
(Tennyson) chill. — (J. M. Barrie)
Shone as a wintry sun.
(Frederick Tennyson) Shivered as with an ague-fit.—
B (Robert M, Bird)
Shine as the brightness Shivered in ray heart like a
of the
firmament.— (Old Testament) suffering child in a cold cradle—
(Charlotte Bronte)
Shone like silver threads in
Shiver like the lotus in the
tangles blown. (Maurice Thomp-
son)
river. (E. B. Browning)
Shone like the robe of a queen.
Shivers, like a signal-flame
-(Walter Thornbury)
held high.- (Hugo)
Shin'd like molten glass.
(Henry Vaughan)
A quick shiver ruffled the

Shine like fairy flags unfurled.

(
brooding stillness of the water.—
.

(Theodore Watts-Dun ton)

Shines like burnished brass.--

Shivering
phantoms.- ( pine - trees, Jiko

A shivering thing; like a

(Paul Wiggens)
young bird missing its mother's
m wing. — (Eliza Cook)
Shinea as calmly some
as
distant star.— (Sarah WilHams) Shivered.., like tautened wire.
~^John Masefield)
Shine, eminent as a planet's
light. — (N. P. Willis)
Shivered, like withered mosl
— (James Montgomery)
Ship
Ships are like flies in the Shivering in the wind like the
— (Hood)
^
«pider*8 web of the sea. sails
Poole)
in the sea song. (John
Shiiver ( 418 ) Short
(D. G. Rossetti)
Shiver'd
(Shakespeare)
like an
^
egg.—

Shivering as if a bullet had

ocean's
Shook. ..like shingle at the
mercy. — (John Ruskin)

struck him. (G. — Shaw) R Shook, like reeds bsside a

frozen brook. —
(Sir Walter Scott)
Shock
Shock like tornado tempests. Shook like a palsied limb.—
(Carlyle) (Southey)
Shocked me like a bullet. Shook like loosened music.
(Badger Clark) (Francis Thompson)
my
Shock
•vibration
Patmore)
of a

Shoe
spirits. ..like
bell.
^ the
(Coventry
music.
Her waving hair shook
—
like

Let not the shoe

than the foot — ( be larger Shook
W. Thorn bury)
like poppy- field. — (G.

Shook Shook, as the blackbird's

Shook
blast. — ( like a strong oak in a throat with it's last big note.—
(Oscar Wilde)

Shook it like a terrier with a

Sho 3 t
rat.- (Hood)

Shook as one that looks on

death.— (Jean Ingelow)
— (0. W. Holmes) ^
Shot like a bullet from a gun.

Shot, like meteors changed

from stars to gleams of lightning.
Like bullruabes
brook; or aspen leaf, her joints all
shook. —
(William Kin?) {ft
on side of

|
^
— (James Montgomery)

foam
Shoot through the sparkling
like an ocean-bird set free.
Shook like windy weeds. I

(Kpes Sargent)

^
(Longfellow)
Shook
L
like custards.

Shook as the quivering plumes

upon the hearse. — (Poe) |^
(Ouida)
Shoots like a meteor through
the storm.— (Sir Walter Scott)

Shoots, as a fire to smite some

Shook like n spied spy. —( towering town. — (Swinburne)
Shaok ... like cAd jdily.—
'.

Short
(Charles Reade) Short as the life of a wave.
Shook like an autuiiiii leaf. (Leonid Andreyev) &
Short ( 419 ) Shril!

—
a suet« pudding. (
Short, thick and round,— like
— A shriek and a yell like the
devils of hell.— (Thackeray)
Short as a militia drummer-
boy.— (J.B. Buckstone) Shriek (Verb)
Like one who wakens in a
Short as any dream. — (Shakes- grave and shrieks, the still house
peare) seemed to shriek. — (E. B. Brown-
Short as a lawyer's beard. ing) g
(John Webster)
Shout Shriek, like a frayed bird in
Universal shout, like a vol- the gray owlet's beak. (Hood)
cano's burst. (Edwin Ather-
Shriek like laughter in the

^
stone)
Shout, like the hoarse peals of j
demoned hills.— (Richard Hovey)
vultures.— (Dryden)
Shriek. ..aa if a frightful me-
The river shouted as ever its mory whipped thy soul for some
cry of joy over the vitality of life,
j

infernal crime. — (H. C. Kendall)

(
i

like a spirited boy before the face W

— Shriek … during shipwrecks,

^
of inscrutable nature.
j
like the cursed inhabitants of the
I
Bay of the Dead, who await their
Shouted and laughed, like a i
prey in the ships lost at sea.—
school full of boys from their i (Lamartme)
benches set free. — (0. W. Holmes) I
S
j
M
Shout like a storm on bills of Shriek like a storm-wind.
pine. (Bayard Taylor) j
(Swinburne)
Shrieking, like a soul in pain.
Shout, as they that tread the I
-(Celia Thrtxter)
grapes.— (Old Testament)
Shrill
Shrew
As a
roses, so
mushroom
shrew
is a in
is among
a costly
Shrill as ever started
I sea-bird's bill. — (Byron) ^
through

establishment. (W. S. Downey) Though thy voice be shrill,

like rasping file on steel. (Emer-
Shriek (Noun) son)
A shriek, as of a soul in Shrill... like the tingling steel
Hades. — of an elfin gong. (P. H. Hayne)

Shriek. ..such as might have Shrill as bird on topmost twig.

risen only out of hell. — (Poe) -(C. G. Rossetti)
Shrill ( 420 ) Shrink

. Shrill as the loon's call. ( Shrank as one who

loathed sight.
sees
— (Maurice F. Egan)
a

Shrink g

place.
Shrink
— ( as from a haunted Shrank like the snow that
watchers in the vale see narrowed
on the height each summer morn.
Shrinking like an old man -(George Eliot)
into his shoulders. —
Shrank like a leaf in fall.
Shrinks inward like a walnut. (Eugene Field)
Shrinking like a snail with-
Shrunk like a withered hand. drawing into its shell. (Herman
P. J. Bailey) Heijermans, Jr)
Shrink, as if I had been wan-
dering among volcanic-looking Shrunk away as a frost-bitten,
hills, and had suddenly felt the apple. (Washington Irving) IPR
ground quiver. (Charlotte Bron-
te) Shrunk away, within him,

(
like a dried filbert in its shell.

—
death.
Shrink
— (E.
into
B,
a
Browning)

Shrink up like crushed snail.

(Robert Browning)
point like
Shrank as from a sudden and
mortal danger. — (Mary Johnston)

Shrank, like things with

*a breath, whose ripeness feels the
Shrunken... like a withered touch of death. (C. F. Keary)
branch.— (Buddha)
Shrunk np like a bean in a Shrank as the beetle shrinks
pod.- (Alice Cary) beneathi the piu when village
children stab him in their sport.
Shrinking back, like one that (Kipling)
had mistook. — (Coleridge) ^
Shrank, like boys, who, un-
Shrink, as from a precipice's aware, ranging the woods to start

;
brink.— (Eliza Cook)

Shrink, like the sick moon at

a hare, come to the mouth of the
dark lair where, growling low, a
fierce old bear lies amidst bones
the wholesome morn. (William and blood.— (Macaulay)
Crashaw) [fii

Shrinks as some fair tulip by S

& storm oppressed shrinks up and
folds its siJken arms to rest. Shrink as though death were
(John Dryien) passing in his shroud. —
(John
Shrink ( 421 ) ShuB

Masefield) ® *
Shrivel like a scroll. — 0. W.
Shrank as at prick Holmes)

^
of steel.
- (George Mer)
(
Shrivel like paper thrust into
a flarae. —
Shrank like
the touch of flame. (
parchment
)
at
Shrivel like a burning scroll.—
(H. M. Milman)
Shrink, as from a serpent in a Shrivel, like leaves .when
knot of flowers. — (H. H. Milman) summer's green recedes. (J. H.
Newman) 5
He shrinks, as from a viewless Shrivelling up his face, like

^
blow.— (Kichard M. Milnes) an autumn
IB
leaf. (Smollett)

>-
Shrinking as violets do in
pumiaer ray. (Thomas Moore)

Shrink as though some co-

of
(Mark Twain)
Shriveled
Shriveled. ..likethe pictures
mikjamies you see in books.

wardly sin were between them.

(Ouida) ^ Shudder (Koun)
Shrank, as a taper in sunlight He felt the sort of shudder
sinks faint and aghast. — which a bull-dog would who

,
(T. feel
Buchanan Read) should scent a wolf in his master's
clothes. (Hugo)
Shrinks like scorche'd parch-
ment from the fiery ordeal of true A shudder like that of the
criticism.— (R. B. Sheridan)

Shrinks, as might love from

scorn.- (Swinburne)
^ deer when he sees the hounds
again upon his track.

Shudder (Verb)
—

IR Shuddered like a man io a

— (Maurice Hewlett) M
Shrank away tremulously, as
fairies in the story-books, before a
superior bad angel. (Thackeray)
^
fever.

Shuddered like some overfat

fiS pug when a street dog bristles
up at him. — (0. Henry)
cold.
^
Shrinks like a beggar in the
—
(J. T. Trowbridge) « Shuddered as at a swift cleav-
Shrink ... like guilty things ing of old steel. (George Mere-
surprised.— (E. P. Whipple) dith)
Shuddering like a shot bird.—
Shrivel (Swinburne)
Shrivelled like belated daisies, Shun
before a north wind. — Shun wickedness as ewallowa
Shan ( 422 ) Sideways
shun pestilent places. — St. Au- seeks its mother. — (Austin Dob-
gustine) son)
As shy and secret as a maid. —
Shun him like the plague. (Lowell)
(Robert Browning) Shy as the squirrel. (George
Shun her like garlic — (Byron) Meredith)
Shyer than the forest doe
Shunned like a
(Mathew Carey)
Shunned like base
viper.

praiseand
green.— (
twinkling slim through branches

hireling's mart. (Aubrey De Shy as a wren in the hedge-

Vere) row.— (George Moore)
Shunn'd him as a sailor shuns
the rocks. — (Dryden) Shy as the fawn. (Ambrose
Philips)
vShun as moles shun light. Sick
(0. Henry)
Shun him
(Edward Sharpham)
like the pest. ( Sick as a cat with eating rats.

Sick as a horse. — (J. R. Bart-

Shun as sullen night-ravens lett)
do the sun. (Henry Vaughan) As sick as a dog.— (Richard
Jago)
Shun, like a shattered bark, Sick at heart as the mouse,
the storm. — (Wordsworth) that the cat lets go a little way,
and then darts and replaces.—
Shut (Charles Reade)

( ^ As shut as evening flowers.

Shut as the leaves of a white Sickly

Sickly
as faint weather.
rose may ere the wan bud blooms (Beaumont and Fletcher) ti
out perfectly. (James Whitcomb
Riley) Mi Side
Shut like a purse. — (Swift) All on one side, like a bird
—
shut the stable-
It is too late to
door when the horse is stolen.
^ with one wing. (F. P. Northal)

Sideways
(Proverb) Sideways, like an amorous
Shut from approach like sea- dove.— (George Darley)
nymph in a shell. (N. P. Willie)
Spread sideways like a drawing
Shy net.— (Swinburne)
Shy as lightning.— (De Quin- Went si Jew ays as a big fish
cey)
Shy as some stray iawn that body. — (
flaps and shoves with head and
fll
Side by Side ( 4.23 ) Sigh

A sigh like that of a saint

Side by Side
Side by side, like tombs of
pilgrims that have died about the
desirous of dissolution.
ter Scott)
(Sir Wal-
^
—
Holy Sepulchre. (D. G. Rossetti) Sigh (Verb)

Sigh (Noun)
Sighed with such a sigh as
a syphon bottle. — (
Sighed like the dying gasp of

drops from agony to exhaustion.— Sighing. ..aa though the sea

(E. B. Browning) were mourning above an ancient
grief. — (Bliss Carman)
A sigh like driven wind
foam.— (Bliss Carman)

My sighs, like silent air, un-

or

'
The
(Coleridge) ^
sails did sigh like sedge.

^
heeded, never move her, (Robert Sigh like a dog that hath lost
Crawford) his master. (Thomas Lodge)

Profound sigh, like a man Sighs as men sigh relieved

from care.
-(Dumas) ^
unloosed from the tightest bonds.
I
j

•Sigh, like
(Lowell)

some sweet plain-

Pitiful sigh, gust of
like a j
tive melody ages long gone by.
of
chili, damp wind out of a long- j
(William Matberwell)
closed vault, the door of which j

has accidentally ben set ajar. Sighed as if a deadly burthen

(Hawthorne) j
had been taken from her breast.
Ifii !
(Poe) IS

(
j

With low, uneasY sigh; like Then the lover sighing like
voice of wandering spirits lament- j
furnace. —
ing through the sky.— (Francis S.
Saltus) Sighing like furuace. — (8hake«
speare)

( ^
j

A sigh of large contentment. Sigh, like a school -boy that

had lost his A, B, C.
Her smile was linked with a j

sigh. Sighed like a man near faint-

A sigh like the long-drawn ' ing. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
breath of a fog-horu. — (Edgar W. '

Nye) Sighs as a voiceless crying of

A great sigh, like that of a old love that died and never
giant who is stoned. (Edgar spoke. —(Arthur Symons)
Quinet) ti Ifii it
Sigh ( 424 ) Silent

He
(Mark Twain)
sighed like sephyr.- us in a
^mantle of content. (
Sighs, like a spirit, deep along When you have nothing to
the cheerless waste. (H. K. say, say nothing. —
White)
Sights A vast sweet silence crept
Sights seen as a traveling through thj trees. —
« wallow might see them on the
Mincl . Silence... like a flower closed
in the night.— (Charles Wells)
Silence
Silence. ..like an adoring host Silenced
iu ecstasy. (Laurence Binyon) Silenced with a scorn as bitter
'
Silence sank like music on
to the taste as myrrh.— (Clinton
Scollard)
my heart.— (Coleridge)
Silencing
A
(0.
silence like that of dreams.
W. Holmes)
Silence, like a poultice, comes
( He raised a silencing hand.

Silent
to heal the blows of sound. ( a forgotten
Silent... like me-
-
lody.— (Hamilton Aide) US
We rest in silence, like two
gems upcurl'd in the recesses of a Silent as a man being shaved
pearly shell.-(Keat) -(Niccolo Albizzi)
Silent as a catacomb. (
He
ing silence.
held his breath in admir-
— Silent as death.— (
Bilence.
He
— (
submitted

silence seemed to crush

The
in brooding
Silent as fate. — »
to earth like a great looking-glass

(
and shiver into a mil Ion pieces.— night* — ( '
Silent as the day gives way to

Silence deep as death. — )

Silent men like silent waters
are deep and d.-mgerous. (
Silent as the foot of time.— (A

realm
Sunny
of
Silence broods over the
little cottages. — ( L. Barbauld,
She was silent, standing before

ably irksome.— (
He found the silence intoler-
'
(
hi'u like a little statuesque figure.
>

Silent as the growth of flow-

ers.- (Apbra Behn.)
Pervasive silenee which wraps
Silent ( 425 ) Silent

Silent as thought. (Beranger. Silent midnight's falling

as
meteor of
slides into the stillness
The living seemed as silent as the far-off land. —
(0. W. HolinesV
the slain. (Ambrose Bierce.)
8 Silent as a mummy. (Hood)
Silent as church. (Charlotte
Bronte)
Silent as an Indian. ( )
Silent as a stone. —

Silent
Burleigh)
as ghost — (W. H.
Silent as sleep or shadow'.
(Jean Ingelow)
Silent as n consecrated urn.
^
Silent as night.— (Thomas (Keats)
Carew) Silent as a tomb. (^ —
Silent. ..like sleeping Beauty's
castle.- (Carlyle) Silent as a sentinel on an
outpost, -(Hugh Kelly)
Silent as 9now falls on the ^-
€a,rth. Chinese) Silent as the ev'nings ayre.
(Richard Lovelace)
Silent as your shadow.
(Colley Cibber)
Silent and pure as the heaven
above. —
(D. Annunzio)
Silent as a country church-
yard. —
Macaulay)
Silent as a hound at fault.
'
(Charles Macklin) Q -
Silent as a saint. (Aubrey De
Vere)

(Dickens) ^
Silent as a flame that fails.

Silent as the el vis.

Eliot)
t
(George —
Silent as the sleeping seas.
(Gerald Massey)
Silent as the evening sky.
(George Meredith)
-'

Silent and troubled, like a Silent as the moon.— (Milton)

man who be hath done that
feels
which he shall oue day rue. Silent as the depth of night.
(F. W. Faber) (James Montgomery)

Silent as evening. (Francis Silent, like a sundial in the

Fawkes) shade. — (Svdney Munden) WPuM
Silent as shut cups and wind- B
less reeda.— (Zona Gale) Silent as a tree. (Josephine
P. Peabody) ttto—
Silent as Japanese. (Golds- Silent as the silence where
mith) men lie slain. (0. G. Rossetti)'
Silent like a. glacier bed. —
(Edmund Gosse) .. Silent and slight as the fall'
Silent ( 426 ) Silly

of a half-checked tear on a maiden Silently

cheek. —
(Ruskin) Silently as a en ail slips over a
cabbage leaf on a dewy morning.
Silent as a grave.— (Schiller) -(J. R. Bartlett)
corpser) ill

Silent as corpse. (Shelley) ••• Silently as a dream. (Cowper)

Silent as a noonday iky when Silenty as a fish in a stream.

larks with
heat are mute.— — (Sir A. Conan Doyle)
Alexander Smith)
Fall silently like dew on
Silent as a steam calliope with roses. -(Dryden) |g
a broken boiler. (New York Sua)
Silenty, like thoughts that
Silent as a politician. -- (Swift) come and go, the snow flakes, each
one a gem.— (W. H. Gibson)
Silent as a mountain lawn.—
(Swinburne) Silently... as color's steal into
Silent «s time. — the pear or plum. (Robert Her-
rick)

( ^ Silent ns a stooping cloud.

Silent as a cloud
that sleeps
of the
Silently as a cloud rolls out

ling)
mouth of a valley. (Kip-
W
—
in midday on a mountain peak. Silently as the winds of the
(Bayard Taylor) desert sweep upward and north-
ward over the plains. (Onida)
Silent as the mighty marching
of earth and all the planets round Silenty as bubbles burst.—
the sun. — (Thomas Wade) (William R. Thayer)

Silent in conversation as a As the water follows the

country lover. (Vanbrugh) moon, silently, with fluid steps,
W anywhere round the globe.
Sileut...a8 the bush'd grouping (Walt Whitman)
of a dream.— (Whittier) fll

Silent as despair. Silly

Silly
as calves. — (
Silent as a picture. (Word- Silly as an old maid at a
sworth) marriage.— (Congreve)

( Silent

Silent
as a

as
standing pool.

the skies. — bler

You look...a8 Billy as a tum-
when he's been upside down
And has got on bis heels again.
Silly ( 427 ) Sincere

(Geooge Meredith)

Silly as a boob?.
' — (Mason L
(
cules between virtue and

Simple as a
Hercules
child.
vice.—

— (Balzac)
Weems) j

Simile Simple as the flowers in the

And similes in each dull line, field. (R. D. Blackmore)
like
should
glow-worms in the dark
shine. (Edward Moore)
j

Simple as milking. — (
Simple as playful lamb.
Similes are like songs in love; (Robert Bloomfield)
they much describe; they nothing
prove. -(Prior) ^ Simple as miracles always are
after they arewrought. (F. W.
Similes prove nothing, but H. Maers)
yet greatly lighten
tedium of
and relieve the
argument. (S;iuth)
"
Simpler than the infancy of
truth. — (Shakespeare) ^! ^
Simple as breath. (Arthur
Simmer Symons) it
Simmer like a sea pent Simple as a snow-drop.
volcano. — (O. W, Holmes) (Elizabeth S. P. Ward)

Simper S imply-
She simpers as a mare when Simply as breathing. — (Lo.
she eats thistles — well)
Heart-whole, and simply as a
Simper like a porrage pot in bird that feels the onset of the
the fire when it first begins to spring.— (F. W. H. Myers)
seethe. — (Thomas Nash)
«S Sin
Simper like a bride on her Sin is like a mountain with
wedding day. — (John Ray) two aspects according to whether
B it is viewed before or after it has
Simple been reached: yet both aspects are

( Simple as a Greek temple. —- real.— (Samuel Butler)

( Simple

Simple
as

as
a

a
nun's prayer.

squastu —
Sin are like circles in the
water when a stone is thrown into
01 it one produces another.— (Mat-

(
•

Simple as rolling off a log. thew Henry)

Simple as the choice of Her- Sincere

Sincere ( 428 ) Sink

Sincere as sunlight. There, like a bird, it sits and

sings. —
Aa. truth, sincere. — (David Sings like the sighing of a
Mallet) I
tempest spent. — (Dr. Johnson)
About as sincere aa the look I

upon the face of an undertaker I

Singing. ..like the shouting of
conducting a nine-hundred dollar i a backstay in a gale. (Kipling)
funeral. (Henry L. Mencken)
EI If He sings like an empty water
j
jar. — (Osmanli Proverb)
Sincerity is like travelling on j

a plain beaten road, which com- She sings as if a choir of spirits

monly brings a man sooner to his swept from earth with throbbing
journey's end than byways' iu wings.— (C. G. Rossetti)
which men often lose themselves.
— (John Tillotson) About the caldron siug, like
j
elves and fairies in a ring.
(Shakespeare)
Sinew
Sinews like a vine.— (Alfred Single
Anstin) Single as the sun.-— (Swin-
Sing burne)
Sing like a bird. — Singly

Sing like a cobbler. ( j

j
The good things of life are
not to be had singly, but come
to us with a mixture, like a
Singest like as angel in the schoolboy's holiday, with a task
—
^
clouds. (Coleridge) I affixed to the tail of it. (Charles
Lamb)
Sing like an angel. (John — B
Evelyn)
Singing as sweetly and m.aking Sinister
as heavenly a noise as doth an
arbour of nightingales in a calm-
winded night. — (John Grange)
Sinister as
pools.— (James Huneker)
murky midnight

Sink
H ^
Sing-song like a stiff puffet on
Sink like a lark falling
denly to earth. — ( sud-.

a humdrum barrel-organ.
Hunt)
(Leigh j
S
Sink iike a plummet.
*
(
the
Singing lustily as
demon of gloom. —
if to exorcise
!

!
Sinks,
whence she
like
rose.
a
— ( '
seaweed, into
)
Sink ( 429 ) skin

Sunk like a blade sent home I

the rock. — (Byron)
to its scabbard.— (Robert Brown-
ing) Sink as the pausing of music.
Sink lower than the grave.—
(Bunyan)
-(Bayard Taylor) ?5
Then sink?, as beauty fades They sank in to the bottom aa
.

and passion cools, the scorn of a stone.— (Old Testament)

coxcombs, and the jest of fools.

# (
j

(James Cawthorn) Sank as lead in the mighty

waters.-
m Sinless
Sunk like lead into the sea. Sinless as the spring. (Swin-
(Coleridge) burne)
Sinks like a lily from the Sit
storm.— (Eliza Cook) Sits like the maniac on his
j
fancied throne. —
Sink like fall of summer eve.
(Reginald Heber) I Sit up all night like a watch-
i
ing candle. — (Thomas Tomkis)
The erect body sank like a j

sword driven home into the Sits careless of wave's ebb and
scabbard. —
(Kipling) flow, like a love beacon on a
j
desert coast, showing where all
The nerves ofpower sinks, as I
her hope was wrecked and lost.
a lute's in rain. — (W. S. Landor) (Hood)
I

Sank

^^
as one that kneels before j

a virgin shrine.
^m
(.John Payne)

Sinks eclipsed, as at the dawn ( Stripped to

Skeleton
its bare skeleton.

a star when cover'd by the solar Skeptic

^
ray.-(Petrarch)

Sinks, like a strain of vesper-

The

the miser
skeptic,

who
when he plunges
into the depths of infidelity, lik&
leaps
the from
song.— (Frank Sewall) shipwreck, will find
that the
treasures which he bears about
I sank uuder it like a baby
fed on starch. —
(G. B. Show)

Sink down as a sunset

mist — (Swfnb'urne) ^^
in sea_
j

I
in the abyss. —
^
him, will ouly sink him deeper
(C. C. Col ton)

Skill
Better to sink
beneath the Skill comes so slow, and life
•hock than moulder piecemeal on so fast doth fly, we learn so little
Skilless ( 430 ) Slaughter

and forget so much. —

Skilless
Skilless as unpractis'd infancy.
(
and the air
^
as soft

The sky where stars like lilies

as milk.—

(Shakespeare)

The little
Skim
man skimmed down
mists.- (
white and fair shine through the

the hill, like

wind.— (John Hay)
a swallow down the
( •A ceaselessly fleeting sky.—

Lightly skimming. ..like winds

which gently brush the plying
opal.- (
The 8k y burned like a heated

grass. — (Ambrose Philips) Slackon

.. . Slacken like a bow-string
Skinny slipped.— (Edwin Arnold)
Skinny as an anchorite.
(Charles Mackay) Slain
Skip Slain and lost, like a sweet
Skip like a young kid. — flower nipp'd with untimely frost.
-(Tassy.)
He
saddle.— (
skips like hail on a pack-

Skip like a calf. — (Old Testa-

Slam
Door slam like the smacking
ment) of an iron lip. (Irvin S. Cobb.)
Mountains skipped like rams,

(
and the little hills like lambs.—

Skirmish
Slander
Slanders are like flies, that
pass all over a man's good parts to

( A hot and virulent skirmish.

Skulk
light on his

Slander,
sores.

like
—
the
) IS

pesti-
Skulk. ..like a dog shivering. lence, which
rages at noonday,
-(Swinburne) sweeps all before it, levelling
The sky was as shield that without distinction the good and
caught the stain of blood and the bad. —
Sterue) it
battle from the dying sun. —
Slanderous
The sky gleamed with the Slanderous as Satan. (Shake-
hardness
enamel.- (
and brilliancy of blue speare)
Slash
Slash, like to a censer in a
—
( The sky was

The sky was

like a peach.

clear and blue,

barber's shop. (Shakespeare) SI

Slaughter
Slaughter ( 431 ) Sleep

Slaughtered like cattle in the hall boy.— (Franklin P. Adams)

shambles.— (Prescott) •
Those ancestral themes past

,
Slay
Slay like thunderbolts. — ( which so many generations have
slept like sea-going winds over
pastures.-

Eliot)
Slays like lightning.— (George
Sleep like a bud. (
—
—(
Slays as plague's blind breath.
— (Swinburne) Sleep like a dead man.

Sleek as a mouse.
Sleek
— Gay) Slept like a log.— (
Sleek
as gold. — (
and thick and yellow Sealed sleep
know.— (Edwin Aruald)
as water-liliea

Sleek and round as a German Sleep like a top. — (Beaumot

sausage. —
(Peter C. Aabjornsen)
j
and Fletcher)
IHi Sleep as soundly as a consta-
Sleek as a dray horse. ble.— (Robert Brathwaite) g|i
(George Colinan)
Sleep like a jewel on the breast
A skin as sleek as a maiden's
of faith. —
(J. H. Holland)
cheek. — (Eliza Cook)

Sleek as a rat.— (Maurice Time slept, as he sleeps upon

Hewlett) the silent face of . dark dial in
Sleek as silk.— (Hood) a sunless place. —
(Hood)

Sleek sia a horn-book. (Beu Sleep like wrecks in the un-

Jonson) fathomed main.— (Miss Landon)
Sleeker than night-swollen j

mushrooms. - (Keats) Like a lulPd ba be she slept,

j
and know no fear. —
(Otway)
Sleep (Noun)
My sleep was like a summer Sleep like a dream in a grave,
sky that held the music of a j
-(A. J. Ryan)
lark.— (George Sterling) -
Sleep she as sound as careless
—
man. —
Sleep
( is sweet to the labouring j

j
infancy. (Shakespeare)

She slept, as sleeps the blos-

Sleep (Verb) j
?om, hushed amid the silent air.
Never bothered— sleeps like a (E. O. Smith)
Sleep ( 432 ) Slight

Sleep as a slain man sleeps.— Slick

(Swinburne) Slick as a ribbon. —
As a pearl within its shell,
the happy spirit arleeps in me. Slick as greaed lightning.
(Bayard Taylor) (J. R. Bartlett) g
Slick as sin. —
Sleep.. .like sinless flowers that
heed not the world and its mad-
dening din. — (E. W. Watson )
Slick as a whistle. — (
Slick as grease. —
Sleeping, like the darkness at Slick as a butterfly's wing.—
noontide. —
(Lady Wilde) (Thomas Davies)

Sleeps, like a caterpillar Slick as soap grease. (O.

sheathed in ice. (Wordsworth) Henry)
Slide
Sleepless Slid like water.— (John G.
Sleepless as owls. — Holland)
Slide off them like July rain
Sleepless of soul as wind or off a back
duck's feathers.
wave or fire. — (Swinburne) (Thomas Hughes)

Slender Slid like an evil dream.

Slender as cat's elbow — (tfe (Kipling)

Slender as reed.— ( Slid like a corpse afloat.— (D.

G. Rossetli)
Around him slide like h wave.
Fair and slender as the pine (Bayard Taylor)
tree. —
(Ssrvain Ballad)
Slight
— (Dick-
(
Slender and thin as a slender
—
Slight. ..as dew-drop.

^(
wire. ens)
Slender as a voung poplar. Slight as a crescent moon at
1^
(Balzac)

cow
As slender
in the waist.
in the
—
middle as a ^
night.— (Theodosia Garrison)

Slight as a vagrant plume

shed from some 'passing wing.
Like the hazel-twig is straight (Laura R. Searing) ^^
^
und slender.

A girl
(Shakespeare)

and slender as a
tall
n
Slight as the sea's sight 01 the
sea-mew, slight as the suu's sight
palm.-- (Heinrich Zschokke) of the star. —
(Swinburne)
Slight ( 433 ) Sloth

B Slipped like a shadow. — (Bret

( Slight as indeed a dew-drop.

>

Slighted
Harte)
Slips like water through a
sieve.— (Hood)
Slighted and betrayed; and Slipp'd me like his grey-
like a rose, just gathered from the hound, which runs himself and
stalk, but only smelt, and cheap* catches for his master. (Shakes- —
ly thrown aside to wither on the peare)
ground.— (Dryden)
AH
earthly things are doomed
to fallaway and slip back into
Slighted like a rivalled toy. Chaos, like a boatman who just
(Robert U. Johnson) manages to make head against
the stream, the tension of his
if

Slink arms happensto relax, and the

Slinking ... like a sad and current whirls away the boat
humiliated man. (Hugo) headlong down the river's bed.
(Virgil)

in
The stars slink
company with
rich Ruckert)
off like thieves,
night. — (Fried- '
Slipped away
Slink like spectres.
Van Dyke)
Slip
— (John 0.
visions.- (
They had slipped avvav like

Slip away like shadows into Slippery

shade.- (P. J. Bailey) Slippery and smooth as a
serpent. —
(Arne Gar bog)
Slips on like the lapse of
water. (Bulwer-Lytton) Slippery as an eel's tail.—
(John Heywood)
Slip frae me like a knotless As slippery as the Gordian
thread.- (Burns) knot was hard. (Shakespeare)

Slipped from his fingers, like Slope

drops of quicksilver. (F. Marion Sloped, as if leaning on the
Crawford) |ii air.- (Charlotte Bronte)
Slippes as a dew-drop slips
from some flowercup o'erweighted. Sloping like a roof. — (Joseph
— (Edward Dowden) Conrad)
Sloped, as slopes a wild brook
—
^
Slip like bending rushes from o'er a little stone. (Tennyson)
your hand.— (Dry dsn)
Sloth
Sloth ( 434 ) Slow

like rust, consumes

Sloth,
fasterthan labor wears, while the
key often used is always bright.— Slow as Saturn through
(Franklin.) prodigious space. — )

As the door turneth upon hia Slow as an oak to woodman's

hinges, so doth the slothful upon stroke.— (Richard Garnett)
his bed Old Testament.)
Slow like the tired heaving of
Slow a grief- worn breast. (O. W.

his tools. — (
Slow as a plumber going for Holmes)

Slow, as the strokes of a

Slow as cold molasses. — pump. (Hood)

Slow as molasses in January. Slow, like a bell.— (Hugo)

—(
Slow as the hand on clock's Sl^w as a worm.— (Kipling)
face. — (Robert Buchanan)
Exact and slow, like wooden
Slow as the white cloud in the monarchs at puppet slow. (Ro-
sky. — bert Lloyd)
Slow, like water-lilies fFoating
—
down a rill. (Byron) Slow as lawyers mount to
heaven. — (Charles Reade)
Slow as minor friars on sacred
errands go.— (Dante) Slow, like a sexton ringing
the village bell, when the evening
A voice as soft and slow as sun ia low.— (Longfellow)
might proceed from angel's tongue
if angel's heart were sorrow- It goes slow, comes slow, like
wrung, and wish'd to speak its a big mill-wheel on some broad
—
(Robert Chambers) stream, with long green weeds

©
woe.
a-sway, and soft and slow it rises
and it falls, still going onward.—
Slow-swelling like God's thun- (William Morris)
der underground. —
(Euripides)
W »
Slow as at Oxford, on some Slow as the snail.— (Samua!
gaudy day, fat beadles, in magni- Rogers) *fi

ficent array, with big bellies bear Hobbled slow as a broken-

the ponderous treat and heavily —
winded mare. (Sir Walter Scott)
lag on, with the vast loady meat.
(Francis Fawkes) Seldome and slowe, like the
Slow ( 435 ) Slambar

ecantye droppes of a fountaine

neara a drye. —
(Caroline Southey) Slowly, as when walking-
beam first feels the gathering
Slowlier than life into breath bead of steam. — (O. W. Holmes)
...it moves. (Swinburne)
slowly as an icy isle upon

^
Sail,
Slowly a calm sea drifting. (Keats)
Slowly, as a man in doubt.
(E. B. Browning) He
slowly moves, like a cloud
Slowly moved off and disap- of thunder, when the sultry plain
peared like shapes breathed on a
mirror and melting away. ( of
(Ossian )
summer is silent and dark.—

Slowly as a tortoise. — ( of
Dyke)
a glassy sea. —
(John C. Van
^
Slowly like the heave and roll

Slowly, unnoted, like the Slowly as shadows creep at

creeping rust that spreads insidi-
j

|
set of sun. — (Julia C. R. Dorr)
oua, had estrangement come, —
Works as slowly as old Doctor

Slowly as the finger of

dock, her shadow came. — ( e,

)
|
Time in curing folly. (George
Eliot) ""
Her heart beat more and mora
Siowly Jike one impelled by
slowly, more gently and uncer-
i

tainly, like a spring which ia

an unseen force. (Agnes and i

growing exhausted, Like an echo

Egerton Castle)

came on
It
cloud when there
(Dickens)
slowly,
is
like
no wind.
a i

i
bert)
^
which is sinking away. (Flau-

Sluggard
As the door on its hinges, so
As slowly, as sadly, as a hare |
he (the sluggard) on his bed,
that the greyhounds have coursed turns his side.— (Is3ftc Watts)
drags itself through the grasses
aud ferns.- (Ouida)
I

(
Sluggish
Slowly, as falls a tear that Sluggish. ..as a greasv boy.—
slowly starts from some great

^
agony.— (Norman Gale)

Slowly
moon with
filling
"

with
silver.— (Richard
life as a
i

I
(Joseph Conrad)

(W.
Sluggish as
C. Russell)
Slumber
^liquid
6
pitch.—

Le Slumbers as in a grave.
Gallienne) (Robert Browning)
Slumber ( 436 ) Smell

Slumber like a beam of moon- I

Small as the dust before the
]ight.-(Heury Ellison) j
wind.— (Old Testameiit)
m
Slumber like a stone. (Emer- Beat them as small as the
son) j
dust of the earth. —
Slumber like the leaves of a
lily at iii<rbtfa)l. — (O. W. Hoi meg)

SluDibering quietly, like forms

the ground. — (
As small as the hoar frost on

which sculptors carve.

d$
Siumberest here like a caged
(Shelley) i

j
.

Smart
Smart
as a
(Adjective)
whip.— (
bird that never knew its pinion?. Smart as a sixpence.—-(Dic-
N.
^ P. Willis) i
kens)
Smart (Verb)

Sly as a fox, — ( i^Jni Smart

(Shakespeare)
as lizards' stings.

Sly as old boots. —( Smashed

' Slv as submarine. ( )

j
Smashed
a sledge-hammer.
like a cocoa-nut by
—
Sly as a ring-dove. (Miss Smashed, as glass when it
Mitford) I encounters adamant. — (^_h) %
Slyly j

Slvly as a wild deer.— (Haw- Siucll

thorne)

Smack
Smack
like a tight cork from
j
Smell like a fertilizer factory
on a sunny afternoon.— ) (
a bottle. — (0. W. Holmes)
j

Smellyiige as the rose ay

I
fresh and redolent. —
(Alexander
S mall Barclay)
Small as tiny stars lighting
some ruined world. —
M!^
) ^ Smells as sweet as any posy.—
(Thomas Killigrew)

needle.— (
Smaller the point of a fine Smells worse than a tallow-
chandler's shop in the dog-days.—
(Charles Macklin)

seed.— (
Small as a grain of mustard

Small as atoms.— (Massinger)

He smells like a fish; a very
ancient and fish-like smell.—

Small as minced meat.

(Shakespeare) H ;
(Rabelais) Smells of gunpowder like a
Smile ( 437 ) Smile

soldier's pouch.-— (R. B. Sheridan) Field)

Smile (Noun) Smile like the bloom of the

The smiles of his dark- blue morning. (Edward Octavus
eyes sparkle like the sea when Flegg)
first lighted up by the rays of the Smiles, like meteors of the
sun.— (Alciphron) night, just give one flash of mo-
mentary light. — (Walter Harte)
A glittering infectious smile.
Smiles as thick on rosy lips
A faint, transient,
smile lightened her brooding face.

Her smile was

wistful

faintly depre-
as
Holmes)
ripples

A grim
on
^
the sea. (O.

smile, like lion that

W.

ciatory. has found a way of exit. (Hugo)

Her smile was like a summer
— (Burns)
morn.

Smiles and tears, like sun-

( Smile like morning flowers.

Her smile grateful as the dis-

shine and rain, are necessary for
the development of life.— ( solution of the ice. ~
(Dr. Johnson)

Her smile was such as Sultan

might, in blissful arid fond mo-
Smiled, as mountains smile to ment, bestow on a slave his gold
Bee the spring. (Ancient Ballad gems had enriched. (Hugo) —
of Hindustan) t ^^
Her smiles were like the Wan smil83 flickered, like the
glowing sunshine. (Servian L»al- northern dawn, across her worn
lad) cheeks' icefield.— (Kingaley)
Charming smiles thy beaute-
ous face adorn, as May's white blos-
soms gaily deck the thorn, (Chat- He strove to clothe bis agony
terton.) in. smiles, which he would force
up in his poor pale cheeks, like

— (
Smiles. ..sweet as the flow'rs in ill-timed guests that had no pro-
bloom

A
of spring arrayd«

smile as fine as
(Frederick S. Cozzens)
wine.

The
—
per dwelling there.
Lamb)
(Charles

smiles which play on my

'Twould force a misanthrope cheek in public are to my heart as
to hang a smile upon his" lip, as moon beams falling on some rock
dewdrop ou a thorn.—-(Michael of ice; they shine, but warm not*
Smile ( 438 ) Smile

^
(M. G. Lewis) Smiles, which spread like
radiance from the cloud-surround-
ed moon. —
Shelley)
Capacious ... smi!e. like the
exaggerated reflection of a con- A half smile hovering round
cave mirror. —
(Lover) her bappy lips like a bright butter-
fly around n flower. (Alexander
Her smiles as sunshine on a Smith)
ripening land. — (Gerald Massey)
Smile. ..like sunshine opening
A
face.
half smile, like the moon-
light of laughter, dawned on her
— (George MacDonald)
-(Southey) …
through a shower in vernal skies.

A smile sweet as good Ingels

smile is as thankful
Its
Gerald Massey) —
hymn. wear when they present their
mortal charge before the thcrne
of Heaven. —
Her smile— it was like the
golden wine poured in the spirit,
as i« a cup. —
(Owen Meredith) Smile, it was like sunshine in
a shady place. — (Robert Louis
Thy smiles, like sunflowers in Stevenson) B
the golden light they love. (H. —
Crimson smile,

^
H. Milmai)) like seas bid
by a meadowland. (Trumbull
Child hood. ..smiles, like glim- Stickney)
pses of heaven. (Donald G, Mit-
chell) Smiles more sweet than flow-
Smile like sunlight in a rip- ers. —(Swinburne)
pling sea. — C Lew is Morris) A smile that was like sunrise

Her smile is like the noon-

splendor of a day of June.
on a sea strewn with wreckage.—
(Edith Wharton) —
(James Whitcomb Riley) Her smile is us a listening chi-
ld'*3 who hears its mother's call.
As a meteor bright, as a comet (Whittier)
bright,was her smile of pearl and
spray.— (Francis S. Saltus) A smile which cheered— like
the breaking day. j^lft—
How like the dewdrops on a A smile as joyous, frank, and
innocent as that with which n

^
drooping flower are smiles from
gentle eyes. — (John G. Saxe) babe awakes from sleep.
Williams)
(Sarah —
Smile ( 439 ) Smiel

Around the lips a smile played

like the shadow of a silver cloud
(
Smiling, like a sickly mora-
iisL—
Smiling free as a rose in sum-
upon a sunlit stream. (J. 0. mer air. (Dora Green. wall)
Wilson)
B Smiling like a cherry.
A smile... as sleeps a sunbeam (Thomas Heywood)
on I stone.— (William Winter) Smiles like clockwork. (Die-
kens)
U
An innocent smile, like a sun- Smiling like a new-blown
—
(
beam kissing an velvet rose. flower. (R. H. Home)

Faint- smiling
through autumn mists.
like a star
(Keats)
Smile (Verb)
She smiled as though some-
Smiled like a paradise.
body were talking to her. (Mar-
(Gerald Massey)
guerite Audoux)
•Smiling like heaven. (Wil-
liam Morries)
Like the wine and roses,
Smile, like the sun in his
smiles.— (Anacreon) glory on the bud.— (W. M. Praed)
#
Smiling like
darkest night. — (a star on the
Smiles like a
(Allan Bamsay)
Smile like
May morning.

summer after snow.

Smiles like a sweet June rose. -(0. G. Rossetti)
—( Smiled, as all the world were,
Smiling triumphantly the hip.— (Thomas Sackville)
while like one Who had discovered
his enemy's secrets. 4 Smiling as smiles the fowler
[ when flutters the bird to the gin.
Smile like a cherub.— (Wiii* -—(Robert Louis Stevenson) *
iam Blake)
Smiled like a siren. — ( I

of
Smiled as dawn on
man. — (Swinburne)
the spirit

Saii led like the flowers of

(
j

Eden.- (Patrick Bronte) Smiled as one living even on

craft and hate.—
-
'

Smiling like a fiend who has

deceived
ing)
God. (Robert

Smile, as infants at a sudden

Brown-
a lip still fearful.— (
Smiling dim as the smile on

light.- (Coleridge) Smiling, like a star in tho

blackest night. —
 Smooth
Smile

8 nailing. ..like beauty waking

( 440 )

palm. — (Araiiolkais) ^
from
Wilson)
a happy

Smirk
dream. (John
( Smooth

Smooth
as a bowling green.

as a pond. ( )

Smirk. ..like a dog scratching

his ear. —
(Amelie Kives) Smooth
in the sim. — (
as the pillar flashing

Smite
Smiting like a cry. (Mathilde Smooth as bulrush. (
Blind
Smites it as acid smites the
red rust. (Samuel Montgomery) » Smooth as a carpet. (
Smooth as a die. —
Smote him like a judgment
from above. (James
mery)
Montgo-
( Smooth
EI
as a door knob.

Srniteth as a staff. (Tupper)

( Smooth
bolt.—
as an oil'd thunder-

tocsin.
Smote on my ears like a
(Thomas Westwood) ( Smooth as. a perfect peach.

Smoked
Smoke
like a herring.
( ^ Smooth

Smooth
as a poker table.—

as a rose leaf. (
(Robert Browning)
Smoking
(Daudet)
like

Smoked like a chimney.

a crater.

(R.
palace of peace. — (
Smooth as the mirrors in the

jfl.

bacon.
Barham)
Smoked like a gammon
— (Anthony Hamilton)
of hand.—
Smooth
(
Smooth as the

as wax.
palm

—
of one's

^
heat.
Smoking
-(J. S.
like a boiler at the
Knowles) ( Smooth

Smooth e
as

it
a

was
snow cloud.

as it were late
Smoking like an iron works. shave. -(Chaucer)
— (Tom Taylor)
Smooth Smooth as smoothest 'beaver
Smooth as the surface or a bat. — (John Daveis)
pebble, — (Addison)
Smooth as a new laia eg?.
Smooth
(William Allingham)
like a china

Smooth as the stem of a young

^
cup. (Dickens)
Smooth
disss. -(Joseph R.
as sheet of
Diake)
polished
Smooth ( 441 ) Smudged!

Pierre)
Smooth as the back of a razor. Smooth as oil. (Shakespeare)
(George Dumaurice)
Smooth as monumental al-
Smooth as fungus, daughter abaster.
of the rain. —(Francis Fawkes) Smooth as the elephant's new
polished tooth. (Sir Edward
Smooth as the surface of weil Sherburne)
polish^ brass- — Smooth as a billow. (Al-
exander Smith)
Smooth and shining, as a sword As Parian marble smooth.
out of a sheath. — (Flaubert) (William Soraerville)
(Paros)
A
skin as smooth as silke. Smooth the level lake,
as
(George Gascoigne)

Smooth as glass. — (John i

Gay)
,
when not abreeze dies o'er the-
sleeping surface. (Southey) '
Smooth than butter, — (Old
Smooth as a billiard'table.— Testament)
(Anthony Hamilton) Smooth as the flight of a
dream. — (Edith M. Thomas)
Smooth as ice. — (Thomas Hey*
wood) Smooth as a floor. (Mary A.
Smooth as the pond can be, —- Thicker)
(O. W. Holmes) 'j
Smooth as a moie.— (John
'
Smooth as a billiard ball.— Withale)
(Ben Jonson) Smooth as marble or a wave-
Skin, as smooth as inv rush. less sea. — (Wordsworth) H
(Smooth as a silver shield,— Smoothly glide as ships drop
(George Cabot Lodge) down a river with the tide.™
Smooth as jet. - (Lyly) (Jean Ingelow)

Smooth as the gliding stream. Smoothly. ..like the noiseless

Jamas Macpherson) flow of a river of oil. (Plato)

Smooth as velvet.— (Charles Smote

Reade)
Smoother than the fur
—James Whitcomb Riley)
of cats. him. — (
A great sickness of heart smote
Smothered
Smothered like a whisper in
Tone as smooth as honey. a storm. (Herman George Schef-
(C. G. Rossetti) fauer)
Smooth as a mirror. (Saint — Smudged
 Smudged ( 442 ) Snort

Smudged, like a shopkeeper's j

going under the ether. — (Irvin &
account-book. (Osmanli Proverb) Cobb.)
a |

Smug Sniffing like a dog after game.

Smug ss April. (Beaumont —(Guy de Maupassant)
and Fletcher) j

Snap Snigger

( Snapped like a

Snap
fiddle string.

like a pipe stem. ( j

I
Snigger, like a yokel's smile,
—(George Meredith)

ffi Snobbishness

(Snap like the lash of a whip.

Snapping like too high- I

Snobbishness is like death in
a quotation from Horace, which
I hope you never have beard,
stretched treble strings. (Donne) i "beating with equal foot at poor
j
men's doors, and kicking at the
Snapping like a mad dog. \
gate of emperors."— (Thackeray)
(George Eliot) !
Horace
These final words snapped
like a whip.laah. — I

Snapped
(Maurice Hewlett)
like a steel gin.

j
Snore
Snoring like a pig.— (
Snapped like the threads of a Snored like an organ.
lyre.— (Adelaide A. Procter.) ! (Ambrose Bierce) ^
Snore like a porc-pisce (por-
Snappy poise). (Ban Jonson) HP

(
j

Snappy as a fresh string bean.

Snore like over-gorged hu-
Snarl !
mans.- (Kipling)
Snarl at pleasure like a stoic. Snores like sawin' planks.—
— (Chesterfield.) I
(Alfred Henry Lewis) ff« |g
—
I

Snarl like a monster at meat. Snoring like old b)ot&

— (Hamlin Garland.)
j
(Moliere) {b

Snores like the base-pipe of

Snarled like an old dog.— i
an organ.— (Shadwell) ftFi
(Maurice Hewlett.)
Snarling like the hound a Snort
"wolf has checked. (Hugo.) Snorting like an undar-sea
volcayio. (Samuel Ferguson)
Sniff j
^
Ix>oked at it and sniffed at it Snorting like a horse.—
daintily— like a reluctant patient (Shakespeare)
Snug Sober

Snug Soars like a seraph.— (Owen

Meredith)

^ As snug
— (Richard
Snug
as a pig in pea-straw.
Davenport)

as a parson.— (Flaubert)
i
Up, like a kite made of fools-
cap, it shall soar, with a long tail
behind, to the skies. — (Thomas
Moore)
J

Snug as a bug in a rug.—

(Franklin) Soar like white-winged sea-
I'm as snugly shut as a glad j
birds into the infinite deep.—
little worm in the heart of a nut. (Miss Mulock)
— (James White ->mb Riley) Soars like a wild bird from a

As snug as a snag
(Eugene Fitch Ware)
in a bog.
I

I
heaven. —
(Mrs. Norton) ^
cypress bough, into the poet's

S 1 My fancy soars like a kite

Snug as a child that hides I
and faints in the blue infinite.
itself in sport 'mid a green hay- (Robert Louis Stevenson)
cock in a sunny field. (Word-
sworth) B Soared like incense to the
skies.— (C. G. Rossetti)
Fitted as snugly as bits in a
puzzle. —
(Edith Wharton) Sob
Sobs like a child in a dream.
Soar — (James Ballantine)

(
Soars like a cloud. —
Soars like a bird on the wing.

)
Sobbing, as
soul were torn.
if the body and
(Bulwer-Lytton)

Soars like smoke. (Euripides) Sobbing like a lover by his

Soars like an eagle. ( )

false one left in sorrow and in
pain.— (J. S. Guthrie)

Soaring
from a volcano
A
as swift as
springs. ( smoke
it
Moore)
Sob, like ocean's tremor when
turns to ebb. (Charles L.

(
There she soars

Soaring like
like a seraph.

pride. (Julia
of
Sobbed like tears at the heart
May.— (D. G. Rossetti)

Ward Howe) Sober

The burtheneded heart should As sober as an ice-cream soda
Boar in mirth like Morn's young on New Year's Eve. —
prophet-lark. —
(Gerald Massey)
5* Sober as if he bad supped with
' Diogenes. (Bui wer- Ly tton )
 ( 444 ) Soft

Diogenes a special painter to delineate it

Sober as a judge. (Fielding) in accordance with its own taste.
-(Sainte-Beuve)
Sober as it the tender voice of
home. (Lewis Morris) Society ie like the air neces-

&
sary to breathe but insufficient to
Sober as a vicar. — (John G. live on.— (Gfeorge Santayana)
Saxe)
Society oociety is like the echoing
Society is like air; very high hills. It gives back to the speaker
up,

^ ^
sublimated— too low his words; groan for groan, song
it is

(
down, a perfect choke-damp. for song. — (David Thomas).

Society, like the Roman youth Society is in this respect lika

at the circus, never shows mercy afire the wise man warming him-
to the fallen gladiator.— (Balzac) self at a proper distance from it;
^ not coming too cloae like a fool,
who, ou getting scorched, rung
Man in society is like a flow'r, away and shivers in solitude, loud
blown
alone
full
in its native bed; 'tis there
his
bloom shine
facilities expanded
out, there only
in
in his complaint that the fire
burns. —
(Schopenhauer) .
reach, their proper use.— (Cowper)

Soft
Society as cold as the glacier Soft as the satin fringe that
of au unsunned cavern. (0. W. shades the eyelids of thy fragrant
Holmes) maids.— (T. B. Aldrich)

Society is like a lawn, where Soft as the broken solar beam,

every roughness is smoothed, that trembles in the solar stream.
every bramble eradicated, and Anacreon)
where the eye is delighted by the
emiling verdure of a velvet Soft as misted star. (Mary
surface.— (Washington Irving) Louisa Anderson)
<g Soft aud supple as lady's glove,

—
Soeiety
of frozen water;
like a large piece
is

and skating well — Soft and flute.

—
is the great art of social life.
(Misa Landon) ( Soft as a government

Soft as a jelly fish. —

job.

Society, like a woman, requires

Soft ( 445 ) Soft

Soft as a shadow.— (K±) ^ Soft as zephyr of a summer

"^ Soft as foot can fall. —
i

sfc y. — $H
Softly as a milk tooth leaving
«! a baby's gum. —
Soft as spring. — '

Softly as on ice that will

Soft as sleep. — scarcely bear. —
I*

dream.
Soft as
—
Soft in
( the

their
landscape

color as
of

gray
a
I

|
Softly—like the
departed spirits. —
footfalls of

pear" —( Soft as silk in her touch.

(Arabian Nights)
Soft as the zephyr.

Soft as threaded pearls. —

Soft as the south wind. —

dove»— (
Soft as the down of the turtle-
( Softer than zephyr's

Soft as the breath of

wing.—

even.—
^ Soft as marshmallows.— (|^_h)

Soil as &a(t music. — ( j

(Harriet Auber)
Thy sweet words drop upon
the ear as soft as rose leaves on
— a wall.- (P. J. Bailey)
Soft aa pudding.

April
^ ((
Soft hs showers that
meads. —
fall on
in repose. — (
Softly sublime like lightnings

Soft as soap.—
Soft as cotton. —
Soft as the evening wind mur- I
Soft as the sunlight.— (W. C.
—
|

muring among willows. Bennett)

Softly like a stream of oil.
Soft as tl:e hands of indolence. William Browne)
Soft voice as a laughing dream
. Soft as the murmurs of a (R D. Biackmore. ) g
virgin's sigh. —
Delicately the sand
soft as
,
the flowers^ — (
Soft as the breeze flitting over
|ft

seraphs^— (
that has been trod ou by dainty
| Soft as the dew on flowers
spring.— (Robert Bridges.) IS
of

( Soft as the snow on the sea.

Soft as Muses' string. -- (£. B-
Soft ( 446 )

Browning.)
Soft as a mother's kiss. ( (
Soft as the cooing of the turtle
«
81
Soft as a silent hush. ( dove^ —
Soft as the moss where hissing
adders dwell. —
Soft as a sofa. (Bulwer-Lyt-
ton.) ja^n Softe as the sommer flowrets.
Soft as wool. — (Robert Bur- B
ton.)
Soft as the callow cygnet in
nest.- (Byron.)
itai
As
(Coleridge)
Soft as
soft
&the
as honey-dew.

passing wind.
(Cowper)
Soft as the gentler breathing Soft as the breath of a sleeper.
of the lute. — (Isa Craig)
Soft as the murmurs of a
—
Soft as harp that houri strings
bis long entrancing note. ( weeping
Davenant)
spring. (Sir William

Soft as pity.— (George) ^

(
Soft as the
—
melody of youthful Soft, his accents lill, like

^
days. voices of departed friends heard
Soft as the memory of buried in our dreams, or music in the
love. — air, when night-spirits warble
S^ft as the unfledged bridling their magic minstrelsv. (Richard —
—
when at rest.

Soft as the eyes of a girl.—

Cumberland)
«
(Wilfred Campbell.) As soft and sleek as girlish
m blown.—
—
cheek. Austin Dobson)
Soft as a bed of rosea
(Thomas Carew.)

Soft as sunset.
1ft

— (Carlyle.) iSL
Soft
(Julia

Soft
a
as a baby's
R. Dorr)

as spirit's
&(
sigh.
breath.
55

Soft as snow that falls on snow f^a

—
j

(Alice Cary) f^D Soft as summer.— (Ernest

Soft as a bank of moss. (Cow- — Dowson) 5
dray.) Soft as prayer. —
Soft as love. — (Jame8 Cowth- I

om.) jam Soft and caressing as a melody.

Soft as silence.— (W. E. Chan, —(Dumas)
ning.) Soft as a whisper (Georgo
Soft as the breath of morn in Du Maurier) ift
bloom of spring. (Chatterton) Soft as pattering drops that
Soft 447 ) Soft

fallfrom off the eavey in fancy

dance when clouds are breaking.
—(
ooothiug soft, like hamming bees
busy about the brooms.—
^ *
(
Soft and fluid as a cloud on Sott as a.s a dream of beauty.
ihc air. — (Emerson) -(Richard Hovey)
Soft as love's first word.
Soft as tho voice of summer's (Jean Ingelow)
evening gale. -^(William Falconer) m
It B Soft. ..as cob- webs.— (Ben Jon-
Soft as the breath of distant son)
flutes at hours when silent evening Soft as the face of Diakl.
closes up the flowers. (John (Frederic L. Knowles)
Gay) II
Soft as a dying violet-breath.
Soft as the stringed harp's - (Sidney Lanier) }g
moan. — (Gerald Griffin)
« Soft and still, like birds baif
Soft as the falling thistle hidden in a ne^t. (Longfellow)—
«
down.- (Joseph Hall) «l

Cheeks, soft as September's summer

Soft as the swan-down
sleeps. (George
where
Mac-
rcec blushing but faintly on its Herry)
filtering stem.— (P. H. Hayue)
Soft as the sighing of the gale,

Hawes)
Soft

Soft as the
as silkworms.

whisper shut
— Stephen
tliat

#
wakes the flowery year.—
(David Mallet)

Soft as dew-drops
^
i

when they
within a shell.— (W. E. Henleyl settle hi a fair flower's open petal>
— (Philip Marston)
Soft as pity, and as blest* 11

(
.

(Aaron Hill) Soft as light-fall on unfolding

—
» Soft as upper air.—

Soft as rain. (0. W. Holincs)

I

j
flowera.

Soft
(Gerald Massey) 'tftg^CJ

and thick as a ^feather

bed. (Guy de Maupassant)

( As soft as swan's down.

^ Soft as a fhite.

Soft as
— Hood)
flowers. —
Soft
Miller) i&
Soft
Mitford)
as

as
a kiss.

moonlight.

Soft as evening o'er the ocean,

(Joaquin

— (Miss

Smuds npou the air most when siie charms the waves to
Soft ( 448 ) Soft

rest. — (James Montgomery)

It
?ft ^ tt
Soft as an incarnsiion oi the
Soft as in moments of bliss sun. —(Shelley) itt
long ago.— (Thomas Moore) Soft as thoughts of budding
love. — (R a^ttliB

( Soft as lightning in

Soft as the back of a gwan.

« May.—

sigh.-- (
Softer than the west wfnd's

(Thomas Nash) Soft as a spirit prayer. (Seba

baby's cheek.— (T.
N. Page)
Soft as a
Smith) a^mg
Soft as a man with a dead
Soft as twin- violets moist with
child speaks. (Care Stan burg)
early dew.— (Andrew Park)
IS
Whispering soft, like the last
Soft as yielding air.—-(Mat-
thew PHor)
Soft as a pillow. — (W. B.
low accents of an expiring saint.
-(Sterne) ^
Rands) Soft as pap.— (Swift)
Soft as angela* wings. (James
Whitcomb Riley)
j
m
; Soft and listless as the
Soft like the waxe, each image
slumber-stricken (Swiu.

&
air.
shall receive. (E<»rl of Stirling)
burne)

day
Soft as a
almost
sunny shadow when
done.— (C. G. ( Soft as a low long sigh.-—

(
is
Soft as lip is soft to lip,—
Rossetti)
Soft as music's measure,

Soft as the gleam

after sunset
that hangs like a halo of grace
rise
Soft as at
and iall. — (
noon the slow
>
sea's

where the daylight had died n Soft... as desire that prevails

the valley, —
A. J. Kyao) fft
j

and fades.-— (Swinbnrne)

A soft answer turneth away

Soft as air. — (Shakes;>enre) wrath. — (Old Testament) MMA
U
Soft as sinews of the new-born Sohas wax- — ^tl
babe. —
Soft as dove's dow., —
Soft ^8 heaven
that girdles hell.—
|R
( the stream

Soft aa lips that laugh.— (B|

)
( Soft as the parasite's silk.

Soft as
A
young down. — (H-t)
Soft
smile of Mary.
as o'er
—
her babe the
Soil 449 ) Softly

Soft as the &ightipgale-s har-

( Soft as a weak wind blows.—

Soft as sleep siogs in a tired

monious woe, in dewy even-tide,
when cowslips drop their sleepy'
heads, and languish in the breeze.
man's ear. — — (William Thoinaou)
S8 ifiiii

as snow
Soft
snow«soft flesh.— ( lights on her
Soft,
(Mark Twain)
iike summer night.

Borne
the bearing-bed.
soit aa
— ( the babe from Soft as a peacock
(Fazio Degli Uberti)
steps.

Soft as swan :
s plumes are,—- The air as soft as lover's jest.
( Emanuel Von Gibbel)
Soft... as
of night- — ( the clouds and beams
Soft
(Samuel Ward)
as summer
$
breeze.

Soft as the least wave's lapse Soft as the wind of spring-tide

in a still small roach. — in the trees. (Rosamund Marriott
Watson) ffi
Soft as the loosening oi wound Soft as fall of thistle-down.
arms in sleep, — (Whittier)
Sa£t as the flow of an infant's
Soft thongbte of beauty
as breath.
sleeping.- (Arthur Symons) igjg
H Soft as the landscape of a
heaven's angelic mes-
Soft, as
dre»m. — g
senger might touch the lips of Soft as a lady's hand. — (Ella
prayer, and make them blest.— Wheeler Wilcox)
(Bayard Taylor) ffi
Soft as a cloud. (Words-
worth)
There sweet music here
is
that softer falls than petals from
Softly
blown roses on the grass. (Tenny- Tread softly,— softly, like the
son) ifc foot of winter, shod with fleecy
snow. (Barry Cornwall)
Soft as lonely maiden's
thoughts on him
(Tsaias Teyner)
mm
she loves.
of
Softly as
down. — (Daudet)
if

;^|
over a pavement

Softer than oil.— (Old Testa- Walked as softly as the gboet

ment) iu HamleU — Dickens) Haa-
Soft as a sleeping cat.— (Thee let
cr'nus) Softly apeak «nd sweetly
Softly

smile. —
Softly
unfolds its
( as full-blown flower
heart to welcome in
( 450

j
)

A
^
good soldier, like a good
horse, cannot be of a bad color.
Solemci

the dawn. —
(Henry Van Dyke) (O. W Holmes)

Softly... like low aerial music Soldiers are like cloaks,—one

when some angel hovers. — (Lady thinks of us only when it rains.
WUde) 2 (Marshal Saxe)

Softly. ..as music that flo: ts

through a dream.— (Minnie Gil-
more)
Solemn
Solemn
as a judge. ( )

Softly ns a burglar goes. (O. Solemn as a slate gravestone*

H«nry) ' (
( Stepping softly like a scout.

Softly among the pines as a

Solemn as a thunder.

Aa solemn as any catafalque^

—

young witch gathering simples.

(Richard Le Gallienne)
{ Solemn as organ music — (0}
35

A
Softness
softness like the atDiophere
of dreams. —
(Mrs. Norton )
Solemn
franc piece.
as a kiug on a five-
— (Balzac) . fi

Solemn, as a thought of Gotl.

Soil E. B. Browning)
SoiPd, like the soil'd iis3ue of
white violeta left, freshly gather'd, Solemn as despair. (Bulwer-
on their native bank, by children Lytton)
whom their nurses call with haste Solemn, like the cloudy groan
indoors from th-e sun's eye.
(Matthew Arnold) S
^
of dying thunder on the distant
wind.— (Byron) JR )
«
Soilless a» pearls.— (Ouida)
Solemn as the long stops upon
an organ.— (Dryden) i ^
Solemn ag an owl - (Goethe)
Though a soldier in time ci Solemn aa a dyin» nun.
peace is like a chimney in sum- (Maurice Hev/lect) jg<Ul
mer, yet what wise man would ft
pluck down his chimney because Solemn — (Kipling)

#
ns putty.
his almanac told him it was the
middle of Jane. (Tom Brown)
1 » Solemn as a parson's clerk.
(George Meredith) W.t
Solemn (451 )

IB

committing
lais) @
Solemn &a
a

Solemnly
a monkey
mischief.— (Rabe-
after
his tribe. —
Solitary
(
as a tomb.
…
Solitary... like a swallow left
behind at the migrating season of

— (Hugo)
Moved as solemnly as a dowa-

(
j

ger when she condescends to com- The balm of solitary musing.

plete a quadrille at the close of a I

ball.— (Balzac) Solitude

ft Solitude, like some unsounded
Solicitude bell. —(Mary A. Townsend)

(
I

Her solicitude thrilled him. j

The worst solitude is to have

Solid ; no time friendships. — )

Solid as old times.

The deep tranquillity of the

( Solid as the eternal

Solid like a principle.

rocks,

— (Joseph
!

I
shaded solitude. —
Sombre
Conrad) Sombre as sorrow. —
Solid as glass, — (Hood)
Sombre as the night.— (Dante)
Solid as a sod house.— (A. H.
Lewis) Sombre like a cathedral. —
Solid as a haystack. (Euskin (Hugo)
S Song
—
^
Solid, like a cactus stem,

Soiid as bricks.— (G. B. Shaw)

Songs are like painted win-
dow-panes! In darkness wrapped
the church remains, if from th&
market-place we view it; but let
As solid as a landed estate. us now inside repair, and greet
(Robert Louis Stevenson) the holy chapel there! At once
the whole seems clear and bright,
Solid as a wall.--(Tupper) each ornament is bathed in light',
and fraught with meaning to the
—
j

Solid as a globe of mud. j

sight. (Goethe)
(Mark Twain)
Solitary
Solitary.. like some colossal
—
…S
pillar of the Cyclops. (Carlyle) The air was
strains of old songs.
full
—
of fugitive
)

…
Solitary... like a lighthouse
keeper above
Conrad)
the sea.— (Joseph
song
The
( air was caressed with
 ( 452 ) Serrow

Sonorous Sophistry, like poison, is at

Sonorous as a fountain's notes. once detected and nauseated when
—( presented to us in a concentrated
Sonorous as the inside of a form; but a falsity which, when
violin. —
(Octave Mirbeau) stated barely in a few sentences,
would not deceive a child, may
Soothe deceive half the world if diluted
Soothes the ear like echo of
distant
Amicis)
music. (Edmondo de
in a quarto voluma— (Whately)
#«
Soothed like the xxmsic of a
tomtom. — 0, Henry)
As creeping ivy clings to wood
Soothes like a caress of angels. or stone, and hided the ruin that
(Donald G. Mitchell) it feeds upon, so sophistry cleaves

Soothing as the gospel.

Soothing as the breath

—(
of
close to and protects bid's rotten
trunk, concealing
(Cowper)
its
&
detects.—

spring.— (F. W. Faber) Sore

Sore as a mashed tlmmb.—
More soothing than thepretty (Irvin S. Cobb)
hummer that stays one moment Sorrow
in an open flower and buzzes
cheerily from bower to bower.
(Keats)
Youth's sorrows,
showers, are transitory.
like
— ( April

Sorrow for husband is like

pain in the elbow, sharp and
•Soothing as the wash of the short K
ea.— (Kipling) 3UJ

Soothing as th& gale of eve. Sorrowful as death.— (Ouida)

(H. H. Milman)
Soothingly Sorrow concealed, like an
oven stopp'd, doth burn the heart

^
Soothingly as childhood press-
ed to bosom. (Whittier) i to cinders.— (Shakespeare)
#
Sophistry Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging
Sophistry is like a window bell, once set on ringing, with his
curtain—-it pleases as an orna- own weight goes; then little
ment, but its true use is to keep strength rings out the doleful
out the light.
!—g ^
knell. — ®
Sorrow ( 453 ) Son!

Sorrow, like cloud that flies, *B Cordilleras

like a cloud in clearing skies, f|
passed away.— (Swinburne) j& MS
« g His soul was wrung with a
The patb of sorrow, and that sudden wild homesickness. —
path
where sorrow
5
alone, leads
is
to
unknown. — (
the land
My
momently
soul is like the oar that
dies in a desperate
A harassing anxiety of «>r- stress beneath the
wave, then
row. — g glitter sout again
and sweeps the
Her heart was full of jpeqch- Pm new-born
sea: each second

U88 sorrow. — from some new grave.— (Sidney

Lanier)
Sorrow breed p sorrow. — (Mi-
chael Drayton) ft
Sorrowful Body and soul like peevish
Sorrowful ejea like those of
man and wife, united jar, and yet

(
-wearied kiqe spept from the plow-
ing. — «
are
Young)
loath to part.

A great soul smitten and

(Edward

S oubrette scourged, but still invested with

A soubrette is like a bottle of the dignity of immortalitv. —
*—
vinegar,— mother is always there.
— (Edith M. Hudnall)
«2^—
Soul
The humble soul is like the
His soul
winged.- ( full of fire and eagle-

violet, which grows low, hangs The mortal coldness of the

bead downward, and hides itself soul, like death itself comes
with its own leaves.— (Frederika) down. —
»
&
Bremer)

Souls sparks of
fly forth, like (Freedom and integrity of soul.

light from clear white fires by An evil soul, producing holy

whirlands fanned.— (William J. witness, is a villain with a
like
Dawson) smiling cheek; a good apple rotten
at the heart. 0! what a goodly
My soul is like those sieves in outside falsehood hath. (Shakes-
which gold- washers of Mexico peare)
gather bits of the pure metal in
the torrents of the Cordilleras. The
sand falls through them, the gold The soul is like a well of
—
remains. (Lamartine) water springing ap into everlast-
Soul ( 454 ) Soundless

ipg life. — ( a bell,and his tongue

per.— (Shakespeare)
is. the clap-

( Distract and beguile the t

soul.
Sound-hearted to the core,

( A
An
)
utter depression of soul.

healthy body is the guest

like eoine perfect fruit ripened in
a sunny nook of an English gar-
den. (Henry A. Clapp) ,t

prison.— (
[chamber] of the soul; a sick, its

greve)
Sound
S
as
ii
a biscuit. (Con-

His soui was compressed into

a single agony of prayer. ( Sound

Sound
as a nut.

a top.
(Emerson)

— (Thackpry)
Soulless
Soulless as the fragments of a Sound (Verb)
broken statue. — No one was the organ, yet it
went on sounding— sounding

^(
like
Soulless as is the brute. the songs of the archangels in
(Lewis Morris) their bursts of mystic ecstasy.
Sound (Adjective) (Gustavo A. Becquer) ifi

Sound as. an acorn.— _)

—
8
Sou nd aB a tro ut.

Sound as n watch. (:fc)

phet's
leck)
The

»
voice sounds as a pro-
word. —-(Fitz-Greene Hal-
»
Questions and answers sound-
Sound
Lytton)
as

Heart as sound as an oak.

rock. (Bulwer-
corks. — (
ing like a continuous popping of
$bfc

(Beaumont and Fletcher) Sonnd (Noun)

mm Where day and night and
Sound as old wine. ) day go by and bring no touch of
—
Gay)
Sound as a roach.— (John
human
If5 !T
sound.

The sound is like a silver-

Sound
Luther)
Sound
as

as
a

iron.
fish, — (Martin
(Charles
en basin. — ^
fountain that springeth in a gold-

Reade)
Sound as an honest man's ( With sounds like breakers.—*

conscience
(William Rowley)
when he's dying.

I
gale. — (
The sound »is

Soundless
like a noon-day

He hath a heart as sound as Soundless as a tomb.

Soundless ( 455 ) Sparkling

(Thomas Hardy)
Soundless
Mulock)
as light. — (Miss spring.
Sparkling as
(Welsh Ballad)
a bubbling
.
Sour Sparkling like an ocean flow-
Sour as melancholy. (Robsrt er.— (Horatius Bonar)
Burton) Sparkle like brooks in the
As sour as though he had swal- morning sun. — (William Cullen
lowed a sloe-bush. (Maria Lo- Bryant) «S
well)
Sour as rotten orange.— (J. H. in the early sun.— (
Sparkling like snow-wreaths

@
McCarthy)
Sour as lees in wine. (Brain Sparkled like a garnet in the
Melbancke) light. — (Fernan Caballero)
Sour
Sackville)
as aorrel.
sorrel ( (Thomas
Sparkling like a star. —
Sovereign The sea sparkled as if it
Aa sovereign as the blood of smiled. — (Bliss Carman)
hearts. (Shakespeare)
Sparkling. ..like creatures in
Spangle whose sunny veins the blood is
Spangled. ..like leaves that
laden are with trembling dew.
(Robert Herrick)
wall) …
running bright. (Barry Corn-

Sparkle. ..like iron that comes

Sparkling molten from the fire. (Dante)

…
spangles ... like
morning sunshine tinselliug the A
dew. — Sparkle as a gold mine.
(Henry Watterson)
Sparkle All sparkling, like a goddess.
Spackles like a freah glass of (Dry den)
champagne. — Sparkles. ..like the glimmer of

eyes.
Sparkle like half-seen fairy
— S. H. Dickson) 3fejtD*
…
a lance.— (Francis M. Finch)

Sparkles like a lusty wiue

ron. ) ^
Sparkle like a seething cald-
—
Sparked as a sword- blade in
—
new broached. (John Ford)

Sparkles like the sea, whose

wave at Algiers breaks upon the
the sunshine.

Sparkling like tho dancing of

shore. (Ferdinand
Algiers «
Frelligrath)

Sparkling, as if a- Naiad's
new stars. — (R. D. Blackmore) feet in quiet and coy retreat,
glanced through the star-gleams
Sparkli ( 456 ) Speak

on calm summer nightt. (P. H. (Shakespeare) ft^c

Hayne) *
I Sparkled like falling tears. —
Sparkles like Ariadne's crown. (Bayard Taylor)
(Robert Herrick) Ariad- Sparkles like a grain of salt.—
ne (Tennyson)
Sparkle the celestial
like Sparkled like the coloar of
mountains the vision of the
in burnished brass. (Old Testa-
saints.— (Robert Hichens) ment)
» IH
—
Sparkling like all the stars of
Sparkle like fairy boon. heaven had fallon down.— (Mark
(Hood) Twain)
Sparkling like diamond rocks Sparkling like young wine
in the sun's rays.— (Frances Anne which has ceased to ferment.--
Kern ble) B IF (Tustament)
Eye sparkled, like the wine- mm
cup's brim. — Miss Landor) Spasm
Spasms are like waves, they
Sparkling as dewdropa.-— (0. cannot go down the very moment
G. Inland) the wind of trouble is lulled.
Sparkled like white bait in (Charles Reade)
the meshes of a net.— (Camille
Xemonier) Spattering
Spattering off in a steady
Sparkle 'like the sea round stream, like a buck-shot spilling
the boat at night. —
(James Mae- from a canister.— flrvin S. Cobb)
pherson) BK

Sparkling like lightning on a Lightning spattered the sky

dusky sky.— (Mahabharata) as a thrown egg spatters a barn
door.- (Kipling)
Sparkling … like a man's
thought transfigured into fire.—
(John Maseiield) … Speak
Parliamentary speaking, like
pUying on the fiddle, requires
— (Beaconsfield) *
Sparkling... like a coquette In
a vaudeville.— (Ouida)
Ml
… practice.

Speak as if he would jump

Sparklinglike the sun of down your throat. (John Skel-
morning.-^- (Schiller) toa)
Spake as who bids dead mea
Sparkled like a jewel in the
light.- (Ouida)

Sparkle like the beaten

*
fliut.
&
wake.— (Swinburne)

Speak like a capon that had

 Speck ( 457 ) Spee#

the cough. (Nicholas Udall)

^
Speck A printed speech is like a
Many
a speck, like the water- dried flower: the substance, in-
snake's belly and the toads back. deed, is there, but the color ia.
(Shelley) *tt faded and the perfume gone.
(Prosper Lorain)
Speckled

ley) •
Hpeckled like a toad.— (Shel*

Speech
Speech was like to tapestry;
and like it, when it was spread it
Long and curious speeches are showed its figures, but when it
as fit for dispatch
as a robe, or was folded up, hid and spoiled
mantle, with a long train, is for a them. — (Themistocles)
race.— (Bacon) H
ffii

Considered as the last finish As a vessel is known by the

of education, or of human culture, sound, whether it be cracked or
worth and acquirement, the art not, so men are proved by their
of speech is noble, and even speeches whether they be wise or
divine; it is like the kindling of a foolish. —
(Demosthenes)
'
Heaven's light to show us what a
glorious world exists, and has
perfected itself, in a man. (Car- His speech was like a tangled
lyle) chain; nothing impaired, but all
disordered. (Shakespeare)
I SL « fl ^«
£31

Swift with speech like fire in

Windy speech which hitb all j
melt the
fiery lands to steel's edge

—
around the mark like a drunken
carpenter.
I
in the headsman's
(Swinburne) ^hands

(
j

j
#
His speech faltered. Speechless
Speechless as a atone. — (E. 8.
Solon used to say that speech j
Browning)
was the image of actions; ...that Speechless as a mummy.—
laws were like cobwebs,— for that !
(Hood) «
if any trifling or powerless thing Like some sad statue, speech-
fell into them, they held it fast; I less.- (Pope) g
while if it were something weigh- Speed (Noun)

•
tier, it broke through them and
was off.
Solon
(Diogenes Laertius)
iTi f
I ( He shambled away
Speed (Verb)
with speed*
Speed ( 458 .) Spit

Sped, like a phantom.— (P. Spin

Gray)
Sped like meteors through the Spin like a dervish. (
sky.--(Byroh)
Like a shaft dismissed 1 sped Spins like a top.... (^^S)
away.— (Richard Garnett)

Speedingiike
(Thomas Hardy) … an arrow. — leaf
Spin round like a withered
blown from the tree. — (
Sped like plagues and Spinning like a plummet down
pesti-
into the spacious gulf of deep bine
lences. (Robert Jephson)
water.— (Lord De Tabley)
^
Speeds from the earth like a
bird on the Spinning like bubbles in a
wing.— (William
Knox) river. —(Emerson)
He sped as speeds the wind.— m
(Lewis Morris) Spins like a fretful midge.—
Seped, like yellow leaves be- (D. G. Rossetti)
fore the gale, when Autumn winds Spinning like mill wheels.—
are strongest.— (T. L. Peacock.) (Julian Street)
Spineless
Speeds like the horseman who Spineless as a jelly-fish. —(
travels in haste.— (Thomas Pr in-
gle)
) Spirit
As a swallow chases the sum- A
super-abundance of boister-
mer, —
we sped. T. Buchanan ous animal spirits. —
Bead) 3
Sped, like some swift cloud
that wings the wide air's wild-
ness. — (Shelley)
( In a spirit of in diligent irony.

Spirit is like the thread

whereon are strung the beads or
May Heaven spee'i me. — worlds of life. (P. J. Bailey)

Speedy A healthy spirit like a healthy

About as speedy as a steam- frame craves aliment in plenty.
roller.— (Geofge Ade) (Robert Browning)

Spellbound Spiritual
Spellbound as in a vice, —( Spiritual as a bunch of roses.
) Stood spellbound, like a child
— (C. M. S. McLellan)

to whom his nurse is telliug some I hi j iitHBB

,if ^W^^^^B
wonderful story. — (Balzac) Spit like fire.
.:•:'
Spiteful

( Spiteful
Spitefttl
as an old maid.
( 459 )

(Dickens)
Split, like
^fields
by the polar wind.— (Wordsworth)
of
Spotless

ica rent

'
Spiteful as a monkey.
(Balzac) Splotched
Splashed Splotched like a brandy
Splashed like a sweet star- drunkard's face with red stains.—
spray.— (D.G. Rossetti) (Irvin S. Cobb)

Splendid Spontaneous
Splendid as the sun. (Flau- as. ..a tree resign-
Spontaneous
bert) ing its leaves to the wind..— (Sir
Splendid as a general's plume Walter Scott)
kt the gallop. (George Meredith) m
Splendid as trembling gems.
(Edgar Saltus)
fountain.
Spontaneous
— ( is a crystal

Splendid and strange as the Sported like gilded insects on

Sea that upbears as an ark. the wing.— (Tames Mortgomery)
(Swinburne)

if
Cold and splendid as death
dawn be bright,
fawn* (
She shall be sportive as the

Splendid as the limbs of that

supreme incarnate beauty through
( Spotted like a pack of cards.

Spotted, as thickly
-
as the
men's visions gleam, where of leopard's dappled skin. (Hood)
all fairest things are even but
shadow or dream. — Spotted, like the field- bean's
flower.— (R. H. Home)
Splendor Spotless
Splendor like an angel's love. Spotless as enow.— (Robert
-(Lord De Tabley) Bloomfield)
H Spotless as the flow'ring thorn,
In fearful splendor, like the -(Bums)
northern lights' red glare. Heart as spotless as the doves.
(Ludwig Uhland) -(J. G. Cooper)
IT Sportless as an angel.
(Thomas Hey wood)
Splinter'd
(Tennyson) )^^
like

Split
an icicle.— Spotless as the moon,

Spotless as a Glastonbury nun.

— )
Split like a fired shell.— CBichard Hovey) Glaston-
Spotless ( 460 ) Sprtad

bury Spreads.. 'like the great voice

Spotless as lilies. (Long- — of the sea* —
(Balzac)
fellow) mm
Spotless and sincere, as the Spreads like fingers.— (R. D,
chaste vows of the holy vestals Bulwers)

«
are.-(Otwey)

Spotless as a lily's
itt

Ieai— (A.
Spreads like fire.— (Bulwer-
Lytton) 5
Spreading bis hands and all
J. Ryon)
Spouting
Spouting like a sperm-whale.
a spider's web»— (
of his fingers, like the threads of

-(Irvin S Cobb)
t Spread like wild-geese.—

Sprawl
Sprawl
like a toad, — ( (Chapman) fbto
The conflagration spread like

Sprawling... like
taking a siesta.— (Flaubert)
a cowherd
a
briand) ^
flaming garland. -— (Chateau*

Spread like fire among stubble.

-(Sanford Cox)
Spread Spreads like a memory.—
Spread out like a circus (Glosue Carducci) IE
parade. — Spread like fog.— (Dryden)

(
Spreads like an inflammation.

Spreads like ivy. — )

An innumerable crowd
like a black robe over the shore.
spread

— (Hamlin Garland)
Spreads like gossip. —
» Spread, like distant morning
Spreads like a lie. — in the skies.— (John Hughes) ^
Spreads like measles in a
country school, — Calumny spreads like an oil.
spot: we endeavor to cleanse it,
The sea spread out like a but the mark remains. (Madame
wrinkled marble floor. — de Lespinasse)
J*
The now ferna were spread Spreads like a snow- ball.

coverlets— (
upon the earth like some lacy (William J. Locke)
Spread like an ocean.
S

^
Spread like wildfire.— ( (Edward Lovibond)

of
Spreading like a mighty
sheep.— (Walter Morris)
flock

(
Spread like a rushing torrent
Spread out, wide as the width
.
» pool. — (
Spread like a drop
ife
of oil on of mind. (Lewis Morris)
Spread ( 461 ) Spriof

Silence spread. ..like

that a pebble stirs.
water
—
D. G. Ros-
Spread like day. — ( )

setti)
Spread
(Seneca)
like evil ulcers.— flame.
The
— (
Sprightly
slaughter spread like

Spread like a quenchless Are. As sprightly as a jumping*

-(Shelley)
Spreads like a surface.
Pomfret)
(John —
jack in the hands of a man with
St. Vitus dance.— (
Spread like wildfire. - (Ray's Sprighty, as a haylield. (B.
"Collectanea") D. Blackmore)
Spread like a contagion.— Sprightly as unyok'd heifers.
(Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart) -(Richard Duke)

As the delicate rose to the Spring (Noun)

sun's sweet strength doth herself In the spring a young msn'a
unclose, breadth and length; so fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
spreads my heart to thee. (C. G. love. — (Tennyson)
Rossetti)
Spring (Verb)

&
Spread like radiance from the
cloud-surrounded morn.— (Shelley) ( Springs like a hunted deer.—

Sprang to his feet like one

Spreads like the round ocean, recalled to life. —
girdled with the sky. (Soathey)
^ Spring up as weeds in neglect*
iler rich spread like
locks ed soil. —
sunbeams on the wind. (Tasso)

Spread... a broad
winds of heaven.
as the four
(0[d Testa-
Springing up like dandelions
after a spring shower. — (
ment) Sprang to his feet like a

forth. - (
As the valleys are they spread startled roebuck.— (Balzac)

oay tree.— (
Spreading himself like a green Sprang
— (Browning)
like an uncaged beast.

Spread like halo round a Sprang like sparks from an

misty moon.— (Wordsworth) anvil. — (Bui wer-Sytton)
Spread like a sea. ( Sprang as from a sudden

—(
trumpet's clang. — (Byron)
' Spread like plague.
Sprang forward like a courser
Spring ( 462 ) Spatter

for the
Cooper)
goal. J. Feniraore

Spring like a stag. (A. L.

Spring as the grass. — (
Cbrdon) Spring forth like spectres
Springeth up as doth a welle. starting from the storm-swept
— (John Gower) ^fT j
earth. -(Whittier) ffi

Sprang like a wave in the

wind. — (W. E. Henley) Spring
like an arrow shot
j
straightfrom the bow. — (Ella
Spring like an arrow released Wheeler Wilcox)
from the strain of the string. j

(T. W. Higginson) Sprout

Theories sprouted in his mind
Spring up like mushrooms in j
like mushrooms. — ffi

a September night. — G. B. Hill)

Sprout like saplings on French
Sprang like a lily from the j
soil. -(Balzac)
dirt of povertv. (Gerald Massey)
Sprout like r"ise-buds.
Oh never despair, for our ho- (Dryden)
pes often-time spring swiftly as Spruce
flow'rs in some tropical clime, Spruce and shining like a new
where the spot that was barren I sabre.— (El mond About) iTIi

and scentless at night is blooming

— (
and fragrant at morning's first

& an
Spruce as onion.
light. — (Lover.)
&l
Spry .if a sparrow. (George
Ade)
Spraug, as smitten with a Spry as a cat. —
mortal wound.— (James Mont- mm.
gomery) Spry as the chaff in the stroke
Spring as at the shout of war. of the flail. —
O. W. Holmes)
Saraual Rogers)
Spry as a cricket.— (Sylvester
Springest like a cloud of fire. Judd) lii^D
-(Shelley)
Springs like a mettled steed
when the spur stingeth. (M. E.
Stebbins) |g
—
^
(Dickens)
Spurned
Spurn
like any
^ reptile.
;
Tiiey shall spring up
the grass, as willows by the water
eourses. —
(OM Testament)
as among of
^ I spurn thee like a car out
mv way.— (Shakespeare)
 ( 463 ) Stained

The word 8 come sputtering

ou£ of his mouth like the beer Stable
from a barrel without a bung. j
Stable like earth. — (Thomas
Blacklock)
(Friedrick Ruckert)
^
Squabble The
Stack
stacks of corn in brown
Squabble like brother and array, like tattered wig'vanis on
—(
i

sister.— (Sir Richard Steele) the plahi.

Squalid Stagger
Sqaalid, like the traveler Staggered away as a defeated
•when he emerg-es from his bath
j

man staggers away from tne field

of dust. -(Virgil) U !^ of battle.— (Joseph Conrad)
A'
Squat (Adjective) Staggered...like a child that
Squat as the figure of bronze |
is just allowed to go alone.
upon a Chinese drav^iftw. (Comp- (Hugo)

(
j

bell) S Staggers, like a sinking mast.

Squatting things like toads. '
(Hu^o) Staggering like a quivering
Squat as a flounder. (Robe- aspen leaf. —
(Marlowe)
lai«) H
Squat (Verb) Staggers like a starveling
— (Milton)
, Squat like a toad.

Squat lik6 a hermit on a tfee

I
cripple. (Donald G.

Stagger like a drunken man.

Mitchell)

stump lonel v- (Nietzsche) j@Sg^|T Testament)

(Ol'J
Like an old oke, whose pith
Squat into the ground like and sap is scarce, at puffe of every
moles. — Rabelais) storm doth stagVer.— (Spenser)
The soul squats down in the I

flesh, like a tiaker drunk in a

ditch. — (Swinburne) |

Stain
Stains, like surr shine falling
S qiieak through heraldic panes that rise

( ^ Squeaks like a fuaty hinge. |

bo t ween the altni' and the sky.—

^
(Bayard Taylor)
^
( Squeaked K^ke guinea-pigs. i

S rained

on
Nvie^
Squeaking
a

chick on
tower.
^
like a metal
— (Hen rvk
He squeaks oat Hke a hurt
— A e x n d er W Ison)
( ! rt i
banner
Sienkil.
Stained,
through and
HolmBs)
like
throngb.

Stain'd as mea'dows yet not

dry, with miry slime left on thenl
meerschaum,
— (0. W.
Stainless ( 464 ) Stand

by a flood.— (Shakes j^eare) f§ Stamping like a plowman to

shuffle off the snow. —
Stainless
Stainless as a star* — )
Stand
Stands forth like morning
—
( Stainless as driven snow. from the shades of night.

Springing stainless, like some

mountain stream.
W. Naden)
(Constance 0.
Stands where
Scotland.— > ( be did, like

Stainless as the air of Heaven. Stood like a wave-beaten rock.

-(Ruskin) —(
Stainless white, like ivory There she stood straight as a
bathed in still moonlight.— lily on its stem. —
(Whittier)
They stand like solitary
Stale
Stale as old beer.--
•
mountain ferms on some hard,
Derfectly transparent day.—
k
(
Stale as a black velvet cloak. some erring angei
Stood like
(Beaumont and Fletcher) that had lost his radiance. —
(Balzac)
Unspeakably stale like vats
in desuetude shrunk. (John
Stands at gaze as might a
Davidson)
wolf just fastenM on his prey.
-(Calderon)
Stale as sea-beef. (Thomas
Kash)
Stalk Grenadiers stand there, like a
Stalk like as a peacock. — fixed stone-dam in that wild
whirlpool of ruin. (Carlyle)

Their words, like stage proces- Bi

sions, stalk along. (Robert
Lloyd) Stood like the law and Gospel,
one with the sanction of earth
Stamp and one with the blessing of
Stamping her feet like a heaven.— (Longfellow)
an Italian actor representing
— (Ed m ^
anger.

consciousness
— (0.
ond o de Amicis)

Stamp themselves up ou
as the signet
bis
ou
Stand
gar.— (
(
Stand
—
like
^
at the door like a beg-

wonder- wounded

^
soft wax. W. Holmes) hearera.
Stand like a man at a mark
Stand ( 465 ) Star

with
me. — (
a whole army shooting at
Her stare dissolved. —
Stand on end, like quills upon
the fretful porcupine. — ( into
A faintly quizzical look
his. incisive stare. — (
^
came

Stand like
to marble.
g
fiatne
— (Shelley)
traiisfromed
^
He gave her a baffled stare.

Stare (Verb)
Stare like a glass eye —
Stood like a sentinel under
inspection.— (George Meredith)
Stare like a mad bull. — (
Stand like statues cut in etone.
-(George Sandys)
Staring like ai idiot.— (
Stood like veteran, worn, but-
Staring like a sick face. (
#
unsubdued.— (Sir Walter Scott)

Star (
Stared about like calves in a
—
pen. f
The stars pile and silent as Stared in my face like a flash
a seer, — of light.- (Balzac)
The stare that have most
glory have no rest. — (S. Daniel) Stare like a pig poisoned.—
(Benjamin Franklin)
The stars lay on the lapis-
lazuli sky like white flower-petals
on still desp water. — (
g\
St u red. .like
-(Hawthrone)
a detected thief.

Staring at her as if she had

DeiicaUlv emerging ^iars.— bean an angel out of Heaven.
(. i (Kingsley)
The evening 3tar silvery an;1

night.- (
solitary on the girdle of the early Stare, like wild things of the
v/cod about a fire. (Lowell)

A
buri3in3.--
The stars
'(
late star liimered^

ccuie
rsmotely

down and
command
his
Stared, as one who would
siqht of what has filled
ear.— (George Meredith)

Th3
^^ (
trembling glow like blossoms on
the -w<iTes below.—

Stare (Noun
that of a child
^tare, like
who
Mcrrh)
Stared listlessly,
walk in sleep. (William

Eyes staring like n dead pig's.

1-ike those

who begins to see for the first -(Rabelais)

time. (Balzac) g Like dumb statues, or breath-
 Stared 466

ing stones, stared each on other.

— (Shakespeare)
( )

A
Starts like one that spies
adder. —
(Shakespeare) ^
^ an

Stared. ..as professional critics

do at a new poet. (Joseph V. Start like a shying horse.-—
von Scheffel) (Striudberg)
Started like a guilty thing.
Staring like a dead pig.— (Mrs. Trollope)
(Swist) She starts like a sleeper who
Stare.l like a dead body.— wakes from dreaming. (Ella —
(H. G. Wells) Wheeler Wilcox)
Stark
Stark,the soul of sin.—
as I
Startled
(Frauklin R. Adams) Startled like shying steeds.—
(Arabian Nights)
Stark as a statue. T. B.
Aldrich)
Stark as a gust of the sea.
—
flesh. — (
Startle like a wound in the

a mobn-caii«ht
Startled lrke
(Bliss Carman) ghost.— (John Davidson)
Stark as the winter snow.
(D. G. Rossetti) Startle, like a call to arms.—
Start (Grace king)
shot at

^
Startles like a piatol
Start like sparkles from a fire.
wedding.— (Sydney Munden)
— (George Chapman)
a

State
Start as from some dreadful It is with states as with clocks
rtream.-(Dryden) which must have cjine dead
Starting as at the sight of an weight hanging at them to help
«nemy.— (Dumaa) and regulate the motion of the
Start, liks a frightened roe. finer aud more useful parts.
(W. Gilbert)
S. (Swift)

a
I started as one startles
dream.— (J. G. Holland)
from ^^
H State?, as great engines, n.ove
StarU like a ghost. (Hood). slowly.- (Bacon) Nii

( Start like lightning greased.

Start as flames from

t
ashes.—
.
any
A great modern Ltatc is lik^
gigantic vessel built without
watertight compartmeat.«,
(Longfellow) ^ which, if it ba unskilfully steered,
Diay perish when it striken a

^
Started, like a gr^yhounil
from the slips when the sportsmaa j
single rock. (Viscounfc Bryce)
cries halloo.— (S"r Walter Scott)
Stately ( 467 >

# Stttely
tH out of office like a huge whale,
that will endeavor to overturn

( Roman the ship unless he haa an empty

^^ ^
Stately as a legion.—

Stately as an oak.— ( cask to play with.

Steele)
(Sir Richard

Stately as a palace.
g -
( %
An honest statesman *o a
StnteJy as a steeple. — prince, is like a cedar planted by
a spring. The spring bathes the

( Tall and stately a3 a pine.

(
[ tree's routs, the grateful tree,
wards it with its shadow. (John
re-

Stately as a monarch. —

Stately and pure as the swan

Webster)
] ilj

on the lake.— (Sir Samuel Fer- Stationary

guson) I am
somewhat like the
Stately as a deer with antlers. weathercocks, which only become
-(Longfellow) stationary when they are rustv.
Stately as palm-tree standing -(Volt: ire)
before the moon. (George Mere-
dith) Staunch
Stately as a ship under full
sail.— (Owen Meredith) ( Staunch

Staunch as
as a bloodhound.—

steel. ( )

Stately like the stars. (C. G. I

Rosetti) Stay (Noun)

Stately as a king. (Walter — She wrs the prop and stay of
Thorubury) I
her parents' declining years.—
Stately as a queen.— (Thacke- (Legh Richmond) k
ray)
Statement Stay (Verb)

and
It elicited a remarkably clear
coherent statement.— ( Stay, like fairies,
crow them away.
till

(Donne)
the cock

Statesman Stay. ..about as long as a

A statesman, we
are told, tender-foot would stick an an
should tollow public opinion. untamed bronco. (O. Henry) — ^
Doubtless... as a coachman follows
bis horses; having firm hold on
the reins, and guiding them.
(J. C. Hare) Steadfast as the steered- ty
etar.— (Afred Austin)
L look upon an able statesman
 ( 468 ) Steal

Steadfast as the light of a

diamond.— (Bulwer-Lytton) S Steady as old time, —
It
Steadfast as the sun. Steady as the ocean waves.—
(Carlyle) B (Charles Sangster)
Steadfast as the eternal throne. m
-(Allice Cary) Braced and steady, like a
Steadfast as a wall. — (Chau- game man facing a firing squad,
cer) -drvin S. Cobb)

( Steadfast as the soul of truth.

Stand steadfast, like tower

Steady, like eyes suffused with
rapture.— (Coleridge)
which blast of wind can never
shake.— (Dante)
mm Steady as if our footsteps had
begun to print the golden streets
Steadfast, as the throne of already!— (0. W. Holmes)
God. — (Aubrey De Vere)
Steady as clock-work. — (Miss
Steadfast as a principle. — Mulock)
(Keats) Steady as tramp of marehing
Steadfast as the pole-star.— feet.-(Celia Thaxter)
(Hannah More)
Steady as a mill. — (Mark
Steadfast as a fixed star.— Twain)
(C. G. Rossetti) Steady as a hay wagon.—
Steadfast as the everlasting (Juan Valera)
rocks.- (Southey) K

in
(Swinburne)

(
^
Steadfast as a sea-mew's wing.

Steadfast as clouds or
flight. —
hours
Steady as the pole. (Isaac
Watts)
Steadily
Like the drip from a loose
faucet. ..steady. (Margaret De-
land)
Steadfastly Burned steadily, like a candle
Steadfastly as look the twin set in a window. (Mary John-
stars down into unfathomable ston)
wells. —(N. P. Willis) St adiness
looked with steadiness, as
I

Steady
Steady
as a church.— ( sailors look on the north star,
or watch-tower's distant lamp.
( Wordsworth )
Steady as a clock. —
& Steal
' Steady as rock. — Steal o'er my sduI in sweetness
Steal ( 469 ) Stick

as
sea. — (
the moolight steals over the

( Stern as the noon of night.

Steals lingering like a river As stern as e'er was knitted

smooth along its grassy borders.— in the folds rancorous discontent.
(Campbell) - (Richard Shell)
Steal along like an Argus. Stern and still as hours and
(Charles Hallock) years that change and anguish
( Argus
Stealthily
fill.— (Swinburne)

Stealthily, as if on shoes of Stern as stone bust of august-

felt, as if on paws of velvet.— us Caesar. — Augus-
(Carlyle) tus Csesar
Stick
Stealthily like rocks that tear
a ship's life out under the smooth
sea. — (Joseph Conrad)
two dried figs. — (
Sticking as close together as

Sticks like a leech. —

Stealthy
Stealthy as a cat.— (Balzac)

Steep
( Sticks like a porous plaster.

Sticks like a fly pa per. —

)
Steep, like the
hay-mow. — (R. D. Blackmore)
ladder of a
Stick like wax. — ^
Steep as house-side. (Daniel Stick to it, like a clenched
Defoel) nail.— (R. D. Blackmore)
Steep as a sheet of glass.
(Emily Lawless) Stick like burrs.— (Bunnyan)
Steaming
Steaming like a brewer's vat. Stick to her point like a fox
Hood) to his own tail. — (Dion Bon-
Step cicault)
Her haughty step waxed
timorous and vigilant. Sticks as close... as a shadow
to a body. — (Robert Burton)
Stern
Stern as block of bogwood oak. Stick like pitch.— (Congreve)
— (R. D. Blackmore;
Sticks like a glue. (Gold-
Stern as a mailed knight that

^
smith)
had been grappling death.— Stuck together like a sheet of
(Gerald Massey) buns. — (0. W. Holmes)
Stick ( 470 ) Stiff

— Sticks to me like a bobolink

Stiff as
man.— (Dumas)
the corpse of a handed

on a 3aplinor, in a wood. (Sylves- —

ter Judd) Stiff like a side of coarse
leather. — (J. T. Fields)
Stick as close as my shirt does
my

^^
to back on a sultry, sweating He stood. ..stiff as a marble
clay. ("London Chanticleers") statue.- (Goethe)

Like fruit unripe, sticks on Stiff as a pointer's tail.—

the tree.— (Shakespeare) (Maurice Hewlett)

Stick like met.— (Cyril Tour- Stiff as a rubbing brush.—

neur) (Thomas Heywaod)
Stick. ..as a country postmaster
to his offiss. — (Artemua Ward) Stiffly, and like one slain and
cold.— (Ebenezer Jones)
Stiff
Stiff as a board. — ( Landor)
IS
Stiff as coat of mail.— (W.
t
S.

Stiff as a fakir in a box left Stiff as a ramrod. — (Lever)

too long buried. —
Stiff as a turnpike.— (Charles
Stiff aa a frozen shadow. —( Mackfin)
Stiff as iron bars. (Guy de
Stiff as a plaster mask. — Maupassant)
Stiff as oak-leaves after frost.
Stiff as a poker.

Stiff ae a post. — (
)

^ (George Meredith)

Stiff a a log wood.

Stiff as hedge-stakes. — ( Stiff like a soldier

-(Charles Reade) ^ on parade.

Stiff as steel. —
m Stiff as a stone. — (John Bus-
Stiff like a state coachman. kin)
(Dickens) As stiff as a brick-built*wall.
-(J. K. Stephen)

^
Sitting stiffly by, like a func-
tionary presiding over an inter- Stiff as a viper frozen.—

(
view, previous to an execution.
)
(Tennyson)
Stiff as Lot's wife. —
Stiff as a dead
than Dickinson)
boy. (Jona- Stiff
(Thomas Wade)
as a
^
dry Quaker.
W
Still ( 471 still

cer)
Still (Adjective) Sat stille, as if he were ia a
—
( Still as a ehurch mouse.
I
traunce. S#

Still as a
winds blow loud. —
a
sheltered place
( 4)
when
( As

Still as
stille as the
f?
dede were.

a slave before his lord.

Still as a tomb. — -(Coleridge)
Still like leaves forged of

( Still as

Still as
the stump of a tree.

death. —
heavy metal.— (Joseph Conrad)

Still as a pool.— (Hugo)

Still as a cat in a gutter. Still as if struck with death-

("Appius and Virginia") (Julia C. R. Dorr)

Great thoughts are still as Still like a clock worn out

stars.— (P. J. Riley) ; with eating time, the wheels of
j
weary life at last stood still.
Still as one in sleep. (Ale- (Drydeu)
xander Barclay)
Still as a crow's nest, in the Still as graveyard. (0. Hen-
ded ov winter. (Josh Billings) ry)
Still as tombstone. (Homer)
Still as a log.— (R. D. Black
more) Still as dark night.— (W. D.
Still as a mouse. (Charlotte Howells)
Bronte) Still as a rock set in the

( Still as

Still as
a prostrate column.

a vision. (E. B. I
watery deep.— (Jean Ingelow)

Dead-still as a marble man.

?

Browning) (Keats)
Still as
in frost breathes.
when
— (
a silent mouth Still as
(Thomas Kiliigrew)
children's thoughts.

— (Bal-
i

Still as if
wer-Lytton)
Still as the
^
spell-bound.

moonbeam. —(
sley)
Still as a chimney.

Still as beggars at the gate of

(King-

Still as a statue. — (Byron)

!
greatness, —
(KipUng) ^^
j

Still as the moonlight.-^

Slill as a summer noon. j
(George MacDonnld)
(Bliss Carman) 58 Fall still as oak-leaves after
Stille, as any etooue.— (Chnu- frost,— (George Meredith)
 ^
Still

Stillan island stood our

as
ship.— (Kichard M. Milnes)
( 472 )

(Howard V. Sutherland)

Still as stone. — Old

Sting

Testa-
ment)
Still as the spring-tide comes. Still, as Sunday. (Mark
(Lewis Morris) Twain)
Still as an image of a boy in
Stillthe as dawn. — (Ella stoue.— (Theodore Watts-Dunton)
Wheeler Wilcox) f
A.s still as snowflakes fall Still as a picture. — (Whittier)
upon the sod. (John Pierpont)

StiJ
(Pedro Pineda)
Still
1 as a

hour of dwith. — T.
Buchanan Read)
as
sow in
^
beans. man.-(N.
Still as Eden
P. Willis)

Still as starlight,
ere the birth of

—
Still, as one who broods or Still as the mute swan that
grieves. — (D. G. Kossetti) floats adown the stream. (Words-
worth)
Still the gleam of a star
as Stimulating
through the dark. (A. J. Ryan)
About as stimulating as a
Still
C. Scott)
Still
^
as a shadow.

as the grave.
— (Duncau
(Shakes-
(
mouthful of sawdust and water.—
)

Stimulating as ginger cordial.

(G. B.- Shaw)
peare)
Still as a wavelet in a pool.
(William Sharp)
Still as some far tropic sea Sting like
Sting
a hornet. — )
''

where
waves
no
be. —
winds murmur, nor
Stung like a nettle.— (
Still
Shelley)
as a brooding dove.
( With
^
a sting like a scorpion.

Still as
-
clapper in a mill.— Stung like bees
(Robert Browning)
unhived.

^
(Skelton) II

the geutle cairn, when

Still as
Sting like a serpent. —- (Robert

lett)

Still as
^^
the hush'd wave no longer foams
bofore the. rapid storm. (Smol-

any stake. — (Spenser)

BurtoD)
Care
asps to fury wrought.
Cotton)
stings like

^
pois'nous
— (Nathaniel
Stung ... like amber asp.—
Bi.il! us q ghostly lake.— (Matthew Green) 9|?S
Sting C_^473 ) Stir

Stirring lfke the sight of glori-

•Stinging, like thewind when ous triumph. (Joseph Conrad)-
frosts are keen.— (Henrik Hertz)
Stir as with hope and bliss.
Stings like fire. (Lugretius) |
(Mrs. E. M. H Cortissoz)

Stung like a bee in the warm 1

Stir like tide-worn sea- weed.
core of a rose. (Ouida) (Fannie Stearns Davis)

He stings like a scorpion. Stirs one like a martial tune.

(Osmanli Proverb) — (Richard Le Gallinne)
Stingeth like an adder.— (Old |

Testament) Stirring as music. (J. H.

Stink Gardiner)
- Stink like a polecat. — Stirred like drifted snows.
(Thomas G. Hake)
'Stink like carrion. —
Stirred. ..as the dive of a king-
Stinks like a rotten fish. (Be-
j
fisher stirs a quiet pool. (Thomas
aumont and Fletcher) Hardy)
Stinks like the snuff of a can- |

die when it is put out. (Robert Stirredas tempest stirs tho

'

Burton) forest branches.— (Hood) r

Stinks and shines, shines and \

stinks, like a
the moonlight.
dead mackerel in
(John Randolph) a dancing leaf.
;

— (
Stirred like insects settled on

Stir like the hail of musketry

Stunk like polluted pigs.— I
in fight. — (Sigmund Krasinski)
(William Tennant)
Love's sweet mystery stirring
Stir at their hearts, like first spiing
Sayings that stir the blood motions in the veins o' the flow-
(
|

like the sound of a trumpet.

J
ers.— (Gerald Massey)

Stirs the blood like trumpet- i My heart is stirred, like cl-ild-

blast. — (William Archer) hood's when it hears the carol oi
a bird.— (Robert Nicoll)
Stirr'd like a clarion-blast.
(Matthew Arnold) Stirred him up like the tap of
a drum. (James Whitconib
Stirred her soul like organ Riley)
mu8ic- (Balzac) Stirred like spring-tide waters.
— (Swinburne)
Stir ( 474 ) Straight

Stits my spirits like a raging Stormed like a perfect hur-

s"a. — (Charles Wells) ricane. — Smollett)
Stirs, like the trumpet's call to Stormy
strife.-(Whittier.) Stormy as a multitude.—
(Hugo)
Stirr'd like the ocean when a Story
tempest blows. (William Wilkie.) A good story is like a bitter
pill with the sugar coating inside
Stoop of it.-(0. Henry) «
Stoop like timid silenee
shrinking from the breeze. (R. — Stout
H. Bell) f&ft Stout of fibre as hemp.
(Oarlyle)
Stoops like a bow. (Bulwer- Stout a 9 bergs of Arctic ice.
Lytton) (George Meredith)
Stooped like sprinters before a
signal.^ (Stephen Crane) Stout as death. -(Otway)

Stooped, like a bird with a

broken wing. — Dumas) Straight as f> candl-?.— (Hans
Christian Anderson)
Stop
Stop progress, like a block in ( Straight as an angel's flight.

iihe pit entrance to a theater.—

(George Meredith) ( Straight as an Indian's hair,

Straight
ii [as a lance. —
[
a change!
Storm (Noun)
The sky is changed! and such
night, and storm', and
Straight as an arrow.
Straight as a ray of light.
(
—(
•dai'kness, ye are wondrous strong,
yet lovely in your strength, »s is
|

Straight as a pine. —
the light of a dark eye in women!
Far along, from peak to peak the
rattling crags among, leaps the
j

!
Straight as a ramrv^d.
[
(
live thunder! (Byron) Straight art a rush. — >

; Straight as a string. —

StOrm(Verb)
Storm like a caged lioii. —(
( Straight, ns

Straight, as
^
( ^^
columns

if
of fire.—

he had swallow-

•
Storm
(Quid a)
like a mad thing. — —^
ed a stick.—

Straight as the backbone of

Straight ( 475 ) Straighten

herring.— (
Straight as a cane* (Ara-
Straight like a bamboo. —(
bian Nights) straight like the glow
Gleams
Straight as a tera pie-shaft. which ploughing keel doth
a
(Edwin Arnold) break from the grim sea around,
Straight as a shooting star. vfith light on her bow and light
(William Austin) in her raging wake.— (Westland
Straight as a die. (Alexan- Marston)
der Barclay)
Straight as a loon's leg. (J.
— (Pilpay)
K. Bartlett)
( Straight as a dart.

«nd
Straight as shingle.—

Straight as truth.
Fletcher)
Straight as poplars.
—
(Beaumont

(Char-
Go
Christmas.

Straight as a spear.
—
as straight as schoolboy at
— (Lean)
— (Natha-
lotte Bronte) niel Lee)
Straight... like graves dug side Straight like vine poles.
by side at measured lengths. (Guy de Maupassant)
(E. B. Browning)
Fly straight as the emissary
Straight as a rule. (Bunyan) eagle back to Jove. (George
Meredith) ft Jove
Straight as a beadle's wand.
(O. S. Calverley)
( Straight as the flight of the
dove. —
Straight
against the
Carman)
as
white
a bull's
sky.
back
— (Bliss water. (
Straight,— like

Straight as tho
a

palm
webfoot

tree.
to

Straight aa line- (Chaucer) (Prior)

Straight as a seer's thought
Straight as a lily on its item. into the bine of the immaculate
—
^ (Wilkio. Collins) heavens. (Richard Realf)

Davis) ^
Straight as a tower.— (T. O. Straight as thought
—
span. (Swinburne)
could

(Dickens) ;
Straight as any plummet line.

bow
Straight as bolt from
sped. — (Mark Twain)
cross-

Straight as a crow flies.— ( — (Ivan

^ Straight as a wall.
As straight as a beggar can Vazov)
spit.— (Kipling) Straighten
Straightened himself up liko
 ( m ) Stream

a liberty-pole. — (Mark Twain)

- Strange as heaven. —
Straightforward
As straightforward as a tile Strange as fate. —
falling
Conrad)
on your
^ ^
Strain
head. (Joseph
Strange as the sea. —
One great strain of joy as the Strange as n wild flower.—
sea breaking.— (Swinburne) (Tboreau)
Strangely
Strangely there, as would a -

As strange
out a bridgeroom.'-
as a
(
wedding with- bower
Trollope)
of rcnes in Siberia.-— (Mrs.
gg

Strange as death. — (E. B. Stream

Browning) Streaming like feathers of a

^
Strange to
distant spheres.—
me
( as dreams of shuttle-cock. —(Ambrose

Branches stream like the dis-

Bierce)

Strange as the stars. ((G. K. hevelled hair of women in tho

Chesterton) sadness of despair. (William
Strange as a vision. (Agnes — Oullen Bryant)
M. F. Darmesteter)
Strange as a dream.
Morris)
(Lewis

Strange as a dreamer's mad

Streamed iike a
through the troubled air. —
meteor
(
imasingg. (Shelley) Streamed o'er his memory
like a forest's flame. — (O. W.

free spirit
new and strange as a
I feel as
which had shaken off
the wrappings of this life. ( Ale-
Holmes)
'Streaming like a flag of battle.
xander Smith) — (George Meredith)

R.
Strange as the curlew's song.
H. Stoddard)

Strange as are night and

^ Streamed
fluttered by a wind.
like

Her locks streamed like the

— (
curtain-rentj

morning, stars and sun. (Swin- torch borne by a racer at full

burne) sped, or like the mano of horses

( Strange as chance or doom.—

Strange as life. —
in their flight or like an angel
when she stems the light straight
towards the sun, or like a caged

Strange as sleap. — ( thing freed, or like a flying flag

when armies run. (0. G. Rossetti)-
Stream

B
:
^ t*
( 477 )

mind
Stretched as far as doth the
of man.— (Marlowe)
Stride

Stretching out his hand like

Stream like a cornet's flashing the wings of «a bird. —
(Rabelais)
hair.— (Shelley) 'E
Laura stretched her gleamiirg

rick
Stream, like a sunset.
Tennyson)
Streamlets
^ (Fredr- neck like a rush-imbedded swan,
like a lily from the beck, like a
moonlit poplar" branch, like a
Strange laughir.gs and
in gs of silver streamlets. (
glitter- vessel at the launch when its last
restraint
(
is gone. (C. G ; Kossetti)

Long intertangled lines of 1

silver streamlets.

Strengtih Stretched along, like a wound-

With strength like steel. — ed knight. —
(Shakespeare)

Strengthening Stretch like imploring arms.

As strengthening to the mind (Bayard Tavlor)
as drinking sweetened wind out of
a toy balloon. (W. C. Brann) Stretched out the heavens as
a curtain. —
(Old Testament)
Strengthless
Strengthlesa as a noon- belated Strew
moon, or as the glazing eyes of Strewn round as like a dead
watery heaven, when the sick world's shroud in ghastly frag-
night sinks inta deadly swoon. ments torn.— (E. B. Browning)
(Francis Thompson)
Strewed like the leaves that
Strenuously vanish in the soil. (O. W. —
Strenuously as ever Cavalier, Holmes)
strove for the white rose.— (Ouida)
Strewn. ..like bridal chamber
II
^^^i^ .^^m qi/ i floors.-(Shelley)
Stretch
Stretch away, like the per- Stricken
spective of'a dream. (Paul Bour- Stricken down as a broken
get) pillar.- (Ruth Pitnam)
Stretch. ..like a bow-string by
the forceful arm of some bold
- Stride
archer strained. —
(Lucian) Fortune striding, like a vast
Colossus.— (Dry den)
Stride ( 478 ) Strong

bark. -(Aeschylus)
n
The strides of the lame are
! Strong as an eagle.— (
—(
like the glances of the one-eyed;
tbey do not speedily reaeli their Strong as hate.
aim.— (Hu-o)
g Strong as mustard. —
Strife i

Dark with strife, like heaven's Strong as an ox.

own sun that storming clouds
bedim. —
(Swinburne)
I

Strong as the voice of fate.—

B i
(Bulwer-Lytton)
Strike

( Strike like a