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4010 13| cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite 4011 3| to me; the gray color and ruinous state of the house and barn, 4012 1| Vitruvius, with hard pencil and ruler, and the job is let out 4013 1| clean paint and paper, Rumford fireplace, back plastering, 4014 15| head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the 4015 18| kind of foliage, or sandy rupture, for a quarter of a mile 4016 1| so near home as Asiatic Russia, she says that she felt 4017 1| treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves 4018 14| patremfamilias) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, 4019 3| Old Cato, whose "De Re Rustica" is my "Cultivator," says - 4020 12| horse, goat, wolf, and ev'ry beast,~ ~ 4021 4| sedulously than pure wheat or rye-and-Indian in almost every oven, and 4022 1| saccharine.)~ ~ 4023 18| Even in Calidas' drama of Sacontala, we read of "rills dyed 4024 1| scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary 4025 8| expresses a sense of the sacredness of his calling, or is reminded 4026 8| produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his 4027 13| ghastly trophies at his saddle-bow, still apparently as firmly 4028 1| Flower Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that "they asked 4029 6| and brave man to a vulgar sadness. While I enjoy the friendship 4030 10| some English locality - Saffron Walden, for instance - one 4031 5| gone. Their fidelity and sagacity are below par now. They 4032 19| like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself 4033 7| than the intercourse of sages.~ ~ 4034 1| made the great desert of Sahara, till at length Jupiter 4035 1| circumstances. Neither did I put any sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, 4036 8| frosts and have a fair and salable crop; you may save much 4037 8| portentous and outlandish spotted salamander, a trace of Egypt and the 4038 1| house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture 4039 5| night dart these bright saloons without the knowledge of 4040 1| my cornfield, boiled and salted. I give the Latin on account 4041 4| understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the 4042 7| inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though 4043 1| by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow? Passing a 4044 15| his steed. Here then men saluted one another, and heard and 4045 16| this could remember one Sam Nutting, who used to hunt 4046 1| colder countries than this. Samuel Laing says that "the Laplander 4047 6| universe men purify and sanctify their hearts, and clothe 4048 10| by it. There is a narrow sand-bar running into it, with very 4049 1| my way home, its yellow sand-heap stretched away gleaming 4050 10| there against the railroad sandbank, and in the spring, before 4051 17| ground glass, with its bright sanded floor the same as in summer; 4052 10| sand by cartloads, to make sandpaper with, and I have continued 4053 1| concerning the Chinese and Sandwich Islanders as you who read 4054 19| idle, if not desperate. A saner man would have found himself 4055 15| road." He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets 4056 1| at those seasons when the sap is up, and made into great 4057 1| coffee-mill nailed to an oak sapling, all told. The bargain was 4058 14| at the core, though the sapwood has all become vegetable 4059 1| publicans presume him to be a Sardanapalus, and if he resigned himself 4060 12| of a calf's foot, or for sardines from over the sea, and they 4061 1| to what vagabond he is a satellite himself; or to be devoured 4062 1| earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect 4063 18| wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like 4064 12| as music, a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives.~ ~ 4065 5| cow. I do not mean to be satirical, but to express my appreciation 4066 1| originally signified the satisfactions of the house more than of 4067 5| memory of the past, but mere saturation and waterloggedness and 4068 5| excellent dunfish for a Saturday's dinner. Next Spanish hides, 4069 12| demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, 4070 15| tomorrow. Of yore we had sauntered and talked, and effectually 4071 7| me that when he met him sauntering through the village in his 4072 1| few, if any, whether from savageness, or poverty, or philosophy, 4073 1| the other three succeed in saving their souls, but are perchance 4074 1| Latin on account of the savoriness of the trivial name. And 4075 12| the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten 4076 10| had expected to get a good saw-log, but it was so rotten as 4077 17| some, colored powder or sawdust to the mouth of the hole, 4078 14| precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If 4079 1| I forgot the rules, and scalded my yeast; by which accident 4080 10| northern, and the beautifully scalloped southern shore, where successive 4081 16| ragged ears and sharp nose, scant tail and slender paws. It 4082 11| the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables. My way 4083 5| within ten minutes, and scarce another eye beholds it; 4084 12| humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the 4085 18| thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents 4086 5| next in the Dismal Swamp, scaring the owl and fox. The startings 4087 8| break out there soon, either scarlatina or canker-rash, until at 4088 18| at length heaving up and scattering its wrecks along the island 4089 6| myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts 4090 1| having many communicable or scholar-like thoughts, singing to myself,~ ~ 4091 6| the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, 4092 1| intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political 4093 19| is required for a single scintillation from the brain of Brahma 4094 15| styled "Sippio Brister" - Scipio Africanus he had some title 4095 16| Usually the red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius) waked me in the 4096 1| lower streets of heaven, and scorched the surface of the earth, 4097 16| store of nuts. There were scores of pitch pines around my 4098 5| deep draught of the once scorned water, and passes round 4099 4| the illiterate and perhaps scornful trader has earned by enterprise 4100 17| the head of Loch Fyne, in Scotland, which he describes as " 4101 15| remembrance, the pines would scrape both sides of a chaise at 4102 1| but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the 4103 16| course and frequent pauses, scratching along with it as if it were 4104 5| the ridge-pole, a blue jay screaming beneath the window, a hare 4105 1| Hinges and screws..................... 0.14~ ~ 4106 5| it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; and 4107 19| Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos.~ ~ 4108 19| Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians.~ ~ 4109 16| a step, and lo, away it scud with an elastic spring over 4110 12| been my own butcher and scullion and cook, as well as the 4111 12| marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material 4112 12| It was no more than the scurf of his skin, which was constantly 4113 1| to be avoided is our own scurvy selves. I know one or two 4114 5| the house. Instead of a scuttle or a blind blown off in 4115 9| Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes."~ ~ 4116 17| same window on the pure sea-green Walden water there, reflecting 4117 5| from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like 4118 19| is to explore the private seal the Atlantic and Pacific 4119 16| wolfish dogs, passed for sealers, or Esquimaux, or in misty 4120 14| could see distinctly by the seam in the edge of a cake. But 4121 8| rags and tatters, and yet a seamless cope remained; small imps 4122 19| unsuitable material; and as he searched for and rejected stick after 4123 3| birds is like a meat without seasoning." Such was not my abode, 4124 14| Mesopotamia are built of secondhand bricks of a very good quality, 4125 14| distance. There is as much secrecy about the cooking as if 4126 1| for a long season." The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, 4127 10| great mud-turtle which had secreted himself under the boat in 4128 10| belonged to the ancient sect of Coenobites. There was 4129 17| where lately a hundred men securely labored.~ ~ 4130 3| accordingly. What is a house but a sedes, a seat? - better if a country 4131 11| to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never 4132 10| day, as I crept along its sedgy shore, the fresh spray blowing 4133 1| young Patrick that neighbor Seeley, an Irishman, in the intervals 4134 8| It is one of the oldest seenes stamped on my memory. And 4135 2| And when thou seest the new enlightened sphere,~ ~ 4136 3| perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a 4137 12| little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have 4138 12| was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not 4139 5| marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore; the 4140 16| would reach the corn, and selecting a suitable ear, frisk about 4141 1| For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms 4142 19| China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation 4143 1| rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation even in the West Indian 4144 8| meaning of this so steady and self-respecting, this small Herculean labor, 4145 7| Finally, there were the self-styled reformers, the greatest 4146 1| But all this is very selfish, I have heard some of my 4147 10| Nature has woven a natural selvage, and the eye rises by just 4148 1| avoided is our own scurvy selves. I know one or two families, 4149 18| separate streams losing their semicylindrical form and gradually becoming 4150 9| cattle, at the door of its senate-house. I had gone down to the 4151 17| clouds and the trees, and sending up its evaporations in solitude, 4152 5| repeated, where the next in seniority and girth has gulped down 4153 1| even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, 4154 12| drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, 4155 3| partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or 4156 1| When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed 4157 3| of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to 4158 1| emphasizing to myself each word separately that I may come at the meaning 4159 10| the distant pine woods, separating one stratum of the atmosphere 4160 3| which never, or rarely, serenade a villager - the wood thrush, 4161 16| wild-cat, for Stratton was a sergeant in the old French war, and 4162 3| other draggle-tail of a sermon, should shout with thundering 4163 19| only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in 4164 5| made the elements their servants for noble ends! If the cloud 4165 1| coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.~ ~ 4166 2| Become your servile minds; but we advance~ ~ 4167 14| Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus. How much 4168 3| mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our 4169 1| somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there 4170 14| of a window, and some on settles, some at one end of the 4171 19| race. If we have had the seven-years' itch, we have not seen 4172 4| worth. This town has spent seventeen thousand dollars on a town-house, 4173 8| holes with a hoe for the seventieth time at least, and not for 4174 1| pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean 4175 14| old forest law, and were severely punished under the name 4176 3| Infanta, and Don Pedro and Seville and Granada, from time to 4177 1| Beside, clothes introduced sewing, a kind of work which you 4178 4| a pedagogue, a parson, a sexton, a parish library, and three 4179 14| meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves, some 4180 14| else, departing dream, and shadowy form~ ~ 4181 5| of those fleet railroad shafts, and o'er~ ~ 4182 4| with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all the centuries to 4183 6| part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking 4184 10| rushes; yet its model was sharply defined, as if it were a 4185 3| to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into 4186 15| uncle who goes to sleep shaving himself, and is obliged 4187 18| attracted by the arching and sheaf - like top of the wool-grass; 4188 8| have notice of it, and will shear them off with both buds 4189 11| while they flee to carts and sheds. Let not to get a living 4190 18| on its shore - a silvery sheen as from the scales of a 4191 5| the bleating of calves and sheep, and the hustling of oxen, 4192 5| cattle of a thousand hills, sheepcots, stables, and cow-yards 4193 7| came Mrs. - to know that my sheets were not as clean as hers? - 4194 1| Gulistan, or Flower Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that "they 4195 10| down on the shore, a narrow shelf-like path in the steep hillside, 4196 1| his spotted shell, or the shell-fish its mother-o'-pearl tints, 4197 1| like the tenement of the shellfish, and not overlaid with it. 4198 4| naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have 4199 15| lived; and there often the sheriff came in vain to collect 4200 13| charged him to return with his shield or upon it. Or perchance 4201 1| sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness. There is a plenty of such 4202 18| breaking through mists and shining faintly on the hillsides 4203 19| higher latitudes - with shiploads of preserved meats to support 4204 1| to him compared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive 4205 1| Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that "they asked a wise 4206 1| retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man 4207 6| shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well 4208 1| ragged clothes, while I shivered in my more tidy and somewhat 4209 1| impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes. Is it impossible 4210 17| Cape becomes bar, and plain shoal, and valley and gorge deep 4211 9| skirts, as the barber, the shoe-maker, or the tailor. Besides, 4212 10| haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen 4213 10| shore, and thus the shore is shorn, and the trees cannot hold 4214 16| latter's arm; but that was a short-lived mood, and as quick as thought 4215 1| than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not 4216 17| But if, using the shortest diameter of Loch Fyne, we 4217 15| the foot of Brister's Hill shortly after I came to the woods, 4218 12| among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between 4219 15| roof fell in, and we all shouted "Concord to the rescue!" 4220 1| depot, and the conductor shouts "All aboard!" when the smoke 4221 7| grander tone, we gradually shoved our chairs farther apart 4222 14| the heart. With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and 4223 11| leaked the least, while it showered and thundered without. I 4224 1| advantages - it must be shown that it has produced better 4225 1| exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find 4226 17| every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from 4227 11| mention. These were the shrines I visited both summer and 4228 1| contracted by the long habit of shrinking from cold and misery, and 4229 12| skin, which was constantly shuffled off. But the notes of the 4230 19| meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. 4231 14| plastering, which so effectually shuts out the cold and takes a 4232 11| life here, I thought; so, shutting my eyes, and excluding the 4233 9| as if it were a road in Siberia. By night, of course, the 4234 11| the rain, to the wrinkled, sibyl-like, cone-headed infant that 4235 1| Christ. "Panem depsticium sic facito. Manus mortariumque 4236 7| or sex, thought most of sickness, and sudden accident and 4237 9| of their way, feeling the sidewalk only with their feet, and 4238 5| mice, like bowlders of the Sierra Nevada, that occupy an outside 4239 18| four hours. It took a short siesta at noon, and boomed once 4240 9| the kernels and very last sieveful of news - what had subsided, 4241 16| twigs on high, which comes sifting down in the sunbeams like 4242 19| out of his way, and only sighed at a distance because he 4243 11| eye or pecked at my shoe significantly. Meanwhile my host told 4244 1| daubed upon his box. It would signify somewhat, if, in any earnest 4245 15| Walden vale for the long silences. Broadway was still and 4246 5| singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good 4247 8| moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all 4248 18| sources of rivers. In the silicious matter which the water deposits 4249 10| as watered or changeable silks and sword blades suggest, 4250 5| reaching up to your very sills. A young forest growing 4251 13| betray him? He was indeed a silly loon, I thought. I could 4252 9| without stirring, and let it simmer and whisper through them 4253 1| African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and 4254 7| particular, an inoffensive, simpleminded pauper, whom with others 4255 6| stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; 4256 19| beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the 4257 1| Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati.~ ~ 4258 1| officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowance. 4259 5| the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are 4260 18| the soft mass of the b (single-lobed, or B, double-lobed), with 4261 19| not older by a moment. His singleness of purpose and resolution, 4262 18| slimy life that awakes. The sinking sound of melting snow is 4263 18| out to burn, the vilest sinner may return. Through our 4264 1| son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die."~ ~ 4265 15| Concord - where he is styled "Sippio Brister" - Scipio Africanus 4266 9| drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of danger." 4267 3| whirlpool called a dinner, situated in the meridian shallows. 4268 6| may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than 4269 10| circumference, and contains about sixty-one and a half acres; a perennial 4270 1| dollar, and a winter cap for sixty-two and a half cents, or a better 4271 11| know but one small grove of sizable trees left in the township, 4272 14| cake containing a middling sized one, and turned it bottom 4273 14| pond, nearly half a mile, skating behind with one end of a 4274 1| man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be 4275 13| one without finding the skewer.~ ~ 4276 7| He was a skilful chopper, and indulged in 4277 10| an excellent fisher and skilled in all kinds of woodcraft, 4278 1| and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, 4279 10| as I have said, a swallow skims so low as to touch it. It 4280 1| because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.~ ~ 4281 10| give his name to it? Some skin-flint, who loved better the reflecting 4282 16| waited in silence while he skinned the fox, then followed the 4283 15| of English poetry without skipping. It fairly overcame my Nervii. 4284 15| where the grass and the skunk-cabbage still put forth with perennial 4285 19| and pile the empty cans sky-high for a sign. Were preserved 4286 10| shutter over their broad skylight, sometimes giving to the 4287 10| brands high into the air like skyrockets, which, coming down into 4288 17| through, have passed the slack line over a twig of the 4289 5| the hills before it gets slacked. These rags in bales, of 4290 18| along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that 4291 13| they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a 4292 10| are sometimes of a dark slate-color. The sea, however, is said 4293 1| once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged 4294 12| go to snaring rabbits, or slaughtering lambs, may learn - and he 4295 1| relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of 4296 1| of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity 4297 17| description, and these, being sledded to the shore, were rapidly 4298 1| knot-hole or gateway where his sledge load of furniture cannot 4299 3| his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and 4300 5| sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron 4301 7| dark bushy hair, and dull sleepy blue eyes, which were occasionally 4302 18| eaves were dripping with sleety rain. I looked out the window, 4303 13| my clothes, and along my sleeve, and round and round the 4304 16| brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their 4305 16| intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid and skated, as in 4306 17| and chaises and tinkling sleighs that travel the Walden road, 4307 16| Not without reason was its slenderness. Such then was its nature. ( 4308 1| never see that these men slew or captured any monster 4309 1| shingles made of the first slice of the log, whose edges 4310 14| myself one winter day with sliding this piecemeal across the 4311 5| below par now. They will slink back to their kennels in 4312 7| mouse, which soon again slinks into some hole in the pavement.~ ~ 4313 10| with my knife, I made a slip-noose, which I attached to its 4314 17| one of those great cakes slips from the ice-man's sled 4315 15| There was only a narrow slit left between their lids, 4316 1| flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand 4317 18| begins to flow down the slopes like lava, sometimes bursting 4318 12| wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. 4319 12| person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, 4320 4| a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual 4321 11| wading in retired meadows, in sloughs and bog-holes, in forlorn 4322 8| of husbandry, I was much slower, and became much more intimate 4323 15| he would grow uneasy and sluggishly turn about on his perch, 4324 15| began to nod. I too felt a slumberous influence after watching 4325 3| downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, 4326 13| in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves 4327 8| honey with which it was smeared.~ ~ 4328 13| master, and ineffectually smelled at old fox burrows and woodchucks' 4329 15| blossoming as fair, and smelling as sweet, as in that first 4330 5| on fact! This closed car smells of salt fish, the strong 4331 1| ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would 4332 5| like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. 4333 18| sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape 4334 17| emptied. No doubt many a smiling valley with its stretching 4335 15| and when the frost had smitten me on one cheek, heathen 4336 1| but it was wont to get smoked and to have a piny flavor, 4337 18| landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which 4338 13| stillness of the air, and the smoothness of the water were all against 4339 1| met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping 4340 15| cellar wall at the still smouldering cinders beneath, muttering 4341 5| in the gale - a pine tree snapped off or torn up by the roots 4342 16| muzzle to the ground, and snapping the air as if possessed, 4343 16| twiggy fences and horse-hair snares, which some cow-boy tends.~ ~ 4344 12| as any one who will go to snaring rabbits, or slaughtering 4345 14| leaving the smooth meadow in a snarl, heedlessly measuring them 4346 1| he? See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day 4347 18| hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering 4348 19| hunt giraffes if he could? Snipes and woodcocks also may afford 4349 19| asleep, which they express by snoring. Sometimes we are inclined 4350 3| some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with 4351 17| like a flock of arctic snow-birds. But sometimes Squaw Walden 4352 17| or more. Standing on the snow-covered plain, as if in a pasture 4353 18| mist and rain and melt the snowbanks, and the sun, dispersing 4354 5| it shall be as pure as a snowflake, and if it be put into a 4355 5| the men who inhabit the snowplow for their winter quarters; 4356 5| deep, they strap on his snowshoes, and, with the giant plow, 4357 1| had placed the whole to soak in a pond-hole in order 4358 7| beverage beside water? He had soaked hemlock leaves in water 4359 17| license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. 4360 16| like their mother, were sobered into silence by the mystery. 4361 5| an animal, yet with human sobs, on entering the dark valley, 4362 6| post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside 4363 1| do. Only they who go to soirees and legislative balls must 4364 17| warrant the pond not to need soldering till they find a worse leak 4365 15| the last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family. 4366 1| appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man 4367 5| voices have waxed hoarse and solemnly grave, mocking at mirth, 4368 15| earliest species of goldenrod (Solidago stricta) grows there luxuriantly.~ ~ 4369 17| summer there. It looks like solidified azure, as, far off, it is 4370 4| even - works as refined, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost 4371 16| all imaginary spectators, soliloquizing and talking to all the universe 4372 16| midst, and the mystery was solved. They waited in silence 4373 16| expression and a gratuitous somerset, as if all the eyes in the 4374 1| civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on 4375 | sometime 4376 3| hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, 4377 19| great deeds, and sung divine songs, which shall never die" - 4378 16| hoo, hoorer, hoo, sounded sonorously, and the first three syllables 4379 18| should break up so much sooner than Walden. The ice in 4380 1| shiftless by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow? Passing 4381 4| thousandth tale about Zebulon and Sophronia, and how they loved as none 4382 8| all dungings and other sordid temperings being but the 4383 15| the race departed. What a sorrowful act must that be - the covering 4384 4| ostriches, can digest all sorts of this, even after the 4385 6| probably the only thoroughly sound-conditioned, healthy, and robust young 4386 1| through that accidental souring of the dough which, it is 4387 19| was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with 4388 10| eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to 4389 10| accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads 4390 3| there was a pleasing vista southward across the pond, through 4391 17| whether they had come to sow a crop of winter rye, or 4392 17| reapers, or the parable of the sower, and the like; and now they 4393 8| encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil 4394 1| did better still, for I spaded up all the land which I 4395 8| And as he spake, his mings would now and 4396 14| I looked and saw that a spark had caught my bed, and I 4397 10| twig and stone and cobweb sparkles now at mid-afternoon as 4398 18| behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the bare face 4399 15| another. And then fresh sparks went up above the wood, 4400 1| of empty boxes? That is Spaulding's furniture. I could never 4401 8| obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the 4402 15| expressed our sentiments through speaking-trumpets, or in lower tone referred 4403 8| Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should 4404 6| windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements 4405 10| very much like a trout. The specific name reticulatus would not 4406 1| He was there to represent spectatordom, and help make this seemingly 4407 14| we trouble ourselves to speculate how the human race may be 4408 3| thing again, unless your speculations are of a merely pecuniary 4409 15| but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last. He too, 4410 1| elderly people prophesied a speedy decay of the vital forces. 4411 4| whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and 4412 7| him, and then there was spelling to be attended to at the 4413 14| nobody claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny 4414 15| Irishman, Hugh Quoil (if I have spelt his name with coil enough), 4415 7| my cabin those lines of Spenser which one of my visitors 4416 10| cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, 4417 19| all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her bead against 4418 8| The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from 4419 14| aloft on rafters with the spiders, if they choose; a house 4420 18| my house, they suddenly spied my light, and with hushed 4421 1| drivable nails, staples, and spikes to his pocket, and then 4422 13| will sometimes roll and spin round before you in such 4423 5| neither the chum, nor the spinning-wheel, nor even the singing of 4424 1| Parcee, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with 4425 6| conspicuous and perfectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, 4426 11| with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit 4427 18| all gone off with the fog, spirited away. One year I went across 4428 1| deem the soul of bread, the spiritus which fills its cellular 4429 8| and I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish - 4430 13| backs up and were fiercely spitting at me. A few years before 4431 1| kindled his fires up to the splendor of a moon or a star of the 4432 7| away to a slender stake or splinter which you could break off 4433 1| calculator the vessel often splits upon a rock that should 4434 5| world, so that nothing can spoil it, and putting, the perseverance 4435 5| eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and 4436 14| dollar only, and sells the spoils of the meads to Boston and 4437 18| Spontaneously without law cherished fidelity 4438 1| three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for 4439 13| watching his opportunity, he sprang upon the black warrior, 4440 18| vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, 4441 18| the foot of the bank it spreads out flatter into strands, 4442 16| the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, 4443 1| and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization 4444 1| set his trap with a hair springe to catch comfort and independence, 4445 16| day, or more rarely, in springlike days, a wiry summery phebe 4446 15| midwinter, some warm and springly swamp where the grass and 4447 17| water - for it was a very springy soil - indeed all the terra 4448 5| water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond 4449 15| himself, and is obliged to sprout potatoes in a cellar Sundays, 4450 15| little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, 4451 1| condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization. 4452 18| organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp-tadpoles 4453 1| the value of the land by squatting on it.~ ~ 4454 16| off they would go with a squeak and a bounce. Near at hand 4455 10| over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper 4456 1| powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of 4457 1| keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that 4458 10| horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air. It was 4459 1| another's loss, and that the stable-boy has equal cause with his 4460 15| race. Might not the basket, stable-broom, mat-making, corn-parching, 4461 5| the barb of the spear. The stabler of the iron horse was up 4462 17| worked by horses, on to a stack, as surely as so many barrels 4463 17| hollowed out like buckets. They stacked up the cakes thus in the 4464 17| rejected by those who were stacking them up there, not being 4465 5| depot than they did in the stage-office? There is something electrifying 4466 18| Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored 4467 4| result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, 4468 1| blackberry roots, and the lowest stain of vegetation, six feet 4469 17| held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through 4470 18| manifest congealed drop or stalactite. The chin is a still larger 4471 18| it were a cave with its stalactites laid open to the light. 4472 11| shelter here from the rain, stalked about the room like members 4473 8| Stalks........................................ 4474 5| snow; and he will reach his stall only with the morning star, 4475 5| of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor 4476 5| where are they? It is a stampede to them; they are quite 4477 14| hollow beneath you without stamping. A house whose inside is 4478 18| height before it came to a standstill.~ ~ 4479 1| straight, and drivable nails, staples, and spikes to his pocket, 4480 12| evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the 4481 14| By night star-veiling, and by day~ ~ 4482 19| most sugar and the most starch. It is life near the bone 4483 11| sigh at this, and his wife stared with arms a-kimbo, and both 4484 15| discolored. It also told me, with staring emphasis, when he died; 4485 5| recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied 4486 12| herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is 4487 5| scaring the owl and fox. The startings and arrivals of the cars 4488 12| Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an 4489 16| the snow-crust by fits and starts like a leaf blown by the 4490 11| instead of John Field's poor starveling brat. There we sat together 4491 1| how many modes, only not state-prison offences; lying, flattering, 4492 5| stopping at some brilliant station-house in town or city, where a 4493 1| the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, 4494 4| wit - books - paintings - statuary - music - philosophical 4495 10| Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till 4496 19| can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the 4497 1| like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now 4498 5| other track. We live the steadier for it. We are all educated 4499 12| a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt 4500 5| brings up a fish; a mink steals out of the marsh before 4501 3| mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction 4502 3| one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run 4503 10| a long and shallow one, steel-colored, most like those caught 4504 4| unfortunate got up on to a steeple, who had better never have 4505 18| twenty-nine of them, and then steered straight to Canada, with 4506 9| constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known 4507 11| That to destruction steers."~ ~ 4508 1| which are, as it were, his stem and leaves. Those plants 4509 3| prairies of the West and the steppes of Tartary, affording ample