Concordance

label 1

1. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,

labor 2

1. p. vi, line 4[…] the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience […]
2. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;

laborers 3

1. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
2. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
3. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;

laborsaving 1

1. p. iv, line 73[…] the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target […]

Labrador 1

1. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,

lack 3

1. p. vi, line 114[…] ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce […]
2. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
3. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,

lacks 1

1. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,

lacy 1

1. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

ladders 1

1. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

ladies 1

1. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

lady 3

1. p. 19, line 22Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
2. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
3. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,

lady's 2

1. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
2. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

laggards 1

1. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.

lags 1

1. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,

laid 2

1. p. x, line 4[…] it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and […]
2. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,

lain 1

1. p. vi, line 108[…] sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his style […]

lair 3

1. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
2. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

lakes 4

1. p. iv, line 11[…] its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia […]
2. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
3. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,
4. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.

lama 1

1. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

lambs 1

1. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

lame 1

1. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,

lamentable 1

1. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;

lamentation 2

1. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;
2. p. 50, line 3What have I to do with lamentation?

lamps 2

1. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
2. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

lance 1

1. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,

land 12

1. p. iv, line 105[…] He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking […]
2. p. v, line 1[…] or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the […]
3. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of […]
4. p. xi, line 32[…] and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck […]
5. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.

landed 1

1. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?

landings 1

1. p. iv, line 52[…] the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the […]

landlord 1

1. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.

landmarks 1

1. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.

lands 1

1. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,

landscape 2

1. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
2. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,

landscapes 2

1. p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.
2. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.

language 4

1. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and […]
2. p. xii, line 4[…] and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense. It […]
3. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,
4. p. 94, line 18Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,

languages 1

1. p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;

lank 1

1. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,

lanyards 1

1. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,

laps 6

1. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
2. p. 16, line 23And here you are the mothers' laps.
3. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
4. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
5. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

lapses 1

1. p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,

larceny 1

1. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.

lard 1

1. p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.

large 21

1. p. iv, line 71[…] equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and […]
2. p. iv, line 108[…] out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and […]
3. p. viii, line 82[…] old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls […]
4. p. ix, line 21[…] gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite […]
5. p. ix, line 27[…] its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than […]

largeness 3

1. p. iii, line 20[…] stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings […]
2. p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding […]
3. p. iii, line 69[…] or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature […]

larger 1

1. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,

largescale 1

1. p. viii, line 117[…] the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own […]

largest 5

1. p. iii, line 19[…] In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler […]
2. p. xii, line 68[…] make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to […]
3. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
4. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
5. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,

lashed 1

1. p. 41, line 15My captain lashed fast with his own hands.

lashes 1

1. p. vi, line 16[…] of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of […]

last 26

1. p. iii, line 20[…] to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with […]
2. p. vi, line 97[…] extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment […]
3. p. viii, line 80[…] all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly […]
4. p. x, line 69[…] the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female […]
5. p. xi, line 8[…] The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous […]

latch 1

1. p. x, line 1[…] when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life […]

late 4

1. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
2. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
3. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
4. p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,

lately 1

1. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,

latest 1

1. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,

lath 1

1. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,

latherers 1

1. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.

laths 1

1. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

latter 1

1. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.

laudanum 1

1. p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.

laugh 7

1. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
2. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
3. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)
4. p. 26, line 22I laugh at what you call dissolution,
5. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
6. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
7. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

laughed 3

1. p. viii, line 83[…] away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the […]
2. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
3. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

laugher 1

1. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

laughing 2

1. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
2. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,

laughing-gull 1

1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;

laughingly 1

1. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.

laughs 2

1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
2. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.

laughter 4

1. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,
2. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
3. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?
4. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

launch 2

1. p. xi, line 88[…] younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit […]
2. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.

launches 1

1. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.

lave 1

1. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,

law 16

1. p. vi, line 58[…] rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is […]
2. p. viii, line 40[…] comes common ground. To be under the general law is great for that is to correspond with it. The […]
3. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
4. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.
5. p. 68, line 10The law of the past cannot be eluded,

lawful 1

1. p. ix, line 109[…] for himself and his family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and […]

lawgivers 1

1. p. vii, line 97[…] lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every […]

lawless 1

1. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;

Lawrence 2

1. p. iv, line 13[…] chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure […]
2. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.

laws 16

1. p. v, line 101[…] perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs […]
2. p. vi, line 77[…] do this well is to compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must […]
3. p. viii, line 2[…] and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for […]
4. p. viii, line 25[…] less than that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the […]
5. p. viii, line 26[…] and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the […]

lawyer 2

1. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.
2. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

lawyers 4

1. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
2. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
3. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
4. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

lay 10

1. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
2. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
3. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
4. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
5. p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,

layers 1

1. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,

laying 2

1. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
2. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,

lead 8

1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
2. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
3. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
4. p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
5. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
6. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
7. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

leadballs 1

1. p. viii, line 73[…] iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats […]

leaders 1

1. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,

leadings 1

1. p. 63, line 23I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,

leads 1

1. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,

leaf 2

1. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
2. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,

leafy 1

1. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.

leagues 2

1. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
2. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,

leaks 2

1. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
2. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,

lean 5

1. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
2. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
3. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
4. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
5. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,

leaned 1

1. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.

leaning 2

1. p. vii, line 13[…] action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the […]
2. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.

leans 2

1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
2. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,

leaping 3

1. p. ix, line 68[…] a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may […]
2. p. xi, line 26[…] direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in […]
3. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

learn 4

1. p. viii, line 60[…] though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men […]
2. p. xi, line 22[…] only that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors […]
3. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
4. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?

learned 8

learned 7 · learnt 1

1. p. x, line 67[…] or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or […]
2. p. xi, line 22[…] has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul […]
3. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
4. p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
5. p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
6. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:
7. p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;

learner 1

1. p. 24, line 2A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfulest,

learning 2

1. p. iii, line 74[…] nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the […]
2. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

learns 4

1. p. vi, line 88[…] before me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present […]
2. p. xi, line 85[…] beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man […]
3. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
4. p. 92, line 1WHO learns my lesson complete?

least 5

1. p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit […]
2. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
3. p. 48, line 8My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
4. p. 49, line 16Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
5. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,

leatherdressing 1

1. p. 63, line 5Leatherdressing, coachmaking, boilermaking, ropetwisting, distilling, signpainting, limeburning, coopering, cottonpicking,

leave 6

1. p. xii, line 55[…] and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the […]
2. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
3. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
4. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
5. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,
6. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.

leaves 11

1. p. iii, line 92[…] middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns […]
2. p. vi, line 10[…] and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of […]
3. p. vi, line 38[…] above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious […]
4. p. 13, line 16The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
5. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,

leaving 2

1. p. 33, line 15Did it make you ache so leaving me?
2. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.

leavings 1

1. p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,

lecture 1

1. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,

lecture-rooms 1

1. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?

lecturers 1

1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,

lectures 1

1. p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,

led 2

1. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
2. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,

ledger 1

1. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,

ledges 1

1. p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,

left 10

1. p. v, line 45[…] that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness […]
2. p. xi, line 59[…] willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long […]
3. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
4. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
5. p. 33, line 7They have left me helpless to a red marauder,

leg 2

1. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
2. p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,

legal 2

1. p. ix, line 30[…] the library is not he who holds a legal title to it having bought and paid for it. Any […]
2. p. x, line 68[…] or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down […]

legends 1

1. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

leggings 1

1. p. 23, line 28A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deerskin leggings,

legislation 2

1. p. v, line 10[…] in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters […]
2. p. xii, line 15[…] of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs […]

legislators 1

1. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,

legislatures 2

1. p. iii, line 42[…] not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches […]
2. p. viii, line 107[…] their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a […]

legs 4

1. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
2. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
3. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
4. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

leisure 3

1. p. vi, line 38[…] or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is […]
2. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?

lemonade 1

1. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,

length 1

1. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,

lengthen 1

1. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,

le'pt 1 today: leaped

1. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

less 31

1. p. iii, line 89[…] transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless […]
2. p. iv, line 103[…] or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is […]
3. p. v, line 26[…] equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees […]
4. p. vi, line 75[…] and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or […]
5. p. vii, line 17[…] you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts […]

lesser 1

1. p. xi, line 90[…] orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings […]

lesson 7

1. p. iii, line 4[…] of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed […]
2. p. vi, line 89[…] that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest […]
3. p. viii, line 60[…] or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is […]
4. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
5. p. 92, line 1WHO learns my lesson complete?
6. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,

lessons 1

1. p. vi, line 103[…] measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as […]

let 21

1. p. iv, line 84[…] Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and […]
2. p. vii, line 26[…] tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I […]
3. p. ix, line 72[…] forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that […]
4. p. xi, line 46[…] of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement […]
5. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

lethargic 1

1. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,

lets 2

1. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
2. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,

lettering 1

1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,

letters 3

1. p. vi, line 112[…] expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make […]
2. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
3. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,

let-up 1

1. p. xi, line 11[…] to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular […]

levee 2

1. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
2. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,

level 4

1. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
2. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
3. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
4. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?

levels 1

1. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;

lexicographer 2

1. p. vii, line 96[…] chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets […]
2. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,

liar 1

1. p. viii, line 26[…] than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless […]

liars 2

1. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
2. p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:

liberally 1

1. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,

liberty 14

1. p. viii, line 47[…] of the great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist […]
2. p. viii, line 51[…] poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to […]
3. p. viii, line 60[…] advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled […]
4. p. viii, line 66[…] bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in […]
5. p. viii, line 76[…] ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes […]

libidinous 1

1. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,

libraries 1

1. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

library 3

1. p. ix, line 29[…] than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it […]
2. p. ix, line 32[…] one and every one is owner of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of […]
3. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,

lice 1

1. p. viii, line 104[…] yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment […]

license 1

1. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,

licentious 1

1. p. 32, line 32Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,

licked 1

1. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,

lie 14

1. p. ix, line 72[…] perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and […]
2. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
3. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
4. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
5. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,

lies 8

1. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
2. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
3. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
4. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
5. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
6. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
7. p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;
8. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

life 56

1. p. iii, line 7[…] to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life […]
2. p. iii, line 8[…] served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly […]
3. p. iv, line 10[…] country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing […]
4. p. iv, line 73[…] movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and […]
5. p. iv, line 75[…] firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest and […]

lifeboat 1

1. p. 84, line 14This face is a lifeboat;

life-car 1

1. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

lifelit 1

1. p. 81, line 9Exquisite senses, lifelit eyes, pluck, volition,

life-lumps 1

1. p. 46, line 19By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator!

life-swelling 1

1. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

lifetime 2

1. p. x, line 41[…] a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him […]
2. p. x, line 43[…] him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the […]

lift 5

1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
2. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
3. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
4. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
5. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;

lifted 3

1. p. vii, line 89[…] and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after […]
2. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
3. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,

lifts 1

1. p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,

light 26

1. p. v, line 12[…] out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the […]
2. p. v, line 87[…] seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign […]
3. p. vi, line 62[…] that there is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea […]
4. p. vi, line 112[…] glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing […]
5. p. viii, line 25[…] that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that […]

lighting 3

1. p. iv, line 110[…] cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or […]
2. p. 30, line 12Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,
3. p. 51, line 1Lighting on every moment of my life,

lightly 3

1. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
2. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
3. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?

lightness 1

1. p. 18, line 24Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,

lightning 3

1. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
2. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
3. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

lights 2

1. p. xi, line 83[…] ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth […]
2. p. 32, line 1The ring of alarm-bells . . . . the cry of fire . . . . the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and colored lights,

light-yellow 1

1. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,

like 33

1. p. v, line 26[…] plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity […]
2. p. vii, line 24[…] in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not […]
3. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household […]
4. p. xii, line 65[…] toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as […]
5. p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,

likely 1

1. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

likened 1

1. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.

likeness 1

1. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,

likes 1

1. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,

likewise 2

1. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
2. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

liking 2

1. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.

lilac 1

1. p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;

lilacs 2

1. p. v, line 102[…] bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact […]
2. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,

lily's 1

1. p. 84, line 25This is a fullgrown lily's face,

limb 1

1. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,

limber 1

1. p. xi, line 112[…] grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race […]

limberest 1

1. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,

limber-hip'd 2 today: limber-hipped

1. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
2. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,

limbs 14

1. p. 19, line 4She had long eyelashes . . . . her head was bare . . . . her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.
2. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
3. p. 21, line 32The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist's table,
4. p. 32, line 30On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
5. p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,

limeburning 1

1. p. 63, line 5Leatherdressing, coachmaking, boilermaking, ropetwisting, distilling, signpainting, limeburning, coopering, cottonpicking,

limetree 1

1. p. iv, line 32[…] locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind […]

limitless 5

1. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
2. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
3. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
4. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
5. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

limpers 1

1. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!

limpid 2

1. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
2. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

limping 1

1. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,

limpsey 1

1. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,

line 3

1. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
2. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;
3. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.

linen 2

1. p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;
2. p. 85, line 11Her ample gown is of creamhued linen,

lines 8

1. p. vi, line 15[…] only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of […]
2. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.
3. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
4. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
5. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
6. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,

linger 1

1. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.

lingers 1

1. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.

linguists 1

1. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,

lips 17

1. p. iv, line 80[…] the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is […]
2. p. vi, line 16[…] words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and […]
3. p. viii, line 83[…] laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened […]
4. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
5. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

liquid 3

1. p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
2. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,
3. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

liquor 2

1. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.

lisp 1

1. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

list 1

1. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?

listen 5

1. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
2. p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,
3. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
4. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.
5. p. 92, line 11They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.

listener 1

1. p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?

listening 2

1. p. 25, line 24Else it were time lost listening to me.
2. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,

lit 1

1. p. ix, line 13[…] are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting […]

literary 1

1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,

literature 3

1. p. iii, line 6[…] slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into […]
2. p. vii, line 4[…] common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of […]
3. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social […]

lithe 2

1. p. vi, line 69[…] is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in […]
2. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,

lithographing 1

1. p. 45, line 28Lithographing Kronos and Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,

litter 4

1. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
2. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
3. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,
4. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

little 23

1. p. iii, line 11[…] of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its […]
2. p. x, line 4[…] harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards […]
3. p. x, line 29[…] for the eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of […]
4. p. x, line 67[…] add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or […]
5. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,

live 17

1. p. iii, line 77[…] the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have […]
2. p. xi, line 51[…] performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the […]
3. p. xi, line 79[…] takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the […]
4. p. xii, line 20[…] the mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which […]
5. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,

lived 4

1. p. x, line 112[…] shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no […]
2. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
3. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
4. p. 76, line 9The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,

liveoak 2

1. p. iv, line 30[…] growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree […]
2. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,

lives 4

1. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
2. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
3. p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
4. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!

livid 2

1. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
2. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

living 17

1. p. xi, line 12[…] no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is […]
2. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
3. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
4. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
5. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,