Do we say brain or smooth

brain 6154 occurrences

Of her bright face, one glance will trace a picture on the brain, And of her voice, in echoing hearts a sound must long remain; But memory such as mine of her, so very much, endears When death is nigh, my latest sigh will not be life's, but hers.

But then the world and man, his heart and brain!

FAUST I feel it, I have heap'd upon my brain The gather'd treasure of man's thought in vain; And when at length from studious toil I rest, No power, new-born, springs up within my breast; A hair's breadth is not added to my height; I am no nearer to the infinite.

STUDENT So doth all this my brain confound, As if a mill-wheel there were turning round.

Sir Christopher had doubtless a less ample frontal development; indeed, the towers he added to Westminster Abbey would almost lead us to doubt if he had not a vacancy somewhere in his brain.

I was dazzled with the lightning, only my brain was distinct with 'its skeleton of woe,' when I found myself in your father's house.

I asked,for a gnome of ill was walking up and down in my brain, as we had walked on the sands so few hours before.

The words descriptive of the scene chiselled into my brain were on that fair paper-surface; and there were others, words which only one man may write to one woman.

We were both busy after dinner; he was in his study, and I was in my den, as I call it, writing another instalment of 'Rhoda's Gift' for the Evening Hustle, I find I write my best after dinner; my brain gets almost feverishly stimulated.

And he had always loved Jane with a peculiar pride and affection, devoted father as he was to all his children, for he said she had the best brain of the lot.

I love to be at the centre of the brain of the Pinkerton press at the moments when it is working at top speed like this.

He turned it over in that acute, quick brain of his.

She's got the Other Side on the brain, and is trying to put me in touch with it.

I hadn't known, until that moment, because I had driven it under, how large a part of my brain believed that Gideon had perhaps done this thing.

The relation of states one with another are the product of civilisation, and need an at least rudimentarily political brain to grasp them.

At its soft, chill touch Gideon's brain cooled and cooled, till he seemed to see everything in a cold, hard, crystal clarity.

I dare say he'd been through enough even then to turn his brain.

Instantly a suspicion darted through her brain.

There was a vague thought in his brain to which he could give neither shape nor utterance.

Enticingly, like a butterfly it fluttered before him; he followed like a child, eagerlyhis brain set on the mazy flight.

And to escape from useless consideration, to release his overwrought brain, he hastened his steps, extending his walk through the farthest woods.

That cry entered into my brain; it was unjust of Nature so to taunt me, so to express where I was speechless; yet I could not shut it out.

He went out into life, and from a heart wrung with all man can endure, and a brain tested in the fire, spoke burning and fluent words of strength and consolation to hundreds who, like him, had suffered, but were sinking under what he had borne.

She could not take her fascinated eyes from it; and the hammering of her blood upon her brain, as the carriage flew toward the station, seemed to be a voice monotonously repeating, "Marriedmarried" She shuddered.

"The knowledge of useful arts," says Sanctius, "is not an invention of human ingenuity, but an emanation from the Deity, descending from above for the use of man, as Minerva sprung from the brain of Jupiter.

smooth 4347 occurrences

The champagne bubbled in the heavier porter, and the brew was a dark, brilliant color, soft and smooth.

The sheets were often flattened kerosene- and gasoline-cans and were drawn taut and smooth.

Tatini had gathered half a dozen nono, a fruit that has a smooth skin and no stone, and she threw them at me.

Often the spirit forsook them, and they became common clay, but when primed with the deity's power, they would ascend vertical rocks of great height by touching the smooth surface with tiny idols which they held in their hands, and without any contact by their feet.

"See," said the Rover, in calmer but still deeply authoritative tones; "you are a minister of God, and your office is sacred charity: If you have aught to smooth the dying moment to fellow mortal, haste to impart it!"

At first sight the mound appears to be artificial, so velvety smooth and regular are its green sides in contrast with the pile of ruin on its crown.

The situation of this house, backed by the smooth Down, is exquisite, and the building reminds one of many fine old houses that stand just below the escarpment of the Sussex Downs.

"'Your confession is ill-timed,' says Lizzie, as she pulled away an' tried to smooth her hair.

The Smooth Gentleman, there for business reasons, exclaimed with great alacrity, "Women equal!

"Don't you think perhaps?" began the Smooth Gentleman.

Answer me that?" "Well, might it not be?" began the Smooth Gentleman.

We have measured the heads of five hundred factory girls, making a chart of them, you know, and the feet of five hundred domestic servants" "And don't you find" began the Smooth Gentleman.

Now all through the dinner she had hardly said anything, but she had listened for twenty minutes (from the grapefruit to the fish) while the Interesting Man had told her about his life in Honduras (it is pronounced Hondooras), and for another twenty while the Smooth Gentleman, who was a barrister, had discussed himself as a pleader.

" She might have pursued the topic, but at this moment the Smooth Gentleman, who made a rule of standing in all round, and had broken into a side conversation with the Silent Host, was overheard to say something about women's sense of humour.

Then the Host said very deliberately, taking each word at his leisure, with smoke in between: "Of coursethissuffrage business" "Tommyrot!" exclaimed the Smooth Gentleman, with great alacrity, his mask entirely laid aside.

All these phenomena were indicative of an imminent eruption, and there was no spot at the base of the mountain that could afford any protection from the rivers of lava that would inevitably pour down its smooth, steep slopes and overwhelm the village in their boiling flood.

The mountain sheered down at an angle of from seventy-five to eighty degrees, and its smooth, slippery sides afforded absolutely no foothold.

He did not indeed, for that would have been pains misapplied, attempt to smooth his verses into the harmony of those in which he occasionally celebrates female beauty; but he gave them varied tone, correct rhyme, and masculine energy, all which had hitherto been strangers to the English satire.

Nor did he neglect to smooth the way, by inscribing the piece to the Earl of Leicester, brother of Algernon Sidney, who had borne arms against Charles in the civil war; and yet, Whig or republican as he was, had taste and feeling enough to patronise the degraded laureate and proscribed Catholic.

"Unless my eyes and fingers deceive me greatly this is clay and pretty smooth clay," he reported to the waiting group, and Dorothy, who knew something about clay because she had been taught to model, said she thought so, too.

It was also of brick, and covered almost entirely by a creeping vine; its wide verandas were embowered in clematis and honeysuckle, its smooth, velvety lawn was shaded by giant elms.

"I'd love to be a brook," said Sahwah longingly, "and go splashing and singing along over the smooth stones, and jump down off the high rocks, and catch the sunlight in my ripples, and have lovely silvery fishes swimming around in me.

He was an eminently respectable man, plump and dapper, with a rosy smooth-shaven face, and an air of honesty that made the law seem quite a pleasant thing.

"I was kinda surprised to find things wasn't going as smooth as I used to think; when yuh haven't got the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, yuh don't realize what a lot of things need to be done.

There's about a million things to do before snow flies, or we won't be able to start out fresh in the spring with everything running smooth.

Do we say   brain   or  smooth