Dey is times in life when Nature Seems to slip a cog an' go Jes' a-rattlin' down creation, Lak an ocean's overflow; When de worl' jes' stahts a-spinnin' Lak a picaninny's top, An' you' cup o' joy is brimmin' '

The long and the short of it is, perhaps, that music, being a universal art, like a universal watch-key, will set going the complicated cogs and springs of every soul and yet not regulate or assure its rhythm.

Miller, thou art my neighbour, and therein charity holds my hands; but methinks you, having a water-gap of your own, you may do as other millers do, grind your grist at home, knock your cogs into your own mill; you shall not cog with her.

Nay, nay, I do beseech you leave your cogging, what they are, they are, they serve me without Spectacles I thank 'em.

He seems to think the Almighty has nothing grander to do than to finger every little cog of the tremendous machinery of the universe,that he measures out the ocean of his purposes as we drop a liquid from a phial.

Nay, I know that; but we miller's children love the cog a little, and the fair speaking. ROB.

A country where the innocent children are scientifically inoculated with the virus of hate, where force, and only force, is held to be the determinant internationally of mine and thine, where the morals of the farmyard, are preached from the professorial chair in order to manufacture human cogs for the machine of militarism, is an undesirable and a dangerous neighbour and will continue so until it accepts other standards.

Have they not let go the mainsprings to run after and effectually push with pins the refractory cogs upon the wheel-rims?

Not only so, but at the heart of this complexity lay the gigantic cog of the judiciary, which was obviously devised to stop movement.