=Shoes.=

I saw them go: one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet.

1676 JAMES SMITH: _Rejected Addresses, The Baby's Debut._

Let firm, well-hammer'd soles protect thy feet, Thro' freezing snows, and rain, and soaking sleet.

1677 GAY: _Trivia,_ Bk. i., Line 33.

=Shore.=

But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

1678 EMERSON: _Each and All._

There is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

1679 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 178.

A strong nor'wester 's blowing, Bill!

Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?

Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now!

1680 WILLIAM PITT: _The Sailor's Consolation._

=Show.=

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

1681 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 8.

With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

1682 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 624.

=Shrine.=

What sought they thus afar?

Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?

They sought a faith's pure shrine.

1683 HEMANS: _Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers._

=Sickness.=

This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise.

1684 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Sighs.=

My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

1685 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

He sighed;--the next resource is the full moon, Where all sighs are deposited; and now It happen'd luckily, the chaste orb shone.

1686 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xvi., St. 13.

=Sight.=

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

1687 GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. iii., St. 1.

O Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land.

1688 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 15.

=Signs.=

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish: A vapor, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.

1689 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iv., Sc. 12.

=Silence.=

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

1690 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, tho' ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

1691 SIR WALTER RALEIGH: _Silent Lover,_ St. 6.

Silence more musical than any song.

1692 CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI: _Rest._

Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd.

1693 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598.

There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time.

1694 CAMPBELL: _Battle of the Baltic._

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,-- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

1695 HOOD: _Sonnet, Silence._

=Silver.=

Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops.

1696 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Similarity.=