1894 SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Theatre.=

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious.

1895 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

=Thief.=

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.

1896 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Thirst.=

That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath Of those that die the soldier's fiery death, In vain impels the burning mouth to crave One drop--the last--to cool it for the grave.

1897 BYRON: _Lara,_ Canto ii., St. 16.

=Thorn.=

Why are we fond of toil and care?

Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

1898 J.M. USTERI: _Life let us Cherish._

=Thought.=

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

1899 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Thought alone is eternal.

1900 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto v., St. 16.

No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.

1901 ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

1902 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxiii., St. 4.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

1903 CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH: _Stanzas._

=Thread.=

Sewing at once a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt.

1904 HOOD: _Song of the Shirt._

=Threats.=

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

1905 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy ling'ring.

1906 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 699.

=Thrift.=

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

1907 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Throne.=

High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.

1908 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

=Thunder.=

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

1909 DRYDEN: _Annus Mirabilis,_ St. 39.

Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

1910 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 92.

=Tide.=

Even at the turning o' the tide.

1911 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

1912 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Time.=

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

1913 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.

1914 HERRICK: _To Virgins to Make Much of Time._

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!