Sure if they cannot cut, it may be said
His saws are toothless, and his hatchets lead.
He talks of wood : it is some carpenter.
Speak,, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on?
A carpenter's known by his chips.
The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp.
The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere,
The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising,
The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their
places, laying them regular,
Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises, according as they were prepared,
The blows of the mallets and hammers.
Walt Whitman—Song of the Broad-Axe. Pt. III. St. 4.
CASSIA
While cassias blossom in the zone of calms.
Jean Ingelow—Sand Martins.
CAT
A cat may look at a king.
Title of a Pamphlet. (Published 1652)
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Henry Caret—The Dragon of Wantley. Act
II. Sc. 1.
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!"
Confound the cats! All cats—alway—
Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;
By night a nuisance and by day—
Confound the cats!
Orlando Thos. Dobbin—A Dithyramb on
Cats.
The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.
Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard's Almanac.
The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her
feet.
Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
It has been the providence of nature to give
this creature nine lives instead of one.
Pilpay—Fable III.
CATTLE (see Animals)
CAUSE
is To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the
cause.
Causa latet : vis est notissima.
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. IV. 287.
Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Your cause doth strike my heart.
Cymbeline. Act I. Sc.6. L. 118.
Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 101.
God befriend us, as our cause is just!
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 120.
Mine's not an idle cause.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 95.
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Vergil—Georgics. II. 490.
CEDAR
Cedrus
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Drowse on the crisp, gray moss.
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Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge.
Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 11.
High on a hill a goodly Cedar grewe,
Of wond'rous length and straight proportion,
That farre abroad her daintie odours threwe;
'Mongst all the daughters of proud Libanon,
Her match in beautie was not anie one.
Spenser—Visions of the World's Vanitie. St. 7.
CELANDINE
Chelidonium
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For the finding of a star;
Up and down the heavens they go,
Men that keep a mighty rout!
I'm as great as they, I trow,
Since the day I found thee out,
Little Flower!—I'll make a stir,
Like a sage astronomer.
Wordsworth—To the Small Celandine.
