Utter

utter bliss    utter darkness    utter ruin

Oh VVarvvicke, VVarvvicke, I foreſee vvith greefe / The vtter loſſe of all the Realme of France.

But thou art altogether giuen ouer: and vvert indeede but for the light in thy face, the ſonne of vtter darkneſſe.

[T]here are Phlegeton and Pyriphlegeton, that fall in vvith Cocytus (burning Riuers) In vvhich (tho they be dreadfull to looke vpon) are no vtter danger: If the Ferryman vvaft you ſafely, ouer the vvaters of Repentance, othervviſe theſe hot liquors vvill ſcalde you.

And ſhould Gods eare, / VVhich needs not man, be ty'd to thoſe / VVho heare not him, but quickly heare / His utter foes?

That vvhich I vvould novv infer from hence is, the utter impoſſibility of the Greeks giving us any certain account of ancient times, […]

[T]he void profound / Of uneſſential Night receives him next / VVide gaping, and vvith utter loſs of being / Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf.

Gentlemen, ye be utter ſtrangers to me, I knovv you not, be content to follovv the Religion of your Countrey, and I vvill follovv the Religion of mine. I hope all vvill be vvell.

[I]n this Life Beaſts have, in many reſpects, the advantage of Men; in as much as they […] are utter Strangers to all thoſe Anxious and Tormenting Thoughts, which perpetually haunt and diſquiet Mankind.

[T]vvo Things that vvere his utter Averſion, the Inſinuation of a Flatterer, and the VVhiſper of a Tale-bearer.

[T]hey had no time to ſpeak, but I ſavv they vvere in utter amazement.

Then, shall the slowly-gathering twilight close / In utter night; […]

[T]hough restraint, utter and unrelaxing, can never be comely, this is not because it is in itself an evil, but only because, when too great, it overpowers the nature of the thing restrained, and so counteracts the other laws of which that nature is itself composed.

Then Enid, in her utter helplessness, / […] / Sent forth a sudden sharp and bitter cry, / As of a wild thing taken in the trap, / Which sees the trapper coming thro' the wood.

Of course I couldnt hold you to our engagement after that. I was writing to you to break it off. […] You must think me an utter rotter.

His eyes could not penetrate the darkness even to the distinguishing of his hand before his face, while the banths, he knew, could see quite well, though absence of light were utter.

Yes. What fools we were to ruin it all. What utter, utter fools.

Two cups of utter silver wrought and rough with imagery / I give you, which my father took from wracked Arisbe's hold; […]

There could not then be any other eſtimate made of the loſs VValler ſuſtain'd, than by the not purſuing the viſible advantage he had, and by the utter refuſal of the Auxiliary Regiments of London and Kent, to march farther; […]

at the utter extremities of

Wo be to you ſcrybꝭ [scrybis]⸝ ãd phariſes ypocritꝭ [ypocritis]⸝ for ye make clene the vtter ſide off the cuppe⸝ and off the platter: but with in they are full of brybery and exceſſe.

And vvhile you in Time of divine Sacrifice, do faithfully and humbly, both in Heart and utter Geſture, agnize, reverence, and adore the ſame Fleſh in Subſtance, altho' unviſibly in the Sacrament, […] you thus doing, blaſpheme ſo great Myſtery, repute the Fleſh vvhereby I vvas redeemed, and the Blood of Chriſt vvhereby I vvas to be ſanctified, as a Thing common and pollute; […]

[A]n hidden moth / The inner garment frett, not th’vtter touch; […]

Lyke the Geometritians, they ſquare about poynts and lynes, and the vtter ſhevv of things.

So forth vvithout impediment I paſt, / Till to the Bridges vtter gate I came: […]

[…] I, that knovv Truth to bee alvvaies of one ſtature, […] cannot but ſmile at their tyranous ignorance, that vvill offer to ſlight mee, […] and giue themſelues a peremptory licence to iudge, vvho haue neuer touch'd ſo much as to the barke or vtter ſhell of any Knovvledge.

And did Vlyſſes vvith all grace entreate: / Shevvd him a ſhore, vvind-proofe, and full of ſhade: / By him a ſhirt, and vtter mantle laid.

[I]n my [Satan's] flight / Through utter and through middle darkneſs borne / VVith other notes then to th' Orphéan Lyre / I ſung of Chaos and Eternal Night, […]

All stars are steps in the great scale of Heaven / Up to God's throne, from Time's last orb which eyes / The inner and the utter infinite […]

And although it [Persia] has ſince then been ruined and reigned ouer by Princes of many Nations, yet they haue neuer altered the Dialect from its vtter ſence, at this day being cald Pharſee: […]

Our vtter houre is come alas, fell deſtinies death hath brought.

I take my leave, readie to countervaile all your courtesies to the utter of my power.

Don’t you utter another word!

I utter my langage or my voyce Ie profere, prime cõiuga. After your audyence utter your langage: Selon voſtre audiẽce profere; voſtre langaige.

VViſdome cryeth vvithout: ſhe vttereth her voyce in the ſtretes.

[T]here my fathers graue / Did vtter forth a voice.

O Maſter: if you did but heare the Pedler at the doore, […] hee ſinges ſeuerall Tunes, faſter then you'l tell money: hee vtters them as he had eaten ballads, and all mens eares grevv to his Tunes.

In reason's ear, they [stars] all rejoice, / And utter forth a glorious voice, / For ever singing, as they shine, / The hand that made us is divine.

[H]e made no other reply, for ſome time, than lifting up his eyes, claſping his hands, and uttering a hollovv groan.

Never to living ear came sweeter sounds / Than when I heard thee by our own fire-side / First uttering without words a natural tune, / When thou, a feeding babe, didst in thy joy / Sing at thy Mother's breast.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man can only utter consonants.

[…] Laurie slyly pulled the parrot's tail, which caused Polly to utter an astonished croak, […]

I have not heard thy voice but in the cry / Thou utteredst then, when thou believedst me gone / The marvel of thine hands, the maid of stone.

What knowest thou of birds, lark, mavis, merle, / Linnet? what dream ye when they utter forth / May-music growing with the growing light, / Their sweet sun-worship?

Mark, a cheeping chorister of our schooldays, has retained, despite the blottery tenor that has displaced his treble, a habit of uttering with the suddenness of a ship’s siren, the less interesting of [Franz] Schubert's ditties.

I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.

Theeſe woords, vplifting both his hands, he to Iuppiter vttred.

VVhom ſhe all careleſſe of his griefe conſtrayned / to vtter forth th' anguiſh of his hart: […]

A clap thy ſelfe my Loue; then didſt thou vtter, / I am yours for euer.

For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou chooſeſt the tongue of the craftie.

And vve read alſo of the like ceremony of Conſecration of Temples amongſt the Heathen, as that the Prieſt laid his Hands on ſome poſt of the Temple, all the vvhile he vvas uttering the vvords of Conſecration.

The multitude of Angels vvith a ſhout / Loud as from numbers vvithout number, ſvveet / As from bleſt voices, uttering joy, […]

I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for, during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.

[T]he last time I saw him, we were plotting to show the town his great capacity for acting in his full light, by introducing him as dictating to a set of young players, in what manner to speak this sentence, and utter t'other passion.

For tho’ a few odd Fellows vvill utter their ovvn Sentiments in all Places, yet much the greater Part of Mankind have enough of the Courtier to accommodate their Converſation to the Taſte and Inclination of their Superiors.

His terrified imagination utter'd horrors not to be repeated, or ever forgot.

Thy indistinct expressions seem / Like language utter'd in a dream: / Yet me thy charm, whate'er the theme, / My Mary!

[…] I am equally resolved to stand the hazard of my fate—on one condition only he will turn aside from his purpose, and that condition my lips shall never utter to you.

Each had been full of thoughts which neither of them could begin to utter.

Peace, my lord, thou utterest treason! Hast forgot the king's command? Remember I am party to thy crime, if I but listen.

"Your master," he declared, "has uttered a damnable lie about a dead friend of mine."

[N]ovv and then nature is a fault, and this good gueſt of ours takes ſoyle in an unperfect body, and ſo is ſlackned from ſhevving her vvonders, like an excellent Muſician vvhich cannot utter himſelf upon a defective inſtrument.

[A]t present several of our men of the town, and particularly those who have been polished in France, make use of the most coarse uncivilized words in our language, and utter themselves often in such a manner as a clown would blush to hear.

I had tried to write a poetical epitaph, but in vain: my feelings refused to utter themselves in rhyme.

Straying with Hilda through those long vistas of ideal beauty, he meant, at last, to utter himself upon that theme which lovers are fain to discuss in village-lanes, in wood-paths, on seaside sands, in crowded streets; […]

Sally’s car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.

He that vttereth my counſayle ones I wyll neuer truſte hym whyle I lyue: […]

Silanus the Sooth-ſayer, vvho had vttered Xenophons purpoſe, vvas hereby ſtaied from out-running his fellovves, and driuen to abide vvith his vvealth among poore men, longer than ſtood vvith his good liking.

[W]ith vvhat gravity and Majeſty of ſpeech his Tongue and Pen uttered Heavenly Myſteries; […]

[W]hẽ the vnclene ſpritꝭ ſawe him⸝ they fell doune before him⸝ and cryed ſayinge: thou arte the ſonne of God: And he ſtreyghtly charged thẽ that they ſhulde not vtter him.

And Joſeph coude no longer refrayne before all them that ſtode about him⸝ but commaunded that they ſhuld goo all out from him⸝ and that there ſhuld be no man with him, whyle he vttred him ſelfe [i.e., disclosed his true identity] vnto his brethern.

[T]he holy euangelyſt ſaynt John, whome Chriſte ſo tenderly loued, […] and to hym ſecretely he vttred the falſe diſſimuled traytor [Judas Iscariot], […] declareth here what a maner of faithful louer our holy ſauyour was, of whome hym ſelfe was ſo beloued.

This lokyng about of Jeſus, was a geſture of hym that courteouſly requyred a confeſſion of the benefite receiued. He woulde not vtter her by name, leſte he ſhoulde haue ſemed to haue hit her in the teethe, wyth the good turne he dyd her. The woman, of a womanlye ſhamefaſteneſſe, and not of any vnthankfullneſſe, helde her peace.

[…] God […] hath voutſafed to vtter himſelfe vnto vs in his Scriptures: […]

[H]e [Jesus] ſhewed and vſed hymſelfe the moſte loweſt and meaneſte of al creatures, yet dyd he hyde within hym a ſecrete power of the nature of the godhed, which thã [than (i.e., then)] ⁊ neuer afore vttred it ſelfe, whan the grayne of his bodye was bruiſed on the croſſe: ⁊ was in deathe (as it were) burried within the grounde.

[…] Iuno, the Princeſſe, / Theare the pate, in digging, of an horſe intractabil vttred.

The Souereyne and vnutterable God, is the Originall of all things; next vnto vvhom is his Prouidence as a ſecond God, vvho giueth the lavv aſvvell for the temporall as for the eternall life. And furthermore, there is a third ſubſtance as a ſecond Vnderſtanding, vvhich is the keeper of the ſayd eternall Lavve. The higheſt God commaundeth, the ſecond ordereth, and the third vttereth or publiſheth.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conſcience, above all liberties.

"Don’t worry about me," he uttered with minimum lip movement.

[Y]ea many gods, / Had voices more than all the winds, with power / To exhilarate the spirit, and to soothe, / Through every clime, the heart of human kind. / While this was uttering, strange as it may seem, / I wondered not, although I plainly saw / The one to be a stone, the other a shell; […]

[Y]ᵉ same [the book] was well vtteryd by yᵉ printar, & well lyked of in yᵉ comon weale, […]

[…] Her Maiestie now vnderstandynge, that there are sithens that tyme certayne other forrayne peeces of golde, of the like quantitie and fashion (although of lesse value) lyke to an Englyshe Angell, brought hyther, and here vttered and payde for ten shyllynges of syluer, beyng for they lacke of wayght, and for the basenesse of the allay, not worth. vii. shillinges, to the great deceite and losse of the subiectes of this her Realme: […] her good subiects may eyther vtterly forbeare to receyue any such forrayne Angels, or els to take them accordyng to theyr waight as bullion, and to bryng them to her Maiesties Mynte, where they shall haue redy money in golde or syluer at theyr pleasure, accordyng to the iust value thereof.

[…] Memory, which laying by, preſeruing and imprinting in it ſelfe al the Images and formes of viſible & intelligible things, could not vtter them in time conuenient and diſpoſe them to the tongue and penne, vnleſſe it had ſo ordered, and oftentimes recounted them, […]

[T]he variouſly denominated Attic Obolus, vvith the Head of Minerva and Noctua, of as vulgar Uſe as our Farthings, but hardly by half ſo large as the Tokens vvhich every Tavern and Tippling-Houſe (in the days of late Anarchy among us) preſum'd to ſtamp and utter for immediate Exchange, as they vvere paſſable through the Neighbourhood, […]

[S]ince the Lavv does not oblige us to receive this Coyn, and conſequently the Patent leaves it to our Voluntary Choice, there is nothing remaining to preſerve us from Ruin but that the vvhole Kingdom ſhould continue in a firm determinate Reſolution never to Receive or Utter this FATAL Coyn: […]

The Man vvho is vvantonly profuſe of his Promiſes ought to ſink his Credit as much as a Tradeſman vvould by uttering great Numbers of Promiſſory Notes, payable at a diſtant Day. The trueſt Concluſion in both Caſes is, that neither intend, or vvill be able to pay.

COINING (Joint uttering.) If two persons jointly prepare counterfeit coin, and then utter it in different shops, apart from each other, but in concert and intending to share the proceeds, the utterings of each are the joint utterings of both, and they may be convicted jointly.—Reg. v. Hurse, 2 M. & Rob. 360.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, except as now authorized by law, shall hereafter make, or cause to be made, or shall utter or pass, or attempt to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver, or other metals or alloys of metals, intended for the use and purpose of current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both, at the discretion of the court, according to the aggravation of the offense.

A man named Edward Agar was convicted in October 1855 of uttering a forged cheque, and sentenced to be transported for life.

A person shall not utter a postage stamp knowing it to be forged.

Centaure, hovv our iudgements vvere impos'd on by theſe adulterate knights! / Cen[taure]. Nay, madame, Mavis vvas more deceiu'd then vve, 'tvvas her commendation vtter'd 'hem in the colledge.

[T]he great bards / Of Greece, of Rome, and mine own master land, / […] / Men who have forged gods—uttered—made them pass: […]

[T]he mixt earth, vvhich vtters VVhinns, Briars, and a vvorld of ſuch like vnnatural and baſtardly Iſſues.

[…] certayne Merchants […] obteyned licence ſafely to arriue here in Ireland with their wares, and to vtter the ſame.

Such mortall drugs I haue, but Mantuas lavve / Is death to any he that vtters them.

Beautie is bought by iudgement of the eye, / Not vttred by baſe ſale of chapmens tongues: […]

[D]oe not al Trades liue by their vvare, and yet cald honeſt Liuers? doe they not thriue beſt, vvhen they vtter moſte, and make it avvay by the great?

[A]t the Olimpian games […] ſome cam as Merchants to vtter their commodities, […]

VVhen theſe ſad tidings fill'd thoſe itching eares / Of Earths black babbling Daughter (ſhe that heares, / And vents alike, both Truth and Forgeries, / And vtters, often, cheaper then ſhe buyes) / She ſpred the pinnions of her nimble VVings, / Aduanc't her Trumpet, and avvay ſhe ſprings, […]

And Pliny [the Elder] tells us that vvhen they [the Romans] gathered their Frankincenſe, none of it might be uttered till the Prieſt had the tithe of it ſet forth for him.

No infected Stuff [i.e., items made of cloth] to be uttered.

VVhether ſhe [Lyons] doth not receive and utter all thoſe Commodities, and raiſe a Profit from the Diſtribution thereof, as vvell s of her ovvn Manufactures, throughout the Kingdom of France?

[H]e demanded to know where this famous falcon-merchant was to be met withal. "Why, between the barriers and the inner gate," replied Gillian, "where other men are admitted that have wares to utter—Where should he be?"

Nay, I know the devil has factors enough to utter his wares, […]

[Y]ou are […] compelled, during the whole morning, to undergo that savage jargon of yells, brays, and screams, familiarly, but feebly, termed, "the Cries of London"— […] your utter incapability of ever arriving at the slightest smattering in any of the infernal dialects in which their goods are uttered, and which they have palpably invented for the sole purpose of guarding against the smallest risk of being, by any accident, understood;—and thus is a new Misery struck out for you, […]

He had alſo ſet a prieſt of his and a ſeculer ſeruaunt of his beſyde to by [buy] many of the ſame ſuyte [of books], & double and treble of one ſorte, whiche were by thẽ [them] vttred to diuers yonge ſcholers ſuch as thei founde properly witted, feately lerned, and newfangly mynded.

God proſper you, to the uttering all hollovv Harts of England.

As fier being encloſed in a ſtraite place, wil by force vtter his flãme, […] ſo thys cãcard crocodrile, ⁊ ſubtile ſerpent, could not lõg lurke in malicious hartes, nor venemous ſtomackes, but in cõcluſion ſhe muſt (according to her nature) apere ⁊ ſhew her ſelf.

Seeſt not thilke ſame Hawthorne ſtudde, / How bragly it beginnes to budde, / And vtter his tender head?

And moſt deare Actors, eate no Onions, nor garlicke: for vve are to vtter ſvveete breath: and I do not doubt but to hear them ſay, it is a ſvveete Comedy.

[Ô] vvoman, vvoman, vveepe novv or neuer, thou haſt made more ſorrovves then vve haue eyes to vtter.

[N]ovv the King forſakes / The Campe, he muſt maintaine luxurious mouthes, / Such as can vtter perfum'd breath, and theſe / Straite compoſe a faction, engroſſe his eares.

He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; […]

Four little winged marble boys used to play their virgin fancies, spouting out ever fresh streams from their innocent-wanton lips, in the square of Lincoln’s-inn, when I was no bigger than they were figured. […] Are the stiff-wigged living figures [lawyers], that still flitter and chatter about that area, less gothic in appearance? or, is the splutter of their hot rhetoric one half so refreshing and innocent, as the little cool playful streams those exploded cherubs uttered?

[F]lowers utter their beauty and their fragrance, as much as birds utter their songs.

Within the room, a series of prints so typical as to merit description, told the great incidents of Greek History. There was […] a mythological matron, in a classical helmet, uttering a tear at a rustic cross bound in blue and white ribbons and inscribed ΕΙΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΕΣΟΝΤΑΣ—To The Fallen—1912, a souvenir of the First Balkan War; […]

This crockery is popular and utters well.

A strawe, sayde Bele, stande vtter, / For we haue egges and butter, / And of pygeons a payre.

Gyue this gentylman rome, syrs, stonde vtter!

I knovv they vvill deny me gracious Madame, / Being a ſtranger, and ſo little fam'd / So vtter emptie of theſe excellencies / That tame authority; […]