For every word has its marrow in the English tongue for order and for delight. For the dissyllables such as able table &c are the fiddle rhymes. For all dissyllables and some trissyllables are fiddle rhymes. For the relations of words are in pairs first. For the relations of words are sometimes in oppositions. For the relations of words are according to their distances from the pair.

-Smart, Christopher
^63  JubilateAgno, fragment B, l.595^600. (First published 1939.)

The word, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. This one may be called 'value in use'; the other,'value in exchange'. The things which have the greatest value in usehave frequently little or novalue in exchange; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.

-Smith, Adam
VALUE1776  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.4.

O luely, luely cam she in And luely she lat doun: I kent her be her caller lips And her breists sae sma'an'roun'. A'thru the nicht we spak nae word Nor sinder'd bane frae bane: A'thru the nicht I heard her hert Gang soundin' wi'myain.

-Soutar,William
  'TheTryst', stanzas1^2.

As to woman's subjection†it is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
  TheWoman's Bible, pt.1, ch.1,'Comments on Genesis'.

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

-Stone, Samuel John
  Lyra fidelium.

He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms', ch.3.

Man's word is God in man.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Coming of Arthur', l.132.

Taa«  ke my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad.

-Tennyson
  'Northern Farmer. New Style', stanza12.

Word has somehow got around that the split infinitive is always wrong.That is of a piece with the outworn notion that it is always wrong to strike a lady.

-Thurber,James Grover
Recalled on his death, 2 Nov1961.

   Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?† To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.

-Trollope, Anthony
  TheWayWe Live Now, ch.1.

   Criticssearchforagesfor thewrong word, which, togive them credit, they eventually find.

-Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander
  BBC radio broadcast, Feb.

Oh,iftheQueenwereaman,shewouldliketogoandgive those Russians, whose word one cannot believe, such a beating! We shall never be friends again till we have it out.

-Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria
  Letter to Lord Beaconsfield,10 Jan.

Writing is†waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

-Wilbur, Richard
  In the Los AngelesTimes,13 Oct.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.1, stanza 7.

   The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in this monumental struggle. I venture to speak a solemn word of warning. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men's souls.We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Message to the Senate,19 Aug.