=Test.=

Bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word.
1891
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Text.=

And many a holy text around she strews,
  That teach the rustic moralist to die.
1892
GRAY:  Elegy, St. 21.

=Thankfulness.=

The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 1893 SHAKS.:  Tam. of the S., Act iv., Sc. 3.

Thanks to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
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.