cosmos

They constituted another world and were as a play of superior beings on an exalted stage where was no reality such as black men might know as reality, where, like the phantoms of a dream, the white men moved and were as shadows cast upon the vast and mysterious curtain of the Cosmos.

'A preposterous excrescence on the social cosmos. He doesn't like your father being an earl.'

Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires.

The bonds of the flesh had little part in my cosmos of love.

Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them with the strange philosophy that WHAT IS IS RIGHT, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom.

While he was wiser in natural philosophy than she, and could have given immediately the reason for woman's existence on the earth, nevertheless woman had no part in his cosmos. His imagination was as untouched by woman as the girl's was by man.

Surely, and long since, had they, too, trod the path on which man had so recently, by the calendar of the cosmos, set his feet.

"I reckon the Cosmos is cracked," said Usher, and fell asprawl in his round office chair.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.--

Then he said again, `I want nothing,' and I knew that he meant that he was sufficient to himself, like a cosmos, that he needed no God, neither admitted any sins.