self-active - arbitrary, automated, automatic, autonomous, discretionary, elective, free, gratuitous, independent, offered, optional, proffered, self-acting, self-adjusting, self-controlled,
joky - biting, brilliant, clever, droll, facetious, funny, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, keen, mordant, pointed, pungent,
sponging - abject, ablution, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, assimilation, beggarly, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, bone-lazy,
winker braces - bit, blind, blinders, breeching, bridle, caparison, cinch, collar, crupper, curb, girth, halter, harness, headgear, lines,
remove from life - annihilate, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, end, execute, exterminate, finish, immolate,
free play - blank check, carte blanche, clearance, elbowroom, field, free hand, full scope, full swing, latitude, leeway, margin, play, range, room, rope,
before the court - after all, all things considered, on the whole, therefore, wherefore ,
symbolist - bard, laureate, librettist, maker, minstrel, modernist, poet, satirist, stylist, troubadour ,
sheathe the sword - deactivate, demobilize, disarm, disband ,
give words to - character, characterize, conceive, couch, delineate, depict, describe, draw, evoke, express, formulate, frame, limn, outline, paint,
joky - biting, brilliant, clever, droll, facetious, funny, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, keen, mordant, pointed, pungent,
sponging - abject, ablution, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, assimilation, beggarly, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, bone-lazy,
winker braces - bit, blind, blinders, breeching, bridle, caparison, cinch, collar, crupper, curb, girth, halter, harness, headgear, lines,
remove from life - annihilate, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, end, execute, exterminate, finish, immolate,
free play - blank check, carte blanche, clearance, elbowroom, field, free hand, full scope, full swing, latitude, leeway, margin, play, range, room, rope,
before the court - after all, all things considered, on the whole, therefore, wherefore ,
symbolist - bard, laureate, librettist, maker, minstrel, modernist, poet, satirist, stylist, troubadour ,
sheathe the sword - deactivate, demobilize, disarm, disband ,
give words to - character, characterize, conceive, couch, delineate, depict, describe, draw, evoke, express, formulate, frame, limn, outline, paint,