Bartleby.com

Bartleby.com

Bartleby.com states that it is “The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."
You’ll find full-text versions of:

• Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

• King James Bible

• Oxford Shakespeare

• Gray’s Anatomy

• Strunk’s Elements of Style

• World Factbook

• Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction (70 volumes)

• Over 50 volumes of poetry

• Darwin’s The Origin of the Species

• Einstein’s Relativity: The Special and General Theory

• Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words

• And oh so much more!

Dictionary.Com

Dictionary. Com

In addition to a dictionary with audio pronunciation, example sentences, and synonyms, you will also find:

• Thesaurus

• Encyclopedia

• Free Word of the Day via email.

• Daily Crossword

• Crossword Solver

• Translater that will translate your text into 50 languages

 • Word Games

 • Word Origins

 • Word Explorer Podcasts

• An Anagram Cracker

Bookshelf Muse - Emotion Thesaurus

At the Bookshelf Muse blog, located under Writing Resources on the left of this blog because of it’s value to writers, you will find three thesauruses (thesauri?) that you will visit time and time again. These include:

Emotion Thesaurus – long lists of physical actions that people exhibit with particular emotions.
         Ex: “Amusement: a quirked eyebrow or raised eyebrows; a snort of laughter; a chuckle, chortle or guffaw’ a wide grin; eyes squinting, lit with an inner glow or twinkle of mischief; a bemused smile…”

Setting Description Thesaurus - Sensory information for numerous settings.
     Ex: sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touch for locations such as alley, amusement park, bakery, beach, forest, graveyard, hospital, locker room, mountains, etc.

Color, Textures and Shapes Thesaurus - Categories here include: black, green, silver, bumpy, crumbly, foamy/spongy, fuzzy, gritty, rectangle, saw-edged/serrated, etc.