..." It was a mixed metaphor, I admit; but Sir Charles's tropesare not always entirely superior to criticism... 
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...You may have thought the metaphor a rude one...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...Mighty as are the results worked out by such a process, it isonly by a somewhat strained metaphor that it can be called a struggle...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...To speak in metaphor, it enters merely as a caretaker or ignorant and improvident steward in the absence of the rightful owner...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
..." In YorkshireI often hear a man say, "Ah sweats like a brock," and the user of thiselegant metaphor innocently imagines he is perspiring like a badger...
Alfred E. Pease 「The Badger」
...—I say, doctor,”—and there was a peculiar twinkle in Sir James’s eye—“that’s what you would call a mixed metaphor, isn’t it?”...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...Thisconception has probably left traces in most languages, and itlingers as a metaphor in poetry...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...would appear to them ridiculously overcharged with metaphor, if not absolutely unintelligible...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...It reveals itself not merely in art and literature, in fantastic conception, in personification and metaphor, but in every important department of human life...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The sterner passions alone are appealed to, and thelanguage is replete with bold metaphor and gigantic hyperbole...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...To use a metaphor ofGeorge Meredith's, he gilds his retainers as the sun gilds, with itslivery, the small clouds that gather round it...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
...The religions, if I may continue the metaphor, havecovered the vacant spaces of its map with imaginary monsters; thephilosophies have ruled them with equally imaginary parallels oflatitude...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
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