...At thebest it’s an ugly metaphor, and you’re making it aplatitude...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... Yasmini's song went on, verse after verse, telling never one fact, yet hinting unutterable things in a language that was made for hint and metaphor and parable and innuendo...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...You may have thought the metaphor a rude one...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
... Some corn had been taken out of a sack for the horses, and a few grains lying scattered on the ground, I tried the beautiful metaphor of St...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...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」
...—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 is only by a metaphor like thisthat any attempt to realize the Sturm and Drang ofPindar's style can be communicated...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...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」
...Some commentators wrongly consider that the expression,"the eyelids of the morning," occurring twice in the Book of Job, isintended to describe it, but the metaphor does not in the least apply...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...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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