...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」
...Tovary the metaphor, you are not fully shorn yet...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...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」
...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 metaphor is not a verypleasing one, but it expresses a truth...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
...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」
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