54 Metaphors for content

His care is his conscience, his wealth is his credit, his charge is his chanty, and his content is his kingdom.

Does not the spiritual content of a poem become sensuous feeling through melody?

And that is saying a great deal for Marjorie, for her heart's content was a very large content.

Its contents, therefore, quickly became public property.

"There is not another: This boat, and its contents are the sole memorials of the 'Royal Caroline!'

Whenever there is any thing to be seen, an Englishman must go and see it; and, in the eager warmth of excited spirits, he will run after any vehicle, no matter whether caravan or carriage; no matter whence it comes or whither it goes; no matter whether its contents be a kangaroo or a cannibal chief, a giraffe or a Princess Rusty Fusty.

All eyes were fastened on the lid, in curious anticipations of the contents; for, the deacon excepted, all supposed that those contents were a profound secret.

[Footnote 4: If we put a comma after bent, the phrase will mean 'in the full purpose or design to lay our services &c.' Without the comma, the content of the phrase would be general:'in the devoted force of our faculty.'

Its principal contents, besides those translated for the present chapter, are the voyages of Cada Mosto, already given; the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, which will form the first article in our subsequent volume; the voyages of Vincent Alonzo Pinzon, and of Americus Vespucius, which will be attended to hereafter; and the travels of Marco Polo, which have been already given at full length from a better source.

%(a) Logic% considers the Idea in the abstract element of thought, only as it is thought, and not yet as it is intuited, nor as it thinks itself; its content is the truth as it is without a veil in and for itself, or God in his eternal essence before the creation of the world.

" "Are you not content, my sister?" said John.

Three days later she wrote:'Johnson's Diary is selling rapidly, though the contents are bien maigre, I must confess.

Perhaps the majority of the thousands of English people who nowadays have "sardines" on their breakfast-table every morning are not aware that the contents of a very large number of the little tin boxes which are supposed to contain the delicacy are not sardines at all.

Content is wealth, the riches of the mind; And happy he who can that treasure find.

Its abundant contents are apparently the sole asset of the household; for if you proceed, in the interests of health, to spread a decent mantle of honest earth thereover, you do so to the accompaniment of a harmonised chorus of lamentation, very creditably rendered by the entire family, who are grouped en masse about the spot where the high diving-board ought to be.

Its content is the unity of the divine nature and the human, God as knowing himself in being known of man+; the knowledge of God is God's self-knowledge.

[The letter's contents was presumably payment for Lamb's contribution to The Englishman's Magazine.

The contents were these: "MR.

He tried a few drawers, and found that they stuck fast; and when he at last opened one, its contents were two old dried-up horse-balls, and a dirty tobacco-pipe.

This pistol and a small package, the contents of which he did not know, were the only equipment she had.

Take the saucepan off the fire and when the contents have become moderately cool stir in carefully the well-beaten yolks of twenty eggs.

Its contents in ink are as follows: Harriett Pinckney, born September 25, 1790.

The content of water is 18-1/2 cubic feet per horse power in the two horse power boiler, and 15 cubic feet per horse power in the 20 horse power boiler.

Chicago, August 1, 1922. CONTENTS Chapter I. WHAT IS CRIME? II. PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT III.

It is probable that Byron intended no more by it than to imply that its contents were sketches of leisure.

54 Metaphors for  content