143 Metaphors for much

; too little for none, too much for nonesuch is the Social ideal.

And had I thought you would have accepted the sacrifice, I could almost have been happy to have given her to you, so much was her happiness the aim of my own love.

This lay on both sides of the Ohio River, much of it being the trackless forest, so that Father Orin and Toby used the Shawnee Crossing oftener than the Shawnees themselves.

As much as the mind is superiour to the body, so much are those charming regions preferable to these which we now inhabit.

This is a frequent experience in dreams, and much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

" Ike turned to go, but lingered, and finally stammered: "I hope, sir, ye don't take it that I'm askin' a charity; I make bold to believe I could be worth to ye's much's my keepin'; I'm considerable handy 'bout a good many things, an' I can do a day's mowin' yet with any man in the parish, I don't care who he is.

Drake took, at the Cabezas, a frigate of Nicaragua, the pilot of which informed him that there was, in the harbour of Veragua, a ship freighted with more than a million of gold, to which he offered to conduct him, being well acquainted with the soundings, if he might be allowed his share of the prize; so much was his avarice superiour to his honesty.

Yet so much were men's minds daunted by the long habit of slavery that when Messer Luca Corsini broke through the old rule, and, rising to his feet uninvited, began to remark that things were going badly, the city falling into a state of anarchy, and that some strong remedy was required, everyone felt amazed.

However, I had long felt that contempt for popular opinion which every man feels who knows of what miserable materials it is madehow much of it is mere absurdityhow much malicehow much more the frothy foolery and maudlin gossip of the empty of this empty generation.

It is also, I find, a fact that much of the New Forest had been a royal hunting- ground in the Saxon times, and that the afforestation of William is not so much as mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle.

'My physicians try to make me hope, that much of my malady is the effect of cold, and that some degree at least of recovery is to be expected from vernal breezes and summer suns[808].

Much of the human energy that America has displayed in the last century is not a development of new energy but a diversion.

Their rage repress'd, though pinch'd with famine sore, They stand aloof, and tremble at his roar: Much is their hunger, but their fear is more.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service!

So much were his nerves affected by the struggle.

Much of the subject-matter is merely elementary mechanics of materials in general, though written with reference to wood in particular.

Much of it might naturally be put down to the force of first impressions; much of it is the vehemence of an Englishman who claims the liberty of criticising and finding fault at home; much of it was the inevitable vehemence of a reformer.

Much was the hurry and confusion.

The evening was lovely, they wandered about long in delight, and much was the trustful converse they held.

English was spoken everywhereand much of it was the English of the cockney, innocent of the aitch, and redolent of that strange tongue.

Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States?

Much is my wrong; yet I submit with these, Begging free leave to live a private life.

Hunt's view is, in this as in other subtle respects, nearer the truth than Moore's; for with all Byron's insight into Italian vice, he hated more the master vice of Englandhypocrisy; and much of his greatest, and in a sense latest, because unfinished work, is the severest, as it might be the wholesomest, satire ever directed against a great nation since the days of Juvenal and Tacitus.

Much that he gives us in his "General History of the Stage" is only gossip, yet what is there more fascinating than tittle-tattle about players?

Much of all this elegant dabbling in infidelity has been a caprice of fashion.

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