50 Metaphors for adams

(Adam was an Abolitionist.)

I mean that where the Serpent is describ as rolling forward in all his Pride, animated by the evil Spirit, and conducting Eve to her Destruction, while Adam was at too great a distance from her to give her his Assistance.

Almost from the first it is evident that Adam, the village judge, is himself the culprit in the case at trial in his court, and the comic efforts of the arch-rascal to squirm out of the inevitable discovery only serve to make his guilt the surer.

It is there written, he called their name Adam; but Adam and man are one expression in the Hebrew tongue: moreover, both together are called man in the same book, chap.

The stately trees along the banks, old when Adam was a baby, were covered with flowering vines of wondrous beauty and fragrance; then vast orange groves appeared covered with blossoms, small and ripe fruit all at the same time; numerous herds of cattle standing knee deep in the water, leisurely browsing upon the river plants both on the surface and under the shallow river.

" "Well, Adam truly was a Crystal Palace when he was first created, but he soon became opaque, and lost his purity, transparency, and beauty, all at once.

If we may trust tradition, the race has undoubtedly been tapering down from century to century since the Creation, so that the original Adam must have been more than twice the size of the Webster statue.

If your Adam is very careless about these matters you may depend upon it that when he was growing up his mother was either dead or careless or tactless; and you may safely suspect that Adam in his previous state of existence was a forlorn old bach.

Adam is a great theorizer; he will gaze at an apple and tell you that he ought not to eat it, and why not; he will even amble long and wishfully about that apple; but it takes Eve to wake in him the living impulse to take it.

A tolerably modern artist would have been satisfied with tempering certain raptures of connubial anticipation, with a suitable acknowledgment to the Giver of the blessing, in the countenance of the first bridegroom; something like the divided attention of the child (Adam was here a child man) between the given toy, and the mother who had just blest it with the bauble.

If Adam is the nobler character, the truer type of man, Felix represents a larger social purpose and has higher moral aims.

He gave her a keen, kind glance out of the "fine gray eyes," a little bow, and a grateful smile, saying quietly,"Then my Adam is not a failure in spite of his fall?" Psyche turned from the sculptor to his model with increased admiration in her face, and earnestness in her voice, as she exclaimed delighted, "Adam!

Adam is the mythical first ancestor of the Hebrews, but he died, [Greek: uper moron], and was not worshipped.

Every Eve is Adam at heart, and every Adam is Eve; and what in sauce for Adam will prove equally effective with Eve.

When Adam was an hundred and thirty years of age, Cain slew Abel his brother.

Thus the garden of Eden was beautiful, but Adam and Eve in the garden were the glory of the garden, the highest significance of its beauty, the voice by which relatively dumb beauty got a step farther in expressing itself.

Adam and Eve, before the Fall, are a different Species from that of Mankind, who are descended from them; and none but a Poet of the most unbounded Invention, and the most exquisite Judgment, could have filled their Conversation and Behaviour with [so many apt ] Circumstances during their State of Innocence.

"By virtue of Adam's being their public head."Ib., ii, 233.

APPENDIX I SOVEREIGNTY OF THE ORDER There can be no doubt whatever that, after 1530, the Order was no longer independent and sovereign, and that L'Isle Adam, despite all his efforts, had become a feudatory, though the service demanded was very slight.

" Sitting there in the evenings, Adam was the talker: such a fund of anecdote he had!

If he consoled himself with the fact that Eve had out-argued Adam, he was mentally confronted by the reflexion that Adam had been a layman, and had not been called upon to sustain the dignity of a cardinal and an archbishop.

Adam was a native of the West Coast of Africa, and when quite a young man was attracted one day to a large ship that had just come near his home.

Of about the same age as John Adams was Patrick Henry, of Virginia, a born orator, but of limited education.

Mr. Adams was five years in America, and he is now completing the tenth year of his career as a regular Wesleyan minister.

JEAN ADAMS THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE (c. 1771) ROBERT FERGUSSON THE DAFT DAYS (1772) ANONYMOUS ABSENCE (c. 1773?)

50 Metaphors for  adams