99 Metaphors for appearance

" As the captain finished speaking, Hawley, Gull, Noaks, and several other boys sprang to their feet, their appearance being the signal for a fresh outburst of cheers and groans.

The Beethovens had neither kith nor kin in Bonn; the families Ries and Salomon, their intimate friends, were Israelites; hence the appearance of the neighbors, Frauen Loher and Müller, at the ceremony of baptism;a strong corroborative evidence, that No. 515, Bonngasse, was the actual birth-place of Beethoven.

I quietly opened the windows, and when the noxious fumes had passed away, the new principal said: "I feel sure that the pleasant outward appearance of my family here is an expression of the inward goodness and honor of you all, and I am confident that the perpetrator of this disagreeable mischief will take pride in removing suspicion from his companions by rising in his seat and apologizing for his thoughtless rudeness.

But the general appearance of the dried sea-bottom would be a dreary and lifeless waste of sands, gravels, loose boulders, and boulder-bearing clays; and wherever a boss of bare rock still stood up, it would be found ground down, and probably polished and scored by the ponderous icebergs which had lumbered over it in their passage out to sea.

I know that my appearance is the opposite of prepossessing.

The appearance of the north-east part of Melville Island was still very triste, presenting to the eye nothing save patches of mangroves, behind which rose a range of ill-defined hills, 300 feet in elevation.

" "Appearances are oftentimes deceitful," croaked Jones.

Six weeks, and Lesbia's appearance in society had been one perpetual triumph; but as yet nothing serious had happened.

If we cannot amount to much, a good appearance is a consolation, and we love to be reflected in eyes which lend beauty to our mediocrity.

The appearance of an invention like yours on the market would be a very serious matter indeed for us.

But an appearance of uselessness is not always proof of such.

The utmost appearance of revolution which they could endure was a regiment of the National Guard, with their drums at their head; they shrank from the barricade; Right in a blouse was no longer Right, Truth armed with a pike was no longer Truth, Law unpaving a street gave them the impression of a Fury.

It was even said that the appearance of an unusually big bull anywhere was a guaranty that Monarch would be there for the joy of combat with a worthy foe.

EXCURSUS I.ARTHUR'S MAGIC POSSESSIONS Arthur's magic possessions form a prominent element in Welsh tradition, and their appearance in the early chronicles is an important testimony to the diffusion of Welsh legend.

The child who thus early displayed the perversity of his humour by so inopportune an appearance was Laurence Sterne.

The appearance of another ship is a rare occurrence; and the water is so calm that it resembles a stream.

In truth, their appearance was a puzzle, rum-cherry trees as by all tokens they undoubtedly were, till of a sudden it flashed upon me that there were no caterpillars' nests in them!

He did not deny existences, but denied that appearances were real existences.

It was startling to be taught, for the first time, by Heraclitus, that the appearance of stability and permanence which material things present to our senses is a false appearance, and that the world and everything in it are changing every instant.

The colored appearance of the big tracks was obviously a defect of vision in your own eyes produced by excitement.

One of the Buddhist Confucians in whose works this revised version makes its appearance most clearly was Niu Seng-yu, who was at once summoned back to court in 846 by the new emperor.

How they will go on we cannot tell; but if present appearances are any criterion, we are afraid they will not make very rapid progress.

The general appearance should be a bright, indefinite coloration, which is considered especially useful in a hunting dog.

The unforeseen appearance of Beatrice's father on the landing had been a case in point.

* GENERAL APPEARANCE AND DISPOSITIONIn general appearance the Dachshund is a very long and low dog, with compact and well-muscled body, resting on short, slightly crooked fore-legs.

99 Metaphors for  appearance