42 Metaphors for backs

Since he was a little chap (back of which were the New York memories, vague, but strange and persistent), there had always been some ship for Bedient, but the Truxton was by far the happiest....

The same man hired a black man, and gave him for his daily task, through the winter, to feed the beasts, keep fires, and make one hundred rails: and in case of failure the lash was applied so freely, that, in the spring, his back was one continued sore, from his shoulders to his waist.

I returned to the middle room, and took a seat in one of the oak chairs, whose back of upright rods was my nightly penance.

The street windows were directly in front of him, and back of him was the chair on which the motor-coat had been found.

The nose is pointed, and black at the extremity; above, it is covered with very short, whitish hair inclining to rufous, with a small irregular rufous spot on each side beneath the eyes; the whiskers are black, rather short and scanty; the back of the head is pale rufous brown.

The backs of those sheets, with the stamps and postmarks and the address to me, will be good proof that it is not a hoax.

By far the greater number were women, and the many bent backs and withered faces among them were a pretty safe sign that they had not all come to implore the aid of the Virgin in that special form of domestic trouble from which so many thousands have sought relief century after century in her sanctuary of Roc-Amadour.

she has," rejoined Mandy, sharply, as who should say, "My back is not a true expression of my desires concerning backs.

Then came the emergency signal: "Ninefourteentwenty-twothree!" Back came the pigskin while the middies seemed to throw their bodies toward the right.

The Civil War arose more immediately out of a difference of opinion as to the rights of states to be supreme in certain fields of legislation, but back of this political issue was the economic problem of slave labor.

And back of this was the subtle jealousy of caste.

But back of them, and coaching them, were first and second secretaries and consuls-general and consuls who had been long in the service and who knew the language, the short cuts, and what ropes to pull.

At the city the river was about a mile wide, with a current of four miles an hour, and back of the town was a swamp, draining to the north into Lake Ponchartrain, and to the east into Lake Borgne, which opens out into the Gulf east of the city.

The back, with a well-dressed window on the street, full of toilette articles, was the barber and hairdressing-room, very neatly arranged, with modern set bowls and mirrors, cabinets full of towels, well-filled shelves of all the things that make such a place profitable.

The man's back was dripping blood.

The back of his mind was a black curtain, and on that curtain there came and went a worda word written in letters of fire.

At one time he was tied up by his hands to a tree, and whipped until his back was one gore of blood.

The tug had approached the central pier, to which it was tied, awaiting the services of the electrical locomotives, when back of them came a steamer, one of the first foreign vessels to apply to make the trip through the Isthmus.

" It was almost her old bluff, bullying tone, but back of it was a disorder of stretched nerves.

The murdered slave was disinterred, and an inquest held; her back was a mass of jellied muscle; and the coroner brought in a verdict of death by the 'six pound paddle.'

On the hill, a little back of El Vedado, are two "points of interest" for visitors; the old fortress, el Castillo del Principe, and the cemetery.

The two great draw-backs to this Ski-ing are, firstly, the expense and, secondly, the difficulty of breathing.

The notes were written on the right-hand pages, and when the end of the book was reached, it was 'turned' and the blank backs of the leaves now became clean right-hand pages.

" The God was propitioushe instantly found His ten toes distend and take root in the ground; His back was a stem, and his belly was bark, And his hair in green leaves overshadow'd the Park.

The upholstered furniture became simpler in design; the sofas and chairs have generally, but not invariably, straight fluted tapering legs, but these sometimes have the flutings spiral instead of perpendicular, and the backs are either oval or rectangular, and ornamented with a carved riband which is represented as tied at the top in a lover's knot.

42 Metaphors for  backs