21 Metaphors for bags

An india-rubber bag, filled with hot water, to lower down your back, is a great comfort.

I caught the sextant as it passed by me; but the saddle-bags became the prey of the whirlpools.

The 4th Light Horse Brigade's captures in the charge were 58 officers, 1090 other ranks, and 10 field guns, and the total 'bag' of the Desert Mounted Corps was 70 officers and 1458 other ranks.

Capacious canvas kit-bags are excellent things for cramming with grist for the dobie's mill.

The leather bag was too clumsy a burden to conceal; besides, Feltram knew all about the transaction, and Sir Bale had no need to make a secret.

Almost delighted enough with her capture to forget, if not forgive, her fugitive fellow-servant Bridget, the florid and fat Aunt Peggy Muldoony hurried along as if the bag were a feather, her words flowing like a spring flood, and introduced her charge at a postern-door into her own house, as she called it.

"Bon, brave Etooelle," he said, "your bags of bullets were welcome friends, and they arrived at the right moment.

The bag was a luxurious trifle in Brazilian lizard skin, with solid-gold mountings; but again there was no clew to the owner, no name, no cards, only some samples of dress goods, a little money, and an unmarked handkerchief.

The bags should be approximately 35 x 50 cm and should weigh 150 gms each.

Occasionally the girls were left to choose between a book and a work-bag, and although the bag might be gaudy and tempting, they invariably took the book.

"The garbage bag is a good idea.

When this was done, the bag containing the gold did not differ in appearance from the others, and the captain again assured himself that the additional weight would not be noticed by a common stevedore, especially if all the bags were about the same weight.

Our bags are the size, and, I imagine, the consistency, of blocks of wood.

No, Siryou do not like mea canvas Bag of wooden Ladles were a better Bed-fellow.

"For," says he, "if we say was stolen, it is possible for us to mean, that the bag only was stolen,"English Gram., 246.

I saw a man as low as his waist and fired; almost at the same moment my sand-bag was struckthe second one on my right, which protected that flank, and which the bullet, coming from the left oblique, struck endwise; the bullet passed through, the length, of the bag and went on into the wall of the gully.

I saw a man as low as his waist and fired; almost at the same moment my sand-bag was struckthe second one on my right, which protected that flank, and which the bullet, coming from the left oblique, struck endwise; the bullet passed through, the length, of the bag and went on into the wall of the gully.

Our bag during this lucky day, including the tigress killed by my shot on the river bank, was as follows: three tigers, one boar, four deer, including the young one taken alive, eight sandpipers, nine plovers, two mallards, and two teal.

And that old cowskin bag is not Sir George's.

The bag was a little cumbersomeit contained a large parcel of bulbs from Covent Garden that Grayson had asked me to bringand yet it was pleasant to break off from the high road and stray by well-remembered tracks and footpaths across the fields.

Gunny-bag was, I think, the material.

21 Metaphors for  bags