11 Metaphors for bedes

Even so fine a character as Adam Bede, one of the best in all her books, was a workman of limited education and little knowledge of the outside world.

In all strictly historical matters Bede is a model.

Bede, and Chaucer, and Matthew of Paris, and Froissart, are far more redolent of antiquity.

I hungered after great truths: "Middle-march," "Adam Bede," "The Rise and Fall of Rationalism," "The History of Civilisation," were momentous events in my life.

In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name.

I grant that neither Bede nor Gildas are Caesars or Tacituses; but such as they are, they remain the sole testimony on the subject, and therefore must be relied on for want of better: happily, the frivolousness of the question corresponds to the weakness of the authorities.

And while the feeble and "wool-gathering" Seth Bede becomes a convert, the strong-minded Adam holds out, even although he is so tolerant as to marry a female Methodist preacher, and to let her enjoy her "liberty of prophesying" until stopped by a general order of the Wesleyan Conference.

In the first group of novels Adam Bede is the most natural, and probably interests more readers than all the others combined.

And now another work, a longer one, was growing in her mind, Adam Bede, the germ of which, she says, was an anecdote told her by her aunt, Elizabeth Evans, the Dinah Morris of the book.

Never has the lighter and gayer side of Oxford life been depicted with so much humour and fidelity; and what makes this achievement still more remarkable is the fact that Cuthbert Bede (to give Bradley the name which he adopted for literary purposes and made famous) was not an Oxford man.

Adam Bede is the freshest, healthiest, and most delightful of her books.

11 Metaphors for  bedes