10 Metaphors for belly

John G. Neihardt Belly and the Members, The................. William Shakespeare Be the Best of Whatever You Are............

An empty belly is a bitter thing, although you speak so lightly of it.

If you will needs make me a drunkard against my will, so it is; I'll try what burden my belly is of. BAC.

In the fast coaching days it was a saying among proprietors, that "his belly was the measure of his food;" but the horse's appetite is not to be taken as a criterion of the quantity of food under any circumstances.

" 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.

Accordingly, the members through their own evil state grew conscious that the Belly was the salvation of them and restored to it its nourishment.

His mirth floats eerily down chill corridors; His sighit is a sound that loves a keyhole; His tenderness a faint court-tarnished thing; His wisdom prates as from a wicker cage; His very belly is a pompous nought; His eye a page that hath forgot his errand.

"My belly and back are the belly and back of Sekhet.

The other measured seven inches, and resembled in shape a small fish at home, known to all schoolboys as the prickle-back; it was curiously marked, having five spots nearly black on each side, near the ridge of the back; the ground around them was a dark glossy brown; the belly was a slightly shining white, reaching as far up as the lower line of the eye and the margin of the spots.

GRACE BEFORE MEAT The custom of saying grace at meals had, probably, its origin in the early times of the world, and the hunter-state of man, when dinners were precarious things, and a full meal was something more than a common blessing; when a belly-full was a windfall, and looked like a special providence.

10 Metaphors for  belly