104 Metaphors for bills

Buffalo Bill was an adept at slaughtering game on horseback, and he won his great bet at killing the greatest number of buffaloes, by following the custom of the Indians and shooting to the left.

" Bill, (having finished his stick)"You ain't no kind of a man.

Bill was an old, one-legged negro and very superstitious.

"I saw that Mrs. Bill was makin' progress, an' with her assistance I began to hope for better things in that neighborhood.

Bill was an experienced placer miner, so it was not many days before he was asked to help in the actual cleaning of the sluices.

The Reciprocity Bill was not a measure about which any national or even party feeling could be aroused.

They are readily taken all over the world, because all over the world there are people who have payments to make to England owing to the wide distribution of our trade, and it has long been England's boast that bills of exchange drawn on London firms are the currency of international commerce and finance.

No, my dears, Kaiser Bill is a goat, a William goat, with the disposition of a crab, the soul of a monkey and the constitution of a battle tank.

" Laughing Bill had been an attentive listener, now he ventured to say: "I know this Carlisle.

As to the ticket trick, Bill was only a sort of agent in that.

Do you know this bill has been dueoh, for monthsand he forgot it entirely until this evening.

I pointed to the cross-writing on the document, and said deliberately, "This bill is a forgery!"

" CHAPTER II THE WARS OF PEACE "Big Bill" Langdon was the term by which the new Senator from Mississippi had been affectionately known to his intimates for years.

A Bill of Mortality is in my Opinion an unanswerable Argument for a Providence.

Now, that this bill was such a suspension of the long-established rights of the subject, and so far an overstepping of the principles of the constitution, is admitted by the very fact of its framers only proposing for it a temporary authority.

The Tooth-leaved Stork's bill, P. denticulatum, is not a free flowerer, but may with care be made to bloom in April.

The gas bills are a horror to me as it is.

The bill before us whatever may be its title, is, in reality, a money bill; a bill, by which aids are granted to the crown; and we have, therefore, no necessity of rejecting petitions on this occasion, because the standing orders of the house forbid us to admit them.

It has been urged, that there is danger lest this bill should become a precedent.

Calhoun himself maintained that the Compromise Tariff of 1833 was due to the resistance which his State had made, but he also felt that the Force Bill with which Congress had backed up the President was a standing menace, and, as usual with him, he looked forward to impending dangers.

Since then the conviction has become a certainty, and Bill is a grandfather.

The Reform Bill of 1832 was the protest of the middle classes against evils which had been endured for centuries,a protest to which the aristocracy was compelled to listen.

His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill.

The Reform Bill of 1832 was the real beginning of the change.

But, upon my soul, as I said to Blindway just now, I don't know whether that bill's a mere advertisement or adeath warrant!" "Death warrant!" exclaimed Allerdyke.

104 Metaphors for  bills