41 Metaphors for bit

In a costly palace, when the brave gallants dine, They have store of good venison, with old canary wine, With singing and music to heighten the cheer; Coarse bits, with grudging, are the pauper's best fare.

The very bit of material which she had hidden underneath a pillow was the cause; and so I answered, "Town-life is so different; one becomes so accustomed to a ring of changes in the all-around of life, that, when in the country, one looks for something to remind one of the life that has been left.

" The bits of paper to which he alluded were a pair of thin-soled white canvas slippersnot at all fitted for walking the eight miles on the hard hot road ahead of me.

Being all of wood, it is easily made by any one who can use a few tools, the only bit of lathe work necessary being the turned shoulder, K, of polar axis.

The bits of sardine were a meal without substance for these bandits that had zest only for food seasoned with assassination.

Bit of Fashion was the dam of Fullerton, who shares with Master McGrath the reputation of being the two best Greyhounds that ever ran.

" "Two-bits is twenty-five cents," I interpreted, seeing the Easterner's mystified look.

The bit should be one inch and seven-eighths round, and five inches in the draw, or between the rings.

They sit almost, but not quite straight, and they have strength enough in their hands to control any of our horses, although they complain that these English bits are poor things compared to the Spanish bit.

Gaffney accepted the commission with alacrity; his brother, he said, was just then out of a job, having lost a clerkship through the sudden bankruptcy of his employers; such a bit of business as that which Mr. Appleyard had entrusted to him was so much meat and drink to one of his tastesin more ways than one.

I became deeply interested in her before I learned that this wan bit of humanity was the once winsome daughter of Commandante Arguello, and the heroine of a pathetic romance of Spanish California's day.

One bit of music was a song Linda had tried to sing and given up because it soared above her vocal range.

Do you know that this is their fourth night of it in succession, and the only bit of change you've been able to give them was sleet instead of rain on the Sunday?"

Therein lay the kernel of the nut, the blossom of the clove: that this bit of the old, old East, inlaid in the heart of the new West was not an "exhibition" like "Japan in London," but a large, busy town, living for itself alone.

Bits of roast meat and roast gravies are especially serviceable material, since they are rich in the flavoring elements of meat.

Let "the bit of green sod under your feet be the sweetest to you in this world, in any world."

A cloud like an angel may be an angel; a bit of crooked root like a man may be a man turned into woodperhaps to be turned back again at its own will.

After you went away it was again taken up, and every bit was eaten"a fact I afterwards ascertained by examining the grave and finding it empty.

'Mr. Scott always seems to me to be like a glass, through which the rays of admiration pass without sensibly affecting it; but the bit of paper that lies beside it will presently be in a blazeand no wonder.'

" This bit of Baconian philosophy, as alike applicable to women, was the subject, not long since, of a conversation with a remarkably gifted Englishwoman.

None but true patriots would have the heart to try it, I thought, and I meditated writing to Washington, where the quadrennial purification of the civil service was just then in progress,under a new broom,to secure, if possible, a few bits of recognition ("plums" is the technical term, I believe) for men so deserving.

Thesemany of them women and childrenwere all clothed in neutral-tinted gowns, the only bit of colour being an occasional note of red or white in the puggaree of the men or skull-cap of the children.

In this particular case Captain Renfrew found every reason to believe that this flaring bit of sumac was the prelude to an elopement.

A particularly picturesque bit of the palace is the N. face overlooking the moat.

"But two bits is the regular price," objected Racey, weakly.

41 Metaphors for  bit