374 Metaphors for children

"Likely the child will be a perfect heathen after running wild among savages all her life.

The other child was more dainty and determined to get her none but those which were very beautiful.

His children were no good to him.

Hence of all people children are the most imaginative.

The face of the Madonna is already sad and hopeless; but the Child is perhaps the most splendid and determined of any in all Renaissance sculpture.

"Depend on it, Jess," declared Peggy, with conviction, "that child is no more a gipsy than you or I." "Do you think she was stolen from somewhere?" asked Jess, readily guessing the drift of her friend's thoughts.

He set it down before him and said: "Children, in this basket there is bread for you all.

Because then Christ claims the child for His own; because having a name shows that the child is a person who has a soul, a will, a conscience, a duty; a person who must answer himself for himself alone for what he does in the body, whether it be good or evil.

"The Child and His Religion," by Dawson, will be a helpful book to study in connection with this lesson.

An unpractised observer expects the love of parents and children to be constant and equal; but this kindness seldom continues beyond the years of infancy; in a short time the children become rivals to their parents.

My children will be the works I leave behind me.

Contrasted with such young persons, this child looked a strange, unearthly creature,her large, dark gray eye full of inspiration, and every movement of her frame and tone of her voice instinct with delicate energy.

Little children are good detectives, like the sun that photographs hidden virtues and failings in the human face, so a child's intuition brought from the heaven they have so lately left, takes the best impressions of a person's real character.

While the other children had been a torment and disgrace, Hubert had been to his parents a consolation and a blessing.

The following fact will shew what extensive depredations young children are capable of committing.

The children of Israel are his speciality.'

As he does so the child becomes the goddess Devi and exclaiming that Kansa's enemy is born elsewhere and nothing can save him, vanishes into heaven.

She beckoned the Jew towards her, and whispered: "Child or woman?" "Child in years," was the answer; "woman in self-reliance and trial.

"An only child, is one who has neither brother nor sister; a child alone, is one who is left by itself"Blair's Rhet., p. 98; Jamieson's, 71; Murray's Gram.

A singular want of accuracy characterises all the records, but it is safe to say that her children were some eighteen or nineteen in number.

Though he himself had received little or no education, he quite saw the value of it, and was determined that his children should be abreast of the times.

The child who understands, from the beginning, that work is the law of life, the one who knows, from an early age, that he will gain his bread only by the sweat of his browa Bible precept which is the rule of humanitythat one is probably intended for great things; for some day he will have, with the will, the strength to accomplish them.

In the very year when Byron witnessed the collapse of the Carbonari rebellion, Leopardi, as Mr. Trevelyan tells us, wrote to his sister on her marriage: "The children you will have must be either cowards or unhappy; choose the unhappy."

So, on the side of us Germans, the children were likewise accustomed Daily to bring to their parents, with kissing of hands and with curtseys, Morning

The child that had taken her strength became the virtual passion of her worship, which she would share with no one.

374 Metaphors for  children