33 Metaphors for comments

After I have put other friends upon importuning him to publish Dramatic as well as other Writings, he has by him; I shall end what I think I am obliged to say on this head, by giving the reader this hint for the better judgement of my productions: that the best Comment upon them would be, an Account when the Patron [i.e., ADDISON] to the Tender Husband was in England or abroad [i.e., Ireland].

Then he said: "I wonder if ten thousand dollars, and expenses, would paralyze them?" Miss Van Brock's comment was a little shriek of derision.

His comments were a delight, and the conclusion was so purely French in its artless conception that I felt for your innocent blushes.

Still with itself compared, his text peruse; And let your comment be the Mantuan Muse.

But whatever fault we can find with these sketches, we can find none with Mr. Vaughan's reflections on them: What a condemning comment on the pretended tender mercies of the Church are those narratives which Rome delights to parade of the sufferings, mental and bodily, which her devotees were instructed to inflict upon themselves!

" "It was good of her to think of that!" Mr. Spragg's only comment was a sigh.

Both Dravot and Benham fail and the comment of each on his own failure is an autobiography.

An interesting comment on the view is the fact that, in spite of all its horrors, this War has given no attested instance of arrant cowardice on any front.

" Interviewer's Comment This must be Myers Bogan, yet she told me Bogan Myers.

The best comment on the spirit which dictated this resolve is an enactment by the same legislature, abrogating the supreme law which requires us to "Do unto others as we would they should do unto us," and prohibiting every citizen of Ohio from harboring or concealing a fugitive slave, under the penalty of fine or imprisonment.

Ask for a song-book, seek the wild, no time is this for knowledge; The Comment of the Comments spurn, and learning of the college, Be it thy rule to shun mankind, and let the Phoenix monish, For the reports of hermit fame, from Káf to Káf astonish.

Paula's only comment had been a dispassionate prediction that it wouldn't work.

'To leave him awhileI mean to leave him and presently' Lady Dunborough's comment was a swinging blow, which the tutor hardly avoided by springing back.

The unthinking comment on this rise in the cost of shelter is usually condemnation of greedy landlords and soulless capitalists; but is that the whole story?

This sarcastic comment was Bubble's most emphatic negative.

These witnesses need no vouchers to entitle them to credit; nor their testimony comments to make it intelligibletheir names are their endorsers and their strong words their own interpreters.

The Woman, almost rigid, had also been lifted out, and after thawing a little, was busily engaged in applying soothing remedies to a badly scarred cheek and chin; for the Big Man was due at any moment, and his facetious comments on the unpleasant results of her "pleasure trips" had become time-honored, if unwelcome, family jokes.

On the perfect letter which he wrote to Scott, presenting him with his fourth share in "Marmion," the best comment is the equally admirable letter in which Scott returned his thanks.

Mugford's opening comment was certainly worth recording, "I hope she'll accept him.

It is no disrespect to Sir CHARLES WALDSTEIN that his acute and dispassionate comment is not so forcible an argument to hold us unflinchingly to the essence of our task as any page of the manifesto itself.

The only comment made by the Queen Regent was: "Fie, the nasty thing!"

The only comment he made was a sort of internal rumbling, suggestive of the preliminary notice of an earthquake.

A column of twenty-five thousand men, it was said, would be sufficient to carry all before it in Virginia, and capture Richmond, and the comment on this statement had been the battle of Manassas, where a force of more than fifty thousand had been defeated and driven back to Washington.

The intermediate comments, and the last sentence, are undoubtedly the Major's.

But Halkett was still smarting from the indignities put upon him, and his comment was a vindictive threat.

33 Metaphors for  comments