9 Metaphors for curves

Curves, or marks of parenthesis have been in use for centuries the use of, not to be discarded confused teaching of WEBST.

The curves of dignity and adequacy might be the result of direct estimation.

The sensations of the locomotive engineer, who feels his great machine strain forward over the smooth steel rails, are as nothing to the almost numbing sensations of the automobile driver who covered space at the rate of eighty-eight miles an hour on the road between Paris and Madrid: he felt every inequality in the road, every grade along the way, and each curve, each shadow, was a menace that required the greatest nerve and skill.

The two curves which begin at the upper left hand corner and extend to the lower right are the lines of compression or expansion.

The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough; but when she saw the curve on Zuleika's cheek, she was at a loss: "And since round lines are drawn My darling's lips about, The very Moon looks puzzled on, And hesitates in doubt If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth Be not her true way to the South.

Any discussion which took place on such lines, even although the curves were mere forms of speech, would be real and practical.

Perhaps the most graceful curve of coast line in Dorset is Swanage Bay, and to see it at its best one should stroll across the rising ground of Peveril Point.

And I have bent Frequent regard on women, who gave sign That God willed Beauty, when He drew the line That shaped each float and fold of Beauty's tent; But the soul, drawing up in little space, Thus left the form all staring, self-dismayed, A vacant sign of what might be the grace If mind swelled up, and filled the plan displayed: Each curve and shade of thy pure form were Thine, Thy very hair replete with the divine.

In the large, the curve of his life is the curve of secretion by this gland, both of its Cortex and medulla.

9 Metaphors for  curves