40 Metaphors for date

" Lyndhurst itself, as we see it to-day, is devoid of interest; even the church dates but from 1863, and its greatest treasure is the wall- painting by Lord Leighton of the Wise and Foolish Virgins in the chancel.

This, though it may be very convenient to the writer, and quite indifferent to the reader, of an historical romance, is perplexing to any one who might wish to read and weigh the book as a serious history, of which dates are the guides and landmarks; and when they are visibly neglected we cannot but suspect that the historian will be found not very solicitous about strict accuracy.

11.In dates, as they are usually written, there is much abbreviation; and several nouns of place and time are set down in the objective case, without the prepositions which govern them: as, "New York, Wednesday, 20th October, 1830."Journal of Literary Convention.

The date was the night of Alice's death.

The total thus reached must be corrected by deducting "1" (first adding 7, if the total be "0"), if the date be January or February in a leap year; remembering that every year divisible by 4 is a leap year, excepting only the century years, in new style, when the number of centuries is not so divisible (e.g., 1800).

The Constitution of the United States requires that this enumeration should be made within every term of ten years, and the date from which the last enumeration commenced was the first Monday of August of the year 1820.

[Footnote 194: Evidently the date July 17 is a misprint for July 27.]

Dates and salt are the chief products; the giraffe, wild ass, lion, ostrich, python, &c., are found; it is chiefly inhabited by nomadic and often warlike Moors, Arabs, Berbers, and various negro races.

As for its other name of Polymond, it would seem to get it from that John Polymond, who, in the fourteenth century, from which time the tower, as we see it, dates, was nine times mayor of Southampton.

And there, in the other, was the private account, crossed off also; the date of settlement being the very day after the loss of the cash-box.

The date of his assignment to duty was June 3, 1862three days after General Johnston had retired in consequence of his wound.

The dates are almost the only food here, and the streets are literally gravelled with their stones.

The exact date of the recommendation by Father Paul and the divines should have been given;then the date of the public annunciation of the reconciliation between the Pope and Venetian Republic; and lastly the day on which Wotton did present the book;for even this Burnet leaves uncertain.

As the date was August it is likely they are always so covered, which would make their probable altitude above the river 5,000 feet or more.

ARUNDEL MARBLES, ancient Grecian marbles collected at Smyrna and elsewhere by the Earl of Arundel in 1624, now in the possession of the University of Oxford, the most important of which is one from Paros inscribed with a chronology of events in Grecian history from 1582 to 264 B.C.; the date of the marbles themselves is 263 B.C. ARUNS, son of Tarquinus Superbus, who fell in single combat with Brutus.

The date of the real Heliodorus is perhaps the end of the third or the first half of the fourth century after Christ.

The date we have just named was a period fraught with the deepest interest to the British possessions on this Continent.

This date must be a slip, since it was not till 1615 that the king was at Cambridge.

Its original date may have been the sixth century of our era, about five hundred years before the production of the "Thousand and One Nights.

[I assume the date of this note to be summer, 1821, because it was then that Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, the London Magazine's first publishers, gave it up.

The date is Saturday, May 28, by which time Tommy had been a week in Thrums without doing anything very reprehensible, so far as Grizel knew.

The cocoa-nut, date, and sago, are all palms.

[The date of this note is pure conjecture on my part, but is unimportant.

In some of the smaller towns the dates for changing servants are April 14 and October 14.

But it is certain that the fragment on the immortal boy of Windermerewhom its cliffs and islands knew so wellwas written in 1798, and not in 1799 (as Wordsworth himself states); because Coleridge sent a letter to his friend, thanking him for a MS. copy of these lines, and commenting on them, of which the date is "Ratzeburg, Dec. 10, 1798.

40 Metaphors for  date