19 Metaphors for denning

, Sandy useter set up all night wid 'er, en den go ter wuk in de mawnin' des lack he had his reg'lar sleep; en Tenie would 'a' done anythin' in de worl' for her Sandy.

Diese Uebersetzung ist dem Verfasser der "History of Spanish Literature", George Ticknor, zugeeignet, der in einem Schreiber au den Uebersetzer die Arbeit "marvellous" nennt und dam fortfaehrt: "Richt das sie die Assonanzen

" "Den all I got to say is dat hit's mighty cole to be a-layin' out in de woods widout no fiah en' widout no kiver en' widout noth'n' to eat.

These dens of iniquity were only too frequently the scene of awful tragedies, and the sawdust floors drank up the blood of many a poor unfortunate.

Den on Chris'mus Eve dey was a big dance an' de white folks would come an' see de one what dance de bes'.

Den whilst dey was a-hollerin' he run away.

Opium dens flourish as a matter of course, for opium and Chinese are synonymous words.

Can ye blame him, Captaine, when such a den of dog whelps Are fosterd here against him?

The den of the stranger is the cabin to his schooner.

The lion's own den proper, then, is a room of about five-and-twenty feet square by twenty feet high, containing of what is properly called furniture nothing but a small writing-table in the centre, a plain arm-chair covered with black leathera very comfortable one though, for I tried itand a single chair besides, plain symptoms that this is no place for company.

At that timenor at that time onlythe 'Den of Thieves,' as Cobbett called our senate, was a cockpit as vulgar and personal as the present Congress of the United States.

" "Den all I got to say is dat hit's mighty cole to be a-layin' out in de woods widout no fiah en' widout no kiver en' widout noth'n' to eat.

The editor's den at Leeds is not the place for lungs bred on Perthshire breezes; and work rises before him, huger and heavier as he goes on, till he drops under the ever- increasing load.

Yes, we still live at the Schloss-Hotel, & shall doubtless continue to do so until the neighborhood of Augustbut I only eat and sleep there; my work-den is the second story of a little Wirthschaft which stands at the base of the tower on the summit of the Konigsstuhl.

The lion's own den proper, then, is a room of about five-and-twenty feet square by twenty feet high, containing of what is properly called furniture nothing but a small writing-table in the centre, a plain arm-chair covered with black leathera very comfortable one though, for I tried itand a single chair besides, plain symptoms that this is no place for company.

An' den a big rain come erlong, an' washed 'im in de crick, 'an eber sence den de water in dat crick's b'en jes' as yer sees it now.

"To those who have any idea how foul a den was then a royal prison, it must appear almost marvellous that Carl Maria should have possessed sufficient equanimity to have occupied himself with his beloved art during his arrest.

Well, you wuz prob'ly 'way ter school den, studyin' ter be a doctuh.

" "Jes' so," said Dick, coming dangerously near smiling; "an' his name den was Oliver Cromwell, an' dey dressed him up in sheet iron.

19 Metaphors for  denning