124 Metaphors for e

"'E's no good, 'e's done.

Bill's the fust, but 'e won't be the lastnot by a long chalk.

No 'e ain't no chestnut and never was, no, nor a raspberry roan neither; 'e's a bay.

But 'e's a hexpert, 'e is, an' we 'olds the road.

The odd thing was that men who'd never taken a hare or a pheasant in their lives could 'ardly meet 'is eye, while Bob Pretty stared at 'im as if 'e was a wax-works.

[Footnote E: Chaucer's text is: 'This litel child his litel book lernynge As he sat in the schole in his primere.' Ed.]

] The only thing about 'im that they didn't like was that 'e was a teetotaler.

"'E'S A WONDER AN' NO MISTAKE.

As it was, all 'e got was a black eye for shoving another man, and for a day or two he was so down-'arted that 'e was no company at all for the other two.

"Did you catch sight of his face, Sergeant?" "No, sir, 'e was doublin' away in the opposite direction.

She said "No" at fust, of course, but arter Ginger 'ad pointed out that Joe was at work all day and couldn't take 'er 'imself, and that 'e was Joe's uncle's best pal, she began to think better of it.

'E was worth two men at the lee fore brace, an' three at the bunt of a sail; 'E'd a voice you could 'ear to the royal-yards in the teeth of a Cape 'Orn gale; But now 'e's a full-blown lootenant an' wears the twisted braid, Commandin' one of 'is Majesty's ships in the North Atlantic trade." "And what is the ship you're sailin' in?"

B. Below the lower valve E is another compartment communicating with a pipe called the eduction pipe, which leads downwards from the cylinder to the condenser, in which vessel the steam is condensed by a jet of cold water.

No 'e ain't no chestnut and never was, no, nor a raspberry roan neither; 'e's a bay.

"But I won't 'ave you say anything 'gainst father," said Tilda, taking her up quickly, "for 'e's the best father in the world, if 'twasn' fur the drink.

'E was a grocer.

"'E's a hunchback," said BillI had been too diffident to describe him so.

I tell 'im that if 'e were my equal I would wiz my sword s-spit 'im. Because 'e is canaille

Non eravam partiti già da ello, Ch' i' vidi duo ghiacciati in una buca Si, che l'un capo a l'altro era capello: E come 'l pan per fame si manduca, Così 'l sovran li denti a l'altro pose Là've 'l cervel s'aggiunge con la nuca.

E was an elephant, Stately and wise: He had tusks and a trunk,

'E's a nyture man.

I thing 'e is oneegcellen' drug-clah, ha, ha!" Clotilde replied with a smile of grieved incredulity.

E E E are each priming charges of seven grains of pistol powder, made up in shalloon bags to insure the ignition of the bursting charge, which is in a bag of serge and shalloon beneath.

e is little stimulus for the will; and so our chief concern is the extension of our knowledge.

"Wot the skipper'll say I don't know," said Henshaw; "anyway, it'll be said to you, not" "I'll go and get 'im out if 'e was five madmen," said the cook, compressing his lips.

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