10 Metaphors for envelope

The envelope was a declared fraud, and the fraud required no further proof.

The allowance laws may prove the charter of woman's liberties; her pay envelope may become her contract securing the right of self-determination.

But to the naturalist, the envelopes of the egg, which vary greatly in different animals, are mere accessories, while the true egg, or, as it is called, the ovarian egg, with which the life of every living being begins, is a minute sphere, uniform in appearance throughout the Animal Kingdom, though its intimate structure is hardly to be reached even with the highest powers of the microscope.

This envelope would be strong corroboration if it had been itself trustworthy.'

The thing was incredible, that he, Duncan Forbes, tyrant and slave-driver, should be remembered by his victims, yet the envelope was redolent of sympathetic surprises.

She felt instinctively that this yellowish envelope, with its red string and its blotch of red seal, was his sentence and her own.

He convinced himself, by long and patient researches, that the luminous envelope of the great "orb of day" was neither a liquid nor an elastic fluid; that it was in certain respects analogous to the clouds which wreathe our mountain-summits and fertilize our plains; that it floated in the solar atmosphere.

The outer envelope of the body is a deer-skin, probably dried in the usual way, and perhaps softened before its application by rubbing.

But, as I have said, the various envelopes of eggs, the presence or absence of a shell, and the absolute size of the egg, are accessory features, belonging not to the egg as egg, but to the special kind of being from which the egg has arisen and into which it is to develop.

On the cover of my bed an envelope was lyinga telegram.

10 Metaphors for  envelope