47 Metaphors for flesh

The maritime Laplanders feed on fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog, fish-livers, and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty provision; they are even aspiring to the rank of the interior inhabitants, whose nutriment is of a more delicate description, being the flesh of all kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and birds of prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty.

FOWLS AS FOOD.Brillat Savarin, pre-eminent in gastronomic taste, says that he believes the whole gallinaceous family was made to enrich our larders and furnish our tables; for, from the quail to the turkey, he avers their flesh is a light aliment, full of flavour, and fitted equally well for the invalid as for the man of robust health.

But thou wilt not believe me until thou shalt have filled the plain with blood, and the river carries into the great sea, from the fruitful land, many thousands of your slain countrymen, and thy flesh becomes a prey for fishes, birds, and beasts inhabiting the earth.

My shaking flesh be thou a Witness for me, With what unwillingness I go to scourge This Rayler, whom my folly hath call'd Friend; I will not take thee basely; thy sword Hangs near thy hand, draw it, that I may whip Thy rashness to repentance; draw thy sword.

Flesh on a Friday is more abomination to him than his neighbour's bed: he more abhors not to uncover at the name of Jesus than to swear by the name of God.

I say our flesh, our animal nature, is selfish and self- indulgent.

The flesh is not a stork among the cranes.

Without doubt, the flesh of game fowls is every way superior to that of every chicken of the family.

He had thrown Mill's grenades at manikin "enemies," but never had he hurled them where human flesh was the target.

But it will serve as well as any other), There be coarse souls to whom all flesh is game, Who do not hail thee as a new-born brother But merely as a thing at which to aim Their fratricidal guns; they simply smother The sense, which I for one cannot eschew, Of soul relationship 'twixt man and gnu. 'Tis not,

Mortal flesh, is not your place in the ground?

Its flesh, however, is savoury, being not so gross as that of the goose, and of easier digestion.

Nothing, my dear Atterley, is more true than the saying of your wise bookthat all flesh is grass; and it always takes the same quantity of one to make a given quantity of the other, whether that given quantity may be in the form of a single individual, or two or three.

But with our poetand we have been exceptional in our choicehe has always been backward in coming forward, and it was not until he was touched upon a tender point that he concluded to make himself heard, when he might depict, in glowing terms, some of the few ills which flesh is heir to.

If the skin is difficult to be taken off, and the flesh looks grey, it is good.

According to old poets the flesh of this noble bird is "food for the brave."

al flesh is grasse and some of us must needes be scorcht in this hote Countrey.

Why, what is that but saying, that you ought to do just what your body likes: that you are debtors to your flesh; and that your flesh, and not God's law, is your master.

He is very thin, but his flesh is all the more sound and wholesome.

The blooming rosy flesh in the pictures of Titian is all Protestantism.

AGE AND FLAVOUR OF CHICKENS.It has been the opinion of the medical faculty of all ages and all countries, that the flesh of the young chicken is the must delicate and easy to digest of all animal food.

Flesh and blood may be the author of this; one man may give another an affecting view of divine things but common assistance: but God alone can give a spiritual discovery of them.

Hoss flesh is cheaper'n your own hides.

We are sent as so many soldiers into this world, to strive with it, the flesh, the devil; our life is a warfare, and who knows it not?

Horse-flesh and steam were the only means of transmitting intelligence.

47 Metaphors for  flesh