104 Metaphors for folks

I don' know is you evah notice, but folks is mighty diffrunt 'bout seem' dese ole things.

What I know 'bout votin'? "Well, I tell you, these young folks is cautions.

Right up to the topmost benches the folk were bankedbroadcloth in front, corduroys and fustian behind; faces turned everywhere upon him.

"My white folks was Ad White what owned me.

" "Still, the folk are Arabs there, too.

Oh, white folks was the devil in slavery tines.

The old folks weren't any stupider than we.

'On my soul, my lord,' answered Bayard, 'so far as I can hear, there are fourteen or fifteen hundred men-at-arms and sixteen or eighteen thousand foot; but they are all picked men, who are resolved to busy themselves so well this bout that they will assure the state of Milan to the king our master; and meseems, my lord, that you would surely be in as great safety in Germany as you are here, for your folks are not the sort to fight us.'

At last, when the whole family had arrived, the folks of the brake and the pedestrians also, there came a rather sharp explanation.

Sing though in quavering sharps and flats, Love though the folk you love are cats, Work though you're worn and wearythat's The attitude.

Scold them sharply, and perhaps let them smart a while for their indiscretion and disobedience; and then kiss and make it up, remembering that young folks will be young folks, and that love has its own law and logic.

Folks is one thing an' ghos'es" "Ghosts!

" "Oh," she resumed, as soon as she could be heard, "white folks is werry kine.

" "When their betters love the Rules, then the folk are easy tools," was a saying of the Master.

We could not help comparing it to the long wide, desert we had crossed, and John and myself said many times how we wished the folks were here to enjoy the pleasant sight, the beautiful fertile picture.

Folks is the ones making times so hard.

And the folk are no longer savages.

My daddy's white folks were named JordanJim Jordanand my mama's folks were Jim Underwood.

And men seyn, that the folk that kepen tho trees, and eten of the frute and of the bawme that growethe there, lyven wel 400 zeere or 500 zere, be vertue of the frut and of the bawme.

Folks is one thing an' ghos'es" "Ghosts!

"I reckon any man is an officer when wimmin-folk is gettin' robbed.

The only happy folk were, the slaves, the whites were in distress.

The Northern Elf-folk were true natives of the soil, grotesque in costume and shape.

My white folks was de Abernathys.

"To ransom captives and enrich the meaner folk is a nobler form of generosity than providing wild beasts or shows of gladiators to amuse the mob".

104 Metaphors for  folks