81 Metaphors for four

Four is almost the perfect, you mean another cat?

Among a number of other romances, the four which deal with eighteenth-century Scottish history are the best: Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), David Balfour (Catriona, 1893), and the unfinished Weir of Hermiston, published two years after his death.

(There is a blunder in the statement that of the seven modifications of Matter Science knows only four, and till lately knew only three; these four are sub-states only, sub-divisions of the lowest plane.)

As these four were all very young performers, we made them rehearse many times over, that they might walk in and out with proper decorum; but the performance was stopped before their entrances and their exits arrived.

Ashtavakra said, "Four are the Asramas of the Brahmanas; the four orders perform sacrifices; four are the cardinal points; four is the number of letters; and four also, as is ever known, are the legs of a cow."

A warm affection was all she and her husband could pay such ministration in, and this they paid bountifully; the four became friends.

The other four are air, exercise, sleeping, waking, and perturbations of the mind, which only alter the matter.

And the four became members of that hapless band of fifteen.

One George D. Watt, an Englishman, residing at Salt Lake City, has for his fourth wife his own half-sister, who had been previously divorced from Brigham Young; and one Aaron Johnson, the Bishop of the town of Springville, on Lake Utah, has seven wives, four of whom are sisters, and his own nieces.

Close to him was a group of persons, one of whom was a woman with a basket on her arm, the rest were men, four of whom were tenants of his own, while the others were unknown to him.

There were many other friends, able and talented men, but these four were the chief, and it is curious to note that they were all much older than Airy.

Quoth Robin, "Now will I go to seek this same Friar of Fountain Abbey of whom we spake yesternight, and I will take with me four of my good men, and these four shall be Little John, Will Scarlet, David of Doncaster, and Arthur a Bland.

Four of these were young and beautiful women, none of whom could have attained the age of twenty; yet these females had already devoted themselves to attend on the sick and poor wherever their services might be required, for which purpose they receive a suitable education, in an Hospital at Paris, in such branches of medicine and surgery as may render them useful.

He yelped sharply, and the wolves raced in until four of them were neck-and-neck with him.

And those four down there holding the flags are just privates.

According to the Prosodies, the first four of these may be either dactyls or spondees; the fifth is always, or nearly always, a dactyl; and the sixth, or last, is always a spondee: as, "L=ud~er~e |

"Four, three, two, two, one," were his memory tabulations as he moved down the stream.

The four I have seen are first, the common hunting-whip, which is too well known to require description.

Lady Elizabeth survived him eight years, four of which she was a lunatic; being deprived of her senses by a nervous fever in 1704.

" The "fraternal Four of Borrowdale" are certainly "worthier still of note."

You hit one, an' you've got the rest after ye; an' four to one's a mighty slim chance.

They were all armed and stripped for the pursuit, and four of them, some of whom you know, Adam Johnstone, Adam Haliday, Peter Carruthers, and Joseph Nicholson, being excellent swimmers, plunged at once into the river and swam across, though not without both difficulty and danger, and without loss of time continued the pursuit.

Of the five constructive forms of the soul, which result from the varying relation between stimulus and faculty, four are emotional products or products of moods.

Thus, at the period spoken of, out of seven steam engines known to be in America, four were pumping engines.

Four were grave intestinal cases.

81 Metaphors for  four