66 Metaphors for graces

And there it stands in the narrow, dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy stranger, an exquisite foreign lady whose grace is a joy to the eye, the incense of whose breath makes the air enamored.

" I always think of that flame in an alabaster vase, when I see him; "one sweet grace fed still with one sweet mind"; a countenance of another sphere: that's Vaughan Rose.

Alfred is one of the most interesting characters in all history for those blended virtues and talents which remind us of a David, a Marcus Aurelius, or a Saint Louis,a man whom everybody loved, whose deeds were a boon, whose graces were a radiance, and whose words were a benediction; alike a saint, a poet, a warrior, and a statesman.

Grace without strength is affectation.

As her Grace was one day rambling in the neighbourhood of Chiswick, she was overtaken by a violent storm, and accordingly took shelter, in a cottage where she happened to be unknown.

The bruising deacon who said that grace was a good thing, but that that knocking down an impertinent member was a better didn't miss the bull's eye of natural philosophy very far.

I shall take a guardian's privilege, though Grace be her own mistress, and give you one solemn piece of advicealways respect the country of the woman you have thought worthy to bear your name.

Grace is a taste of bliss, a glorious gift, Which can the soul to heavenly comforts lift: It will not shine to me, whose mind is drowned In sorrows, and with worldly troubles bound; It will not deign within that house to dwell, Where dryness reigns, and proud distractions swell.

But still the olden grace is there The soft brown eyesthe raven hair The gentle smile of calm delight, That could such peace and joy impart

He says, "he wrote in haste," which he confirms by adding, "that it lay a year after he wrote it before it was put into the press:" At the same time he mentioned a passage extremely to the honour of that pious and excellent prelate, Archbishop Sancroft, which demonstrates his Grace to have been a person of great sagacity, and almost a prophet.

The saving grace in the individual is the divine gift of faith, hope and charity implanted in every soul.

All the grace that will be accorded him, is that she will find a pretext to quarrel with him because he has been less refined with some other woman, and that he will be put to the sorrowful necessity of displaying his high flown sentiments to his titular mistress, and what is admirable about this is, that the excuse for it arises out of the same principle.

What a pity, my dear Lucy, that the graces and virtues are not oftener united!

Grace is all affections, and those once withered, I fear, Miles, the rest of her being will go with them.

Grace and symmetry of form were theirs, and they satiated the eye with outward loveliness; but to the deep fountains of feeling and sentiment, such as a higher faith has unsealed in the heart, they never penetrated.

This superior grace was indeed the most favourite employment of her youth, and in her the most distinguished excellence.

The only saving grace in the scenery is the magnificent rearward view along the vast and slightly curving Chesil Bank which stretches away to Abbotsbury and the highlands of the beautiful West Dorset coast.

But the Archbishop's grace is now his friend, And may, perchance, attempt to do me ill.

To our view, Mrs. Grace is a sort of Mrs. Subtle, but who, with better luck than the housekeeper in the play, marries the old gentleman, and after an odd adventure at a masquerade, buries him in the Abbey Church, Bath.

Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.

Grace, you who are so much at home, must be our cicerone, and tell us which are the idols we are to worship.

"I think her grace is her strong point, 'la grâce encore plus belle que la beauté,' and longer-lived beside.

There was the same retiring bashfulness and the same sweetness of temper as distinguished the baron, and Grace was the peculiar favorite of Emily Moseley.

I told her that Cousin Grace wasn't really Father's cousin at all, so it wasn't any wonder she hadn't ever heard of her.

Lettis was thinking of other qualities than flesh, but the physical Red Saunders on horseback was deserving of a glance from anybody; the massive figure so well poised; the clear cut, proud profile; the shapely head with its crown of red-gold hair; the easy grace of him by virtue of his strengthit would be a remarkable crowd in which Chanta Seechee Red couldn't pass for a man.

66 Metaphors for  graces