66 Metaphors for guests

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It seemed to them still more attractive that these guests should be English, and I expect that it was Ivan Petrovitch who emphasised this.

This last self-invited guest was Brad Stearns, who had not ridden to Whoop-Up as he had announced, but had watched events from a distance on the chance that he might be of help to Tom Morse.

The guests of the night were mere puppets, having no real connection with the game being played, utterly ignorant of what was going on behind the scenes.

His position, once the honoured guest at Glencardine, was the most ignominious conceivable.

That last guest was Frances Maury, escorted by a glum David.

Her self-invited guest was Whaley.

The first guest to be admitted, when at last he chose to rise, was Littleson.

XXVII No Hebe fair stood Cup Bearer there, The guests were their own skinkers; But Bishop Judas first blest the can, Who is of all Hell Metropolitan, And kiss'd it to all the drinkers.

But his chiefest guest is a customer, which is the greatest relation he acknowledges, especially if you be an honest gentleman, that is trust him to cozen you enough.

Our guests are Americanos; our guests, who are our friends," she stated gently, looking at José.

The guests who assembled in its halls were leaders in that intellectual movement which was destined to spread a new type of culture far and wide over the globe.

And they said, "That poor guest whom you talked with last night was Ulysses.

Now the guests at the hospitable home were a mother and seven children, from England, who, meeting with disappointments, had become reduced to poverty.

"The guests are all the members of the Flying Legion!" answered the Frenchman, with another draw at his indispensable cigarette.

But these guests would be the legal authorities, who were to be his heirs while he was yet alive, and who were to consign his name to oblivion before death had inscribed it on any tomb-stone.

You know that rule as well as I. The guest is rightalways.

The hooting guest His self-importance thus express'd: 'Reason in man is mere pretence: How weak, how shallow is his sense!

The guest is the ass of the inn-keeper.

The fine guest who had lived so long at the auberge and drank so much good wine, which was as fine as any in New Orleans, without expense, was as sore a memory to the poor landlord as to the rich landowner.

During the first there is a period when the host and guest meet on a footing of equality; during the second the guest is something less than a nonentity, an humble suitor at the monarch's throne; during the third the conditions are reversed, and the guest is lord of all he is willing to survey.

The guests being entertained were evidence of that; yet this secret entrance into his private apartment at such an hour suggested theft, or even some more desperate crime.

How could she, how could she, when over the wild regrets and bitter resentments there kept rising and rising a flood of earlier memories of an earlier time when this guest had been a welcome guest indeed, and she had heard again and again those very words, "I'm so glad to come"?

Were a stranger to the institution of slavery to learn, in answer to his inquiries, that "an abolitionist" is "an outlaw amongst slaveholders," and that "a slaveholder" is "the kindly entertained guest of abolitionists,"here would be a puzzle indeed.

I have seen a supper party under my father's roof where our guests were two fencing-masters, three professors of language, one ornamental gardener, and one translator of books, who held his hand in the front of his coat to conceal a rent in the lapel.

66 Metaphors for  guests