232 Metaphors for heads

At every trifle scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride, or little sense; Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure the best, Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest.

Ghostly, unbodied heads, like the luminous souls of lost mountaineersfor this was the kind of fiction, got out of the Public Library, that had come last beneath my thumbghostly heads looked down upon us across the gallery rail.

His head was already a greater distance from that of the horse of the colonel, who encouraged me all he could with his voice.

The head was, in fact, a lantern to the paths of the trunk; and thus there were two separated things in one, and one in two; and how that could be, he only can tell who ordained it.

The language of the weeping prophet came also before me"O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people."

The head is concentro-concentric when the eyes look in the same direction as that toward which the head inclines; this expresses veneration.

The male is a fascinating little bird, coal- black above, while his crested head and the body beneath are brilliant scarlet.

The head of it is this: "Adverbs, though very numerous, may be reduced to certain classes, the chief of which are those of Number, Order, Place, Time, Quantity, Manner or Quality, Doubt, Affirmation, Negation, Interrogation, and Comparison."Murray's Gram., p. 115; Comly's, 66; Kirkham's, 86; R. C. Smith's, 34; Hall's, 26; and others.

The head of a department was not so great a personage, in reality, as at the present day, and yet very few men were capable of performing the duties of their position.

The two heads are four inches in length, one inch of which is provided with a screw thread.

Writing to Hamilton he observed: "The heads of departments are chief clerks.

BOLT HEAD is the north-west end of the high land at the south end of TEMPLE BAY.

Then all of a sudden I happened to remember that the Indian's head is the design of the scout pathfinder badge.

Under what three heads are the exceptions to this rule noticed?

The Head is prowlin' about.

So was the head of their own church protected against Gentile shafts by the hide of righteousness and the matted hair of faith.

"The head of it would be an universal monarch.

"They say it is for lectures," replied Porphyry; "I trust there is no truth in the rumour that the head of the Stoics is three parts owner of a lion of singular ferocity.

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.

His head shall be a marriage-gift for your bride, whom you love, and who loves you.

The head of the patriarchal clan is also its priest.

He is one of those handsome, perpetually youthful fellows, whose heads have been a wee mite turned by the sunshine of the world's warm smile.

For instance, the despair and desolation of him who has lost his money, and of him whose head is ill drest, are of different degrees, but the expressions are usually the same.

But I reckon that was partly because she was sort o' on edge yet from the excitement of new housekeepin' and the head o' the table.

There existed a community or commonwealth, of "fallen angels" or spirits, with the various titles of kings, dukes, &c., prelates and knights, of which the head was Baal, "who, when he was conjured up, appeared with three heads, one like a man, one like a toad, and one like a cat."

232 Metaphors for  heads