20 Metaphors for holmes

Holmes was Edward Holmes (1797-1859), a pupil of Cowden Clarke's father at Enfield and schoolfellow of Keats.

" That brought an added flush to the color in Laura Bentley's face, and her eyes sparkled her gratitude, for Dick Prescott, now at West Point with his chum, Greg Holmes, had been her High School sweetheart, and doubtless was to become her Army sweetheart after he had made sure of his career.

Holmes was musical critic for The Atlas.

Jerome Holmes was the friend of my boyhood and manhood; he sinned and he suffered for it; his story does not belong to your generation.

John Holmes was her junior by three years, yet he had constituted himself friend, brother, guardian, and sometimes, he told her, she treated him as though he were her father, beside.

It seems so queer at the table with Linnet gone and two strangerswell, Mr. Holmes isn't a stranger, but he's a stranger at breakfast time.

John Holmes, and, after completing his studies, became Mr. Holmes' law-partner.

Holmes and Lowell were the antitheses of the New England intellect, and this more in their personality than in their writing.

ing again? John Holmes was a hermit, but he was a hermit who loved boys; girls were too much like delicate bits of china, he was afraid of handling for fear of breaking.

Mr. Holmes was a cheerful companion at first, but gradually he grew melancholy, and at times inapproachable.

Holmes was a teacher of physiology, and his study of that branch of medical science was in itself enough to convince him of the doctrine which he inculcated.

Mr. Holmes was an elocutionist and had taken great pains with Hollis Rheid's voice.

Jerome Holmes was president of a bank in this city.

'The Achates:' Sir Robert Holmes was rear-admiral of the white.]

And Mr. Holmes, having been a fifteen-year-old boy himself, will wink at any previous knowledge of such connivings, and say 'Yes,' as innocently!

Dr. Holmes was already an author of more than a quarter of a century's standing, and was looked on by most people as an amusing writer merely.

"Greg Holmes is a pretty handy man on the football field," retorted Darrin warmly.

Captain Holmes was the master of a trading sloop that sailed between Boston and Delaware Bay.

Frederick Locker-Lampson in the preface to the first edition of his Lyra Elegantiarum (1867) declared that Holmes was "perhaps the best living writer of this species of verse."

In those years Dr. Holmes was himself an enthusiastic oarsman and that night whom should we encounter alone in his little skiff but the Autocrat himself, out for his pleasure; he was plainly recognisable, though in most informal athletic dress, and as we sped past him a few rods away, Eliot from the stroke shouted a greeting over the water.

20 Metaphors for  holmes