36 Metaphors for host

Our worthy host was a Scotchman by birth, and though he had passed nearly half a century in the United States, he was as thoroughly Scotch in all his ways as if he had just arrived from his native land; and while enjoying his hospitalities, you might have fancied yourself in a Highland laird's old family mansion.

Our host is a physician of the island, English by birth, and retaining his robust form and color in spite of a twenty-years' residence in the warm climate.

My hosts were hospitality itself, and I enjoyed the unexpected greeting.

"Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets.

One night Declan was a guest at the house of a wealthy man who dwelt in the southern part of Magh Femhin; this is the kind of person his host was, scil.:a pagan who rejected the true faith, and his name was Dercan.

The hosts of heaven are adult and over-developed gymnasts.

The host, or perhaps it might have been the hostess, had been told there should be a contrast between the duller light of the reception-room, and the brilliancy of the table, and John Effingham actually hit his legs against a stool, in floundering through the obscurity of the first drawing-room he entered on one of the occasions in question.

Vine's host, tall, with shrewd, kindly face, the stoop of a student, and the short uneven footsteps of a near-sighted man, was the ambassador himself.

But if the characters are unpleasing the craftsmanship of The Magnificent Ambersons is of Mr. BOOTH TARKINGTON'S best, and his description "of the decline and fall of a locally supreme dynasty of plutocrats before the hosts of the Goths and Huns of spawning industrialism is almost a contribution to American social history.

My host was an earnest advocate of the Rebel cause, and had the fullest confidence in the ultimate independence of the South.

No, not exactly a bachelor host, for Lionel Varick was a widower.

He thought she might, perhaps, be a step-daughter of Mrs. Jackson; but how could so coarse a man as his host be the father of such gentleness and grace?

AN HOST Is the kernel of a sign; or the sign is the shell, and mine host is the snail.

But the joint hosts of the fishes may be the mollusca or other creatures on which they feed, and hence the new fields for Atkinson in Nelson's catches.

Bubbles Dunster and I have been spending Christmas in this wonderful old house, Wyndfell Hall, our host being Lionel Varick.

Of every other bird, wild or tame, nothing, unless your host be a mean fellow, but the hinder parts will be served, and enough of them to satisfy everybody.

Near Douglas, where the monarch stood, His bitter speech he thus pursued: 'Lord Marmion, since these letters say That in the North you needs must stay While slightest hopes of peace remain, Uncourteous speech it were, and stern, To sayReturn to Lindisfarne Then rest you in Tantallon Hold; Your host shall be the Douglas bold, A chief unlike his sires of old.

At a private party the host and hostess are sufficient guarantees for the respectability of their guests; and although a gentleman would show a singular want of knowledge of the laws of society in acting as we have supposed, the lady who should reply to him as if he were merely an impertinent stranger in a public assembly-room would be implying an affront to her entertainers.

Her host was her guardian and relative; and through his agency she had rejected, at the age of twenty, numerous suitors for her hand.

AN HOST Is the kernel of a sign; or the sign is the shell, and mine host is the snail.

My hosts were simply the same old persecutors with whom I had already had too much to do.

My host here was a farmer, owning the land he tilled, cultivating it and the moral character and happiness of the little community, in which he moved as a father, with an equally generous heart and hand, and reaping a liberal reward from both departments of his labor.

My host of that evening afterwards became U.S. Senator from Minnesota.

To what a host of living souls is the history of Scotland what the author of "Waverley" makes it!

" Our patriarch host had been a captain in the rebel army until he had his "belly full of fight," as he quaintly termed it.

36 Metaphors for  host