84 Metaphors for hours

GOLDEN HOURS is the best, as well as the cheapest, Monthly Illustrated Family Magazine.

The hour we spent sitting around the camp-fire was the most pleasant of that night, though I did not know it then.

Marina had grown more beautiful out of the joy of loving and the increased satisfaction of her religious life, to which she was more than ever devoted; her passion for beauty expressed itself by delight in sumptuous ceremonial, while her love of romance and her unquestioning faith were alike nourished on the legends of the saints which had become far more to her during her stay in Rome, where every hour had been happiness.

The, amount of water yielded every 24 hours is 170,940 gallons.

The hour of return was a matter of no consequence whatever.

The closing hour at the is thirty minutes on account of the rush of Christmas mail.

The hour was eleven in the forenoon, the busiest of the day.

When she was ready to go up to Muro, she knew that without those letters life in such a solitude would be well nigh unsupportable, whereas, being able to look forward to them, and to answering them, her hours of idleness were already a foretasted pleasure.

Perhaps he thought a few wakeful hours were not too high a price to pay for keeping Canton quiet.

Though "long hours" was the gist of the original complaint, low wages have come to be recognized as equally belonging to the essence of "sweating."

It was the "hour of the aperitif"there were still enough people to fill cafe tablesand since Sunday it had been the hour of the German aeroplane.

At three o'clock, that hour when so often a summer's day reaches its stilly climax and the heat-dance becomes a thing visible, West Cabanne Terrace and its kind slip into sheerest and crêpiest de Chine, click electric fans to third speed, draw green shades, and retire for siesta.

But the few hours during which the army halted on Clay hill would have been quite too short time for such an undertaking, which, moreover, would have exhausted the troops.

That hour, 'not without groans and predictions,' became fourand four was long and conscientiously adhered to.

Our half-hour in Soeur Julie's parlour was a wonderful experience!

The death-hour is a great revealer of motives, and as with weaker men, so with Richelieu.

The officer was not easily discouraged; the hours I passed in that little room, with its smoky kerosene lamp, were terrible ones.

We go into his modest abode and listen to his wonderful talk, wishing all the while that the hours were months, that we might linger there, spellbound, day and night, before the master of our English tongue.

"Señors, and Señoras" (so he began), "the hour is now midday, and there are many who have come far and are wearied.

You know how every hour of my life with you has been a torment to me.

After this sentence, in the magazine, came this passage: "O the comfort of sitting down heartily to an old folio, and thinking surely that the next hour or two will be your ownand the misery of being defeated by the useless call of somebody, who is come to tell you, that he is just come from hearing Mr. Irving!

The "one hour of Dundee" was not more wanting to the Stuarts than the one month of Jackson was wanting to us but two years ago.

[Footnote 1: The hour of Longstreet's arrival has been strangely a subject of discussion.

But the hour of publication came; and to half-a-dozen persons, described as the learned world of two hemispheres, it became known that Grampus was attacked.

The hour was the late afternoon, when the red sunlight slanted through the trees and fell in broken masses on the face of the cliff, catching the leaves here and there in its path.

84 Metaphors for  hours