28 Metaphors for keys

"You'll have to stop here," said the clerk; "my keys are no good here.

The key to this beautiful harmony is the ancient glaciers; where they flowed the trees followed, tracing their wavering courses along cañons, over ridges, and over high, rolling plateaus.

" X SOPHY-AS-SHE-MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN The key to the heart of Paris is love.

A door-key is not Arcadian, Patricia, but it makes a very creditable noise.

This church is usually locked, but the key is next door, on the right, and it has to be obtained because over the right sacristy door is a boy's head by Rossellino, and over the left a boy's head by Desiderio da Settignano, and each is joyful and perfect.

I was cool enough to see that the key of the position was finance, for I knew that Crispi would make short work with the insurrection, and I knew also the full value of all the possible ministers of finance in the country, and their influence abroad.

" CHAPTER III STRIFE AND MEDITATION "God hath treasuries beneath the throne, the keys whereof are the tongues of poets.

She loathed the very thought of itcould no more have touched it than if the ivory keys had been white hot steel.

The keys of the stables, which are now intrusted to Chiffinch, shall be stolenthe horses set freeand the two damsels caught in the trap prepared for them, while the only person blamed in the matter will be Leonard.

The key has been found to set man's moral nature in action, to check and reverse that course of universal failure manifest before; and this key is Christian doctrine.

This easterly key of to-day is shriller, more cheerful, warmer in sound, though the day itself be colder: but grander still, as well as softer, is the sad soughing key in which the south-west wind roars on, rain-laden, over the forest, and calls me forthbeing a minute philosopherto catch trout in the nearest chalk-stream.

The locksmith's swinging key creaked next door to the bank; across the way, crouching, mendicant-like, in the shadow of a great importing-house, was the mud laboratory of the mender of broken combs.

The only key to the present is the past.

WHAT HAD HAPPENED?"] It was troublesome to unlock, because the key was a little rusty, and it was more than evident that the heavy doors had not been opened for some time.

The key to the wine-vault was the only key which was lacking from the bunch left at Miss Cumberland's.

The French were for attacking first the great fortifications on the right or southern bank of the river; but Sir Robert Napier urged that the real key to the enemy's position was the most northerly of the forts, on the left or northern bank.

So here, then, was a knave who held, somehow, the keys to a courtlier and nobler world.

The key to the situation was Russia.

The key to the whole system is thus the unit course of three months' instruction in a single subject.

The eagle on the escutcheon of the city arms indicates its having been an imperial city; and it is believed the key was an adjunct of Pope Martin V., in the year 1418.

The "key" is almost the sole contribution to Mrs. Haywood's bibliography in Bohn's Lowndes.

That skeleton is safely locked in its closet, and the key to that closet is missingmore thanks to you.

It seems to answer to mana in New Zealand and Melanesia, to wakan in North America, and to fée in old French, as when Perrault says, about Bluebeard's key, 'now the key was fée.'

Ellen Key is an essayist of virile power and argumentative breadth, of superior intellect and unfailing erudition.

The keys are four-leaved clovers; They're not so hard to get Just creep about and search them out, And don't mind getting wet;

28 Metaphors for  keys