151 Metaphors for language

The language of the nobility is a kind of music; it is certainly a very pleasant means of expression.

The language of Milton's archdevil 'Evil, be thou my good,' is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other wordsanything for a change.

During this time he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of Cree under Rameses' tutelage, and the more he learned of it the more he saw the truth of what Ransom had told him once upon a time, that the Cree language was the most beautiful in the world.

Can such language be deception? PRINCE.

Its language is 'sorrow,' and it is often seen in burial-grounds and in mourning-pictures.

Public opinion in England, taken as a whole, is decidedly good, and therefore the more the wrong is laid bare the more hope for its correction; but, while admitting this right in its fullest extent, it is under two conditions: one that the author speak the truth, the other that his language be not an outrage on decency or good manners.

The language of this light-hearted and noisy race was Dutch, already corrupted by English idioms, and occasionally by English words;a system of change that has probably given rise to an opinion, among some of the descendants of the earlier colonists, that the latter tongue is merely a patois of the former.

On the other hand, your books are in Castilian and that language is not taughtaetas parentum pejor avis tulit nos nequiores!

Their language is, like the thought and expression of the psalms, the word of a soul praying to God and adoring Him in fervour, in simplicity, and in faith.

Their language is the softest and most copious of all the Indians, and is looked upon to be the radical language; for they can make themselves understood by almost all the other Indians on the Continent.

His language was intense, not clothing new thoughts, but riveting old ideas,the ideas of the Middle Ages; the fear of hell, the judgments of Almighty God.

If the English language were not the stereotyped, inelastic vehicle for the communication of thought that it is we should now be speaking of "automobiling" a shady bill through the city council instead of "railroading" it.

Hence the language is not always a sufficient indication of date, and it is possible that, under a comparatively modern form, some very ancient pieces may have been preserved.

This dead Latin language, introduced into the public life of a living nation, was the most mischievous barrier against liberty.

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THE LANGUAGE OF THE BEASTS Once upon a time there was a man who had much goods.

This artificial language is hardly a link between Osmanli officialdom and the Turkish peasantry of Anatolia, which speaks Turkish dialects derived from tribes that drifted in, some as late as the Osmanlis, some two centuries before.

As the ship is originally wrought from the live-oak forests of Florida and the pine mountains of Norway, the iron mines of England, the hemp and flax fields of Russia, so the language current upon her deck is the composite gift of all sea-loving peoples.

The language he used to me when we fought in that carriage at Montpellier was the slang of the lowest order of Parisian criminal, used spontaneously, under stress of great excitement, with no intent to mislead.

Not a murmur, nor a breath of complaint passed her lips; she possessed her soul in patience, and her language was praise and prayer.

Their language, like the Greek, is a branch of the Indo-European family which is neither Latin, Celtic, Germanic, nor Slavic.

The Siennese language is in fact the identical lingua Toscana in bocca Romana.

""My brother's acquiring [of] the French language will be a useful preparation for his travels.

The language was pure Saxon; even the names of places, which often remain while the tongue entirely changes, were almost all affixed by the conquerors; the manners and customs were wholly German; and the same picture of a fierce and bold liberty, which is drawn by the masterly pencil of Tacitus, will suit those founders of the English government.

To all but the deaf and dumb, written language is the representative of that which is spoken; so that, in the view of people in general, the powers of the letters are habitually identified with their sounds, and are conceived to be nothing else.

151 Metaphors for  language