33 Metaphors for library

Her libraries are infinite, her lessons without number, her instruction without comparison, and her scholars without equality.

Vast libraries are the vaulted catacombs of modern times, in which the dead past is laid away, and the living present takes refuge.

His library became another home to her.

No one who loves both books and Nature would ask that question, or need to have explained why a knapsack library is a necessary adjunct of a walking-tour.

All the furniture was piled up in the middle of the rooms, and W.'s library was a curiosity.

Mr. Beauclerk's great library was this season sold in London by auction.

This library was the beginning of the present Philadelphia Public Library.

Bodley's brother did not grumble, there were no children, Lady Bodley had died in 1611, and everybody who knew the testator must have known that the library would be (as it was) the great object of his bounty.

A public library must always be an abomination.

It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense, is quite a modern institution.

His library and collection of other curiosities were of the most considerable, the models of ships especially. October 31, 1705.

The library was a good sized room; good sized at least for a country in which domestic architecture, as well as public architecture, is still in the chrysalis state.

It became also a great intellectual centre, and its famous library was the largest ever collected in classical antiquity.

The library was not an ordinary compilation of the world's thought; it, too, was an attorney's special pleading against the equality of man.

This library in the Bradford house was a never-ending delight to her.

Private libraries came into existence, so that the imperial libraries were no longer the only ones.

His one fault is a fondness for reading, and so a library would be just the thing.

A library of diurnals is a wardrobe of frippery; 'tis a just idea of a Limbo of the infants.

His library was the only lion in our neighborhood.

This library may be about a hundred feet in length, by forty in width.

The libraries and other collections of a university are storehouses of the knowledge already acquired by mankind, from which further invention and improvement proceed.

Had Keith been less honest or more imaginative in what may be called practical matters, his father's regard for authority might have offered more than one chance at liberties now denied, but this possibility never occurred to him, and so the library remained his one avenue of escape.

Libraries were real treasure-houses, instead of being, as now, with the rapid progress of the sciences and the useful and useless accumulation of printed matternothing more than useful store-rooms and useless lumber-rooms.

The library was a library because they told us so, but there were not any books there, only groups of impossible furniture covered with magnificent brocade, and the finest flowers one ever saw, most perfectly put in huge vases by a really clever gardener; no subtle arrangement of colours, but every blossom the largest there could be in nature.

His library was a sanctum to which the curious visitor hardly ever gained admittance.

33 Metaphors for  library