28 Metaphors for limbs

Her limbs were so dainty and gracefulmine so big and unmanageable!

Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

These limbs, and this trunk, are a cumbrous and unfortunate load for the power of thinking to drag along with it; but why should not the power of thinking be able to lighten the load, till it shall be no longer felt?These early modes of reflection were by no means indifferent to my present enquiries.

As the robe fell, they beheld a figure clad in crimson velvet and corselet of burnished gold; the figure of a man whose superb limbs had been the envy of the swordsmen of Italy; whose face, lighted now with a sense of power and of victory, was a face for which women had given their lives.

A child was born in another country, and the tender eyes of his mother saw that his limbs were misshapen and his life-blood a sickly current.

Samuel Butler once noted that: "All our limbs and sensual organs, in fact, our whole body and life, are but an accretion round and a fostering of the spermatozoa.

His limbs were long, and large and round; He whispered, winkeddid all but shout: A healthy man for the sick to view; The taste in his mouth was sweet at morn; Little of care he cared about.

A POOR MAN Is the most impotent man, though neither blind nor lame, as wanting the more necessary limbs of life, without which limbs are a burden.

These limbs are God's, not yours: in life for you They spent themselves; now till the judgment-day By virtue of the Spirit embalmed they lie Touch them who dare.

She knew little about disease and it seemed wildly impossible to her that this limb of hers which had been so strong and supple a month ago would become an agent of death if not amputated.

She seemed to have grown still thinner, all the flesh had disappeared, her limbs were now only bones covered with parchment-like skin; and her keeper, the stout fair-haired girl, carried her, fed her, took her up and laid her down as if she had been a bundle.

Morning, noon, and night the eaves of the shacks dripped steadily, the gaunt limbs of the hardwoods were a line of coursing drops, and through all the vast reaches of fir and cedar the patter of rain kept up a dreary monotone.

Do I despise the timid deer, Because his limbs are fleet with fear?

Their limbs are long, thin, and flat, with large bony knees and elbows, a projecting forehead, and pot-belly.

His limbs were long, his hands bony and strong.

Those limbs would certainly be good capital for you, if you turned a live model at the Academy.

The beautiful limbs of the boy-god droop in the repose of slumber, as his head rests on his mother's knee, and there is a smile lingering around his half-parted lips, as if he was dreaming new triumphs.

The limbs of his Venus are more thorough theses than those which the German monk pasted on the church door of Wittenberg.

If the fore-limb is the seat of trouble, either plantar or median neurectomy may be practised; if the hind, then the best results are obtained by section of the posterior tibial.

His heart is a watch to his eye, his wit a door to his mouth, his soul a guard to his spirit, and his limbs are but labourers for his body.

In what is my Lord Charles defective, Sir? unless deep Learning be a blemish in him, or well proportion'd limbs be mulcts in nature, or, what you only aim'd at, large Revenues, are, on the sudden, grown distasteful to you.

THE MEAT ON THOSE PARTS OF THE ANIMAL in which the muscles are least called into action, is most tender and succulent; as, for instance, along the back, from the rump to the hinder part of the shoulder; whilst the limbs, shoulder, and neck, are the toughest, driest, and least-esteemed.

Though spirits, yet their limbs, we know, Are huge substantial masses.

Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Cousin Benedict, whose long limbs were like steel and defied all fatigue, was ready to set out.

28 Metaphors for  limbs