244 Metaphors for lining

Still, their line may be the best.

A weekly journal gravely informs a correspondent that "the line, 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever,' occurs in TUPPER's Proverbial Philosophy.

The black lines on the left were bulrushes.

A photograph of a Cygni, taken November, 26, 1886, shows that the H line is double, its two components having a difference in wave length of about one ten-millionth of a millimeter.

In addition to the pieces already mentioned, by the editor, is one of extraordinary excellencethe Magic Bridle: his Lines to a Boy plucking Blackberries, are a very pleasing picture of innocence: There stay in joy, Pluck, pluck, and eat thou happy boy; Sad fate abides thee.

The horizontal and vertical lines are the measures of volumes, pressures and temperatures.

Lines is a player-word still.]

GUINEA, a name somewhat loosely applied to an extensive tract of territory on the W. coast of Africa, generally recognised as extending from the mouth of the Senegal in the N. to Cape Negro in the S., and is further designated as Lower and Upper Guinea, the boundary line being practically the Equator; the territory is occupied by various colonies of Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, and the Negro Republic of Liberia.

The horizontal axis is AC, and the line itself is ABC, which is roughly normal.]]

The line which we call Hogarth's, but which in reality is as old as human life and its passions, was the key-note of it all.

This line of business was no secret in the community.

His own line was the axiom of his moral existence, his political creed:"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"; and I can fancy no coarser consociation able to win him from this faith.

The line to which Johnson refers is, 'Mel, nervos, fulgur, Carteret, unus, habes,' p. 101.

Lines 9-14 are an invective against the Papacy.

Throughout the day the entire line was a seething caldron, but the new Canadian positions were firmly held as night fell.

I am glad to say that, notwithstanding the curves with a radius of 55 feet and gradients of 1 in 57, this line is also a practical success.

The famous line, "Nil actum reputans si quid superesset agendum," is a fine feature of the real character, finely expressed.

As near as I could make out, the artillery was on top of the hill of Monthyonwhere we saw the battle of the Marne begin, and the line they were observing was the Iles-lès-Villenoy, in the river right at the west of us.

The lines of descent from the Light through the star and sun to planet are "strings.

Crofton Croker called upon Belzoni to ascertain the reason for his abrupt departure from Mr. Murray's, and was informed that he considered the lines to be an insulting allusion to his early career as a showman.

She worshipped Victor Hugo with a passion unreflecting and intense, simply because certain detached lines from his poems were the most splendid occupants of her memory, dignifying every painful or sordid souvenir.

These fire lines or lanes as they are sometimes called, are stretches of land from which all trees and shrubs have been removed.

Under the Master's direction, stout mooring-piles of driftwood were sunk into the dunes, block-and-tackle gear was improvised, and lines were rove to the airship.

His "long line" was a fearful expense; insurance and storage charges were eating rapidly into the profits.

Ten lines ending me, trade, againe, so, thee, worke, way, are, rage, way.

244 Metaphors for  lining