14 Metaphors for manuel

" Dom Manuel looked grave.

" Manuel was "a good boy."

Manuel was an active, intelligent slave in North Carolina.

" "And what are these delights, gray Manuel?

Dom Manuel is the Achilles of Poictesme, as Jurgen is its Ulysses.

Manuel being an emperor, Benjamin names all his great officers kings.

Estada is dead; Manuel is a prisoner.

II No schoolboy (and far less the scholastic chronicler of those last final upshots for whose furtherance "Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters") needs nowadays to be told that the Manuel of these legends is to all intents a fictitious person.

He opened his heart, one night when we were alone together, and told me that when Carlos Pacorra wentand Manuel said the patron would not keep him long, for his insolencehe, Manuel, would be majordomo.

Manuel at twenty was not yet the burly giant he became.

Except in the old sixteenth-century chapbook (unknown to you, I believe, and never reprinted since 1822, and not ever modernized into any cognizable spelling), there seems to have been nowhere an English rendering of the legends in which Dom Manuel is really the main figure.

King Helmas looked at the images, prodded them with a shriveled forefinger, and cleared his throat; and then said nothing, because, after all, Dom Manuel was Count of Poictesme.

Then Dom Manuel, as was his custom, got down upon the floor to slap with his paddle at the intruding foot, and Melicent squealed with delight, and pulled back her foot in time to dodge the paddle, and thrust out her other foot beyond the sill, and tried to withdraw that too before it was spanked.

I How Manuel Left the Mire They of Poictesme narrate that in the old days when miracles were as common as fruit pies, young Manuel was a swineherd, living modestly in attendance upon the miller's pigs.

14 Metaphors for  manuel