106 Metaphors for mary

It seems that he and Minnehaha had decided that Mary was "no good" in telling stories.

Mary, the elder daughter, was much the superior of her sister, and her marriage with William of Orange was particularly happy.

One would have thought that Mary and he were almost strangers.

"When you think of all the donkeys you played with in your youth" "Mary was not a donkey," giggled Bambi.

"Ma Mary," he said, "I am Ipke.

"Becket" is the best and most ambitious of them, though not, as "Queen Mary" is, a play designed for the stage.

The Scriptural scenes in which the Virgin Mary is a chief or important personage, are the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Purification, the Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, the Marriage at Cana, the Procession to Calvary, the Crucifixion (as related by St. John), and the Descent of the Holy Ghost.

"Well, Mary," would be the greeting of her mistress, while Mary's quiet response would be the Indian greeting of, "Wat cheer!"

Mary was half-impatient, half-reluctantly admiring; not an uncommon mixture of feeling for the extreme forms of virtue to produce.

Mary might have been a unit of marching infantry.

Joseph is seen building up the framework of a house, assisted by an angel; Jesus is boring a hole with a large gimlet: an angel helps him; Mary is winding thread. 10.

" Mary was such a novice that she did not catch the meaning of this on the spot, but half-way to the inn, and in the middle of a conversation, her cheeks were suddenly suffused with blushes.

With the throng the mother follows; Her son she leads with her; and now They both of them sing in the chorus, "Ever honored, O Mary, be thou!" 2 The Mother of God at Kevlaar Is drest in her richest array; She has many a cure on hand there, Many sick folk come to her today.

I wish Mary was home," he added, as he set out some cold meat and bread.

This is the type of face which painters have delighted to give to the Virgin Mary; and, when looking at their Madonnas, one cannot help wondering whether they forgot that Mary was a Jewess.

Oh!" breathed Ally under her breath, "she liked me well enough for this more 'n a month ago!" Uncle John and Aunt Kate and Laura and Maud and Mary were looking on, and they knew what Ally was thinking of,the very words of it,by that sudden radiant smile upon her face; and Mary was so pleased thereat, she had to cry out, "Oh, what a jolly Thanksgiving this is!

They say a certain thingthat Mary is the "second Eve."

Mary was a wonderful contriver, and kept house on the very slenderest funds that could be put into a servant's hands, and she also made the little place so bright and fresh-looking that it was always a pleasure to go into it.

" Lady Mary was no coward, but when she heard that Rémond intended to come to London in connection with this business, she was at first in despair

Plainly Lady Mary was a very, very tired horse.

Charles Lamb's first play was the opera "Artaxerxes;" Mary's may quite well have been Congreve's "Mourning Bride."

'If we are never to find our way down the hill; if this were to be the last hour of our lives, Mary, would you be content?' 'Quite content,' she answered, simply.

That she should provide for little Mary was therefore a thing which nature demanded, and which would hurt nobody.

Lady Mary was an attractive child, and her father was very proud of her, especially when she was in what may be called the kitten stage.

Of course he didn't mean that Mary was savage and inaccessible.

106 Metaphors for  mary