76 Metaphors for moments

There was such a freshness about this strong young life, as if every moment were a separate joy.

To this retreat, situated in the then rural neighbourhood adjoining Holborn, Sir Jocelyn, as we have said, daily repaired, and the moments so spent were the most delicious of his life.

What matter that she had collapsed for a moment when he came on her in the woods; the little moment of shamewhat was the good of that when it all passed off so soon?

The literally present moment is a purely verbal supposition, not a position; the only present ever realized concretely being the 'passing moment' in which the dying rearward of time and its dawning future forever mix their lights.

It is so true, that "the very first moment is the easiest for obedience."

This moment is thy time to sing, This moment I attend to praise, And set my numbers to thy lays.

Jane knew, both by her own feelings and by all the legends of love from its earliest days, that the moment of parting was generally a crisis in affairs of the heart, and, with a backwardness occasioned by her modesty, had rather avoided than sought an opportunity to favor the colonel's wishes.

Then let the grave moment that gently ushers us in be a long-ago afternoon in the Louisiana Delta.

That moment was the beginning of her sacrifice, the sacrifice she shared in common now with thousands of other women.

In his case, the flying moments are the enemy, and bad stock and bad debts are the tares.

" Interviewer's Comment I'll bet the grandest moment in the life of Sister Alexander's mother was when her mistress said, "Agnes, will you follow me if I buy your husband?"

The moment was opportune, but the would-be assassin had no arms ready.

The moment, however, that nobility becomes the object in any action, that moment the nobleness of the action vanishes.

It is the only moment of their dim lives when they can feel the breath of the infinite within them,and this moment is their annihilation.... Is this a way to make the best of life?...

The surface of the ground in the line of fire, soon became covered with smoke, which every few moments was rent by a whistling ball.

Souf, An' de banjer is a-ringin', 'Weh down Souf; An' my heart it is a-sighin', Whil' de moments am a-flyin', Fur my hom' I am a-cryin', 'Weh down Souf.

He knocked out every round of the ladder but the highest, and then, pointing to its hopeless splendor, said to the world, "Go up thither and be saved!" Short of that absolute self-abnegation, that unconditional surrender to the Infinite, there was nothing meritorious,because, if that were commanded, every moment of refusal was rebellion.

Now, retracing stage by stage the record of the day, Sofia became aware that its most poignant moment for her was actually the present, with its keen wonder that she had contrived to survive such exquisite tedium.

Let this moment be the seal of peace, the death of feud, the unification of the North and the South.

The moment an emotion, especially a religious emotion, becomes an institution, it somehow loses life.

Although my courage indeed has never failed; what has been unfavourable is the time; and the moment that that has appeared to show any dawn of light, I at once have been the leader in the defence of your liberty.

And yet I cannot doubt thee; if e'er suspicion's breath Should chill my heart, that moment would be Vindaraja's death.

That moment was the happiest of her short and innocent life!

Psychological moments are for me a fascinating study.

The moments when he was moved by a vague affection for his home, or his mother, were seldom the actual moments which he devoted to correspondence; and the passing ideas of the moment were all Peter knew how to convey.

76 Metaphors for  moments