79 Metaphors for my

This is my comfortMax remains our hostage.

What's the use of my being a peer, if I can't do what I like, and make public opinion go my way, and not I its?

I relish company so little, that I may surely be indulged in selecting that which is most agreeable to my taste, to prevent my becoming quite a misanthrope."

" "I never questioned thy state being Geneva; I only wonder thou shouldst doubt my being Nicklaus Wagner!

For I am sure that wherever kindness can come thankfulness may, and that whatever intrusion my note can be guilty of, it is excusable by the fact of my being Miss Garrow's "Sincerely obliged, "E. BARRETT.

"My! here's a letter," said Jack, diving into the bottom of the basket.

He's set his heart on my being a judge,Judge Hawthorne of Hollywood.

I wish one of us had just stopped to call good morning to her over the fence, and to say in our neighbourly, small town way: "My, ain't this a scorcher!

I am a stranger to the shapes and texture of the commonest trees, herbs, flowersnot from the circumstance of my being town-bornfor I should have brought the same inobservant spirit into the world with me, had I first seen it in "on Devon's leafy shores,"and am no less at a loss among purely town-objects, tools, engines, mechanic processes.

"The look she gave me when I said these words, and especially the flash of her eye when I spoke of my being a sea-soldier, made me feel strong enough to tear that sea-monster's arm in twain, and to sail away with the lovely creature for whom my heart was beginning to throb.

" Mr. Ammidon flushed, and answered quickly, "I allow no man to call in question my being a gentleman, sir.

Oh, the relief that I then had because the devil fought my making it right by telling me that she would tell every one in school about my being a thief.

Even Percy took occasion to let me know that, under the circumstances, he was willing to overlook entirely the fact of my being a school-master.

In truth, I am afraid that it must be considered either a not very creditable thing to them, that they should have concealed the fact of my being an accomplice; or else a most discreditable one to me that I was invited to be one, and that I shirked it.

To him the fact of my being an Englishman was a sufficient assurance that I was respectable.

I impute almost all that I had to complain of in their neglect, to my having been a little unsociable, uncompanionable mortal.

I was born and bred by the sea; its mystery had passed into my being unawares, and was there unconscious, or, at least, not to be separated from the moods of my own spirit.

Ah! thou to me art as the sun to Day, That dies out with its setting utterly Thou art the ever-flowing crystal spring, That keeps the fountain of my being full Thou art the heart that beats with measured pulse The joyous moments of my flowing life Leave thee?

"I don't know what you mean, Miss Blake, by my being your girl.

My lady knows nothing of my being hereaway.

As for myself, I call the all-seeing eye of God to witness, that the thought of my being a parent never crossed my mind, until I learned that a John Assheton was the father of Paul, and that the miniature of Mildred Warrender, that I received at the period of our engagement, was the likeness of his mother.

He was delighted to see me, and insisted on my becoming his guest.

Custom has established it as a law, that this case of the pronoun shall drop its original termination, for the sake of euphony, when it precedes the noun that governs it; retaining it only where the noun is understood: but this certainly makes no alteration in the nature of the word; so that either my is as much a possessive case as mine; or mine and my are equally pronominal adjectives.

I could chop and saw without it next day, just as well as she could do the ironing, to say nothing of my being a great stout fellow,there wasn't a chap for ten miles round with my muscle,and she with those blue veins on her forehead.

At present I must content myself by assuring you of my being Your obliged friend, &c. Philadelphia, September 13th, 1796.

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