17 Metaphors for nancy

Teddy began to laugh a little shamefacedly, but Nancy was very near tears.

" Nancy was an Indian woman with a little white blood in her veins.

But Nancy was a girl rich in courage and enterprise, while Gilbert's manliness and leadership and discretion and consideration for others needed a vigorous, decisive, continued push.

Nancy is a very nice girlat least, she soon will be.

MY DEAR MISS NANCY,As your letter to me was a purely "business" communication I suppose I ought to begin my reply: "Dear Madam, Your esteemed favor was received on the sixth inst.

"I think Nancy will be your companion instead of me.

Nancy was such a ragged object that she found it difficult to have her name carried up to Rose Maylie, but at length she succeeded, and was ushered into the sweet young lady's presence, where she quickly related what she had come to tell.

" Nancy was a patient, gentle-spoken sort of woman, and would bear a good deal from a fellow; but she used to fire up sometimes, and that was more than she could stand.

Thus it was still the handsome Careys in the time of our story, for all the children were well-favored and the general public could never decide whether Nancy or Kathleen was the belle of the family.

" They all followed him as he threw open the door, Nancy well in the front, as I fear was generally the case.

Nancy was a lovely creature to the eye, and she came by her good looks naturally enough.

The boy is handsome and gentlemanly, but he'll have to wake up, or Nancy will be the man of the family.

Besides, my Nancy is a handsomer and more agreeable person; but that is of little consequence to me, you know.

"Nancy is the little Queen.

A Miss Nancy is a poet without genius, one who has a talent for discovering the fineness of life, but who lacks the wit to keep his views from ridicule.

Nancy was a great trial to him sometimes, and yet, though the two were ceaselessly involved in arguments and differences, they could not keep apart for long.

"One day us li'l cullud chullun was frollicin' out in de front yard an' Mis' Nancy an' some mo' was settin' on de po'ch an' all of a sudden I see somebuddy comin' down de road an' I says 'Look, whut's dat?' "An' white folks run to de woods an' hid out caze dey seen hit was Calv'ry 'bout a mile long comin' down de road.

17 Metaphors for  nancy