38 Metaphors for nobodies

Nobody could be the least effective but Signora Turini, who waited on her Majesty, and Anne, who was so far seasoned by excursions at Portsmouth that she was capable of taking sole care of the little Prince, as the little vessel dashed along on her way with her cargo of alarm and suffering through the Dutch fleet of fifty vessels, none of which seemed to notice herperhaps by express desire not to be too curious as to English fugitives.

Then there were Sam, and Lucy Peters, and Jim Boynton, up to all sorts of mischief in the kitchen,Susan Boynton and Nelly James cracking nuts and their fingers on the hearth,father and mother up-stairs in grandmother's room; for grandmother was bedridden, but kindly, and good, and humorous, and patient, even in her hopeless bed, and nobody was dearer to the whole family than she.

The phrase was considered as giving a highly favorable aspect to his political prospects; for, as is likewise the case with the Popedom, nobody ever becomes President without taking a name other than his own.

Nobody could be the least effective but Signora Turini, who waited on her Majesty, and Anne, who was so far seasoned by excursions at Portsmouth that she was capable of taking sole care of the little Prince, as the little vessel dashed along on her way with her cargo of alarm and suffering through the Dutch fleet of fifty vessels, none of which seemed to notice herperhaps by express desire not to be too curious as to English fugitives.

And a dairymaid, let us say, may love whom she will, and nobody else be a penny the worse for her mistaking of the preferable nail whereon to hang her affections; whereas with a queen this choice is more portentous.

* Nobody is anybody, until he takes the title of somebody, and is laughed at by everybody.

She was handsomer than Rosa; and if you were to see Rosa, you would say nobody could be handsomer than she is.

Because nobody else is quite so Boston all over as he is,said the young fellow.

And it is always a "party"everyone is conscious they are there, and they either assume bad manners or good ones, but nobody is sans gêne.

Our men stared at one another on receipt of this message, but Nobody was the word, as indeed nobody knew it, but he who did it.

Nobody was there but a towzy, carroty-haired callant.

It is one of those well-finished, middle-class looking establishments, about which you can't say much any way; and if you could, nobody would be either madder or wiser for the exposition.

Everybody was cook and nobody was boss.

In consequence of its dark and gloomy aspect, and the feeling of awe with which the family and servants regard its mystical contents, I have its undisturbed enjoyment; nobody feels a wish to enter it even in the day time, and I verily believe they would not do so at the witching hour of night, lest the mystical signs should take summary vengeance on their unhallowed intrusion.

Nobody would have been a hair the worse then!But, poor Paul!to be married to such a woman as she!

Then the nobody becomes somebody, the party hack gets busy, the rat is in the granary....

CONTENT, nobody is content, iii. 241.

Nobody was carryin' her up glasses of milk-punch, and lemonade, and cups of tea, at all hours of the day.

Sometimes there's nobody in sightthat is, no real bodynothin' but clouds an' rainbows an' kings an' queens an' their families.

A trembling voice from the farthest corner: "'Deed, sah, dey ain't nobody hyah ceptin' us chickens.

Everybody was glad there; here nobody is glad, not even the priest.

One day that he had talked very indecently in that strain, Dr. Arbuthnot, who was as devout as Richardson, said to him, "Come, Jervas, this is all an air and affectation; nobody is a sounder believer than you.""I!" said Jervas, "I believe nothing.

We are thus left in the ridiculous situation of providing that nobody may be a citizen of our great Republic except a white Caucasian and a black African, with considerable ambiguity still as to what the word "white" means.

Nobody's my elder except one that's spent half his lifeas I have done!

Nobody on earth was proof against his charm.

38 Metaphors for  nobodies