63 Metaphors for o

"Here," quoth I. O, it hath been a brave here-and-there night!

I know Any little girl is worth More than all the gold below; Eyes o' blue or brown or gray, Raven hair or golden curls, There's no joy on earth to-day Quite so fine as little girls.

Let O be the center of the shaft; let L O M represent the face of the main valve seat, in which is shown the port leading to the cylinder; and let A be the edge of the main valve, at the beginning of a stroke of the piston.

O is an interjection.

Most o' that Mother Lode the miners are lookin' for is sand now, thirteen hundred miles away in Norton Sound.

O was an orange So yellow and round: When it fell off the tree, It fell down to the ground.

Then, Sir, you'll 'ave a bit o' garding as'll be the pride o' yer eye, and a tidy bit o' profit into the bargain, or I don't know my bizness.

o' Will Halket; but it's a' past now, and I fancy he is dead and gone to whaur there is neither plighted troth, nor marriage, nor giving in marriage; and my time, too, will be short.

We yerd ov a chap at Lytham at wanted a lad to tak care o' six jackasses an' a pony.

o is a small coral reef; it lies a mile and a half North 64 degrees West from the north end of n. p is a coral reef, about a mile in extent, separated from o by a channel of a mile wide.

O were those spots as kindly beautiful Then were fayre Bellamira undeform'd.

One o' them kind hes t' keep 'is mouth shet er he can't never dew ho thinkin'.

O is an Owl, Who hides through the day; And comes out at night, To seek for his prey.

785 O, would that some more skilful voice

There's toons in America where maist o' the folk will be foreigners places where great lots o' people from the old countries in Europe ha' settled doon, and kept their ain language and their ain customs.

Wot sort o' chap is the young manbig?" "Can't be," ses Ted; "cos Emma called 'im a little shrimp.

There's just time tae cook it" "What kin' o' a fire is this?" A cold shadow fell upon the group as a substantial presence inserted itself between the debaters and the wintry sunshine.

One o' his sons was a Supreme Judge 'fore he died.

ANOTHER VOICE O God of Birds! or, rather, for the Hawk Has surely not the same God as the Wren, O God of Little Birds!

6, where O is the point of no slip, being 17.64 from the point of real slip.

The latter has no concern with this rule, nor is it equivalent to the former, as a sign: O is a note of wishing, earnestness, and vocative address; but oh is, properly, a sign of sorrow, pain, or surprise.

o' someone, fer she jest sets in the porch, when he's a' tinkerin' round in the evenings or dig-gin' in the gardinhe's never satisfied unless everything's jest kep spick an' spanan' there's the sweetest smile on her face, an' the dreamy look in her eyes thet folks' eyes don't never hev 'cept when they're episodin' with their past.

O, Ellen, is there no music in those words, to your young heart?

No: nor is it bad for the reason which our grammarians assign, but because our best writers never use it, and because O is more properly the sign of the vocative.

O were my sister here!

63 Metaphors for  o