2582 Metaphors for one

The one was an ideal, as the other is a commonplace example of the ludicrous contradictions in which men may be involved, who find in personal motives the justification of public conduct.

Now in Canada no one is the superior of any one else, but that did not make a bit of difference in the startling change of demeanour which overtook the clerk.

One was a noble and the other a very human but ignoble passion; but Fernando was only a common mortal with mortal weaknesses.

Among them, one called Trimalcio was such an adept in his art, that he could impart to common fish both the form and flavour of the most esteemed of the piscatory tribes.

"One is my sincere devotion to yourself, my beautiful.

One of the characters in the New Inn is Fly, 'the Parasite of the Inn'; and in the Virgin Martyr (ii. 2) we also find the word 'fly' used (like Lat. musca) for an inquisitive person.

Thank God for the gifts of genius He has scattered abroad with a bountiful hand; but thank Him also that, without such gifts, one may become a joy and a benediction!

As you well know, one of the best tests of a man's morals is the kind of a defence he offers for his acts.

"One of the features of the campaign on our side has been the success obtained by the Royal Flying Corps.

Here, every one is a proper judge of what he sees.

Take a dozen or more crisp fat leeksflabby, tough ones are no usetrim away all coarse pieces, chop up the tender green quite small and simmer in covered pan with a little butter.

He wrote: FORTY-FIVE TREACHEROUS MEN Theodore Marrin and the forty-four who went back to work for him: Every one of you is a traitor to American citizenship.

The religious houses which the Irish maintained in Germany kept up communication with Pope and Emperor; an Irish abbot at Nuremberg was chaplain to the Emperor Frederick; one of Hadrian's masters at Paris had been a monk from the Irish settlement in Ratisbon, and as Pope he still remembered the Irish monk with warm affection.

But one step, and that a short one, removed from these writers is Alexander Barclay, translater of Brandt's Stultifera Navis, priest and monk successively of Ottery St. Mary, Ely, and Canterbury.

One is sin, and the other alcohol.

In the Atlantic, a ship in sight is an object which arouses the attention of all on boardto speak one is an aera, and furnishes to the captain and mates a subject for the day's conversation.

One was a sluggish, niggardly rivulet, in a wide, fat, muddy bed; and every day the tide came in and drowned out that poor little stream, and filled it with bitter brine.

One of the most active and enterprising of the early printers was Anthony Koburger of Nuremberg, an accomplished scholar, who began there in 1472, and before the year 1500 had printed thirteen large editions of the Bible in folio, and a prodigious number of other books.

One of his sons was an army surgeon at the Crimea.

The one nearest to the sun is Mercury.

One of the saddest sights in a great city is its hospital for incurables.

One of the children who might be amused by the dog's mad ways was Coventry Patmore, afterwards the poet, then nearly four years old.] LETTER 427 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN BATES

Indeed, I think it impossible for one who has been successfully taught to reverence and to love the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, to become an outcast from society.

But one cannot be an Englishman and gentleman in general: it is in the nature of things that one must have an individuality, though it may be of an often-repeated type.

The witless one was evidently a lookout, and it was advisable to wait and see the success of Maru's expedition before we attempted to move.

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