40 Metaphors for pair

Every pair of rosy lips (the ladies must pardon me) is a casket, presumably holding such jewels; but, methinks, they should take leave to "air" them as frugally as possible.

The Darbies were an old and respectable family of the Society of Friends, and a pair of the elder branches of it were the original "Darby and Joan," whose names are so well known throughout the whole kingdom.

It is noteworthy that this last pair is the dramatist's own addition to the cast.

The outer pair are brown and thick, the inner green, and becoming more delicate and crumpled as we proceed toward the centre of the bud.

A pair of dice is thy delight, Thou liv'st for most part by the spoil: I truly labour day and night To get my living by my toil.

The first Pair was Liberty, with Monarchy at her right Hand:

Indeed, our officers, who are going to Flanders, don't quite like it; they are afraid it should grow the fashion to fight, and that a pair of colours should no longer be a sinecure.

A man may journey two hundred and fifty miles in a car, with his elbow unavoidably jogging a lady's all the way, and still be as far from her acquaintance (unless she is graciously inclined to say something first) as if the pair were leagues apart.

The eighth pair are the auditory, or nerves of hearing, and are distributed to the special organs of hearing.

The cranial nerves are thus arranged in pairs: The first pair are the olfactory nerves, which pass down through the ethmoid bone into the nasal cavities, and are spread over the inner surface of the nose.

O that he had but the wealth and treasure of both the Indies to endow her with, a carrack of diamonds, a chain of pearl, a cascanet of jewels, (a pair of calfskin gloves of four-pence a pair were fitter), or some such toy, to send her for a token, she should have it with all his heart; he would spend myriads of crowns for her sake.

Thus the heights of all but the outer tenths of the whole body of adult males of the English professional classes may be derived from the five following ordinates, measured in inches, of which the outer pair are deciles: 67.2; 67.5; 68.8; 70.3; 71.4.

There are actually about four sets of rollers from front to back of a drawing frame; one set of three rollers constitute the "retaining" rollers; then comes the drawing roller and its large pressing roller; immediately after this pair is the "slicking" rollers, and the last pair is the delivery rollers.

So two pairs of them were always en route, while the third pair rested and did housework at the hut at Roaring Water Portage, taking their departure with mails when another pair of their companions returned from the lake.

A pair of spectacles and a hot temper are not the most promising capital for success in life, Master Titbottom.'

This pair were Steve Drinkwater, a Dutchman; and Alex Simoneau, a French-Canadian of Attleboro, Massachusetts.

A very small pair of milk-white bullocks, attached to a carriage of corresponding dimensions, merely containing a seat for two persons, is a picturesque and convenient vehicle, which will rattle along the roads at a very good pace.

If they burned quietly together, the pair would be man and wife, and from the length of time they burned and the brightness of the flame the length and happiness of the married life of the two were augured.

I afterwards sent him the companion, "Christus Remunerator"; and the pair remained his daily companions till the day of his death.

A pair of boots is an objective fact; so is the number of pairs in existence at any time, so is their size, their weight, the quantity of leather or of paper which they happen to contain.

Louis, too, accepted the proposal with greater warmth than usual, and when the royal pair with their childrenthe queen, as was her custom, leading one in each handdescended from their apartments and walked through the banquet-hall, the enthusiasm was redoubled.

The tenth pair, the pneumogastric, also known as the vagus or wandering nerves, are the longest and most complex of all the cranial nerves.

A Pair of fringed Gloves may be her Ruin.

'The pair of yer spongin' a ride!

I've said before, and I'll say again, the childless married pair are traitors to their country, to the world, to humanity.

40 Metaphors for  pair