18 Metaphors for pan

But we see that they occurred at the very dawn of history, that they have happened repeatedly for five-and-twenty centuries, and that they are as common now in the nineteenth Christian century as they were in those days when Pan was a god.

Pan (1894) is probably Hamsun's best-known work.

Not so the blessed Pan his flock increased, Content to fold them from the famish'd beast: Mild were his laws; the Sheep and harmless Hind 286 Were never of the persecuting kind.

James is cracking butternuts in one corner, and a well-heaped milk-pan is the trophy of his persevering toil.

Pan's the shepheardes God; but thou swearest by Pot: what God's that? Io.

Pan's the shepheardes God; but thou swearest by Pot: what God's that? Io.

It is necessary that a pan of water should be place in their house each day for them to wash in, and that a large lump of bay-salt should likewise be kept there.

Tityrus and Mopsus are alternately lovers, courtiers and spiritual pastors; Pan, when he does not conceal under his shaggy outside the costly robes of a prince, is a strange abortive monster, drawing his attributes in part from pagan superstition, in part from Christian piety; a libel upon both.

To dig a hole three feet deep in order to get one test-pan was a task of no mean magnitude; while between the man and the apex intervened an untold number of such holes to be dug.

"Pan is dead!"three times ran the strange shuddering cry through the darkness, as though the very earth itself wailed the passing of the god.

The skull is widely different from that of his brother the Hill tiger, being low in the crown, wider in the jaws, rather flat in comparison, and the brain-pan longer with a sloping curve at the end, the crest of the brain-pan being a concave curve.

The "dry-pan and the gradual fire" were the images that frightened her most.

Great Pan is Dead XXIII.

Pan is a book that offends against all sorts of rules; as a literary product it is eminently calculated to elicit, especially in England, the Olympian "this will never do."

Where the ice-pan had been was a long stretch of black water that slowly widened until it was quite large enough to float the submarine and allow it to submerge.

Sheet-iron pans, about eight inches in length, four in width, and five in depth, are the most satisfactory.

Marston writes: "Why, man, all their dripping pans are pure gold.

A frying-basket and stew-pan are the most convenient utensils, but they take a great deal of fat.

18 Metaphors for  pan