581 Metaphors for part

We had also, during this time, one most successful haul with the seine, which amply supplied us with fresh fish for that and the two following days; the greater part were a kind of large mullet, the largest weighed six pounds five ounces, and measured twenty-five inches in length.

"The last part of the story is the best, to my mind," said Mr. Harry, "and as romantic as even a girl could desire.

Parts of it were dainty, too, as a butterfly dip.

Part of this is a pen-and-ink sketch at the Uffizi, which has frequently been published, and part is a sketch in the Berlin Collection.

On the highest part were growing some bushes and small mangroves, (the dry part of which was our fuel) and the wild castor oil beans.

The miserable failure of Dryden in his attempt to translate into his own diction some parts of the Paradise Lost is a remarkable instance of this.

SECOND PART The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

The only part of him that moved was his long fingers, weaving together behind him until the knuckles cracked.

That part of the history of John Wesley, Jr., which is told in the following pages, is the story of the other six years.

Any one who reads to much purpose in De Mably, or Guizot, or Henri Martin, knows that this part of Richelieu's statesmanship was but a masterful continuation of all great French statesmanship since the twelfth-century league of king and commons against nobles, and that Richelieu stood in the heirship of all great French statesmen since Suger.

And not the least part of his pain was the haunting uncertainty as to what her words could mean, as regarded himself.

The edible part of most fruits is, as the physiologist says, "the parenchyma or fleshy tissue of the leaf" of which they are formed.

" "Oh yes; part o' their cussedness.

This war has shown that the non-self-governing parts of the Commonwealth are not, as our enemies supposed, a weakness to Great Britain in time of trouble, but a strength.

The more valuable part of the reform is undoubtedly the referendum.

Another part of a man was the KHAIBIT or "shadow," which is frequently mentioned in connexion with the soul and, in late times, was always thought to be near it.

He values phrases, and elects them by the sound, and the eight parts of speech are his servants.

The lower part was not one great doorway, as the Pilgrim had supposed, but had innumerable doors, all separate and very narrow, so that but one could pass at a time, though the arch inclosed all, and seemed filled with great folding gates, in which the smaller doors were set, so that if need arose a vast opening might be made for many to enter.

But the show part of the hospital was the suite of operating theatres.

The second part is the sympathetic system, which regulates the organic life.

A mixture of two languages will produce a third distinct from both; and they will always be mixed, where the chief part of education, and the most conspicuous accomplishment, is skill in ancient or in foreign tongues.

A part of the wooden gallery immediately outside her door was really a trap-door, and beneath it was an abyss dark as pitch.

Therefore the inherited part of conscience cannot be an infallible guide, and the acquired part of it may, under the influence of dogma, be a very bad one.

The ash weighed 52 per cent., the soluble part of which, 18.5, was mostly potassium carbonate, with some chlorides and sulphates; the insoluble, mostly chalk with iron and alumina.

The component parts of the pudding are apples, sugar, milk, five eggs, and vanilla.

581 Metaphors for  part