42 Metaphors for paths

This particular foot-path, however, is not a remarkably good specimen of its kind, since it leads into no hollows and seclusions, and soon terminates in a high-road.

And the one path of lighter gray was the bed of Jack Landis.

The path he took from that little humble farmhouse to the big church, the wide-reaching college, the kindly hospital, the head of the Lecture Platform, it is the purpose of this book to picture, in the hope that it may be helpful to others, either young or old, who desire to better their condition, or to do some work of which the inner voice tells them the world is in need.

Thy wisdom guides strayed sinners home, 'Twill make the dead world rise, And bring those prisoners to their doom: Its paths are mysteries.

The silver path on which we enter is the Limbo.

"There is one whose path is the narrowest, and she is happier and better than I."

May her ways be ways of pleasantness and all her paths be peace!

Herod;when a woman goes to the devil she frightens him; his Satanic majesty welcomes a man, but dreads a woman; to a woman the downward path is a toboggan slide, to a man it is a gentle but seductive descent.

Truly the path of duty is a thorny one anon or oftener.

"Your path is a plain one, Claude Bainrothe; fulfill your contract, sealed with gold, and bear patiently your selected lot.

As they were of light grey suède, and the precipitous path they had travelled was a mixture of clay and limestone the ruin was palpable and very thorough.

But narrow our path may be, my dear, And simple the scenes we view, A heart like thine, and a love like mine, Will carry us bravely through.

If one leaves the Easdale road at this bridge, and keeps to the side of the beck for a few hundred yards, till he reaches the turning,especially if it be a bright April morning, such as that described in the poem,and remembers that this path by the brook was a favourite resort of Wordsworth and his sister, the probability of Dr. Cradock's suggestion will be apparent.

At last the cot-tage path is reach-ed.

Then with a sudden hope He would have caught her hands, but no, she clasped Them o'er the snowy muslin on her breast, And on her heart like drops of crimson blood, There lay the almond blossoms, bitter, sweet; And far away her pure eyes looked adown That shining path across the summer sea, "Nay, life a long dream is, a sleep that lasts Until we waken in the land of love.

The field paths are the trodden tops of the irrigating cuts, and the main roads as wide as two perambulators abreast.

Congenial warmth, the sunshine of friendliness, soon relax the mantle of woe, and the path that looks wintry and hard becomes a way of light and gayety.

Her garden was restored to its pristine beauty,the path was cleared.her favorites flocked around her; and again kneeling in thankfulness at her grandmother's feet, she read her evening lesson, and praised Almighty God, who in love and mercy sent 'Peace on earth, Goodwill toward all men.'

The paths are manybut the Guide is one.

In seeking happiness you both agree, But in the search, the paths so different be, That all religions with each other fight, While only one can lead us in the right.

The secret deceiving path of life, which Horace talks offallentis semita vitaemay be the happiest, lot of the one, but is the greatest misfortune that the other can possibly fall into.

The first regularly defined paths were probably footwaysthe first carriages broad-wheeled.

The path should be the shortest possible, involving only those muscles that are absolutely necessary.

The sun was now peering triumphantly over the hills on the far side of the valley, and the path was (an extraordinary thing in Kashmir) excessively dusty.

"The path of truth is a plain and a safe path"Murray's Key, p. 236.

42 Metaphors for  paths