70 Metaphors for peter

If we act sensibly, and don't precipitate matters, nobody need have a grievance, and Peter and I will be the best of friends in the future, I hope.

"You wanted Peter to be aa noble kind of person, a great statesman, or something of that sort, didn't you?"

Peter was a descendant of a patriarch of the Greek Church in Russia, whose name was Romanoff, and who was his great-grandfather.

Peter, the man who had been the first to betray her, and who had refused her pardon even when her cause was pleaded by his wife, was a keenly interested spectator of her execution.

PETER the Cobbler [pityingly] Marble is final, woman;nay, poor soul!

But arrogant and unfounded as was the claim of Leo,that Peter, not Christ, was the rock on which the Church is founded,it was generally accepted by the bishops of the day.

Peter was a fisherman before he became a disciple of Jesus.

"St. Peter is the genius who gave us our double power," said the Pope to Don Juan, "and he deserves this monument.

You see, my pretty cousin Peggy married Peter Smith, who owns paper-mills in Centreville, and has exiled herself into deep country for life; a circumstance I disapprove, because I like Peggy, and manufacturers always bore me, though Peter is a clever fellow enough; but madam was an old flame of mine, and I have a lingering tenderness for her yet.

" Peter was "tall and freckled and sandy, face of a country lout", and, like Middleton's rouse-about, "hadn't any opinions, hadn't any ideas", but possessed sufficient instinct and common bushcraft with which, by hard slogging, to amass money.

You'll have to keep in mind that Peter an' Jacob Sitz are the only white men we're after, an' shut both eyes an' ears to every one else.

" Clara smiled, as she ventured to say, "Sir Peter was Mrs. Ives's father, sir.

Peter was a child when his father died, and his half-brother Theodore became the Czar.

Whereupon a long talk began about Paul and Jesus, Mr. Walter Poole maintaining that Paul's teaching was identical with that of Jesus, and that Peter was a clown despised by Paul and Jesus.

" "It's true, though I say it so badly; and I know it, because, as I tell you, Peter and I are just the same sort at heart.

Judging from what we see on ancient monuments and in the churches, it is perhaps a fair question, whether St. Peter, the Virgin and other saints were not at one time quite as much the' object of worship, as Christ himself?

" "Is Peter a teetotaller?" ses Mr. Goodman.

Peter was a ship-carpenter, and a slave of great value.

" Peter was a much easier job than Ginger Dick, and arter Bill 'ad done 'im 'e put 'im in alongside o' Ginger and covered 'em up, arter first tying both the gags round with some string to prevent 'em slipping.

The blue-peter is a term used in the British navy and widely elsewhere; it is a blue flag with a white square employed often as a signal for sailing.

[Footnote 12: Peter the Cruel is Pedro of Castile.

Of the two, Peter is unquestionably to-day the more arresting, dominating figure.

It occurred to him, casually, that when Arkwright grew up he would subscribe to every reactionary doctrine set forth in the library Peter was indexing.

Thus, Poor Peter is the narrative of a humble youth unfortunate in love, but poor Peter's story is Heine's; otherwise, we may be sure, Heine would not have thought it worth the telling.

Then the point of view which Peter had been four years acquiring swept away the impulse, and it left him moving toward his cabin again, empty, cold, and planless.

70 Metaphors for  peter