442 Metaphors for placing

Even a place within a high-board fence, intolerable if one thought one were to remain in it, became a kindly and a pleasant spot from the top of the fence.

The spirit of revolution against the bondage and cold formalism of the past made the poor man feel that his place in the world was as dignified, his happiness as important, as that of the rich.

"Suppose I was to have to fall awake and leave you?" The next place they went into was the most wonderful of all.

The place was some kind of inn, for a negro brought us two tankards of apple-jack, and tobacco pipes, and lit a foul-smelling lantern, which he set between us.

What a place of mystery is a Russian Fair, be it in the capital or at the outposts of the Empire!

Soon ascertaining that such places were the best, and, excepting the public prints, the only resort to ascertain the latest intelligence, and to collect information respecting the movements of the black population, and the company, however exceptionable, being termed there respectable, I adopted the plan, on several successive evenings, of quietly smoking a cigar and listening to passing observations and remarks.

The place is health itself: all sorts of fevers, and agues, and those things being quite unknown.

The roof still had a few tiles left on it, so the place was a little drier than the road outside.

The place where both now liked to be was the spacious workroom, so intimately associated with their habits and their past affection.

"A dreary place would be this earth Were there no little people in it; The song of life would lose its mirth Were there no children to begin it; "No little forms, like buds to grow, And make the admiring heart surrender; No little hands, on breast and brow, To keep the thrilling love-chords tender.

The naturally strong position on the Gunnerton Crags, would be certain to commend itself to a people, the first requisite of whose dwelling places was strength and consequent safety.

The gathering-place of the rich was the Athenæum,a society that in spite of its title offered no other reading matter than two Catalunian periodicals.

The place was the St. George Mission by the Yukon, and the tribes had gathered for many a hundred miles.

I shouldn't think they could afford it," went on Kitty; "why, the place for her is a public school.

Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me, are thy repositories of mouldering learning, thy shelves What a place to be in is an old library!

When I first came here, the place where it stands was a field of sugar-canes; but the city is fast stretching itself into the suburbs.

The most suitable place is the church.

Since that time the place has been the arena of many remarkable events, among which was the tragical murder of the caliph Osman the Second.

The time was May 25, 1787; the place, the State House in Philadelphia, a little town of not more than 20,000 people, and, at that time, as remote, measured by the facilities of communication, to the centres of civilization as is now Vladivostok.

No one was inside, and the general appearance of everything indicated that the place had been desertedthat the birds had flown.

"The place of historiographer to the king was but an empty title," he says himself; "I wanted to make it a reality by working at the history of the war of 1741; but, in spite of my work, Moncrif had admittance to his Majesty, and I had not.

The admiral wrote down these words immediately; but it was evident he as yet knew little of the language, for it was known afterwards that these places, instead of separate islands, were provinces or districts in Hispaniola, subject to so many different lords or caciques.

But the place where our Doctor was happiest was his study.

Their father was the Sun, and the place of their birth, or rather of their appearance on earth, was Paccari-tampu, which means The House of the Morning or the Mansion of the Dawn.

Clanricarde Place is a little nook of Queen Anne housesgenuine

442 Metaphors for  placing