81 Metaphors for readings

Each was a new leaf turned over in my book of life, the reading of which was my only happiness.

Most editions read hema-punkha and silasita in the instrumental plural; the correct reading is their nominative plural forms.

They note, too, that the reading with the eye merely, is a habit which readers bring from the reading of other books to their reading of the Breviary.

The reading of that paper every fortnight, to an audience that crowded the church, was an event in her history.

You should remember the old admonition that easy reading is devilish hard writing.

Cowley, he afterwards told a friend, had been the first poet he had understood; but no doubt he had begun to understand poetry many years before he went to Charterhouse; and, while he was there, the reading which he chiefly delighted in was the Elizabethan drama. '

Reading, though it is often the only thing the sick can do, is not this relief.

The text in Acts, xxii, 20th, "I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death," ought rather to be, "I also stood by, and consented to his death;" but the present reading is, thus far, a literal version from the Greek, though the verb "kept," that follows, is not.

The old readings were [Greek: ei de min echon] and [Greek: ei de min echei; eu de min echon] has also been suggested; but of these three none seems to me to be at all satisfactory.

[Footnote: The reading is [Greek: dioikisthaenai].] into villages, with a wall fully garrisoned bisecting the city, that the inhabitants might no longer visit one another with security.

My reading is "the plough and happiness the best lot."

But reading was still his dominant passionreading and George Murray.

Now the readings were 98 degrees in the shade.

As any one who may happen to take up this volume will very soon discover that there is other matter which it is necessary to know it may be as well to tell all such persons, in the commencement, therefore, that their reading will be bootless, unless they have leisure to turn to the pages of Homeward Bound for their cue.

Again and again I have been part of an island, and then again sunk beneath the sea, to be upheaved again after long centuries, till I saw the light once more, and dropped from the face of some chalk cliff far away among high hills which have long since been swept off the face of the earth, and was tossed by currents till I became a pebble on the beach, while Reading was a sand-bank in a shallow sea.

But this is entirely repugnant to the doctrine, that apposition is a figure; nor is it at all consistent with the original meaning of the word apposition; because it assumes that the literal reading, when the supposed ellipsis is supplied, is apposition still.

All the men were disposed to be serious; and the reading of the bible, openly and aloud, soon became a favourite occupation with every one of them.

" His reading was desultory, and his favorite works were political speeches, many of which he committed to memory and then declaimed, to the delight of all who heard him.

After this came the long prayer, which, in later times, became liturgical; and then the reading of the lesson for the day from "The Law," with its interpretation, when Hebrew had become a dead language.

The reading of such books was equally the taste of their own times; and nothing is more likely than the volume's having been found in the room where they perished.

The reading of printed matter was oft a difficulty to him, written characters were a vast deal more trouble, but suspicion lurked in the smith's mind, and though his very sinews ached with the desire to handle the proofs, he would not put his initials to any writing which he did not fully comprehend.

"But without the latter quality he can never arrive at the useful and the delightful, without which reading is a penance and fatigue."

Perhaps the most interesting reading in the Mining Record is the letters written by men in the Klondyke to friends in Juneau.

Their thoughts revolve round sport and dress, Their reading is the daily press, Their mental life a wilderness.

Reading was his only relaxation, for it was one he could enjoy while driving or in the train.

81 Metaphors for  readings