48 Metaphors for remark

" Mr. Smeaton was expecting ushe, too, was reading about me in the Advertiser when we entered, and he made some joking remark about it only being great men that were sometimes treated to death-notices before they were dead.

His ironical remarks on The Abolishing of Christianity were also misunderstood.

This remark, however, is not an adequate statement of the best usage, for it is not true of such sentences as 21, p. 76, and 8, 22, p. 77. III.

His remarks were probably a generalization from a chapter in Torquemada's Monarquia Indiana, in which that writer states that the songs at the sacred festivals differed in subject with the different months and seasons.

His anger burst out in an unjustifiable retort, insinuating that the gentleman's remark was a sally of ebriety; 'Sir, there is one passion I would advise you to command: when you have drunk out that glass, don't drink another.'

Silly remarks and idle truisms are traits of a feeble style, and, when their weakness is positive, or inherent, they ought to be entirely omitted.

Your remark, that slippers for elephants could be made, only they would not be slippers, but boots, convinces me that there is a branch of your family in Ireland.

These remarks were so ridiculous as to excite laughter, and the manner in which Stanton demolished the speaker by his own arguments called forth such repeated rounds of applause that the great orator was obliged to insist upon silence.

His remarks, however, were the reverse of reassuring.

His remark that the "Prospect of Eton College" suggests nothing to Gray which every beholder does not equally think and feel, is, in reality, a compliment to the simplicity and naturalness of the strain.

" This remark was another indication of Jarley's depression.

" A Bernese messenger carried this announcement to the Burgundian camp before the fortress of Neuss, and delivered it into the hands of Duke Charles himself, whose only remark, as he ground his teeth, was, "Ah! Berne! Berne!"

The remark is à propos to a story of Dr. Campbell drinking thirteen bottles of port at a sitting.

Mr. Gladstone's remark at the banquet was an utterance of great import (importance).

The remarks of Mr. Osborn especially, on this subject, (he is the full blooded, slave-born, African man to whom we have already referred) are worthy of consideration in several points of view.

" That last remark was a mere contretemps.

[405] The remark is Rossi's, and, though strongly controverted by Carducci, appears to me absolutely true.

The first remark he made was an innocent remonstrance with his friend the host, "Od, Charlie Brown, what gars ye hae sic lang steps to your front door?

But the remark of Captain Evans to the nominal commander of the squadron would under ordinary circumstances have been an act of insubordination and only illustrates the feeling of some of the captains of the fleet toward the Commodore.

We were for the play that night and I foresaw difficulties at the public telephone, and George's first remark of "Hullo, hullo, is that Signals?

The remark the lordly Turner made, as he arranged some letters on the hall table, was: "A very haughty lady, Jamesquite a bit of the Master about her, eh?"

Rrisa's remark, therefore, was an Oriental way of wishing the Sheik back into Hell.

" This remark he prudently kept to himself, or a fit of hysterics would probably have been the result.

[Footnote 91: This remark (as Cobet pointed out) is evidently a perversion of an old nursery jingle (nenia): Si male faxis vapulabis, si bene faxis rex eris.

This remark is a note upon the following definition: "PROSODY is that part of grammar which treats of the structure of Poetical Composition."Ibid.

48 Metaphors for  remark