266 Metaphors for rest

The rest of the party were just the kind of neighbours that always come to shoot.

Gorgeous dresses were reserved only for the noblesse, some one hundred and fifty thousand privileged persons; all the rest were roturiers, marked by some emblem of meanness or inferiority, whatever might be their intellectual and moral worth.

I believe the battle of the Marne was the decisive battle of the war, in that it shattered this plan, and that the rest of the 1914 fighting was Germany's attempt to reconstruct their broken scheme in the face of an enemy who was continually getting more and more nearly up to date with the fighting.

These affections, though very numerous, may be reduced to a few simple or primary ones, of which the rest are mere specializations or combinations.

His troops consisted of seventeen thousand infantry, principally Bruttians and Lucanians, with twelve hundred horse, among which were very few Italians, almost all the rest being Numidians and Moors.

All the rest is a mad gallop, yells of the enemy and your own answer, a terrible shock in which you are almost dismounted, and then you find yourself face to face with a single opponent who, standing up in the stirrups, is about to split your head.

A very small part of the remainder is used for residential and commercial purposes, the rest being barren mountains, deserts, swamps, and forests.

The explanation of this confusion as far as the Mercury is concerned (the rest was imagination)

His rest was nearhis everlasting rest; No more I saw him weary and oppressed.

On Fortinbras, he ha's my dying voyce, So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse, [Sidenote: th'] Which haue solicited.[10] The rest is silence.

And yet there is always someone for whom he does really pour out his heart, and all the rest are the dolls of life, to be looked at and admired for their dress and complexion, and to laugh at when the fancy takes him to laugh; but not to love.

"It is the foundation upon which rest all the mysterious occurrences following, and once we have learned what the great trouble was, the rest will be plain sailing.

Kidd chased her under French colors, and having come up with her, he ordered her to hoist out her boat and send on board of him, which being done, he told Wright he was his prisoner; and informing himself concerning the said ship, he understood there were no Europeans on board, except two Dutch and one Frenchman, all the rest being Indians or Armenians, and that the Armenians were part owners of the cargo.

When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes when the rest of the landscape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.

The rest are not pronouns, but pronominal adjectives; and, as such, they relate to nouns expressed or understood after them.

Count the bliss Of the one passing hour thine own; the rest Is Fortune's.

All the rest are tranquil.

The rest of the ground fronting the camp was a marsh, passable only for foot.

The rest is just some stores that I'm going to take this opportunity to put across the riverto my next camp.

"She's a Dutch Varick for obstinacy, but the rest is Ormondall Ormond.

As appears from the confessions of prisoners, they had twenty-two hundred men, of whom four hundred were cavalry, the rest being infantry, armed with shot-guns, American rifles, and revolvers.

The jaws, the uneven lobate disk of the preoperculum and the branchiostegous membrane are naked, the rest of them being scaly.

And the rest of his speech was a lamentable account of the time and trouble he would have to spend upon his constituents if the new method came in.

The fourth beast with iron teeth that devoured and broke in pieces the rest was clearly the empire of Alexander, and the little horn that sprang up was the little horn which gored and mangled the helpless people of Jehovah.

"Yet they are conscripts," says one of us, in some surprise, "and the rest were volunteers."

266 Metaphors for  rest