44 Metaphors for shadowed

The English corresponding term is luncheon: but how meagre a shadow is the European meal to its glowing Asiatic cousin!

The streets are so clean that you might eat your dinner off the pavement; the white balconies and cornices of the houses, all cleanly cut in the soft Maltese stone, stand out in intense relief against the sky, and from the manifold reflections and counter reflections, the shadows (where there are any) become a sort of milder light.

Before the shadow of Adamo is upon himbefore the dogs noses touch himNobili is on his feet.

Since the shadow of Moussa was pollution to these travesties of men and warriors, let them have a little concrete pollution also.

Since the birth of the sun, the light that it diffuses in the air when shining on our hemisphere is day, and the shadow produced by its disappearance is night.

That shadow was his man, and in a moment he would be in a chair in the chimney corner to smoke his pipe, maybehis last pipe.

Indeed, it is the only time That with thy glory doth best chime: All now are stirring; every field Full hymns doth yield; The whole creation shakes off night, And for thy shadow looks the light; Stars now vanish without number; Sleepy planets set and slumber; The pursy clouds disband and scatter; All expect some sudden matter; Not one beam triumphs, but, from far, That morning-star.

[Lat.], so far so good, that's right, quite right; optime!^, one cheer more; may your shadow never be less!, esto perpetua!

The darkest shadow upon the outlook of European civilisation at the present time is not the war; it is the failure of any co-operative spirit between labour and the directing classes.

The shadow on the brow, the melancholy which softened the clear hazel eye, the slightest possible compression of the mouth, said,"Destined to misfortune!" Were these actual portraits of living persons, or at least of persons who had lived?

The shadow of the cloud is not blackit lacks several shades of thatthere is in it a faint and yet decided tint of blue.

No sound reached him to cause the vision to seem realno voice, no creak of oars, no flap of a sail; yet something told him that mysterious shadow was a boat, a boat filled with men, creeping away silently into the night, fleeing from the yacht, and vanishing into the darkness.

why shouldn't that shadow have been the brown pony?

Simple, ardent, and living, their faith is in truth their life, and the veriest shadow of doubt would be to them a condition of death.

The roads we trudged with feet of lead, The shadows of his pinions skim; The river where we piled our dead Is but a silver thread to him.

The shadow of a person, the Blackfeet say, is his soul.

I was glad to think how full of bracken and hollows, and mysterious holes and corners of mossed and lichened safety was our old woodfor the shadow was a fox.

The flesh-pot was carried away, the men lit their pipes, the fire was replenished, its red shadow mingled with the silver beams of the moon; around were the glittering tents and the silent woods; on all sides flashing eyes and picturesque forms.

The shadows were becoming blacker and more sharply defined.

The afternoon prayer, when the sun is near the horizon that the shadow of a perpendicular object is twice it's length; 4th.

Go, thou messenger, Let the great jailer keep thee, The refuse of the city be thy food, The drains of the city thy drink, The shadow of the dungeon be thy resting-place, The slab of stone be thy seat.

THE PHEASANT-HEN What do you mean? THE BLACKBIRD The shadow was a correct and appropriate blue, and the Owls said perfectly characteristic things.

Foremost among these may be mentioned the ash, to escape contact with which a serpent, it has been said, would even creep into the fire, in allusion to which Cowley thus writes: "But that which gave more wonder than the rest, Within an ash a serpent built her nest And laid her eggs, when once to come beneath The very shadow of an ash was death.

For the actor, it often happens that the first sign of age is fatigue; in the singer's day, the first shadow is an eclipse, the first false note is disaster, the first breakdown is often a heart-rending failure that brings real tears to the eyes of younger comrades.

Shadows are but privations of the light; Yet, when we walk, they shoot before the sight; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife; And from their animated canvas came, 20 Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame.

44 Metaphors for  shadowed