27 Metaphors for sheeted

At the same Time, notwithstanding some Papers may be made up of broken Hints and irregular Sketches, it is often expected that every Sheet should be a kind of Treatise, and make out in Thought what it wants in Bulk: That a Point of Humour should be worked up in all its Parts; and a Subject touched upon in its most essential Articles, without the Repetitions, Tautologies and Enlargements, that are indulged to longer Labours.

[Footnote 8: This sheet of water is the reservoir of the Warwick canal.]

by Jove, they seem to me the world's last groans, and those large sheets of flame it's last blaze!

The sheets of Mr. Ladley's manuscript, usually an orderly pile, were half on the floor.

So the balance-sheet of the peace, after three years from the armisticethat is, three years from the Warshows on the whole a worsening of the situation.

"They are makin' a fuss about him on account o' his fight wi' Ted Barton, and so the Croxley Herald has his life an' record, an' here it is, an' thou canst read it for thysel'" The sheet of the paper which he held up was a lake of print around an islet of illustration.

The situation of the extremity of the low sandy point upon Captain Flinders' chart (East Coast sheet 3) is in latitude 23 degrees 59 minutes 45 seconds, and longitude 151 degrees 34 minutes 45 seconds.

The six-to-eight page broad-sheet was Rajan Narayan's play-field, and he played with gusto solo at times, fast and loose frequently.

A carelessly fastened mainstaysail sheet was the cause of the accident, which was deeply to be regretted because Mr. Dorety was a favorite with all of us.

A wash leather sheet, about 8 feet by 5, is not an unpleasant substitute for linen.

* "Anecdotes correspond in literature with the sauces, the savoury dishes, and the sweetmeats of a splendid banquet;" and as our weekly sheet is a sort of literary fricassee, the following may not be unacceptable to the reader.

A small linen sheet served as shroud, a clean, flower-lined soap box formed that baby's coffin, and Greorge and I were the grave diggers and chief mourners, who laid the tiny body at rest in the little vine-grown churchyard.

"Half a sheet of note-paper" was the measure of it.

Remembering that these little sheets are all the legacy my affection can bestow upon you, I shall concenter in them the very quintessence and epitome of all my wisdom.

In the sunlight-gold, the sheets of azaleas, cyclamen, and violets, were embroidered tapestries of pink and purple; the bright rivulets of melting snow that bathed the wild flowers' roots became a network of diamonds.

He had seen them much larger in the deep-sea fishing grounds; but by curtailing his imaginative powers he could pretend that the blue sheet of the tank was the entire mass of the oceanthe rough bits of stone on the bottom its submarine mountains, and by contracting his own personality, he could reduce himself to the same scale as the little victims that were falling under the devouring tentacles.

There is reason for supposing, however, that the sheet of water intended by that name is the estuary at the mouth of Pigeon River.

But short and sudden as it was, it served to show Charlton that the sheet of water before him was not a pool or a pond, but a brook or a creek over all its banks, swollen to a river, and sweeping on, a wild torrent.

They would feel as if either that printed sheet or they themselves must be an unreality.

The balance sheets of each of these associations would be the envy of most business undertakings.

"Indeed, mem, ay, sae it is; for ye see the gude lad's winding sheet was ower lang, and I cut aff as muckle as made twa bonny mutches" (caps).

The sheet is Madame Gréville's, and I've got to stuff that hair back in the mattress to-night.

A baking sheet is simply a piece of sheet-iron, a size smaller than the oven shelves, so that the heat may pass up and round it.

The sheet was greasy from the handling of black fingers.

The delivery sheet is an endless cloth which has a continuous motion, and thus the softened heads are carried to the extreme right, at which position they are taken from the sheet by the operatives.

27 Metaphors for  sheeted