32 Metaphors for somebodies

If everybody else was blind, I kenned they expected somebody was comin' back.

"That boss business is a very small matter," she replied, "although, of course, somebody must be head while you are gone, and it was about this that I came to see you.

And we can smile together when he says that somebody or other is "not even" a Cockney humourist like Samuel Johnson or Charles Lamb.

Somebody was Harry Goldthwaite, sitting there beside her; Barbara, with only her head visible, was behaving, out here in this unconventional place and time, with a tranquillity and composure which of late had been apparently impossible to her in parlors.

I do not remember; somebody, was it my father?

"On the other hand, Josiah's lawyer claimed that the minister had married Melinda Smith in the State of Indiana; that consequently she must have been married to somebody, and that that somebody was unquestionably Josiah Wilson.

" "I'm going to plant this here seedlin', that growed up in Colonel Blood's pastur', nobody knows how: belike somebody was eatin' an apple and throwed the core down-like.

Somebody who has written stories (is it Dickens?) has given us very wrong ideas of the English lodging-house.

Don't wonder somebody was allers pryin' an' spyin' about here!" "How is your Mistress, Candace?" said Mrs. Scudder, by way of changing the subject.

"Looks like somebody has been tryin' to wring my neck, same as a chicken's," he said meditatively.

"Somebody's done gone cut dat rope!" shouted Dick, as he frantically pulled in the treacherous bit of hemp.

Fact is, Max," he went on, allowing his voice to sink into a mysterious stage whisper, "somebody was lookin' around in my cabin while I was down at your camp last evenin'.

And howbut what if somebody else, Union Mills or the Judge, had been the first discoverer?

"Look here," he said: "somebody been spoil my rifle!" I looked at the piece in surprise, for the lock was broken.

For give it to somebody he did, and that somebody was a person who knew of the jewel transaction, and employed Lydenberg in it, and sent the photo to Lydenberg so that he should know your cousin by sightat once.

"Somebody is a-trying to jump yore ranch, and if you'll lemme talk to him I can find out who it is." "Whohow?" said Miss Dale, stupidly, for, what with the fright and embarrassment engendered by her father's condition the true significance of Racey's remark was not immediately apparent.

There were pedlars' trays fitted with all and every sort of ware, a faro-table, a placard setting forth the fact that the renowned Professor Somebody or Other was a most remarkable phrenologist and worthy of a visit.

The "somebody" was Strang's wife.

This somebody, this something, is Marimonda.

He was tremblin' with excitement and I wasn't much better, when all of a sudden the cook sat up in 'is bunk with a dreadful laughing scream and called out that somebody was ticklin'

He says somebody has been grazin' sheep on the posted country, west.

Miss Bella's manner was not sweet; she wished evidently to slight somebody, and the painter could not flatter himself that the somebody was Mrs. Morrison, the only other person in the room beside the artist and his subject.

" "Just so; but that somebody is a woman; doubtless a pretty one, probably dark.

" "How terrible!" "Somebody aboard is a traitor.

He was in when I first went there, but somebody else was there a-talkin' to 'im, an' I went out to wait, an' w'en I got back again the office was locked, so I didn't see 'im." "Ye've been a lang time gone, lad?"

32 Metaphors for  somebodies