115 Metaphors for somethings

Something such is the welcome the men of the sea get from that shore which they serve.

No one can read these volumes without seeing the disproportionate power which first impressions had with him; he was always ready to say that something, which had just happened or come before him, was the greatest or the most complete thing of its kind.

The "something" was Noureddin Ali very much something in his own opinion.

Something akin to stereotyping is another method of printing, called logography, invented by John Walter of the London Times, in 1783, and for which he took out a patent.

Occasionally something fine is their result; an aboriginal reappears to prove the plastic powers of nature.

'Something strange,' was his answer.

I surmise that this something must be the hull of a ship, and that we have run alongside.

The something else may be an external fact or a mental image; but even in the latter case to conceive the image at all you must mentally stand back from it and look at itsomething like the man who was run in by the police at Gravesend for walking behind himself to see how his new coat fitted.

In fact, I was not sure that I wished to say anything which should be considered absolutely serious and definite, but if I were ever to do anything definiteand the more I talked with this bright-eyed and merry-hearted young lady the stronger became the longing to say something definitenow was the time to prepare the way for what I might do or say hereafter.

If their employer does not please themif he points out that a waste of time has taken place, or that something has been neglectedoff they go, for, having a hole to creep into, they do not care an atom whether they lose a job or not.

The unknown something which is supposed to have qualities, or in which these are supposed to inhere, is an unnecessary fiction of the imagination.

Something similar to this was the crotalon of the ancients, who also made use of small cymbals in their dances and festivals in honour of Bacchus.

Gone was the leaden weariness of her day's toil Something intimate and kind in the glance Stoddard had given her remained warm at her heart, and set that heart singing.

But that explains why the fact that something is a sin doesn't necessarily mean that it is a crime.

In her eyes he read at once that something was wrongbut without comprehending.

But in the third kind, in which the question is what sort of thing something is, we must speak either of its honesty, or of its utility, or of its equity.

Something which I shall not utter, for it is blasphemy.

In a few minutes they were clearly made out to be a party of three horsemen driving pack-horses before them, and somethin' which some of the hunters guessed was a buffalo calf.

The white somethings carelessly tossed over a chair near the head of the bed, were no longer the garments of youth, beauty, and innocence, but graveclothes, cold, shining, shuddering, in that deathly light.

Political animus had, perhaps, something to do with it, for the Liberal newspaper (Mr. Fouracres was a stout Conservative) made more than one malicious joke on the subject.

Something subtly tragic in the separation was a great support to her, a sad misunderstanding.

Something that was said a little later was a confirmation.

Something dreadful, I suppose," was the shuddering reply.

Something nautical, I suppose; for as we are about to set sail in a few days, it will be appropriate, will it not?" GEORGE.

"And something there I'll do," is a well-known Massingerism, occurring everywhere in his plays.

115 Metaphors for  somethings