98 Metaphors for sorts

Of course the sort of good style in which Poe indulged is not the kind of styleor the varieties of stylesuited for all purposes, but for the purposes to which it is adapted it may well be called supreme.

And what sort of men are these millions?

That sort is just the build to do a mile in nothing flatand it's only three miles to the hill.

By Murray and others, the young learner is told, that, "A vowel is an articulate sound, that can be perfectly uttered by itself;" as if a vowel were nothing but a sound, and that a sort of echo, which can utter itself; and next, that, "A consonant is an articulate sound, which cannot be perfectly uttered without the help of a vowel.

Besides several grammatical faults, elsewhere noticed, these extracts exhibit, first, the inconsistent notionof "duplicates with a difference;" or, as Churchill expresses it, of "two distinct species of each foot;" (New Gram., p. 189;) and here we are gravely assured withal, that these different sorts, which have no separate names, are sometimes forsooth, "exactly of the same nature"!

A sort of boyish unconsciousness, indeed, was the keynote and charm of his nature.

And not a bad sort of a bear, either, was Carlton Southwaithe.

He loved a particular sort of men, and that sort was honest men; while the merry divine could deal with politicians and even with Talleyrand himself.

"That sort of game," she said, and her voice throbbed with the intensity of her indignation, "is monstrousis contemptiblea game that none but blackguards ever stoop to play!" Piers stood still.

A good sort was Dixon.

Bartley Fallon: The sort that will be in it will be a bad sortsievemakers and tramps and neuks.

"And what sort of people are the Japanese?" MR.

Some sort of compromise of the nature of that of 1850 was the prevailing preoccupation in politics.

Our replies varied according to the civility of our natures, but the mere attempt to raise the question shows, I think, how widespread among the editorial, paragraph-writing, opinion-making sort of people is this notion of prescribing a definite length and a definite form for the novel.

The rooma sort of living-roominto which we were ushered was a mixture of all sorts of furniture, black haircloth, dingy and old, with here and there a good picture or one fine chair, which I imagined had been presented to him.

Ham was simply one of those fellows who not only have convolutions in their brains, but kinks and bow-knots as well, and who can believe that any sort of a lie is gospel truth

"And what sort of people are the Japanese?" MR.

Without you I can't do anything but kick over the applecart for Whit Monk; and that sort of revenge is mighty unsatisfactory.

" It is no wonder that this sort of friendly intellectual gladiatorship is Sir James's greatest pleasure, for it is his peculiar forte.

Whereby it is plain how much the sorts of mixed modes are the creatures of the understanding, where they have a being as subservient to all the ends of real truth and knowledge, as when they really exist.

We could stop our writin' law-books an' our regulatin' rules If a better sort of manhood was the product of our schools.

A common sort of repentance, backed with some kind of amendment and outward reformation, is a way that many rest secure in, though it lead to destruction.

It has been a great many years since any semi-intelligent man believed that all sorts of physical abnormalities were due to one cause and could be cured by one method, and yet the prevailing opinion now, even among the fairly educated, is that all sorts of abnormal conduct are due to one cause, perversity and wickedness, and should be treated with only one prescription, punishment.

The States.%What sort of a country, and what sort of people, was Washington thus chosen to rule over?

For if any sort of tribulation were the infallible sign of God's displeasure, then should we condemn the best beloved children of God.

98 Metaphors for  sorts