23 Metaphors for standing

" Standing aside was dismal work, Katherine told herself; and there were tears on her pillow when she went to sleep that night.

The "reviewing stand" was the post-office steps, around which most of the citizens of Hampton and the proud parents and relatives of the young scouts were assembled.

Underneath it sat Aunt Hetty, with her mouth stitched up so that she could not speak a word, and beneath the stand was a label bearing these words, in large black letters "I wish Aunt Hetty's mouth was sewed up, Jem.

Eventually the wood was gilded, and, seeing this, as well as knowing that candles were never gilded, and that, therefore, the stands couldn't be candles, the dissatisfied ones were appeased.

Speak, if not, this stand Of Royal blood shall be abroach, atilt, and run Even to the lees of honour.

By a neat plan from a survey by Mr. Mogg, the "Stand" is about ten poles from the Winning Post.

Near two stands holding silver starred boxes was a performer in costume, evidently the conjurer of the show.

In those days tea was an expensive luxury, and the urn stand, of which there is an illustration, inlaid in the fashion of the time, is a dainty relic of the past, together with the old mahogany or marqueterie tea caddy, which was sometimes the object of considerable skill and care.

His stand was an upholstered divan placed high in the forks of a tree.

A stand made for independence and good sense against the pressure of an exacting and overbearing dogmatism is a good thing for everybody, though made in a camp with which we have nothing to do.

For this island whereon ye stand is no true island, but a great fish stationary a-middlemost of the sea, whereon the sand hath settled and trees have sprung up of old time, so that it is become like unto an island; but when ye lighted fires on it, it felt the heat and moved; and in a moment it will sink with you into the depths of the sea and ye will be drowned.

Stand by!Yonder comes a fellow who will lift usheave a strainheave harderheave, body and soul!heave, altogether!"

This construction is improper, and not free from ambiguity; because stand may be a noun, and made, an active verb governing it.

His smothered "Down!" was never heard, for the west stand was a swaying, tumultuous unit of thunderous acclaim.

But, whatever pain I may feel at the step you have taken, I must nevertheless own that as a public man, whose standing and position are matters of public interest and public property, you have judged rightly.

If my eyes make no mistake, and they don't make any, the fine, tall young fellow standing at the edge of the water is our Philadelphia friend, Captain Colden.

Moreover, a substantive standing by itself is usually the equivalent of too abstract an idea for us to conceive properly without delay.

Standing was the antique attitude of prayer; so that if we suppose her to have been interrupted in her devotions, the attitude is still appropriate.

A bird standing at the foot of the tree trying to eat a beetle is rather a failure; it never succeeds in getting its head more than a quarter of an inch down, and that in uncomfortable little jerks, as if it was choking.

In his own small world his social standing is a settled thing, and cannot be injured otherwise than by his own folly or misconduct.

Ah, yet standing were Ilion's Ramparts; nathless the glowing flames Shot from neighbor to neighbor roof, Ever spreading from here and there, with their tempest's fiery blast, Over the night-darkened city.

She was becoming like Miss Prudence, he had decided the matter in the study of these few moments, that attitude when standing was Miss Prudence's, and her position at this moment, the head a little drooping, the hands laid together in her lap, was exactly Miss Prudence's; Miss Prudence's when she was meditating as Marjorie was meditating now.

Standing, as it does, with its summit 14,444 feet above the sea level, it is actually a sentinel for almost the entire State.

23 Metaphors for  standing