95 Metaphors for stars

Thus, again, the evening star is the most beautiful of the stars: not that the parts of which it is composed form a harmonious whole, but thanks to the unalloyed and beautiful brightness which meets our eyes.

Then let me select men whose guiding-star has been the good of their fellow-creatures, or the glory of God, and watch their peaceful useful end on that calm summit that they toiled so honestly to reach.

Byron tells us that the stars are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.

One hundred million stars, and of all these God is King.

It appears that star is only a globe of most subtle flame.

If the stars are a more glorious revelation of the Creator's majesty and might, the flowers are at least as sweet a revelation of his gentler attributes.

Billy had once proudly confided to me that the star was "pure German Silver."

Stars is a common noun, of the third person, plural number, neuter gender, and nominative case.

If the stars are the scriptures of the sky, the flowers are the scriptures of the earth.

China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the islands of Eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull red fire because of the steam and smoke and ashes the volcanoes were spouting forth to salute its coming.

Sometimes he wakened with a start and felt that the stars were the lighted lanterns of a million men searching for him; and sometimes he lay with his head strained high listening to the strange silence of the mountains and the night which has a pulse in it and something whispering, whispering forever in the distance.

Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels;.... till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world....

"We may assume, then, that the blue stars are faint ones, and probably distant ones.

There was no moon, but the mountain stars were the brightest I have ever seen in Europe.

Your so-called ascendant Star, is probly the identikle loominary which; Perfesser DAN BRYANT refers so beautifully to, in his pome of "Shoo-fly.

" The stars are the poetry of heaventhe clouds are the poetry of the middle skythe flowers are the poetry of the earth.

Nothing astonishes me more than to see those whose only guiding star is commerce, considering its interests only from the narrow view of a small momentary profit, and disregarding the threatening combination of next coming events.

The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.

The stars were pin-pricks here and there in the dense sky.

As you take her out to dinner, and watch her there seated before you, a perfumed radiance, a dewy dazzling vision, an evening star swathed in gauzy convolutions of silk and lacecan it be the same creature who an hour or two ago sat primly with notebook and pencil at your desk side, and took down your specification for fireproofing that new steel-constructed building on Broadway?

Stormer's stars are points and therefore his exposure must have been short, yet there is detail in some of his pictures which it seems impossible could have been got with a short exposure.

The North Star is nearer.

When the service was over and we returned to our rooms, morning had advanced a small step; the stars were paler, one just made out the contours of the shadowy crags above us.

So I only asked, if that great star up there was Lyra; but all the time Anodyne, Ambergris, Abner, Albion, Alpheus, and all the names that begin with A, rolled through my memory monotonously and continually.

] SERENADE ARTHUR OLIVER '93 If all the stars were gems, love, And all those gems were mine, I'd give them in exchange, love, For that dear heart of thine.

95 Metaphors for  stars