1413 Metaphors for such

" Such were the lettersamong the most beautiful ever penned by loverwhich the King addressed to his "Menon" in those golden days, when all the world was sunshine for him, black as the sky was still with the clouds of war.

Such is the glorious ideal which the extreme South hoped to attain by its union with the North, and which it now seeks to attain by its separation.

Such was the welcome Bedient met, that for a moment, he was unable to speak.

"Such is the noble, uncomplaining nature," said the eminent counsel, in reference to this fact, "of the woman that Fate has thrown into the arms of a fiend.

Her admirers (such was his happiness!) were not jealous of him; but, pleased with that wit in him which they had not, were always for calling him to her.

50 Such was the charge on pious Michal brought, Michal that ne'er was cruel, even in thought, The best of queens, and most obedient wife, Impeach'd of cursed designs on David's life!

© 19Oct33; B205231. Morley Callaghan (A); 10Jan61; R269168. Such is my beloved.

Such were the room's appointments; there was but one thing more, a singular bit of fantastic carving,a small table of dark mahogany supported on the upward-writhing images of three scaly serpents.

Such is the drift of Mill’s main argument.

If such was the failure in the British West Indies, the change in conditions in the United States was even greater; for the rise of the cotton industry concurred with the prohibition of the African trade to enhance immensely the preciousness of slaves and to increase in similar degree the financial obstacle to a sweeping abolition.

Such was the adversary, with such advantages of nationality and of person, against whom Francis I., without any political necessity, and for the sole purpose of indulging an ambitious vision and his own kingly self-esteem, was about to engage in a struggle which was to entail a heavy burden on his whole life, and bring him not in triumph to Constantinople, but in captivity to Madrid.

Such were the strains, by antient Orpheus sung.

Such were the prominent actors in the campaign.

Such is that drunkenness which Ficinus speaks of, when the soul is elevated and ravished with a divine taste of that heavenly nectar, which poets deciphered by the sacrifice of Dionysius, and in this sense with the poet, insanire lubet, as Austin exhorts us, ad ebrietatem se quisque paret, let's all be mad and drunk.

Such was the tone in which they spoke of this affair to the people, though they were, at the same time, far from ignorant how much their strength had been diminished, in every respect, by the loss of Carthage.

And still more worke of blood we must expect; Like Hydra's Heads by cutting off they double; As seed that multiplies, such are their dead Next Moone a sheafe of Christians in ones stead.

Such was her fancy, and no one dared say her nay.

What these two honest and affectionate fellows meant by thus maintaining their post, I did not know, it is true; but such was my conjecture.

Such were the emperors who from a private station arrived at the empire by corrupting the soldiery.

[150] Such was the plea of the Maréchal de Biron during his imprisonment in the Bastille.

Such were the moral precepts of Epictetus, in which we see the nearest approach to Christianity that had been made in the ancient world, although there is no proof or probability that he knew anything of Christ or the Christians.

It may seem as if Jefferson was attempting the impossible feat of trying to ride at one time two horses going in opposite directions, but such was his dexterity that in appearance he was largely successful.

A native dog had left a litter of pups under a heap of stones not eighteen inches beneath our feet, but such was the sharpness and ponderability of the fragments of rock that it fairly baffled our attempts to unhouse them.

Such was Caroline Lucretia Herschel; and as such she was a remarkable proof that the rarest womanly gifts of affectionate forethought and loving devotion may exist in combination with intellectual strength and scientific enthusiasm.

Such are all propositions wherein the genus is predicated of the species, or more comprehensive of less comprehensive terms.

1413 Metaphors for  such