281 Metaphors for times

The "jolly times" on the Hill were a kind of Elf-land to them, sometimes patent and free, sometimes shrouded in the impalpable and impassable mist that shuts in the fairy region when it wills to be by itself for a time.

[times] a weak-which is Disagreable to mehas Viliant Sperrit when Drunkits been [a] great Dispute in my mind what to Doe,I beleave I shu'd Run all Resksif my Last wife, had been [an] Even temper'd woman, but her Sperrit, has Given me such

Its general time of feeding is the evening; but during the day, if not disturbed, it adheres closely to its form.

Time and chance are but a tide (Ha, ha, the wooing o't!): Slighted love is sair to bide (Ha, ha, the wooing o't!).

The mean time which the blood requires to make a complete circuit is about 23 seconds.

The only time she ever thoroughly enjoyed was the moment of being excessively admired.

If you indulge in a second, avoid drinking any thing Strong, till you have finished your Meal; [at ] the same time abstain from all Sauces, or at least such as are not the most plain and simple.

In this first day's run of thirteen hours, the distance covered by route taken was one hundred and seventy miles; deducting all stops, the actual running time was nine hours and twenty minutes, an average of eighteen miles per hour while the machine was in motion.

And then she was frightened, for he was "no carpet knight so trim," to whom cognac, and cigars, and time would be a balm: this man was essentially dramatic, a dangerous character, an article with which she was unfamiliar.

The singular break in the high land on the latter, bearing East 1/2 North is a distant guide to the anchorage, in which the flood-tide sets to the northward, and when aided by the current, attains a strength of a knot and a half; the time of high-water, is a quarter of an hour later than at Refuge Cove.

Then some time between Christmas and New-Year came the Christmas pantomime at the Tivoli, with its bewildering array of scantily clad fairies and dashing Amazons and languishing princes in pale-blue tights; to say nothing of the Queen Charlottes consumed between acts through faintly yellow straws.

Wasting is a participle, governed by of; and time is a noun, governed by wasting.

When within 250 yards of the Highlanders another flash of fire swept out along the line, and this time so great was the effect that the Russian squadrons recoiled, and in another minute were galloping back towards their main body, while a cheer ran along the heights from the marine battery to Sebastopol.

Byron refers to it in the lines: Like friar Bacon's brazen head, I've spoken, "Time is, time was, time's past

The citizens of each State unite in their persons all the privileges which that character confers and all that they may claim as citizens of the United States, but in no case can the same persons at the same time act as the citizen of two separate States, and he is therefore positively precluded from any interference with the reserved powers of any State but that of which he is for the time being a citizen.

Fourth, Not to take up anything which of necessity forestalls a great quantity of time, but to have this sound ever ringing in our ears: "Time is flyingtime that can never be retrieved.

But the time of Pindar, of Aeschylus, of Sophocles, of Pheidias, of Polygnotos, was that happy interval when Hellas had beaten off the barbarian from her throat and had not yet murdered herself.

The total time for the series was forty-five minutes, the total number of choices, eighty-eight.

The bombardment was onthe time was 12.07 Wednesday midnight.

The time was summer; the place, the La Bassée region.

Perhaps it could never die, and Time and Distance are perhaps merely illusions, and you and I have never been apart.

The time of the Presidential canvass which elected Mr. Lincoln was the crisis of this great battle.

Tom Taggart stood behind his bar, The time was fall, the skies was fa'r, The neighbors round the counter drawed, And ca'mly drinked and jawed.

Kant advances four proofs for the position that space and time are not empirical and not concepts, but pure intuitions: (1) Time is not an empirical concept which has been abstracted from experience.

Here is St. George shipwrecked, floating on a raft, and half starved, when this impudent little yacht, that seems, by the way she flies about, to know the soundings of all harbours by special intuitionthis impudent little yacht comes and looks round the corner of every wave, and actually overhauls the high seas till she finds him, and there the first time he opens his eyes is that sweet, quaint piece of innocence leaning over him.

281 Metaphors for  times