155 Metaphors for uses

The use of conjugial love is the most excellent of all uses, 183, 305.

She did not like to show herself, and asked of what use would be a mirror, only to impress her more deeply with her misfortune; but when he wept, her heart was moved, and she consented, to please him. *

The first use which we make of our heart is a crime; our first desires. are passions; and our reason only expands and increases on the wrecks of our innocence.

As to the other illustration, is the reviewer so complete an optimist as to insist that the arrangement and the weapon are wholly perfect (quoad the insect) the normal use of which often causes the animal fatally to injure or to disembowel itself?

The frequent use of the latter was certainly a remnant of Popery which never admitted Scripture in the vulgar language; and I wonder, that practice was never accordingly objected to us by the fanatics.

But thus use, labor of each for all, is the health and virtue of all beings.

But the use of a word in common speech is only the resultant of its use by individual men and women, and particularly by those who accept it as a party name.

Of what use are these strange little pincers or rods?

USE and MISUSE of the POSSESSIVE CASE.It is sometimes a question whether to use the possessive form or the preposition of.

What think you has been its object?" "Its present use is plain, and its former use can be no great mystery.

It is sometimes urged that enlightened self-interest will lead the men who have acquired large holdings of public lands to put them to their most productive use, and it is said with truth that this best use is the tillage of small areas by small owners.

The present comprehensive use of the term is but an extension of the Middle-Age division of the liberal arts into the Trivium,Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectics,and the Quadrivium,Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy,as expressed in the verse, "Lingus, tropus, ratio, numerus, tenor, angulus, astra.

It would thus clearly appear to have been of gravel concrete, the use of which the manufacturers of cement are now telling us, is the badge of the modern progressive farmer.

Even at that time, the use of tea must have become an article of constant and extensive consumption in China, as the emperor derived a large revenue from the tax on that article.

There was an element of danger, it was true, but to deprive any of the boys of arms on what promised an exciting day's sport was contrary to their creed and occupation; besides, their judicious use would be an essential and valuable assistance.

muttered Myndert; "of what use is an established correspondence, if it is to be broken on account of a little cheapening? But produce thy stores, Mr. Dogmatism; I warrant me the fashions are of some rejected use, or that the color of the goods be impaired by the usual negligence of thy careless mariners.

The first use made of her victories over the Turks was the occupation of northern Albania, her only possible outlet to the sea so long as Dalmatia remains in Austrian hands.

Some travelers have thought that 14,000 feet is above the tree line, but the presence of these trees at Santa Rosa would seem to show that the use of the words "tree line" is a misnomer in the Andes.

Whilst demanding on the part of the third estate this modest attitude, the princes let fall threatening expressions, the use of which had been a lost practice to the royal house since the days of the Fronde.

However, we must bear in mind that in all such cases the use of a wheel may be merely a mechanical device to facilitate the operation of fire-making by increasing the friction; it need not have any symbolical significance.

Of what use is hair to animals?

Of what use are angles and faces?

The use of the Latin language is a significant compliment.

" "But vat use is dat?

"Of what use was Madame's warning?

155 Metaphors for  uses