68 Metaphors for visitors

Some days after, when Mrs. Bargrave, having discovered that the visitor was a ghost, has gone about telling her neighbors, Defoe observes, 'Drelincourt's Book on Death is, since this happened, bought up strangely,'" This masterpiece of Defoe is before its time by a hundred years; nothing can be found in the realm of the English prose short-story to approach it in symmetry until the Ettrick Shepherd commenced to write.

At a banquet given by the Highbrow Club in the evening the illustrious visitor was the principal guest.

His visitor, and the one who had ordered the servant to leave the side door unlocked, had been the samenot Natalie Coolidge, but strangely resembling her.

The solitary visitor was H.M.S. Pelorus from the Indian station.

The other daily was the Democratic Post, conducted by a Catholic, and virtually the Bishop's organ; and to meet this attack on the very foundations of civil liberty, the Visitor, a weekly, was the only representative of the secular press.

My other visitor, who came a day or two later, was a very different type of man.

One visitor who interested us most was the Norwegian novelist and republican, Bjornstjorne Bjornson.

But at this point the visitors stayed further progress long enough to have the pigskin ovoid come to them by a block.

The visitor is at a losswhen suddenly the round, motherly face changes.

The visitor was George Talboys, and he opened his arms to his lost friend with a cry of delight and surprise.

"Now, if that belated visitor had been Mr. Timothy Beddingfieldtall, lean, dry as dust, with a bird-like beak and clean-shaven chinno one could for a moment have mistaken his faceeven if they only saw it very casually and recollected it but very dimlywith that of young Lord Brockelsby, who was florid and rather shortthe only point in common between them was their Saxon hair.

The beggars seated on the doorsteps watched him curiously, without daring to stretch out their hands; they could not tell if this early morning visitor with the worn-out cloak, the shabby hat, and the old boots, was simply an inquisitive traveller, or whether he was one of their own order, choosing a position about the Cathedral from whence to beg alms.

Visitors in the house or invitations out of it, were welcome breaks, and the whirl of society which vaguely alarmed Joanna Bowater was a relief to the inhabitants of the Hall.

If tired ghosts of departed barristers were haunting the dingy room in Hare Court that night, they must have blinked and quivered for sheer pleasure at what they saw, for Mr. Van Torp's visitor was a very fine creature to look at; and if ghosts can hear, they heard that her voice was sweet and low, like an evening breeze and flowing water in a garden, even in the Garden of Eden.

Such a visitor was Lady Hickory.

Her visitors in the afternoon were elderly men of leisure, who enjoyed talking with so bright a girl on their favorite hobbies.

Their first visitor, so far as we know, was Diego Rodriguez de Figueroa, who wrote an interesting account of Uiticos and says he gave the Inca a pair of scissors.

The first visitor was Marmaduke Milestone, Esq., a picturesque landscape gardener of the first celebrity, who promised himself the glorious achievement of polishing and trimming the rocks of Llanberris.

The usual visitor to St. Anna is here a grand female figure, in voluminous drapery.

For Brother Paul the visitor was not a particular individual.

Occasional visits were paid by Mr. and Mrs. Hilary, but another visitor, much more to Mr. dowry's taste, was Mr. Flosky, a very lachrymose and morbid gentleman, of some note in the literary world, with a very fine sense of the grim and the tearful.

A visitor at this time is authority for the statement that the master "often works with his men himselfstrips off his coat and labors like a common man.

In a word, the two visitors were Carlo Giuntotardi and his gentle niece.

A visitor from the great London world was so rare an event that there was naturally a little excitement in the idea of Lady Kirkbank's arrival.

The first visitors were hunters, simply wandering in search of game, not with any settled purpose of exploration.

68 Metaphors for  visitors