127 Metaphors for whole

However, I cannot find among them what is worth twenty-five ducats, the whole being a jumble of rascally work.

They have given a new spring to my existence, and shed over my whole being sweet and hallowed enjoyments.

The whole will be fire-proof, the floors being divided by plate-iron archings upon cast-iron bearings.

The whole of Palestine became the border-land of the Assyrian empire, easy to be invaded and liable to be conquered.

The whole is the history of one continuous and sublime conversation.

In his Introduction to Wither's "Hallelujah," for instance, Mr. Farr informs us that "nearly all the best poets of the latter half of the sixteenth centuryfor that was the period when the Reformation was fully establishedand the whole of the seventeenth century were sacred poets," and that "even Shakspeare and the contemporary dramatists of his age sometimes attuned their well-strung harps to the songs of Zion."

Indeed the whole of his work is a symphony of feeling, a song of Love, and forms a curious reaction against the exaltation of reason and logic in scholasticism.

Then the hero demanded that the whole of his part should only be retorts on making his exit, for these the public applauded; the prima donna would only play in a red light, for that suited her bestshe would not be blue: they were all like flies in a bottle, and I was also in the bottlefor I was the manager.

Others are distributed farther back, over a zone perhaps ten miles deep, crisscrossed with telephone-wires, and so arranged with assembling stations, reserves, and sub-reserves that the whole is a closely knit organism all the way up to the front.

My whole is a useless expense, and sits at Washington.

Perhaps you would do the fisherman well, and the huntsman ill; and if you fail anywhere, the whole is a failure, however good single parts may be, and you have not produced a perfect work.

The whole is Pagan in its pride and sensuality, its prodigality of strength and insolence of freedom.

The whole was a fiction, (no new trick for a fireside tourist,) for Mrs. Radcliffe had never seen Haddon Hall.

She might live until she were seventy or eighty, in the natural course of events, and the whole of life would be one long, dreary waste if she might not have her Love.

The 'whole,' which is its experience, would then be its unifying reaction on our experiences, and not those very experiences self-combined.

RED SAUCE.Pare and slice a large red beet, and simmer gently in three cups of water for twenty minutes, or until the water is rose colored, then add two cups of sugar, the thin yellow rind and juice of one lemon, and boil until the whole is thick syrup.

The whole of the back country was one great rolling distance of glacier, and, wherever a crevice or gorge in the riven cliffs afforded an opportunity, this ocean of land-ice sent down spurs into the sea, the extremities of which were constantly shedding off huge bergs into the water.

It continued two days in session; when, after a strict scrutiny into the complaint, article by article of the nineteen specific charges, the board were of opinion that "the whole and every article thereof was groundless, false, and malicious."

Consequently, the whole of the surplus, after replacing wages, is profits.

At seven o'clock in the morning the whole of the Russian troops were safely across the bridge, which was then dismembered and the boats which composed it taken over to the north side.

Greatly relieved to find that the whole of this ghastly group were strangers to him, Mr. Bloundel thanked the chirurgeon, and departed.

And that this knowledge had been gained surreptitiously, in stolen moments and brief experiences at the expense of the whole of her reverence for religion, the whole of her faith in men's purity, was not poor Victorine's fault, only her misfortune; but the result was no less disastrous to her morals.

Its red and white stripes had faded and the colour run until the whole was a dingy "crushed strawberry" shade.

In the same way we must remember that the appearance of two stories externally, while the whole is one room, is due to the Banqueting-House being only one of four intended blocks, of which one was to be a chapel surrounded by galleries, and the other two divided into two tiers of apartments.

The whole of the surrounding region being composed of ferruginous rocks and their débris, it would not, indeed, have been an easy matter to trace the march of an army by their footsteps.

127 Metaphors for  whole