44 Metaphors for whom

In respect to the case, the phrase than who is similar to than he, than they, &c., as has been observed by many grammarians; but, since than is a conjunction, and who or whom is a relative, it is doubtful whether it can be strictly proper to set two such connectives together, be the case of the latter which it may.

Tall, graceful as always, with a magnetic force behind his languor, he impressed Kate as a man whom few women would be able to resist; whom, indeed, it was a sort of folly, perhaps even an impiety, to cast out of one's life.

Having cooled a little from this "fine passion," our youthful poet passes very naturally into a long strain of foaming abuse against a certain class of English Poets, whom, with Pope at their head, it is much the fashion with the ignorant unsettled pretenders of the present time to undervalue.

Of whom, then? Over whom is the cry of this furor of exultation? While they are skipping and screaming, and dancing their caps on the points of Swords and bayonets, I to the outskirts back, and ask a Mercantile-seeming bystander, "What is it?"

On the way they met some young men, among whom was Broad Breast, a chief's son who was looking for a pretty girl to be his wife.

Whom were these mysterious telegrams from?

Beside him rode a stout Saxon franklin, Ellen's father, Edward of Deirwold; behind those two came a litter borne by two horses, and therein was a maiden whom Robin knew must be Ellen.

To throw herself into the arms of the man whose intercourse she was employing every method to avoid, and whom, under the idea of a partner for life, she could least of all men endure, was, no doubt, an extraordinary proceeding.

Sir Richard, finding himself in this condition after fifteen hours' hard fighting, and having received about eight hundred shots from great guns, besides various assaults from the enemy, and seeing, moreover, no way by which he might prevent his ship falling into the hands of the Spanish, commanded the master gunner, whom he knew was a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship.

Others have formed unions, which assemble at the house of each member in turn and spend a few hours in singing the "maulud" or hymns on the birth of the Prophet (upon whom be peace).

Anyhow, he is shadowing Jones, whom he suspects is a thief.

In the Regimental Hospital, the surgeon may be seen going from the man who has lost a finger to a fever patient,and then to one who has ophthalmia,passing on to a fellow raving in delirium tremens,next to whom is a sufferer under bronchitis, who will not be allowed to go out of doors for weeks to come; and if half a dozen are brought in with cholera in the course of the day, the officials do not know which way to turn.

Behind the covert, where this temple stands, Thick as the shades, there issue swarming bands Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress, To be Taxallan enemies I guess.

And yet another dame there is, her enemy, 'Twixt whom remains continual emulation: Virtue who, in respect of Fortune's sovereignty, Is held, God wot, of simple reputation; Yet hither

To whom are school taxes paid?

One of his servantsamong whom were unruly spirits, apparently selected with a kind of Corsair bravado,had made an assault on Count Pietro, wounding him in the face.

I asked you then to give me the full Christian and surname of the man whom the neighborhood and I myself thought was your nephew ... and to my surprise, you seemed to hesitate and ..." "

O most gracious God, let me never forget the many good things that I have heard this day; but let them abide in my heart, so that I may amend my life, that I may be able to give a good account of them to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, when He comes to judge the world at the Last Day, for whose sake I ask all blessings, and to whom be glory forever and ever!

She fixed her cold direct regard on the man who rode with them, and whom, she knew, must be Diego Estenega, for he was their guest.

Than whom is as bad a phrase as 'he is taller than him.'

Their names were, Sagetone, Otagami, Kakabisha, Annimikence, and Nawa-jiwienoceto whom was afterwards added Kewaynokwut, the leader of the party.

She it is who brings up the speck of mud from the bottom of the primal ocean, and from this speck the world is formed by him whom we now see was the Lord of the Light and the Day, and subsequently she becomes the mother of his sons.

And the law of nature requires that children, whom their parents, being slaves, cannot maintain, should be slaves like them.

Couldn't yer come an' stop wid me, or isn't my house sniptious 'nuff?" "Yes, thank you; but there is a young lady in town whom I think is my niece, my sister's daughter, and I want to be with her all I can.

Some grammarians(among whom are Lowth, Dalton, Cobbett, and Cardell) recognize only three tenses, or "times," of English verbs; namely, the present, the past, and the future.

44 Metaphors for  whom