724 Metaphors for words

He puts upon the sidewalk a blind man who intones a song of which the profane words are a kind of response to the prayers for the dying.

The police have too many things against me for my word to be any good as a witness.

Speaking of the words right and just, the latter says, "They are applicable only to man; to whom alone language belongs, and of whose sensations only words are the representatives.

But though the blunders elbow one another in tumultuous fashion, not therefore all words and phrases supposed to be such are blunders.

The word alas! is an interjection.

There may be phrases which shall be palaces to dwell in, treasure-houses to explore; a single word may be a window from which one may perceive all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them.

The words Et cum spiritu tuo add a new and further significance to the salutation; for it is the spirit, the human soul, that prays, and when the spirit prays in the name of the Church for her children, its work is a work of high spiritual order, demanding the use of all the soul's powers, Oremus.

"I mean Mr. James Greely, the son of the president of the Millings National Bank," he said painstakingly, and a queer confusion came to him that the words were his feet and that neither were under his control.

My Marian wanteth words, such is her woe; But old Fitzwater, for his girl and him, Begs nothing but world's plague for such a foe, Which causeless harm'd a virtuous nobleman, A pitier of his griefs, when he felt grief.

The German words which mean the same are haus, vater, mutter, bruder, wasser, hier, ist.

But Benvenuto says nothing of the sort; his words are, "Idest, ubi erant majores Haeretici, vel ratione scientiae, vel potentiae.

It is possible that Stevenson's words here are an unconscious reminiscence of Colley Cibber's letter to the novelist Richardson.

The whole phrase is a remarkable one and the verbal coincidence exact, the words that follow are an easy and natural abridgment.

Whether in the 20th Article these words are not inserted;'Habet Ecclesia auctoritatem in controversiis fidei'.

" Inscrutable indeed in the case to which the words were appliedno other than an instance of death by starvation, which occurred in Edinburgh in the year we have just mentioned.

The sun 'ad just gone down and the wood looked very quiet and dark, but John Biggs, the blacksmith, and George Kettle walked in first and the others follered, keeping so close together that Sam Jones 'ad a few words over his shoulder with Bill Chambers about the way 'e was carrying 'is pitchfork.

I, with the Doctor Seraphic, maintain, That a word which is only conceived in the brain Is a type of eternal Generation; The spoken word is the Incarnation.

That word was Gibraltar.

I liked best "Le Bon Roi Pomare," the words of one of the many stanzas being: Il était un excellent roi Dont on ne dit rien dans l'histoire, Qui ne connaissait qu'une Loi: Celle de chanter, rire, et boire.

The Assyrian word is "Amanu."

[Footnote 130: The word for this cheque is perscriptio.

His words were, O prince Ajatsatru, (if vanquished), thou shalt have with all thy brothers, to dwell, to the knowledge of all men, for twelve years in the forest of thy choice, passing the thirteenth year in secrecy.

Slowly we found the words telling that there rested the body of Elizabeth Hollingshorst, whose husband, Thomas Hollingshorst, was a shipmaster; that her father was Mr. Piner Gordon of the family of Tilliangus in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; and that she died November 30, 1728.

The Tagalog word is literally "hash.

But if it will console or help at all, know this," and the words were underlinedas indeed were many words in Violet Oliver's letters"that I never was good enough for you

724 Metaphors for  words