Religion must not let truth appear in its naked form; or, to use a medical simile, it must not exhibit it pure, but must employ a mythical vehicle, a medium, as it were.

Mr. Van Torp did not hesitate to borrow similes from another world when his rather limited command of refined language was unequal to the occasion.

"Only this man ought to be a fresco," she told herself as she followed out the picture-simile.

Let us take from the same poem another passage, containing the famous simile: "...

Thus he says, that whoever will compare the fac-similes of the document known as "The Certificate of the Blackfriars Players" with those which he gives of two passages in the folio "will surely entertain no doubt that one hand wrote both.

In the meantime he pushed the war into Africa, or, to change the simile, determined to lead his people out of the land of bondage, as exemplified by Drury Lane, and settle down in a new theatre.

" "Oh, no," said the doctor; "to continue the dental simile, they are the last aches of your youthful mentality, forced to make way for the intellect of a woman.

Homines nihil agendo male agere discunt; 'tis Aristotle's simile, "as match or touchwood takes fire, so doth an idle person love."

And here I must observe, that when Milton alludes either to Things or Persons, he never quits his Simile till it rises to some very great Idea, which is often foreign to the Occasion that gave Birth to it.

He saw a bundle of uprooted plants beside the portmanteau of a fellow-passenger and it suggested a grotesque simile.

In native poetry, it furnishes a simile for pretty eyes, and is held to be sacred to Vishnu.

Here is where I receive my clients; here is where they receive their daily loaf, if you will pardon the simile.

I am sorry to be obliged to disabuse the reader of the romance and oriental colouring attached to our ideas of the harem, by giving Madame Bousac's simile of those angelic houries.

In Homer they are frequent, but Anglo-Saxon verse is too abrupt and rapid in the succession of images to employ the expanded simile.

I made the image of my Majesty: I wrote on it the glory of the god Assur, my Master, I erected many fac-similes of it in Izirti, the town of his royalty.

But, on the contrary, Mr. Parry says that Mr. Collier showed him no book; that he exhibited only fac-similes; that he (Mr. Parry) was, on the occasion in question, unable to hold a book, as his hands were occupied with two sticks, by the assistance of which he was limping along the road.

In three lines of an old Celtic death song, we find three similes: "Black as the raven was his brow; Sharp as a razor was his spear; White as lime was his skin.

and I cannot hope to escape being aspersed with comparisons to ice and iron, but it does not become us to be flinging these venerable similes in each other's faces.

[Footnote 3: A lovely simile indeed. "Tanto lieta Ch' arder parea d'amor nel primo foco.

If we compare a tree to a person, a beehive to a schoolroom, or time to a river, we may form a good simile, since the things compared do not belong to the same class.

And always these vague flights of fancy had ended at this precise pointincinerated, if you will grant me the simile, by the sudden flaming of her cheeks.

Who but Paul would have thought of so grotesque a simile?

I was delighted with the pretty creaturewith its soft eyes and dappled coat; but having often heard the simile, "as wild as a fawn," I did not anticipate much success in taming it.

We here insert a fac-simile of a sketch called "Paris and his Playthings.

"If you imagine this is a time for juggling similes," he returned swiftly, "you're making the mistake of your life.