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Definition of the day : « metaphor »
- noun figure of speech, implied comparison
- The metaphor might be meaningless; but it struck him it was strong.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 » by Various
- Now, it is this sense of the solidity of things that can only be uttered by the metaphor of eating.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- But the metaphor is more striking as phrase-making than as criticism.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- Instinctively, metaphor sprang to the lips of Ichabod Maurice.
- Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
- Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
- Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In spite of herself, Beatrix laughed at the logical application of her metaphor.
- Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
- She found the cat, in the way of metaphor, a mysteriously useful animal.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- He might, under the circumstances, have been expected to use some other metaphor.
- Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham
- This metaphor, from the swelling and heaving of a wave, is imitated by Arrian, Anab.
- Extract from : « The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis » by Xenophon
- Bishop looked a little grave when Kenyon dropped into metaphor.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 » by Various