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In both cases it is "wound or wrapped around" and rapidly unrolled, and the same simile. The following poem on Glooskap may be appropriately placed in this work. Bathed in the sunshine still as of yore Stretches the peaceful Acadian shore; Fertile meadows and fields of grain Smile as they drink the summer rain.
Well, it is a very pretty simile. The girls were rivals, were beautiful, I loved them both, which should have the sprig of heath? Mr. In the background is a certain animal between two bundles of hay; but that I take to represent the critic, puzzled to which of my young beauties to assign the choice.
I was brought up all at once, "with a round turn," like a horse in full gallop pulled back on his haunches; or, "all standing," as a boat with her head to the wind whichever simile you may best prefer.
Her voice was inexpressibly soft; it was, according to that incomparable simile of Otway's, "like the shepherd's pipe upon the mountains, When all his little flock's at feed before him." The effect it had upon Harley, himself used to paint ridiculously enough; and ascribed it to powers, which few believed, and nobody cared for.
He polished one of the needles on a soft square of new chamois-leather while he spoke, as if to give point and illustration to his simile. I went out from him, much perturbed. The Sebastian I had once admired and worshipped was beginning to pass from me; in his place I found a very complex and inferior creation. My idol had feet of clay. I was loth to acknowledge it.
"Not at all a bad simile either," laughed Redgrave, as he got up from his chair with a yawn and a stretch of his long limbs, "still, it's as well that you said celestial, for, after all, that's about the best word we've found yet. Certainly the Ringed World is the most nearly heavenly thing we've seen so far. "But," he went on, "I think it's about time we were stopping this headlong fall of ours.
In their instance the old adage of Aristotle, simile gaudet simili, was exemplified to the letter; and the union confirmed in each a mind which, originally impatient of authority, fretted itself against the frame of society, simply because that frame was the result of order.
A moment later a soldier approached the buffet. She leaned over, smiling, as gentle as she had been fierce and malignant a moment before, making a picture, as she put some mustard on a sandwich for him, which recalled that of the Frenchwoman among the wounded in the freight shed at Calais a simile which would anger them both.
Think what such would be to one who merited and repaid her devotion." "Perhaps the very reverse," said the Duke; "and for your simile, I can see little resemblance. I cannot charge my spaniel with any perfidy; but for my mistresses to confess truth, I must always be in a cursed hurry if I would have the credit of changing them before they leave me."
"This is a beauty of a frock," said he. "I can't tell you what you look like in it; I've been trying to find a simile all the evening. Yet it's not the clothes that become you; you become the clothes." "Thank you. That's a dear compliment from a husband." "It's sincere. You've worn such clothes a lot, in your life, before I knew you. You are used to them at home in them.
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