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Asquith's shame does not consist in the mere fact that he has announced his intention to ... Metaphorical measuring, like literal, requires a more accommodating instrument than a stubborn fact. B. Overdone Metaphor
Bloomfield, the children, and me, desiring me to cut up the children's meat; then, after twisting about the mutton in various directions, and eyeing it from different points, he pronounced it not fit to be eaten, and called for the cold beef. 'What is the matter with the mutton, my dear? asked his mate. 'It is quite overdone. Don't you taste, Mrs.
He was particular in the article of gloves, and the getting up of his shirts was a matter not lightly thought of in the Ullathorne laundry. On the occasion of the present visit he had rather overdone his usual efforts, and caused some little uneasiness to his sister, who had not hitherto received very cordially the proposition for a lengthened visit from the signora at Ullathorne.
We've overdone it the first day, and you're tired." "I ain't tired." His sympathy brought audible sobs; the girl's shoulders began to heave. "Well, I am," the mother complained. "I'm wore to the bone. Allie! You dry up an' stop that snivelin' so we kin go home and I kin let my feet swell, an' scream."
Captain Brisac was much too gentlemanly to swear. He simply turned to the first lieutenant and said, "We have rather overdone it this time, Sennitt; however, it is no use crying over spilt milk, so turn the hands up, please, and let them clear away the wreck, and repair damages as soon as possible."
He worked up to the situation with some skill; but, after all, with that overdone passion which, as I have already said, spoils some of his greatest effects he did not expose the mistake in his first few sentences. He worked up the agony, so to speak. First he recalled to the Liberals whose hatred to him he feels and returns with interest the fact that they had cheered Mr.
"What were you saying?" she asked. "What's this?" "What were you thinking about?" said he. "I wasn't thinking," she answered, with her slow sweet smile of self-concealment. "I was feeling living the past. I was watching the procession." He nodded understandingly. "That's a kind of time-wasting that can easily be overdone." "Easily," she agreed. "Still, there's the lesson.
His eyes were filmed with a preoccupation too profound to be dispelled by the mock anxiety upon the chubby round countenance which Morehouse thrust through that small aperture between door and frame, or his excessively overdone caution as he swung the door wider and tiptoed over the threshold, to stand and point a rigidly stubby finger behind him at the trail of nail prints which Young Denny's shoes had left across the glistening wax an hour or so earlier.
"Aren't you overdone?" the little girl asked her. "No indeed," answered the woman. "I'm neither overdone nor done over; I'm just Mrs. Over, and I'm the President of the Bunbury Breakfast Band." Dorothy thanked them for their hospitality and went away. At the gate Mr. Cinnamon Bunn met her and said he would show her around the town.
Each room has its uses, to which the window must conform as nearly as may be, and then the outward appearance of the house must not be forgotten. It is often made or marred by the character and placing of the windows. Leaded or art glass is attractive if not overdone. Small panes are difficult to keep clean, of course; but we can probably endure that if all else be equal.
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