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Having been primed as to the magnitude of the railway vote in Noonoon, first move was to throw a bone to it, and, metaphorically speaking, he got down on his knees to this section of the electors, and howled and squealed that all civil servants' wages would be left as they were.
The rest of the crew being metaphorically as well as literally in the same boat, the consignee's agent, on the trow's arrival at Bristol, hinted at a more than alliterative connection between china and chests, which he was proceeding to search when Onions objected, very rightly urging that he had no warrant. "Is it a warrant you're wanting?" demanded the baffled agent.
The word "species," on the other hand, denotes a peculiar congeries of characters, innate powers and qualities, and a certain nature realized indeed in individuals, but having no separate existence, except ideally as a thought in some mind. Thus the birth of a "species" can only be compared metaphorically, and very imperfectly, with that of an "individual."
To murder defenceless prisoners; to drink, not metaphorically but literally, the heart's blood of an enemy; to exercise a devilish ingenuity in inventions of mutual torture, became not only a duty but a rapture. The Liberty of the Netherlands had now been hunted to its lair.
It was late in the afternoon when the travelling-chariot of this distinguished person, preceded by two outriders, in the earl's undress livery of dark green, stopped at the hall door of Warlock House. The squire was at home, actually and metaphorically; for he never dreamed of denying himself to any one, gentle or simple.
I should cut a fine figure, metaphorically, if not arithmetically speaking; whereas my farthing rush-light is now sputtering, clinkering, and guttering to waste, and all because I have not a pair of silver snuffers. If you wish me to move the world, produce your lever! Your wealthy bard has at least audience; and if he cannot sing, he may thank his own hoarse throat, and not the Destinies.
For his chance was gone and his fate fixed. Presently a hansom cab came rattling down the street and pulled up at the door. "Now for it," said Mr. Quest to himself as he metaphorically shook himself together. Next minute he heard a voice, which he knew only too well, a loud high voice say from the cab, "Well, open the door, stupid, can't you?"
One afternoon, in the week following the disappearance, or, as Larcher preferred to call it, non-appearance, that gentleman, having just sat down in a north-bound Sixth Avenue car, glanced over the first page of an evening paper one of the yellow brand which he had bought a minute before. All at once he was struck in the face, metaphorically speaking, by a particular set of headlines.
If it is metaphorically the destiny of humanity, it is literally the experience of an actor, that one man in his time plays many parts. A player of any standing must at various times have sounded the gamut of human sensibility from the lowest note to the top of its compass.
Thane was metaphorically "kicking himself" because time was passing and he could not find words delicate enough in which to clothe an indelicate request, one outrageous in its present connection, yet from some points of view, definitively his own, a most urgent and natural one. "For one shall grasp, and one resign, And God shall make the balance good."
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