1 He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
2 My metaphor was drawn from fruits.
3 There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.
4 Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.
5 I'm merely speaking metaphorically.
6 These hideous and delicate products of wonderful art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry.
7 A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 8 Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all.
9 There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids and as subtle in colour.
10 Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage sense to the metaphorical sense.
11 Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.