Nor are they common puns, but words used at once in their literal and metaphorical sense: Or stain her honour or her new brocade.
The incident of the garden-hose, and of my giving him a shower-bath with it the other evening; and how Aunt Anastasia had poured added cold water over him in a metaphorical manner of speaking.
Even some of the metaphorical phrases in which he figures forth the pursuit of truth seem to be taken from mountain adventure[359].
Ornamental epithets, metaphorical phrases, and the substitution of abstract for concrete words, occur much more frequently.
If these metaphorical phrases had been mere translations, they would, as thus applied, have had no meaning to a Roman audience.
In a very great line Mr. Kipling has spoken of a metaphorical ship-- With a drogue of dead convictions to keep her head to gale.
But, almost immediately, the metaphorical cloven foot and false dice appear.
In fact, to get any appropriate metaphorical description of it one has to change the terminology altogether.
The very word mystery, according to Demetrius Phalereus, was a metaphorical expression that denoted the secret awe which darkness and gloom inspired.
Faire la barbe is to shave, or trim the beard; but Chaucer translates the phrase literally, at least when he uses it in its metaphorical sense.
In the metaphorical sense, blow is used for sudden, stunning, staggering calamity or sorrow; stroke for sweeping disaster, and also for sweeping achievement and success.
The metaphorical sense of beat, however, so far preponderates that one may be very badly bruised and battered, and yet not be said to be beaten, unless he has got the worst of the beating.
With what implication is it always used in themetaphorical sense?
In metaphorical use, how are harsh and bitter distinguished?
Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.
We have seen finally that if the assertion that all relations modify their terms is to be understood as equivalent to the assertion that all are internal, "modify" must be understood in some metaphorical sense.
This is the proposition which I wish to suggest as giving the metaphorical meaning of "P modifies A," of which we are in search.
And what I am maintaining is that the metaphorical sense of "modify," in which it is maintained that all relational properties modify the subjects which possess them, can be defined by reference to this sense of "follows.
There is no doubt that those who maintain this dogma mean to maintain that all relational properties are related in a peculiar way to the terms which possess them--that they modify or are internal to them, in some metaphorical sense.
Our question is then: What is the metaphorical sense of "modify" in which the proposition that all relations are internal is equivalent to the proposition that all relational properties "modify" the terms which possess them?
Among the English poets, Wordsworth probably stands next to Shakespeare in the frequency, felicity, originality, and strength of his metaphorical language.
Thus, instead of fully forming a simile, he merely suggests it; throwing in just enough of it to start the thoughts on that track, and then condensing the whole into a semi-metaphorical shape.
The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their metaphorical acceptations, yet must be inserted for the sake of a regular origination.
Nowadays all this metaphorical meaning is gone, except to the eye of the grammarian.
In each case the meaningless word came from the meaning word, and was first used as a sort of metaphor, and then the metaphorical part was lost sight of.
We might perhaps point out that a slight shade of difference may be assumed to exist between "labyrinth" and "maze," even when these words are used in their metaphorical sense.
It had long been used in a metaphorical sense, even as we find Plato, over four centuries earlier, employing it to describe an elaborate argument.
Where a metaphorical appropriateness is plainly wanting to one etymology and another as plainly supplies it, other considerations being equal, probability may fairly turn the scale in favor of the latter.
The means at disposal' names something too little vegetable or animal to consort with the metaphorical verbs.
Metaphorical measuring, like literal, requires a more accommodating instrument than a stubborn fact.
The term has been used for metaphors that have lost all metaphorical significance; but these, perhaps, are better called buried metaphors.
The 'face' of God is so strongly figurative an expression that its metaphorical character cannot but be obvious to the most cursory reader.
The word here that is rightly translated 'trust,' like most expressions in the Old Testament for religious emotion, has a distinctly metaphorical colouring about it.
It is a metaphorical expression, of course, which needs to be carefully interpreted in order not to lead us into a great mistake.
A true warrior-God, who went out in no metaphorical sense, but in prose reality, fought for His people and subdued the nations under them, in order that His name might be spread and His glory be known in the earth.
And that the literal signification has not altogether been lost in the spiritual and metaphorical use of it, as a term expressive of religious experience, is quite plain from many of the cases in which it occurs.
But unfortunately, as we said, there is nothing in the Scripture, not even a metaphorical expression, to support this theory.
Then the young chief addressed his people, in the usual metaphoricallanguage of an Indian.
Glendower, in the exaggerated and metaphorical language which the thoughts of men who imagine warmly, and are excited powerfully, so often assume.
I do not comprehend your metaphorical elegances of speech, Mr. Glumford," said Lord Ulswater.
In terms of art too, words are often taken in a metaphorical or extended sense: thus in the civil law death signifies banishment; but in its popular acceptation a dissolution of the parts of the natural body.
Whereas those acquainted with the use of metaphorical language know that by the city is frequently meant the inhabitants, and government with its privileges, and not the mere walls and houses.
Again, we must never have recourse to a metaphorical interpretation, except where the literal meaning would lead to a direct absurdity, or would defeat the intention of a treaty.
