Word: metaphorizes
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...Under the Old Regime," is the title of some dialogue love verses. They are typical of most college verse in that they have nothing to say. They differ from a large part of college verse in that the form is poor. Mixed and illogical metaphor, words unfortunately chosen are fatal to the expression of any fancy of the Old Regime...
...represents Yale, and the more refined type which is conceded to Harvard. It creates a sentiment among her alumni which enables them to listen with proud and beaming countenances to a speech as rowdies in character as that celebrated speech of Peters of the Bones, wherein, in strangely mixed metaphor, he referred to the Harvard man as "a kid-gloved lamb." If, in order to beat Yale it will be necessary to adopt her general sentiments and her standards of conduct, we never want to win again. But is it not possible to raise our standard in athletics without lowering...
...metaphor in the "OEdipus Tyrannus" and in the "Antigone" of Sophocles, with parallels from Shakespeare...
...does not have to hunt long amongst undergraduate poetry to find passages that are far more original than beautiful; one writer, for instance, calls swallows "volatile air-swimmers," - a painfully original metaphor. Another describes a mountain...
...winners were matched against each other. Two or three other men entered this heat. The pistol was fired, and the men on either side of Mr. Wendell rushed together in such a way as to render it impossible for him to exert his powers. To use an expressive metaphor, he was "pocketed" at the very start. He stopped and claimed a foul. Mr. Lee, meantime, trotted over the course, and won the heat. The judges allowed the foul, but, inasmuch as the man who fouled was not the winner of the heat, they did not think it proper that...