Stands forth like morning from the shades of night. — IBID. Stands like Mumphazard, who was hanged for saying nothing. IBID. Stands where he did, like Scotland. - IBID. Stood like some erring angel that had lost his radiance. BALZAC. See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. - BERNARD E. BEE. Stands at gaze As might a wolf just fasten'd on his prey. - CALDERON. Grenadiers . . . stand there, like a fixed stone-dam in that wild whirlpool of ruin. - CARLYLE. Stood like the Law and Gospel, one with the sanction of earth and one with the blessing of heaven. - LONG FELLOW. Stood like a sentinel under inspection. GEORGE MEREDITH. Stand like statues cut in stone. GEORGE SANDYS. Stood, like veteran, worn, but un subdued. SIR WALTER SCOTT. Stand at your door like a sheriff's SHAKESPEARE. post. Stand Like wonder-wounded hearers. Stood like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at me. - IBID. Stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. - IBID. Stand like flame transferred to marble. -SHELLEY. Starch. Starched as a formal City Matron. - JAMES RALPH. Stare (Noun). The stare, like that of a child who begins to see for the first time. BALZAC. Stick like wax. — IBID. Stick like a Comanche on a mustang. The worse it jumps, the tighter he sticks.-J. R. BARTLETT'S "DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS." Stick to it, like a clenched nail. R. D. BLACKMORE. Stick to her point like a fox to his own tail. DION BOUCICAULT. Stick like burrs. - BUNYAN. Sticks as close . . . as a shadow to a body. - ROBERT BURTON. Stick like pitch. - CONGREVE. Sticks like a weasel. - GOLDSMITH. |