Sample Sentences for
allegory
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    He looked like a figure from an allegory: black-aproned carpenter-mystic, half in shadow.†  (source)
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    Or is this still an allegory?†  (source)
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    Nicolas Wyatt's radical interpretation of the Adam and Eve story supposes that it was, in fact, written as a political allegory by the deuteronomists.†  (source)
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    No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the silent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.†  (source)
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    The answers following the questions, which now came from all of them, grew longer and longer, for they became parables, examples, allegories.†  (source)
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    So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.†  (source)
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    All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.†  (source)
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    Reading it now, the allegory seemed obvious and clumsy.†  (source)
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    Hayward led them into a large, long room, dingily magnificent, with huge pictures on the walls of nude women: they were vast allegories of the school of Haydon; but smoke, gas, and the London atmosphere had given them a richness which made them look like old masters.†  (source)
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    Those few who did know the truth kept it hidden behind a veil of symbols, legends, and allegory.†  (source)
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    The sculptors of those days had stocks of such funereal emblems in hand; as you may see still on the walls of St. Paul's, which are covered with hundreds of these braggart heathen allegories.†  (source)
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    He, of all people, trapped in an allegory!†  (source)
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    Many a man has died with a heroic expression on his lips, but with heaviness and distrust at his heart; for, whatever may be the varieties of our religious creeds, let us depend on the mediation of Christ, the dogmas of Mahomet, or the elaborated allegories of the East, there is a conviction, common to all men, that death is but the stepping-stone between this and a more elevated state of being.†  (source)
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