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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    Reading it now, the allegory seemed obvious and clumsy.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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    All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.†  (source)
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    In Plato's allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.†  (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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