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  • "I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted.†  (source)
  • To lay aside all allegory, the concern for what must become of poor Molly greatly disturbed and perplexed the mind of the worthy youth.†  (source)
  • I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.†  (source)
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  • "Allegory's beyond me," said Jim.  (source)
    Allegory = fictional story symbolic of something real
  • The answers following the questions, which now came from all of them, grew longer and longer, for they became parables, examples, allegories.†  (source)
  • Well, it's an allegory,  (source)
  • 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)
  • "What is not an allegory," said the Count, "is my appointment with an eminent professor.†  (source)
  • All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.†  (source)
  • You can hold up another mirror to see the back view, but then what you see is what so many painters have loved to paint — Woman Looking In Mirror, said to be an allegory of vanity.†  (source)
  • "I don't think I know what you mean," she said; "you use too many figures of speech; I could never understand allegories.†  (source)
  • He looked like a figure from an allegory: black-aproned carpenter-mystic, half in shadow.†  (source)
  • 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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