| When a self-communing thinker enunciates a figure of speech within the privacy of the mind, this figuration, unmindful of any outsider, is above all true to the subject's hidden character. |
| Jesus uses this graphic figure of speech to show that our charitable deed should be for the Father, and not to gain notoriety for the giver. |
| If taken as a figure of speech, it could be used to encourage to holy living in connection with prayer. |
| The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys. |
| The guy was effectively putting his shirt on a horse, and it was the first and only time I have encountered life imitating a figure of speech. |
| The use of the yoke is a natural figure of speech on the lips of a carpenter-turned-teacher. |
