English vocabulary examples in context: allegory
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 1.
One theory was that the book was a kind of allegory, setting forth the eternal struggle between the ideal and the real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German philosophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of the depths of its inner consciousness.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 2.
There was the allegory of my whole life: I, in the shadow, at the ladder's foot, While others lightly mount to Love and Fame!
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 3.
I am sure that there is some allegory about it.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 4.
It is some sort of an allegory in lyrical-dramatic form, recalling the second part of Faust.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 5.
I'm not speaking of an allegory, but of a leaf, only a leaf.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 6.
It would be difficult to imagine a more pitiful, vulgar, dull and insipid allegory than this “literary quadrille.” Nothing could he imagined less appropriate to our local society.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 7.
The laughter from the crowd was, of course, provoked not by the allegory, which interested no one, but simply by a man's walking on his head in a swallow-tail coat.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 8.
Let me tell you an allegory, dearest, and do you hearken to it.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 9.
It was an allegory, representing Mr. Davis in the act of signing a secession act or some such document.
Vocabulary in context: allegory -- Example 10.
As, with his peculiar belief, he could look on our sacred volume with the eye of a philosopher, felt impressed with the conviction that the history of Babel's tower is but an allegory, which says to the pride of man, ''Thus far shall ye go, and no farther.'
