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1 I speak figuratively , awaiting the time when they will be scattered in earnest.
2 Of course, when I say bread and cheese, I speak figuratively .
3 I do not speak figuratively , but mean what I say.
4 Especially of late, I have found my demon of wrath - to speak figuratively - too much for me.
5 When I say road I speak figuratively .
6 For the second point, we often speak figuratively of tyrants enslaving a country; but Teutons do literally enslave.
7 And chiefly for this reason: it is an attempt to use a boat on land, or a wagon on water, to speak figuratively .
8 The impulse to want to loosen the pressure cooker doesn't mean that you have to take the lid all the way off, to speak figuratively .
9 They made my blood fairly curdle, and I am not speaking figuratively .
10 In the case of the newspaper, of course, I'm speaking figuratively .
11 Are you speaking figuratively , or do you mean a flesh-and-blood brother?
12 Of course, you will note that I am speaking figuratively rather than literally.
13 Strictly speaking , this was incorrect, unless one counted Methuselah; but perhaps Mr Galloway spoke figuratively .
14 The foreman, he judged, was speaking figuratively .
15 Again I spoke figuratively , my young friend.
16 He should not even speak of acids reddening vegetable-blues upon mere hearsay, unless he is speaking figuratively .
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