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Rhetoricians give elaborate classifications of metonymies, but they are of little value to the scriptural student, since all are interpreted according to the few simple principles given in the preceding chapter.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

For a time it seems not so important to classify the metonymies as to make peas or dandelion taste like coffee.

From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)