33 Metaphors for future

Life's best blessings await her; her thoughts soar upwards, her mind aspires; her future is happiness!

If she told him of the lost handkerchief, the future might be one thing: if she did not tell him, it might be another.

The future was her chief concern now, not the past.

'My future is a blank.'

The park, which was designed to a great extent by the first earl, with the assistance of Pope, has been entirely thrown open to the people of Cirencester; and "the future and as yet visionary beauties of the noble scenes, openings, and avenues" which that great poet used to delight in dwelling upon have become accomplished facts.

My future father-in-law was the strongest man present, and could easily drink all the others under the table.

The future is the Child.

The future was her chief concern now, not the past.

The future is theirs, to mak

The future, as we British seem to see it, is an avenue of Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts and Super-Super-Dreadnoughts, getting bigger and bigger in a kind of inverted perspective.

While these plans were being settled, and while Lesbia's future was the all-absorbing subject of Lady Maulevrier's thoughts, Mary contrived to be happier than she had ever been in her life before.

However, the future is not my care.

We had some hundred and fifty horses and mules, wagons, ambulances, arms, provisions, merchandise, mining, material,and moreover, what we considered of inestimable value, the future,in our keeping, and a proper location was a grave consideration.

You sacrifice everything to the future, and the future is all mirageall mirage.

Pessimistic observers, with a pacifist turn of mind, who regard all war as a hideous barbarism and refuse to see that anything good can come out of it, are apt in these days to make our flesh creep by telling us that war will inevitably leave Europe so exhausted and impoverished that its financial future is a prospect of unmitigated gloom.

CHAPTER XI ARNOLD'S FUTURE IS CASUALLY DECIDED

The consolations of religion were eagerly sought for and justly prized by the great body of the people, who earnestly believed that a happy future would be a reward for the patient endurance of a miserable present.

For the purpose of the oracle a depression was burnt in the shell so that cracks were formed on the other side, and the future was foretold from their direction.

Of course, if we already know what preceded these conditions, there is no discovery to be claimedand that is what I am saying: that with our knowledge of the present, the future is not a discovery; it is a mere development naturally augured from the present.

"In the first place you should buy good sheep, and they are so judged primarily in respect of their age, that they are not what is known as aged nor yet undeveloped lambs, because neither can yield you any profit, the one no longer, the other not yet: but you may deem that age which holds out a promise preferable to that whose only future is death.

Now matters stand thus: that either the continent of Europe has no future at all, or this future is American republicanism.

The future Admiralty Naval Staff organization, which was in my mind at the end of 1917, was a development of that shown in Table A, p. 20, subject to the following remarks: In the organization then adopted the personality and experience during the war of many of the officers in high positions were of necessity considered, and the organization to that extent adapted to circumstances.

All his future was a sacrifice to this transitory ghost of love-making in the streets.

And Don Antolin laughed sarcastically, as though this future that he was anticipating was an absurd contradiction of the eternal laws.

My future father-in-law is a member of the City Liberal Club, in which a large bust of yourself was unveiled last year.

33 Metaphors for  future