19 Metaphors for admiral

This the admiral attributed to the great woods in these countries, as he knew that this was usual at first in the Canaries, Azores, and Madeira islands, whereas now that the woods in these islands are mostly cut down, there are not such great and frequent storms and heavy rains as formerly.

The commander-in-chief was Manius Acilius Glabrio, a man of humble origin, but an able general feared both by his soldiers and by the enemy; the admiral was Gaius Livius; and among the military tribunes were Marcus Porcius Cato, the conqueror of Spain, and Lucius Valerius Flaccus, who after the old Roman wont did not disdain, although they had been consuls, to re-enter the army as simple war-tribunes.

That's what the Admiral says, but of course the ticket man couldn't know that the Admiral is an intimate friend of mine, and would think I said it myself.

For eighteen years have I been taught that the unfortunate admiral was my grandfather; but, as it has been his pleasure to wish not to see me, never have I felt the desire to intrude on his time.

The French Admiral was the contriver of the scheme.

Their admiral, Apodaca, was a foolish old devotee.

The Admiral was a man upwards of seventy years of age; he was a thin tall man, and stooped a good deal.

That the admiral was a foreigner who had no favor at court; and as so many wise and learned men had already condemned his opinions and enterprise as visionary and impossible, there would be none to favor or defend him, and they were sure to find more credit if they accused him of ignorance and mismanagement than he would do, whatsoever he might now say for himself against them.

The admiral being in need of anchorage and water, since the little island in front of the harbor, which was the only place he could approach, is destitute of water and harbor alike, sailed off to some distant point where he was likely to find both in abundance.

"The admiral is six foot every day," said the sailors, "on a fighting day he is six foot one."

The only English admirals who can be placed above him are Hawke and Nelson.

I am sure I do not care who knows that my poor admiral was twenty years my senior.

He and his friend, Sir Peter Howell, who was the admiral that took the French squadron, in the glorious administration of Billy Pitt, and afterwards took an island with this same General Denbigh: aye, the old admiral was a hearty blade; a good deal such a looking man as my Hector would make.

The admirals of the allied fleet were doubtless "the aggressors in the battle; but the Turks were the aggressors in the war.

So Dawson went, not a little nervousthe moment his foot trod the decks of a King's ship all his assurance dropped off, his old sense of discipline flowed back over him, and an Admiral became a very mighty potentate indeed.

The Admiral, when told there had been some remark because he had not occupied the conning-house in the action, walked with me to the tower, the entrance to which is so guarded that it resembles a small cavern of steelwith a heavy cap or lid, under which is a circular slit, through which observations are supposed to be made.

An admiral is the officer of highest grade in the United States navy.

"This admiral is not a Neapolitan, but an Englishman," she answered, "and can have no concern with the justice of your king.

Admiral Sir Charles Saunders was selected to command the fleet that was to be employed in this new movement against the capital of New France; a man of whom Horace Walpole wrote: "The Admiral was a pattern of the most sturdy bravery, united with the most unaffected modesty.

19 Metaphors for  admiral