16 Metaphors for adversary

Her first adversary was Spain.

""Your adversaries, General, were often good fellows, were they not, and you are good friends now?"

"My dear young American," he replied, "you join anything, even a sheriff's posse, into which you are dragged, and have a bullet from the other side slit your ear, or a round shot bang against your deck, and you'll soon convince yourself that you are in the right, or, anyway, that your adversary is a scoundrel.

The adversaries also of the Greek and the Roman were in the one instance an effete power already falling to pieces by its own internal weakness, and in the other, for the most part, scattered tribes of barbarians without unity of purpose or military discipline.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman.

Our adversary here? Podczaski (speaking in Anton's ear).I am no longer your adversary.

Then his adversaries are the laws of health.

Was the Inquisition as unpopular as it has been represented? and will it be said that its adversaries were the majority of the people?

Gaius always maintained that he surpassed all living orators, and knowing that his adversary was an extremely gifted speaker he strove on this occasion to excel him.

He also assured her, saying that the adversary was no swordsman, as she herself soon saw.

All he said was: 'Well, boys, I'm not much of a talker, but I'll say one thingPerkins, while my adversary, is still my friend, and I'm proud of him.

Then Saint George comes in, and after a great deal of bragging he fights the "most dreadful battle that ever was known," his adversary being the knight "just come from Turkey-land," with the inevitable result that the Turkish knight falls.

do not bring thyself into jeopardy by contending against a person of no account; thy proper adversary is Kai-khosráu, and not him, for if thou gainest the victory, it can only be a victory over a fatherless soldier, and if thou art killed, the whole of Túrán will be at the feet of Persia."

But the adversary of a nation can only be another nation.

2. Their adversary was a veteran, distinguished for his courage.

, his very name was odious, and consequently the new adversary who had thus been evoked against him was the most dangerous of all, inasmuch as he was the most subtle and vindictive, and also because he possessed the ear of the Queen, who had so long accustomed herself to support him against what he saw fit to entitle the oppression of the French nobles, that she had ceased to question the validity of his accusations.

16 Metaphors for  adversary