33 Metaphors for arthur

" King Arthur and his romantic Knights of the Round Table are Celtic heroes.

One evening about five weeks after Henry's funeral, Mrs. Martin said to her husband, "It seems to me, Arthur is not well to-day.

Arthur at the time of his coronation was a damoiseau of some fifteen years, but tall and strong for his age.

Alexander the Great abode a fortnight with this fay, to be cured of his wounds, and King Arthur was the result of their amour.

Arthur was Young Arthur; or, The Child of Mystery: A Metrical Romance, 1819, and the novel was Isn't It Odd?

"Indeed, I am curious" "I am sorry, dear Arthur, for I am no advocate for curiosity, and cannot indulge it.

They are all safe; Arthur is the head of the form, and sure to be able to construe, and that will tide on safely till the hour strikes.

And Arthur and his knighthood for a space Were all one will, and thro' that strength the King Drew in the petty princedoms under him, Fought, and in twelve great battles overcame The heathen hordes, and made a realm and reign'd.

So it came about that peace was made betwixt Sir Tristram and King Mark, and Belle Isoult and King Mark, and King Arthur was the peacemaker.

Prince Arthur is indeed the principal person, and has therefore a share given him in every legend; but his part is not considerable enough in any one of them.

Her little, tender-hearted Arthur was a precious child, and must he be taken too?

From about 1200 onward Arthur and Guinevere and the matchless band of Celtic heroes that we meet later (1470) in Malory's Morte d' Arthur became the permanent possession of our literature.

Arthur and I were more friends than Oliver liked, you know.

For Arthur is no knight-errant, but a grim, stern, ferocious Saxon warrior, loved by his subjects, yet dreaded by them as well as by his foes.

To Dante he was a Christian hero, and the historical Arthur may have been a Christian; but much in the story goes back to the pagan Celtic religion.

"Sir." quoth King Arthur to King Angus, "yon is a very strong, powerful, noble knight; now where mayst thou find one who can hope to stand against him in this coming battle?"

At the end Guitard was persuaded Arthur was the stronger lord, and that only by submission could he keep his own.

Or was there some deep reason why Arthur would be the best possible man for his purpose, if his purpose was indeed malign?

Arthur, who always appears to rescue the oppressed, is Leicester, which is another outrageous flattery.

[Arthur and the Novel were two books by Charles Dibdin the Younger, the father of Lamb's correspondent.

It was here too, perhaps, that she and Arthur were in closest sympathy; and every one knew that Arthur, poor old boy, was an agnostic.

Arthur was a prudent captain.

At the outset, Arthur, after the familiar male fashion, was apparently the weaker of the two.

Mrs. Hamilton watched her anxiously; she had at first fancied Arthur was the object of her niece's regard, but this idea was not strengthened, and though she felt assured such was not the real cause of Ellen's agitation that eventful evening, she could not, and did not guess the truth.

As Merlin was an enchanter, it was popularly rumored that Arthur was not, as he now declared, the son of Uther Pendragon and Yguerne, but a babe mysteriously brought up from the depths of the sea, on the crest of the ninth wave, and cast ashore at the wizard's feet.

33 Metaphors for  arthur