18 Metaphors for bearings

The result of a night's observations on shore placed the summit in latitude 10 degrees 51 minutes 25 seconds South; the true bearing of Booby Island was North 22 degrees 13 minutes West.

The bearing of the lumbering business on the settlement of the country is a point well worthy of notice.

Let your bearing be that of a moderately grave, serious man, and attentive to what is said so as to avoid having to say every moment: 'How did that happen?

Her whole bearing was an inimitable blending of shyness and archness, tempered by almost reverential respect.

But, is it true that the bearing of the penalty is an excuse for breach of our official oaths?

A.The screw shaft is 7-1/2 inches diameter, but the bearings on each side of the disc are 8-1/2 inches diameter, and 16 inches long.

The bearing of the conclusions which are now either established, or highly probable, respecting the origin of silicious, calcareous, and clayey rocks, and their metamorphic derivatives, upon the archaeology of the earth, the elucidation of which is the ultimate object of the geologist, is of no small importance.

p. 276.).The armorial bearings of John Hardwick, of Hardwick, co. Derby, father of Bess, were: Argent, a saltier engrailed, and on a chief blue three roses of the field.

Philosophers of the Bentham school, like John Stuart Mill, endorsed its teachings, and the bearing of population on poverty was an axiom in economic literature.

This brief outline of the two commanders will serve to show the difference between them personally, and it must be added that Jackson's eccentric bearing was the source, in some degree, of his popularity.

He was taught, that the bearing of his testimony against it was a test of unity with those of the same religious profession.

Next to the safety of the boiler, the bearings of the engine are the most important consideration.

" The exploration of the internal secretions has brought us an explanation and an understanding of why child-bearing is a nuisance.

* * "'Patient bearing of injuries' is true Christian fortitude, and will always be more effectual to 'disarm our enemies', and to bring others to the knowledge of the truth, than all 'arguments' whatever.

His masterful bearing, too, was a pleasure to the spirited Elspie, who had no liking for milksops, and had sent off more than one lover because he came crawling too humbly to her feet.

The only armorial bearings traceable are three shields over the castle-gate.

The political bearing of the Scotch Novels has been a considerable recommendation to them.

I was convinced that his injury and decrepit bearing were clever bits of acting.

18 Metaphors for  bearings