10 Metaphors for benches

The bench was a pretty bit of work, boldly reminiscential of Alma Tadema, and as clearly the creation of John Marshall Glenarm as though his name had been carved upon it.

Mr. Markham and I were just trying to decide whether this stone bench wouldn't be just the place to do your portrait.

But there is no direct connection between a clubroom and immorality, whereas the park bench after dark and the dance hall and its almost invariable accompaniment of strong drink are positive dangers.

The bench on one side, and the table under the window, were also stationaryalso the big bed where he lay, and the many-coloured cupboard.

In fine, from the outset, the American bench, because it deals with the most fiercely contested of political issues, has been an instrument necessary to political success.

The Bench would be the King's Bench Prison.

A large room was hired in a rickety and forlorn-looking house; the benches for the scholars and a small desk and chair were the only furniture.

I think both my father and uncle still nursed the idea that I was to become the good old-fashioned county attorney, for they perpetually rang in my ears the praises of "our Bench" and "our chairman," out Bench being by far the biggest thing in Hertfordshire, except when a couple of notables came down to contest the heavy-weight championship or some other noble prize.

C bench," he explained, "is the center of activities.

In theory it may be true, as Hamilton contended, that, given the fact that a written constitution is inevitable, a bench of judges is the best tribunal to interpret its meaning, since the duty of the judge has ever been and is now to interpret the meaning of written instruments; but it does not follow from this premise that the judges who should exercise this office should be the judges who administer the municipal law.

10 Metaphors for  benches