12 Metaphors for boon

Boon was lieutenant-colonel under Todd; and their county of Fayette had for its surveyor Thomas Marshall, [Footnote: Collins, I., 20.]

Boon was a man of few words, cold and grave, accustomed to every kind of risk and hairbreadth escape, and as little apt to praise the deeds of others as he was to mention his own; but on this occasion he broke through his usual taciturnity to express his thanks for Kenton's help and his admiration for Kenton himself.

Often, indeed, the parts were combined; Boon himself was a surveyor.

The promised boon was the riches of Oriental countries, boundless and magnificent,countries not to be discovered, but already known, only hard and perhaps impossible to reach.

Boon and Kenton have always been favorite heroes of frontier story,as much so as ever were Robin Hood and Little John in England.

So the greatest boon that follows the attainment of extreme old age is euthanasia,an easy death, not ushered in by disease, and free from all pain and struggle.

Boon was essentially a type, and possesses his greatest interest for us because he represents so well the characteristics as well as the life-work of his fellow backwoodsmen; still, it is unfair not to bear in mind also the leading part he played and the great services he rendered to the nation.

Squire Boon was the author of a law "to protect the range"; for the preservation of the range or natural pasture over which the branded horses and cattle of the pioneers ranged at will, was as necessary to the welfare of the stock as the preservation of the game was to the welfare of the men.

The boons of colonies and cheap bread, and the prospect of a slice out of the public land occupied by Italians, were all not strong enough to overcome the deep, ingrained prejudice against extending the franchise.

What a boon to humanity was the restoration of the Jews to their capital and country!

A boon, indeed, and a grateful exchange, was the Mother Mild of the Roman Catholic Pantheon, the patroness of the broken-hearted, who inclines her countenance graciously to the petitions of womanly anguish, for the voluptuous Aphrodite, the haughty Juno, the Di-Vernonish Artemis, and the lewd and wanton nymphs of forest, mountain, ocean, lake, and river.

This boon is a son who will never be equalled and who will never die.

12 Metaphors for  boon