120 Metaphors for capitals

The capital is Teheran (210), a narrow, crooked, filthy town, at the southern foot of the Elburz.

The capital is Calapan, with a population of 5,585.

For our present purpose it is enough to have shown that the capital, which is the stock-in-trade of finance, is not a fraudulent claim to take toll of the product of industry, but an essential part of the foundation on which industry is built.

Ocerra or Otrar is the capital of this country. § 4. Khorasmin or Khuaresm, is a populous, pleasant, and fertile country, containing many good and strong towns, the capital being Khorasme.

Whatever the reason may be, it certainly is a reflection on the liberality of the Government, that the capital of this Great Union should be the worst paved, worst lit, and worst guarded in the whole Republic.

The capital is LUXEMBURG (18).

Its capital is Williamstadt, one of the neatest cities in the West Indies.

The capital is Tacloban, with a population of 5,226.

The capital is Tunis (134), situated at the SW. end of the Lake of Tunis, a few miles SE.

The freemen whose capital is their two hands must inevitably become hostile to a system clumsy and barbarous like that of Slavery, which only carries to its last result the pitiless logic of selfishness, sure at last to subject the toil of the many to the irresponsible power of the few.

"Change slowlyif change you must" has ever been the motto of China, and for years the capital itself was an example of the saying.

The capital is GEORGETOWN (25), on the island.

A planter of the back country, and a politician, his capital was a certain native shrewdness and little else.

Capital would be a personal basis of taxation; each person's capital might be taxed no matter from what sources the incomes were derived (the concrete wealth, of course, then being left untaxed).

In Palenque and Uxmal, capitals of Yucatan, were immense palaces and temples, with the weird ornamentation of Mayan imagination; and equal wonders exist in the high uplands where the Incas ruled Peru.

"To resume where I was interrupted, Your Honor, the directors controlling a majority of the stock of this corporation, the capital of which is ten millions of dollars, have made a contract to sell all of its properties to another corporation, organized by themselves and capitalized for one million, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars!

The capital, be it remembered, is the property of the corporation, not of the individuals.

The capital of Kachgaria is now as much Russian as Chinese.

All we can say with any sort of certainty is that the Saxons, through long years of probably spasmodic fighting, very gradually established themselves in southern England, and out of it carved a dominion, the kingdom of Wessex, whose capital was Winchester.

VAUCLUSE (valley shut in) (235), department in the SE. of France; chief industries agriculture, silk-weaving, pottery, &c., and with a village of the name, 19 m. E. of Avignon, famous for its fountain and as the retreat of Petrarch for 16 years. VAUD (247), a canton in the W. of Switzerland, between Jura and the Bernese Alps; is well cultivated, yields wines, and its inhabitants Protestants; the capital is Lausanne.

The capital is Victoria (17), in the S. of Vancouver.

; the capital, Irkutsk (45), is the seat of government for Eastern Siberia, an ecclesiastical centre, and the chief emporium of commerce; it is the finest city in Siberia.

The ordinary capital, however, which is made out of Carlyle's alleged gloom is a very paltry matter.

In any attempt that is made to regulate them, however, it will be very necessary to remember that capital is an extremely elusive thing, and that if too strict rules are laid down for it, it very easily evades them by transferring itself to other centres.

The capital is Pekin (500), in the NE.

120 Metaphors for  capitals