46 Metaphors for claiming

I has my ideas these yar claims is no good, I has fer a fact, and they won't need no one here long, and then we'll lose ye, sonny, so you mus' shore hev that cayuse.

The claims of Brandenburg were a new weapon of which Bismarck was glad to avail himself.

But it is unfair to class Studland with the usual run of such resorts; perhaps its best claims upon us are negative ones.

And, as that transaction was discussed at some length in Parliament, it will afford a better opportunity for examining the principle on which the claim and practice (for of the practice there is no doubt) rest.

This prolonged exclamation sadly puzzled Jeff, whose claim to consideration at the hands of many friends was a guileless transparency of purpose, a candour and simplicity unhappily too rare.

It is insufferable that a rhymer should be called glorious, whose only claim to notice is a clever drinking song.

If Congress should be of opinion that the claim is just, every consideration points to the propriety of its prompt recognition and payment, and if the two Houses should come to the opposite conclusion it is equally desirable that the result should be announced without unnecessary delay.

His chief claim to notice as a pastoral writer is his authorship of an eclogue on the death of Loyse de Savoye, the mother of Francis; a poem through which, more than any other, he influenced his greater English disciple, and thereby acquired the importance he possesses for our present inquiry.

" The claim (as Man must think) is a just onefor why was he given intelligence if not to use it?

If one half of this country claims the right to disown the Union, the claim in the eyes of every true guardian among us must be a cause for war, unless we hold the Union to be a false thing instead of the public consent to decent principles of life that it is.

The just and long-standing claims of our citizens upon some of them are yet sources of dissatisfaction and complaint.

It may be broadly stated that the presumption is that such claims are everywhere a preferred debt to be paid out of the estate of the insolvent, living or dead, in preference to all claims except taxes.

But his greatest claim to distinction is his psychological insight allied to perfect mastery of form.

Don Camillo Monforte has long pursued, without success, a claim so just, that were there no other motive to concede it, the character of Venice should teach the senators the danger of delay.

Its chief claim to notice is its antiquity.

His most enduring claim on the gratitude of the world is the noble tribute he rendered to those truths which save the world.

That Dred Scott's claim to freedom by reason of his residence in Illinois was a Missouri question, which Missouri law had decided against him.

Lastly, the claim of Rome to extend her protecting arm over all the Hellenes was by no means an empty phrase: the citizens of Neapolis, Rhegium, Massilia, and Emporiae could testify that that protection was meant in earnest, and there is no question at all that at this time the Romans stood in a closer relation to the Greeks than any other nationone little more remote than that of the Hellenized Macedonians.

To the Historian and Antiquary the proposed series of Illustrations recommends itself by its character and importance; to the lover of ancient Art, for the beauty of most of the objects represented; and its claims on the general reader are the connexion of the Relics with the dead whose actions are the theme of history and romance.

As a mere story the narrative is valueless: its sole claim to attention is its absolute truth.

Its only claim to notice is the extraordinary way in which its houses are built on the hillside, one row of doorsteps and diminutive gardens being on a level with the next row of roofs, so steep is the lie of the land.

My claim is a claim of superior wits, you see.

The truth is that Aguinaldo's claim that he had been promised independence was a gradual growth.

If it be so, the imputation on the public honor is aggravated by the consideration that the claims are coeval with the present century, and it has been a persistent wrong during that whole period of time.

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46 Metaphors for  claiming