46 Metaphors for clubbing

The Press Club was her joy and pride from its organization to the very day when she last met with its members, devoting on that day her failing strength to a cause that was beyond expression dear to her heart.

Would you like to have them all divided up into little compartments with half a dozen men in each one, generally strangers to each other?" "Oh, a club is a very different thing," said Mr. Poplington.

His home was consequently lonely, and the club was his only recourse.

Every prominent exhibitor or breeder then, and with few exceptions since, has been a member, and the club is by far the strongest of all specialist clubs.

Clubs are not always Trumps.

Explain why clubs were the earliest weapons and why the more civilized tribes were better armed than the barbarians.

Political clubs, for parades and personal campaign work, were no novelty; now, however, the expedients of a cheap yet striking uniform and a half-military organization were tried with marked success.

The woman's club has become the school of the middle-aged woman.

The benefit clubs in so many villages are a proof of iteach member subscribes so much.

The Clarendon Club was a historic institution, and its membership a social cult, the temple of which was located just off the main street of the city, in a dignified old colonial mansion which had housed it for the nearly one hundred years during which it had maintained its existence unbroken.

The "Club" still remained my headquarters, and when I was not playing for my good patron, I was generally to be found there.

The Jacobin club was a political .

It is true that the trade union, the professional society, the club are natural and wholesome expressions of common and intimate interests, but they acquire a false value when they are not balanced and regulated by a prior and more compelling association which cuts, not vertically but horizontally through society, that is to say, the neighbourhood or community group.

The Planter's Club is the general rendezvous.

War Club was a great warrior too, for on his blanket was marked the Red Hand, which showed he had killed his worst enemyfor it was his father's enemy, and he had hung the scalp up at his father's grave.

The coal club, the cricket, the flower show, the allotments, the village fête, everything in which he has a hand is simply an effort to win the good will of the populace, to keep them quiet, lest they arise and overthrow the property of the Church.

Remember that a well-rounded club is an epitome of the world; that it never can and never ought to be perfect according to any one individual's idea of perfection, for every one's ideal is different; and it is the unity in this diversity which constitutes the spiritual life of the club, as the soul animates and inspires the body.

Still, the Country Club was a grand success.

By this means I may have Reason to hope, that the Club over which I shall preside will be the very Flower and Quintescence of all other Clubs.

If your club like scandal, Blackwood's is your magazine; if you prefer light articles, and humorous without offence, the New Monthly is very amusing.

She had been born in the Prue and I period in Gramercy Park near what is now The Players' Club, and the old colonial house with its white trimmings and ornamental ironwork had been the scene of many a modest gayety at a time when Emerson, Lowell, and George William Curtis were viewed less as citizens than as high priests of Culture, sharing equally in sanctity with the goddess thereof.

A club that is narrowed to a clique, a class, or a single object, is a contradiction in terms.

" The richest and most aristocratic woman's club in the country is the Colony Club of New York.

There seems to be a slight difference in the structure of the antennae in this genus, in the first species the club is rounder and less mucronate than in the two following ones, it seems also destitute of the tuft of scales at the point.

I do hope these reform clubs will be the means of shutting up every saloon in the place, for just as long as one of them is open he is in danger.

46 Metaphors for  clubbing