33 Metaphors for comings

The coming of Montezuma is the great idea which permeates all the legends and stories.

His coming was a fresh brand on the convivial flame, and the party, too much exhilarated to be content with pushing one vice to excess, sallied forth in search of whatever other the great city might afford.

Their coming must have been a brisk affair, though nobody was out in the street to see it.

It did not seem possible that she had actually wakened during the night and found him gone, and with this reality before her she was strongly tempted to believe that the coming of Nash was only a vivid dream.

Your coming has been an inspiration permitted of Him who owns it."

Her coming was her own choice.

"Your coming must have been rather a shock," she reminded Beatrice.

My coming is a pledge how deeply I am myself impressed with what I have to communicate.

The gray breaking of dawn, the coming of brighter light, the rose and silver of the rising sun, and the riding in its face, with the air so tangy and nipping, were circumstances that inspired me as the adventurous start pleased Romer.

Probably Gianluca would be there already, for it was past eleven o'clock, and Bianca would understand that his coming was the result of what Taquisara had said to Veronica on the previous day.

The coming of the carriage was a signal to a swarm of small black urchins to scramble, grinning and delighted, to the wide lawn.

The coming of the first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or birthday of pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an epoch.

Our coming is a guarantee that we consider the will valid.

And they who had been of late so joyful, were now grown old with sorrow in but an hour or two; for they feared that the fresh coming of the Earth-Current had been but the final flicker and outburst before the end.

XIII THE COMING OF THE STORM XIV HOW JERRY WAS TREED XV IN A BEAR'S HOLLOW XVI HEAPING COALS OF FIRE ON HIS HEAD XVII

The coming of the Christ is the loveliest manifestation of the divine feminine principle within Himthe Holy Spirit.

His wife said our coming had been a blessing to her; she is near to us in gospel love.

It was undeniable that Tito's coming had been the dawn of a new life for both father and daughter, and he grew to care for Romola supremelyto wish to have her for his beautiful and loving wife.

And Zara, lying in the cabin, was unconscious of any direct current of thought; she was quite unconscious that already this beautiful young husband of hers had made some impression upon her, and that, underneath, for all her absorption in her little brother and her own affairs, she was growing conscious of his presence and that his comings and goings were things to remark about.

His home-coming has been a disillusionment, but it is a creative phenomenon; and if any one can set Greece upon a new path it is he.

Some thought women would be in the way; others felt that their coming was an interference.

His coming was his answer to Anne's letter.

"Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?"

The coming of spring was my constant preoccupation through the winter, and my joy was intense at the first swelling of the buds, the coming color in the willow twigs, which ushered in the changes of spring

For this period, which was for Ireland an epoch of foreign influence much more than of foreign rule, we have many beautiful Abbeys, built for those foreign orders whose coming was in a sense a return tide, a backward flow of the old missionary spirit which went forth from Ireland over nascent modern Europe.

33 Metaphors for  comings