16 Metaphors for competitors

The first Competitor that entered the Lists, was a black swarthy French Man, who accidentally passed that way, and being a Man naturally of a wither'd Look, and hard Features, promised himself good Success.

Alexander, being asked if he would run a course at the Olympic games, replied, "Yes, if my competitors are all kings.

The successful competitor of this countless host was Mr. Pritchett, who, while dispensing with the cup entirely, produced the most satisfactory results with a simple conical bullet imperceptibly saucered out in the base, and which is now the generally adopted bullet in Her Majesty's service.

His competitor was the late Joseph J. Heckart, who was elected.

His competitor was Mr. (afterwards Archdeacon) Garbett of Brasenose, the college of Heber and Milman, an accomplished gentleman of high culture, believed to have an acquaintance, not common then in Oxford, with foreign literature, whose qualifications stood high in the opinion of his University friends, but who had given no evidence to the public of his claims to the office.

This new competitor with men, whom we think of and speak of as a woman, is in many cases not a woman at all, but only a girl, very often only a child.

In general the excelling competitors at working trials are the rough-coated black and white Collies.

In these days of long distance transportation our competitors in the market may be a long distance away.

The people again shouted when they perceived that there was to be another game, and the more so when they discovered that the stranger competitor was a gentleman.

His competitors were John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford.

Mommsen holds that, in the fourth and fifth centuries after the foundation of Rome, 'the two main competitors for the dominion of the Western waters' were Carthage and Syracuse.

This new competitor with men, whom we think of and speak of as a woman, is in many cases not a woman at all, but only a girl, very often only a child.

I think that the only competitor was Jeffries.

Fortune so dealt with both in this rivalry and conflict, that the one competitor was a succour and a safeguard to the other, nor could it be determined which of the two appeared worthy of being preferred to the other.

The two grand competitors, however, were Muley Hisham, who was proclaimed Sultan in the south at Morrocco and Sous, and Muley Suleiman, who was saluted as Emperor in the north at Fez.

The other competitor which Antony had to contend with was a distinguished Roman general named Lepidus.

16 Metaphors for  competitors