26 Metaphors for counsels

His trial was a fair one, his counsel was the best our bar afforded, his jury was one of the most intelligent that sat upon the criminal side of our court, and on patient and honest hearing he was found guilty and sentenced to be hung on Tuesday, the 12th inst.

His principal counsel was Bissell, of Painesville, a man of great native force and talent, and who in a desperate stand-up fight, had no superior at that time in Northern Ohio.

that the counsels of God are to him not a matter of faith, but of vision?

Most earnestly do I wish that the Duke of Wellington had succeeded: but great is the consolation that, according to the best accounts from Spain, his counsels have not been misunderstood there, however they have been misrepresented here.

The suggestion that Joe should be first hanged for horse stealing and then tried for murder was angrily discussed, but milder counsels were offeredthat the fact of the killing should be admitted only as proof of the theft.

The counsel for the prisoners were David L. Child, Esq., and George Hillard, Esq., who defended them with great ability.

I did so; and the counsel I received was, 'Parley with temptation

I know that the measure appears to you a daring one; but in difficult and almost desperate circumstances the boldest counsels are always the safest.

What sage counsels must be theirs, as they nod their weary heads and whisper ghostly memories and old men's tales to each other, while the red leaves dance on the snowy sward below, or a fox or squirrel steals hurriedly through the wild and wintry night!

"Counsel is his, and sound wisdom; he hath understanding and strength," ver.

A learned counsel may be in a foghe very often isbut he doesn't state the fact baldly; he wraps it up in a decent verbal disguise.

"Good counsel is indeed a precious thing.

The counsels of the Liberal party were the concert of Europethe authoritative declaration of the will of Europe to Turkey.

A friend's counsel is a charm, like mandrake wine, curas sopit; and as a bull that is tied to a fig-tree becomes gentle on a sudden (which some,

"I remember," he writes to his sons, "the counsel you gave me in your letter; but dissembling, although lawful in some cases, is not my talent; yet, for your sake, I will struggle with the plain openness of my nature, and keep in my just resentments against that degenerate order."

" Admirable counsel, if the gold in veins, or their own blood, were not also the object of search.

His counsel was Mr. Conger.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.

Your counsel, Richard Harrison, Esquire, is a man of great respectability, and a perfectly safe repository of such a secret.

The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the Commonwealth.

The counsel of wine is the advice of the devil.

"A mother's counsel is a golden treasure, Consider well, and listen not to folly.

Take hellebore (the counsel is Horace's; 't was none of my thought originally).

If you do not show yourself thus in word and deed how should you succeed, even in your own district or neighborhood?When you are afoot, let these two counsels be two companions preceding you, yourself viewing them from behind; when you drive, have them in view as on the yoke of your carriage.

The best counsel I can give is, to be gone. PHANTASMA.

26 Metaphors for  counsels