13 Metaphors for deputies

The deputy was the Honourable Septimus Brown, of whom it may be said that the Home Office was so proud that it considered itself to be superior to all other public offices whatever simply because it possessed Brown.

The Deputy who is Commissioner for this department is one Le Bon, formerly a priestand, I understand, of an immoral and sanguinary character, and that it is he who chiefly directs the verdicts of the juries according to his personal hatred or his personal interest.

Deputy, under Evans, was Thomas Tame.

A deputy was king.

The idea most prevalent is, that these deputies, when arrested, were royalists.

In 1837 the Cortes, though nearly all the Deputies were Progressists, by a vote of 90 to 60, deprived Cuba and Puerto Rico of the right of representation.

That the deputies shall be at least one thousand in number; 2.

Elected deputy by the 20th Arrondissement, M. de Rochefort became, in 1869, a favourite representative of that class of the Parisian population whose bad instincts he had flattered and whose tendencies to revolt against authority he had encouraged, and in virtue of these claims he was chosen to form part of the Government of the National Defence.

Our Aisne deputies and senators were not very mondains, didn't care much to dine out.

The deputy was a poor soldier, feeble and vacillating in the field.

They were certainly the very oddest pair that ever the moon shone on,Stony Durdles and the boy "Deputy." Durdles was a stone-mason, from which occupation, undoubtedly, came his nickname "Stony," and Deputy was a hideous small boy hired by Durdles to pelt him home if he found him out too late at night, which duty the boy faithfully performed.

The governor of the island was a Tuscan of rank, but he seldom honored the place with his presence; and his deputy was a professional man, a native of the town, whose original position was too well known to allow him to give himself airs on the spot where he was born.

Both the wardens were his friends, and ever ready to serve him; their deputy was his creature, and subservient to his will in all things; while the jailers and their assistants took his orders, whatever they might be, as if from a master.

13 Metaphors for  deputies