7 Metaphors for diaz

At length he ordered me to fit out a new caravel, of about ninety tons burden, of which Vincent Diaz, a native of Lagos, about sixteen miles from Sagres, was commander.

Diaz had been President for over thirty years.

Some able critics, even among Europeans, had declared that Diaz, "the grand old man," was the greatest leader of the past century.

According to the common belief, Bernal Diaz was a soldier in the army of Cortés, accompanied him throughout his campaigns, and, at a late period of his life, composed a narrative of the memorable events in which he had participated as an actor or an eye-witness.

Diaz was then the centre of attraction.

Yet Diaz became a ruler, and a diplomat, and assumed the courtly manners of a prince.

Madero not only accepted nomination, but began an active campaign, making speeches against the Diaz administration, denouncing abuses, more especially the retention of office by the Vice-President and the tactics of Limantour, and showing the people that as General Diaz was then eighty years of age, and his new term would not expire until 1916, Corral would almost certainly succeed to the inheritance of the Diaz regime.

7 Metaphors for  diaz