4 Metaphors for dispersions

Their Dispersion is the second remarkable Particular in this People.

The dispersion of the Sixth Regiment had been such a mere bagatelle, and their own number had, since then, been re-enforced by half the professional rowdies in town.

Among the many evils produced by the wars which with little intermission have afflicted Europe and extended their ravages into other quarters of the globe for a period exceeding twenty years, the dispersion or a considerable portion of the inhabitants of different countries in sorrow and in want has not been the least injurious to human happiness nor the least severe in the trial of human virtue.

The dispersion of mankind, and the consequent division into tribes, or races, was the result of such presumption.

4 Metaphors for  dispersions