6 Metaphors for downfall

With a powerful enough engine he climbs at once again, but these sudden downfalls are the least pleasant and most dangerous experience in aviation.

CHAPTER II The downfall of Captain Nugent was for some time a welcome subject of conversation in marine circles at Sunwich.

For her, on her own principles, a downfall Is a chastening mercyand a likely one.

The longing for a Mahdi, a Saviour, the craving for purification combined with an opportunity to murder and rob, always gave the Moslem apostle a ready opening; and the downfall of the Merinids was the result of a long series of religious movements to which the European invasion gave an object and a war-cry.

Since the downfall of the Derby Government had been the work of a temporary alliance between Peelites and Whigs, the Queen sent for representatives of both parties; for Lord Aberdeen as the leader of Peel's followers and for Lord Lansdowne as the representative of the Whigs.

" Auguste demonstrated to me what I already saw too clearly, and what Girard had shadowed forth in the morningthe moral situation of the Faubourgthat the people were "dazed"that it seemed to all of them that universal suffrage was restored; that the downfall of the law of the 31st of May was a good thing.

6 Metaphors for  downfall