10 Metaphors for encouragements

The only encouragement is the persistence of open water to the east and south-east to south; big lanes of open water can be seen in that position, but we cannot get to them in this pressed up pack.

Those islands were, at first, wholly cultivated by white men; the encouragement they then met with, for a long course of years, was such as occasioned a great increase of people.

The encouragement of self-respect, and of a regard for that which is good for its own sake, are the great principles of government in this establishment.

Frances would interpret hesitation as endorsement, and encouragement might be the last thing that could help her.

The encouragement I receive from my literary and scientific friends, and which has been continued these many years, is, indeed, of a character which is calculated to stimulate to new exertions, although the love for such exertions pre-exists.

Encouragement was the proper cue, now that Jeremy had tantalized him with a glimpse of the bait.

Encouragement is the ne plus ultra of courtship; are you not of my opinion, Mr. Walworth?" Mr. Walworth was number five of the entertainees, and he did understand Latin, of which the young lady, though fond of using scraps, knew literally nothing.

The only direct encouragement of athletic exercises which stands out in our memory of academic life was a certain inestimable shed on the "College Wharf," which was for a brief season the paradise of swimmers, and which, after having been deliberately arranged for their accommodation, was suddenly removed, the next season, to make room for coal-bins.

But after all, the most animating encouragement and potent appeal for freedom will be its own historyits trials and its triumphs.

And one strong encouragement to fidelity in a high motive is public appreciation.

10 Metaphors for  encouragements