23 Metaphors for entertainment

On the following day the affiancing, of which this entertainment had been the prelude, took place with great solemnity.

I have moreover known foreigners, distinguished by the gentleness of their manners, who experienced at first seeing a bull-fight such very violent emotions as made them turn pale, and they became ill; but, notwithstanding, this entertainment became afterwards an irresistible attraction, without operating any revolution in their characters."

The first entertainment was the Chevaux au Galop, a delightful merry-go-round with the most fiery prancing horses, three abreast, and all jumping at different moments.

The public entertainments of Caesar, his spectacles and shows, his naumachiae, and the pomps of his unrivalled triumphs (the closing triumphs of the Republic), were severally the finest of their kind which had then been brought forward.

The proposed entertainment was an engrossing subject, and as various opinions were held, the arguments were lively and outspoken.

Carefully introduce wherever you can the direct teachings of the Gospel, and then your entertainments will be the power of God unto salvation.

But the chief entertainment has been the nuptials of our great Quixote (Carteret) and the fair Sophia.

The first entertainment was the Chevaux au Galop, a delightful merry-go-round with the most fiery prancing horses, three abreast, and all jumping at different moments.

All the really great entertainments were overthe Cabinet dinners, the Reception at the Foreign Office, the last of the State balls and concerts.

Altogether it was a pleasing picture, and Coquenil's interest was heightened when he overheard a passing couple say that these were the guests of no less a person than the Duke of Montreuil, whose lavish entertainments were the talk of Paris.

Indeed the entertainments of a village school, instead of being the unnatural and feverish production of hours of overtime, might well be the ordinary outcome of work both at school and at homeand thus a motive for leisure is naturally supplied and probably a hobby initiated.

Her lips are your welcome, and your entertainment her company, which is put into the reckoning too, and is the dearest parcel in it.

To-day's entertainment, the dinner, the conversation, and the excitement are so many drops of narcotic.

Their imitation was carried even to resemblance of persons, and their common entertainments were a parody of rival poets joined, if I may so express it, with a parody of manners and habits.

The principal entertainment of the evening was a monster battle with tin soldiers on the cleared floor of the huge dining-room.

A magical entertainment may be a very common affair to my young readers in the city, but in a country village it is an event.

In what does God possess character, feelings, relations to us?all unanswerable questions, but the very entertainment of which is an excitement of the reason, and throws us upon the thought of what there is behind the veil.

Our entertainment here was in so elegant a style, and reminded my fellow-traveller so much of England, that he became quite joyous.

Mr. Adams is determined to keep as little company as he possibly can; but some entertainments we must make, and it is no unusual thing for them to amount to fifty or sixty guineas at a time.

Genuine entertainment, amusement and mental recreation are the motives of The Smart Set, the MOST SUCCESSFUL OF MAGAZINES.

'The entertainment at Bayfield' was nothinga private experiment only; the unfamiliar must be handled gently; a good rule to try it on your own household before tackling the world.

" CHAPTER VI FATE IN A LAURELLED POST-CHAISE All the tongues of Rumour agreed that the Bayfield entertainment had been a success, and Endymion Westcote received many congratulations upon it at the next meeting of magistrates.

My principal Entertainments of this Nature are Pictures, insomuch that when I have found the Weather set in to be very bad, I have taken a whole Day's Journey to see a Gallery that is furnished by the Hands of great Masters.

23 Metaphors for  entertainment