16 Metaphors for exiles

Exile itself may be accidentally a good; and, indeed, any punishment, less than death, is very different to different men.

Another beloved exile from the land of his birth is Señor Jose White.

But this exile, is it complete isolation?

He assured her that this decree of banishment against the Bonaparte family was a heavy burden on his heart; he went so far as to excuse himself for it by saying that the exile pronounced against the imperial family was only an article of the same law which the conventionists had abolished, and the renewal of which had been so vehemently demanded by the country!

An interminable, monstrous exile is the impression we get of Anne's life in the years of her girlhood.

One exile (Lord Clare) became a marshal of France, another (General Wall) became Prime Minister of Spain....

For all this, see Codex, v, 9, 5, and vi, 18, q. Paulus, v, 4, 14, who adds that exile was the penalty if the crime had not been completely carried out.

A woman who married a divorced man while his first wife was living, was condemned for adultery and accordingly handed over to the first wife to be disposed of as the latter wished; exile, stripes, and slavery were the lot of a man who took another wife while his first partner was still alive.

Exile and wretchedness are stern trials, and it is difficult for him to brave a martyr's misery who has no conception of a martyr's crown.

The people's instinct feels the danger of losing an irreparable opportunity, and hence the fact, never yet met in history, that a homeless exile becomes an object of such sympathy, rolling on like a sea, in spite of all the passionate rage of my enemies, and all the Christian tolerance of the Reverend Father Jesuits, which they in such an evident manner show to me.

Exile for a whole year in any continental town is exile indeed; therefore, although I lived in Italy for choice, I, like so many other Englishmen, always managed to spend a month or two in summer in our temperate if much maligned climate.

In war, as in industry, the exiles were a source of strength to the countries which received them.

This exile was Lord Pitsligo's fate for five or six years.

Her exile was his safety; and the astute Cardinal had long determined that it should end only with her life.

"Arching eyebrows on a maid, With love the genii would entice, I'd buy her for a thousand reaux, Even if exile were the price.

Surely her exile there was a cruel and crushing one!

16 Metaphors for  exiles