135 Metaphors for family

He likes the Feltrams, and likes the folk at Mardykes Hallthough those two families was not always o'er kind to one another.

The three families of Snipes, Plovers, and Rails are the largest ones of all the tribe of Birds that Paddle and Wade by the sea-shore.

Loren had learned a vast deal at college; among other scraps of intelligence he had discovered that his family were a little outlandish, and that Melton was altogether too slow a place for a rational being like himself to exist in except, at the best, for a few summer weeks.

Those ten families I knew was just those close 'round us.

And, honest, hishis whole family is just that way.

It is remarkable that his lordship's family have been smatterers in wit and learning for three generations: his grandfather has left monuments of his good taste in several rhyming tragedies, and the romance of Parthenissa.

The world immediately split into two parties, and our family was an image of the great whole.

But forasmuch as I undertook at first, that kingdoms, provinces, families, were melancholy as well as private men, I will examine them in particular, and that which I have hitherto dilated at random, in more general terms, I will particularly insist in, prove with more special and evident arguments, testimonies, illustrations, and that in brief.

Family "There were six children in my mother's family.

The emperors were great theatre-goers, and the wealthy private families were also enthusiasts, so that gradually people of education devoted themselves to writing librettos for the operas, where in the past this work had been left to others.

It was a constant procession of new faces, of masters who came from every corner of Spain to take their seats in the choir, to die a few years afterwards, leaving the vacancies to be filled again by other newcomers; but the Lunas always remained at their post, as though the ancient family were another column of the many that supported the temple.

But the family were Quakers, and they understood yea to mean yea, and nay to mean nay.

The leading white families living in Jacksonville at that time were the Hartridges, Bostwicks, Doggetts, Bayels and L'Engles.

The family was the old clergyman, his wife, his daughter, and finally his son.

" Everything is subordinated to the State; but, on the other hand, the family, friends, culture, virtue,the good of the people,is the main object of good government.

That noble family were nullities to her; far distant, apparently estranged from her hearth, except in form she had never seen them; they were associated in her recollection with none of the sweet ties of kindred.

Such a family were the Westcotes of Bayfield, or Bagvil, in 1810.

Suppose that families were very sacred things in the eyes of God.

My mother's family were perfervid Abolitionists, accepting the extremest utterances of Garrison and Wendell Phillips.

The families of Gales and Seaton are, in their origin, the one Scotch, the other English.

The family, therefore, is the nursery of all human virtues and powers.

The family are offMr. and Mrs. Willis, and Julia tooand the Recorder and Companion [10] are left for a fortnight in my charge.

Though we may use the word in a wider sense in this chapter, these grand old families were the true aristocracy, and inspired just that respect in the minds of men outside their circle which is still so familiar to us in England.

Every family became a little society, so much the more firmly united, as a mutual attachment and liberty were the only bonds of it; and it was now that the sexes, whose way of life had been hitherto the same, began to adopt different manners and customs.

Time glided on, till it amounted to five years since the exiled family had been inhabitants of Switzerland.

135 Metaphors for  family