32 Metaphors for formations

The formation of the Christian Church was a period of astonishing literary productivity, commensurate in extent and worth with the importance of Christianity.

To such hidden mourners the formation of Anti-Slavery Societies was as life from the dead, the first beams of hope which gleamed through the dark clouds of despondency and grief.

The formation of this future American race is not a pressing problem.

Here the lower formation was schistous, the upper calcareous.

About this time the formation of a militia corps of 7,000 men was a step in the right direction.

Many of the cliffs were composed of a light-coloured marl; but the formation is chiefly old arenaceous rocks.

The formation of this part was a sandstone of a reddish hue, and in a state of decomposition.

On leaving Surruk Durrah we entered the narrow gorge before alluded to; it is five miles long, and has precipitous sides, at the bottom of which rushed a foaming torrent: the formation of the hills was slate with a superstratum of limestone.

Closer formation was the rule from that time forward, since the bombers must be amply protected in order to allow their gunners an opportunity to get to work with those frightful explosives and hurl them at the place where the bridge was supposed to lie.

The geological formation at the site is sienitic gneiss.

He acted himself as my guide; and, like me, regretted that in a country where the formation of a rich museum would be so easy a task, so little had been done.

The formation of this group is a little singular, the calcareous limestone on Deal occurring two hundred feet above the sea and between granite; whilst on Erith vesicular lava was found.

The formation of national government by voluntary agreement is a unique event.

The formation of just methods of instruction, or true systems of science, is work for those minds which are capable of the most accurate and comprehensive views of the things to be taught.

A geological formation is the sum of all the strata deposited over the whole surface of the earth during one of these epochs: a geological fauna or flora is the sum of all the species of animals or plants which occupied the whole surface of the globe, during one of these epochs.

Copple assured me that this formation of his mules on guard was an infallible sign of lions prowling around.

The formation of the abscess, the after-discharge of its contents, and the final establishing of a fistula, are processes greatly prolonged in this form of quittor.

The formation of the neighbourhood of Captain Smith's house was granite: water abounds.

This he looked upon as "a mobilisation of the Church against the State"; the formation of a political party founded simply on unity of confession was, he said, an unheard-of innovation in political life.

The formation of individual units of labour-power into Trades Unions, the amalgamation of these Unions on a larger scale and in closer co-operation, are movements analogous to the concentration of small units of capital traced above.

The formation of the claws is another generic feature.

His formation was a column in mass of about fifty files front.

It is true there were certain indispensables, without which the formation of a connexion was a thing she considered not within the bounds of nature.

It rests on a reddish, sandy, sloping plain, on which were occasionally noticed fragments of quartz and ironstone, which latter formation is the character of Mount Fairfax, and apparently of the neighbouring heights.

The most natural formation is certainly a tripartition of the units, as is found in an infantry regiment.

32 Metaphors for  formations