92 Metaphors for germans

A German in a similar position is a sort of human ferret.

Should you class the four most cultivated nations of Europe, according to the temperaments, the German would be Phlegma; and as such, I, a German, in German modesty, which foreign countries should duly acknowledge, can assign it only the fourth rank.

Austrians have fought shoulder to shoulder with Prussians and Germans of the Empire on a hundred battlefields; Germans are the backbone of the Austrian dominions, the bond of union that holds together the different nationalities of the Empire.

The Adige runs close to the road and parallel to it, nearly the whole way to Bolsano or Botzen, where Italian ceases to be spoken and German is the national tongue.

Germans, it is thought, are by biological quality the salt of the earth.

[Footnote 37: The German is, Thalvogt, Ruler of the Valleythe name given figuratively to a dense gray mist which the south wind sweeps into the valleys from the mountain tops.

The priests were very much amused, and the German said:"This is the first time I ever learned chimney-sweeping!"

Not so the German; with him it is an instrument to obtain, or blackmail, further concessions; and as individuals, instead of occupying their thoughts and energies in the faithful fulfilment of its terms, they plot and plan in the pursuit of ulterior advantages.

It will be but the elementary common sense of the situation for all the Allies to plan tariffs, exclusions, special laws against German shipping and shareholders and immigrants for so long a period as every German remains a potential servant of that system.

Capárra, or Puerto Rico, as it was now called, and San German were the only settlements when Ponce returned.

Never can the free German be the friend of the barbarous Sclavonian.

And this never was (as some silly Germans say) a worship of pride and scorn; mankind never really admired pride; mankind never had any thing but a scorn for scorn.

Boney was a bogey; but the German was a nightmare, a thing actually sitting on top of us.

But where he can work the range out on paper, where he has to do with mechanics instead of a shifting mark, where he can apply to the details of gun firing the exact principles of arithmetic, I am pretty sure the German is as good a gunner as may be found on the Continent of Europe to-day.

German wit she finds is heavy and lacking in nicety of perception; and the German is the only nation that "had contributed nothing classic to the common stock of European wit and humor" previous to the present century.

At first we thought the German in East Africa to be a better fellow than his brother in Europe, more merciful to his wounded prisoner, more chivalrous in his manner of fighting.

Besides other queries which it is not material here to relate, Augustine asked, WHETHER COUSIN- GERMANS MIGHT BE ALLOWED TO MARRY?

Because they themselves have conscription, and have to fight or be shot, they infer that every German is a noble warrior.

Germans are assiduous students of Shakespeare, but have seemingly overlooked the comedy: Much ado about Nothing.

In our private life we always spoke Italian or French, German was our official language.

[Illustration: Germans Going Into Battle] To the east of these German tribes were the Slavs, a people no better civilized, but not so warlike in their nature.

To the western American, who was not given to nice ethnic distinctions, both German and Hollander were simply Dutchmen but occasionally we find names like Van Meter, Van Buskirk, Van Sweanngen, which carry their origin on their faces (De Haas, 317, 319.

I do not think the German is a good rifle shot by instinct, as the American often is, and in a lesser degree, perhaps, the Englishman is, too.

He fixed upon the bay of Guayanilla, eastward of Guánica, and San German became the port of call for the Spanish ships bound to Pária.

The German has been the provocator and leader of all modern armaments.

92 Metaphors for  germans