76 Metaphors for governors

The last governor of Tebris, Behmen Mirza, the schach's brother, was a remarkably intelligent and just man.

Here they had cast up some works, and fired from their lines very regularly, considering them as militia only, the governor encouraging them by his example; so that finding without some foot there would be no good to be done, we gave it over, and drew off; and so Aylesbury escaped a scouring for that time.

The present Governor is Sir Evan John Murray McGregor, a Scotchman of Irish reputation.

[Footnote f: Governor must be native citizen of U.S.]

The Governor or Director, as already mentioned, was Pierre Renault: his Council consisted of MM.

The governor of this city, which stands beyond the frontiers of Polish Russia, was a Polander and Catholic, named Pamartin.

From what I saw of him I judged that the military governor of Brussels, Major Bayer, was not only a diplomat but a kindly and an engaging gentleman.

The circumstance that the governor was an Episcopalian reconciled many devout Christians to the palpable wrong that was done him; and it was loudly argued that a church government of bishops, was opposed to republicanism, and consequently ought not to be entertained by republicans.

The governor of the province was proprietor of most of the land.

The governor of that island was at that period, an illustrious knight of the Order of Calatrava, and the knights of that Order take the title of Commander.

The governor had always been a Democrat, and had named his township after Thomas H. Benton; but now he was the big gun of the new Republican Party in our neck of the woods, and he invited all the people who he thought would be good wheel-horses.

About the end of the ninth century there were already twenty-nine provinces or fragments of provinces which had become petty states, the former governors of which, under the names of dukes, counts, marquises, and viscounts, were pretty nearly real sovereigns.

The Colonel was smoking a cheroot as he walked; and the gigantic Smith, the cock of the school, who happened to be looking majestically out of the window, was pleased to say that he thought Newcome's governor was a fine manly-looking fellow.

And the governor of a great province became archbishop of Milan.

But the former governors who were before me were a source of expense to the people, and took of them bread and wine, and also forty shekels of silver each day; and furthermore their servants oppressed the people.

The governors, before the union of the three men, were Titus Sextius over the Numidian region, and Cornificius with Decimus Laelius over the rest; the former was friendly to Antony, the latter two to Caesar.

The captain had heard that the Governor was an eccentric, but he was hardly prepared for the curious figure who came limping feebly down his quarter-deck, his steps supported by a thick bamboo cane.

In 1825 the island's governor was Lieutenant-General Miguel de la Torre, Count de Torrepando, who was invested by the king with viceregal powers, which he used in the first place to put a stop to the organized system of defalcation that existed.

"The governor is a dear old gentleman, but he has the Carteret temper.

"Oh! but a particular sort of Missa Miss that sells oranges."' Mr. Cunningham in a note on this says:'Orange-girls at theatres were invariably courtesans.' Governor was the term commonly given to a tutor, especially a travelling tutor.

The governor of Virginia was a tyrant.

The Colonial Governors.%The governor of a royal province was the personal representative of the King, and as such had vast power.

I don't know what the governor was studyin' 'bout.

Both the governor and the bishop were natives of Salamanca, and named the place New Salamanca, but the name of New San German has prevailed.

" The Governor of Demerara is HENRY LIGHT, Esq., a gentlemen who seems strongly inclined to court the old slavery party and determined to shew his want of affinity to the abolitionists.

76 Metaphors for  governors