15 Metaphors for households

Her gracious stars the lady blest, And thus spake on sweet Christabel: 115 "All our household are at rest, The hall as silent as the cell; Sir Leoline is weak in health, And may not well awakened be,

How many communities, how many households even, are without a tyrant?

Her household is her charge; her care to that makes her seldom non-resident.

And so the household was all disagreement as a result of that foolish attempt, born of vanity, to make their heir a Monsieur, a Parisian.

The household of the castle of Arnheim having but few things to interest them, were the more eager observers of those which came under their notice; and when the termination of the period when the Persian was to receive shelter in the castle began to approach, some of the inmates, under various pretexts, but which resolved into every terror, absconded,while others held themselves in expectation of some striking and terrible catastrophe.

In the horde of hirelings about a great man there is always one whose ear is open to temptation, and the baron's household was no exception to this rule.

Tactful silence became quite necessary at a time when almost every household at Rome was rent by divided sympathies, and yet brotherhood in art could hardly be entirely stifled.

Her meals when Orville was on the road, had been those sketchy, haphazard affairs with which women content themselves when their household is manless.

For example, he says in the essay on George III.: "King George's household was a model of an English gentleman's household.

A well-regulated household is a picture upon which the good of either sex love to look.

The household of the Archbishop of Canterbury had been the earliest and the most distinguished centre of learning.

While the household, as was the custom, assembled at the door to see the stage oft, the senator calmly continued his meal.

Seldom, if ever, does the married son quit the paternal roof, so large households are the rule.

His household was the talk of London.

Finally, she even learned to cook, and the household became a dove-cote!

15 Metaphors for  households