16 Metaphors for kaisers

And never a hostile act To friend or foe should Christians show, By whomsoever attacked; But they are really the best prepared To attack and to resist; And the Kaiser who prays is the Kaiser who says, "Go!

His eyes lighted in a way that suggested that the Kaiser was almost a god to him.

For twenty-five years the Kaiser was our frequent and honoured, if somewhat embarrassing, guest, professing friendship for England and admiration of her ways, shooting at Sandringham, competing at Cowes, sending telegrams of congratulation to the University boat-race winners, ingratiating himself with all he met by his social gifts, his vivacious conversation, his prodigious versatility and energy.

In 1905 the Kaiser was "The Sower of Tares," the enemy of Europe.

Now that cunning Kaiser was a scholar wise, And could of gramarye, And he cast a spell on that old old Balt, Till lowly and meek spake he.

The Kaiser was the new Mahdi for whom men died in masses, going with fatalistic resignation to inevitable death.

"Now the Kaiser was a general of the pig tribe.

One is so apt to forget that the Kaiser is a divinity, so prone to remember that Luther wrote, "We Germans are Germans, and Germans we will remainthat is to say, pigs and brutish animals."

Abroad the ex-Kaiser was very busy sawing trees, possibly owing to an hallucination that they were German Generals.

The Kaiser is an unstable and changeable character.

"The Germans," said Abdul, and his voice sounded in a queer sing-song like that of a child repeating a lesson, "are my noble friends, the Germans are my powerful allies, the Kaiser is my good brother, the Reichstag is my foster-sister.

After much deliberation the title Emperor was agreed upon; but it is noteworthy that the Kaiser is not "the Emperor of Germany": he bears the more non-committal title of "German Emperor.

The Kaiser was a man of peace in spite of the fact that for many years he had been methodically preparing a military force capable of crushing all humanity.

But the Kaiser certainly is not an English Colonel.

'Bow down, thou rebel, old Athanarich, And beg thy life this day; The Kaiser is lord of all the world, And who dare say him nay?' 'I never came out of Caucaland To beg for less nor more; But to see the pride of the great Kaiser, In his Micklegard here by the shore.

A kaiser is a stream of hot water springin' up an' distubin' the earth.

16 Metaphors for  kaisers