18 Metaphors for match

DURLACHER (Doubles Champion, 1899; Mixed Doubles Champion of Ireland, 1898, 1901, 1902) A match that remains in my memory perhaps more than any other was the final of the Irish Championship Singles at Dublin in 1902, when Miss Martin and I met and had a long struggle for supremacy.

The "hunt" matches are great institutions, even though hunting people as a rule do not care for cricket, and invariably drop a catch.

High on a hill a goodly Cedar grewe, Of wondrous length and straight proportion, That farre abroad her daintie odours threwe; Mongst all the daughters of proud Libanon, Her match in beautie was not anie one.

Therefore I think the best training for an important match is to be always in "training"; not to have to alter your habits before a match is the secret.

The great match had not been an ordinary match.

The match was an article well chosen for its purpose, as being a not altogether unlikely thing to find on a dressing-table, and, if noticed, likely to lead to the wrong conclusions adopted by the official detective.

A match between these two young people was the present object of the old lady's existence, and she set about making it with as much determination and confidence as if there had been no such person as Mr Null.

4. MATCH Matches shall be the best three out of five games.

Next, we sought the guidance of the Brethren of the Trinity, and built a lighthouse on the Snout, to be a Channel beacon for sea-going ships, as Maskew's match had been a light for our fishing-boats in the past.

In later love affairs the match is a matter of more importance.

Hence these matches were excellent trials of strength and temper, and were generally accompanied with shouts of laughter, never ending until one side was driven back to its own room.

The Count, however, has been deeply affected by her charms, and though he learns that she is engaged to De Semar, he sends her an appealing letter to discover whether the match is the result of choice or duty.

You arrive wet, hot or cold, or both, at the large District No. 3, to find that the lucifer-matches were half a mile from your store,and that your own private watchman, even, had not been waked by the working of the distant engines.

Remember that an important match is a great strain, a challenging test of stamina.

The Wrykyn match was three parts over, and things were going badly for Sedleigh.

Our janitor" "Let me light your fire for you," he answered, and extracting a parlor-match from his pocket,safety-matches were his bugbear,he stooped, and put the flame to the fire.

Indeed it is most unfortunate, if her affections have been tampered with, for me, who have outgrown romance, and know that, in her position, a wealthy match is a necessity.

" Even then the match was a tie so far as precedent demanded.

18 Metaphors for  match