21 Metaphors for mission

But he went away without a thought of her; his mission was the rescue of Helen, to which he had pledged himself by the death-bed of

Such acts thy lofty destiny attest; Thy mission is to succour the distressed. KING.

I therefore concluded that our mission was partly a concession to public opinion, partly to enable him to say that his name was known, and his teaching proclaimed on the very banks of the Ganges.

Like yourself, I do not believe woman's only mission in life to be the production of offspring, yet I consider motherhood the highest privilege accorded her who has for it the right physical and moral qualities.

Missions are a higher form of politics.

His mission, then, was up-hill work.

If this paper which Vine held was recovered by some one else, her own mission would be a failure.

My mission is murder.

Its mission is music, and it floods a thousand acres of the blue sky with it several times a day.

He expressed the opinion that my mission to the workmen had been a great success, and was the first piece of definite work so far accomplished in the reconstruction and resurrection of the Russian State.

I would not be understood to say, however, that the Rev. Mr. Fish's mission is any criterion to judge others by.

The mission of history is the unfolding of all the powers which nature has concentrated in man as the compendium of the world; its law, that everywhere on our earth everything be realized that can be realized there; its end, humanity and the harmonious development of all our capacities.

In the case of kings, if we may trust the democratic movement which this war in Europe is aiding so greatly, the only mission the people will soon allow to kings is dis-mission.

Thy mission is a holy one: Thy honor'd husband stands A watchman upon Zion's walls, Its standard in his hands. 'Tis thine to aid the glorious work, Thy ransom'd soul may tell The wonders of a Saviour's love, Who "doeth all things well.

In the case of kings, if we may trust the democratic movement which this war in Europe is aiding so greatly, the only mission the people will soon allow to kings is dis-mission.

The whole Mission is on board this gunboat, pretty closely packed as you may suppose: the servants in a Chinese boat astern, and the effects in another, astern of the 'Dove.'

The idea was that the missions bringing the annual "tribute" would be a sort of state bartering commissions.

It pleases me to think that the day the twain met to discourse of life and its mission was the counterpart of the day I spent on the island.

The mission imposed upon him was no light burden, and demanded of him strength both of body and mind.

"The historic mission of the House of Habsburg is the vindication of equal rights and liberties for all races committed to its charge.

When Raoul was taken in the Bay of Naples, these two worthies fancied that their mission was endedthat they might return with credit to Porto Ferrajo, and again hold up their heads, with dignity and self-complacency, among the functionaries of the island.

21 Metaphors for  mission