84 Metaphors for office

Every day I live, it appears to me that the office of a Christian pastor and teacher is the best in the world.

A neat little room adjoining the public office became a kind of ladies' exchange, where those coming from different parts of the town could meet to talk over the news of the day and read the papers and magazines that came to Mrs. Bloomer as editor of the Lily.

The government Patent-Office, with its countless chambers, is not so large a museum of inventions as the capacious brain of to-day.

Mahomet conceived the office of Prophet to be the result of an irresistible divine call.

This office is merely a headquarters for social frivolitya place to get my mail and mill over the gossip of the street.

The episcopal office, aside from its spiritual aspects, had become a great worldly dignity as early as the fourth century.

In those days the office of superintendent of finance was usually only a short and rapid road to the gibbet of Montfaucon.

The office of this gentleman was next door to Mr. A. B.'s, in Bond street; and we are bound to state, that though we said that we did not wish to give more than $300, we were treated with respect; and several offered us under these terms, though attended with circumstances which prevented our availing ourselves of them.

Is the Sexton's office to be the loser on that account?

The office is only a stepping-stone.

These offices were drastic innovations, introduced to get rid of the very long psalm arrangement of the ferial office.

He was aloneas usualthe Colonel's office really being his private lodgings, disposed in connecting rooms, a single apartment reserved for consultation.

The Custom Office was a little white frame building with green shutters, and overhanging the water as though to topple into the tide.

My office here is no sinecure, so many parties and difficulties of every kind; but I will do what I can.

An instance given us last night by our friend from across the water, shows that the English circumlocution office is a greyhound compared with our Indian office.

All offices of this kind are the greatest endearments, being real flatteries enforced by deeds and actions, and therefore far more prevalent than those that are performed but by words and fawning, though very great advantages are daily obtained that way; and therefore he esteems flattery as the next most sure and successful way of improving his interests.

And so that editorial office soon became a nest of confusion.

Of course employment offices alone are no remedy for the exceptional difficulties of such times, and the individual, whether he be an unfortunate "out-of-work" or a more fortunate well-wisher, feels helpless in the face of the overwhelming burden of distress.

On these days the office will be the office of the feast, with commemoration in Lauds, Vespers and Mass.

The office was the equivalent of 121 stories above ground level, and only an observation deck and various antennae were above it.

I was willing to honour a Lord Bishop as a peer of Parliament; but his office was to me no guarantee of spiritual eminence.

He believed that the office of Senator was the highest to which Americans could ordinarily attain, and he gave dignity to it, and felt its responsibilities.

However, she still edited the Lily, and her office remained a fashionable center for several years.

The office of Provost or chief magistrate of the capital was at that time an object of ambition, and was conferred only upon persons of high rank and station.

And stranger still that Judge Hauteville's office should be Number Six!

84 Metaphors for  office