14 Metaphors for orleans

On the whole, were it not for its unhealthiness, Orleans would be a most desirable residence, and the largest city in the United States, as it is most decidedly the best circumstanced in a commercial point of view.

New Orleans, to which we have referred as the great home of the Creole carnival, is a city known the world over by reputation.

New Orleans was a prize which the English coveted, and to possess it that government had willingly expended a million of pounds sterling.

New Orleans by its position was absolute master of the foreign, trade of the Mississippi valley; and any power in command of the seas could easily keep it strongly garrisoned.

Natives of France made a whole separate "French Legion," in red képis, blue frocks, and trousers shaped like inverted tenpins, as though New Orleans were Paris itself.

Every effort was made to prevent them from dealing with any traders who were not in the Spanish interest; New Orleans, Natchez, Mobile, and Pensacola were all centres for the Indian trade.

I believe New Orleans to be as vile a place as any under the sun; a perfect Ghetto or cursed place; in fact, it is the rendezvous of renegades of all nations, and hordes of negro traders and planters are to be seen flocking round the hotels.

2. New Orleans will some day be a greater shipping port than New York.

New Orleans is just fifty-four miles from the mouth of the Mississippi, and being built at the time of the Orleans Regency, contains many ancient structures.

Nor let it be said, as it often is, that New Orleans and Louisiana are not a fair specimen of things even in the South,that they are more French than American, &c.

New Orleans is a surprising evidence of what men will endure, when cheered by the hopes of an ever-flowing tide of all-mighty dollars and cents.

Although New Orleans is really some little distance from the ocean, the river at this point is more than half a mile wide, and the great ships of all nations are seen loading and unloading at its levee.

In reference to it he was saying that while the South had fallen to the bottom depths of poverty the North had been growing rich, and that New Orleans, for instance, was chock full of Yankeesoh, yes, I'm afraid that's what he called themYankees, with greenbacks in every pocket, eager to set up any gray soldier who knew how to make, be or do anything mutually profitable.

New Orleans is the chief market in the world for cotton.

14 Metaphors for  orleans