79 Metaphors for race

We are of the opinion that mixed races are the best, and we leave it to be understood that ours is the only satisfactory combination.

The race thus formed was the most brilliant in Europe.

Foot races were a great Sunday sport, and dog fights were not uncommon.

In this measure, at least, and aside from the number of prominent individuals the colored people of the United States have produced, the race has been a world influence; and all of the Indians between Alaska and Patagonia haven't done as much.

To a philosophic and pious mind, the races themselves are marks of Divine chirography clearly traced in black and white as on their skin; and if this simile holds good, the yellow race forms a precious page inscribed in hieroglyphics of gold!

The race of Hy-Nial had been titular kings for centuries, but they had never held the sovereignty in anything but name.

Races are the colours of life's prism; it binds them together, and we have light.

That part of the Jewish quarter which remained standing after the great fire, and which is called the Old Lane, those high blackened houses, where a grinning, sweaty race of people bargains and chaffers, is a horrible relic of the Middle Ages.

The instances of migratory nations seem to show this; the Jews are as cunning and fond of money in Asia or Africa as they are in Poland or England; that extraordinary race, the Gipsies, (which are now ascertained to be a Hindoo tribe, driven from their country in the fifteenth century,) are not less thievish in Transylvania than in Scotland.

This race was rather a novel affair.

Nay, more: all experiments in this matter are attended with danger; because the material in question, namely, the human race, is the most difficult of all material to handle.

The Anglo-Saxon race was the kernel around which gathered this glorious fruityour Republic.

The New Zealand race, as a whole, is certainly a very favorable type of barbarism, having but just emerged from an utterly savage condition, having been cannibals within one generation, and being the very identical people among whom were recorded those wonderful cures of flesh-wounds to which Emerson has referred.

Swift's degraded race of Yahoos is a reflection of the degradation to be seen in multitudes of London saloons.

The human race is a thing more ancient than the ten commandments; and the bones and revolutions of the Kosmos, in whose joints we are but moss and fungus, more ancient still.

They saw their race becoming the weaker partner.

The races who go furthest in their intellectual development will be the ultimate survivors; they will be masters of the earth, destroying all others.

Line 3: the stranger races are Rome's vassals.

"Candace," said he, "do you think it right that the black race should be slaves to the white?"

It is not justified by history, which teaches us that civilisation is the result of the mutual action of Europe and Asia; and that the advanced races of India are our own kinsfolk.

It remained for Carteret and his friends to discover, with inspiration from whatever supernatural source the discriminating reader may elect, that the darker race, docile by instinct, humble by training, patiently waiting upon its as yet uncertain destiny, was an incubus, a corpse chained to the body politic, and that the negro vote was a source of danger to the state, no matter how cast or by whom directed.

If the Federal army fell back, as Lee anticipated, it would be a question of speed between the retreating and pursuing columns; and, as the narrative will show, the race was closea few hours lost making the difference between success and failure in Lee's movement.

The race which gained control of North America must become the dominant race of the world, and its political ideas must prevail in the struggle for life.

It is owing to these persistent crimes against grandchildren that the human race as a whole is still such a miserable rabble, and that recruiting offices and insurances companies tell such startling tales of degeneracy.

Some races had been "architects of destruction," but their mission was to build over the ruins of the dead past, the most valuable thing that a man or woman could possess on earth, and that is good character.

79 Metaphors for  race