21 Metaphors for restorations

The Restoration was the most efficient ship at the Council's disposal.

The Restoration was the great crisis in English history; and that England lived through it was due solely to the strength and excellence of that Puritanism which she thought she had flung to the winds when she welcomed back a vicious monarch at Dover.

Restoration is a lofty rocky lump, terminating in a peak 360 feet high.

The Restoration, of which Charles II. was a pre-eminent type, was in part a revolt of all the chaotic and unclassed parts of human nature, the parts that are left over, and will always be left over, by every rationalistic system of life.

From the city gates the royal party passed on to the great national cathedral of Notre Dame, and from thence to the church dedicated by Clovis, the first Christian king, to St. Geneviève, whose recent restoration was the most creditable work of the present reign, and which subsequently, under the new name of the Pantheon, was destined to become the resting-place of many of the worthies whose memory the nation cherishes with enduring pride.

Having ceased on his expulsion to be a member of the lodge which had expelled him, his restoration would be the admission of a new member.

But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end.

After that I am free to say that the restoration of Carcassonne is a splendid achievement.

The restoration of a church is a tremendous, an overwhelming responsibility.

The restoration of their lands and the freeing of their children were undoubtedly mighty factors in arousing the men of Jerusalem to those herculean efforts which alone made possible the rebuilding of the walls in the brief period of fifty-two days.

The restoration of the structural parts of the palace and of the stone carving is a more easy matter, for the descendants of the very men who built and carved the palace still practise their art in Agra and round about.

Fox also publicly foretold the dissolution of the Rump Parliament of England; the restoration of Charles II; and the Great Fire of Londonthese are historical facts, remember.

When restorations were in progress in 1872 the archaic tub-shaped font, now standing at the end of the church, was discovered under the present font.

" "No, no, I shall not," replied Gillian, hastily; "I can't tell how it's to be managed, but I am quite sure no harm will happen to me, and that Dick's restoration to liberty will be the reward of the serviceif such it may be calledthat I am about to render you.

The Fatimite restoration was to him only a means to an end; he had used Obeid-Allah's title as an engine of revolution, intending to proceed to the furthest lengths of his philosophy, to a complete social and political anarchy, the destruction of Islam, community of lands and women, and all the delight of unshackled license.

Nevertheless, she loved Clawbonny as well as I did myself, and my restoration to the throne of my fathers was a subject of mutual delight.

It is there stated, that the restoration of monarchy is the sine qua non of present negotiation; and then it proceeds to say, that it is possible we may hereafter treat with some other form of government, after it shall be tried by experience and the evidence of facts.

He of his own accord sought the advice of Brunier; and the poor child recovered, to be reserved for a fate which, even in the next few weeks, was so foreshadowed, that his own mother must almost have begun to doubt whether his restoration to health had been a blessing to her or to himself.

The unsettled state of affairs was bringing ruin on the island, and the restoration of peace was an absolute necessity.

The Stuart Restoration was a period of descent from poetry to prose, from passion and imagination to wit and the understanding.

I should lose no time in saying that restoration is the great mark of the Cité.

21 Metaphors for  restorations