35 Metaphors for site

As to this camp-site being a joy compared to the ones stretched back along the road he was assuredly right.

Its site was a knoll to the east of our house, which Veronica had chosen.

There was a low isthmus (that has since been washed away) connecting with the mainland; so that the site of the settlement was in reality a peninsula.

The site selected for this was the cemetery on the Scanado (usually spelled without regard however to the popular pronunciation Skenandoah), Vernon.

The site has been a centre of population from the remotest period, chiefly Berbers, whose name it still bears.

The site anciently called Tuilet, was perhaps also the Volubilis of the ancients.

The site for his first settlement, chosen by Ponce, was a low hill in the center of a small plain surrounded by hills, at the distance of a league from the sea, the whole space between being a swamp, "which," says Oviedo, "made the transport of supplies very difficult."

The site of that exalted town, however, is still a matter of discussion.

The site of the bonfire was either the village square or beside the cross in the cemetery.

Its site was a leveled gray mass, sodden, wrecked past all redemption; ruined beyond all thought of salvage.

The site selected for the experiments was a clear, almost level, stretch along the north sea-wall of the Naval Academy.

When the proud conqueror of Palestine beheld the magnificence he had created, little did he dream that "this great Babylon which he had built" would become such a desolation that its very site would be uncertain,a habitation for dragons, a dreary waste for owls and goats and wild beasts to occupy.

The site of the United States Treasury, it is the home of everything but affluence.

The site on which the new Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth stands is one of the finest in the county, commanding, as it does, an uninterrupted view of the river valley for some distance, and of the rising ground beyond.

The site of the front gate is now, therefore, the commencement of Albemarle Street, named after one of the distinguished occupants of Clarendon House.

The site was an outpost, because the three isolated hills make it a natural point of defence, and of attack towards the north if attack were desirable; no such point of similar vantage is to be found lower down the river, and if the city had been placed higher up, Latium would have been left open to attack,the three hills would have been left open to the enemy to gain a firm footing on Latin soil.

The old sites are deep pits with hollowed-in wet centres.

The site of the ancient pond was a miracle of rustic beauty.

About four miles distant there once stood Weoliegh castle, which was surrounded by a moat; but the site of the castle is now a garden, and not a vestige of the building remains, except a small part of the foundation, which may be discovered at the edge of the moat, that remaining entire.

To this we reply, that New Orleans is more than a century old, and for half that period has been the centre of a great trade; that St. Louis, Natchez, Mobile, Nashville, Louisville and Lexington, are all half a century old, and each had arrived at years of discretion, while yet the sites of Buffalo, Rochester, Lockport, Canandaigua, Geneva, Auburn, Ithaca, Oswego, Syracuse, and other large towns in Western New-York, were a wilderness.

The pleasant site of the abbey buildings on the banks of the Frome is now a resort of holiday-makers, adventurers from Bournemouth and Swanage, who may have al-fresco teas through the goodwill of the gatekeeper, though it would appear that they must bring all but the cups and hot water with them.

The site of the oppidum is a little tableland raised above the surrounding soil by a natural embankment.

I find that the new Factory site [at Canton], about which I had such a fight with the merchants last time, is a great success.

Much of the land on which the town stood has been washed away by the river, so that its site is now an island.]

The site for the new house in the park, opposite the castle, was a second time examined into and approved, and fixed upon for the termination of the intended circuit.

35 Metaphors for  site