56 Metaphors for situation

The international situation at the present time is beyond question the most wonderful that the world has ever seen.

The situation of Delphi is the most beautiful that eyes can behold: mountains of rock, such as we never before saw, and in the back ground the far-famed Parnassus, covered with snow.

The business situation in the United States upon its entrance into the war was the antithesis of this.

Yet in a very real sense their present tragic situation is the nemesis of the political sins of the Balkan nations themselves.

To his mind the situation was clearness itself.

Our situations were such good ones that we married long ago, and our families lived in the upper stories of the prison.

But a situation is not an idea.

In my opinion, not your geographical situation, not your material power, not the bold enterprizing spirit of your people, is the chief guarantee of their future; but the universality of education: for a whole people, once become intelligent, never can consent not to be free.

The new situation which confronts our Liberal intelligence is the discontent of the enfranchised, the contempt and hostility of the voters for their elected delegates and governments.

The chief situations in college which require note-taking are lectures, library reading and laboratory work.

The situation is charmingand so sheltered!looking full southjust the place to keep open house in!"

Hamilton struck me very much,I mean the whole appearance of the place; the situation of the house, the noble water prospect it commanded, the magnificent old oaks near it, a luxuriant vine trellis, and a splendid hedge of Yucca gloriosa, were all objects of great delight to me.

Nor would I forsake the brave Dupin without the strongest motive; but that the situation was extremely tendu, and a reaction close at hand, was beyond dispute.

However temporary such a situation might be, complaints, recriminations, and, ere long, violent reprisals, would be seen everywhere arising.

Such situations were mountain peaks; or narrow ledges on cut cliffs, where a careless movement might cause a man to fall to his death on the rocks below; or islands in lakes, which could only be reached by means of a raft, and where there was danger that a person might be seized and carried off by the S[=u]'-y[=e] t[)u]p'-pi, or Under Water People; or places where the dead had been buried, and where there was much danger from ghosts.

This situation cannot but be the cause of great preoccupation; but the greater preoccupation arises from the fact that the minor States, especially those which took no part in the War, become every day more exigent and display fresh aspirations.

The funeral was attended by the students from the college, and a large number of others; for the professor is much beloved, and the affecting situation of his son has been a lesson of instruction to the young people who used to associate with him, and seems to have had an effect on the whole town.

The situation of the Island of Baly The Island of Baly lying at the East end of Iaua, is a verie fruitfull Islande of Ryce, Hennes, Hogges, that are very good, and great store of cattle: but they are very drie and leane beastes.

The oily ecclesiastic is terrified as only a combination of hypocrite and coward can be; and, in the extremity of his craven distress, he fancies that any situation on shore, no matter how despicable, would be paradise.

XIX.The situation of the camp was a rising ground, gently sloping from the bottom for about a mile.

The only other situation in all China which accords with the two canals, or rivers, communicating both with Kathay and Mangi, is Yotcheou on the Tong-ting-hou lake, which is on the Kian-ku river, and at a sufficient distance from the Hoang-ho to agree with the text.

" Eveena's humble, unconscious self-abnegation was rendering the conversation intolerably painful, and even the embarrassing situation now at hand was a welcome interruption.

At this moment a mist floated before my eyesI endeavoured to shoutbut although I used the utmost exertion, I could not produce a soundI felt as if palsied and enchainedmy situation was desperatewhat species of civility could I expect from the spirits, (for that they were supernatural beings I could no longer doubt) of those chairmen who during their mortal career are so noted for their brutality?

To cultivate this handsome shrub in a satisfactory way, fairly rich loam or peat, and a situation sheltered from cold and cutting winds, are necessities.

This deplorable situation was the effect of my brief course in the East, and the unsatisfactory "teenth" in a girl's years.

56 Metaphors for  situation