102 Metaphors for successes

And Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

The greatest military success were the campaigns of General Li Kuang-li to Ferghana in 104 and 102 B.C.

No legal regulations guide them in the form or extent of the information that they give in their balance sheets, and their great success and solidity is a triumph of unfettered business freedom.

I believe M'Pherson's success with "Ossian" was more the ruin of Chatterton than I. Two years passed between my doubting the authenticity of Rowley's poems and his death.

Its success would be an obstacle in the way of the much-dreaded "negro equality.

Colonel de Rochas' success, and that of all other experimenters along these lines, is due to their unconscious following of the Eastern method.

My success was phenomenal, my subscription list running up to 1200 in two years.

The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few" are born to rule and that the mass of mankind must be governed by force.

You might even fall into deeper discouragement; for in Science every onward step is at least certain gain, but in Art every step is groping, and success is only another form of effort.

Success of the right kind is a scientific achievement.

The success achieved on the 10th and 11th is a striking example."

Meanwhile the astonishing fact was that the success of the dinner was Jerry Lawrence.

His first literary efforts were translations in verse from the German, but his first great literary success was the publication, in 1802, of "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," and in this he first gave evidence both of the native force and bent of his genius; it gave the keynote of all that subsequently proceeded from his pen.

A series of severe, and well-contested actions near Bergen ended in the defeat of the allies and the abandonment of the enterprise; the only success of which was the capture of the remains of the Dutch fleet, which was safely conveyed to England.

to whom that success which is the ground of his pride, is also the glittering ægis of his sure defence!

" The ill-success of his mission was a bitter mortification to M. de Bouillon, who, dispirited and crestfallen, returned to Paris to report his failure.

The success of these long-range predictions was the demonstration of their being charged with miraculous powers.

Mrs Thorne states that their "success in the examination lists was their undoing," as, owing to this, and to the fact that they were unjustly debarred from receiving the distinctions that they had gained, a great deal of bad feeling was aroused.

Robb'd of the maid, with whom I wish'd to triumph, No more I burn for fame, or for dominion; Success and conquest now are empty sounds, Remorse and anguish seize on all my breast; Those groves, whose shades embower'd the dear Irene, Heard her last cries, and fann'd her dying beauties, Shall hide me from the tasteless world for ever.

He feels that the mechanical success of his previous work should be a sufficient guarantee of the economic advantage of the last proposed plan.

Success is not an accident.

The episode in Elisha Boone's life, that all his success, wealth, and after exemplary conduct had not condoned in the village mind, was his handiwork in the ruin of Richard Perley, I set this down with something of the delight Carlyle expresses when in the rubbish of history he found, among the shams called kings and nobles, anything like a man.

" "The success of this suit is the affair nearest my" The young man paused as if surprised at his own communicativeness; and, taking advantage of the haste in which his toilette had been made, he thrust a hand into his vest, covering with its broad palm a portion of the human frame which poets do not describe as the seat of the passions.

This has uniformly been our maxim, and our success is the best criterion of its policy.

To Macaulay, success in life was the going shop, the growing trade, a seat on the Treasury Bench, the applause of listening Senates, and the eligible residence of deserving age.

102 Metaphors for  successes