18 Metaphors for superiors

"Our holy Superior is out a good while this morning," he said, at length.

A man there told me that Lake Superior was 'a useful piece of water,' in that it lay so handy to the C.P.R. tracks.

Fortunately for us, his official superior was the sub-prefect of the province of Convención, lived at Quillabamba near Santa Ana, and was a friend of Don Pedro's.

Fortunately for us, his official superior was the sub-prefect of the province of Convención, lived at Quillabamba near Santa Ana, and was a friend of Don Pedro's.

Lake Superior, the largest expanse of fresh water on the globe, is 355 miles in length, 160 in breadth, with a depth of 900 feet.

"Lake Superior is more than 500 leagues in circumference; its clear waters, fed by forty rivers, are contained in extensive strata of rocks, and their surges nearly equal those of the Atlantic Ocean.

"The more superior you become the greater will be the reward for me when I dispose of you.

Indeed, so superior were Maskelyne, Smith, and Thrums that they enraged Lewisham by refusing at first to put him on their books.

The Superior of the house is an immoderate revolutionist, speaks English very well, and is a great admirer of our party writers.

Next to parents, all superiors should be the object of reverence.

So a man's superiors or inferiors are persons superior or inferior to himself.

Our Superior is Father Brachet.

Lake Superior is all the same stuff as what towns pay taxes for, but it engulfs and wrecks and drives ashore, like a fully accredited oceana hideous thing to find in the heart of a continent.

What adds to all this uneasiness is, that this expense is without use, and this vanity without honour; she forsakes houses where she might be courted, for those where she is only suffered; her equals are daily made her enemies, and her superiors will never be her friends.

Far superior is a sonnet written to Del Riccio upon the death of the youth, showing how recent had been Michelangelo's acquaintance with Cecchino, and containing an unfulfilled promise to carve his portrait: Scarce had I seen for the first time his eyes, Which to your living eyes were life and light, When, closed at last in death's injurious night, He opened them on God in Paradise.

The hoarse laughter, and mocking merriment, with which this coarse device was received, stirred the ire of Fid, who had submitted in silence, so far, to the rude treatment he received, for no other reason than that he thought his superior was the best qualified to utter the little which it might be necessary to say.

Toward such a superior being the only proper attitude is adoration.

As someone has said, 'The women, once our superiors, have become our equals!'" "We don't even give 'em our seats in the Subway," commented Tutt complacently.

18 Metaphors for  superiors