27 Metaphors for virginia

Virginia was Poe's ideal of womanhood, and we find her figuring as the model for nearly all the heroines of his poems.

God keep us from both!" Virginia was the last province to submit to the commonwealth and first to declare for the returned monarch, and the royalists residing in Virginia despised what the common people insisted in calling freedom.

" Virginia went a little pale.

But Charles was very well aware that Virginia would be a very dangerous place for him, and he positively refused.

The Show Strikes Virginia and the Educated Ourang Outang Has the Whooping CoughThe Bad Boy Plays the Part of a Monkey, but They Forget to Pin on a Tail.

There were those still living when the war began, who had heard their fathers and mothers talk of the last royal Governor and the splendid state of the great noblemen who had flocked to the city of Powhatan when Virginia was the gem of England's colonial coronet.

" "Virginia is an idolatrous land," said he; but he could not look up at me.

Early in May, Virginia became formally a member of the Southern Confederacy, and the troops which she had raised a portion of the Confederate States Army.

To do this, he accused it of mismanagement, brought a suit against it, and in 1624 his judges declared the charter annulled, and Virginia became a royal colony.

Virginia is a treasure house with two of the sides open to wind and weather.

Virginia was the mother of slavery, and it was held by many that she had the best slaves.

Virginia was an exceedingly delicate and beautiful girl.

Large forces had been meanwhile raised throughout the South; Virginia became the centre of all eyes, as the scene of the main struggle; and early in June occurred at Bethel, in Lower Virginia, the first prominent affair, in which General Butler, with about four thousand men, was repulsed and forced to retire.

" Virginia was a little shy.

In the mean time, Virginia being a little rested, pulled from the trunk of an old tree, which hung over the bank of the river, some long leaves of hart's tongue, which grew near its root.

" I durst not hint to him that Virginia was lovesick, and that the voyage had been projected that the two might be separated until they had grown a little older.

Virginia had been nurse in turn to all the children of Rudolph Musgrave's parents; and to the end of her life she appeared to regard the emancipation of the South's negroes as an irrelevant vagary of certain "low-down" and probably "ornery" Yankees as an, in short, quite eminently "tacky" proceeding which very certainly in no way affected her vested right to tyrannize over the Musgrave household.

This seldom opened gate was in a corner of the lawn, and the driving of carriages, or the riding of horses through it to the porch at the front of the house would have been the ruin of the short, thick grass which had covered that lawn, it was generally believed, ever since Virginia became a State.

"She knows all about that," said Virginia; "and when she sees you making a home for some one else, how happy it will make her!" Virginia was the older of the two, now, the utterer of words of comfort; and I was the child.

He pretended that Virginia was his slave, who had been stolen from him and sold to Virginius.

In vain the anguished father asserted that Virginia was his child.

Virginia became a vast jail or Tyburn Hill.

He was chosen because of the military skill he had displayed in the French and Indian War, and because it was thought necessary to have a Virginian for general, Virginia being then the most populous of the colonies.

If Virginia is a country in which a guerrilla resistance can be indefinitely prolonged, it is more open than the plains of Holland in comparison with the Highlands of that era.

Sandys suffered for his convictions, for the party of reaction convinced King James that Virginia was a nest of sedition, and the arbitrary ruler, in the reorganization of the London company, gave a pointed admonition by saying: "Choose the devil, if you will, but not Sir Edwin Sandys."

27 Metaphors for  virginia