37 Metaphors for warrior

One or two, superior to the rest, were handsomely dressed, armed to the teeth, and rode camels well-groomed and richly caparisoned; wild-looking warriors, whom it would not have been agreeable to meet were the country in a less tranquil state.

The great warrior was also a great statesman, and never made himself ridiculous, never degraded his position and powers, and could admire and detect a man of genius, even when hidden from the world.

As the song says, all the heroes do not go to war, and the warriors at the front are not the only ones this war has turned out-of-doors.

These seven warriors were the most famous and dreaded of the whole tribe.

There, close to Drona, that warrior whose flag beareth the device of a bow, is the preceptor's son, the great car-warrior Aswatthaman, who is always an object of regard with me as also with every bearer of arms.

"Fellow warriors," continued Hole-in-his-Face, without noticing the interruption, "I am heap much proud to be with you on this momentous occasion.

The rough warrior again becomes a gentleman, and has access to the best society.

The vain, newly-made warrior was all exultation and delight, and said impatiently: "Delays are ever dangerouslet us meet The foe betimes, this Rustem and the king, Kai-khosráu.

"His numbers were equal to our own, but his warriors were not the warriors of the Hodenosaunee.

The first energy is combative: the Warrior is the primitive hero.

Only the Warrior, which was towed part way from the scene of battle to a British port, was an exception.

There, that warrior who stayeth on his car, cased in golden mail and surrounded by a third part of the army consisting of the most efficient troops, and whose flag beareth the device of an elephant in a ground of gold, is the illustrious king Duryodhana, the son of Dhritarashtra.

Mr. Rhodes thus describes the affair, in his History of the United States: "The Black Warrior was an American merchant steamer, plying between Mobile and New York, stopping at Havana for passengers and mail.

"'My prize was Thora; from that fight, 'Mongst warriors am I Lodbrock hight.

Is it my father?" "No, my son; the first warrior was not Arnold.

"Most of those bullets are French," said Tayoga, "because the warriors are not good sharpshooters, and they are aimed well.

But those brave warriors, when they weigh'd the plight And the fair promise of this hapless knight, His youth, for yet he reach'd not manhood's prime; His gallant mien, his life without a crime, His helpless state by kindred unsustain'd, In a strange court and in a foreign land, All cried aloud, were Lanval doom'd to die, It were a doom of shame and cruelty.

And that warrior whose flag beareth the device of an elegant water-pot worked in gold, is the preceptor Dronathat foremost of all wielders of weapons.

The Warrior and her companions are, however, formidable ships, and in deep water, with ample sea-room, must be most powerful antagonists.

The puritan warrior was at the same time an ardent patriot: he had at heart the greatness of France as much as he had his personal creed; the reverses of Francis I. and the preponderance of Spain in Europe oppressed his spirit with a sense of national decadence, from which he wanted France to lift herself up again.

The warrior whom Rodolph's musket had laid low was Tekoa, the only son of the Nausett chief; and he was resolved that the white man's blood should flow, to expiate the deed.

The Tartar drew his sword, boldly advancing upon Orlando; and a cut and thrust fight began, so long and so terrible, each warrior being a miracle of prowess, that the story says it lasted from noon till night.

With the warriors from the south there came a tall maiden armed with bow and arrows and a long hunting spear.

The warrior, a Huron, was the heavier though not the taller of the two, and recognizing an enemy, a hated Iroquois, he stared fiercely into the eyes that were so close to his.

"For should a warrior be a rock of steel, A thousand ants, gathered on every side, In time will make him but a heap of dust.

37 Metaphors for  warrior