Others point out that "Fox's sermons, rich in biblical metaphor and common speech, brought hope in a dark time."

Abraham Lincoln used the biblical metaphor of a house divided against itself to win backing for the eradication of slavery.

The title, taken from Genesis, is a nod to the biblical metaphors of another period.

It's a biblical metaphor, I think.

He used a biblical metaphor: you only need one King David, and an army of soldiers who merely had to be able to carry out orders.

Speaking in biblical metaphors, she sometimes addressed the struggle for civil rights.

Described by Wyka as a propaganda piece, it was relatively simple, using biblical metaphors and the like to reach less-discriminating readers.

The meeting was an exploration of a feminine biblical metaphor for God or God's creativity, they said.

By now, the press has nearly run out of biblical metaphors.

His dissertation dealt with the problem of biblical metaphors.