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Example sentences for "like his"

  • King Henry, Sir; he struck me with his fist, and rated me like his hound; and I will not eat another morsel of his bread unless he would answer it to me in single combat.

  • Their faith is no more like the faith of David than their understanding of the Scriptures is like his.

  • No; everyone that is perfect, must be like his master.

  • All that is too fumbling for the field of battle; there a soldier's weapon needs be aye ready, like his heart.

  • After this foretaste of legal vengeance his left hand was struck off, like his victim's.

  • Her husband, also protested upon hearing Desnoyers call him "Counsellor," like his compatriots.

  • Like his grandfather, the Emperor holds the conviction of what monarchy by the grace of God represents, but his vivid and modern intelligence recognizes and accepts modern conditions.

  • For him, it was impossible to celebrate with hoarse ha-has, like his cousins, the discomfiture of these women when they realized that they had wasted so many hours without accomplishing more than abundant drinking.

  • Roger was two years younger than Osborne; clumsy and heavily built, like his father; his face was square, and the expression grave, and rather immobile.

  • But I like his face--oh, ten thousand times better than Mr Preston's handsomeness!

  • I don't like his looks,' thought Mr. Gibson to himself at night, as over his daybooks he reviewed the events of the day.

  • This is Mr. Badman's master's case; he is like his man, and yet he beats him.

  • He is like his man, and yet he rails at him for being bad.

  • Like his cousin, the Kit Fox, he is not especially quick-witted.

  • Like his cousin, Spite the Marten, he lives in the pine and spruce forests and prefers to be near swamps.

  • He is very clever and, like his cousin, Glutton the Wolverine, makes no end of trouble for trappers by stealing the baits from their traps.

  • Like his cousin, Happy Jack, Rusty is a great help to me.

  • If his intellectual and moral sympathies have all changed, I wonder if his physical tastes remain, like his appearance, the same.

  • Phelps's theology, like his science, is first-hand.

  • He was, like his namesake, an American, and with the same pure loyalty and unpartisan candor.

  • That, also, like his marriage, seemed something done, and in a manner behind him.

  • He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too.

  • Like his impudence,' said Peggotty, 'but I don't mind that!

  • The carrier had a way of keeping his head down, like his horse, and of drooping sleepily forward as he drove, with one of his arms on each of his knees.

  • His wit is like his wine, Angélique: one never tires of either, and no lavishness exhausts it.

  • Like his mother he is poor and squalid, lying on mats at doors (compare the speech of Pausanias); like his father he is bold and strong, and full of arts and resources.

  • His humour, like his smile, was a trifle cruel.

  • Like his father, the new Pope was a generous patron of art and literature, and bestowed upon his literary friends, some of whom were exceedingly unworthy, the highest dignities in the Church.

  • Like his predecessor he was determined to continue the war against the Turks, but the circumstances were unfavourable in France and in the Empire, while Venice and Spain, the former allies of the Holy See, concluded peace with the Sultan.

  • Like his predecessors he was desirous of continuing the war against the Turks, but the state of affairs in western Europe rendered such a scheme impossible of realisation.

  • But his coat of arms, like his entry, smells of cloves and pepper.

  • Eva longed to go, and Els might find there a new and beautiful happiness, like his sister, the Abbess Kunigunde.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different shades; like animal; like base; like best; like bracts; like effect; like eyes; like fashion; like her; like himself; like love; like most; like scales; like spots; like structure; like structures; like that; like their; like they; like very; like water; like wise; likened unto; tablespoon melted; two pieces; whose fault