Moving her head slowly, like one in doubt, she looked at him in a curious, questioning way.
When Mr. Elliott ceased speaking, he raised himself up in a slow, weary sort of way, like one oppressed by fatigue or weak from illness.
I believe old Ted's like one of those Eastern chaps who go into lonely places.
The episode had been a green and dangerous spot, like one of those bright mossy bits of bog when you were snipe-shooting, to set foot on which was to let you down up to the neck, at least.
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
It seemed like a dream to Stephen, like one of the many dreams of her, the mystery of which was of the inner life beyond our ken.
And the woman who sat opposite him seemed, like one of her own nectarines, to be the fruit that crowned it all.
But she felt immensely far from Vere, distant from her as one who does not love from one who loves; yet hideously near, too, like one caught in the tangle of an enforced intimacy rooted in a past which the present denies and rejects.
Hermione said the last words in a low and withdrawn voice, like one speaking to herself.
He seated himself on the tombstone, like one who is prepared to wait some considerable time.
Covered with dust, thirsty and weary, he trudged onward without saying a word, like oneof those docile animals that herdsmen drive along.
Like one of the men who in after ages died for His dear sake, He may be conceived as refusing to be bound to the stake by any bands, willing to stand there and be destroyed because He wills.
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
The man that is immersed in his own evil is like one plunged in the ocean.
She was lying upon the floor, her hands writhed together, and her poor face all white, like one in mortal agony.
The longing for you was killing me," she reiterated, wildly, like one talking in a fever.
I came here when Miss Lucy was a baby, and in all my places has he attended, like one's shadow.
Like one stunned by a blow Nome rose slowly to his feet.
Then, slowly, like one facing a terrible accuser, she turned straight to the coffin box.
Then he descended slowly, like onemoving in a dream.
Like one in a dream Philip picked up the torn envelope.
When Theudas had heard these sayings, and seen that the word was full of divine wisdom, like one thunder-struck, he was smitten dumb.
Supple, like one of those lost children of the gutter among whom she had lived once upon a time, Sarah Brandon escaped from Malgat's grasp, and by a clever trick threw him upon an arm-chair.
Like one of those dissipated men who awake from the heavy sleep after a debauch, with dry mouth and weary head, he felt as if he had just been aroused from a singular and terrible dream.
Like one of those ill-taught professors who study in the morning what they mean to teach in the afternoon, she prepared herself for the lessons which she soon meant to give.
The man whom they had remarked sat with his back against a cherry-tree, and his legs shooting out in front of him, like one who is greatly at his ease.
I had asked Sir Oliver Buttesthorn to do my humble board the honor to partake at it of the dainty upon which we take some little pride, but in sooth this alarm of pirates hath cast such a shadow on my wits that I am like one distrait.
It was this flame in her heart which had kept her like one alone, apart and unsoiled in the midst of squalor and vice, which had made her girlhood so unspeakably sad.
And--and you could never be like one of the two friends I have lost.
But all things come to those who wait, and on this August afternoon the slippery carpenter was fairly caught, like one of his own silly fish; but whether she succeeded in landing her prize or not remains to be told.
Like one anxious to keep an appointment, she frequently consulted her watch, looking long at it, as if it were one of those watches that do not give up their secret until you have made a mental calculation.
As I brushed aside the haze and she was truly seen for the first time, she raised her head, like one caught, and gazed at me with meek affrighted eyes.
Then I placed my hand carelessly on his shoulder, like one a trifle bored by the dull routine of putting my little boys to bed, and conducted him to the night nursery, which had lately been my private chamber.
But I think it is rather nice to be like one," she said in a woman's contradictory way.
As well, they might say, let yonder scuffling vagabonds up any of the Veronese side-streets fall upon the patrol marching like one man, and hope to overcome them!
I seem to totter forward and drop--I think I have lost you--I am like one dead.
She was a draggled woman, with a face of slothful anguish, like one of the inner spectres of a guilty man.
As for Neb, the poor fellow was seen in the road, whither he had fled at the sound of my voice, looking at us like one in awe and doubt.
Then she seemed to muse, picking the cotton of the spotless counterpane on which she was lying, like one at a loss what to say or think.
As soon as the plan was understood, I strolled forward, looking up at the sails, and touching a rope, here and there, like one bent on his ordinary duty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like one" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
