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Example sentences for "like spirit"

  • One day, however, while at the anti-slavery office on Washington street, he witnessed what was perhaps a final manifestation of the cat-like spirit of the great mob.

  • The wild-cat-like spirit was in the air--in the seething heart of the populace.

  • Here is a specimen of the sort of goading which the wild-cat-like spirit of the city got from the orators.

  • The captives, in like spirit, hang their harps on the willows of the Euphrates; for how could they sing in a strange land, or let the songs of Zion be heard in Babylon?

  • So Israel, in still later days, accepts the insult of Edom in like spirit.

  • Among the Bedouins, in like spirit, when the divorce takes place at the instance of the woman, the man may refuse to repeat the formula of separation without which she cannot contract a second marriage.

  • In like spirit, unions between adherents of different Christian confessions were either entirely prohibited or else severely discouraged.

  • Still, as a Southern man, I appreciate courtesy, and am always ready to respond to it in like spirit.

  • More than once she said in substance to her mother, "Papa is so often hopeful, serene, and even cheerful, that we ought to try and show a like spirit.

  • You spoke just now of the unbusiness-like spirit of our foreign policy.

  • We must hold fast what we possess and recover what we have lost during the last decades through the unfortunately unbusiness-like spirit of our foreign policy.

  • Had it been followed up by legislation in a like spirit on other departments of law, the profits of lawyers and the needless expenses of clients might have been reduced to an extent of which the unlearned public has no conception.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before she; but surely; elementary school; heeled shoes; like all; like amount; like another; like appendages; like bodies; like body; like everything; like love; like others; like scales; like sort; like spirit; like substance; like teeth; like that; like thee; like thine; like true; like vnto; like your; likes best; visible form