But the repetition in Nature seemed sometimes to be an excited repetition, like that of an angry schoolmaster saying the same thing over and over again.
A perpetual tendency to touch fewer and fewer things might--one feels, be a mere brute unconscious tendency, like that of a species to produce fewer and fewer children.
Nothing can save him but a blind hunger for normality, like that of a beast.
It will be an exact and perilous balance; like that of a desperate romance.
What would experience give her after all, except a kind of ridiculous formal balance, like that of a drilled dog in the street?
Like that, I should think," answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree.
I looked at him stupefied and asked him: "But you have not always been like that?
The grasshoppers chirped themselves hoarse, filling the air with their shrill noise, like that of the wooden crickets which are sold to children at fair time.
I will go and fetch the cure"; and she rushed off to the parsonage so quickly, that the urchins in the street thought some accident had happened, when they saw her trotting off like that.
So the Barbizon people taught our fathers to look at trees in a certain manner, and when Monet came along and painted differently, people said: But trees aren't like that.
It was a nasty trick you played on me, spying on me like that.
If I'd known you were going to take it like that I'd have been more careful.
I'm not going to be talked to like that by anyone.
Then it struck him that the art-student probably was neither the first nor the last of her lovers, and he gasped: he had never looked upon Miss Wilkinson like that; it seemed incredible that anyone should make love to her.
Such a reconnaissance, like that of a coming field of battle, was invaluable, and may help give a further idea of the man's inveterate care for the minutiae of things.
The Paris plant, like that at the Crystal Palace, was a temporary exhibit.
Hella says that she only hinted at it like thatto be on the safe side.
Like that time at the station when Dora and I were so ashamed.
I don't like that, so I shall never go to the south.
For verily I see that the Lady hath spoken truth; and it is like that she is forseeing, even as thou hast grown to be.
It is like that ye shall see them," said Clement; "but I shall look on it as a token that they are about waylaying us if we come on none of them in the Mountain House.
I thank thee, mother," quoth Ralph, "and it is like that I may abide here beyond the two days if the adventure befall me not ere then.
But to practically invite me there, and then treat me like that!
Oh, he declared he shouldn't want her to sit under that lamp all the time, of course; but he hoped she'd like that sort of thing.
Not since Billy's engagement had she heard Billy play like that.
There, you thief--now you are too long and lean to get fat, and you shall always look just like that.
This is my scheme; I shall pull out all of your hair, leaving your body white and smooth, like that of the fish.
As long as time lasts you shall always look like that, Birch-Tree; always be marked as one who will not mind its maker.
And you've got to have good fair marks from one end of the river to the other, that will help the bank tell you when there is water enough in each of these countless places--like that stump, you know.
The question of retardation of labor, like that of premature birth, is open to much discussion, and authorities differ as to the limit of protraction with viability.
Henry of Navarre was a victim of bromidrosis; proximity to him was insufferable to his courtiers and mistresses, who said that his odor was like that of carrion.
Struys, a Dutch traveler in Formosa in the seventeenth century, describes a wild man caught and tied for execution who had a tail more than a foot long, which was covered with red hair like that of a cow.
His face had a look of weariness and pleasure, like that of sick people when they feel relief from pain.
The name refers to the shape, which is like that of an antique lamp.
An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
