To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?
For the hundred and sixty-seven receive him in perfect silence; which some liken to that of the Roman Senate overfallen by Brennus; some to that of a nest of coiners surprised by officers of the Police.
This huge Insurrectionary Movement, which we liken to a breaking out of Tophet and the Abyss, has swept away Royalty, Aristocracy, and a King's life.
If that universal military heat, which we liken to a vast continent of smoking flax, do any where take fire, his beard, here in Lorraine and Nanci, may the most readily of all get singed by it.
If, therefore, we liken Darwin to Copernicus, and Owen to Tycho, we may liken the biologists of the present day to Kepler, who interpreted the results of accurate observation upon sound theoretical principles.
We have before had occasion to liken these sounds to the muttering of a bull, nor shall we at present see fit to disturb the comparison, since no other similitude so apt, presents itself.
If indeed thou art a goddess of them that keep the wide heaven, then to Artemis, the daughter of great Zeus, I mainly liken thee, for beauty and stature and shapeliness.
I can only liken the clamour that was now going on in the Dawn's lee-gangway, to that which is raised by Dutch fish-women, on the arrival of the boats from sea with their cargoes.
There is nothing to liken its mists to, the sea washes the wave against the land; brightness falls from its hair.
The only other elegy to which we may liken it is Emerson's "Threnody," written after the death of his little boy.
Fray Juan Perez whispered to Luis, that he could best liken the joy of the admiral to the chastened rapture of a Christian who was about to quit a world of woe, to enter on the untasted, but certain, fruition of blessed immortality.
To what shall we liken the grass blades already springing up along the loosened water ways?
To what shall we liken the violet buds spread thick beneath the country children's feet?
To what shall we liken the brooding sky and the warmth of the all-loving sun?
To what shall weliken the shy unfolding of the lilac buds?
To what shall we liken the twinkling leaves that shine in the dim depths of the woods?
I take my ring from my finger and liken it unto the mind of man--the immortal part, because it has no beginning.
Often in our public meetings the Elders would liken the Church to a ship, and the "Ship Zion" was no mean figure of speech.
We could but liken ourselves to Mahommedans, when they turn their faces towards Kibla, at Mecca, or Parsees when they kneel facing the sun, which is considered by them a representative of God.
We may liken the first stage to that of the savage Indians who depict their exploits in war and peace on the rocks, fragments of bone, etc.
If we may liken music to painting, we may, I think, compare the latter to the first three stages of this new language of music; but it can go no further.
To liken a charming young girl in the prettiest of frocks to a spider is not very courteous; and yet the rôle of spider is what she is forced by the exigencies of ballroom etiquette to play.
To liken Best Society to a fraternity, with the avoidance of certain seemingly unimportant words as the sign of recognition, is not a fantastic simile.
In Cornish warfare if thou win thee praise, Thine shall men liken to thy grandsire's days.
Shame then were it none Though men should liken me to him?
I can only liken it to what we might suppose produced by a set of monster ninepins tumbled about by a party of gigantic Dutchmen.
The effect was curious; I can liken it to nothing but when, by shutting a thick door, some loud hubbub of angry voices is no longer heard.
It is like Whereunto then shall I liken unto children sitting in the the men of this generation?
Another parable put he 30 And he said, Whereunto forth unto them, saying, The shall we liken the kingdom of kingdom of heaven is like to a God?
But whereunto shall I liken 31 And the Lord said, this generation?
I never expected, my lady, to hear you likenthese lazy monks to our Lord's disciples.
When he mentioned any fact which Lady Mabel thought might liken this region to Africa in Moodie's imagination, she would turn and repeat it for his benefit.
We might liken the nerves, singly, to wires, and all of them together to a system of wires.
We might likenthe mind to the boiler in which steam is generated, and the body to the engine which the steam runs.
I do not likenmyself Neither to Thee, Nor to the Saints, Nor to St. John, Nor to old Christmas, But to the good deeds which I have performed.
The good God said: "To whom, O man, doest thou liken thyself?
