The trader could only have likened the scene that ensued to the moment of an earthquake or some other stupendous convulsion of nature.
Elizabeth Grainger, who was at once modern and tenaciously conservative, might have been likened to some of the Roman matrons of the aristocracy in the last years of the Republic.
But the intangible distinction was in the eyes that looked out from under these brows the glimpse she had of them as he bowed to her gravely, might be likened to the hasty reading of a chance page in a forbidden book.
Now,' I said, 'I am at the very topic which welikened to the greatest wave.
You will find exactly as I say, for the nature of the bird can be likened to that of man.
These hazel lanes were once the scene of Puritan marchings to and fro, of Fifth Monarchy men who likened the Seven-hilled City to the Beast; furious men with musket and pike, whose horses' hoofs had defaced the mosaic pavements of cathedral.
Ants live in communities which might be likened to a hundred Londons dotted about England, so are their nests in a meadow, or, still more striking, on a heath.
Lincoln had declared in a recent speech that "a house divided against itself could not stand," and the United States he likened to the divided house.
He was likened to a sea captain who seizes the lifeboats on a distressed ship in midocean and, saving himself and crew, leaves the passengers to the mercies of the angry waves.
This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life after life to learn new lessons, as our children go to school day after day to increase their knowledge.
In fact, the earth may be likened to a vast training school in which there are pupils of varying age and ability as we find it in one of our own schools.
Evolution of form may be likened to the manner in which the juices in the snail first condense into flesh and later become a hard shell.
On more than one occasion, friends, to whom I have shown this object under these conditions, have likenedit to a breached volcanic cone, a comparison which at a later stage is seen to be very inappropriate.
Much as I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us, been sounded, the quick, smitten glare with which the child's face now received it fairly likened my breach of the silence to the smash of a pane of glass.
I have likened it to a sentinel, but its slow wheel, for a moment, was rather the prowl of a baffled beast.
All this time, the young Damascene was listening, and now he likened her voice to the voice of his slave-girl and then he put away from him this thought, and the damsel had no knowledge whatever of his presence.
Science may be likened to a mirror wherein the images of the mysteries of outer phenomena are reflected.
Human unity or solidarity may be likened to the body whereas unity from the breaths of the Holy Spirit is the spirit animating the body.
In fact, science may be likened to a mirror wherein the infinite forms and images of existing things are revealed and reflected.
Material development may be likened to the glass of a lamp whereas divine virtues and spiritual susceptibilities are the light within the glass.
The consciousness of any moment has been less happily likened to a field, in the center of which there is an elevation higher than the surrounding level.
In a state of attention the mind may be likened to the rays of the sun which have been passed through a burning glass.
Towards the close we attracted especial attention; and there were two or three minutes during which the flight of bullets around us might truly, without much exaggeration, be likened to a storm of hail!
This period, in the history of a country, may be likened to the hobbledehoy condition in ourselves, when we have lost the graces of childhood, without having attained the finished forms of men.
My name is Youth, I tell thee, I flourish as the vine-tree: Who may be likened unto me, In my youth and jollity?
The fleshly beauty, whereat thou dost wonder, In holy Scripture islikened to hay, And as a leaf in a stormy weather, So is man's life blowen clean away.
Woman's heart, my boy, in its days of youthful immaturity and vegetable development, may be felicitously likened unto a delicate cabbage, with an invisible worm feeding upon its sensitive petals.
The word might be likenedto some profaned temple, which needed a new consecration, but not to be abolished, and another built in its room.
It has been likenedto that other secret tribunal, that so long oppressed Venice, the Council of Ten.
Like the index of the said watch did Dumbiedikes spin round the whole bounds of his little property, which may be likened unto the dial of the timepiece, with unwonted velocity.
But this cannot be the reason, because it has no objection to any person hearing its voice, which may be likened to the squeak of a rusty axle.
This species may be likened to a wren that has grown a respectable tail.
Acromegalics have been also likenedto the Neanderthal Man, who had probably, as the gorillas may have, an excess of the pituitary in their systems.
In Sir Walter Raleigh's words: "Passions are best likened to streams and floods.
The kingdom of heaven islikened to a king who made a marriage for his son.
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants.
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, 7:25.
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