Then the friers sprinkled the sayd fire with holy water, casting the idols into it the second time, and with that the deuils fled in the likenesse of blacke smoake, and the idols still remained till they were consumed vnto ashes.
A certeine thing appeared in the likenesse of fier in manie parts of the realme of England, now of one fashion, now of another, as it were euerie night, but yet in diuerse places all Nouember and December.
Which being rightly vnderstanded and conferred with the likenesse that was in old time betwéene the Celts & the British toongs, will not a little helpe those that thinke the old Celtish to haue some sauour of the Gréeke.
If they appeared in likenesse of anie defunct to some friends of his, they wer called vmbræ mortuorum: And so innumerable stiles they got, according to their actiones, as I haue said alreadie.
For, maister, this Conjurer tooke the shape of the olde man that kept the crosse: and that olde man was in the 825 likenesse of the Conjurer.
This is Læda, whom Jove deceived in likenesseof a swan.
Our Tongue is rough, Coze, and my Condition is not smooth: so that hauing neyther the Voyce nor the Heart of Flatterie about me, I cannot so coniure vp the Spirit of Loue in her, that hee will appeare in his true likenesse Burg.
How may likenesse made in crimes, Making practise on the Times, To draw with ydle Spiders strings Most ponderous and substantiall things?
O Lewis, stand fast, the deuill tempts thee heere In likenesse of a new vntrimmed Bride Bla.
Which being rightly vnderstanded and conferred with the likenessethat was in old time betweene the Celts & the British toongs, will not a little helpe those that thinke the old Celtish to haue some sauour of the Greeke.
But thou doest demand whether the Diuill can represent the likenesse of some faithfull man deceased?
The wind wherwith he slewe them, he let flée out of his mouth: for he appeared in the similitude and likenesse of an horse.
For they shewe themselues in sundry sorts: sometimes in the shape of a man whom we know, who is yet aliue, or lately departed: and otherwhile in the likenesse of one whom we know not.
Hitherto (I trust) we haue sufficiently shewed what we may thinke, concerning visions and appearing of spirites, and other straunge things which haue great affinitie and likenesse vnto them.
Likenesse glues love: and if that thou so doe, To make us like and love, must I change too?
Likenesse begets such strange selfe flatterie, That touching my selfe, all seemes done to thee.
Hellen Clark confesseth, that about six weeks since, the Devill appeared to her in her house, in the likenesse of a white dog, and that she calleth that familiar Elimanzer; and that this examinant hath often fed him with milk pottage.
One Richmond, a woman which lived at Brampford, confessed the Devill appeared to her in the likenesse of a man, called Daniel the Prophet.
She see all the said persons beforemencioned danceing, some in the likenesse of haires, some in the likenesse of catts, others in the likenesse of bees, and some in their owne likenesse.
And forthwith there appeared another in the likenesse of a dumb dogge, somewhat bigger than any of the former.
The said Agnis Tompson (Sampson) confessed, that the Divell, being then at North Barrick Kirke attending their comming, in the habit or likenesse of a man .
But god rebuked him with a likenesse sayenge: it greueth thyne hert for the losse of a vile shrobbe or spraye/ wheron thou bestoweddest no loboure or cost/ nether was it thyne handwerke.
But we vse [the] ensample ād likenesse to strength the faith of the weake.
He neuer doth any thing but of an euill purpose, and yet he can set such a colour, that the Apostle saith he doth change himselfe into the likenesse of an angell of light.
Not long after, the said Iennet Bierley did meet this Examinate neere vnto the place where she dwelled, and first appeared in her owne likenesse, and after that in the likenesse of a blacke Dogge.
Wherevpon this Examinate called Fancie to her; who came to her in the likenesseof a Man in a parcell of Ground called, The Laund; asking this Examinate, what shee would haue him to doe?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likenesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
