They stand alone, for no other internal occurrences fraught with such possible evil consequences are to be found in our history; and it is well to compare their likenesses and distinguish their unlikenesses.
Other likenesses and unlikenesses will be evident in the notices of the respective insurrections.
Pen pictures are sometimes as efficient as likenesses in oil, and the characteristic of Doctor Peter's pictures is fidelity so executed that they seem to be the originals standing in life before us.
The transformation of all the dwellers in Zion into miniature likenesses of this fire is the very highest hope that springs from the solemn and blessed truth that the Lord has His fire in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.
So we may profit by even the ill-natured and distorted likenesses of ourselves as contrasted with the adherents of other religions which so many 'liberal-minded' writers of travels delight to supply.
I did not, of course, ask who she was, and I wonder how they can admit likenesses of that class of people into such a place.
I went to him with one of my sisters, and we were amused by finding many of the likenesses of our servants.
In this, West, who never saw Penn, seemingly followed one of the medallions or busts made by Sylvanus Bevan, a contemporary of Penn, who had a natural skill in cutting likenesses in ivory.
But more than that: on some of these cameos we have the exact likenesses of great personages, who as Roman Emperors once ruled the world.
In the United States there are quite a number of cameo-makers, who cut good likenesses on shells; but the great art which existed in the time of Augustus has passed away.
Of the accuracy of his likenesses we have the most undoubted testimony; and of the sketches of scenery, dances, hunting parties, &c.
This people had always placed great value upon the likenesses of the dead, and from the earliest times had used different means of making them.
I always have the 'Book of Beauty,' whenever it comes out; you know they are likenesses of the Peeresses of the English Nobility.
Miss Patsey wished to know, if among the statues he had seen, there were any supposed to be likenesses of the great men that we read about in history?
I don't mean such likenesses as the portrait of our dear father; but still pretty good for those old times?
The ladies, however, soon deserted him, as his likenesses were not flattering; for where Nature had been niggardly, Opie refused to be liberal.
His first humble attempts at portrait painting were with a smutty stick, against the white-washed wall of his paternal cottage, where he exhibited, in dark colours, very striking likenesses of the whole family.
From these attempts he proceeded to drawlikenesses of his friends and relations with tolerable success.
Faint likenesses of some remain about them yet, but they are very faint and scarcely to be traced.
Their likenesses suggest that they rest on a common basis, probably of oral tradition, while their differences are, for the most part, significant.
We may well recognise our own likenesses in these two with their love spotted with self-regard, and be grateful for the gentle answer which did not blame the desire for pre-eminence, but sought to test the love.
If these are likenesses of folks, they ain't like my folks.
She had, she knew, a little private stock of her own, gained by her likenesses and other drawings; but like a wise little woman as she was, Dolly resolved she would not touch it unless she came to extremity.
Dolly knew nobody, kept close by her mother, who eschewed all society, and so of course had no likenesses to paint.
Like Phenacodus it was semiplantigrade, and shows morelikenesses to the Creodonta.
The skull in the Armadillos presents a number of likenesses to the other American Edentates.
They have been placed in the immediate vicinity of the Whales; but it is now believed by most zoologists that the likenesses which they undoubtedly show to the Cetacea are of an adaptive kind and related to their similar mode of life.
The vertebrae are more numerous than in Procyon, and the teeth are slightly different; otherwise it presents many likenesses to its nearest ally.
If this be true, {200} the likenesses which Titanotherium shows to the Artiodactyla must be either purely superficial and secondary, or a cropping out of ancient characters which had been dormant for many generations.
The fore-limb is decidedly Edentate-like; but it is the foot which presents the strongest likenessesto that order.
The skull shows likenesses to that of the Australian Hydromys; but the most marked characters of adaptation are those of the teeth and caecum.
Still Typotheria are placed by most within the Ungulate series, though their undoubtedlikenesses to other groups, especially to the Rodentia, are admitted, and indeed emphasised.
The detailed likenesses to Man, however, are not to be unduly dwelt upon; for they mainly come from a tendency to assume the plantigrade mode of progression.
This feature shows conclusively that Adapis is a Lemur, and that Nesopithecus, originally supposed to be a Monkey, cannot be removed from the Lemuroidea, many though its likenesses to the higher Primates undoubtedly are.
From certain likenesses in form and in structure, we put certain flowers together and call them roses; from other likenesses, we get another class called lilies; from others still, violets.
We told you in Lesson 8 how, by noticing the essential likenesses in things and grouping the things thus alike, we could throw the countless objects around us into comparatively few classes.
Do the likenesses stop with the births, my brethren are now asking.
My Lord is seeing the likenesses these things bear to the conception, birth and mission of Jesus Christ, the later Blessed One, who is nevertheless his first in love.
If you have more to say, we are of a mind to hear you to the end.
By the ananchitis[360] in divination by water they say the likenessesof demons are summoned.
The use of images arose when, because of longing for the dead, likenesses or representations were made of them as if they had been received into heaven.
They believed, too, that Perseus and his wife Andromeda were received into the heavens after their death, so they marked out likenesses of them in the stars, and did not blush to call them by their names.
The whole interest of the picture lies in the speaking likenesses of the men.
Sir Thomas More, with whom he seems to have had a very friendly connexion, sat to him for likenesses of various kinds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likenesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
