Candilmas bygon two yeirs, scho cam into Isobell Brown's hous, quhair the divill was sitting in the liknes of a gentill man at the tabill drinking with Isobell Brown, who took hir in his armes without any moir speiking at that tyme.
In 1661 Jonet Watson of Dalkeith said that 'the Deivill apeired vnto her, in the liknes of ane prettie boy, in grein clothes, and went away from her in the liknes of ane blak doug'.
She confessed that three months before the Devill apeired vnto her, in the liknes of ane prettie boy, in grein clothes.
I am in an haire's liknesjust now, Bot I sal be in a womanis liknes ewin now.
The Deivill apeired vnto her, in the liknes of ane prettie boy in grein clothes.
At Aberdeen in 1597 Agnes Wobster said that the Devil appeared 'in the liknes of a lamb, quhom thow callis thy God, and bletit on the, and thaireftir spak to the'.
I wes a catt (or craw) just now, Bot I sal be [in a woman's liknes evin now.
I am in an hairis liknes just now, But I sal be in a womanis liknes ewin [now]!
Thus rude exemplys and figuris may we geif; Thocht, God by hys awin creaturis to preif, War mar onliknes than liknes to discern.
Shee alsoe saith yt when her devill did come to sucke her pappe, hee usually came to her in ye liknes of a cat, sometymes of one colour and sometymes of an other.
Wallace stud still, and couth na handis ta; Frendschipe to thaim na liknes wald he ma.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liknes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
