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Example sentences for "nearly similar"

  • The country is nearly similar to that of Port Desire, but perhaps rather more sterile.

  • Considering that there is no natural boundary between the two places, and that the character of the country is nearly similar, the difference was much greater than I should have expected.

  • Professor Owen, also, seems to have come to a nearly similar conclusion.

  • Fritz Muller, in order to test the conclusions arrived at in this volume, has followed out with much care a nearly similar line of argument.

  • Mr. Fenton contrasts with astonishment the decrease in New Zealand with the increase in Ireland; countries not very dissimilar in climate, and where the inhabitants now follow nearly similar habits.

  • The relative position of our features is manifestly the same; and the various emotions are displayed by nearly similar movements of the muscles and skin, chiefly above the eyebrows and round the mouth.

  • I infer also from an observation made by Professor Owen, with respect to the length of the arms of the ourang-outang, that he has come to a nearly similar conclusion.

  • On a nearly similar principle I would be disposed to propose among geologists a grateful bumper in honor of the revolutionary army that besieged Maestricht.

  • A nearly similar state of things seems to have obtained in Scotland about the beginning of the eighteenth century, and for the greater part of the previous one.

  • A roast rabbit is rather differently trussed from one that is meant to be boiled; but the carving is nearly similar, as will be seen by the cut.

  • Corrigan published, about three years ago, an account of some cases very successfully treated by nearly similar means.

  • Cambridge butter is esteemed next to fresh; Devonshire butter is nearly similar in quality to the latter; Irish butter sold in London is all salted, but is generally good.

  • A person would not readily believe that these rocks could have flowed as lava; yet at St. Helena there are well-characterised streams (as will be described in an ensuing chapter) of nearly similar composition.

  • Carpenter's views on mesmerism have a nearly similar bearing.

  • I infer that some one (but who he is I have not been able to ascertain) formerly advanced a nearly similar view, for Sir C.

  • This fold or furrow may be seen in all the photographs, and is very characteristic of the expression of a crying child; though a nearly similar fold is produced in the act of laughing or Smiling.

  • A nearly similar abnormal, but I do not know whether hereditary, structure has been observed in the carp, and likewise in the crocodile of the Ganges: Histoire des Anomalies, par M.

  • A nearly similar substance is produced by the action of oxygen gas on oil of turpentine.

  • The 'flowers of calomel,' of old pharmacy, were prepared in a nearly similar manner.

  • It combines with the salifiable bases in a nearly similar manner to oil of cloves.

  • Another, nearly similar, from Burwell Fen, is in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

  • Implements of nearly similar form to that last described, but having the edge oblique, are also met with.

  • It is polished all over, equally convex on both faces, and has the sides rather more rounded than most of those of nearly similar section in flint.

  • The form of the Hamburg Codex is nearly similar.

  • The shore was low and sandy, but there was a ridge of hills behind it nearly similar to that on the west side of the gulph.

  • The shore betwixt Cape Pasley and Cape Arid is low and sandy, and falls back in a large bight, nearly similar to what is formed on the west side of Cape Arid.

  • Nearly similar forms to some of these, from Africa, figs.

  • Nearly similar ones, but flattened at the side, like those common in Denmark, have been obtained from China and Pegu.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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