In the upper story the backs of some of these arcades are decorated with a kind of reticulated work, formed by the stones being laid diagonally, so that the joints resemble the meshes of a net.
Curiosity led me to the Cathedral to hear the new bishop’s primary charge, and I soon found the spirit it breathed to resemble the benevolence that beamed from his countenance.
I had thought the same parts of the same species more resemble (than they do anyhow in Cirripedia) objects cast in the same mould.
This mere variability (causing the child NOT closely to resemble its parent) I look at as VERY different from the formation of a marked variety or new species.
These nuts resemble black walnuts, and are of a russet colour outside; but the pulp inside, which produces the huitoc, is of a dark blue, or purple tint.
It was covered all over with long brownish hair, part of which looked so coarse as to resemble dry grass or bristles.
The leopard is more like the jaguar than any other creature; and the panther and cheetah of the Eastern continent also resemble him.
But such an objection would be very much misplaced, for the ideas entertained by socialists as to this particular point closely resemble those which make music-hall songs popular.
In this they resemble the devisers of perpetual motions, or scientific and infallible systems for breaking the bank at a roulette-table.
The Dragon of China and Japan resemble each other, with the exception that the Japanese variety has three claws, while that of the Celestial Kingdom has five.
I am sure she was some strange spirit, and yet to-night she seems to resemble you!
The Mountain Man is said to resemble a great darkhaired monkey.
To the minds of these great Nature-lovers the fireflies resembledazzling petals of some strange fire-flower or a host of wondering stars that has left the sky to wander upon the earth.
The nest and eggs resemble those of the blackbird (T.
These birds in their actions somewhat resemble the Redstart, with their long tail, and quick flights into the air for insects and back again to the same twig, possibly near where their nest is placed.
In shape and motions the loons very much resemble the grebes, except in size, being much larger.
In habits they much resemble the Crow or some of the Jays.
They are about the color of the dry sands of the beach, and the young when hatched and running about resemble a small bunch of cotton being blown about on the beach.
In markings these birds closely resemble the Gulls.
These birds are darker in color than the Red-shouldered Hawk of the East, and in their habits very much resemble the Red-tail; for food they prefer the large variety of small rodents and rarely disturb poultry or birds.
In habits they much resemble the above, feeding upon the ground among the dead leaves in search of seed and insect food.
She gives him her portrait, a picture which does not resemble her at all, but represents the fairy Belkis, who in olden days was the Queen of Sheba beloved by Solomon.
Beyle and Mérimée resemble each other, in the first instance, in their love of fact.
Allow the brain of a lover to work for twenty-four hours, and the result will resemble what happens at Salzburg when a leafless branch is let down into the deserted depths of the salt mines.
Lamartine's Fifth Canto of Childe Harold, in which he endeavours to strike the Byronic note, shows in what he believed himself to resemble the English nobleman, namely, in his romantically heroic personality.
Oehlenschläger, whose personal circumstances and literary position in many respects resemble Hugo's, did not marry his Christiane till her youth was past.
Beyle and Mérimée resemble each other in their attitude to religion, which was a peculiar one for Romanticists.
With him the reciprocal action of mind and body is altogether denied; they resemble two clocks, so made by the artificer as to strike the same hour together.
To the west of the Indus the characteristics of the country resemble those of Dera Ghazi Khan.
Their habits of life resemblethose of the North Germans even more than those of the Swedes.
These ridges resemble on a small scale those which surround the body of a Porocephalus (Linguatulida), and like them have no segmental significance.
Violet's feelings might somewhat resemble those of the Emperor Julian when he sent for a barber, and there came a count of the empire.
She is duly grateful to me for only smoking at fit times and places, wherein I don't resemble her precious brother.
One of those fine, cold rains soon began to fall, which so often come in the early autumn, and resemble from a distance a tolerably thick fog.
Placards at the end of each street forbid the entrance of carriages into the village, the houses of whichresemble children's toys.
Nearly the only mammals which resemble the Whales in the fact that the pterygoids sometimes meet in the middle line below are the Edentata (Anteater and Armadillo, see p.
It will be best perhaps to give an account of Toxodon, and of a few types which seem to lie near it in the system, and then to indicate how far they resemble or depart in structure from other Ungulates.
The genus Listriodon, also Miocene, is remarkable for having lophodont instead of bunodont teeth, that is so far as concerns the molars, which resemble those of the Tapir.
On the {233} other hand they differ from most Ungulates in the incisors growing from persistent pulps, a point in which they resemble the Rodentia.
The brain, judging of course from casts, has those sulci "which are common to the whole series of Ungulates, and closely resemble those of a foetal Sheep.
Some hold that they resemble in certain points the Ungulata; while others again see in them the culminating term of a series which commences with such a form as the Otter, and of which the Seals and Sea-lions are intermediate stages.
The molar teeth are hypselodont, and {238} the premolars, with the exception of the first, resemble the molars in their pattern.
But although so far they resemble the Deer's horns rather than the Antelope's, Dr.
In the present case there appears to be no doubt as to the identity of the bones, whichresemble the corresponding bones of the Perissodactyla much more than they do those of other Artiodactyles.
It has been pointed out that in their long bodies and short legs the genera Cuon and Icticyon resemble the primitive dogs.
It is about as lethargic as the Sloth, and it is said to further resemble that animal in clinging firmly to a branch even after it is shot.
These "resemble in miniature the sucking cups of cuttle-fishes.
And yet you do not resemblethose easy-tempered fathers who volunteer as stepping-stones for their children," said the king.
I resemble this watcher: from time to time some news reaches me, and recalls to my remembrance all those I loved.
The king darted at his confidant one of those looks whichresemble the livid fire of a flash of lightning, one of those looks which illuminate the darkness of the basest consciences.
Thorburn, in 1891, and said to be very large and to resemble Autumn Giant.
Readings of this character, it is curious to reflect for a moment, resemble somewhat in the simplicity of their surroundings the habitual stage arrangements of the days of Shakspere.
Balconies and projecting windows are faced with panels of stonework so delicately carved and fretted as to resemble lacework, and in the most beautiful and graceful patterns.
Then, not to hurt me, she said it was quite true that I did resemble her ideal, and only lacked years and titles and wealth and reputation to make me desirable for her.
This one in rose turned twice to look at me, and it amused me to feel my heart go a-bumping at my ribs so loud, for she did truly resemble Marie Livingston.
I could not find her, though there were many ladies in the pavilion who appeared to resemble her in largeness and girth, and in fatness of hand and foot.
She had yellow hair which was pleasing, and she did not resemble Silver Heels in complexion or manner, having never flouted me.
They resemble the English Martello towers, and like them were of but little value.
Monsieur Chateaubriand compares the trees enveloped in this moss to apparitions; in the opinion of Brackenridge, they resemble ships under full sail, with which the air plays in a calm at sea.
The situation of Pittsburgh, as well as the Ohio valley, resemble in some measure the environs of Liege, on the Meuse, with the exception that the mountains of the Meuse are higher than these.
On the bank grew arbres de judee, whose blossoms resemble those of the peach-tree, and near them blossoming white-thorns.
The butternut tree, the leaves of which resemble those of the ash, is also used as an ornamental tree.
During his travels in Europe he visited the French military schools, and has endeavoured to make this resemble the polytechnic school.
They resemble the log-houses, neither are they so open as those which I saw last summer in the state of New York.
The market consists of five houses, in a long street ending upon the harbour, and resemble somewhat those of the Philadelphia market.
Seen from a distance theyresemble turkeys, for which reason they are denominated turkey-buzzards.
These limestone rocks form very singular figures on the edge of this valley; the detached pieces resemble the Devil's Wall of the Hartz.
They had a tawny complexion, and black hair; the men appeared to be well built, and the women were stout, and resemble the pictures of Esquimaux women in Parry's Travels.
There are days in March that would resemble it, could you take out of them the damp, the laxness of nerve, and the spring melancholy.
Our ladies were eager to inspect the stock of jewelry, especially those heaps of exquisite color with which the Mohammedans very logically load the trees of Paradise; for they resemble fruit in a glorified state of existence.
All the various organs of our body resemble those of our nearest relatives, the anthropoid apes, in their structure and composition.
Comparative animal chemistry explained that the chemical compounds which build up our organs, and the conversions of energy which accompany its metabolism, resemble those in the other vertebrates.
When insects of a certain family come to resemble in their outer form and color and design those of another family, they obtain the protection or other advantages which these particular characters give in the struggle for life.
The simplest structures are found in many of the vermalia; the lowest forms of these, the rotifers, and especially the gastrotricha, still closely resemble their platode ancestors, the turbellaria.
They resemble ordinary simple amoebae, and only differ from these to any extent in the absence of a nucleus.
In this they resemble the lower metazoa, the sponges, polyps, corals, bryozoa, etc.
As a girl she writes down in her diary many hopes and fears about her younger brothers and sisters, which resemble those afterwards awakened in her by the care of her own children.
He was a bad courtier; he domineered over princelings and kings abroad, and his behaviour to his own Sovereign did not in any way resemble Disraeli's.
Madame, women have often deceived me; but I have always been honest with them--in order not to resemble them.
Such manifestations of interest resemble those of the friends who can't reach you quickly enough when they have bad news to tell, but whom you never see when you have had any good fortune for which congratulations would be in order.
But there are many dervishes not as well off, who are obliged to work or beg in order to make an honest living, and they greatly resemble Christian monks, in preferring beggary to labor.
The terraces of lights in the town and extending to and {192}through Old Syra had a curious effect, and made the city resemble an illuminated mountain.
These gentry are much more likely to resemble in their discords, the operations of the two sides of a pair of shears,--they cut not themselves but what's between them.
A little distance away, they resemble large turkeys, and, with heads stretched out when they trot, you would take them for the aforesaid turkeys hunting after grasshoppers.
The interior of the mosque is simple, but magnificent; the vast central dome is upheld by four immense pillars, each more than thirty feet in diameter, and cut on the outside so as to resemble a bundle of columns.
They were very tight and very short, and made the old fellow resemble an animated mummy or the materialized spirit of a blacksmith's tongs.
This revision of act-intervals would make the construction of the play resemble more that of the first quarto, which, for acting purposes, is certainly the better version of the two.
But no one can read Shakespeare aright who thinks that the men and women who live in our age do not resemble those who lived in his time.
It is that power which causes the offspring to resemble its parents.
At the beginning, though the male birds resemble the mother in appearance, at maturity they wake up to the characteristics of their father.
They were also adorned in various ways, bound with metal plates, and inlaid with ivory, or foreign woods; and the wood of common chairs was often painted to resemble that of a rarer and more valuable kind.
The family life of Greek women widely differed from our Christian idea; neither did it resemble the life in an Oriental harem, to which it was far superior.
Some mummies have been found with the face covered by a mask of cloth fitting closely to it, and overlaid with a coating of composition, so painted as to resemble the deceased, and to have the appearance of flesh.
The antique tables, either square with four legs, or circular or oval with three connected legs, afterwards with one leg, resemble our modern ones, but for their being lower.
