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Example sentences for "similar origin"

  • But however rare this example, it is equally decisive of the question, Whether the alpine schisti have had a similar origin as the other strata of the globe, in which are found abundance of animal and vegetable bodies, or their relics?

  • The BULL AND MOUTH is said to have a similar origin, being a corruption of Boulogne Mouth, the entry to Boulogne Harbour, which grew into a popular sign after the capture of that place by Henry VIII.

  • The Hellic ingredient of the Greek tongue is referred to a similar origin.

  • From a similar origin I take to be our name Ackerman, and the present German Ackermann.

  • Perhaps from a similar origin may be the name of Crida or Creoda, king of Mercia, as representing a stem, hrad, or hred (O.

  • From a similar origin is probably Shooter's Hill, near London.

  • Now since the aspect presented by the glaciated rock-surfaces of Switzerland is exactly paralleled by the rounded and smoothed rocks of Scotland, there can be no doubt that the latter have had a similar origin.

  • Frazer has given such an exhaustive account in 'The Golden Bough,' have undoubtedly in a large measure a similar origin.

  • The abstinence from fish seems generally to have a similar origin, though some peoples say that they refuse to eat certain species because the soul of a relative might be in the fish.

  • There is no sufficient reason to assume that this practice of abstaining from cooking food after a death is a survival of a previous mourning fast, but the two customs seem partly to have a similar origin.

  • The Midsummer fires, at the vigil of St. John the Baptist, and the yule log ceremonies at Christmas, may be referred to a similar origin.

  • Keltic and Teutonic branches of the Aryan race, and have evidently a similar origin.

  • Kuhn and many others, the caduceus or rod of Hermes may be referred to a similar origin; that it is, in fact, but the Greek development of the original Aryan myth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bristol board; but though; certain death; fatty acids; having long; old man; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; poor dear; seek after; sell goods; similar cases; similar character; similar fate; similar form; similar kind; similar origin; similar purpose; similar reason; similar situations; similar spirit; similar story; similar type; terra incognita; this coast; turn from; with two