He was thinking whether in heaven the order of rank would be a similar one, and the verse occurred to him: "Blessed are the meek and lowly, for they shall be exalted.
Paul clung to her side almost anxiously, for never yet had he heard a similar cry from her.
A similar phenomenon is to be observed in all marriages of inclination.
A similarphenomenon is at the bottom of most social movements.
In military circumstances, the rival armies found themselves, at the end of the preceding autumn, in a position similar to that of men who have fought a battle in which neither have come off conqueror.
It knelled the doom of the luckless voltigeurs--and by a similar impulse, Mark Antony and I sprang from the bench, and rushed forward to the casement which looked out upon the courtyard.
The mockery of a trial was extended to our comrades, and a similar act of justice shall be meted out to you.
They seemed to be men accustomed to similar visitations, for not an exclamation escaped their lips, nor even by a word did they betray the least alarm.
Seymour himself, undesignedly, betrayed a similar uneasiness, hinting that it might be advisable to break the matter by degrees, and cautiously prepare his family for the disclosure.
Is it not singular that his name was similar to yours?
The priest performed a similar ceremony, and uttered a sincere "Amen!
Neither Mark Antony nor the quarter-master's daughter felt at ease; and a similar cause of disquietude pressed heavily upon the breast of both.
The thing's similar all through, and you undergo the same process of purification.
Why--I returned on an errand similar to your own on the morning of that auspicious day when I had the pleasure of first making your acquaintance.
It was addressed to the lady--with a brief intimation in an unknown hand, that a similar gift should be annually presented.
I am deeply interested in their undertaking, perhaps the most remarkable of all similar inquiries--if honestly conducted.
And no architect seems to realize to-day that his walls could give us the same emotions that we receive from a Rembrandt, or a Van Eyck, or a Veronese, and for the same reasons, and through a similar use of a real technique.
The last time I could recall a similar sensation had been before some little church tower of England; it was certainly the subordination of all means to a single end, and their disappearance in one impression.
And not only that, but how could I have spent the time previous to this in doing other similar work to train me?
The Scottish deerhound is similar in most respects to the Irish wolfhound, but is lighter, speedier, and less powerful.
Ernest subscribed to a popular kennel paper, and early in September he began reading about the All-American trials to be held at Denbigh, North Dakota, and other similar events.
So Ernest put the balance in the savings bank as a fund for financing similar undertakings in the future.
Cock-a-Doodle Hill' is another of similar qualities.
Desor obtained from the peat-bogs round Lake Maggiore piles and other objects similar to those found in the Swiss lakes.
Welker, in his curious studies of the sphenoidal angle of Virchow, arrived at a similar result.
Keller, during the last century there still existed on the river Limmat, near Zurich, some fishermen's huts built in a similar way to those of the lacustrine villages.
A Circassian burial-place is perfectly similar to a Circassian dwelling.
We are astonished, therefore, when we ascertain that, on the contrary, the skull of the man of the stone age is almost entirely similar in appearance to those of the existing Caucasian species.
A partition, formed of stones of a similar character, leaving a space or passage between them, separates the chamber into two unequal portions.
In the tombs of the bronze epoch, pins have been found 2-1/2 feet in length, with large knobs or buttons at the end, similar to those used by the Abyssinian soldiers of our own day.
At Tiefenau, near Berne, coins have been found of a nearly similar character associated with others having on them the effigy of Apollo, and bearing an imprint of Massilia (Marseilles).
Similar fragments were met with in some of the other Perigord settlements, and M.
In the Lake of Reutschach, which was the most closely investigated, he discovered shallows formed by stones, similar to the steinbergs of Switzerland.
Similar relics of primitive industry have been found also in other localities.
I saw them at Waldhofen the time of our marriage, and I knew he would have been very glad to have a similar ceremony performed for himself, only your mother said him nay.
He related to me with the greatest satisfaction how he fell on his knees and assured her he could not live without her, and how she gave him a similar touching assurance, with more to the same effect.
But he felt he dare keep silence no longer toward his nephew Willibald, for there would be a similar scene to that enacted by the mother at Hochberg if the son was surprised by the sight of his boyhood's friend.
The pretty festival became a popular feature of the school, "patronised by royalty," and Ruskin continued his annual gift to Whitelands, and kept up a similar institution at the High School at Cork.
Another work in a similar spirit, the North London School of Design, had been prosperously started by a circle of men under Pre-Raphaelite influence, and led by Thomas Seddon.
A lecture on a similar subject was given to the boys of Christ's Hospital on April 15th).
For though the forgery was clumsy enough, it embodied some apt plagiarism from a letter to the Mansfield Art School on a similar occasion.
Apart from the sympathy which her misfortune had evoked, he probably could have felt much the same toward any other good, sensible woman, had she rendered him a similar service.
The mistress of these rooms is not satisfied with neatness and order merely; it is her instinct to add something to please the eye--a need essential to her, yet too often conspicuously absent in rented quarters of a similar character.
She saw that the Weeks mine was worked out completely, and she knew that this exhaustion was about equally true of all similar mines, which had been bored until they would yield no further returns.
Hence it is certain that the two kinds of pollen produced by the mid-styled form are less potent than the two similar kinds of pollen produced by the corresponding stamens of the other two forms.
The similar position of the anthers in the two forms is somewhat opposed to the present species being heterostyled; as is the great difference in the length of the pistil in several short-styled flowers.
As the parent-plant growing in Edinburgh was found by Mr. Scott to be in a high degree sterile, it may have transmitted a similar tendency to its offspring, independently of their illegitimate birth.
A similar rule therefore holds good with unions which are fully fertile, as with those of an illegitimate nature which are more or less sterile.
In six genera of the Rubiaceae there is a similar difference, either slightly or well marked.
But it is a surprising fact in this case, and in other similar ones, that the number of the offspring which thus reverted was not larger.
In the short-styled flowers a similar brush of hairs is situated low down within the tubular corolla, above the stigma and beneath the anthers.
The pistil differs in length in the two forms of every heterostyled plant, and although a similar difference is very general with the stamens, yet in the two forms of Linum grandiflorum and of Cordia they are equal.
Siemers, in the name of the rest, made a speech, and then handed her a written address of thanks; and another of a similar kind was sent to her in the afternoon by the General Board of Health.
If you would like to get a similar equipment and didn't have a penny and had to borrow the cost from the First National Bank, and pay interest at the rate of six per cent, it would mean only $27 a year, or the wool from four sheep.
They then placed another line parallel to and twenty feet away from the first one with similar batter boards, and located the other end of the cross lines on the boards.
I might quote many more passages similar to those above, but let these few suffice to show how the Tuscaroras were treated.
Wilson, we learn that a similar application to the Legislature of this State is likely to fail.
All creatures were equal; the beasts that disturbed the silence of dusk before falling asleep, and that poor youth similar to him, who now lay fettered, writhing in the worst of agony.
In 1865 the Canterbury Convocation, with the Royal licence, framed a new canon repealing this prohibition; but the canon was never ratified by the Crown, nor was any similar canon passed by the York Convocation.
But the spiritual duties of the two classes, and the discipline to which they are amenable, are similar and can be discussed together.
No similar arrangement has as yet been made with any other foreign State.
In either case there must be three, or at least two, in addition to the minister, to communicate with him, except in time of plague or similar contagious illness, when the minister may communicate with the sick person alone.
No similar expressions occur in the form for the making of deacons; but our law recognises no distinction between the two orders of clergy in respect of their civil privileges and disabilities.
The contests for succession between the houses of York and Lancaster lasted a whole century; and others of a similar nature have renewed themselves since that period.
What is called the House of Peers, is constituted on a ground very similar to that, against which there is no law in other cases.
Had Mr. Burke possessed talentssimilar to the author of "On the Wealth of Nations.
To translate it seemed an insult to the free French people, and similar reasons have led the editors to suppress also a dedicatory epistle addressed by Paine to Lafayette.
What was called the livre rouge, or the red book, in France, was not exactly similar to the Court Calendar in England; but it sufficiently showed how a great part of the taxes was lavished.
When it is laid down as a maxim, that a King can do no wrong, it places him in a state of similar security with that of idiots and persons insane, and responsibility is out of the question with respect to himself.
The Duke of Richmond alone (and there are cases similar to his) takes away as much for himself as would maintain two thousand poor and aged persons.
No one will understand the history of Palestine, who has not grasped its geographical position relative to these similar empires.
Not by fits and starts of a benevolence similar to that of our own foolish and inconsistent hearts does He work.
Babylon in circumstances that did not arise till long after Isaiah's time, and so falls to be considered by us along with similar prophecies at the close of this volume.
His severe monotheism is remarkable in its contrast to Babylonian poems upon similar subjects.
The well-known lines of Burns to the field-mouse gather up the cause of all this in a fashion very similar to the Bible's.
Cromwell, as we have said, is the best commentator Isaiah has ever had, and that by an instinct born, not only of the same faith, but of experience in tackling similar sorts of character.
Isaiah found such a conception for his problem, and his problem was very similar to ours.
The passage thus forms a parallel to that in Amos, with its similar refrain: Yet ye have not returned unto Me, saith the Lord (Amos iv.
There is nothing in the rest of it to corroborate this date; but the fact, that there are several turns of thought and speech very similar to turns of thought and speech in x.
There was very little crape, and the costumes had none of the goodness and specialisation and genuine enjoyment of mourning for mourning's sake that a similar continental gathering would have displayed.
For these and similar reasons we find, in the case of the half-believer, that he does not care to verify his doubts, but prefers to leave his opinions vague enough to be able to call himself a broad-minded Christian.
But he, at least, hazards the attempt of an explanation by investing the objects or phenomena in question with life and sentiments similar to his own.
Similar notes of warning are echoing and re-echoing through the length and breadth of Christendom.
While admiring his candour, one cannot help calling to mind that in 1860 Professor Huxley was utterly ridiculed by erudite scholars of the Church for making a precisely similar statement.
Similar traditions of Saviours are found among various tribes of North and South America.
If we continue the history of Christianity's spread, we find similar samples of Divine Providence and similar samples of moral progress.
Very similar ceremonies are to be found among the heathen to-day.
Confucius has a somewhat similar legend, and one occurs even in connection with the birth of Plato.
While I had been puzzling over what I should do with the farm, it appeared that he, by a curious coincidence, was in a similar state of indecision about what he should do without it.
Roper didn't name his client, and of course I didn't name mine, but as far as I can make out we've both had similar instructions.
The same rules govern running hop step and jump, and all similar games.
The same rules govern standing three jumps, standing hop, step and jump, and allsimilar games.
They almost all walk on a correct system, similar to that of O'Leary, but inasmuch as their exertions do not last so long a time, they can afford to make them more vigorous.
The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use.
Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class, is true of the whole class, or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times.
The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it.
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.
Indeed, I shall undertake to use what influence I may possess with my co-trustees to induce them to take a similar view of your wishes.
But at that instant the Voivodin, with a swift glance at her husband, laid a finger on her lip; and he, with quick understanding, gave assurance by a similar sign.
Last night I got from my Lady a similar message to the last, and delivered in a similar way.
The answer came in a similar sound from some twenty feet below us, and we knew that the prisoner was alone.
I only mention it lest anything of a similar kind should occur with Captain Desmond, who is a younger man, and therefore with probably less self-repression.
Her appearance was received with an ovation similarto that given to Gospodar Rupert, to which she bowed with dignified sweetness.
The other is a great sheet of steel, which slides out in a similar way in different grooves.
Other folks envelop the meat in the leaves and obtain a similar effect.
Implements similar to those which are relics of a remote past elsewhere are here of everyday use and application.
A small piece of beef wrapped up in a papaw leaf during twenty-four hours, after a short boiling became perfectly tender; a similar piece wrapped in paper submitted to exactly similar conditions and processes remained hard.
A new, if not altogether agreeable, sensation is added to the gentle art if it is realised that a cruel and stealthy beast is engaged in a similar pastime, with the fisherman as the object of its sport.
It is in a similar position to the good grape brandy which Victorians produce, and which drinkers of some imported stuff (described as one part cognac and three parts silent spirit) fail to recognise as real brandy.
In those far-off days, bronze wire rope, similar in design to the steel rope which is of common use in the present time, was employed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "similar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
