A fac-simile of the paper was then published with all the alleged signatures.
Katherine was quoting from her journal, but Hilda might as well think the simile improvised: Katherine felt some pride in it; it certainly justified, she thought, the conventionally illicit act of the candle.
My simile holds good; he is a brick; a dishonest man is a mere tool, fit only to be cast away, once used.
Remember your simile of the jury sworn to inquire into the felony of a prisoner, which oath doth not suppose the prisoner to be guilty of felony, but he is to be tried, guilty or not guilty.
Then a simile should not very accurately resemble the subject?
Little Dorrit, fac-simile of plan prepared for first number of, iii.
To make the topography clearer a somewhat prosaic and domestic simile may be employed.
While Franz went off to recover his loved treasure we huddled together on a very little ledge of rock, and sat there in a row like busts on a shelf--if the simile be not considered anatomically inappropriate.
The simile of the moon among the stars in the same place, we have since found in the Nibelungen Lied (st.
In like manner Camoens' simile of the mirror, mentioned in the same place, occurs in Poliziano's Stanze i.
We will make the simile that society is an operatic stage, or, to give a still more up-to-date example, the Russian Ballet!
This unpleasant simile I give merely to show you in a very concrete and forcible manner what I mean--your own intelligence will apply the test to other subjects.
Fac-simile of the Notes of a Speech by John Bright.
A fac-simile of this formidable weapon is here subjoined, in order that the reader may judge for himself of its peculiar fitness for cutting, hewing, or slashing down.
The cut here given is a fac-simile of that referred to.
The foregoing cut, which is a fac-simile of that prefixed to the edition of 1613, shows the Knaves of Hearts and Clubs in the costume complained of.
He supposes that the numeral l may have been omitted before xviii in the date, which in the fac-simile of the cut stands thus: mcccc · xviii.
From a wrapper, of which a fac-simile is given by Singer, it would appear that those cards were engraved at Cologne; and it has been supposed that they are of as early a date as 1470.
He received in exchange some cards of the same pack; and the set, completed with fac-simile drawings of such as were wanting, were recently in the possession of Messrs.
The famous simile of Gregory the Seventh is that which best describes the Empire and the Popedom.
Then follows that lovelysimile of doves floating to call, and Francesca's recognition of Dante with the words: O animal grazioso e benigno!
She said that, in a general way, the simile had application, the rhinoceros being a huge beast of uncouth appearance.
Little she was, assuredly, and brown, and so slender, that his simile was not bad, but the brownness and the slenderness were by no means all there was noticeable of her.
Be this as it may, the introduction of an eagle and his attributes, by way of simile or metaphor, has been accomplished by Shakespeare with much beauty and effect.
Fac-simile of Black-Letter Inscription on the Sherd of Amenartas.
Fac-simile of the Old English Black-Letter Translation of the above Latin Inscription from the Sherd of Amenartas found inscribed upon a parchment.
The exhibit building north of this temple houses a complete and remarkably beautiful fac-simile of the famous temple at Nikko, one of the finest in Japan.
The Massachusetts Building, planned by Wells and Dana, of Boston, is a fac-simile reproduction of the Bulfinch front of the Massachusetts State House on a scale of two-thirds.
There is a break of correspondence between the simile and its application.
The simile directs attention to the divine Author of the new birth in man.
It may be useful to trace the import of our Lord's simile in three fields of the action of the holy and eternal Spirit; His creation of a sacred literature, His guidance of a divine society, and His work upon individual souls.
And the reason for this disturbance is presumably that the simile is not adequate to the full purpose of the speaker, who is anxious to teach some larger truth than its obvious application would suggest.
In such cases, we may be sure, the natural correspondence between a simile and its application is not disturbed without a motive.
The simile itself would have led us to expect--"So is the Spirit of God.
I cannot dismiss this part of the subject without advising every person who can muster sufficient Italian to read the simile of the sheep, in the third canto of the Purgatorio.
If every simile and every turn of Dante had been copied ten thousand times, the Divine Comedy would have retained all its freshness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
