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Example sentences for "the likeness"

  • Stations for the great gods in the likeness of constellations, together with what is regarded as the Zodiac, were his next work.

  • His identification with Merodach, if that was ever accepted, may have been due to the likeness of the word to Asari, one of that deity's names.

  • Giovanni grew white as marble, and stood motionless before the mirror, staring at his own reflection there as at the likeness of something frightful.

  • It will be scattering curses abroad in the likeness of holy symbols!

  • The gods are come down in the likeness of men' is a wistful confession of need, and a dim hope of its supply.

  • He was an older man than Paul, for when at Lystra the people thought that the gods had come down in the likeness of men; Barnabas was Jupiter, and Paul the quick-footed Mercury, messenger of the gods.

  • But by and by Minerva came down from heaven in the likeness of a woman, and hovered over his head saying, "My poor unhappy man, why do you lie awake in this way?

  • Then Minerva bethought her of another matter, and made a vision in the likeness of Penelope's sister Iphthime daughter of Icarius who had married Eumelus and lived in Pherae.

  • Then, as he was just entering the town, she came towards him in the likeness of a little girl carrying a pitcher.

  • For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.

  • Sanctification, then, is to be made holy, in the likeness of our Lord.

  • Give further Scriptures to show that he was a man, made in the likeness of men, and that he is the Lord from heaven.

  • In the midst was the temple and oracle of the God, who was worshipped in the likeness of a ram.

  • She begged for life; and, that she might mollify his rage, explained the mystery, told him that it was by means of a ring that she effected the delusion, and that by a similar enchantment her paramour had assumed the likeness of the king.

  • To live in the likeness of God, and as His image.

  • We have His incarnation--He came down, and was found in the likeness of man.

  • Oh, how many Christians strive after this part and that part of the likeness of Christ, and forget the root of the whole!

  • For Christ is the likeness of his Father; and not only of his Father, but of our Father, The Father in heaven.

  • And what is the likeness of God, but goodness; and what is the glory of God, but goodness?

  • You hoped," answered the poet, faintly smiling, "to find in me the likeness of the Great Stone Face.

  • And the first arose in the likeness of an armed head, and he called Macbeth by name, and bid him beware of the thane of Fife; for which caution Macbeth thanked him; for Macbeth had entertained a jealousy of Macduff, the thane of Fife.

  • Then swiftly changing his shape, in the likeness of a hedgehog, he would lie tumbling in Caliban's way, who feared the hedgehog's sharp quills would prick his bare feet.

  • Sceptical he probably was, and therefore superstitious; and half-forgotten and disbelieved stories of gods who had 'come down in the likeness of men' would swim up in his memory.

  • We all know that it needs distance to measure men, and the dropping away of the commonplace and the familiar ere we can see 'the likeness' of our contemporaries 'to the great of old.

  • The likeness to Jesus is the great ground of hope that we shall be truly consecrated.

  • The fall of Adam, and of all mankind, with the loss thereby of the likeness of God in them.

  • Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears: 57:6.

  • And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

  • And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

  • In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

  • The likeness of his going to that of Ferrand struck him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four tons; the city; the country; the deep; the evening; the firmament; the image; the legislatures; the man; the midst; the plains; the voice; the wilderness; then another; then applied; then call; then draw; then fell; then lift; then returned; then should; there the; these little; these principles; these things; these two