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He likened himself to Joseph, son of Jacob; and at once the fineness of his first purposes became blunted. [11]
Every sentence that this master has produced may be likened to a perfect set of teeth, white, uniform, beautiful. [5]
What name is there in literature that can be likened to his? [5]
No more could the Honourable Hilary well be likened to Pandora, for he only opened the box wide enough to allow one mischievous sprite to take wings--one mischievous sprite that was to prove a host. [9]
Do you remember that talk we had at father's, when he first came, and we likened him to a modern Savonarola? [9]
I have not said much about my mother, who might have been likened on such occasions to a grand jury compelled to indict, yet torn between loyalty to an oath and sympathy with the defendant. [9]
There is a plenty of acceptable literature which deals largely in approximations, but it may be likened to a fine landscape seen through the rain; the right word would dismiss the rain, then you would see it better. [5]
If the city of Hampton was emblematic of our modern world in which haphazardness has replaced order, Fillmore Street may be likened to a back eddy of the muddy and troubled waters, in which all sorts of flotsam and jetsam had collected. [9]
The gods do not give out their declarations of war for publication to the Associated Press; and old Tom Gaylord, who may be likened to Mars, had no intention of sending Jupiter notice until he got his cohorts into line. [9]
Maude likened them more happily--to gigantic ivory chessmen. [9]
That winter Hodder might have been likened to a Niagara for energy; an unharnessed Niagara--such would have been his own comment. [9]
And the soda might be likened to the waters of Trevi,--to partake of which is to return. [9]
Some of the ladies, indeed, who have left us those chatty memoirs of the days before the guillotine, she might have been likened to. [9]
Speaking of chess, Joan's great acts may be likened to that game. [5]
The walls around it were so gigantic, and everything about it was on so mighty a scale that it was belittled, by contrast, to what I have likened it to--a cozy and carpeted parlor. [5]
The artist said it was a sort of dry-plate process, to be developed in the mind afterwards; Mr. King likened it to a dry smoke without lighting the cigar; and the doctor said it certainly had the sanitary advantage of not being damp. [4]
Why, of course I know her," said Mr. Sutton, who was greatly pleased because Mrs. Duncan had likened him to an almanac: greatly pleased this evening in every respect, and even the diamond in his bosom seemed to glow with a brighter fire. [9]
When she likened herself to the other exploited beings he drove to run his mills and fill his orders,--of whom Mr. Siddons had spoken--her resolution to leave Hampton gained such definite ascendancy that her departure seemed only a matter of hours. [9]
For a while he lay as one benumbed, and the gradual realization that ensued might be likened to the straining of stiffened wounds. [9]
Hodder's thoughts might have been likened to the heated air that simmered above the bricks. [9]
That lady, who had been bribed with Alfred Dewing, used her persuasive powers; she might be likened to a skilful artisan who blew wonderful rainbow fabrics out of glass without breaking it; she blew the tender passion into a thousand shapes, and admired every one. [9]
She dropped her eyes, which had searched me through in wonder and pity, --those eyes I had so often likened to the deep blue of the sea,--and her breast rose and fell quickly with I knew not what emotions. [9]
But the intangible distinction was in the eyes that looked out from under these brows the glimpse she had of them as he bowed to her gravely, might be likened to the hasty reading of a chance page in a forbidden book. [9]
And to-day his coming might be likened to the entrance of a great physician into the room of a distant and lonely patient whom amidst wide ministrations he has not forgotten. [9]
Hodder might have been likened to an explorer, seeking a direct path when there was none--a royal road. [9]
I was troubled because of the inconvenience and discomfort to which my host put himself, for New Orleans in the dog-days may be likened in climate to the under side of the lid of a steam kettle. [9]
His brain may be likened to a mine, gold, silver, copper, iron, or tin, which looks like silver when new. [4]
But my attempts at reasoning might be likened to the strainings of a wayfarer lost on a mountain side to pick his way in the gathering dusk. [9]
The eunuch affected an abject humility, and poured forth a stream of flattering words, in which he likened the princess to the sun, the starry heavens, a pure fount of happiness, and a garden of roses. [10]

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