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Sentences starting with akin

Akin to this is the trick which has put under proper suspicion some very clever writers of our day, and cost them all public confidence in whatever they do,--the trick of posing for what they are not. [4]
Akin to the false notion that the newspaper is a sort of open channel that the public may use as it chooses, is the conception of it as a charitable institution. [4]

Sentences ending with akin

Lay death and sleep down, side by side, and say who shall find the two akin. [12]
In some far corner of his nature David felt something akin. [11]

More example sentences with the word akin in them

On one or two of these occasions Cynthia had been startled to find his eyes fixed upon her, and though the feeling she had was closely akin to fear, she found something distinctly pleasurable in it. [9]
It is akin to those influences a friend of mine has described, you may remember, as coming from certain voices. [6]
Again something of the same sensation as before--an involuntary chill--a momentary feeling akin to fear--but vanishing directly, and leaving no alarm behind. [12]
We must remember that Virginia was young, and that her feelings were akin to those our great-grandmothers experienced when the British held New York. [9]
The form was that of an old man, his white head akin in colour to the mouldering embers upon which he gazed. [12]
Almost overwhelming relief surged through her, a feeling as akin to joy as any she could have been capable of in those gloomy hours of shadow, and one that suddenly stunned her with the significance of what Lassiter had come to mean to her. [13]
Animal life had something in it akin to her own voiceless being. [11]
There had been some trouble about this matter; Mrs. Grainger, in particular, had surprised her in making objections, and had finally written a letter which Honora received with a feeling akin to gratitude. [9]
These two are so distinct, so unrelated, that they are no more akin to each other than are archangels and politicians. [5]
Some such responsive quiver, akin to disgust, Janet herself experienced. [9]
The feeling that possessed her now was rebellion, and akin to hate. [9]
One of our people was at last penetrated with something vaguely akin to compassion, may be, for he looked out through the gratings at the guardian officer, pacing to and fro, and said: "Say, Mickey, this shrimp's goin' to die. [5]
The excellences of one nature resembled (I thought) that of some sovereign medicine--harsh, perhaps, to the taste, but potent to invigorate; the good of the other seemed more akin to the nourishing efficacy of our daily bread. [14]
You ask nothing of your friends but honest feeling akin to your own,--and what is it that repels me from Orion but feeling? [10]
Though he thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to feverish delirium or drunkenness. [2]
The prevalent view of "Nature" has been akin to that which long reigned with reference to disease. [6]
If I am not mistaken, it was under this tree that your own father, the worthy Nun, gave to my son Uri the sole answer which Moses must also make to every bearer of a message akin to yours. [10]
The house was not large, but its dignity was akin to Mr. Jenney's position: it was painted a spotless white, and not a shingle or a nail was out of place. [9]
In after-days Jack looked back upon this time with a feeling akin to thankfulness for Carmen's utter heartlessness in regard to his affairs. [4]
By such tokens it will be seen that Isaac D. Worthington is destined to become great, though the greatness will be akin to that possessed by those gentlemen who in past ages had built castles across the highway between Venice and the North Sea. [9]
There was something in the eyes, in the powerful features of the clergyman that kept him still, that made him listen with a fascination which had he taken cognizance of it--was akin to fear. [9]
Is Plotinus really ill of a complaint akin to the plague? [10]
And it made her strong face akin to all that was human and helpful. [9]
The thought entered her mind that the woman who had endured such a terrible punishment, for a crime akin to her own, would understand better than any one else the anguish of her heart. [10]
The sentiment which he felt toward the turnip was akin to adoration. [5]
Her veil was grey, and with the hat gave her somewhat the air of a religieuse, an aspect heightened by the perfect oval of her face; and something akin to a religious thrill ran through her. [9]
I had at first listened to Clark's delighted imprecations and devilish praises with a feeling of brag almost akin to his own--that was the soldier and the Briton in me. [11]
It was a feeling akin to what he had felt at the Sloboda Palace during the Emperor's visit--a sense of the necessity of undertaking something and sacrificing something. [2]
Yet her shame established in his mind something akin to the respect he had strangely been hungering to feel for her. [13]
Crozier was the essence of democracy, which in its purest form is akin to the most aristocratic element and is easily affiliated with it. [11]
The restoration of each part of his body to that portion of the universe to which it was akin, pleased his fancy. [10]
Aye, Eva had done so; for, ardent as was the knight's love, something akin to religious devotion blended with his yearning desire. [10]
She had often compared him to a lion, but never had he seemed more akin to the king of the wilderness. [10]
Had he but been free, or mated with a nature akin to his own, he would have felt himself as truly the heir of creation as any young man that lived. [6]
The look of astonishment, perhaps of horror, which I had seen on her face when her father first began to read had now faded into something akin to wickedness. [9]
There were moments, as I have described, when I warmed to Maude, moments when I felt something akin to a violent antagonism aroused by little mannerisms and tricks she had. [9]
Lying in bed and listening to their dreary music had a pleasure in it akin to the Lucretian luxury, or that which Byron speaks of as to be enjoyed in looking on at a battle by one "who hath no friend, no brother there. [6]
Unlike as he and Gabriel Druse were in height, build, and movement, still there was something akin in them both. [11]
And not Jen alone, but many another dweller on the prairie, looked upon it with a superstitious reverence akin to worship. [11]
There was something akin to them in his pure, lofty soul, ever thirsting for truth and beauty, and, besides, he had graduated from the school of a most renowned teacher. [10]
She felt all akin to the nature about her, and her blood was coursing as the sap rushes through a tree. [9]
Her sensation was akin to sickness. [9]
But he had a civilisation akin to the highest; incongruous, therefore, to the general as the sympathy between the United States and Russia. [11]

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