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Sentences ending with likeness

As the blood travels its rounds, each part selects its appropriate element and transforms it to its own likeness. [3]
I fancied I saw your brother in the moonlight then, as clearly as I see him now; but I believe we must have been deceived by some remarkable likeness. [10]
King Philip, pondering over complicated political combinations, would be a fascinating historical painting, but no likeness. [10]
In the center of the picture stands Galatea, and I know it now to be a good and true likeness. [10]
You have seen his lingam fifty thousand times already, but this is Shiva himself, and said to be a good likeness. [5]
Is it a good likeness? [5]
And, as I gazed the other day at this picture hanging in the shabby suburban parlour, I could only contrast him with his anaemic descendants who possessed the likeness. [9]
His portrait is common in the farmhouses of the region, but is believed by many to be but an indifferent likeness. [5]
The thing is a wretched likeness! [10]

More example sentences with the word likeness in them

But the likeness was remarkable, nevertheless, and it grew to be a standing joke with us. [9]
If a likeness was recognized they were all triumphant, if not they cried the names of this or that one for whom it might be intended. [10]
Inasmuch as he was not suffered to have Ann herself in his company, he conceived the wish to possess her likeness in a picture; and he sent hither to that end a master of good fame, of the guild of painters in Venice. [10]
When the likeness was no more than half done, he painted his own merry face to the falcon on my wrist gazing up at me with silly languor. [10]
We are a tolerably assorted set,--difference enough and likeness enough; but still it seems to me there is something wanting. [6]
A shudder ran through her frame, and a deep pity for the sweet creature whose coloured likeness she held in her hand seized upon her. [10]
The likeness is there, and is unmistakable. [5]
The god of Thebes, our Ammon, shall be transformed into Ormuzd,--Isis or Hathor, into Anahita, and those among our gods for whom I can find no likeness in the Persian religion, I shall designate by the name of 'the Deity. [10]
Yes, it is the very face I had hoped to find it; and when, erewhile, I saw your likeness in the red hood, and heard your speech as you poured forth your inmost soul to grandmother Pernhart, I knew my own mind. [10]
Half way down the column was a picture of Mr. Allen, a cut made from a photograph, and, allowing for the crudities of newspaper reproduction, it was a striking likeness of the Celebrity. [9]
The attitude of the body was not bad I should say--but the head, the face--Aye, the man who can mould such a likeness as that has his hand and eye guided by the holy spirits of art. [10]
It was there that the risen Saviour appeared to Mary Magdalen in the likeness of a gardener. [5]
At last Bartja, taking both Sappho's hands in his own, looked long and silently into her face, as if to stamp her likeness for ever on his memory. [10]
But I am sure that the likeness of Mademoiselle must be a true one, for it has the stamp of a remarkable personality, though Helene can be only eighteen. [9]
But look back still further and recall my own likeness as printed in the August number; if I had been in my grave a thousand years when that appeared, I would have got up and visited the artist. [5]
The likeness was so perfect, and his judgment so weakened by wine and fever, that he fancied himself the victim of some spell, and yet could not turn his eyes from those dear features. [10]
The likeness was so close that the photograph might seem to have been copied from the painting, the dress only being changed. [6]
Yes, Caracalla had sinned greatly, and his conviction that Alexander's soul lived in him and Roxana's in her was foolish enough; but the marvelous likeness to her of the portrait on the gem would astonish any one. [10]
He had changed since the day he left Bordeaux on the Antoine; since he had first caught the flash of interest in Carmen Dolores' eyes--an interest roused from his likeness to a conspirator who had been shot for his country's good. [11]
I showed no signs of astonishment at this remarkable likeness, treated him however, with immense civility, and begged him to pay me a visit. [10]
But yours only remind me of his, for although there is a striking likeness, your humour is much finer than his, and far better expressed. [5]
There was a remarkable resemblance between the features of Ann Holyoake, as shown in the portrait, and the miniature likeness of Myrtle's mother. [6]
And, fearful to relate, the batrachian features humanized themselves as the monster grew, and, shaping themselves more and more into a remembered similitude, Myrtle saw in them a hideous likeness of--No! [6]
Of course, my recollections are not to be wholly trusted, but I always think I see his likeness in a profile face to be found among the illustrations of Rees's Cyclopaedia. [6]
She knew her own face, feature for feature, all that was pretty in it, and all that was plain, but this likeness ignored everything in her face that was not unpleasing, and this it emphasized ruthlessly, and exaggerated with a refinement of spitefulness. [10]
The superficial foreign observer finds sameness in our different States, tiresome family likeness in our cities, hideous monotony in our villages, and a certain common atmosphere of life, which increasing facility of communication tends to increase. [4]
Did ye ever notice the likeness between the faces of people and of animals an' things that fly? [11]
This time, however, not a few remained behind, curiously watching a beautifully-built Samian ship, the Okeia, with a long prow like a swan's neck, on the front of which a likeness of the goddess Hera was conspicuous. [10]
He looked at Natasha with sorrow and surprise as at a bad likeness of a person once dear. [2]
To a Greek mind our worship of animals presents the greatest difficulty, but to my own the worship of the Creator in his creatures seems more just and more worthy of a human being, than the worship of his likeness in stone. [10]
Prexaspes, the king's messenger, and one of the highest officials at court, had brought Gaumata, Mandane's lover, whose likeness to Bartja was really most wonderful, to Babylon, sick and wounded as he was. [10]
As the old man stretched himself out on it, pale and suffering, he did not look much like a Cleopatra, but Beaton was struck with his effectiveness, and the likeness between him and his daughter; she would make a very good Cleopatra in some ways. [8]
There is no likeness of Nathan Hale extant. [4]
Shure, there's no likeness between anny two of them; it's as if they was gathered from ivry corner of the wide wurruld. [11]
He would have liked to hasten home and fetch his materials to paint the likeness of the misjudged man, and to show it to the scoffers. [10]
Oropastes, whom I left in Persia as my vicegerent and his brother Gaumata, who resembles Bartja so nearly that even Croesus, Intaphernes and my uncle, the noble Hystaspes, were once deceived by the likeness, have placed themselves at their head. [10]
She resented, for instance, the presence in the plush oval of Mr. Eustace Arlington; the movie star whose likeness had replaced Mr. Wiley's, and who had played the part of the western hero in "Leila of Hawtrey's. [9]
She recognized herself in it at once, and at the first moment, laughed loudly, but the longer she looked at the disfigured likeness, the more vexed, annoyed and angry she became. [10]
I have got his likeness in a gilt-frame hanging up in the other room. [6]
Whithersoever Tom turned his happy young face, the people recognised the exactness of his effigy's likeness to himself, the flesh and blood counterpart; and new whirlwinds of applause burst forth. [5]
Natasha knew why he mentioned Mitya's likeness to Nicholas: the recollection of his dispute with his brother-in-law was unpleasant and he wanted to know what Natasha thought of it. [2]
Since the afternoon he had driven Victoria to the Hammonds' he had had daily debates with an imaginary man in his own likeness who, to the detriment of his reading of law, sat across his table and argued with him. [9]
Another likeness I have seen, too, that touched me sorrowfully. [14]
The two movements have a further likeness, in that they are found accompanied by a highly symbolized religious revival. [4]
Beaton here hasn't got a very flattering likeness of you, hey? [8]
Above the glowing fuel a phoenix, also in brass, and in the likeness of an eagle, seemed striving to soar heavenwards. [10]
Even the bony framework of the face, as I have had occasion to know, has sometimes a striking likeness to what it was when clothed in its natural features. [6]
I saw him first in his brother's house, whither I had been sent on a message from the king, and his likeness to Bartja was so wonderful, that I almost fancied I was looking at an apparition. [10]
He saw, he felt, the likeness to his father and himself; a thousand things were explained that could only be explained by this fatal fact launched at him without warning. [11]
Again the Alexandrian's face--the likeness was even more unmistakable than in the goddess. [10]
It is no doubt due to the fact that every piece of art which has individuality and real likeness to the scenes and character it is intended to depict is done in a kind of trance. [11]
Everywhere canals and ditches dividing the small fields instead of fences; trees planted in straight lines, and occasionally trained on a trellis in front of the houses, with the trunk painted white or green; so that every likeness of nature shall be taken away. [4]
Perhaps it really did belong to the clasp Myrtilus wore, for, although still unpractised in groping, he recognised that a human head was carved in relief upon the stone, and Mrytilus's had been adorned with the likeness of the Epicurean. [10]
It is a crayon drawing; in my judgment an admirable likeness, though of course there is some difference of opinion on the subject; and, as usual, those best acquainted with the original were least satisfied with the resemblance. [14]
Suppose he should copy you as you appear to the man who wants your name to a subscription-list, you could hardly expect a friend who entertains you to recognize the likeness to the smiling face which sheds its radiance at his board. [6]
I had been chosen for the task because Seleukus had heard from my old teacher, Bion, that I should get a faithful likeness of the original more quickly than any one else. [10]
Upon one Algernon Cartwright, for example, whose striking likeness to the Van Dyck portrait of a young king had been more than once commented upon by his elders, and whose velveteen suits enhanced the resemblance. [9]
But if you can return to-morrow in a calmer and more happy humor, with your lively spirit tuned to a softer key, then Pollux will be able to make a likeness which may satisfy the granddaughter of Claudius Balbillus. [10]
But the likeness between them is not quite so great as all that. [10]
The past flashed before her, the strange likeness she had observed, the trick of the head, the laugh, the swift gesture, the something in the voice. [11]
A likeness has been detected between its profile, with its slightly aquiline nose, and that of Napoleon I. [10]
It had again become perfectly clear to him that the destiny of earth-born mortals was not directed by the gods whom men had invented after their own likeness, in order to find causes for the effects which they perceived, but by deaf and blind chance. [10]
At first, becoming aware of it with a start, she thought it a likeness of Austen himself. [9]
Constantine was an apt pupil, and Gorgo would sit quiet while he took her likeness, till, out of twenty images that he had made of her, several were really very like. [10]
In the popular apprehension it is apt to be confounded with uniformity; and this not without reason, since in many applications of the theory the tendency is to produce likeness or uniformity. [4]
She looked up and shook her head slightly, for she did not quite understand; but she recognised his likeness to her husband, and presently she smiled up musingly. [11]
Alexander the Great: allusion, 184; mountain likeness, 322. [6]
Have the verses affected you so much, or are you frightened at this likeness of your own longing heart? [10]
And here's more advertising," he continued, shoving another sheet across the desk, "a fine likeness of you in caricature labelled, 'Ajax defying the Lightning. [9]
Dinocrates undertook to "hew Mount Athos to the shape of man" in the likeness of Alexander the Great. [6]

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