Use resemblance in a sentence
Sentences ending with resemblance
- A single fact will illustrate the resemblance. [6]
- I thought I saw a resemblance. [4]
- I went with him to inspect the ancestor, and examined him from several points of view, without being able to detect anything more than a passing resemblance. [5]
- How can you fail to see the resemblance? [6]
- The thought in each mind was the same: "What a strange resemblance! [5]
- 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]
- 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]
- It is only a resemblance. [5]
Sentences containing resemblance two or more times
- Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. [2]
More example sentences with the word resemblance in them
- This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]
- In a line with that you may see two others: the coral fan, as I always called it from its resemblance in form to that beautiful marine growth, and a third a little farther along. [6]
- Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castles of song and story, with its towers, turreted walls, and ivy-mantled porches. [5]
- This he opened with his own biography of Washington Irving, the resemblance between whom and himself has been made the subject of frequent remark. [4]
- Her dress was white embroidered muslin, with a lace mantle, and white bonnet trimmed with green leaves, which perhaps might suggest the resemblance to the pale wintry flower. [14]
- He follows forms which have but little resemblance to conversation, but they make the reader understand what the writer is trying to convey. [5]
- To this John was sometimes prefixed, as betokening from the purely animal point of view a certain resemblance to the imputed grimness and earnestness of the great reformer. [4]
- And yet, this vile bit of human rubbish seemed to bear a sort of remote and ill-defined resemblance to me! [5]
- When he went to her, after he was released" (here I thought it best to depart from any close resemblance to Mrs. Falchion's own story), "and was admitted to her, she treated him as an absolute stranger--as one who had intruded, and might be violent. [11]
- It is impossible to doubt that colour has been gained by many fishes as a protection: no one can examine the speckled upper surface of a flounder, and overlook its resemblance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives. [1]
- He went on to discuss a part of the programme of the Citizens Union.... What struck me, as I laid down the typewritten sheets, was the extraordinary resemblance between the philosophies of Hermann Krebs and Theodore Watling. [9]
- In the mean time a cousin of mine had sniffed out the resemblance between the character in my book and our great-aunt. [6]
- These hay bales, thus carried, have a general resemblance to a colossal capital 'H. [5]
- Do you still think the resemblance surprising, after having seen me for the second time? [10]
- A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east. [2]
- At this point their attention was distracted by a noise that bore a striking resemblance to a suppressed laugh. [9]
- The palaces of the rich, in Melbourne, are much like the palaces of the rich in America, and the life in them is the same; but there the resemblance ends. [5]
- He himself felt the pull of the young clergyman's personality, and instinctively strove to resist it: and was more than ever struck by Mr. Hodder's resemblance to the cliff sculpture of which he had spoken at the vestry meeting. [9]
- The list of the material benefits, for which there was a crying need, bore a strong resemblance to a summary of the worthy measures upon which Mr. Crewe had spent so much time and labour in the last Legislature. [9]
- This news, and the fact that Octavianus had condemned to death the youth who bore so striking a resemblance to Caesar, had not remained concealed from the unhappy mother. [10]
- It is by that sign and by that fact that I detect the resemblance here and know this portrait to be genuine and perfect. [5]
- We may believe that it never occurred to the young printer, looking up landmarks of Ben Franklin, that time would show points of resemblance between the great Franklin's career and his own. [5]
- But this argument strikes me as not a little remarkable in another particular--in its strong resemblance to the old argument for the "divine right of kings. [7]
- Then Sarony, with still rising excitement and with joy added to it, said he had found my great grandfather in the person of the gorilla, and had recognized him at once by his resemblance to me. [5]
- But Madame Chalice, sitting not far from Elise Malboir, had seen the resemblance in the Cure's garden on Friday evening; and though she had laughed at it, for, indeed, the matter seemed ludicrous enough at first, --the impression had remained. [11]
- The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. [5]
- One would have said her features had lost something of that look of imperious beauty which had added to her resemblance to the dead woman whose glowing portrait hung upon her wall. [6]
- Now her eyes rested on the sturdy, strongly-knit figure of her nephew, and it struck her that he bore no resemblance to his tall, handsome father. [10]
- It bore a resemblance to the low moaning of one in pain, but it was not that, being far too regular and constant. [12]
- Perhaps a fancied resemblance of the two men in the popular mind had something to do with this transfer of name. [4]
- If this is repeated often enough, we get a permanent resemblance to it, or, at least, a fixed aspect which we took from it. [6]
- Their resemblance was rendered all the more striking by the fact that each wore a simple, narrow circlet of gold-round the head; nay it would have seemed some unusual trick of Nature's but that their eyes were quite unlike. [10]
- 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]
- As small unimportant points of resemblance between man and the Quadrumana are not commonly noticed in systematic works, and as, when numerous, they clearly reveal our relationship, I will specify a few such points. [1]
- For my own part, I cannot see the slightest resemblance between the two characters, and so I told her; but she persisted in saying that Francesca was Jane Eyre married to a good-natured "Bear" of a Swedish surgeon. [14]
- The house droned out the eight words in a massed and measured and musical deep volume of sound (with a daringly close resemblance to a well-known church chant)--"You are f-a-r from being a b-a-a-a-d man. [5]
- We may congratulate ourselves that it was reserved for one of our countrymen to tell the story-better than it had yet been told--of this memorable revolution, which in so many of its features bears a striking resemblance to our own. [6]
- This resemblance is one of the most singular things in natural history. [4]
- When Ameni enlarged on the genius of the poet and on his perfect resemblance to his dead father she muttered: "I know--I know. [10]
- If the effect of wit is produced by the sudden recognition of a remote resemblance, there was nothing witty in the naming of this station. [4]
- A slight contemplation of this reveals its resemblance to the Romantic movement in Germany, of which the brothers Schlegel were apostles, in the latter part of the last century. [4]
- Xanthe was thinking of Phaon as she sat beside the spring, but her brow wore such a defiant frown that she did not bear the most distant resemblance to a maiden giving herself up to tender emotions. [10]
- This ruin consisted of merely a couple of crumbling masses of masonry which bore a rude resemblance to human faces; they leaned forward and touched foreheads, and had the look of being absorbed in conversation. [5]
- For this object numerous points of resemblance are of much more importance than the amount of similarity or dissimilarity in a few points. [1]
- This resemblance is not mere accident. [10]
- The handwriting was not decisive; it had some points of resemblance with the pencilled orders for books which Maurice sent to the Library, but there were certain differences, intentional or accidental, which weakened this evidence. [6]
- As we have no record of the lines of descent, the pedigree can be discovered only by observing the degrees of resemblance between the beings which are to be classed. [1]
- Hitherto we have never, in a single instance of our discovery, found the slightest resemblance between mesmerism and metaphysics. [5]
- Even these the neighbors mistook for Portuguese, though they thought the language bore some distant resemblance to German. [10]
- I could say much more of the first years I spent at Wildbad, but up to the fifth season they bore too much resemblance to one another to be described in detail. [10]
- But those who met him could not see into his soul, and his external aspect certainly bore little resemblance to that of other men. [10]
- It seems to me most likely that the coincidence of circumstances is very partial, but that we take this partial resemblance for identity, as we occasionally do resemblances of persons. [6]
- As he now looked at Gaston he was again struck with the resemblance to the portrait in the dining-room, with his foreign out-of-the-way air: something that should be seen beneath the flowing wigs of the Stuart period. [11]
- And it bore little or no resemblance to the book as we have it now--now that the salaried polisher has holystoned all of the genuine Eddyties out of it. [5]
- I suppose the life of every century has more or less special resemblance to that of some particular Apostle. [6]
- Of all the lieutenants in the state, his manners bore the closest resemblance to those of Jethro Bass. [9]
- But after all, it isn't because of any resemblance for anything that was ever before written that Mark Twain's books strike in so deep: it's rather because they've brought something really new into our literature--new, yet old as Adam and Eve and the Apple. [5]
- There is, however, in the House of Commons today a young and active politician once in the Egyptian service, and who bears a most striking resemblance to the purely imaginary portrait which Mr. Talbot Kelly, the artist, drew of the Dicky Donovan of the book. [11]
- He leaned back in his chair, then leaned forward, stretching his neck and clearing his throat, a position in which he bore a ludicrous resemblance to a turkey gobbler. [9]
- I saw him in a sudden flash as a cunning, cruel bird of prey, a gorged, drab vulture with beady eyes, a resemblance so extraordinary that I wondered I had never remarked it before. [9]
- No person, that I am aware of, has ever denied that in some cases there exists a resemblance between the effects of a remedy and the symptoms of diseases in which it is beneficial. [3]
- The effluvia from hot asphalt bore no resemblance to the salt-laden air that rattled the Venetian blinds of the big bedroom to which he was assigned. [9]
- I never saw him, but you can easily see the resemblance to his father," said Sellers, holding up the chromo and glancing from it to the chromo misrepresenting the Usurping Earl and back again with an approving eye. [5]
- Then she preceded him towards the staircase, where Iras was standing with a tall Syrian, who bore a striking resemblance to Philostratus, Barine's former husband. [10]
- Gaston understood that he saw the resemblance to Sir Gaston Belward. [11]
- He told where he came from, but he couldn't spell well, so one can't find the place on the map, because people who could spell better than he could, spelt the resemblance all out of it when they made the map. [5]
- In outward appearance he bore a marked resemblance to Wilhelm Grimm. [10]
- My left foot hath resemblance to a snuff-bladder. [5]
- Their bright blue eyes were certainly alike, but his face was so deeply furrowed and so very full of care, that here all resemblance ceased. [12]
- He prescribes euphrasia, eye-bright, for disease of the eyes; appealing confidently to the strange old doctrine of signatures, which inferred its use from the resemblance of its flower to the organ of vision. [3]
- Nature: resemblance of extracts from Mary Moody Emerson, 17; where written, 70; the Many in One, 73; first published, 91, 92, 373; analysis, 93-107; obscure, 108; Beauty, 237. [6]
- Was he again deluded by a resemblance, or was he in a dream? [10]
- It bore a curious resemblance to a town hall in the low countries. [9]
- The resemblance probably consisted merely in the shape of the somewhat too narrow face, with its absolutely straight nose, and a chin which was rather too small, as well as in the sound of the high voice. [10]
- It must be confessed that Phrenology has a certain resemblance to the Pseudo-sciences. [6]
- But in this case it is almost certain that the third line would still retain through inheritance numerous small points of resemblance with the other two. [1]
- She had just carved out a wooden chief that had a strong family resemblance to a clothes-pin, and was now boring a hole through his abdomen to put his bow through. [5]
- It is granted by the advocates of Homoeopathy that there is a resemblance between the effects of the vaccine virus on a person in health and the symptoms of small-pox. [3]
- Sarah Austen had brought just such a magic touch to an excursion, and even at that moment Austen found himself marvelling a little at the strange resemblance between the two. [9]
- Some resemblance it bore to the look of the hunted deer, but in the animal it is dumb, appealing. [9]
- The American elm betrays something of both; yet sometimes, as we shall see, puts on a certain resemblance to its sturdier neighbor. [6]
- Nor did he bear the faintest resemblance to a culprit as he came up to her in the doorway. [9]
- Yet in build, and at any rate in height and breadth of shoulders, there was some resemblance between him and the Gaul. [10]
- David laughed slightly, also, and Hylda noticed that it had a certain resemblance in its quick naturalness to that of her husband. [11]
- But this much, alas, may be said with discretion, that he bore no resemblance to Peter Erwin. [9]
- This name I account for in my own way, although I am aware that he owed it to his resemblance to a person of inferior rank. [10]
- Its movements have a wonderful resemblance to the long leaps of a kangaroo-rat fleeing in alarm, with its long tail trailing behind it. [5]
- The congregation had a striking resemblance to a country New England congregation of say twenty years ago. [4]
- There is merely a resemblance of ideas, nothing more. [5]
- Their features have a certain resemblance, but the type, though an exceptional and fine one, is not so very rare. [6]
- We can make a book alive for us just in proportion to its resemblance in essence or in form to our own experience. [6]
- Her uncle and a beloved cousin--who bore some resemblance to Ephraim--had been snatched away the night before by the plague which his people had brought upon Tanis. [10]
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