Use resembled in a sentence
Sentences ending with resembled
- Last of all was the thought of the Englishman whom I resembled. [9]
- He had no more connection with Alexander than Melissa had with Roxana, whom she resembled. [10]
- She dressed herself as nearly as she dared like the handsome woman of the past generation whom she resembled. [6]
More example sentences with the word resembled in them
- I wish that your countrymen, who are coming down the river like driftwood, more resembled you. [9]
- Mr. Wiley, close-cropped, would have resembled a convict. [9]
- Yet not a word which could have resembled a question escaped his beardless lips while he examined, sewed, and bandaged the deep sword thrust with the skill and care of a surgeon. [10]
- The single open window resembled a cleft in the rocks, and looked out upon the road. [10]
- Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
- The cheerfulness, with which she had met the dwarf, was insincere, and had resembled the brilliant colors of the rainbow, which gleam over the stagnant waters of a bog. [10]
- These young birds were not albinos, as shewn by the colour of their beaks and legs, which nearly resembled the same parts in the adults. [1]
- No two theories were alike, or even much resembled each other, save in one striking particular, and in that one all the other eleven theories were absolutely agreed. [5]
- Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
- And the bombardier was always Chester Perkins, son of the most unbending and rigorous of tithing-men, but Chester resembled his father in no particular save that he, too, was a deacon and a pillar of the church. [9]
- Cousin Eleanor Hanbury was a person, or personage, who took a deep and abiding interest in her fellow-beings, and the old clothes of the Hanbury family went unerringly to the needy whose figures most resembled those of the original owners. [9]
- On the dark walls were Mrs. Forsythe's precious prints, and above the mantel a portrait of a thin, aristocratic gentleman who resembled the poet Tennyson. [9]
- He was a very queer person to be attached to the Embassy,--not a courtier, but a serious, literal person like you, Mr. Ritchie, and he resembled you very much. [9]
- In an extinct variety of the turkey, the top-knot consisted of bare quills surmounted with plumes of down, so that they somewhat resembled the racket- shaped feathers above described. [1]
- Besides, he longed to see the twins who resembled him so closely, and of whom Countess Cordula had said that she hoped they would not be like their father. [10]
- I didn't get to see the President or the Chief Magistrate either, though I had sort of a glimpse of a lady at a window who resembled her portraits. [5]
- She could say to herself that, of all sins, the one farthest from her nature was envy; but what she felt toward this stealer of love fatally resembled sharp, gnawing ill will. [10]
- Some were whittled to a sharp point, and slightly bent at the upper end, like a lady's finger; one monster sugar-loaf resembled a bishop's hat; it was too steep to hold snow on its sides, but had some in the division. [5]
- It was so thick that it resembled a book. [5]
- Are partridges, as they are now coloured, better protected than if they had resembled quails? [1]
- The plight of the whole army resembled that of a wounded animal which feels it is perishing and does not know what it is doing. [2]
- His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed: fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady; spread it, and the armies of the powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. [5]
- The wind from the sea drove the clouds before it across the sky, and the plain covered with tents resembled a sea tossed into high white waves. [10]
- A few in the room --and particularly Vic--were struck by something in the voice: that it resembled another voice. [11]
- He resembled Napoleon--not the later Napoleon, but the Bonaparte, lean, shy, laconic, who fought at Marengo; and this had startled the Cure in his pulpit, and the rest of the little coterie. [11]
- True, he was the father of her Wolff, but the son resembled this cold-hearted man only in his unusual stature, and a chill ran through her veins as she felt the stately old merchant's blue eyes, still keen and glittering, rest upon her. [10]
- Hence I concluded that the early progenitors of the peacock could not have resembled a Polyplectron. [1]
- They finally decided that Alexander should try to discover the maiden who so strangely resembled the dead; and the artist was ready for the task, for he could only work when his heart was light, and had never felt such a weight on it before. [10]
- It began with tears and reminded Cleopatra of the saying that she herself resembled a banquet served to celebrate a victory before the battle was won. [10]
- The Spaniards still surrounded Leyden, and the city now completely resembled a prison. [10]
- That is, I suppose it was a banyan; its bark resembled that of the great banyan in the botanical gardens at Calcutta, that spider-legged thing with its wilderness of vegetable columns. [5]
- It resembled a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi; and during the next fifteen minutes we stood under a steady drizzle of microscopic fragments of knights and hardware and horse-flesh. [5]
- Each, with his steady, unmoved gaze, his stiffly-curled false wig and beard, and his solemn, deliberate manner, resembled the two huge statues, which, the one precisely similar to the other, stood also motionless in their respective places, gazing calmly into the stream. [10]
- It was a standing joke of mine--which Maude strongly resented--that Moreton resembled Cousin George of Elkington. [9]
- And as it somehow reminded him of his prospect in life, so it suddenly resembled the woman near him, only in her there were greater beauty and peril, a mystery more unsolvable, and something nameless that numbed his heart and dimmed his eye. [13]
- At last she slowly turned to Melissa, who stood gazing sadly at the ground, and said in a low voice: "She resembled you in many ways. [10]
- He was that sine qua non of modern affairs, a corporation lawyer,--although he resembled a big and genial professor of Scandinavian extraction. [9]
- How much she resembled the traitress, but she did not understand how to hide her real nature as well; her faded features wore a somewhat malicious expression. [10]
- The crushed sage resembled the path of a monster snake. [13]
- The whole operation resembled the movement of a telescope. [5]
- I no longer resembled my former self. [5]
- Mr. Trowbridge, who resembled a lean and greying Irish terrier, maintained that he had. [9]
- He was twelve, rather tall for his age, and the delicate modelling of his face resembled my father's. [9]
- In the full radiance of the brilliant light, she resembled a statue of triumphant victory or of noble pride in great deeds accomplished; and then, then, only an instant later, what an outrage was inflicted! [10]
- He appeared, a portly gentleman with frock coat and lawn tie who resembled the man in the moon. [9]
- This company of pilgrims resembled Chaucer's in this: that it had in it a sample of about all the upper occupations and professions the country could show, and a corresponding variety of costume. [5]
- No very careful perusal was needed to convince her that the lady was unmoral, and that in characteristics she resembled the chameleon. [9]
- Caesarion's clear-cut but pallid face, whose every feature resembled that of his father, the great Caesar, bent towards them from the opening above the door, as he greeted both with a formal bend of the head and a patronizing glance. [10]
- If the Groland outside resembled his father-in-law, he would like to drink him a pledge that should burn like the plague and ruin. [10]
- 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]
- We were patted on the back if we resembled the English models; we were stared at or sneered at if we did not. [4]
- When she thought of the last account of him from the Duke of Ferdinandina, it seemed to her as if his life had hitherto resembled a triumphal procession, a walk through blooming gardens. [10]
- He was small of stature, with a round face, eyes that suddenly went red with feeling, and with none of the handsomeness of his son, who resembled his mother's family. [11]
- And should he not recognise in his aversion to every one of her suitors, and now to the aristocratic young Philotas, a feeling which resembled jealousy? [10]
- They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. [5]
- He resembled death much more than blooming love. [10]
- So, on the morning after the wholly unexpected arrival of the owner's daughter, the "garden" in front of the white house, but yesterday a desolate field, resembled an encampment, whose busy life was varied and noisy enough. [10]
- Then he told Mena that it was now twenty years since his son-in-law had been killed, and his daughter Xanthe, whom Uarda exactly resembled, had been carried into captivity. [10]
- No, no; yonder man no longer resembled the Ulrich, to whom, in the happiest hour of her life, she had so willingly, almost too willingly, offered her pure lips. [10]
- The Judge resembled Major Colfax in but one trait: he was choleric. [9]
- It was no longer a vision of the bewitching sovereign nay, it resembled the incarnation of despair, tearless anguish, wrath demanding vengeance. [10]
- The model so long sought in vain he had found in Ledscha, who in so many respects resembled Arachne. [10]
- At first Heinz listened to the luckless gambler's outbreak of rage in silent amazement, but when the latter began to threaten, and even clapped his hand on his sword, the composure which never failed him in the presence of anything that resembled danger quickly returned. [10]
- Then they relaxed into what resembled a smile. [9]
- He was clothed in linseed oil and raw cotton to his waist, and resembled nothing human. [5]
- The statement that, in his golden armour, with the gold helmet framing his bearded face, he resembled his ancestor Herakles, was confirmed by Charmian, who had been borne quickly hither by a pair of the Queen's swift horses. [10]
- Eda had faith in her, even when Janet had lost faith in herself: she went to Eda in the same spirit that Marguerite went to church; though she, Janet, more resembled Faust, being--save in these hours of lowered vitality--of the forth-faring kind .... [9]
- She must become his, though she resembled an April day, and Biberli's tales of the danger which threatened the husband from a sleep-walking wife returned more than once to his memory. [10]
- He could not help asking himself whether he had seen her before, and when the thought that she perhaps resembled his mother, once entered his mind, he angrily rejected it. [10]
- From the direction he had come swelled something that resembled a strange muffled pounding and splashing and ringing. [13]
- With sparkling eyes he assented to Gombert's protestation that, in her wrath, she had resembled the goddess Nemesis, and looked more beautiful than ever. [10]
- It could not harry or burn or slay, it in no way resembled the admirable machine which Liholiho destroyed. [5]
- The day at hand resembled many days gone before. [13]
- It was also Hall's affair to keep Mark Twain cheerful, to look pleasant himself, and to show how they were steadily getting rich because orders were pouring in, though a cloud that resembled bankruptcy loomed always a little higher upon the horizon. [5]
- Had the Demeter from head to foot resembled Daphne, who has so much in common with our goddess, the statue would have been harmonious, complete, and you would perhaps have been the first to acknowledge it. [10]
- The linden, with foliage withered by the autumn blasts, was more like the same tree in the spring when the birds were singing in its boughs, than yonder absorbed supplicant resembled the bold Heinz of a few days ago. [10]
- The call went echoing down the empty aisles and died out in the distance in a faint sound that resembled a ripple of mocking laughter. [5]
- Some question might easily arise which his calm, prudent mind could decide far better than hers, whose troubled condition resembled a shallow pool disturbed by stones flung into the waves. [10]
- Again the moonlight burst through the cloud-curtain, and Joshua perceived near the pool a living creature which resembled an animal more than a human being, for it seemed to be crawling on four feet. [10]
- It had previously been observed that certain butterflies in S. America belonging to quite distinct families, resembled the Heliconidae so closely in every stripe and shade of colour, that they could not be distinguished save by an experienced entomologist. [1]
- Ilagin lifted his beaver cap still higher to Natasha and said, with a pleasant smile, that the young countess resembled Diana in her passion for the chase as well as in her beauty, of which he had heard much. [2]
- My breast and back were bared, and a sheet (there appeared to be a thousand yards of it) soaked in ice-water, was wound around me until I resembled a swab for a Columbiad. [5]
- He began, and, as she gazed at him, it struck her how little he resembled his father and brother, though he was no less tall, and his head was shaped like theirs. [10]
- Hermon had imagined Aristotle like him, while the bust of Pythagoras, with which he was familiar, resembled Erasistratus. [10]
- The gray-haired leech and antiquary, Hartmann Schedel, whom Herr Wilibald,--spite of the gout which sometimes forced a slight grimace to distort his smooth-shaven, clever, almost over-plump face,--led by the arm like a careful son, resembled, with his long, silver locks, a patriarch or an apostle. [10]
- His zeal resembled a rude gesture toward the door, as much as one rotten egg looks like another, for, under certain circumstances, the affectionate brother prefers to have his beloved sister as far away as possible. [10]
- Ay, this was a mother, this must be a true mother, for the picture resembled his own! [10]
- The scene resembled a living garden, in which rosy faces were the beautiful flowers. [10]
- The whole resembled a letter written by a lunatic, yet every line, every stroke of the pen, expressed the same desire uttered with passionate longing: "Take me away from here! [10]
- He was now a heavy man, of almost shapeless stoutness, but in his youth he must have resembled his handsome son. [10]
- Petya was now a handsome rosy lad of fifteen with full red lips and resembled Natasha. [2]
- He somewhat resembled a golden seal emerging from a cold bath, and from time to time screwed an eyeglass into his eye and made a careful survey of Mrs. Grenfell's guests. [9]
- He was in a fairy kingdom where nothing resembled reality. [2]
- Each house resembled a citadel, for it was built of strong masonry, and the younger men were all well exercised bowmen. [10]
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