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Sentences starting with similar

Similar punishments are quoted by Brisson. [10]
Similar views appeared previously in the 'Australasian,' July 13, 1867. [1]
Similar representations occur on Assyrian monuments. [10]
Similar provisions are not uncommon in connection with proceedings in rem. [7]
Similar directions were given to Commodore Dupont, with a view to the opening of passages by water to and from the capital. [7]
Similar occurrences were frequent, and he was brave, strong, and skilful enough to cope with any one, even the dreaded Swiss; only he was vexed and troubled because he had disputed with the man to whom he had lost his property. [10]
Similar was the effect of these blistering words upon the tranquil and unsuspecting Agent. [5]
Similar facts have been observed in two widely different parts of Australia. [1]
Similar cases have been observed in Canada by Mr. Adams; 'Pop. [1]
Similar observations have been made in other parts of America. [1]

Sentences ending with similar

Dr. Twitchell's experience was very similar. [6]
The grounds of the two institutions are very similar. [4]
In some particulars the case of Louis Bachelor was similar. [11]
He divides and subdivides, and gets many varieties of diseases, in most respects similar. [6]
They were of equal height and of equally symmetrical build; even the outline of their features was similar. [10]

Short sentences using similar

The general held similar views. [5]
Others gave a similar experience. [7]

Sentences containing similar two or more times

She had noticed similar gestures, similar intonations of voice, and, above all else, a little toss of the head backwards. [11]

More example sentences with the word similar in them

This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
As I said yesterday, under similar circumstances at another gathering, you must not draw the inference that I have any intention of deserting any platform with which I have a legitimate connection because I do not stand on yours. [7]
A few Continental writers have adopted similar conclusions. [3]
A similar remittance would come monthly thereafter. [5]
No doubt it would be much more similar to the brain of an advanced foetus of a marmoset. [1]
His father had worn similar apparel when he confessed his love for her. [10]
Human beings are wonderfully alike when they are placed in similar conditions. [6]
The circumstances connected with the very common antipathy to cats were as remarkable in many points of view as the similar circumstances in the case of Maurice Kirkwood. [6]
Mr. Fenton contrasts with astonishment the decrease in New Zealand with the increase in Ireland; countries not very dissimilar in climate, and where the inhabitants now follow nearly similar habits. [1]
During these spectacles, which were followed by other similar ones, Barbara had been thinking of her own affairs, and gazed more frequently at her lover and his distinguished guests than at the former. [10]
With an acuteness which aroused the admiration of the young corsair, who was trained to similar plots, she explained hers. [10]
The grandmother's enquiry whether Jungfrau Ortlieb expected to find her Swiss gallant there, and similar insolent remarks, seemed fairly steeped with rancour. [10]
The other dishes were what one might get at Delmonico's, or Buckingham Palace; those I have spoken of can be had in similar perfection in New Orleans only, I suppose. [5]
Many similar caves were to be found in the holy Fountain, and other anchorites had taken possession of the larger ones among them. [10]
It would be well if they could be relieved from duty and flung out in the literary back yard to rot and disappear along with the discarded and forgotten "steeds" and "halidomes" and similar stage-properties once so dear to our grandfathers. [5]
The latter, as well as Appenzelder, still frequently called upon her, and tried to diminish her grief over the injury to her voice by telling her of hundreds of similar cases which had resulted favourably. [10]
In the same way and with similar looks, these two glanced vainly at the onlookers with only a silent appeal for protection in their eyes, evidently unable to understand or believe what was going to happen to them. [2]
I considered George Washington, and what action he would have taken under similar circumstances. [5]
A similar impression was that which I received when I found myself in the company of the bearer of an old historic name. [6]
Mr Swiveller, who was perfectly ravenous, and had had, all night, amazingly distinct and consistent dreams of mutton chops, double stout, and similar delicacies, felt even the weak tea and dry toast such irresistible temptations, that he consented to eat and drink on one condition. [12]
He felt what was passing in the awakening artist-soul, for a similar incident had happened to himself, when studying with his old master, Schorel. [10]
His business morality was gauged by what other people do in similar circumstances. [4]
His own act was abominable in his eyes, and yet he would have done it again to-morrow, if it had again been required of him under similar circumstances. [10]
In the midst was a silver table-ornament, something similar to an altar, from which arose fragrant clouds of incense. [10]
She had a very vague idea as to how much twenty thousand dollars was, but she reflected that while they had lived in Rivington Howard must have made many similar sums, of which she was unaware. [9]
Such, or something very similar, has been the observation made to me lately, whilst I have been from home, by members of some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties. [14]
It was the upholsterer Specht, who had often put up curtains and done similar work for us, a good and capable workman. [10]
Judicial decisions have two uses--first, to absolutely determine the case decided, and secondly, to indicate to the public how other similar cases will be decided when they arise. [7]
As the meeting took place the agent did not fail to note how alike in build and manner were the two men, how similar were their gestures. [11]
A work similar to your new one in the Atlantic is what I mean, though I have not heard what the nature of that one is. [5]
The duchess had to witness many similar outrages later when she saw George in the school to which the stone-mason sent his promising apprentice. [10]
Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
The scholar's mind, to use a similar comparison, is furnished with shelves, like his library. [3]
Is man subject to similar malconformations, the result of arrested development, of reduplication of parts, etc., and does he display in any of his anomalies reversion to some former and ancient type of structure? [1]
Sometimes they expect to pay for the information furnished them; at other times, the honor of being included in a list of noted personages who have received similar requests is thought sufficient compensation. [6]
This she mentioned to me not many days afterwards, adding remarks almost identical with those which I subsequently read in 'Villette,' where a similar action on the part of M. Paul Emanuel is related. [14]
The edifice recalled to me a similar phenomenon I had once looked upon,--the famous Caffe Pedrocchi at Padua. [6]
The only way to kill it and all similar fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit, is to root out completely the suckers of the old rotten superstition that whatever is odious or noxious is likely to be good for disease. [6]
Then she went to her room, but in old Ursel's chamber, at the same hour as on the preceding night, a similar conversation took place. [10]
If you wanted to get the Pundit to look at his religion fairly, you must first depolarize this and all similar words for him. [6]
I proceed, therefore, to explain the self-adjusting mechanism of Phrenology, which is very similar to that of the Pseudo-sciences. [6]
Nor is it to be wondered at, when we consider that we have an unequaled homogeneous population with a similar common-school education. [4]
What is common to all men is generally disgustingly similar in the palace and in the hovel. [10]
We are led to a nearly similar conclusion with respect to the length of the tail in the various species of pheasants. [1]
I can believe this, because my own case was somewhat similar, as per my former article. [5]
One day during this period I remembered my Poem of the World, and instantly had the box brought in which I kept it among German favours, little pink notes, and similar trophies. [10]
Since I had this experience, I hear that somebody else has related a similar story. [6]
In view of these and similar cases, I think the time not unlikely to come when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. [7]
I believe by these and other similar measures taken in that crisis, some of which were without any authority of law, the government was saved from overthrow. [7]
His lieutenant-colonel was there, gravely wounded; his college-friend and comrade in arms, a son of the house, was there, injured in a similar way; another soldier, brother of the last, was there, prostrate with fever. [6]
If he were then told that hundreds of similar specimens could be brought from the same countries, he would assuredly declare that they were as good species as many to which he had been in the habit of affixing specific names. [1]
With some of them I have been long acquainted, and I know that their accounts of diseases are no more to be trusted than their contemporary Ambroise Pare's stories of mermen, and similar absurdities. [3]
For obvious reasons the whole name was not given in the original paper, and for similar reasons the date of the event and the birthplace of the patient are not precisely indicated here. [6]
The success of the trick that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutuzov in a similar way. [2]
The critique in the Spectator gives that view of the book which will naturally be taken by a certain class of minds; I shall expect it to be followed by other notices of a similar nature. [14]
The result was the same that had followed the similar proceeding the day before,--the storm was soon calmed, and after a little time she fell into a quiet sleep, as in the first instance. [6]
I have favored the project for connecting the United States with Europe by an Atlantic telegraph, and a similar project to extend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pacific telegraph with the line which is being extended across the Russian Empire. [7]
The next day the police questioned Tookaram, and he, too, gave a similar reply. [5]
Such social qualities, the paramount importance of which to the lower animals is disputed by no one, were no doubt acquired by the progenitors of man in a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, aided by inherited habit. [1]
And for Venters the outlook before him was in some sense similar to a feeling of his future, and with searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. [13]
In Kudrino, from the Nikitski, Presnya, and Podnovinsk Streets came several other trains of vehicles similar to the Rostovs', and as they passed along the Sadovaya Street the carriages and carts formed two rows abreast. [2]
The security of the medical profession against this and all similar fancies is in the average constitution of the human mind with regard to the laws of evidence. [3]
What some of the journals lacked in suitable length for the occasion, they made up in encyclopaedic information about other similar murders and shootings. [5]
The conversation of the hostess and her guests turned upon details of the kitchen and the laundry; upon the best mode of raising bread, whether with "emptins" (emptyings, yeast) or baking powder; about "bluing" and starching and crimping, and similar matters. [6]
On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
Maxims similar to the following one are by no means rare. [10]
Fire had destroyed the dwelling-place of justice, like the Egyptian cities to whom the prophet had announced a similar fate a thousand years since. [10]
The history of the building of the good ship Petrel is similar to that of all created things, a story of trial and error and waste. [9]
The "Autocrat" had the attraction of novelty, which of course was wanting in the succeeding papers of similar character. [6]
I have said, that to show the truth of the Homoeopathic doctrine, as announced by Hahnemann, it would be necessary to show, in the third place, that remedies never cure diseases when they are not capable of producing similar symptoms! [3]
He felt sure that she would not let Lurida commit herself by writing foolish letters to the subject of her speculations, or similar indiscreet performances. [6]
Having finished his tale about the enchanting Polish lady, the captain asked Pierre if he had ever experienced a similar impulse to sacrifice himself for love and a feeling of envy of the legitimate husband. [2]
What they had taken for larks announcing the breaking of a brighter day turned out to be bats and similar vermin of the night. [10]
The vulgar political suggestion might have crept into a more trivial mind than Mr. Crewe's that Mr. Painter was being, "put to bed," the bed being very similar to that of Procrustes. [9]
C. Royer has suggested a similar view in her 'Origine de l'homme,' etc., 1870. [1]
There are no such surprises in our oldest places as one finds in Chester, or Tewkesbury, or Stratford, or Salisbury, and I have no doubt in scores or hundreds of similar places which I have never visited. [6]
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]
These are life-size statues of old-time emperors, electors, and similar grandees, clad in mail and bearing ponderous swords. [5]
Director Tzschirner said something very similar to Herr Winzer's remark. [10]
I even went so far as to indulge in, a fling at the State House, which, as we all know, is in truth a very imposing structure, covering less ground than St. Peter's, but of similar general effect. [6]
There were similar small cups on the table filled with lemonade, and here and there a decanter of Madeira wine, of the Marsala kind, which some prefer to, and many more cannot distinguish from, that which comes from the Atlantic island. [6]
By this and similar work he earned a living, until, at the end of seven years, he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main to learn the rudiments of building. [10]
I had a similar twinge of reminiscence at meeting with the name of Gorges, which is perpetuated by a stately monument at the end of the north aisle of the cathedral. [6]
We have rumors similar to the dispatch received by you, but nothing very definite from North Carolina. [7]
Daniel Webster bore similar testimony to his talents and character. [6]
Juvenal relates a similar story of the Ombites--perhaps Koptites--and Pentyrites in the 15th Satire. [10]
What question, from similar sources, has heightened the pulse of young men from time immemorial. [9]
I knew that similar practices had been tried on Krebs, but this was the first time I had heard of a definite plan, and from a man like Bitter. [9]
He placed a similar pile before himself. [11]
He discovers a similar or identical provision in the Lecompton Constitution. [7]
In both cases similar laws of inheritance prevail. [1]
He had had similar experiences only too often, and his friends, Dion at their head, had perceived his weakness and spoiled many an hour for him by their biting jests. [10]
See, also, on similar differences in certain breeds at Modena, 'Le variazioni dei Colombi domestici,' del Paolo Bonizzi, 1873. [1]
By similar reasoning Shakespeare has been made a country schoolmaster, a soldier, a physician, a printer, and a good many other things besides, according to the inclination and the exigencies of the commentator. [5]
It is a series of similar coincidences which has led us to consider the dagger, the musket, and certain innocent-looking white powders as having some little claim to be regarded as dangerous. [3]
The author may sell his product outright, or he may sell himself by an agreement similar to that which an employee in a manufacturing establishment makes with his master to give to the establishment all his inventions. [4]
We wanted to see some of this kind of Paris life, however, and therefore the next night we went to a similar place of entertainment in a great garden in the suburb of Asnieres. [5]
With man we see similar facts in almost every family; and we now know, through the admirable labours of Mr. Galton (10. [1]
The woods and roads were similar to those at Heidelberg, but not so bewitching. [5]
His life was rich in similar incidents. [10]

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