17 adverbs to describe how to likens

This place, so aptly likened to the garden of Eden, and frequently so called, could receive very little addition to its picturesque beauties from the hand of man.

"To whom then will ye liken God?

There was something about them, an indescribable sort of silent vitality that suggested, to my broadening consciousness, a state of life-in-deatha something that was by no means life, as we understand it; but rather an inhuman form of existence, that well might be likened to a deathless trancea condition in which it was possible to imagine their continuing, eternally.

And, indeed, what is a covetous man to be likened to so fitly, as to a dog in a wheel which roasts meat for others?

But Julia had been bred in a lower condition, not far removed from that of the Pamela to whose good fortune she had humbly likened her own; among people who regarded a Macaroni or a man of fashion as a wolf ever seeking to devour.

His standard of taste, as of manners, has not inaptly been likened to that of a Dutch sailor.

Remittances to absentees are often very incorrectly likened in their general character to the payment of a tribute; from which they differ in this very material circumstance, that tribute, if not paid to a foreign country, is not paid at all, whereas rents are paid to the landlord, and consumed by him, even if he resides at home.

Above her head in its wicker cage swung the gray and crimson parrot, of which Sylphy had spoken, and to which, it may be remembered, she had so irreverently likened her master on one occasion; bursting forth, as it saw us coming, into a shrill, stereotyped phrase of welcome"Bien venu, compatriote," that was irresistibly ludicrous and irrelevant.

Imagination, in her playful mood, Might liken it to a poor village maid, Lowly, but smiling in her lowliness, And dress'd so neatly, as if ev'ry day Were Sunday.

When the process is completed they are poetically likened to a hippopotamus.

Cobden and Bright were promiscuously likened to Baboeuf, Chaumette, and Anacharsis Clootz.

It might be likened to the pearly nautilus, which passes, by gradual growth and movement, from cell to cell in slow succession; or, more prosaically, to that oft-repaired garment, which at last consisted entirely of patches.

" At Lucknow Suja-ud-daula greeted him with a sympathetic interest, which Law quaintly likens to that shown by Dido for Aeneas, but money was not forthcoming, and Law soon found that Suja-ud-daula was not on sufficiently good terms with the Mogul's[110] Vizir at Delhi to risk an attack on Bengal.

The profile of this moulding may be rudely likened to the upper and middle parts of the line assumed as the representative of the Greek Ideal.

Certainly not the least to be deprecated are the "ladies' present dresses;" the extravagances of which are not confined to the head, but are exhibited also all down the arm (not unaptly likened to series of balloons) and are also, in most instances, by some unusual "bustling," equally absurd.

In appearance she had been variously likened by Trevelyan, who was painting her portrait, to a druidess, a vestal virgin, and a Greek goddess; and Lady Arbuthnot's friends, who thought to please the girl, assured her that no one would ever suppose her to be an Americantheir ideas of the American young woman having been gathered from those who pick out tunes with one finger on the pianos in the public parlors of the Métropole.

To suppose that life has (as they express it) no higher end than pleasureno better and nobler object of desire and pursuitthey designate as utterly mean and grovelling; as a doctrine worthy only of swine, to whom the followers of Epicurus were, at a very early period, contemptuously likened; and modern holders of the doctrine are occasionally made the subject of equally polite comparisons by its German, French, and English assailants.

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