9 Metaphors for likenesses

But now I see that this very likeness of nature was the first cause of their lack of agreement.

To know the Son of God, in whom the Father is well pleased, because He is His perfect Son; His exact likeness, the likeness of that glory of His, and the express image of that person and character of His, which I described to you just now; One whose life was and is and ever will be eternally all love, and mercy, and self-sacrifice, and labour, for lost and sinful men; all trust and obedience to His Father.

But the likeness was awful strikin'.

"Why, Sim," said they, "the likeness between you and the conqueror of the ring was certainly a very pretty coincidence, and your meeting each other quite a drama.

" "Cassandra," said Mrs. Dexter, "does look like her pa; the likeness is ex-tri-ordinary.

Now, I know well that all these dreams are dreams; that the men who built our northern cathedrals never saw these forest forms; and that the likeness of their work to those of tropic nature is at most only a corroboration of Mr. Ruskin's dictum, that "the Gothic did not arise out of, but developed itself into, a resemblance to vegetation . . .

The likeness of Mrs. Purcell, the grandchild of Susan White, to Susanne Le Blanc, was so extraordinary, a number of years ago, that, when Ursule, my daughter's nurse, first saw her, she fainted with terror.

When the likeness is perfec" "Well?" said Miss Drewitt, with impatient scorn.

There is more likeness than contrast between the way we English got our island and the way the Israelites got Canaan.

9 Metaphors for  likenesses