14 Metaphors for similarities

Among many reasons, the similarity of its second chapter to the Epistle of Jude is a cardinal fact.

Such similarities may be the result of mere coincidence.

The consonance of their dispositions, the similarity of their tastes, and the equality of their ages are a sure pledge of happiness.

Any similarity happening between unconnected words, is no syntactical concord, though it may rank the terms in the same class etymologically. OBS.

Any similarity happening between unconnected words, is no syntactical concord, though it may rank the terms in the same class etymologically. OBS.

The similarity of their fortunes in love was a strong link in the sympathies which bound the master and man together and the former never failed to be softened by an allusion to Patty.

But similarity of sounds is a very uncertain guide.

Giving his reason for this opinion, Dr. Ingleby says,"Among other similarities in the forms of the letters to those characterizing the H.S. letter, is the very remarkable g in 'Hemminges'.

Moreover, a similarity of habits and a like station in life and the fact that the same objects are disastrous and beneficial to persons are the only forces that can create true, firm friends.

Both these leading motifs recur over and over again in the songs printed in the original in the present volume, and this similarity is a common token of the authenticity of the book.

Besides, the similarity of words is too trivial a circumstance on which to establish a foundation for a superstructure of such importance.

These instances I shall take the liberty of laying before you from time to time, leaving you and your readers to decide whether such similarity be the effect of accident or design; but I flatter myself that they may be accepted as parallel passages and illustrations, even by those who may differ from me in the opinion I have formed on the relation which my "loci inter se comparandi" bear to each other.

How far these similarities are the independent products of similar situations, and how far the results of loans, cannot at present be determined.

As similarity and proximity are relations, and not qualities, it might seem proper to call like, near, and nigh, prepositions; and some grammarians have so classed the last two.

14 Metaphors for  similarities