"Liken not your old friend unto a Bath bun," said he.

And what sane man likens his position to that of the voting sovereign of the United States?

The better-read at Mezelais began to liken this so candidly enamored monarch and his Princess to Sieur Hercules at the feet of Queen Omphale.

His discourse interested me though I was only a boy, for he likened life to the letter 'Y', saying that 'in each man's life must come a point where two roads part like the arms of a "Y", and that everyone must choose for himself whether he will follow the broad and sloping path on the left or the steep and narrow path on the right.

When God gave us our first-born, as he lay a smiling babe in her lap, looking up into her eye with the innocence that most likens man to angels, Marguerite shed bitter tears at the thought of such a creature's being condemned by the laws to shed the blood of men.

"To whom then will ye liken God?

Vincent also likens its appearance at this juncture to that of a bow.

" One of the finest similes in all the poetry of nature may be found in the stanza which likens the charms of a little girl to those of: "A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!

To whom could I liken the unhappy child?

I can only liken the clamour that was now going on in the Dawn's lee-gangway, to that which is raised by Dutch fish-women, on the arrival of the boats from sea with their cargoes.

In one of these letters, written from Griff to Elizabeth Evans, in 1839, she says she is living in a dry and thirsty land, and that she is looking forward with pleasure to a visit to Wirksworth, and likens her aunt's companionship and counsel to a spring of pure water, acceptable to her as is the well dug for the traveller in the desert.

As such it was interesting; but to compare it with Ollantaytambo, as the foreman had done, was to liken a cottage to a palace or a mouse to an elephant.

One instantly likened this rare young creature to a rare old painting.

Old Snortfrizzle seemed to be smelling a rat more and morethat is, if it is proper to liken Cupid to such an animaland his nose seemed to get purpler and purpler.

" "Cospetto!" grunted Vito Viti, nudging his neighbor, the vice-governatore, and nodding toward the other boat; "if that be not little Ghita, who came into our island like a comet and went out of itto what shall I liken her sudden and extraordinary disappearance, Signor Andrea?"

If I may be allowed to liken this earth to a fruit, then astronomy will tell uswhen it knowshow the fruit grew, and what is inside the fruit.

Some one has likened the effect of these exceptions to that produced when one drops a ball of string that is partially wound.

" Henry V. Time demonstrated with great effectiveness the unhappy fact that Mrs. Upton knew whereof she spoke when she likened an engagement to a political campaign, in that the real battle begins after the nominations are made.

That of building, or of laying out grounds, has certainly some resemblance to it, but it is a resemblance so faint and distant as scarcely to liken the enjoyment each produces.

She had been reading the parable of the Prodigal, and though she would not liken Ethie to him, she sighed softly, "If she would only come, we would kill the fatted calf."

The bard likens the exhaustion of his fellow warriors from previous conflicts, to the stupor which follows a debauch, and he exhorts them to throw it aside.

To liken the former expeditions to Blaxland's is to compare a few headlong assaults with a well-conceived and skilfully worked-out attack.

I can well conceive of an old age like that of Sophocles, as reported by Plato, who likened the fading of the passions with the advance of age to "being set free from service to a band of madmen.

She likened her feelings on the occasion to those of a person whom "the mayor is putting in the lockup.

He was a romantic little chap, and he likened the immobile old heathen to the genius of the Siwash race, gazing calm-eyed upon the hosts of the invading Saxon.