690 examples of akin in sentences

The thought of a life so rich in womanly promise becoming but another of the idle playthings of Narcissus filled me with something akin to rage, and I was not long in saying some strong words to him.

The picture of "Little Draxy" grew strangely distinct in his mind; and his heart yearned towards her with a yearning akin to that which years before he had felt over the little silent form of the daughter whose eyes had never looked into his.

I loved him with an adoration akin to that which a woman feels for her husband, and with the utmost of filial love added.

There is something akin to telepathy.

He was penitent for a feeling against a stranger that seemed akin to the dormant instinct that had made him glory in holding a bead on Pete Leddy.

He was about three trees away, now, and a panic akin to that which hunters describe as "buck ague" seized him.

And I do not know that we can better sum up the case in regard to the Apostolic Fathers than thus; we have two alternatives to choose between, either they made use of our present Gospels, or else of writings so closely resembling our Gospels and so nearly akin to them that their existence only proves the essential unity and homogeneity of the evangelical tradition.

Akin to it is the classical phrase, adunco suspendere naso.

Here you have the key to the fact that disgust and all feelings akin to it, disdain, contempt and scorn, express themselves through the nose.

The books suggest that these foliaceous appendages are the organs of some special sense akin to touch.

The portraits of those we do see are mostly representations of awful-looking brutes, as bad in shoulders, and light of bone, as they could be; they appear also to have had very soft coats, somewhat akin to that we see on a Pomeranian nowadays, though it is true this latter fault may have been that of the artist, or probably amplified by him.

He was undoubtedly more akin to our present type than any other Irish Terrier of his time of which there is record.

This breed is near akin to the wire-hair Fox-terrier, the principal differences being merely of colour and type.

"Out went the taper as she hurried in; Its little smoke in pallid moonshine died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air and visions wide: No utter'd syllable, or woe betide!

If the one is a bodiless phantom, the other is a lifeless skeleton: if the one in its feverish and hectic extravagance resembles a sick man's dream, the other is akin to the sleep of deathcold, stiff, unfeeling, monumental!

He is nothing akin to birth-day suits and drawing-room fopperies.

As, for instance, diffidence is the opposite to confidence, and is therefore a vice; audacity is not the opposite of confidence, but is near it and akin to it, and, nevertheless, is also a vice.

And in this manner there will be found a vice akin to every virtue, and either already known by some particular nameas audacity, which is akin to confidence; pertinacity, which is bordering on perseverance; superstition, which is very near religion,or in some cases it has no fixed name.

And in this manner there will be found a vice akin to every virtue, and either already known by some particular nameas audacity, which is akin to confidence; pertinacity, which is bordering on perseverance; superstition, which is very near religion,or in some cases it has no fixed name.

But no one ever imitates the dignity of his language or of his sentiments, but when they have used some disjointed and unconnected expressions, which they might have done without any teacher at all, then they think that they are akin to Thucydides.

Now history is akin to this side of writing, in which the authors relate with elegance, and often describe a legion, or a battle, and also addresses and exhortations are intermingled, but in them something connected and fluent is required, and not this compressed and vehement sort of speaking.

Then he stands stock-still, turning instinctively from the wind like one of the brutes, while the past comes back in a waking dream so akin to reality, that even in his preoccupation he seems to live the last year of his life over again.

As synthesis is predominant in his view of things, so a harmonizing, conciliatory tendency asserts itself in his relations to his predecessors: the results of previous philosophers are neither discarded out of hand nor accepted in the mass, but all that appears in any way useful or akin to the new system is wrought in at its proper place, though often with considerable transformation.

We will now briefly notice another objection, somewhat akin to the preceding, and based mainly upon the same and similar fallacies.

When D.L. Moody was holding in Birmingham one of those remarkable series of meetings which so deeply stirred our country in the early 'seventies, Dr. Dale, who followed the work with the keenest sympathy, and yet not without a feeling akin to stupefaction at the amazing results which it produced, once told Moody that the work was most plainly of God, for he could see no real relation between him and what he had done.

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