They kneel before the altar, holding in either hand a small wooden block, about-five inches long, which resembles a split banana.

The hat, as Mr. Sala humorously puts it, resembles an inverted coal scuttle or bucket without handles, and pierced by many holes.

It sends an immense volume of water into the air, and resembles a fountain very closely.

It is well named, because it resembles a succession of paint pots of enormous size more than anything else that the imagination can liken it to.

The Ocklawaha River resembles the Suwanee in many respects.

Pineapples are also seen growing vigorously, and also the vanilla plant, which resembles tobacco in its leaf.

She resembles you, if indeed anyone can possibly resemble you.

In fact, the Ducal Palace is built in the Gothic taste and resembles a Gothic fortress, having round towers at each angle.

He expressed himself carefully and deliberately; and as nearly as a skilfully stuffed and prepared animal in a museum resembles its wild original of the forest, so did his remarks resemble those that Lawrence would have made had he been there.

Thus a Persian landscape, dotted with hundreds of these hillocks, often resembles a field full of huge ant-hills.

Across the much-talked-of Bug, which resembles here a tide-water river split with swampy flats, were the trenches they had left.

When cool it will be a firm jelly, and can be diluted as required with hot or cold water, milk, fruit-juice, "Extract," &c., &c. To come now to what more closely resembles beef-tea, we can have a liquid practically undistinguishable made from Brown or German Lentils.

I have, for instance, never heard a voice like Mr. Pitman's, although Mr. Harry Lauder's in a phonograph resembles it.

RAGUSA BY HARRY DE WINDT Viewed from the sea, and at first sight, the place somewhat resembles Monte Carlo with its white villas, palms, and background of rugged, gray hills.

Then comes the Courts of Justice; an immense structure nearly 600 feet long, with a tower 175 feet high, which resembles the Law Courts of London, and is as appropriate as it is imposing.

The inside plan of the building resembles a circular gridiron gradually depressed toward the center, at which there is a pit, five feet in diameter.

Instead of carrying a bit in their mouths, the reins are attached to a little piece of iron that passes through a hole in the cartilage of the nose, and the traces which draw the load spring from a collar that resembles a yoke.

For, if so, to what purpose that long drama of History, in which we seem to see the Hand of the Dramaturgist? Surely, the end of a Fifth Act should be obvious, satisfying to one's sense of the complete: but History, so far, long as it has been, resembles rather a Prologue than a Fifth Act.

The interior resembles, I believe, rather a Homeric, than an Assyrian or Egyptian houseexcept for the 'galleries,' which are purely Babylonish and Old Hebrew.

She is pretty clever, but not clever enough, for that butterfly escaped, and in one instant I saw her change into weary and sad, for on this earth is nothing more fickle than that Proteus face, which resembles a landscape swept with cloud-shadows on a bright day.

5.24 100.00 In places it is spotted with the serpentine, and judging from its rough state resembles "verde antique," and at that of a beautiful color; samples of this should be obtained.

It is generally of a flesh red color and often in very perfect crystals, in some instances an inch and a half in length; as its hardness is 6, it can be readily distinguished from calcite, which it much resembles, but which has only a hardness of 3, and dissolves with effervescence in acids.

The notion that the walrus resembles man is very much overrated.

In the former construction, the participle resembles an adjective; in the latter, it is more like a noun, or like the infinitive mood: for the participle after a preposition is governed as a participle, and not as a case.

He makes great progress in every thing that does not require an attentive and continuous reflection, and a gradual development; but when the matter involves remote consequences, his mind resembles a short fire-arm, which sends its charge quickly, direct, and strongly, but not to any distance.