There was something about them, an indescribable sort of silent vitality that suggested, to my broadening consciousness, a state of life-in-deatha something that was by no means life, as we understand it; but rather an inhuman form of existence, that well might be likened to a deathless trancea condition in which it was possible to imagine their continuing, eternally.

And you remember that you have been likened unto a poker, and sadly think that, perhaps the comparison was just.

Ye will with readiness single her out from all of the others, For there can scarcely be one that to her may be likened in bearing.

The sacred and the profane, or idle dream, are likened as "chaff" to "wheat.

"A happy ménage is like a well-ordered state, a foretaste of the joys and peace of Heaven; while a discontented household and a turbulent community may be likened at once to the penalties and the pains of hell!