Parallels
['pærə,lɛl]
Examples
- The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. Plato. The Republic.
- Don't lambaste me with my own parallels-' Gerald pondered a while. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Some of the most deeply tragic and romantic, some of the most terrible incidents, have also their parallels in reality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Seamen say the nautilus is only found in these waters between the 35th and 45th parallels of latitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Bernice