Resemblance

Examples

• Did no suspicion, excited by my own knowledge of Anne Catherick's resemblance to her, cross my mind, when her face was first revealed to me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But what of the resemblance? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure, said he. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There's a strong resemblance between you and your poor father, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs. Bulstrode was vindicated from any resemblance to her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Where they remark the resemblance, it operates after the manner of a relation, by producing a connexion of ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• From this sheet is cut a blank, which bears little resemblance to a spoon, being about half the length of the finished article and very much wider. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, Mr. Lorry dropped off to sleep. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The resemblance is correct; the head is a copy from the excellent bust produced by the chisel of Houdon. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We shall afterwards have occasion to remark both the resemblance and differences betwixt a poetical enthusiasm, and a serious conviction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When we have found a resemblance [Footnote 2. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The process bears as much resemblance to statecraft as sitting backward on a runaway horse does to horsemanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There was little resemblance between it and the extinguisher of today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are, we may note, some very striking resemblances between early Japanese pottery and so forth and similar Peruvian productions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As we have no written pedigrees, we are forced to trace community of descent by resemblances of any kind. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The multiplicity of its appeals--the perpetual surprise of its contrasts and resemblances! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is true, few can form exact systems of the passions, or make reflections on their general nature and resemblances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• We can understand, on the above views, the very important distinction between real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There are resemblances, yet--well, we had better leave it for Monsieur Desquerc to solve. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• These separated groups of varieties developed very early certain broad resemblances and differences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Homoplastic structures are the same with those which I have classed, though in a very imperfect manner, as analogous modifications or resemblances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• That kind of distinction is founded on the different resemblances, which the same simple idea may have to several different ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These admit of infinite resemblances upon the general appearance and comparison, without having any common circumstance the same. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Now these resemblances we are apt to confound with each other; and it is natural we shoud, according to this very reasoning. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This theory has often been a source of amusement to me; and many an idle hour have I spent, exercising my ingenuity in finding resemblances. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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