Compares
[kəm'pɛəz]
Examples
- He compares himself to a smith forced to begin at the beginning by fashioning tools with which to work. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mr Mun compares this operation of foreign trade to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Bucket compares the faces with one eye shut up, while Mr. Bagnet smokes in stolid satisfaction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These he compares with Mr Wegg's leg; that gentleman looking on, as if he were being measured for a riding-boot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The man who compares grey with black, calls grey white; and the man who compares absence of pain with pain, calls the absence of pain pleasure. Plato. The Republic.
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