Resembled Sentence Examples

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  • In all, it barely resembled the old house.

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  • The orbs resembled marbles with colorful lights that danced.

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  • He was in a fairy kingdom where nothing resembled reality.

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  • They were a handsome couple, the elegant woman's hair so fine and blonde it resembled white silk.

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  • It resembled Poland.

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  • Celtic names, and St Jerome, who had lived in Trier, declares that their language in his day (c. 370) resembled that of the Galatians.

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  • Her character seems in general to have resembled that of her brother.

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  • He arrived from Egypt at the psychological moment,and his journey from Frejus to Paris resembled a triumphant procession.

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  • They essentially resembled the obligations undertaken towards a Teutonic chief by the members of his "comitatus" or "gefolge," one of the institutions from which feudalism directly sprang.

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  • These " battalias " had their angles strengthened in the oldfashioned way that had prevailed since Marignan, with small outstanding bodies of musketeers, so that they resembled rectangular forts with bastions.

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  • The sacred feasts of the Essenes and Therapeutae in particular, as described by Josephus and Philo, closely resembled the Eucharistic agape.

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  • Under the kings of Athens it must have closely resembled the Boule of elders described by Homer; and there can be no doubt that it was the chief factor in the work of transforming the kingship into an aristocracy, in which it was to be supreme.

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  • The Columbia river canoe resembled that of the Amur, the bow and stern being pointed at the water-line.

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  • The Dene (Tinneh) myths resembled those of the Eskimo, and all the hunting tribes of eastern Canada and United States and the Mississippi valley have a mythology based upon their zootechny and their totemism.

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  • They resembled the monks in so far as they lived in community and took religious vows; but their state of life remained essentially clerical, and as clerics their duty was to undertake the pastoral care and serve the parish churches in their patronage.

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  • In person he somewhat resembled Napoleon, but utterly lacked his strength and energy.

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  • The wife of John Casimir, a Frenchwoman, Marie Louise, hired a troop of French actors and first familiarized the Poles with something which resembled the modern stage.

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  • Diane was the only one who resembled him.

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  • This duel resembled in its attendant circumstances the famous fight of the "Chesapeake" and the "Shannon."

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  • The temples were called teocalli or " god's house," and rivalled in size as they resembled in form the temples of ancient Babylon.

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  • In these respects it resembled Christianity.

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  • Horn in many respects greatly resembled his contemporary Walpole.

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  • These coenobia resembled villages, peopled by a hard-working religious community, all of one sex.

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  • In all this he resembled Roger Bacon.

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  • Assuming that these ancestral forms resembled the existing Nautilus in their internal anatomy, they had two pairs of renal ducts and one pair of genital ducts, which would apparently indicate, not a single metamere or unsegmented body, but three metameres.

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  • As originally platted by Joseph Ellicott, the plan of Buffalo somewhat resembled that of Washington, but the plan was much altered and even then not adhered to.

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  • Klaproth, on the other hand, supposed they were a mixture of Finns and Turks, and the Hungarian traveller Reguli discovered that the tatarized Meshchers of the Obi closely resembled Hungarians.

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  • He got the hint of a noumenal will from Kant; but in regarding the noumenal as knowable, because mental, as well as in the emphasis he laid on the activity of will, he resembled Fichte.

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  • In this it resembled the middle ages rather than the Roman empire or the present day, and it resembled them all the more in that its love of beauty, like theirs, was mixed with a feeling for the fantastic and the grotesque.

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  • The only important gateway, which was on the east side, away from the sea, probably resembled the "lion gate" at Mycenae.

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  • This division contains the palace of the ruler of Tiryns, a building which shows careful and skilful construction, elaborate decoration, and a well-arranged plan, suitable to the wants1 of a wealthy autocratic chief, who lived in a manner which partly recalls the luxury of an Oriental king, and also resembled the feudal state of a medieval baron, surrounded by a crowd of vassals.

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  • How far the older sacrificial rules resembled the levitical law we do not know, but in the canons of Sahak, C. 43 0, the priests already receive the levitical portions of the victims; and we find that animals are being sacrificed every Sunday, on the feast days which at first were few, in fulfilment of private vows, in expiation of the sins of the living, and still more of those of the dead.

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  • No doubt the Phoenicians had their legends and myths to account for the origin of man and the universe; to some extent these would Myth R e!,, o logy have resembled the ideas embodied in the book of and Genesis.

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  • But while the banner was square the pennon, which resembled it in other respects, was either pointed or forked at its extremity, and the pencel, which was considerably less than the others, always terminated in a single tail or streamer.6 If indeed we look at the scale of chivalric subordination from another point of view, it seems to be more properly divisible into four than into three stages, of which two may be called provisional and two final.

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  • The federal constitution closely resembled that of the Achaean league, for which it doubtless served as a model.

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  • This they did with the excuse that the new product resembled one class of steel - cast steel - in being free from slag; and, after a period of protest, all acquiesced in calling it " steel," which is now its firmly established name.

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  • In other respects they must have resembled those of Oriental cities - the living apartments all opening towards the interior, and showing only blank walls towards ' It consisted of two parallel stone walls with buttresses, about 55 ft.

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  • In general, the Bab's doctrines most closely resembled those of the Isma`ilis and Hurufis.

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  • Few of these unfortunates possessed any other weapon than the long staff (nebbut) of the Egyptian peasant; still they offered an obstinate resistance, and the combat in which they were defeated resembled a massacre.

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  • That Charles was his father is more than doubtful, for Lucy Walters had previously lived with Robert Sidney (son of the earl of Leicester), brother of Algernon, and the boy resembled him very closely.

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  • It appears to have resembled in its main features those remarkable outpourings of basalt which have deluged so many thousand square miles of the western area of the United States.

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  • The early universities of Europe, being under the same religious authority and animated by the same philosophy, resembled each other very closely in curriculum and general organization and examinations, and by the authority of the emperor, or of the pope in most cases, the permission to teach granted by one university was valid in all (jus ubicunque docendi).

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  • The species of Camelops were probably fully as large as llamas, and some, at any rate, resembled these animals as regards the number of teeth, the incisors being reduced to one upper and three lower pairs, and the cheekteeth to four or five in the upper and four in the lower jaw; the total number of teeth thus being 28 or 30 in place of the 44 of Poebrotherium.

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  • John Tillotson, one of his predecessors in the archbishopric, was a favourite hero of his, and in some ways the two men resembled one another.

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  • Finding in the cultivation of " virtue " or " excellence " a substitute for the pursuit of scientific truth, and in disputation the sole means by which " virtue " or " excellence " could be attained, he resembled at once the sophists of culture and the sophists of eristic. But, inasmuch as the " virtue " or " excellence " which he sought was that of the man rather than that of the official, while the disputation which he practised had for its aim, not victory, but the elimination of error, the differences which separated him from the sophists of culture and the sophists of eristic were only less considerable than the resemblances which he bore to both; and further, though his whole time and attention were bestowed upon the education of young Athenians, his theory of the relations of teacher and pupil differed from that of the recognized professors of education, inasmuch as the taking of fees seemed to him to entail a base surrender of the teacher's independence.

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  • In this connexion it may be noted that the spectrum of Nova Persei, after passing through a stage in which it resembled that of a planetary nebula, has now become of the Wolf-Rayet type.

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  • His baillis, who at first rather resembled the itinerant justices of Henry II.

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  • These demonstrations, however, were the outcome not of any returning partiality for her own family, but of her intense dislike, in which she resembled Queen Elizabeth, of any "successor," "it being a thing I cannot bear to have any successor here though but for a week"; and in spite of some appearances to the contrary, it is certain that religion and political wisdom kept Anne firm to the Protestant succession.

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  • In this latter respect the Greek colonies resembled those of the Phoenicians.

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  • This new magistrate was entrusted with the exclusive jurisdiction in civil cases; in other respects his powers resembled those of the consuls.

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  • After his cousin Gustavus Adolphus, whom in many respects he strikingly resembled, he was indubitably the most amiable and brilliant of all the princes of the House of Vasa.

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  • Its pottery, which resembled the Corinthian ware, was exported with the latter as far as Etruria.

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  • Its constitution resembled that of an ancient priestly college, and Laetus was styled pontifex maximus.

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  • Karl August Ehrensvard (1745-1800) may be mentioned here as a critic whose aims somewhat resembled those of Thorild.

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  • Constitution and Government.Up to the year 1906 the government of Persia was an absolute monarchy, and resembled in its principal features that of the Ottoman Empire, with the exception, however, that the monarch was not the religious head of the community.

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  • Had it not been that there were two candidates in the field, the contention would have resembled that which arose shortly after Tahmasps accession.

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  • Beardless and shrivelled, writes Sir John Malcolm, it resembled that of an aged and wrinkled woman, and the expression of his countenance, at no time pleasant, was horrible when clouded, as it very often was, with indignation.

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  • His History of the Christian Church, already mentioned, resembled Neander's work, though less biographical, and was pictorial rather than philosophical.

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  • With Jonathan Edwards, than whom he was much more of a man of affairs, and with Benjamin Franklin, whose mission in England somewhat resembled Mather's, he may be ranked among the greatest Americans of the period before the War of Independence.

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  • For the origin of the Goths can hardly be separated from that of the Vandals, whom according to Procopius they resembled in language and in all other respects.

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  • The exhumation and burning of his body in 1428, when the ashes were cast into the Swift, gave rise to the saying that their distribution by the river to the ocean resembled that of Wycliffe's doctrines over the world.

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  • The Phyllopoda, Ostracoda and Cirripedia (Thyrostraca) are represented in Cambrian or Silurian rocks by forms which seem to have resembled closely those now existing, so that palaeontology can have little light to throw on the mode of origin of these groups.

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  • But we must not fall into the error of supposing that the early progenitor of the whole Simian stock, including man, was identical with, or even closely resembled, any existing ape or monkey."

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  • His reign in some ways resembled that of Edward I.

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  • The forests of the coast belt resembled those of the coral islands of the neighbouring parts of the Indian Ocean.

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  • His mother, Abigail Hussey, whom the poet strongly resembled, was of good stock.

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  • Its lapses resembled those of Mrs Browning, who was of his own breed in her fervour and exaltation.

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  • He was inferior in caution and enry self-control to his grandfather Henry I., though he resembled him in his love of strong and systematic governance.

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  • It is probable that the name was given to the followers of Wycliffe because they resembled those offshoots from the great Franciscan movement which had disowned the pope's authority and set before themselves the ideal of Evangelical poverty.

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  • With the decay of the empire the title very naturally fell to the popes, whose functions as administrators of religious law closely resembled those of the ancient Roman priesthood, hence the modern use of "pontiff" and "pontifical."

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  • On a much larger and more magnificent scale, and on a much more permanent basis, the society of ancient Egypt somewhat resembled that of ancient Mexico.

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  • Robert the Pious, a crowned monk, resembled his father in eschewing great schemes, whether from timidity or prudence; yet from 996 to 1031 he preserved intact the authority Robert he had inherited from Hugh, despite many domestic dis- the Pious turbances.

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  • They waged war against him as relentlessly as did the Constitutionalists against Mirabeau, whom he resembled in his extreme ugliness and his volcanic eloquence.

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  • An ardent patriot and republican, her relations with Danton resembled those of Marie Antoinette with Mirabeau, in each case a woman spoilt by flattery, enraged at indifference.

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  • The policy of Sagasta in domestic affairs resembled that of Canovas.

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  • The religion of the Lydians resembled that of the other civilized nations of Asia Minor.

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  • In the papal states a society called the Sanfedisti or Bande della Santa Fede had been formed to checkmate the Carbonari, and their behaviour and character resembled those of the Calderai of Naples.

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  • The spore or embryo-sac. roots, or at least their functional repre sentatives, resembled those of Lepidodendron.

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  • In habit some species of Alethopteris resembled the recent Angiopteris, while the Neuropteris foliage may be compared with that of an Osmunda.

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  • The stem resembled that of Cycads in having a large pith, sometimes as much as 4 in.

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  • The most important are the upper Coal Measure or Permian genera Walchia, Ullmannia and Pagiophyllum, all of which resembled certain Araucarieae in habit.

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  • In this he resembled his contemporary the emperor Francis I.

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  • Lounging in a pillowed corner of the room, Tamer resembled a cross between a lion at rest and a desert Bedouin with his muscular form and loose garb.

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  • She was prattling on about the planet Zzz where some arch villain who closely resembled Jerome Shipton, was to meet his due while climbing an icy cliff, in hot pursuit of a fair maiden whom Dean took to be a greatly slimmed down version of the author.

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  • The world around her changed from forest to what resembled an army encampment with tents and mobile buildings hidden from sight by intricate nettings woven among the trees.

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  • Dusty's lifemate was small and shapely with a sunny disposition and caramel features that resembled her brother's, the Black God.

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  • Tiyan resembled the life he would choose if he could.

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  • The very nature of these political groups, highly centralized, resembled the Soviet model.

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  • Following our arrival, a section of Woodham's yard soon resembled a Gipsy encampment with caravans, tents and vans arrayed!

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  • Because the damage resembled that caused by viruses, the scientists suspect avocado extract might be useful to treat viral hepatitis.

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  • Romero said the collapse of the structures resembled those of controlled implosions used to demolish old structures.

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  • The heat soon became insupportable within the circle of furnaces, the rumbling of which resembled the rolling of thunder.

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  • In the first 10 minutes, the teams resembled two boxers easing their way into a fight, throwing long-range jabs.

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  • His body resembled yellow jasper, and his face was like lightning.

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  • Mecca simply wanted what they eventually got - pure raw, kinetic energy dispersed under a geometric ceiling that resembled an inverted space station.

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  • The stage resembled an outtake from Altman's film Nashville.

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  • I remember that the 32ft pedal reed often resembled machine gun fire, which I think was due to the dryness of the accoustic.

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  • Russian Futurists, into smallest possible units retaining motivic power (' zaums ') and resembled for maximal rhythmics.

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  • Liverpool resembled an aging village bobby being given the runaround by a bunch of streetwise kids.

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  • All outfits were again styled with red tights, sparkly slip-ons and additional knitted head pieces which resembled mini Tam O'Shanter beret hats.

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  • The sea dragon's face resembled a fan, its features radiating from its pointed snout.

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  • Member who is place quot of quot resembled Spanish off your bro.

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  • However, during these glacial periods it is likely that much of the County resembled the tundra of today's arctic provinces.

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  • In the late summer twilight, their target resembled only a shifting, jerking pile of black rags.

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  • There was also a private zoo, and a boating pond that resembled dodgems on water.

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  • Jowitschitsch (Ann., 1906, 347, p. 2 33) inclines to Scholl's formula; he found that the synthetic silver salt of glyoxime peroxide resembled silver fulminate in yielding hydroxylamine with hydrochloric acid, but differed in being less explosive, and in being soluble in nitric acid.

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  • The Arabians more closely resembled the Hindus than the Greeks in the choice of studies; their philosophers blended speculative dissertations with the more progressive study of medicine; their mathematicians neglected the subtleties of the conic sections and Diophantine analysis, and applied themselves more particularly to perfect the system of numerals (see Numeral), arithmetic and astronomy.

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  • Broussais, who, though not rightly classed with the system-makers, since his conclusions were partly based upon anatomical investigation, resembled them in his attempt to unite theory and practice in one comprehensive synthesis.

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  • The Guanches, now extinct as a distinct people, appear, from the study of skulls and bones discovered, to have resembled the Cro-Magnon race of the Quaternary age, and no real doubt is now entertained that they were an offshoot of the great race of Berbers which from the dawn of history has occupied northern Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Pliny the Elder, deriving his knowledge from the accounts of Juba, king of Mauretania, states that when visited by the Carthaginians under Hanno the archipelago was found by them to be uninhabited, but that they saw ruins of great buildings.

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  • Swift he resembled in the occasional broadness of his humour, in his brilliantly successful use of sarcasm and irony, 2 and in his mastery of the hoax.

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  • Its activities in fixing the price and quality of bread, etc., and in rationing, closely resembled those of the food controller in Great Britain (see Food Supply and Rationing) .

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  • Ratramnus's view thus resembled Serapion's, after whom the elements furnish a new vehicle of the Spirit's influence, a new body through which the Word operates, a fresh sojourning among us of the Word, though consecrated bread is in itself no more Christ's natural body than are we who assimilate it.

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  • The symptoms so closely resembled those of beri-beri that it has also been suggested that the illness was the same, and was caused by the manufacture of the glucose from mouldy rice (see Beri-Beri), though no proof of this was possible.

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  • I called him Black Beauty, as I had just read the book, and he resembled his namesake in every way, from his glossy black coat to the white star on his forehead.

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  • It could readily ascend the sides of the room by short impulses, like a squirrel, which it resembled in its motions.

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  • The small group that assembled before dinner in the lofty old-fashioned drawing room with its old furniture resembled the solemn gathering of a court of justice.

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  • Petya was now a handsome rosy lad of fifteen with full red lips and resembled Natasha.

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  • At that moment of emotional tenderness young Nicholas' face, which resembled his father's, affected Pierre so much that when he had kissed the boy he got up quickly, took out his handkerchief, and went to the window.

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  • Look out for four women officers quot resembled spanish.

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  • Member who is place quot of quot resembled spanish off your bro.

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  • However, during these glacial periods it is likely that much of the County resembled the tundra of today 's arctic provinces.

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  • The undulations of the land resembled in some places the waves of the sea.

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  • Our proposed business model resembled that of other online companies featuring job sites; we charged prospective employer to post jobs and obtain access to our pool of job seekers.

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  • Twain's home was considered whimsical since it resembled one of the steam riverboats that plied up and down the Mississippi River.

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  • His photograph of a woman with F holes painted on her back, so her body resembled a cello, is one of the most famous nude photos of the modernist era.

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  • Bras, up until about 1915, strongly resembled loose camisoles.

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  • When Jodie Foster took over the role the studio had to find a young actress to play her tomboy daughter that better resembled her.

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  • The ancient Romans also used large dogs that resembled Boxers to do a lot of heavy lifting and pulling for them.

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  • Whereas the original track lighting system resembled miniature spot lights laid into a monorail, new, flexible track lights offer more possibilities.

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  • Towards the end of the period, they became shorter and eventually resembled a shirt that hit at the waist.

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  • It wasn't so long ago that dresses in extended sizes resembled tents and boasted unappealing, questionable patterns that few women would ever dream of wearing.

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  • Once upon a time, plus size sleepwear options consisted of shapeless gowns that resembled muumuus, and a handful of tops and bottoms that would just about hide a woman's body beneath yards of unnecessary fabric.

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  • This frame was done in a unique design that resembled marbling.

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  • He created Naughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe) on a machine that resembled a large nightstand.

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  • When he was first introduced in Super Mario Bros. 2, he resembled Mario, except with green overalls and hat, a brown shirt and blue boots.

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  • In early incarnations of Madden that included a "Create a Character" mode, you had to create a character that resembled the stats of the changed player, but no more.

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  • The Saturn had a cartridge slot, but primarily ran CD-ROM games, and the controller closely resembled the six-button design from the Sega Genesis.

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  • The touchscreen Quickfire resembled the Sidekick with its slider design and QWERTY keyboard.

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  • The tunic nearly resembled a very short dress, perfect for moving from beach to boardwalk in an instant.

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  • Into the 1940s, men's swimwear resembled women's wear, with shorter shorts and fabrics lying close to the body.

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  • The color resembled biscuit or oatmeal, and it featured a tiered skirt with somewhat frayed hems.

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  • The term cushion referred to the stone's square to rectangular shape, which resembled a cushion or pillow.

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  • When they found the mutilated carcasses, many thought that they resembled animals attacked by wolves, yet locals knew that there were no wolves in the vicinity.

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  • Randisi. The novel was the first of three to be set in a fictional soap opera world with characters that resembled many of the actress' co-stars.

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  • The first Sienna was the 1998 model, and it resembled the Chrysler vehicle much more closely than previous Toyota vans.

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  • However, historians have discovered that an ancient Japanese purification ceremony from A.D. 900 also included the use of a paper figure that vaguely resembled a child's paper doll.

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  • It was reviled because it was thought that Lucas was beginning to 'sell out' to the commercialization of his empire, with the creation of the lovable aliens, the Ewoks, who resembled feral teddy bears, living in a stone age culture.

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  • These creatures were discovered by an explorer named Pierson, who thought their two heads resembled sock puppets.

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  • For 180 years the uniforms closely resembled those of the United States Navy.

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  • The Chicago style had horizontal stripes that resembled a cake with layers and sat up from the head a bit, while the Boston style had a closer fit.

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  • However, the Marine Corps stopped using this uniform because it resembled the Navy's Dress White uniform too much.

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  • If not for Yully's fading energy, Jule would've stayed to make sure Damian's version of chat resembled his and not Dusty's, who was more likely to shoot first and discuss later.

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  • With her large, two-toned eyes, flawless skin, and long, straw-colored hair, she resembled a doll.

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  • No human's eyes glowed red, and their inhuman growls as she passed resembled those of animals.

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  • Jake led him into the Gregorian mansion, whose stone walls resembled an old school fortress.

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  • Sofia listened and trailed them through the house that resembled a frat house.

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  • Tall with dark skin and glowing turquoise eyes, he most closely resembled Andre of any of his sons.

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  • Toby stood beside a plainly pregnant young woman with blue eyes and a tattoo across her neck that resembled the one on Deidre's back in color and otherworldly script.

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  • Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, he resembled a college student on break.

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  • He resembled his father in height and narrow face, though there was warmth in his father's face she didn't see in his.

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  • She turned to see a tall, lean man with olive features that more closely resembled Rhyn's.

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  • Her hands shook as she stood there discussing her own death with a creature that resembled the Grim Reaper.

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  • They went through an entire range of movements, from attacking to defending in motions that resembled a dance.

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  • She couldn't help but be grateful they at least resembled humans.

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  • His feelings towards Sarah resembled those toward his older sister, Emily, whom he idolized as a caregiver, teacher, and confident.

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  • The table resembled a surgical tray.

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  • It resembled a studio apartment with a real bed and dresser, a restroom cordoned off by opaque curtains in one corner, a small study where he kept his war docs, a kitchenette, rugs, and a small living area.

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  • He corrected one other movement and slowed their pace until it resembled that of the youths being trained a short distance away.

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  • His swing resembled that of a golfer and she surmised he had plenty of practice.

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  • She laughed, gripping both ends of the towel and twirling it until it resembled a rope.

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  • While it was huge and red from the outside, the inside resembled a boxing gym with several rings, training equipment and a wall of mirrors.

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  • Her wealth made it certain that he would be the richest man in France, and he determined to play a part equal to that of his great-grandfather, the regent, whom he resembled in character and debauchery.

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  • The Goths, except in the valley of the P0, resembled an army of occupation rather than a people numerous enough to blend with the Italic stock.

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  • In shape it resembled a porkpie but in materials it was a rich plum-pudding.

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  • The short reign of Paul (1796-1801) resembled in many points the still shorter one of his father, Peter III.

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  • After the success of the Rocket, the Stephensons received orders to build seven more engines, which were of very similar design, though rather larger, being four-wheeled engines, with the two driving wheels in front and the cylinders behind; and in October 1830 they constructed a ninth engine, the Planet, also for the Liverpool & Manchester railway, which still more closely resembled the modern type, since the driving wheels were placed at the fire-box end, while the two cylinders were arranged under the smoke-box, inside the frames.

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  • But it was now made to appear that the struthious birds in this respect resembled, not only the duck, but a great many other groups - waders, birds-of-prey, pigeons, passerines and perhaps all birds not gallinaceous - so that, according to Cuvier's view, the five points of ossification observed in the Gallinae, instead of exhibiting the normal process, exhibited one quite exceptional, and that in all other birds, so far as he had been enabled to investigate the matter, ossification of the sternum began at two points only, situated near the anterior upper margin of the side of the sternum, and gradually crept towards the keel, into which it presently extended; and, though he allowed the appearance of detached portions of calcareous matter at the base of the still cartilaginous keel in ducks at a certain age, he seemed to consider this an individual peculiarity.

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  • The Chinese statement that the Hoa or Ye-tha were a section of the great Yue-Chi, and that their customs resembled those of the Turks (Tu-Kiue), is probably correct, but does not amount to much, for the relationship did not prevent them from fighting with the Yue-Chi and Turks, and means little more than that they belonged to the warlike and energetic section of central Asian nomads, which is in any case certain.

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  • His greatest success was on the Rhine, where in the summers of 1863 and 1864 his travels as missionary of the new gospel resembled a triumphal procession.

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  • In the Phalangiotarbi the appendages resembled those of the Anthracomarti, except that the basal segments of the last four pairs were usually approximated in the middle line leaving a long and narrow sternal area between; and the carapace of the prosoma was unsegmented.

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  • The Arabians more closely resembled the Hindus than the Greeks in the choice of studies; their philosophers blended speculative dissertations with the more progressive study of medicine; their mathematicians neglected the subtleties of the conic sections and Diophantine analysis, and applied themselves more particularly to perfect the system of numerals, arithmetic and astronomy.

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  • Later a certain Marie Lejay (renamed by the comtesse "Baronne Gay d'Oliva," the last word being apparently an anagram of Valoi), who resembled Marie Antoinette, stated that she had been engaged to play the role of queen in this comedy.

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  • On the whole,it may be said that his position in this question as to the rights of the papal see over foreign metropolitans resembled that of his great predecessor Hincmar, to whose authority he constantly appeals.

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  • Did the Paulicians, like the later Cathars (who in so much resembled them), reject water baptism?

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  • A variety of cloaks were worn by men during inclement weather; in general they resembled the Greek chlamys, but often had a hood (cucullus) which could be drawn over the head.

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  • He resembled his Greek master in the high value he set on the study of the "natural history of disease"; in the importance he attached to "epidemic constitution" - that is, to the influence of weather and other natural causes in modifying disease; and further in his conception of the healing power of nature in disease, a doctrine which he even expanded beyond the teaching of Hippocrates.

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  • George Ernest Stahl (1660-1734) was for more than twenty years professor of medicine at Halle, and thus a colleague of Hoffmann, whom he resembled in constructing a complete theoretical system, though their systems had little or nothing in common.

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  • He appears to have had no great sense of natural beauty, in which point he resembled his generation (though one remarkable story is told of his being deeply affected by Alpine scenery); and, except in his passion for the stage, he does not seem to have cared much for any of the arts, Conversation and literature were, again as in Johnson's case, the sole gods of his idolatry.

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  • The osazone prepared from a-acrose resembled most closely the glucosazone yielded by glucose, mannose, and fructose, but it was optically inactive; also the ketose which it gave after treatment with hydrochloric acid and reduction of the osone was like ordinary fructose except that it was inactive.

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  • His flashing eyes were deep-set, and in colour resembled the onyx with its double band of brown and grey.

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  • The most conspicuous of them is the great amphitheatre, a building perhaps of the end of the 1st century A.D., which in general form closely resembled the Colosseum in Rome.

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  • The norimono resembled a miniature house slung by its roof-ridge from a massive pole which projected at either end sufficiently to admit the shoulders of a carrier.

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  • At the beginning of the 19th century we find the Erlanger Literaturzeitung (1799-1810), which had replaced a Gelehrte Zeitung (1746); the Leipziger Literaturzeitung (1800-1834); the Heidelbergische Jahrbucher der Literatur (1808-1872); and the Wiener Literaturzeitung (1813-1816), followed by the Wiener Jahrbucher der Literatur (1818-1848), both of which received government support and resembled the English Quarterly Review in their conservative politics and high literary tone.

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  • Graham's work was developed by Liebig, who called into service many organic acids - citric, tartaric, cyanuric, comenic and meconic - and showed that these resembled phosphoric acid; and he established as the criterion of polybasicity the existence of compound salts with different metallic oxides.

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  • The movement resembled those under the Campbells and Stone in Kentucky in 1801-1804, and in Lyndon, Vermont, among the Baptists in 1800.

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  • Till the year 1079 the Persian year resembled that of the ancient Egyptians, consisting of 365 days without intercalation; but at that time the Persian calendar was reformed by Jelal ud-Din Malik Shah, sultan of Khorasan, and a method of intercalation adopted which, though less convenient, is considerably more accurate than the Julian.

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  • The prophets of the restoration are only the last waves beating on the shore after the storm which destroyed the old nation, but created in its room a fellowship of spiritual religion, had passed over; they resemble the old prophets in the same imperfect way in which the restored community of Jerusalem resembled a real nation.

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  • The satire of Ennius seems to have resembled the more artistic satire of Horace in its record of personal experiences, in the occasional introduction of dialogue, in the use made of fables with a moral application, and in the didactic office which it assumed.

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  • Cadorna's general line of argument, when rumours of attack began to arrive, resembled that of Falkenhayn.

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  • Representatives for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the photo closely resembled the police photos taken of Rihanna the night of the attack.

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  • Its legs were jointed outwards like a spider's, and its ability to climb walls resembled that of a spider.

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  • It resembled a doctor's waiting room rather than any police station she'd seen.

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  • Gerald's eyes reflected humor and his breath came out in a sudden rush that barely resembled a laugh.

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  • In the end the map of Dicaearcus resembled that of Democritus.

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