likenes

For propriety, hwarevver herd, can be seen onely in her picture: nor can dhis be duly drawn, but from dhe oridginal; or dhe likenes long prezerved, in dhe coppies ov vulgarrity.

Spelling Reform in the Ketchup Mine 2005

One of these days, Cthulhu is going to wake down there in the sunken city of R'lyeh, rise up out of the ocean, find out that people have been making cute stuffed animal toys in its likenes, get really pissed off, and eat us all.

Archive 2005-06-26 2005

One of these days, Cthulhu is going to wake down there in the sunken city of R'lyeh, rise up out of the ocean, find out that people have been making cute stuffed animal toys in its likenes, get really pissed off, and eat us all.

Archive 2005-06-26 2005

But this seemeth to be nothing but a coniecture taken out of the likenes of the name Asarmathes.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Vpon the third side was the likenes in a deuine aspect naked of a yoong boy, crowned with vine leaues, and of a wanton countenance, holding in his left hand certaine clusters of ripe grapes, and in the other, a copie full of grapes which did hang ouer the mouth thereof.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

In Lancashire in 1613 old mother Demdike confessed that 'vpon a Sabbath day in the morning, this Examinate hauing a litle Child vpon her knee, and she being in a slumber, the sayd Spirit appeared vnto her in the likenes of a browne Dogg, forcing himselfe to her knee, to get blood vnder her left

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

Sarah Cooper an impe in the likenes of a gray kite [kit], to suck on the said Sarah; which impes name the said Anne called Tom boy; and told the said Sarah, there was a cat for her. —

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

My esteemed cricket editor Paul Grunill likenes it to "climbing Everest on top of Everest".

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If thou beest a man, shew thy selfe in thy likenes:

The Tempest (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

For as to the formes, to some of the baser sorte of them he oblishes him selfe to appeare at their calling vpon him, by such a proper name which he shewes vnto them, either in likenes of a dog, a Catte, an Ape, or such-like other beast; or else to answere by a voyce onlie.

Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595