Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
And in this working by resemblance in a kinde of dissimilitude betweene a father and a master. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
'You are apprehensive, then, of some dissimilitude of character prejudicial to our future happiness?'. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess, is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of my sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
That dissimilitude of appearance, which was supposed to keep them distinct from the rest of the nation, might disincline them from coalescing with the. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
Consul of France and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and in these two are prerented to us similar situations, with the greatest dissimilitude of characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
We were strangers to any species of disunion and dispute; for although there was a great dissimilitude in our characters, there was an harmony in that very dissimilitude. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
Yet, if the French are struck by the dissimilitude of facts with the language of your English patriots, there are other circumstances which appear still more unaccountable to them. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
The disparity could not be starker yet those who should be informing and defending cower like little girls, covering themselves in a shroud of self righteous evasion and dissimilitude. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The dissimilitude is so striking, that the utmost you can here pretend to is. From Wordnik.com. [Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion] Reference
It was a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
The situation in Bellini's opera is familiar but the story unfolds with refreshing dissimilitude. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There are also several external causes of cold, the first of which is dissimilitude of minds and manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
The dissimilitude can unbalance the business framework and cause people to suffer injustice in the time to come. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
But such faults are to be expected in all translations, from the constraint of measures and dissimilitude of languages. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
The mountaineers then become a distinct nation, cut off by dissimilitude of speech from conversation with their neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference
Cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all of which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, 275. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
On this voluntary recollection of ideas our faculty of reason depends, as it enables us to acquire an idea of the dissimilitude of any two ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
That kindred subsisted between them was possible, notwithstanding this dissimilitude; but this circumstance contributed to envenom my suspicions. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
It only appertains to those conversant with their relations of dissimilitude or conformity to appreciate the possibility of realizing this system. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference
Consanguinity and likeness of features will not so much incite him to love, as a dissimilitude, by reason of vice, will cause him to disinherit him. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
But these things we are not to urge, because we plead not for dissimilitude with the Papists in civil fashions, but in sacred and religious ceremonies. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
But to render the contrast in this respect still more striking, it may be of use to throw the principal circumstances of dissimilitude into a closer group. From Wordnik.com. [The Federalist Papers] Reference
He brings together images the most alike, but placed at the greatest distance from each other; that is, found in circumstances of the greatest dissimilitude. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
But what to me formed the most bewitching part of the prospect was the elegance of the trees and their perfect dissimilitude to any which had previously beheld. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815] Reference
Did one spirit harmonize them, in spite of the dissimilitude of manners between the North and the South, which were now for the first time brought into political relations?. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Autographs] Reference
That cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, was proved in the foregoing chapter. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
Whatever may have been the ethnological classification hitherto, this author finds sufficient dissimilitude between the types and images to invoke at least more careful study. From Wordnik.com. [Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895.] Reference
In the countenances of the three castaways thus introduced, I have admitted a dissimilitude something more than casual; something more, even, than what might be termed provincial. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
He that cannot justify himself by his resemblance to others, is ready to try some other expedient, and to inquire what will rise to his advantage from opposition and dissimilitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV] Reference
Solitary resemblances of sounds are as little proof of communication between nations as the dissimilitude of a few roots furnishes evidence against the affiliation of the German from the. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
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