Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocotts Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. | | Like |
| Were I like thee, Id throw myself away. Shakespeare.Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 3. (Timon to Apemantus.) | 1 |
It was not my fault, Major Bridgenorth; How could I help it? like will to like The boy would comeThe girl would see him. Scott.Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XIV. | 2 |
Like will to like; each creature loves his kind, Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. Herrick.Hesperides, Aphorisms, 293. | 3 |
Theres not a man among them but must please, Since they are like each other as are peas. Swift.Horace, Book I. Epi. 5. | 4 |
As like as milk is to milk. Riley.Plautus, The Bacchides, Act I. Scene 2. | 5 |
As cherry is to cherry. Shakespeare.King Henry VIII., Act V. Scene 1. (Lady to King Henry.) | 6 |
Almost as like as eggs. Shakespeare.Winters Tale, Act I. Scene 2. (Leontes to Mamillius.) | 7 |
F loves the senate, Hockleyhole his brother, Like in all else as one egg to another. Pope.Satire to Fortescue, Book I. Line 49. | 8 |
Like Niobe, all tears. Shakespeare.Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (After his interview with the King, Queen, and Lords.) | 9 |
No more like my father Than I to Hercules. Shakespeare.Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (The same Soliloquy.) | 10 |
Very like a whale. Shakespeare.Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To Polonius.) | 11 |
But simpering, mild, and innocent, As angels on a monument. Whitehead.Variety. | 12 |
All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like. Ecclesiasticus.Chap. xiii. Ver. 16. | 13 |
The birds will resort unto their like. Ecclesiasticus.Chap. xxvii. Ver. 9. | 14 |
Cicada is dear to cicada, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks. Banks Theocritus.Idyll IX. Page 52. | 15 | |
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