Dashwood could think of no other question, and Thomas and the tablecloth, now
alike needless, were soon afterwards dismissed.
His course of reflections upon these singular circumstances was, however, interrupted by the necessity for taking repose, which the fatigue of the preceding day, and the propriety of refreshing himself for the morrow's encounter, rendered
alike indispensable.
For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy
alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.
The followers of Chaucer, and the precursors of Shakespeare, are
alike real persons to him--old Langland reminding him of Carlyle's "Gospel of Labour.
Innocent
alike of all knowledge of the serious reason for fear which did really exist, Mrs.
The secret sorrow that preys on body and mind
alike preyed on
Hence it arises that Ills abound, for they come not one by one, but in troops, and by no means singly: while the Goods proceed from Jupiter, and are given, not
alike to all, but singly, and separately; and one by one to those who are able to discern them.
It has fifty millions of inhabitants, and as the colour of the Filthy Pool does not wash off, they all look exactly
alike.
Yet his style, for the most part devoid
alike of artifice and art, almost baldly simple and direct, seems hardly compatible with the disingenuousness of a merely literary intention; one would call it the manner of one more concerned for the fruits of research than for the flowers of expression.
But when the seven dead had received their last rites in Thebes, the Son of Talaus lamented and spoke thus among them: "Woe is me, for I miss the bright eye of my host, a good seer and a stout spearman
alike.
Of course," added Miss Cornelia scornfully, "it wasn't one of those freak resemblances you read of in novels where two people are so much
alike that they can fill each other's places and their nearest and dearest can't tell between them.
Something like this, I believe, frequently happens, where the whole attention of two friends being engaged in the part which each is to act, in order to impose on the other, neither sees nor suspects the arts practised against himself; and thus the thrust of both (to borrow no improper metaphor on the occasion)
alike takes place.
