SYN: Analogy, correspondence, equality, resemblance, [See ANALOGY].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

If you observe how this skirt is turned, and this sleeve: a clumsy English rascal can do nothing like it.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Then the Dean slowly and clearly explained, reminding him of the tardiness and the carelessness, of the poor lessons and neglected work, of the noise and disorder, until the fellow hung his head in confusion.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Hoping that from day to day peace should be made between father and son and consequently everything restored to him, both interest and capital, Alessandro departed not the island and the three brothers in Florence no wise abated their extravagant expenditure, borrowing more and more every day.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Tundatur mediana; et si sanguis apparet clarus et ruber, supprimatur; aut si yere, si niger aut crassus permittatur fluere pro viribus aegri, dein post 8.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then the dialogue sort of poofed out once more, and we stood eating cheese straws and cold eggs respectively in silence.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But this description of his limits was unjust and parsimonious: beyond the Oxus, he reduced to his obedience the cities of Bochara, Carizme, and Samarcand, and crushed each rebellious slave, or independent savage, who dared to resist.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Necessity makes it usual for almost every man to be so, and custom everywhere regulates fashion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Both design and stitch are clearly enough represented in the sub joined figure for further explanation to be unnecessary.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

A very scarce and curious engraving, representing the interior of a brothel.
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

From here, then, from this humble remote 305 place, came the man, the poet, Jorge de Montemor—or Montemayor as he came to be called—who set all cultured Europe running again after the preposterous pastoral romances of lovelorn shepherds and shepherdesses, which had been forgotten since the eclogues and bucolics of classical Italy had been voted old-fashioned.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

A bugle sounded in the square, and Cristoval exclaimed, rising, "Officers' call!
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

"But the sun shining forth, on a sudden there grew Such a change, every ripple seemed laughing and glad, Such a dazzling and glancing of golden and blue, I wondered it e'er could seem slumbering or sad.
— from Baron Bruno; Or, The Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

For those who are well and strong, and can enjoy roughing it, constantly knocking about in a small schooner from island to island, with often nothing to eat except cocoa-nuts and yams, the life is not intolerable; but for those who are delicate, and not able to bear without suffering these conditions, it is indeed a very hard life.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

There were 6 rows of needles in the needle board, and the point of each needle was cranked as shown at C ; each row of holes for the needles in the needle board, or face-plate, stood between 2 rows of hooks: the first 3 needles were connected with 1 row of hooks and the second 3 with the next row, the cranks of the first and second set of needles being turned in the opposite direction so as to enable them to fall in with the rows of hooks.
— from Jacquard Weaving and Designing by T. F. Bell

Soon all colonies except Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania were royal provinces, with governors nominated by the Crown.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

Moreover, they preserved the most valuable social conquests of the Revolution, such as civil equality, religious toleration, equality of inheritance, emancipation of serfs, freedom of land, legal arrest, and trial by jury.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes