He treats her like she was dirt.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

Donna was like he was.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was like hitting a sack of salt.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

There was no valley like this on your map.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;

It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

As he declaimed the sonorous measures, it was as much as Claire could do to restrain herself from bursting out with her dramatic tidings.

He rejoined Paul when he was in Macedon, and cheered him with the tidings he brought from Corinth.

Verily, Allah gives you the glad tidings of a Word-and he was!

“ And that Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom, has been demonstrated fully by what has been said .” Then I repeated once more all that I had previously quoted from Exodus, about the vision in the bush, and the naming of Joshua ( Jesus ), and continued: “ And do not suppose, sirs, that I am speaking superfluously when I repeat these words frequently: but it is because I know that some wish to anticipate these remarks, and to say that the power sent from the Father of all which appeared to Moses, or to Abraham, or to Jacob, is called an Angel because He came to men ( for by Him the commands of the Father have been proclaimed to men ); is called Glory, because He appears in a vision sometimes that cannot be borne ; is called a Man, and a human being, because He appears arrayed in such forms as the Father pleases ; and they call Him the Word, because He carries tidings from the Father to men: but maintain that this power is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, just as they say that the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable from the sun in the heavens ; as when it sinks, the light sinks along with it ; so the Father, when He chooses, say they, causes His power to spring forth, and when He chooses, He makes it return to Himself.

It was on a sick bed at Naples that Innocent IV heard of Manfred's victory at Foggia against the Papal forces: the tidings are said to have precipitated his death on 7 December 1254 in Naples.

There was no need to record messages, he held, since his messengers stood under penalty of death should they bear inaccurate tidings.

On the occasion of the revolt of Absalom he remained faithful to David, and was of service to him in conveying to him tidings of the proceedings of Absalom in Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

He was swift of foot, and was the first to carry to David tidings of the defeat of Absalom, although he refrained, from delicacy of feeling, from telling him of his death ( 2 Sam.

In the present-day Valencian Community, the saying: Quan el mal ve d ' Almansa, a tots alcança (" Evil tidings spare no one when they come from Almansa ", or, more literally, " When the wrong comes from Almansa, it reaches everybody " ( Compare English: " It's an ill wind that blows no good ") recalls this defeat, since one of the side effects of this defeat was the suppression of the autonomy of the Kingdom of Valencia within the Spanish Habsburg monarchy.

Their original purpose was to give your faraway friends and relatives tidings of yourself and your immediate family.

Mary had withdrawn into the Temple, where she was visited by the angel Gabriel ( Arabic: Jibrail ) to give the glad tidings of a holy son.

When after eight years Dor-lómin was cut off and tidings from Morwen and Nienor ceased, Túrin decided to put his strength against Morgoth's forces, hoping to avenge thus the sorrows of his kin.

Mamre, in the biblical account, was the site where Abraham came to set up his tents to camp, built an altar, and was brought divine tidings, in the guise of three angels, of Sarah's pregnancy, while elsewhere it is called ' the Terebinths of Mamre the Amorite '.

Ahmad published a book called The Heavenly Decree, in which he challenged his opponents to a " spiritual duel " in which the question of whether someone was a Muslim or not would be settled by God based on the four criteria laid out in the Qur ' an, namely, that a perfect believer will frequently receive glad tidings from God, that he will be given awareness about hidden matters and events of the future from God, that most of his prayers will be fulfilled and that he will exceed others in understanding novel finer points, subtleties and deeper meanings of the Qur ' an.

" and blowing the sangu ( a conch ), a custom practiced during the festival to announce it was going to be a year blessed with good tidings.

That spring had brought the good news that Klaus was alive and in Switzerland after a period working for the French resistance, and the grim tidings that Wolfgang was dead, having committed suicide five years earlier.

The new khedive was so displeased by the news of his accession that he soundly boxed the ears of the servant who first brought the tidings to him.

" ( 6 ) was told, " O Zechariah, indeed We give you good tidings of a boy whose name will be John.

At first it was possible for the paper to carry a photograph of each of the local boys who had signed up and it was only in October 1914 that it carried tidings of the first death of a local in the war – namely that of Lieutenant J. R. Shippey.

After her death, it was said that she became a wandering voice that still brought to the ears of men tidings of the future wrapped in dark riddles.