Word: likened
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...Liken to you that may displese...
...House of Commons, it was the first budget speech that Edward VIII has missed in years. Every visitors' gallery was jammed with Britain's swankest. With one eye cocked at the clock the Chancellor of the Exchequer began to talk. One generality followed another. "Perhaps I may liken this budget," said he, "to the uncertain glory of an April day." (Haw! Haw! in the galleries...
...wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand the gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel of the Communist Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially the dictatorship of the Party, as the force which effectively guides...
Ther may nothing, so God my soule save, liken to yow that may displesen me. Which may be translated roughly as, "Nothing that pleases you displeases...
...more violently, and then once more. "For half a minute the earth seemed to go mad," said a British survivor. "Boughs of trees, normally many feet from the ground, swept the earth. Birds fell from their nests. The moon danced crazily in the sky. The roar I can liken only to the sound of 20 express trains...