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However, directly the officer brought back the spirited message of the Princess Irene to the Governor of the Castle, his mind underwent a change. "What," he asked, "sayst thou the woman is akin to the Emperor Constantine?" "Such is her claim, my Lord, and she looks it." "Is she old?" "Young, my Lord not more than twenty." Mahommed addressed the Governor: "Stay thou here.
And even though he shrank from her, her advent brought back to him a yearning wistfulness; it awakened and half-appeased a sense akin to home-sickness. In that moment he would have liked to fly to her how much had she stood for in his life!
The drama, therefore, is akin to the epic, in that it must represent a struggle; but it is more akin to the novel, in that it deals with human character in its individual, rather than its communal, aspects.
The soft feminine beauty of these young Paduans, with their dainty dress and pretty girlish ways, was something akin to the sleepy grace of young lions. Watch that group at the corner waxing hot over some wrong done to the leaders of their party some one of their political heroes arrested and cast into prison for uttering the thoughts of all just men.
"Edna Earl, your stubborn will makes you nearly akin to those gigantic fuci which are said to grow and flourish as submarine forests in the stormy channel of Terra del Fuego, where they shake their heads defiantly, always trembling, always triumphing, in the fierce lashing of waves that wear away rocks.
"When I saw the Oriole," she wrote to me, "from his nest among the plum-trees in the garden, sail over the air and high above the Gothic arches of the elm, a stream of flashing light, or watched him swinging silently on pendent twigs, I did not dream how near akin we were.
Seen in the pale brilliance of sky and water her loveliness had an almost unearthly quality, perfectly akin to the night, but giving her a strange effect of soft remoteness from her friends.
In the philosophy of the Brahmanic period, the transition is made from the service of gods external to man, by the mechanism of rites, to the acknowledgment of a divine being with whom man feels himself to be inwardly akin and to whom he draws near by his own spiritual effort.
Why don't you drop over occasionally, and approach the matter gradually? It wouldn't take long to work up to the point." "But how shall I begin? I guess you'll have to give me lessons." "Oh, make her think you are very lonely. Pity is akin to love, you know." "But she knows well enough I'm mighty lonely at times. That won't do."
He will but rebuke our wavering purposes of obedience, if He is no more than our pattern. Thank God, He is more, even our Fountain of Power, from Whom we can draw life akin to, because derived from, His own.
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