They spoke of gifts still more akin to the Divine nature, of gifts not merely physical, but spiritual and eternal.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Whence it came, those dazed and startled people knew not; they regarded it, as their descendants have regarded it, with baffled mystified terror; later, with reverence, gratitude, and a feeling akin to awe.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But his women are no less living and no less distinctive than his men; and he sinks his individuality at all times enough to interest us in the characters which are not akin to his own as much as in those which are.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr