I still think of him, as I thought of him then, as of a diamond, that could encounter steel and come off with never an angle blunted nor a facet scratched; and if he in turn likens me to the handle in which that graver is set, and even to some extent to the guiding power, I pass that, thinking it as graceful to accept a compliment as to pay one.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
Now, it is to be observed that Shakespeare not infrequently refers to kings as suns, and likens them to gods.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
His poetic consciousness is like the very stage to which he likens all the world: men and women meet there, and things happen there.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry