"The likes of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... withal every calamity save Death is no calamity at all; so be thou of long-suffering, O my child, for the compensation of patience is upon Allah; and indeed this that hath happened to thee hath happened unto many the likes of thee, and know thou that Fate is effectual and Sort is sealed. Hast thou not heard the words of the poet ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... is to stop away if they're wishful, hindered or no. Long sorry I'd be to have people disthressin' themselves streelin' after me." And she added, rather inconsistently, the remark already mentioned: "But the likes of this place I never witnessed. You might as well be livin' at the bottom of the blackest ould boghoule there, for e'er a chance you have to be seein' ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... with a flash of his white teeth, "it seems they make these rooms uncommon small and narrow, for the likes of you and me—your pardon." And so, with a tap, tap, of his high, red-heeled shoes, he crossed to the door, descended the steps, turned up the street, and ...
— The Honourable Mr. Tawnish • Jeffery Farnol
... how graceful and innocent and amiable and well-bred the natives—and what beautiful prayers we sing, and what lovely gavottes and minuets we dance—and how tenderly we make love—and what funny tricks we play! and how handsome and well dressed and kind we all are—and the likes of you, how welcome! Thirty years is soon over, Barty, Barty! Bel Mazetto! Ha, ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... to be wasting me time listening to the likes of you,' ses the whale. 'If any of me family saw me now, I'd never ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
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