It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind.

Freedom is akin to the rarified air of a mountain top. Weak men cannot bear one or the other.

Pity is akin to love.

The process of artistic creation isn't necessarily akin to factory production.

The structure of alien life would be fascinating to discover. Would the foundation be akin to Terran DNA and RNA, or be totally different?

A good translator is one who, akin to a worm, can squirm with delight around in the author's brain mass, and leave through the tongue to have its taste impressions confirmed, and then leave well-formed traces on paper line after line, sheet after sheet, until the last page is done — and he once again returns to his former self, and as a member of the smallest and least respected low-salary group, signs up yet again to exert his effort for God's representative on earth, the publishers.

The greatest good is akin to water.

For children, poverty is akin to a punishment for a crime that they have never committed.

It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for her.

In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.