He is, as it were, a grown up baby.

He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

It is, as it were, a life and death problem.

He became, as it were, a kind of hero from a strange land.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, three-dimensional representations of his four-dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

This being accomplished, they returned to their sheep and goats, which they found lying on the ground neither browsing nor bleating but worried, as it were, by the absence of their keepers.

Tom lived in a dream world. Often, as it were, only his body was among us, while his mind was quite somewhere else.

Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharaoh, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.