resembling
/ɹɪˈzɛmblɪŋ/ noun B2- The action of the verb to resemble.
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“Look!” said Faria, showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long, and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting-brush, to the end of which was tied, by a piece of thread, one of those cartilages of which the abbé had before spoken to Dantès; it was pointed, and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen.
"It could not have been someone resembling him?"
Even Pitcher’s face relaxed into something resembling animation.
Faria, with an air of triumph, offered the paper to Dantès, who this time read the following words, traced with an ink of a reddish color resembling rust:
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