It is my opinion, that these animals, while they continue in the state of larvae, respire water and not air; and that they inspire the water, not by the mask, but by their posterior part, through which also they discharge it.

to bring a thing into comparison with another;  there is no comparison between them

For three weeks she lay on her bed of death ; and one morning, being still in the same brain-cloud, still wondering why her husband did not come to her . . .

When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.