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These remarkable pits commence with a trumpet-shaped orifice which immediately contracts into a narrow shaft, broadening at the bottom into a bulb-like chamber, not unremotely resembling in shape the tube and bulb of a thermometer.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.

Her father is one of the illustrious Pasargadæ, and her ancestors were not unremotely connected with the princes of Media.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

There is an excellent story told of James Guthrie’s family worship in the manse of Stirling, that bears not unremotely on the matter we have now on hand. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander

Incidentally it may be mentioned that the late Amir of Utah does not unremotely resemble His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan, whom these fortunate eyes have seen.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard