exact likeness
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What she is after is not an exact likeness "like the right kind of nose, but rather, character resemblance."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness."
From Time Magazine Archive
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In her face is my exact likeness; I see my own hair, cheeks, and nose, all mirrored in miniature.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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The monarch was angry; but Apelles told him the truth, and appeased his wrath by sketching on the wall the exact likeness of the servant who had carried the invitation to him.
From A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
No description, however complete, could convey to my mind an exact likeness of a tune or an harmony, which I have never heard; and still less of a scent, which I have never smelt.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry