The historic parallels were much discussed here, as elsewhere.

There appear to be historic parallels between the Avestan ahuranis and the RigVedic varunanis, the "wives of Varuna."

As a calamity it had no historic parallel.

There are many historic parallels.

"The lack of job growth, the shrinking of Corporate America, the drying up of construction funds - there are just no historic parallels to draw on."

"I did chuckle and see a possible historic parallel," he said recently, referring to Mr. Morris's anecdote about Roosevelt and Platt.

The internal struggle in the Freedom Party has rough historic parallels with the Röhm-Putsch.

Perhaps inevitably, the 31-year-old student of Presidents sees a number of historic parallels to recent events.

The elaborate tortures of this story have no historic parallels in the activity of the Spanish Inquisition in any century, let alone the nineteenth.

The historic parallel is encouraging.