to like of

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), v. i.
   1. To be pleased; to choose.
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            He may either go or stay, as he best likes. --Locke.
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   2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to
      be (in a specified condition). [Obs.]
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            You like well, and bear your years very well.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape
      narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had
      like, under {Like}, a. [Colloq.]
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            He probably got his death, as he liked to have done
            two years ago, by viewing the troops for the
            expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
                                                  --Walpole.
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   {To like of}, to be pleased with. [Obs.] --Massinger.
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