Of billows and surges
A finely tumultuous image for turbulent and mixed emotions.
'Till morning dawned I was tossed on the buoyant but unquiet...
Like sardine from a tin
This horrifyingly vivid image is made more painful by its casual tone, with a boy likened to a sardine.
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Shields like clinkered hulls
A marvelous description of the helots’ tightly held, flexible and impregnable shield wall, like the scales of a fish, or...
Inseparable as fingers
Yes, the fingers were inseparable for a while, but not united. This is a hand spread wide open with some...
A pretty primrose
Such an original way to convey heart-stopping loveliness, physical that is. One of the twists of the story is that...
Music in the inside room
One of the most touching aspects of this novel is the young girl Mick’s reaction to music she has never...
As powerless as …
Bronte has a wonderful range of simile and metaphor, here demonstrated in powerlessness being likened to stubble thrown into a...
Towering insult
Gormenghast is a vast, sprawling town of a castle, which seems to have spread organically. Here one of its towers...
As slim and blithe as…
Here's Orlando fast forwarding to imagine how his blithe, slim darling might appear at 40. I liked 'slim as a...
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