Peaches rolling together
A delicate and charming way to convey mutual attraction. It sounds so soft, so harmless and so sweet, yet it...
Silence seated with a finger to its lips
A sinister silence this, not an absence of sound, but an agent in its own right.
'The silence sat down...
As worried as …
I admit that I had to find the mythological reference to understand Erasmus' simile for looking anxious.Â
Yet only...
As vindictive as…
Apologies to all camels if this sullies your good character, but I liked the simile and had fun finding a...
Bright and blinking
An alliterative description of a bone-like beacon.
'The bright eye of the light-house standing like a bleached bone at the...
Firsthtly…
The chef is a Rabelasian character oozing excess, and none too likeable. The birth of Titus, 77th Earl of Gormenghast,...
Voices like the smell of cooking
You can hear the insistent but indefinite sound of speech penetrating the flimsy walls of a badly built tenement like...
Of husk and nut
Lisbeth, Adam Bede's mother, is both proud and jealous when she senses her son slipping away from her, and she...
Worrying like a butter churn
You've surely spent moments and even nights of your life in mind-churning worry, as described here by a women who...
Heat as strong as a curse
Leigh Fermor finds many ways to convey the unforgiving heat and light of the sun in the...
Vague but unmistakable
A perfectly horrific way to intimate the dreadful anticipation of a mortal enemy. Here Flay realizes, when the hated Chef...
As insensible as …
Of course, we can't know (yet) how insensible a fungus is, but until we learn otherwise, what a memorable way...
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