As quick as …
This deserves to enter daily usage: 'As quick as thinking'.
Source: JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit (London: HarperCollins, 1995), p. 67
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Like a recovered joy
What a beautiful notion, a recovered joy, and as a description for the reappearance of the sun's warmth! It reminds...
Petrified sea
A fine image of mountains appearing like rearing waves petrified in mid air.Â
... the mountains that...
On illusory madness
A fine description of Mervyn Peake's balance between bounding imagination and taut writing, rounded off with a vintage metaphor.
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As poor as…
Never thought of rats as being poor, but I like the simile, more compelling than the standard 'as poor as...
Rolling like …
A stone? A wheel? No, Faludy goes one better, and I was lucky to find a roll-able coin stamped with...
Like frost and flowers
An alternative alliteration for describing people as being like chalk and cheese. Â Feel free to use it to inject some...
A rolling boulder
Nanny Slagg meets an old man of the Dwellers, the humble people who live limpet-like on the outer walls of...
The wave foreseen
A magnificent image of a proud and then crashing wave, thundering up a shaken coast, and used to signify the...
Of a heart dancing
A marvellous simile for the effect of a woman's movements on a man's heart. I take it to mean her...
As quiet as…
Elsewhere Logue uses light as the simile for silence – ‘as quiet as air’ – but I also loved this...
Like sunlight on a landscape
You can see an overcast English landscape of rolling hills and fields, and a sudden break in the clouds pierced...
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