Of wine-blue water
The first time I read of the wine-blue Greek sea, I was baffled. However, I took a second translation to...
Frivolity folly
This describes pretty Hetty utterly unprepared, and incapable of becoming prepared, for mature, meaningful relationships. It's also an early intimation...
As timid as…
A memorable and graphic (if unsympathetic) way to convey timidity and fearfulness. You can see a cowering dog, skitting about...
Sticking like a burr
I've heard people describe someone as sticking like glue, or like Velcro, and burrs were the original inspiration for this...
Wrung from the soul
Maggie Tulliver is a deep-feeling woman of painful sincerity, and here words are wrung from her, with a wrenching simile.
...As wriggly as…
Such a friendly word for a sinuous path, and so the likening to a piece of thread fallen on a carpet...
On being learned
Dorothea is the more studious of two sisters and marries an older bookish chap, to the consternation of her relatives....
Dull as suet pudding
A charming alternative to ‘dull as ditchwater’.  I also like the last affirmative sentence.
“Your brother is...
As fast as…
You can see the greased lightening serpent-slither whiplash-speed over slippery tiles.
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As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
Boughs uplifting
A novel simile for a gentle breeze soughing the branches until they rise and fall like waves.Â
There was...
Of sound and silence
A startling description of silence, likened to emulsified sound.Â
Silence, after all, is only sound in emulsion.Â
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