Mastiff-like tenacity
Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...
Raven-like croaks
Williamson's lovingly accurate study of otters includes many examples of the playfulness of these animals, be it with each other,...
Of merry audacious jays
Two fine metaphors here, describing the nature and the cry of jays, though the first of these is by now...
Whippering
'... the whippering cries of golden plover.'
This seems to be a Williamson coinage to describe the cry of a...
Sucking at stones
Swelter is one of the less attractive characters in Mervyn Peake's sprawling, crawling, mossy pile of forgotten granite, Gormenghast. He...
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