Wind-ruffled water
A lot of dipping and splashing in water in this beautiful book, by otters at play or as prey, and...
The chill of indifference
Philip is a sensitive and admirable character in George Eliot's classic novel, who devotedly loves Maggie Tulliver. He is hampered...
Plucking chickens in Australia
One of the inventive elements of Logue’s metaphors is the way he mixes up eras, blithely planting a country called...
Boughs uplifting
A novel simile for a gentle breeze soughing the branches until they rise and fall like waves.Â
There was...
Wide as the wind
Another pithy metaphor that deserves to enter daily use: 'as wide as the wind'. Â So, let me wish you this:...
The rustling wind
A se is a 25 stringed instrument like a zither, so I like the doubling up of this character to...
As hard as …
I like this simile for an implacable nature, though in this case, let us mention that Poyser is only implacable...
Wind like liquid glass
An astonishingly limpid description of the clarity a wind pours over a landscape.
'For two days and two nights the...
Sea-drenched wind
I re-discover this triologism as we emerge from days of rain-drenched wind, waking up to a lush-verdant garden and landscape.  ...
Wind-borne portent
May you be spared all but the most benign of wind-borne portents. Here a northern image of skaters scattered as...
The coming of the simoom
This lovely word, which echoes its opposite, a monsoon, refers to a soughingly dry desert wind. Yet another superb simile...
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