Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

110 – Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave – Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts …

111 – Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes – Hushed like a breathless lyre

112 – Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew – Kingdoms melt away like snow

113 – Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant – Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs

114 – Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away – Like sweet thoughts in a dream

115 – Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power – Lovely the land unknown…

116 – Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay – Quivering like an eager race-horse to start

117 – Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… – Swifter than the twinkling of an eye

118 – Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… – The music almost died away…

119 – Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife – Then the lover sighing like furnace