Anton Chekhov Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Anton Chekhov


Absurd as if you took a divorce petition to a chemist’s.	1
Blink my eyes like a whacked donkey.	2
The earth, like a fallen woman sitting in her dark chamber and trying to forget the past, seemed tormented with remembrances of the spring and summer, and waited in apathy the inexorable winter.	3
Hideous as a skeleton.	4
Ugly as a worn-out cabhorse.	5
Useless extra, like a sixth finger.	6
Hungry as the winter.	7