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| Adhere like ticks to a sheep’s back. | 1 |
| Backward like the long wash of a wave. | 2 |
| Came from all sides like conspirators from a wood in a tragedy. | 3 |
| Clear … as spring water in the high rocks. | 4 |
| Clung … like ivy to a tree. | 5 |
| Complexion like a pink rose’s. | 6 |
| Cruel as the sun. | 7 |
| Dance up and down, like a bear asking for supper. | 8 |
| Deadly as a night frost. | 9 |
| Dull as a mud-flat. | 10 |
| Eyes frosty blue, like a winter sea that is made bright, not warm, by the sun. | 11 |
| Eyes like a hare’s, that look sideways for danger. | 12 |
| Eyes like stars, robed in dull red. | 13 |
| Eyebrows like curved snow-drifts. | 14 |
| Face like a flame. | 15 |
| Grunting like some pounded animal. | 16 |
| Hair like weed. | 17 |
| An old lady with a jaw like a flat-iron. | 18 |
| Kneeling … like a painted lady on an altar tomb. | 19 |
| Set as lightly as a mouse-trap. | 20 |
| Love rushed through him as a river in flood. | 21 |
| Lived maddeningly, like a man who has a drumming in his ear. | 22 |
| As no two pots will boil alike, so with men; they seethe in trouble with a difference. | 23 |
| Meandered … like a lazy brook among water-meadows. | 24 |
| Meek as any baby. | 25 |
| Motionless, like a woman of wax. | 26 |
| Patient as death. | 27 |
| Pious as a virgin enclosed. | 28 |
| Rages … like a leopard caged. | 29 |
| Rage like a thirst. | 30 |
| Dry red, like old blood. | 31 |
| Roaring like a foundered horse. | 32 |
| Ruthless as the sea. | 33 |
| Scatter like smoke. | 34 |
| Shuddered like a man in a fever. | 35 |
| Sleek as a cat. | 36 |
| Snapped up—like a steel gin. | 37 |
| Snarled like an old dog. | 38 |
| Solemn as a dying nun. | 39 |
| Stiff as a pointer’s tail. | 40 |
| Surely as a blind man is pulled by his dog into the butcher’s shop. | 41 |
| Swayed like a pole in the tideway. | 42 |
| Sweating like a porous pitcher. | 43 |
| Swooped into the fray like a sea-eagle into a school of mackerel in a shallow. | 44 |
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