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| Bright as an opening rose fresh with dew. | 1 |
| Choleric as fire. | 2 |
| Clumsy as a vine-press. | 3 |
| Cold as the world’s heart. | 4 |
| Common as dirt. | 5 |
| Constant as the sun. | 6 |
| Crack and bounce like parched peas. | 7 |
| Dead as mutton. | 8 |
| Easy as shelling peas. | 9 |
| Eyes glittering like basilisks. | 10 |
| Her eye worked like an ice gimlet in her daughter’s face. | 11 |
| Fled, as fogs disperse before the god of day. | 12 |
| Frank as the day. | 13 |
| Embraced her tenderly but furtively like a feather curling round a lovely head, caressing yet scarce touching. | 14 |
| Eyes furtively, like a guilty person. | 15 |
| Gleeful as the Evil One a-counting of his imps. | 16 |
| Eye glittered like rattlesnake’s. | 17 |
| Genius glittered like the gloriola of a saint. | 18 |
| Gloomy and dogged like a dangerous maniac in his cell. | 19 |
| Her white forehead glowed like a rose. | 20 |
| Hearty … like a trombone thoroughly impregnated with cheerful views of life. | 21 |
| Hoarse as a raven. | 22 |
| Hollow as a drum. | 23 |
| Howling like savage creatures grazed by death. | 24 |
| Indifferent as the moon. | 25 |
| Joyfully as the shepherd bears a strayed lamb to the fold. | 26 |
| Laughter like a chime of bells. | 27 |
| Gave her a look like red lightning. | 28 |
| Motionless, like a bereaved creature. | 29 |
| Mouthed, like a chawbacon. | 30 |
| Nodded her head like a mandarin. | 31 |
| As noisy as a hen with one chicken. | 32 |
| Nonsense—like swimming on a carpet. | 33 |
| Pale like those to whom dead Lazarus burst the tomb. | 34 |
| Parted like a stone from a sling. | 35 |
| Rare as a play that does not yawn you, or a woman that does not deceive you. | 36 |
| She was like a fading plant revived by showers of rain. | 37 |
| Safe as in bed. | 38 |
| Shook … like cold jelly. | 39 |
| Sick at heart as the mouse, that the cat lets go a little way, and then darts and replaces. | 40 |
| Slow as lawyers mount to heaven. | 41 |
| Smooth as velvet. | 42 |
| Sound as iron. | 43 |
| Spasms are like waves, they cannot go down the very moment the wind of trouble is lulled. | 44 |
| Stiff like a soldier on parade. | 45 |
| Teeth like ivory mixed with pearl. | 46 |
| Fibres tense like a greyhound’s sinews after a race. | 47 |
| Tottered away like a corpse set moving. | 48 |
| Twirling like a top. | 49 |
| Unpitied as fossils in a rock. | 50 |
| Upright as a tower. | 51 |
| White as the living cheek opposed. | 52 |
| Writhed like a worm on a hook. | 53 |
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