Holmes looked at him thoughtfully like a master chess-player who meditates his crowning move
All day Tarzan followed Kulonga, hovering above him in the trees like some malign spirit
The unhappy Hook was as impotent as he was damp, and he fell forward like a cut flower
The girls meantime spread the table, set the children round the fire, and fed them like so many hungry birds
It was Françoise, motionless and erect, framed in the small doorway of the corridor like the statue of a saint in its niche
Eugene divines her meaning at once: his face whitens like steel in a furnace that cannot melt it
The boats seemed like a phantom net floating there to mark something which had sunk
By this time Scarlett was boiling, ready to rear like a horse at the touch of a strange rough hand on its bridle
I had no choice but to hobble like an off-balance giraffe on my one flat, one four-inch heel arrangement
Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate
The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean
Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa
His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires
A long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair
Getting an education was like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on
The men, like shooting stars, slid from the deck, while Ahab, not so rapidly, was dropped from his perch
Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees-my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-a source of little visible delight
The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand
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