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T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surr...

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They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi...

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Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle the...

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He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

It seemed my wholelife was composed of these disjointedfractions of time, hanging around in onepubli...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...

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The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, ...

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The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp...

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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jell...

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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant wit...

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It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...

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An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

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Nicholas SparksA Walk to Remember

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...

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Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than...

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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a dol...

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view...

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He's like a drug for you, Bella.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...

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Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was li...

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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed an...

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Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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ThiruvalluvarHoly Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a cr...

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It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting...

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Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll...

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We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer...

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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.