Sample Similes

from

As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes

by Elyse and Mike Sommer





A pure white mist crept over the water like breath upon a mirror --- A. J. Cronin


His eyes skewed round to meet yours and then cannoned off again like a pool-ball. --- Sean Virgo


The smile of a man with a terminal headache. --- T. Coraghessan Boyle


Her white silk robe flowed over her like a milk shower. --- Harold Adams


A desolate, cratered face, sooty with care like an abandoned mining town. --- Joseph Heller


Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night. --- Sherwood Anderson


... felt like a deer stepping out before the rifle of a hunter. ---Piers Anthony


Eerie as a man carving his own epitaph. --- William McIlvanney





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