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Florence is as completely out of my control as " he paused for a simile "as the sunshine. I missed my opportunity with her when she was young. She has always had her own way, and she will have it now. It is the same as when she decided to come to town. She controls me, not I her." Blair settled back in his chair. The mask of impassivity dropped back over his face, not again to lift.
The other table had seven baked chickens, ham sandwiches, cakes and coffee lots of all. At half-past twelve we saw the white caps bobbing at the gate, and sent Simile down to meet them. He was dressed in a dark coat and lavalava and white shirt, and looked very swagger indeed.
At least, to keep within the bounds of the artistic simile, the members of the Hebrew people were regarded as first-proof copies, and other men as somewhat dim and less perfect duplicates. In the Christian religion a new idea was introduced. The belief in the worth of man was founded on the doctrine of redemption.
Yet once we were on the level, or once we ceased our very real exertions for a second or so, the difficulty left us, and we breathed as easily as in the lower altitudes. The air itself was of a quality impossible to describe to you unless you have traveled in the high countries. I know it is trite to say that it had the exhilaration of wine, yet I can find no better simile.
Blocks of this clay, fallen upon the beach, and wet with every flowing wave, lay glistening in the sunlight and looking like "Castile soap, mamma," suggested the Baron, as Mysie was describing the scene in his presence, and hesitated for a simile.
All the cedars in Lebanon wouldn't smell as good at this moment as this nice ham-ey coffee-y frizzle," Claire declared one Friday evening as she served the meal on red-hot plates, and glowed with delight at her own sleight of hand. "Don't you admire eggs for looking so small, when they possess such powers of expansion? All the result of beating. Might make a simile out of that, mightn't you?"
Since the end of the first act, the manager had been in a state of mental upheaval. Reverting to the gold-mine simile again, Mr Goble was in the position of a man who has had a chance of purchasing such a mine and now, learning too late of the discovery of the reef, is feeling the truth of the poet's dictum that of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these "It might have been."
"I am sure this humble roof has never before sheltered such a lion as Captain Blake Grange, V.C." "Only an ass in a lion's skin, my dear Daisy," said Grange modestly. She laughed. "An excellent simile, my worthy cousin. I wish I had thought of it myself." She went lightly away with this thrust, and Grange, after a brief pause, turned slowly back into the room.
Periods may aptly be compared to buttons; and button holes are like 'I could find no simile for button holes, and thank heaven! left off in despair and never wrote another line. 'Take my advice, Trevor; quit all thoughts of so joyless and stupifying a trade!
That sudden, wonderful glory which had fallen on the earth and sea had smitten me as well and changed me; and I was like some needy homeless tramp who has found a shilling piece, and, even while he is gloating over it, all at once sees a great treasure before him glittering gold in heaps, and all rarest sparkling gems, more than he can gather up. But it is a poor simile.
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