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Updated: June 19, 2025
And I ground gently and sit in the silvered shadows with little bewildered shrimps flicking against me, and unlanguaged thoughts come and go impossible similes, too poignant phrases to be stopped and fettered with words, and I am neither scientist nor man nor naked organism, but just mind. With the coming of silence I look around and again consciously take in the scene.
The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent, deploying charge; the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition; the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters. Similes arise; the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder."
There goes an auto boat darting through a swarm of sail boats like a bird through fluttering butterflies. It is a glorious view from here!" "It makes the Rhine look like counterfeit money," asserted Chilvers, whose similes usually are grotesque. "Any time you hear an American raving over the wonderful scenery of Europe you can place a bet that he has never seen that of his own country."
He gives us the shape, the color, the sound, the smell, the taste; he counts the numbers; he measures the size. His similes are the illustrations of a traveller.
Little by little therefore, together with the carnal desires of Provençals and Sicilians, the Tuscan poets put behind them those little coquetries of style and manner, complications of metre and rhythm learned and fantastic as a woman's plaited and braided hair; those metaphors and similes, like bright flowers or shining golden ribbons dropped from the lady's bosom and head and eagerly snatched by the lover, which we still find, curiously transformed and scented with the rosemary and thyme of country lanes, in the peasant poetry of modern Tuscany.
Involuntarily his hand started for his pocket for the coin. Then it stopped, and the light in his eyes was troubled. "Go on," she ordered sharply. "Don't delay, or I may change my mind, and you will lose the chance." "Little woman." His similes were humorous, but there was no humor in their meaning. His thought was as solemn as his voice.
"Were you ever at Biggleswade, my dear sir?" "To be sure I have," said Mr Bang. "Then did you ever see an eel pot, with the water drawn off, when the snake like fish were twining, and twisting, and crawling, like Brobdignag maggots, in living knots, a horrible and disgusting mass of living abomination, amidst the filthy slime at the bottom?" "Ach have done, Tom hang your similes.
Stevenson's similes, instead of illustrating concrete things by others less concrete, often reverse the process, as in the following: "The isle at this hour, with its smooth floor of sand, the pillared roof overhead and the pendant illumination of the lamps, wore an air of unreality, like a deserted theater or a public garden at midnight."
Besides this, they adopted without moderation the similes of the southern languages, and employed them most extravagantly. In the same way they transferred the stately deportment of the prince-like citizens of Rome to the learned German small-town officers, and were at home nowhere, least of all with themselves.
Robin Hood vindicates his vocation, and in a noble speech on freedom deriving his similes from the giant oak tree, as Tennyson has ever loved to do declares himself the friend of the poor and the servant of the king; the absent Richard of the Lion Heart, for whose return all good men are eager.
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