How To Use Simile In A Sentence

But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
A little in this way -- but these similes are very imperfect, and will not bear close application -- the sap rises in a tree, stealing up branch by branch; and it is then called _ascending sap_. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
(Original lineation is evident, of course, in the facsimile images.) Annotated Text
The word telefax, short for telefacsimile, for "make a copy at a distance", is also used as a synonym. Blogpulse Top Links
She found instead that the Vegas wedding chapels, "with their wishing wells and stained-glass paper windows and their artificial bouvardia," were in fact selling "'niceness,' the facsimile of proper ritual, to children who do not know how else to find it. The Wedding Merchants

This effect was most obvious in classrooms that had incorporated telecommunications activities, but other classes used technologies such as satellite broadcasts, telefacsimiles, and the telephone to help bring in outside resources.
But side by side with that history of inflation from the infinitesimal to the immense is another development, the change year by year from the shabby impecuniosity of the Camden Town lodging to the lavish munificence of the Crest Hill marble staircase and my aunt's golden bed, the bed that was facsimiled from Fontainebleau. Tono Bungay
All art is but facsimile of nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to entertain is mimicry.
Delrina says it will exploit the signal processing capabilities that some facsimile modem manufactures are just beginning to build into their products.
Nurse Jamieson had got on a favourite topic, and would have expatiated long enough, for she was a professed admirer of masculine beauty, but there was something which displeased the boy in her last simile; so he cut the conversation short, by asking whether she knew exactly how much money his grandfather had left with Dr. Gray for his maintenance. The Surgeon's Daughter
I've been working really hard on improving my metaphors and similes and the like.
Material that once had to be slowly printed out on a telefacsimile or even received through the mail with a paid subscription to a service is now quickly available on the Web.
No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's elliptical logic and weird similes.
(i.e. the pradhâna); we deny this, because (the term alluded to) refers to what is contained in the simile of the body (i.e. the body itself); and (that the text) shows. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
This sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit is a thinly veiled facsimile of the first film.
Every time a metaphor or simile is used, the author has inserted himself into the novel and given a personal assessment aside from the direct relation of the action. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Ara 13, part one
This a facsimile edition of an eighteenth century book.
I don't imagine them scratching for similes or phrasing and rephrasing until each sentence sings.
He said he was disappointed not only when Funny Cide did not win but also because the tote tickets had changed from stock paper to a thinner facsimile machine-style paper that fades rapidly.
Aside: I'm aware that saying a metaphor is like a endoscopic is a simile. Are you missing anything like a metaphor?
Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can obtain admission to the Bannatine Club, 13 when I propose to throw off an edition, limited according to the rules of that erudite Society, with a facsimile of the manuscript, emblazonry of the family arms surrounded by their quartering, and a handsome disclamation of family pride, with HAEC NOS NOVIMUS ESSE Chronicles of the Canongate
And he didn't apologize, it wasn't beautiful language, it wasn't all metaphors and similes and onomatopoeia, and it wasn't, you know, packed with symbolism that you had to analyze.
Tutto all 'intorno del muro vi erano degli scaffali quali si vedono ordinariamente negli archivi ad altezza d' uomo, e nel mezzo della stanza v 'era un altro scaffale simile o tavola per tenervi scritture, e tale da potervi girare intorno. The Care of Books
As part of the bicentenary celebrations the Society is producing a facsimile of the Naval Gold Medal for Trafalgar, awarded posthumously to the hero of the Senior Service.
This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques.
The score's facsimile will be officially presented and played by clavichordist Florian Birsak on Friday, it said. Mozart piano score discovered in Salzburg
The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
Soon came the facsimile machine, and if there was not a machine at diocesan headquarters in Kenya, Ghana, or South Africa, there usually was one not far away.
Of reboant whirlwinds;’ and to the question, ‘Why not believe, then?’ we have as answer a simile of the sea, which cannot slumber like a mountain tarn, or Alfred Tennyson
She accepted the offer by return facsimile the same day.
Modern edited texts, he argues, posit a kind of authorial intention which did not exist for many of the writers whose plays are preserved in print, while facsimiles hypostatize one printed copy of a play as ‘the play.’
At the end of the preface, Carpenter denies any attempt to have reproduced the text in a facsimile transcription.
But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
We would run through the text looking for Australian spelling, any Australian slang and sayings, and other ‘Australianisms’ including Australian-specific metaphors or similes.
The Industrial Commission may adopt procedures for filing by telefacsimile transmission in other instances.
Tragelapho similes vel centauris, sursum homines, deorsum equi. Anatomy of Melancholy
For example: Life like a razor can shave you clean Or it cuts in a moment to leave you to bleed Not too bad a simile (I guess), but it's lead off for the song Fly High seems a bit too stark -- I continually find myself chagrining my last battle with the morning razor, and missing the next 15 or so seconds of the song. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
That particular simile is interesting since it seems they had some kind of Hawaiian themed party during this episode that ended up on the cutting room floor. Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 10, "There's A Pattern Here"
By using irony, similes, and symbols, to name a few, Crane ‘paints’ a vivid picture of what life was like for the fragile Henry Fleming.
In 1993, any reasonable facsimile of civilization would have had me committing indecencies with the bus station tarmac.
Systems of this kind are referred to as telefacsimile systems in present-day parlance.
Some vendors are expected to build devices that add facsimile and telephone capabilities, while others offer speech processing capability.
He failed to find a suitable simile, and his attempt to bluster petered out. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
I refer to your facsimile on 12 December and on 26 November I have sent you by facsimile a letter the proposed amendments of grounds in relation to the above matters.
I doubt I have ever read a novel with so many extravagantly nonsensical similes and rococo metaphors.
The smaller companion volume includes more than 100 black-and-white images along with facsimiles of Fay's journals.
Chapman's "fourteener" and reminding the reader frequently of Chapman's large, vigorous manner, his compound epithets and spacious Homeric similes. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Literary devices such as similes and personification are introduced.
Although there is no use of metaphors or similes, there are beautiful descriptions in this book.
A copy of the letter sent by facsimile transmission is enclosed herewith for your information.
Divorcing it of its context would strip away much of that heady period glamour to produce a diluted facsimile - even with slavish adherence to the original scripts.
There was a facsimile of the manuscript on my shelves. The Times Literary Supplement
This article mainly studies the V-FAX facsimile machine the data acquisition module.
Quis non vidit et amavit? veterem et novam vidi Romam, sed tibi similem non vidi Panareta; felix qui Panareta fruitur, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
Her style is rich in simile.
Especially the appropriate use of simile skill in image element can be considered as his specialty of painting in flowers and birds.
These Rules introduce provisions for the filing of documents by telefacsimile transmission and introduce a multi-class system of application.
Originally it was called a facsimile machine because it allowed one person to send another a copy, or facsimile, of a document.
No copies, facsimiles or mechanical reproductions of entry materials will be accepted.
Mad Madge carries coloured and black and white photographs in 16 pages and a facsimile of a love letter that Margaret wrote to William in 1645.
Una volta capito il problema mi sono sentita molto, molto meglio - a parte l'ira funesta nei confronti della loro incompetenza, almeno era un problema obiettivo con una soluzione semplice - a differenza, per esempio, del tipo seduto accanto a me che aveva un nome simile a quello di una lista dei sospettati dell'FBI e non aveva idea di come si sarebbe risolta la sua situazione. The return of the emigrant, Part III: The ugly
Being live performances, these are real facsimiles of how I recall Ferrier sounding in performance.
That is to say, a facsimile, a carbon copy, a wisp of a ghost of a shadow of a bagel.
ICT equipment is defined as computers and peripherals; telephones and telephone apparatus, facsimile equipment, and routers, etc.; electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus; and computer software. New Report: Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers 2004 « ResourceShelf
Those earliest facsimiles, or "faxes," were transmitted via telegraph wires. NPR Topics: News
For those interested in extinct species, I've just published a non-facsimile reprint of Symington Grieve's The Great Auk, or Garefowl. Archive 2007-02-01
All those who did not respond were contacted by telephone, and the questionnaire was facsimiled a second time.
This was hardly what John wanted; but, not to be beaten, he facsimiled the master's freehand in a sort of engraver's stipple, which his habitual neatness helped him to do in perfection. The Life of John Ruskin
Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Humor hic niger aliquando praeter modum calefactus, et alias refrigeratus evadit: nam recentibus carbonibus ei quid simile accidit, qui durante flamma pellucidissime candent, ea extincta prorsus nigrescunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
Simile, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche have the same characteristic that is metaphoric use.
They send a chart daily to mariners by high-frequency radio facsimile and over the Internet.
We were both very anxious about the facsimiled letter, and when, after long preliminaries, the Commission came to the Times witnesses, I well remember the dismay with which I heard the first day of Mr. Macdonald's examination. Writer's Recollections
Nor can any reconstructed, facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant.
This papyrus is a facsimile copy of the only surviving thing from the ancient library.
Experience the magic of Mentalism through this virtual simile that uses blogs and photo galleries to connect people's minds and thoughts in an innovative way.
Laurel Ptak, the woman behind iheartphotograph, a personal friend, old Gawker photographer and the curator of the exhibit In Real Life, is attempting to "assemble the world's largest archive of photographs transmitted via telefacsimile" today until 4 pm. Gawker
The glimpses the little bent, old sextoness got of the young folks, the sense of life going on about her, were as good as a play, to quote her own simile, confided of an evening to Tobias, her great black cat, the only other inmate of the old cottage. The S. W. F. Club
Allowing for some degree of facetiousness on Andrew's part, he is otherwise highlighting the assumption that "good writing" consists essentially of deploying figurative language -- in this instance specifically a simile: "was wet like ..." -- in strategically chosen flourishes as a way to "describe. Style in Fiction
E' stato carino conoscere un po di persone nuove, e tutti erano molto simpatici e facili da parlare e di mentalita' simile, ed e' stata una serata piacevole. Riding the wave. Or something like that.
Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.
The cowpoke's folksy simile became ‘as high as an elephant's eye.’
At the end are bound in 7 smaller leaves of paper on which Kirkpatrick (?) has carefully facsimiled alphabets and abbreviations, and arranged the latter in alphabetical order. Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857
In those early books, the poems feel like perfectly calibrated contraptions of metaphor and simile.
When she finally flips over to the darkside and channels gravely voiced barmaids (or a close facsimile thereof), the call goes out for a preacher who will drive Beelzebub and his bilious body odors away.
The resolution of the facsimile at high magnification is not clear enough to see the detail of the incipits, but it is fascinating to discover more about this shadowy publication.
This hefty softcover is a facsimile collection of thousands of exotic and sensational photographs dating from around the turn of the century when news of any sort from far away lands was rare. Boing Boing: December 18, 2005 - December 24, 2005 Archives
I do not have specific instructions in relation to the facsimile.
Peter answers by the simile of an eggshell, which is cunningly made, yet of necessity to be broken; so is the world, &c. that the excellent state of heaven might be made manifest. Anatomy of Melancholy
Bardic verse was part of an oral tradition defined by strict metrical patterns, combining original narrative with stock formulaic phrases, elaborate similes and extended digressions.
The simile is appropriate if the reference is to the aurochs or wild ox, because they had huge, long horns.
From Devoto-Oli, Dizionario della Lingua Italiana: Cassazione = Composizione strumentale simile alla serenata e al divertiment, diffusa in Germania nel tardo Settecento. Languagehat.com: CASSATION.
Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in Æthiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Over the course of a traumatizing month on switchback trails and swaying log bridges, Mr. Adams hardens into a reasonable facsimile of a competent day hiker, though not a mountaineer. In a Lost City, Finding Yourself
Despite its feetlessness, however, its pathetic podalic privation, this roast turkey-or jumbo facsimile thereof-was moving down the highway at sixty-five miles an hour, traveling faster, farther on its back than many aspiring actresses. Skinny Legs and All
Examples of consumer electronics include, but are not limited to, computers, printers, copiers, telefacsimiles, VCRs, stereos, televisions, and telecommunication devices.
Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.
In the meantime, the Vicar also wanted a _facsimile_ of his hayfield, as it looked when the haymakers were among the tedded grass, or under the Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
But since the invention of carbon paper and, still more, the photocopier and the telefacsimile machine, that purpose has largely gone.
Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
A creative synthesis of imagery and symbol, simile and metaphor - ideal vehicles for the accommodative range of the stream of consciousness narrative mode - helps to unfold the character, plot and the denouement.
a simile has at least two layers of meaning
En conclusion, voici quelques exemples de mots « ennemis » que vous devez apprendre correctement pour ne pas les confondre et les assimiler aux mots de votre propre langue : Faux amis
Non enim dissimile est miraculum nescienti cur sanis corporibus his quidem dulcia illis uero amara conueniant, cur aegri etiam quidam lenibus quidam uero acribus adiuuentur? The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
During restoration, pages were photographed and a facsimile produced.
I didn't need to extend myself very far to see the aptness of the simile - the frill could be the white chuti that frames the Kathakali dancer's face and the changing colours akin to the dancer's colours.
A facsimile edition of the Black Book was published by the Imperial War Museum in London in 1989.
This ersatz-Elizabethan mock-up, approximating to some incomplete and sketchy idea of the original, provides an anodyne facsimile of Elizabethan experience, from which the roughness, stench, and hazard have been removed.
I learned a few valuable lessons working on that show: a facsimile intends to deceive legally, an unacknowledged facsimile can easily become a forgery, and an undetected forgery is an original. Introduction
Neruda's incredible use of metaphor, simile and synecdoche, among other poetic techniques, frequently confronts the reader unprepared, jolted by the sudden flash of creative spontaneity.
The lines 'She walks in beauty, like the night...' from Byron's poem contain a simile.
On this afternoon he was wearing a check shirt and rather tight jeans, his feet were in calf-length leather boots and he had a reasonable facsimile of Wyatt Earp's 10-gallon hat on his head.
Metaphor and simile are the most commonly used figures of speech in everyday language.
A bouquet or two of the choicest blossoms fell on the unperturbed head of one Mr. Graves, a stony young assistant he usually carried about with him; with a second nosegay he gifted another young gentleman in his train - an interesting fac - simile of himself, being, indeed, his own son; but the full corbeille of blushing bloom fell to the lot of meddling womankind, en masse. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
A large portion of the splendid photographs were taken by experts for the author and appear here for the first time ” some in color; they are supplemented by the extraordinary drawings of Barbara Boehrs done in a kind of pointillist technique which greatly reduces the distortions of earlier "facsimiles. Dim Beginnings
Older editors had emended "checks" to "chart," thus losing the homely simile. Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda
As an accident-prone person, I must say that I have never seen blood "shimmer" no matter which way the simile is arranged. Think before you write.
We were both very anxious about the facsimiled letter, and when, after long preliminaries, the Commission came to the _Times_ witnesses, I well remember the dismay with which I heard the first day of Mr. Macdonald's examination. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2
In the meantime we attach a duly authorised copy of your facsimile dated 6th October 2000, which can now be included in the aforementioned Sub-Contract Agreement.
So the flaring grandeur gathers, and in one of the most illogical but nevertheless satisfying descriptions, he makes another parallel simile and with the stretching effect of an enjambment, reaches out to crush. God’s Grandeur « Unknowing
Indeed, as Gould points out, the digital facsimiles of basic human activities "chatting," "befriending," even "poking" oftentimes seem poised to outmode the actual physical acts on which they were originally modeled! Harvard University Press Publicity Blog :
Have you used words that are too familiar, worn-out similes, too many abstract nouns?
By using metaphors and similes you allow the readers to associate their own experiences, memories, or connotations.
The business centre has full secretarial and administrative services Internet access, photocopying, full colour laser printing, a facsimile service and couriers.
In our ever shrinking world where journeys that once took days or weeks now takes hours, where we can communicate with people virtually anywhere in the world via e-mail or facsimile, the idea that we should all fortify ourselves in our racially exclusive laagers is ridiculous. Is That Legal?: Fundraising Through Falsehood at VDare.com
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor.
His intimates noticed that he would reecho a story -- a simile or a tag -- and so neatly apply it that it seemed fresh on the second use. The Lincoln Story Book
A brochure handed to guests includes a facsimile of the original menu. Times, Sunday Times
The power of the metaphor, simile, parallel... figurative language is not only a good way to put things into perspective, but metaphors are easier to remember than a complex set of interactions.
Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in Æthiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
No metaphor was left unmastered, no simile unsung. Times, Sunday Times
So Thebes becomes Themes, Zeus becomes Sooth (as in soothsayer) and Semele becomes Simile. Archive 2008-06-01
'prays in aid of similes,' -- that this is a specimen of what he calls elsewhere 'allusive' writing. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
The description is literal, concrete and concise, rarely using metaphors or similes to extend the image.
The legislation will apply to electronic messages including email, text messages, and instant messages but not to facsimile messages and voice calls.
Fielding's own benefit, as appears from the curious ticket attributed to Hogarth and facsimiled by A.M. Ireland, took place on April 25, but we have no record of the amount of his gains. Fielding
Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.
But often and often in the after years I have thought of Indaba-zimbi and his beautiful simile and gathered comfort from it. Allan's Wife
A long horn projects from the snout, and it is a fac-simile in miniature of the antediluvian monster, the "iguanodon," who was about a hundred feet long and twelve feet thick -- an awkward creature to meet in a narrow road. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
The gallery's small back room contained only a framed facsimile of a letter written in 1837 by Ramohan Roy, a Europhile reformist.
Nam omne aequale aequali aequale est et simile simili simile est et idem ei quod est idem idem est; et similis est relatio in trinitate patris ad filium et utriusque ad spiritum sanctum ut eius quod est idem ad id quod est idem. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
This echoes the earlier reference to the Juitel in Honorius Augustodunensis's Speculum ecclesiae (beginning of the twelfth century), PL 172.852; Wolter, no. 8, p. 43: "videbatur Judaeo puerulo quod puerum illi picto similem populo divideret." back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The word telefax, short for telefacsimile, for "make a copy at a distance", is also used as a synonym. Blogpulse Top Links
Rom. similes a. bacculorum calculis, secundum computantis arbitrium, modo aerei sunt, modo aurei; ad nutum regis nunc beati sunt nunc miseri. Anatomy of Melancholy
We thrive on metaphors and similes, and we place ourselves within contexts of known stories and mythologies.
Have you used words that are too familiar, worn-out similes, too many abstract nouns?
Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language.
Neither the personal computer nor the facsimile machine took off like a rocket. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING
MI JESU! exclamat, vel quid simile; ac subito respiciens nec hostem nec ullum alium conspicit, equum solum gravissimo nuper casu afflictum, per summam pacem in rivo fluvii pascentem. Marmion
The electronic medium enables them to include a large array of images, including facsimiles of original documents with transcriptions.
Personal communications, such as a telephone conversation between two people or a facsimile (fax) message, usually involve point-to-point transmission.
But experience had long since proved the delusiveness of the simile. The Custom of the Country
We've made armoring yourself for the untamed outback - or a reasonable facsimile - a much less anxious process.
The facsimile faithfully reproduces the manuscript score in its original form in three volumes, each half-bound in leather with gilt impressions on the spine.
Our teacher was using the ocean as a simile for the mind: the ocean was rough and choppy on the surface, she said, but silent and still at its vast depths.
From the given facts we know Wen had facsimiled a letter to Jo revoking his offer before Jo received the letter and replied to it.
In a performance that enacts a recent history of data compression and transmission techniques, I Heart Photograph will attempt to assemble the world's largest archive of photographs transmitted via telefacsimile. Gawker
The use Owen makes of such an idea is, apparently, supposed to show what makes it impossible to say, as a matter of doctrine, whether the Roman communion aka the Catholic Church is a communio of true churches or only a facsimile thereof. Archive 2007-11-01
It is told in the high formal style, filled with rhetorical speeches, invocations, elaborate similes, and long ‘catalogues’ of names, places, and armies.
It is possible to send text messages and telefacsimiles directly from a textphone via the Relay Service for Text Telephony.
Cut adjectives, adverbs, similes and metaphors which do not shed light or develop the narrative voice.
He writes in order to answer a bibliographic question: is a given facsimile accurate enough to be useful?
Attat, illic huc iturust. ibo ego illi obviam, neque ego huc hominem hodie ad aedis has sinam umquam accedere; quando imago est huius in me, certum est hominem eludere. et enim vero quoniam formam cepi huius in med et statum, decet et facta moresque huius habere me similes item, itaque me malum esse oportet, callidum, astutum admodum atque hunc, telo suo sibi, malitia a foribus pellere. sed quid illuc est? caelum aspectat. observabo quam rem agat. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
What great and painstaking effort was encompassed in its composition only one can know even partly who has been privileged to "peep behind the scenes" at the "properties of the literary _histrio_" -- the manuscript notes and memoranda, a few of which accompany this volume in facsimile. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
The lines 'She walks in beauty, like the night...' from Byron's poem contain a simile.
A brochure handed to guests includes a facsimile of the original menu. Times, Sunday Times
Telex and facsimile could make way for latest high-tech global communications network.
Like Pound's ‘In A Station of the Metro,’ Piombino uses juxtaposition rather than simile and metaphor; schools are never said to be machines or directly like machines.
Ecce vero septem vaccae aliae ascendebant post eas tenues, et turpes forma valde, et tenues carne: non vidi similes illis in tota terra Aegypti in turpitudine. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
He imitated Homer not only in metre but also in features of style: the use of identifying epithets and stylized repetition, for instance, and the positioning of powerful, self-standing, similes at key points in the narrative.
Blunt axe cleaves the air like any other axe; the simile is literally meaningless. Superversive: Website update
The simile is grotesque; but Amedee is the most henlike waiter in The Guest of Quesnay
Metaphor and simile are the most commonly used figures of speech in everyday language.
Sometimes, rather than going to the trouble of printing a facsimile of an existing book, he used the original edition itself by purchasing a number of copies and altering each of them by hand.
‘The books in this program are printed as facsimiles of the last edition,’ says John Walsh, production manager at the press.
It's all better than the show with the 5 posh advertising bints who are catty at each other in order to win a pointless facsimile of a boring man in marketing simply because he is loaded.
When people see how many decades you played this game taking their hard earned treasure; and in complicit roles with those who bankrupted and undermined the full faith and credit of the public’s treasury; and (more importantly) its good will in the social contract of government, we’ll see a reckoning the likes of which tars and feathers share no simile. On confidential sources « BuzzMachine
But what makes the corporation's decision so much worse is that it is an exact facsimile of a previous blunder.
Because of its close connection with metaphor, simile may also be considered here.
Surely, given time, he will be able to track down the apartment where your facsimile machine is located, thus exposing us. CORMORANT
Thirty pages are reproduced in facsimile with gold leaf.
The monuments of Rome were not of marble in the times of the republic, and this sarcophagus being cut out of a block of the volcanic _peperino_, so common in the Campagna, the author had his model made of the same material, with the inscription cut in rude characters round the margin; that is to say, such part of it as had been preserved, so that it is a perfect fac-simile. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
The entire paragraph, like this opening sentence, is much like a poem in its awareness of sound and rhythm, in its dependence upon simile and metaphor to imply a relationship among memory, writing, and music.
They are great figures of speech as worthy as simile, metaphor, ellipsis, alliteration, polysyndeton, syndoche of part or whole and a hundred others that we use every day. Conversing With the Right
The cowpoke's folksy simile became ‘as high as an elephant's eye.’
There was a facsimile of the manuscript on my shelves. The Times Literary Supplement
Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency.
If a page is torn, it can be repaired, or if a piece of it is missing, it can be facsimiled, and the whole of the inside of the volume can be washed throughout. The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
'Si quod vere natura nobis dedit spectaculum in hac tellure vere gratum et philosopho dignum, id semel, mihi contigisse arbitror, cum ex celsissimâ rupe speculabundus ad oram maris mediterranei, hinc aequor caeruleum, illinc tractus Alpinos prospexi, nihil quidem magis dispar aut dissimile nec in suo genere magis egregium et singulare.' [ The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in 苩hiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
This hypertext is a diplomatic facsimile of the first edition of Mary Robinson's Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, published in Introduction and Note on the Texts
In response to my post on idiomatic similes for superfluity and uselessness in German and English, several people emailed to draw my attention to common expressions such as ‘as useless as a chocolate teapot’ or ‘as a chocolate fireguard’.
The new ‘39th Reunion’ edition, unfortunately, does not do the original justice, surrounding a facsimile of the 1971 softcover with a pointless hardcover and carelessly designed front and back matter.
If receipt of delivery by telefacsimile is after 5: 00 P.M., service will be deemed to have been completed on the next business day.
When we are done, we will have a purer English, free of all nasty things like metaphor and simile and aestheticism and colour.
Those seeking a true diplomatic edition/transcription should consult the facsimile editions by Zupitza and by Kiernan et al.
That she as well as Pound edited The Waste Land became apparent when the facsimile edition was published in 1971.
The simile is appropriate; glass is a super-cooled liquid - solid, yet molecularly amorphous.
The simile, though a currish one, will hold good in its application to the human race. Saint Ronan's Well
A fine art facsimile edition of one of the greatest medieval illuminated manuscripts in existence is published by the British Library, in association with Faksimile Verlag Luzern, on 23 March 2007. March 2007

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