sentence,combination,root,modifier,property,human_label_majority "Then Im thinking himself will stop along with you when he sees you taking on, for itll be a long nighttime with great darkness, and Im after feeling a kind of fellow above in the furzy ditch, groaning wicked like a maddening dog, the way its good cause you have, maybe, to be fearing now.","a maddening dog,",dog,madden,friendly,canceled "He became bigger than the personnel of the case, as big as the woman in the dock.",the woman in the dock,woman,dock,secure,canceled "If you're get this uncomfortable about washing a cucumber, then you're sexuality is about as brittle as uncooked pasta.",uncooked pasta,pasta,uncooked,soft,canceled ,an orchard without fruit,orchard,fruit,harvest season,canceled The romantic part of his life was as dead as the foliage in winter.,the foliage in winter,foliage,winter,photosynthetic,canceled I protect my game as jealously as an English squire.,an English squire,squire,english,write,canceled "Just then, out of the roots of the grass beneath it, crept a tiny dusty black beetle and began drinking the drop, waving its little horns up and down like donkey's ears, apparently very much pleased at its good fortune in finding water and having a good drink in such a dry, thirsty place.",donkey's ears,ear,donkey,intelligent,canceled Hans asks her if she finds him ugly and she replies that he is not nearly as ugly as a broken promise.,a broken promise,promise,broken,reliable,canceled "The fight against piracy is as stupid as the fight against narcotics, no wait, excuse me, the war against narcotics, i guess ya can put another loss on your war talley.",the fight against narcotics,fight,narcotic,narcotic,canceled "For a moment only, the boat seemed to pause like a chip on the brink of an angry waterfall, and then, carried upon the crest of the new torrent, it shot forward like a rock falling.",a rock falling,rock,fall,steady,canceled "The Peruvian officer then realized for the first time that he had appeared in his night clothes, and his one fault being his vanity, he became as humble as a reprimanded child when he appreciated what a sorry figure he had cut.",a reprimanded child,child,reprimand,curious,canceled "Your face was as red as a setting sun, and you were full of experiencesa fulness that did not in the slightest impair your appetite.",a setting sun,sun,set,hot,canceled "The ice looks green, purple, and blue instead of white like the rest of the glacier.",the rest of the glacier,rest,glaci,relax,canceled "They had all glinted together in the sunshine, wheeling together, sinking together, rising together like an army of fairies.",an army of fairies,army,fairies,disciplined,canceled They were as cheery as soldiers on furlough.,soldiers on furlough,soldier,furlough,dangerous,canceled "second bag , swing it sidearm like david 's slingshot , sighting goliath .",david 's slingshot,slingshot,david,smart,canceled "the little coffee shop had an outside kiosk during the warmer months , so i was assigned to it since it did n't get quite as busy as the shop inside the campus .",the shop inside the campus,shop,campus,spacious,canceled The meat is then laid in flat and packed tightly like plugs of tobacco.,plugs of tobacco,plug,tobacco,connectable,canceled "She might have breathed a little faster if she had known that the two doors through which she had entered, and which had closed so silently and surely after her, were as soundproof as six feet of earth.",six feet of earth,foot,earth,spherical,canceled "great , he 'd seen me tear into here like a bunny on fire . ",a bunny on fire,bunny,fire,fluffy,canceled jack cops and guns went together like cops and donuts .,cops and donuts,cop,donut,protective,canceled "Losers on Reddit are just like shitty journalists, taking words from peoples mouths and twisting them until they're a parody of what they once where.",shitty journalists,journalist,shitty,communicative,canceled "107 The Vendidd relates how after that Auramazda had created sixteen perfect localities upon earth, Ahrimanes came after like the sower of tares, and did what in him lay to spoil the paradises, by introducing all sorts of noxious animals and other abominations, such as the practice of burning the dead body or giving it to the water.",the sower of tares,sower,tare,weight,canceled "But if he would slink away like a whipped mongrel when a stranger hits him, the sooner he is beaten to death the better.",a whipped mongrel,mongrel,whip,crack,canceled that 's almost as good as a knee to the groin . '',a knee to the groin,knee,groin,hinge,canceled "said old Jim, poking his head from the garretwindow of the kitchen, and looking as sour as a persimmon before frost.",a persimmon before frost,persimmon,frost,ripe,canceled "its about as quiet as a tiptoeing cannonball , id say .",a tiptoeing cannonball,cannonball,tiptoe,fast,canceled "He runs through this list, it's almost like a country song.",a country song,song,country,sovereign,canceled Bill Tompkins of The Battle Creek Enquirer and News wrote that local viewers found WZZM about as elusive as a flying saucer.,a flying saucer,saucer,fly,shallow,canceled "Oh, no, my life is very real it is as real as light to darkness, it is absolute prose.'",light to darkness,light,darkness,bright,canceled And also it's almost like stream of consciousness.,stream of consciousness,stream,consciousness,clear,canceled Just as predictable as shitty drivers is the power going out and staying out and my satellite dish icing over damn you DirecTv!,shitty drivers,driver,shitty,alert,canceled all my joints felt frozen stiff like a rusted bolt .,a rusted bolt,bolt,rusted,fasten,canceled "Up, Reinold, and after it, that we may send it home like a plucked goose.",a plucked goose,goose,pluck,fly,canceled "If you're get this uncomfortable about washing a cucumber, then you're sexuality is about as brittle as uncooked pasta.",uncooked pasta,pasta,uncooked,easy,canceled "Not finding the thing that he wanted, Unto Hedleywood he did trot, He was tost like a dog in a blanket, Oer Coquet and back in the boat All Framlington fields he sought over, And from spot to spot he did run, For fear the grass chanced to cover His pad, as it once did Tom Thumb.",a dog in a blanket,dog,blanket,fast,canceled "rage shot through me , but it was as explosive as a wet fuse .",a wet fuse,fuse,wet,flammable,canceled "More like pee on khakis, then act like washing hands so people don't think it is pee.",pee on khakis,pee,khakis,comfortable,canceled But I know nothing about motorcycles so my opinion is probably as useful as a gun with zero bullets.,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullet,lethal,canceled the sap ran from the scalding hole and dripped steadily like blood onto the ground .,blood onto the ground,blood,ground,solid,canceled "Remote in the eternal calm they glittered hard and cold above the uproar of the earth they surrounded the vanquished and tormented ship on all sides more pitiless than the eyes of a triumphant mob, and as unapproachable as the hearts of men.",the hearts of men,heart,man,curious,canceled "In effect, the reason I came out is it was like kind of like a slap on the wrist.",a slap on the wrist,slap,wrist,forceful,canceled Boldness is therefore here only like a spring held down until its action is required.,a spring held down,spring,hold,graspable,canceled "It was not long before they came to a cat sitting in the road, looking as dismal as three wet days.",three wet days,day,wet,bright,canceled "It was simply necessary to drop the shell into the gun, at the bottom of which was a striker, and the rest was automatic and almost noiseless, the shock of discharge being rather like a polite cough.",a polite cough,cough,polite,symptomatic,canceled ,a fish on a hook,fish,hook,Swim,canceled "You forge these things prettily but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated cavalier, and had not one foot of land in all the world.",a decimated cavalier,cavalier,decimated,disdainful,canceled "Though you think I'm all nice, I'm the Devil's device, and my heart is as tough as a two dollar steak.",a two dollar steak,steak,dollar,valuable,canceled "Also, a study by Bonkovsky and Mehta reported that, just like shared needles, the sharing of straws used to snort cocaine can spread blood diseases such as Hepatitis C. The responsible user therefore acts to minimize the spread of bloodborne viruses such as hepatitis C and HIV in the wider community and reduce their own risk exposure to drugrelated harms.",shared needles,needle,share,divisible,canceled "Sometimes I think the trouble with that woman is that she's formed an appetite for borrowing, just like an appetite for drugs, you know.",an appetite for drugs,appetite,drugs,desire for food,canceled "The enormous quantity of the remains of animals present cannot fairly be estimated even by the large number preserved, because most of the bones were as soft as wet mortar.",wet mortar,mortar,wet,hard,canceled You can even pay as little as a couple dollars a month for 10 years if you wanted to.,a couple dollars,dollar,couple,bond,canceled ,a white fawn,fawn,white,brown,canceled That and we tend to stereotype people with Southern accents as not as bright as the rest of the country.,the rest of the country,rest,country,refresh,canceled "You were a rubber ball that I blew up when I let go of you, you fell together like an empty bag.",an empty bag,bag,empty,spacious,canceled "Then like cats on a mouse, they pounced.",cats on a mouse,cat,mouse,functional,canceled "He seems to have had in his thoughts the condition of a poor wandering sheep, that had left the flock and the rich pastures where it was wont to be led, ranging rather like a native of the woods, than one who had been used to be led, and fed, and protected by an owner.",a native of the woods,native,wood,solid,canceled I saw eyes as unkindly as stuffed fox 's .,stuffed fox 's,fox,stuff,agile,canceled That and we tend to stereotype people with Southern accents as not as bright as the rest of the country.,the rest of the country,rest,country,rejuvenate,canceled Fred Phelps has a whole family with grandchildren and a conservative christian movement but he is still as gay as a fruitcake without the cake,a fruitcake without the cake,fruitcake,cake,sweet,canceled ,an engine without coal,engine,coal,Combustion,canceled "It's just like a participation trophy, except you only get it if you do something wrong, in a situation where doing something wrong is inevitable.",a participation trophy,trophy,participation,active,canceled All resistance was swept away like chaff before the whirlwind.,chaff before the whirlwind,chaff,whirlwind,spiral,canceled Theyre out there walking up and down like two wooden men but they didnt see me get by.,two wooden men,men,wooden,mammalian,canceled "Council members at that time chose to take their responsibilities more seriously, met as frequently as two or three times per year, taking testimony from researchers and educational professionals, and even examined the operation of the labs and centers to learn if their services were of significant value to schools and educators.",two or three times per year,time,year,progressive,canceled "on the outside it looks a little like a sleeping mask , but the padding around the eyes and lower rim prevents any light from actually reaching her eyes once i put it on her , so that she 's now cast into complete darkness .",a sleeping mask,mask,sleeping,sweet,canceled "this fox and hound game would be a joke , it was more like the eagle and the worm , cowardly and woefully one sided .",the eagle and the worm,eagle,worm,high,canceled "I mean, it's possible, just like bread without gluten, but it should be made a crime against humanity.",bread without gluten,bread,gluten,gluten,canceled "and a strong shudder took possession of him, as uncontrollable as an ague fit.",an ague fit,fit,ague,well,canceled "The sun in the south, or else southly and west, Is joy to the hop, as a welcomed guest But wind in the north, or else northerly east, To the hop is as ill as a fray in a feast.",a fray in a feast,fray,feast,abundant,canceled "Yep that's the term she used and she was draped down a bookcase when she said it, trying to look as near as possible like a limp lily.",a limp lily,lily,limp,fragrant,canceled "They shrank back like jackals before the lion, their voices stilled.",jackals before the lion,jackal,lion,fierce,canceled "then a short series of pops , a fissuring crackle , peeled the fence back like a knife through flesh .",a knife through flesh,knife,flesh,muscular,canceled "This gentleman, convinced that a silvermine without silver is as rare as an effect without a cause, discovered the sparkle of the precious element deep down in the reasons of things.",an effect without a cause,effect,cause,cause,canceled It's really like a submarine in space.,a submarine in space,submarine,space,submersible,canceled "As for digging the rooms out, some times the matter is simply destroyed and recreated with minimal effort by the dungeon, other times its stored some where else like a pocket dimension and used later, you can even just compress the dirt and stone together breaking physics and call it dungeon stone most stories adventurers can not tunnel through the walls of a dungeon.",a pocket dimension,dimension,pocket,simple,canceled "But the machine is monstrous and unethical, kind of like a battery farm, and the poor human beings enmeshed in it are constantly suffering.",a battery farm,farm,battery,powerful,canceled "Pontius, its abbot, having fallen into ways of pride and extortion, had been induced from Rome to resign his abbacy, and to promise a pilgrimage to the Holy Land but soon afterwards he fell upon the monastery with an armed force, and ruled there like a robber chieftain.",a robber chieftain,chieftain,robber,revere,canceled "The porches, doors, and windowframes of the houses were of exotic woods, curiously carved, and polished like costly furniture.",costly furniture,furniture,costly,familiar,canceled "i do n't know how i stopped packing my sunglasses in my purse after doing so every single day in l.a. , but on paragon they are about as practical as a chariot on the freeway .",a chariot on the freeway,chariot,freeway,fast,canceled "I cant tell you how silly and small I have beenthinking men ought to be just like men in books, and never looking at what they really are.",men in books,man,book,readable,canceled "She was romantic, she was sentimental, she had a passion for little secrets and mysteriesa very innocent passion, for her secrets had hitherto always been as unpractical as addled eggs.",addled eggs,egg,addled,bewilder,canceled "Well, hes hiding for his life now like a wounded snipe and I guess he wouldnt be if you hadnt been so scared about your own respectability, Uncle Jim.",a wounded snipe,snipe,wound,quick,canceled "Enamels by the pliquejour method might be best described as translucent cloisonn enamels for they are similar to cloisonn, except that the ground upon which they are fired is removed, thus making them transparent like stained glass.",stained glass,glass,stain,discolor,canceled "But, as you may imagine, I was not as happy as a bear with honey.",a bear with honey,bear,honey,fierce,canceled "They're relatively safe, since if the engine goes out, it just floats back down like a maple seed.",a maple seed,seed,maple,wooden,canceled "to him , all is forgiven and it 's as good as water under the bridge .",water under the bridge,water,bridge,strong,canceled But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow.,a white crow,crow,white,black,canceled "I personally felt the last season was kinda weird the season finale the year before fore wrapped up everything nicely, the last season felt kinda like a weird epilogue.",a weird epilogue,epilogue,weird,conclusive,canceled open like a bad ventriloquist ?,a bad ventriloquist,ventriloquist,bad,convince,canceled Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?,the days of an hireling,day,hireling,bright,canceled "usually , a god with no believers was as powerful as a feather in a hurricane , but for some reason he 'd not been able to fathom he was able to function quite happily without them .",a feather in a hurricane,feather,hurricane,powerful,canceled "And just like coathanger abortions, you may lead them to attempt less safeless effective treatment, by making it illegal to find it.",coathanger abortions,abortion,coathanger,procedural,canceled "I felt as happy as the fish in the water, the bird in the air.",the fish in the water,fish,water,colorless,canceled ,non theists,theist,non,belief in god,canceled "But sometimes it happens that he is in too great a hurry to rise before I am settled in my place, and then I am flung back on to my head, for he lifts himself as quickly as a steel spring, first with the hind legs and then with the fore.",a steel spring,spring,steel,warm,canceled "even though we 're moving through what must be a vast network of tunnels , i feel just like a rat in a box .",a rat in a box,rat,box,quick,canceled "i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says .",a dying animal,animal,die,six,canceled I make sure to wiggle just a bit to get more comfortable but squeal like a stuck pig just to make sure whatever cape and cops are out there know he isn't bluffing.,a stuck pig,pig,stuck,intelligent,canceled "I haven't uploaded or posted any of the latest ones just because I can't seem to get rid of it it seems almost like a smudge on the lens, only it happens on whatever camera I use, no matter how much I clean it.",a smudge on the lens,smudge,lens,transparent,canceled ,a fake smile,smile,fake,Natural,canceled The life and movements of a sailor are usually as eccentric as the career of a comet.,the career of a comet,career,comet,important,canceled "Looking down upon the town of Hartlepool, the boys saw buildings crumple like houses of cards before a gale.",houses of cards,house,card,construct,canceled ,the teeth of a comb,tooth,comb,enamel,canceled "The letter may have the germ of life in it, but it has no breath of spring to evoke it winter seeds they are, as hard as the winters soil, as icy as the winters air, no thawing nor germinating by them.",the winters soil,soil,winter,organic,canceled "He sat on Bill Burr's armrest like a toy breed, eventually humiliating himself by sneezing directly into the pleat of Bill Burr's khakis.",a toy breed,breed,toy,colorful,canceled ,a villager under ice,villager,ice,community-oriented,canceled "It was not as delicate as the expensive kind, but it was very nice.",the expensive kind,kind,expensive,care,canceled "over the years he had become accustomed to hearing those words applied to him , sometimes mumbled , sometimes thrown into his face , and although they still often hurt , as much as sticks and stones despite what they say , he no longer automatically accepted their implicit accusation .",sticks and stones,stick,stone,flexible,canceled "Now, several of the books I mean can be got there, as easily as yellow novels, and can be got for the price of Punch they are so small you could have them in your pocket and get them read in odds and ends of time, outofdoors, so that you need not miss any expedition, or any fresh air, through staying in the house to study.",yellow novels,novel,yellow,long,canceled "But she could only sit there like a wooden woman, staring at the ground.",a wooden woman,woman,wooden,strong,canceled "Ye are deserting like runaway soldiers, turning renegades from God such is the language in which Paul taxes his readers.",runaway soldiers,soldier,runaway,brave,canceled "Still, a man cant be jumpin around like a cat in a bag.",a cat in a bag,cat,bag,agile,canceled "For, as to the evil spirits with whom his beloved Keatie was in conjunction, the idea had died away like a thing of the imagination, and he barely spent a thought upon it.",a thing of the imagination,thing,imagination,general,canceled but it will do so at a cost and it won't be as good as a larger sensor.,a larger sensor,sensor,large,small,canceled At first glance i thought it was weird because the three kneeling guys look kind of like snake people.,snake people,people,snake,social,canceled "though i was pleased that hed finally shut up , right now , the clever security guard was as about as useful as a paper condom .",a paper condom,condom,paper,flexible,canceled "To this every inducement prompted, the novelty of the acquisition of knowledge in many cases, the emulation of foreign wits, and of immortal works, the want and the expectation of such works among ourselves, the opportunity and encouragement afforded for their production by leisure and affluence and, above all, the insatiable desire of the mind to beget its own image, and to construct out of itself, and for the delight and admiration of the world and posterity, that excellence of which the idea exists hitherto only in its own breast, and the impression of which it would make as universal as the eye of heaven, the benefit as common as the air we breathe.",the eye of heaven,eye,heaven,vulnerable,canceled "Yes, as modest as a spring violet, sang out Step Hen but how about that President Cornelius Jasper Hawtree business?",a spring violet,violet,spring,coil,canceled "Yes, but he may be as thin as a tin horse before his owner comes.",a tin horse,horse,tin,fast,canceled "Now considering Earth exists I doubt life is as unlikely as a cube planet, but you get my point. ",a cube planet,planet,cube,spherical shape,canceled Social Security is sitting out there like the elephant on the table.,the elephant on the table,elephant,table,useful,canceled "I was no longer like a trussed fowl, and betook myself to rubbing my numbed limbs until finally the chilled blood was warmed and I was able to stand, and then, in a little, I gained strength to grope my way backwards and forwards in the cell as an exercise.",a trussed fowl,fowl,truss,wing,canceled "assistant principal mckenzie had questionable soul statusnot as obvious as the man on the street the night i met roth , but there 'd always been something about him that made me wary .",the man on the street,man,street,pave,canceled "he 'd wanted to get in his truck , start driving , find the bastard and mete out a little frontier justicebut there was the damn wedding to get through , so he 'd sat there like a beaten dog and driven the woman he lovedthe woman ellis had knocked upback home and watched her flee inside like the devil himself was after her .",a beaten dog,dog,beat,loyal,canceled But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow.,a white crow,crow,white,black,canceled "After so long a passage, with our port almost in sight, and our voyage nearly ended, to be compelled to remain longer in our close prison, and creep like a Wounded snake, dragging its slow length along, winding, day after day, through the sinuosities of this sluggish Mississippi, was enough to make us shipwearied wretches verily, To weep our spirits from our eyes.",a Wounded snake,snake,wound,quick,canceled he looks about as relaxed as a wound spring .,a wound spring,spring,wound,fresh,canceled "argument with him felt uncannily like clouts about the head , but i hadnt given up hopes to trump him in the end .",clouts about the head,clout,head,intelligent,canceled They crouch like whipped dogs!,whipped dogs,dog,whip,crack,canceled "The man's feet sank in the sand to his ankles, his back was bent like a drawn bow, his head was hidden between his shoulders, on his arms the muscles came out so that the skin almost burst from their pressure",a drawn bow,bow,draw,expressive,canceled ,"an army without a commander, or",army,commander,uniformed,canceled "COMMUNICATING VASES.Employ a tube of a large diameter terminate one of its extremities with a funnel, fashion the other like the neck of a bottle and bend the tube into the shape shewn by pl.",the neck of a bottle,neck,bottle,flexible,canceled "A dollie was the 4 wheeled thing you move really heavy printers on, kind of like a wagon with no handle.",a wagon with no handle,wagon,handle,handle,canceled "with a great roar of wind , the pole lurched down , wires whipping overhead like hungry snakes .",hungry snakes,snake,hungry,emptiness,canceled "Whence knowest thou if, when thy use is at an end as a vessel, he will not cast thee away like a broken plate?",a broken plate,plate,break,round,canceled Throughout his capture he had remained as mute as a trapped wolf.,a trapped wolf,wolf,trap,wild,canceled ,nails on a chalkboard,nail,chalkboard,Functional,canceled "The second one would have to be built kind of like a ship in the bottle to make it fit inside, which is not entirely practical. ",a ship in the bottle,ship,bottle,engine-powered or sail-driven,canceled youre about as interesting as a dogs urinal .,a dogs urinal,dog,urinal,loyal,canceled So like any game of telephone I bet these guys now think that urine cures everything like the Windex grandpa in Big Fat Greek Wedding lol.,any game of telephone,game,telephone,useful,canceled "most important , i did n't even care if ava malcolm was as crazy as a fly in a jar .",a fly in a jar,fly,jar,hollow,canceled Using literal darkness and light as tools for deconstruction is about as subtle as a train to the face.,a train to the face,train,face,symmetrical,canceled "Foreign ships stand as thick as the teeth of a comb, and in the streets wine shops and music halls front directly each on another.",the teeth of a comb,teeth,comb,enamel,canceled ,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,resistance,canceled "He was muffled to the heels in a long raincoat, the muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard like a spent runner.",a spent runner,runner,spend,fast,canceled "It's almost like polite smiles rather than, you know, real, robust, coming from your innersoul kind of a smile.",polite smiles,smile,polite,natural,canceled tears just flow out of his eyes uncontrollably like a broken faucet .,a broken faucet,faucet,broken,water,canceled "For the little firstyear minks wear dark coats, almost as fine as Russian sable.",Russian sable,sable,russian,cultural,canceled "The plain lay like brown dunes of sand, as for the grass, it grew as scant as hair in leprosy.",hair in leprosy,hair,leprosy,natural,canceled "Generally the people he's worked with so far have been pretty awesome at work, but occasionally I feel a little like the episode of friends when Rachel, Joey, and Phoebe explain to the others that they can't afford those nice restaurants and evenings out.",the episode of friends,episode,friend,care,canceled "Either you're hitting a server limit, in which case even the worst passwords will take decades or centuries to crack, or you're not and can send an arbitrary number of passwords and any humanrememberable password is about as secure as a plastic padlock.",a plastic padlock,padlock,plastic,hard,canceled "When Aunt Elizabeth returned Emily was lying on the sofa in the kitchen, as white as the pillow under her head, and as limp as a faded lily.",a faded lily,lily,fade,sweet,canceled "If you don't understand how important rifling is at 50 yards or how rust and projectiles don't get along, or even something as simple as dirt in the way no boom, I don't think you've ever opened up a gun yourself",dirt in the way,dirt,way,direct,canceled "If you dont get a catch for hours, its only like an angler without a nibble.",an angler without a nibble,angler,nibble,nibble,canceled just like loaded dice . '',loaded dice,dice,loaded,random,canceled people 's smiles seem as fake as the cardboard moons .,the cardboard moons,moon,cardboard,luminous,canceled "Tom had lost patience when he saw Paddy staggering like a bullock under an axe, and though I told him we could do nothing to help, he insisted we should at least be with the rest of the party.",a bullock under an axe,bullock,axe,strong,canceled "However, some scrapers are as big as hand axes.",hand axes,axis,hand,perpendicular,canceled "Wanting separation from Canada just for the heck of it and blindingly following the separatist movement without knowing anything about the implication of said decision is the problem, just like any uninformed decision.",any uninformed decision,decision,uninformed,consider,canceled ,hens ' teeth and,tooth,hen,enamel-coated,canceled "1973 ended just like the previous two years, with a defeat, a narrow points loss to Trevor Francis at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.",the previous two years,year,previous,long,canceled "Excellent they are, after their fashion, to be honoured and respected but something of the seriousness and the stolidity of their native land has entered into them, and to gayer, more frivolous moods they are as unsuited as a sermon to a ballroom.",a sermon to a ballroom,sermon,ballroom,spacious,canceled "The plate shivered, and Jeremy, after whimpering a little like a punished child, went outside also, got on his knees, and patiently gathered them together again, swinging his head with the pitiable and impotent vengeance of a child.",a punished child,child,punish,inquisitive,canceled "for the first few days , however , reginald was kind of like a vampire in reverse .",a vampire in reverse,vampire,reverse,scary,canceled "Thousands of languages can thus have been chattered successively on thousands of territorieslanguages lacking precision, essentially musical, a succession of phrases in which certain sounds only corresponded to realities but these sounds, in spite of their importance, in spite of their utilitarian and representative value, may be supposed to have been at first almost as fugitive as the rest of the speech.",the rest of the speech,rest,speech,refresh,canceled "only just turned twentythree , saqib had been as straight as an arrow growing up , never in trouble and never causing any .",an arrow growing up,arrow,grow,sharp,canceled But a caliph who openly denied the faith would be as impossible as an unbelieving pope.,an unbelieving pope,pope,unbelieve,influential,canceled "In the foregoing experiments with gases and vapours have employed throughout invisible rays, and found some of these bodies so impervious to radiant heat, that lengths of a few feet they intercept every ray as actually as a layer of pitch.",a layer of pitch,layer,pitch,thin,canceled "His poor mother had laid his absence to heart so much, that it had worn upon her, and his return was to her almost like life from the dead.",life from the dead,life,dead,lifeless,canceled "they taught her to skin squirrels , knee guys hard enough to rupture their testicles , and roll cigarettes as tight as ones in the store .",ones in the store,one,store,unique,canceled "She gave an angry snort, down went her ears, and next instant she was rushing forward like a mad thing.",a mad thing,thing,mad,real,canceled "That's sort of the carrot and stick argument, if you will, to dangle the name out there or dangle the idea of having another Supreme Court justice who is conservative, just like the president's base, but not fully moving forward as an inducement to get those voters to the polls.",the president's base,base,president,authoritative,canceled the racing wave is not as big as the lump in the road but it is adequate .,the lump in the road,lump,road,travel,canceled The roughneck farmer was in bad shape he was bloodied all over like a stuck pig.,a stuck pig,pig,stuck,cute,canceled It was almost like a dry hurricane.,a dry hurricane,hurricane,dry,very,canceled Socialism without democracy is as impossible as a shadow without light.,a shadow without light,shadow,light,illuminate,canceled I feel as low as ditch water.,ditch water,water,ditch,colorless,canceled "i surmise that the human soul is invisible , perhaps too light for my eyes to see , but the souls of beasts such as i are as black as tarnished silver .",tarnished silver,silver,tarnished,reflective,canceled you sound more like a mob lawyer .,a mob lawyer,lawyer,mob,crowd,canceled ,a run on a bank,run,bank,endurance,canceled ,castles in the air,castle,air,Stone,canceled Sometimes their garments were frozen stiff like coats of mail.,coats of mail,coat,mail,warm,canceled "His father says that he never plays, and understands everything just like a grown person.",a grown person,person,grow,develop,canceled You ought to see the children around the toys downtownswarming like flies at the molasses!,flies at the molasses,fly,molasse,quick,canceled "It is the sort of thing that Emerson and Lowell could say with rousing conviction, but twenty years ago it was as obsolete as a beaver hat except in newspaper editorials and political speeches, where it is still going strongeven if not quite so strong as it used to be.",a beaver hat,hat,beaver,diligent,canceled "Even though the mass of the sun be 26,000,000 times as great as the mass of the moon, yet when this number is divided by the cube of the relative value of the distances of the bodies 386, it is seen that the efficiency of the moon is more than twice as great as that of the sun.",the mass of the moon,mass,moon,spherical,canceled "It was not as delicate as the expensive kind, but it was very nice.",the expensive kind,kind,expensive,friendly,canceled "When I first chose this as a place to settle down I thought it was pretty damn perfect, or at least as good as a home without a roof could be.",a home without a roof,home,roof,cover,canceled "Why did you say ask at the end like you needed verification, because clearly you know what you're talking about cause they feel exactly like bags of sand",bags of sand,bag,sand,flexible,canceled "But, Jean objected, we're not in the least like people in a book.",people in a book,people,book,knowledgeable,canceled ,a clock without power,clock,power,Precision,canceled "Their supply of rations was of the most miserable kind, not even as good as prison fare.",prison fare,fare,prison,varied,canceled ,a dribble castle,castle,dribble,Wall,canceled "When I first chose this as a place to settle down I thought it was pretty damn perfect, or at least as good as a home without a roof could be.",a home without a roof,home,roof,safe,canceled "Hotman points out that while they may be a people without a king a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people .",a pastor without a flock,pastor,flock,collective,canceled "The staff is about as knowledgeable as an anchor out of water, and appear about as hygienic as tubgirl don't look that up.",an anchor out of water,anchor,water,important,canceled ,a white blackbird,blackbird,white,black,canceled "Lizzie, was such a love as mine to be thrown away like a used glove?",a used glove,glove,use,practical,canceled It's just like a stupid pun being the top comment or someone starting a comment off with This.,a stupid pun,pun,stupid,clever,canceled He made it scream and exult obscenely he made it lament like a fallen angel.,a fallen angel,angel,fall,pure,canceled It was a little like musical chair so we ran into the nearest one still open.,musical chair,chair,musical,stackable,canceled "Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, he threw aside all stealth and caution and, tearing the bushes out of his path, darted forward like a hunted animal.",a hunted animal,animal,hunt,competitive,canceled he looks about as relaxed as a wound spring .,a wound spring,spring,wound,vulnerable,canceled "When the problem is as simple as a stalled car, they get out to help.",a stalled car,car,stall,fast,canceled we work together like lions in a pride .,lions in a pride,lion,pride,feel,canceled Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding.,art without understanding,art,understand,comprehend,canceled Then like a bolt from the blue came a cable messagereceived at the little station near the lighthouse.,a bolt from the blue,bolt,blue,functional,canceled "It had been bread and meat once, but had been sent from God knows where, as the old woman said about the rail road, and was just poured into a corner of a box car and was of course, about like hog feed.",hog feed,feed,hog,social,canceled And so I look at this Operation Twist I think a lot of people look at this Operation Twist more as a it's almost like a cry of help.,a cry of help,cry,help,supportive,canceled "The philosopher may be calm, even while his foot is awakening from a sound sleep the poet may not lose his inspiration even with a hair in his mouth but to plain John W. Smith, of 101 Eighth Avenue, a kripsle is as disturbing as a broken elbow, or a bleeding poached egg in its death agony.",a broken elbow,elbow,broken,bend,canceled Boldness is therefore here only like a spring held down until its action is required.,a spring held down,spring,hold,supportive,canceled "Have you ever had frozen meals from Amy's Kitchen They may not look exactly like the photo on the box, but usually they're pretty damn close.",the photo on the box,photo,box,empty,canceled just like a beaten pup .,a beaten pup,pup,beat,cute,canceled "But all that really means is that women's clubs are just as sexist as men's clubs, but they get away with it because they aren't important enough to be worth arguing over.",men's clubs,club,man,curious,canceled Excess of righteousness must be sinfulalmost as sinful as lack of righteousness.,lack of righteousness,lack,righteousness,moral,canceled It consists of coarsely chopped aged tobacco that is flavored and often sweetened it is not ground fine like dipping tobacco.,dipping tobacco,tobacco,dip,shallow,canceled "Every time I see one of those, I just assume the owner is just as stupid as the looks of the car.",the looks of the car,look,car,compact,canceled ,a mosquito in ember,mosquito,ember,Bloodsucking,canceled "to dennis , those holes looked strangely like floating eyes .",floating eyes,eye,float,clear,canceled "When once resolved, he was as immovable as a fixed star.",a fixed star,star,fix,restorative,canceled "Bhai Desa Singh, a Sikh from the mid 18th century, writes that Just like a bird without wings, or like a sheep without wool ltbrgt Or like a woman without clothes, such is a man without kesh.",a bird without wings,bird,wing,curve,canceled her pleading eyes melted his heart as quick as a glacier on the sun .,a glacier on the sun,glacier,sun,cold,canceled "The metal paneling on the walls next to us began to move to the side, collapsing together like the blinds of a window.",the blinds of a window,blind,window,blindly,canceled "He was as dumb as a wooden man, and seemed uneasy in the presence of those who had fed and warmed him.",a wooden man,man,wooden,curious,canceled "Why, even in what you would consider a period of profound peace, you have been about as orderly as a lot of schoolboys, when the master is absent, or a pack of young hounds, who have got away from their huntsman and suggest in every phase of your existence, the stern remark of your greatest Irishman,1 'Ireland is to be governed only by an army.'",a lot of schoolboys,lot,schoolboy,spacious,canceled It's almost like quick sand.,quick sand,sand,quick,fine,canceled "It's cursive, yes, but I was taught to close the P, not to leave it open like a lower case n",a lower case,case,low,structure,canceled ,the spaghetti tree,tree,spaghetti,Photosynthetic,canceled "Fanny's face was clean, and her hair was nicely brushed she did not look now like a child of the gutter.",a child of the gutter,child,gutter,hollow,canceled "he made an odd noise , almost like a pained giggle , and fell over on his side .",a pained giggle,giggle,pained,joyful,canceled "She insisted I havent seen more beautiful hair, it was as strange as the moonlight at noon.",the moonlight at noon,moonlight,noon,soft,canceled "You forge these things prettily but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated cavalier, and had not one foot of land in all the world.",a decimated cavalier,cavalier,decimated,unconcerned,canceled ,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,Durable,canceled ,the foliage in winter,foliage,winter,photosynthetic,canceled information of that sort was as precious as water on mars .,water on mars,water,mar,blemish,canceled "The second one would have to be built kind of like a ship in the bottle to make it fit inside, which is not entirely practical.",a ship in the bottle,ship,bottle,ocean,canceled his face was as blank as a washed blackboard .,a washed blackboard,blackboard,wash,tangible,canceled ,a beached whale,whale,beach,Strong,canceled "cried Roger, he creeps away like a beaten hound, and Virginia saw the bowlderlike shadow rolling off toward the palisade.",a beaten hound,hound,beat,quick,canceled "Compared to salted fish, pindang uses less salt, thus the taste is not as salty as salted fish.",salted fish,fish,salt,swim,canceled "But for the rumbling of the thunder, the only sound from the mysterious world outside would have been the scream, now like the cry of a cat, now like a puppy's bark, of an owl flying with muffled wings up and down the valley.",the cry of a cat,cry,cat,agile,canceled "The little girls were shy at first, but were soon on good terms with Christophe, who always had some funny story to tell them or sweetmeats in his pockets they told their parents about him and, though at first they had been inclined to look askance at his advances, they were won over by the frank open manners of their noisy neighbor, whose pianoplaying and terrific disturbance overhead had often made them cursefor Christophe used to feel stifled in his room and take to pacing up and down like a caged bear.",a caged bear,bear,cage,protective,canceled "jesus christ , boy , you as dumb as a stone boat !",a stone boat,boat,stone,float,canceled his tail was wagging as fast as a metronome out of control .,a metronome out of control,metronome,control,regulate,canceled "This is coming off more than a little like stalking behavior, and the threats of selfharm are not encouraging.",stalking behavior,behavior,stalk,cylindrical,canceled "Evil and good are always sown together like the wheat and the tares, and even the evil has its part to play and its work to do.",the wheat and the tares,wheat,tare,nutritious,canceled Strength tests have also been made on firekilled timber and these have shown that timber killed by fire is almost as strong as green timber.,green timber,timber,green,strong,canceled So our hospital was closed up as tight as a jar of preserves.,a jar of preserves,jar,preserve,hollow,canceled "When the corn grew, Kim saw that they were as big as the American ones.",the American ones,one,american,single,canceled "We certainly cannot complain, seeing that most of the boats on the Nile carry a hundred people, all told, without mentioning those which are laden with a cargo of two or three hundred slaves, packed together like herrings in a barrel, or perched like fowls on planks laid horizontally from one mast to the other.",herrings in a barrel,herring,barrel,hollow,canceled "She never quite recovered, but slowly withered away like a plucked flower.",a plucked flower,flower,pluck,beautiful,canceled Looks not very appetizing like cereal in water but cats dont seem to mind and it adds water to their diets,cereal in water,cereal,water,transparent,canceled "i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says .",a dying animal,animal,die,curious,canceled "You may still get tickets for possession, kind of like a speeding ticket, but it's not a criminal offence.",a speeding ticket,ticket,speed,measurable,canceled "But you mustn't do that, behave just like a rough guest.",a rough guest,guest,rough,welcome,canceled "i do n't know how i stopped packing my sunglasses in my purse after doing so every single day in l.a. , but on paragon they are about as practical as a chariot on the freeway .",a chariot on the freeway,chariot,freeway,fast,canceled A the actor was not more than three years older than the victim and at the time of the offense from affirmative defense is just like statue of limitations,statue of limitations,statue,limitation,rigid,canceled "he 'd wanted to get in his truck , start driving , find the bastard and mete out a little frontier justicebut there was the damn wedding to get through , so he 'd sat there like a beaten dog and driven the woman he lovedthe woman ellis had knocked upback home and watched her flee inside like the devil himself was after her .",a beaten dog,dog,beat,repetitive,canceled "It's just like a participation trophy, except you only get it if you do something wrong, in a situation where doing something wrong is inevitable.",a participation trophy,trophy,participation,important,canceled The grass was trimmed as neatly as a city lawn.,a city lawn,lawn,city,dynamic,canceled "god , i 'm as easy as a nut to crack .",a nut to crack,nut,crack,unstable,canceled I had hopes in the hypocrisy of the sex but perseverance makes it as bad as a fixed aversion.,a fixed aversion,aversion,fix,restore,canceled "They most probably are fake, sorta like wax fruit, so they can be used for displays in shops and as props for photography, as the bright, hot lights in film, television and photographic studios will rather quickly spoil milk.",wax fruit,fruit,wax,edible,canceled ,a tree coming down,tree,come,photosynthetic,canceled "Stables should be as light as living rooms, but with louvers to darken them in summer, in order to keep out the flies.",living rooms,room,live,active,canceled Today Daoud wore a silk cape as red as a cardinal's robe.,a cardinal's robe,robe,cardinal,red,canceled "This letter was taken up the next morning to Belforest by Colonel Brownlow, and the two eldest delinquents, one, curious, amused, and with only compunction enough to flavour an apology, the other cross, dogged, and sheepish, dragged along like a cur in a sling, just as though he were going to be hanged, said Janet.",a cur in a sling,cur,sling,springy,canceled Institutions without men are as futile as men without institutions.,men without institutions,man,institution,structure,canceled "Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass.",a figure of brass,figure,brass,define,canceled "Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent.",dogs in a manger,dog,manger,loyal,canceled "It's just like a participation trophy, except you only get it if you do something wrong, in a situation where doing something wrong is inevitable.",a participation trophy,trophy,participation,valuable,canceled Fred Phelps has a whole family with grandchildren and a conservative christian movement but he is still as gay as a fruitcake without the cake,a fruitcake without the cake,fruitcake,cake,fat,canceled And maybe like a voice from the grave she will help us figure this out.,a voice from the grave,voice,grave,clear,canceled "Hed throw the rest of our line away like a peanut hull, if he had not promised Gail to protect me.",a peanut hull,hull,peanut,heavy,canceled "It should be as obvious as not swallowing poison, it doesn't seem to be, as they are doing one and not the other.",not swallowing poison,poison,swallow,dangerous,canceled ,an orchard without fruit,orchard,fruit,harvestable,canceled "Thar war the passun, his legs fast to the critter's flanx, arms lockt round his neck, face as pale as a rabbit's belly, and the white flag streemin' far behindand thar war",a rabbit's belly,belly,rabbit,hoppy,canceled Next thing you know the pentagon will start treating their ground pounders grunts too like non expendables and then what kind of chaos will that bring?,non expendables,expendable,non,disposable,canceled "And listening to that, again, almost like a fly on the wall was absolutely bonechilling.",a fly on the wall,fly,wall,supportive,canceled "Ching How long have you been chirping here like a cricket under a leaf, with no news from the roadside?",a cricket under a leaf,cricket,leaf,loud,canceled "her face was a rigor of alarm , her eyes wide like the hands of the dead . ",the hands of the dead,hands,dead,dexterous,canceled "I throw it away like a blade of grass, and so far from lamenting, I feel rather as if I had been born again.",a blade of grass,blade,grass,sharp,canceled "And not to mention the spelling, your spelling is almost as bad as the search history, almost makes me think it's yours.",the search history,history,search,educational,canceled For a distance of at least two miles the road ran as straight as a yard stick so that the men could readily see that the third motorcycle lad was not in sight ahead.,a yard stick,stick,yard,enclose,canceled "A dollie was the 4 wheeled thing you move really heavy printers on, kind of like a wagon with no handle.",a wagon with no handle,wagon,handle,attach,canceled that says not exactly Now you think that that hitech weapon you though was too big is just as useful as a spit against a tank.,a spit against a tank,spit,tank,powerful,canceled "It's, you must be as swift as a coursing river just thought you should know...with the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire.",a coursing river,river,course,progressive,canceled ,a trapdoor on a canoe,trapdoor,canoe,Functional,canceled He says almost as bad as not having power is not knowing when it'll come back.,not having power,power,have,possessive,canceled "Those bags are as loud as a tree falling, man.",a tree falling,tree,falling,rooted,canceled Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding.,art without understanding,art,understand,important,canceled "This detracts a little from the piece to my mind as it feels at best like a missed opportunity, or otherwise a failed use misuse of the supposing of structure.",a missed opportunity,opportunity,miss,promise,canceled ,shifting blame,blame,shift,accountability,canceled "I had one for a while when I was a teenager, be prepared to smell faintly like lighter fluid whenever you have it on you.",lighter fluid,fluid,light,smoothly,canceled "i had entered a myriad of thoughts swirling around , blending with each other like hair down a drain after a mixed race orgy in an all men and womens shower .",hair down a drain,hair,drain,natural,canceled ,a bad oyster,oyster,bad,Edible,canceled "Yes, but he may be as thin as a tin horse before his owner comes.",a tin horse,horse,tin,big,canceled "These filter bags are often made conical like a fool's cap, and have their mouths supported by a wooden or metallic hoop.",a fool's cap,cap,fool,comfortable,canceled "It is much easier to commence an affair of this kind than to break it off and a man, though his heart was disengaged, should be always on his guard against any thing like an attachment where his affections are not really interested meer passion or meer vanity will support an affair en passant but, where the least degree of constancy and attention are expected, the heart must feel, or the lover is subjecting himself to a slavery as irksome as a marriage without inclination.",a marriage without inclination,marriage,inclination,slant,canceled ,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullet,projectile,canceled "looking like ghouls with melted wigs and blackened skin , the burning strippers danced around like scorched marionettes .",scorched marionettes,marionette,scorch,control,canceled "i had entered a myriad of thoughts swirling around , blending with each other like hair down a drain after a mixed race orgy in an all men and womens shower .",hair down a drain,hair,drain,hollow,canceled ,the granite bench,bench,granite,wood/metal/plastic,canceled "But on this night the mirth jarred like a cracked bell and ere they rose, the seneschal ventured timidly to ask the Baron if he might accept the ransom offered by the young wife of the latest captive.",a cracked bell and,bell,cracked,clear,canceled dripping like melted wax .,melted wax,wax,melt,solid,canceled "She might have breathed a little faster if she had known that the two doors through which she had entered, and which had closed so silently and surely after her, were as soundproof as six feet of earth.",six feet of earth,foot,earth,flexible,canceled "hey , crankypants , '' joseph said , sounding as irritated as the class sweetheart , do n't mind us , we 're just the three brothers who left what we were doing in the middle of the night to get our butts to a critical care unit in california .",the class sweetheart,sweetheart,class,categorical,canceled "just like last weekend , he had decided to skip the fridaynight postgame festivities so he could spend time with their mother , and he was already heading for the dvd stand to pick out a movie for the three of them to watch tonight .",last weekend,weekend,last,final,canceled but stillnowhere near as enjoyable as a night with emma . '',a night with emma,night,emma,black,canceled "Behind the yards the sun was setting, the platform for the pithing of bullocks, and the windlass for raising their carcasses, standing out sharp and black against the flaming sky and still farther to the right, where there were sheepyards also, a small yellow cloud rose against the pink like a pillar of sand.",a pillar of sand,pillar,sand,supportive,canceled "Life, I said to myself, is as empty as a used cantaloupe.",a used cantaloupe,cantaloupe,used,sweet,canceled "Now, if you was single, or as good as single, Delaware, I should expect you to be actyve and stirring about the camp of the vagabonds, from sunrise to sunset, sarcumventing and contriving, as restless as a hound off the scent, and doing all manner of things to help me, and to distract the inimy, but two are oftener feebler than one, and we must take things as they are, and not as we want 'em to be.",a hound off the scent,hound,scent,big,canceled "Though Baxter was pugnacious like the school's namesake, students often stopped by her office to talk, seek advice, or embrace, and Baxter frequently walked the halls while accosting students, newly prohibited from wearing hats inside the building.",the school's namesake,namesake,school,learn,canceled "Just like film negatives, they are not usually intended to be directly viewed.",film negatives,negative,film,unfavorable,canceled ,a ship in the bottle,ship,bottle,engine-powered or sail-driven,canceled "The haul up from there to the top of the highest bank was several hundred feet of deep heather , pollendusty and honeyscented , but as friendly as a hedgehog for a flea .",a hedgehog for a flea,hedgehog,flea,jump,canceled ,a white crow,crow,white,black,canceled "... feeling a little like a skunk at a wedding, or probably, more accurately, road kill.",a skunk at a wedding,skunk,wedding,joyful,canceled "We should build the garden with a setting of fine trees grouped upon the outskirts, otherwise it will seem as incomplete as a portrait without a frame.",a portrait without a frame,portrait,frame,structural,canceled Almost like the grinding of teeth was a tell that hadnt been abandoned in more than hundreds of years.,the grinding of teeth,grinding,tooth,round,canceled "Nice and light, doesn't hurt, and can be balanced on the top of a cracked door just like a bucket of water.",a bucket of water,bucket,water,hollow,canceled "my job was to stand strong for my house and my master , not give myself away like a wilting violet because i was afraid i 'd ruin him .",a wilting violet,violet,wilt,colorful,canceled "You kept walking towards him, and he was as frozen as the people at the bus stop earlier.",the people at the bus,people,bus,spacious,canceled "shoo mud be as handsome as wax work, shoo thinks soa mich ov her' sen!",wax work,work,wax,important,canceled "Their colour was of old ivory, and the long marram grass which grew on them sparsely was as fine as green hair.",green hair,hair,green,natural,canceled "Secondly, even if we grant for the sake of the argument that instinctive intelligence and an innate moral quality would prevent wrongdoing, it is obvious that individuals so characterized are as rare as the philosophers stone.",the philosophers stone,stone,philosopher,thoughtful,canceled Matter without motion is just as unthinkable as motion without matter.,motion without matter,motion,matter,physical,canceled "In the east the full moon had just risen, and its thin silver surface was flushed with pink until it looked exactly like the setting sun.",the setting sun,sun,set,hot,canceled "dazed , trembling , jay was hardly aware of the big blond man who came crashing out of the crowd an instant later , glowing as yellow as a bug light and staggering almost in a circle as he punched at an assassin who was no longer there .",a bug light,light,bug,clear,canceled "Then the climax came, as swiftly as a bolt from the sky.",a bolt from the sky,bolt,sky,hard,canceled Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding.,art without understanding,art,understand,comprehensible,canceled "You are acting just like the story of the three bears, she said.",the story of the three bears,story,bear,carnivorous,canceled "You men ought to be ashamed of yourselves, setting here like stranded catfish, swallowing all them foreign words and pretending you understand 'em.",stranded catfish,catfish,strand,benthic,canceled ,gloves on a chicken,glove,chicken,Grip-enhancing,canceled "Finding Afiola would be about as easy as the needle in the haystack, and the crews of a hundred Peep o' Days, and all the warriors of Fale a Lupo besides, couldn't have tracked and cornered him up the mountain.",the needle in the haystack,needle,haystack,large,canceled "To have a fellow going about the farm as cross with every body as a bear with a sore head, with a temper as sour as verjuice and as sharp as a razor, looking as surly as a butcher's dog, is a great nuisance and yet there may be some good points about the man, so that he may be a man for all that but poor, soft Tommy, as green as grass and as ready to bend as a willow, is nobody's money and every body's scorn.",a butcher's dog,dog,butcher,skilled,canceled I feel as low as ditch water.,ditch water,water,ditch,clear,canceled The attackers were almost as disorganized as the routed defenders.,the routed defenders,defender,route,protective,canceled "So, that's why I said I felt like we were going to pull almost like a miss landing and go back up, and it didn't happen.",a miss landing,landing,miss,land,canceled "I care not if I tell it thee to wile away an hour or so so here cometh like a rope out of the coil, with a wanion on it!the story I mean, not the saintthe Lord forbid!",a rope out of the coil,rope,coil,curl,canceled "This is an Italian method, and by following it one may understand why an artichoke need not taste as flat as boiled hay.",boiled hay,hay,boil,bubble,canceled I was being wheeled in for surgery once and said to the doctor this is just like Greys anatomy and he looked at me so unamused and said this is nothing like Greys anatomy,Greys anatomy,anatomy,grey,shade,canceled "it 's an interesting sight , though it 's not as lethal as a stake through the heart . ''",a stake through the heart,stake,heart,central,canceled "Seams were ripping, dark stains appeared on the doll, and even an eyeball was hanging loosely like a ball and chain.",a ball and chain,ball,chain,spherical,canceled "He was a strange object, the wrinkled skin of his face yellow like old ivory, a ragged white beard hanging almost to his waist.","old ivory,",ivory,old,pure,canceled I do like how this dig at nerds implicitly acknowledges that their religions are equally as real as star wars and just hope you wont notice.,star wars,war,star,luminous,canceled "In regards to the two plots, Pierce said that the Liz, TGS, and Dale Snitterman story was stuffed with great comedic moments, while the Jack and Nancy angle just sat there and flopped around like a dying fish.",a dying fish,fish,die,alive,canceled So it can work if you reduce the narrator to minimal possible like just description and let the characters carry the story trought their actions and thinking and use the Narrator only for description.,just description,description,just,specific,canceled "The dews hang thick on the fringd thorn, And the frost shrinks back like a beaten hound, Under the steaming, steaming ground.",a beaten hound,hound,beat,time,canceled "a thumbnail of moon sprayed the snow a dank , dim verdigris like corroded bronze .",corroded bronze,bronze,corrode,durable,canceled Almost like shattered glass.,shattered glass,glass,shatter,hard,canceled But a caliph who openly denied the faith would be as impossible as an unbelieving pope.,an unbelieving pope,pope,unbelieve,good,canceled this rebal 's about as subtle as a club in the face . ',a club in the face,club,face,exclusive,canceled "The monsters are kind of like the opposite of moths, most of the cities now have laws in place to make electricity free.",the opposite of moths,opposite,moth,fly,canceled "The squeak of my match sounded as loud as the scraping of a brake, and I almost fancied I heard it fall when I tossed it onto the grass.",the scraping of a brake,scraping,brake,precise,canceled "i had some problems with the old car 's glove compartment button , but finally the little door fell open like a corpse 's mouth .",a corpse 's mouth,mouth,corpse,flexible,canceled her head was as rigid as a deer in headlights .,a deer in headlights,deer,headlight,bright,canceled "Why, that there tower was as empty as a blown eggshell when we drove in the door, and climbed to the top and the smugglers will be ahugging theirselves that alls clear, and thinking they can go on with their work without any danger of a visit from the preventives.",a blown eggshell,eggshell,blow,forceful,canceled "Hotman points out that while they may be a people without a king a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people .",a pastor without a flock,pastor,flock,natural,canceled "At best xfinity would be as fast as fiber over wireless, but that's not likely either, considering most wireless is 802.11ag for homes.",fiber over wireless,fiber,wireless,strong,canceled "She was determined to do her part, she said she should be mighty glad to help get that skinchyscrimpy look out of Miss Lucretia's face, just like a sour raisin.",a sour raisin,raisin,sour,sweet,canceled "Front chair has its arms upwards like hands in the air, the chair behind it has its arms pointing at it like it's pointing a gun.",hands in the air,hands,air,manipulative,canceled "Now if this was a consistent dumping that was millions and millions of gallons a yearmonthdaywhatever, then theres gonna start being an issue, but it seems kinda like a one time thing.",a one time thing,thing,time,progressive,canceled "argument with him felt uncannily like clouts about the head , but i hadnt given up hopes to trump him in the end .",clouts about the head,clout,head,rounded,canceled "Just like film negatives, they are not usually intended to be directly viewed.",film negatives,negative,film,bad,canceled all my joints felt frozen stiff like a rusted bolt .,a rusted bolt,bolt,rusted,fast,canceled Street lights are droopin like popeye without spinach,popeye without spinach,popeye,spinach,strong,canceled "Those with albinism are generally as healthy as the rest of the population but see related disorders below, with growth and development occurring as normal, and albinism by itself does not cause mortality, although the lack of pigment blocking ultraviolet radiation increases the risk of melanomas skin cancers and other problems.",the rest of the population,rest,population,peaceful,canceled Even like the fallen angels!,the fallen angels,angel,fall,pure,canceled "In an interview with Life in the spring of 1941, Hitler stated that a German invasion of the Western Hemisphere was as fantastic as an invasion of the moon, and he said he was convinced that the idea was being promoted by men who mistakenly thought that war would be good for business.",an invasion of the moon,invasion,moon,real,canceled the question hit toni like a punch in the stomach .,a punch in the stomach,punch,stomach,hollow,canceled "You, personally, can hate them because you feel the vocalist sounds like a whiny brat and think the music is about as inspiring as lukewarm beer, but that is subjective.",lukewarm beer,beer,lukewarm,bubbly,canceled ,pizza with no cheese,pizza,cheese,topped,canceled The roughneck farmer was in bad shape he was bloodied all over like a stuck pig.,a stuck pig,pig,stuck,secure,canceled "I wont interrupt himso he had better put pen to paper, and get rid of me at once, for I know I am as welcome as snow in harvest.",snow in harvest,snow,harvest,abundant,canceled "Secondly, even if we grant for the sake of the argument that instinctive intelligence and an innate moral quality would prevent wrongdoing, it is obvious that individuals so characterized are as rare as the philosophers stone.",the philosophers stone,stone,philosopher,reflective,canceled "But just like the game of telephone, somehow Operation Rainbow morphed into gays openly serving in the military.",the game of telephone,game,telephone,useful,canceled "he may look quite fearsome , but unless you mean me harm , he is as gentle as a stuffed toy . ''",a stuffed toy,toy,stuff,generic,canceled It is almost like liquid cement.,liquid cement,cement,liquid,hard,canceled "Without Sir Claude's photograph, however, the place would have been, as he said, as dull as a cold dinner.",a cold dinner,dinner,cold,important,canceled "A haunch of venison is carved exactly like a haunch of mutton but, being somewhat larger, it is advised by some authorities that the broad end of the haunch, instead of the side, should be turned towards the carver for the purpose of giving him greater command over the joint.",a haunch of mutton,haunch,mutton,muscular,canceled "They have a prebreathe kind of situation there, to give purge their system of nitrogen, it's kind of like a diver with the bends.",a diver with the bends,diver,bend,deep,canceled ,a skein of smoke,skein,smoke,yarn,canceled ,a house falling in,house,fall,shelter,canceled But I know nothing about motorcycles so my opinion is probably as useful as a gun with zero bullets.,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullets,projectile,canceled "That well known pattern of the left to pretend like climate change isn't real, which is just like jousting windmills, because of reasons and stuff.",jousting windmills,windmill,joust,hard,canceled "When she heard her husband coming in Lucy fled upstairs like a hunted thing, and took refuge in the nursery where little Tom was sleeping.",a hunted thing,thing,hunt,predatory,canceled "Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that despite Hecker capturing knowing images of Florida, she criticized his antiquated screenplay for lacking freshness in its given genre and giving his cast limited caricature parts, concluding that Tilly's fiveminute cameo reminds viewers that comedy without risk is as barren as a prom without a theme.",a prom without a theme,prom,theme,dominant,canceled "Mathews speaks of him as Dear, old, kind, gay Sir William Gell, who, while wheeling himself about the room in his chair, for he was unable to walk a step without help, alternately kept his friends on the broad grin with his whimsical sallies and talked archological shop his hand was as big as a leg of mutton and covered with chalkstones nevertheless he could draw with admirable precision.",a leg of mutton,leg,mutton,strong,canceled The meat is then laid in flat and packed tightly like plugs of tobacco.,plugs of tobacco,plug,tobacco,connective,canceled Hopefully I'm not wrong headed to think it's as simple as shifting blame.,shifting blame,blame,shifting,accountability,canceled "I have forgottenthere is something terrible and tragic in that quick forgetfulness of heroic adventuretinkered with their machines, stared at the wind gauge, would not risk the light breeze that blew, or rose a little, after running like lame ducks around the field, and crashed again like wounded birds.",wounded birds,bird,wound,free,canceled "In biological context, the 'coral of life' as a metaphor is almost as old as the 'tree of life'.",the 'tree of life,tree,life,temporary,canceled over and over again like a fever dream .,a fever dream,dream,fever,real,canceled "Such instances, however, are almost as rare as ice in the tropics and any man is utterly devoid of sense who imagines that he is safe in trusting to chance, as against skill combined with chicanery.",ice in the tropics,ice,tropic,hard,canceled "Cooney was as hangdog a looking rascal as it was well possible to conceive, but the gipsy had no other person to send upon whom he could relyhis messenger was by no means a foolalthough of a common coarse type and as ignorant as a hack horse but he was artful and was not easily cornered, to make use of an American phrase, so away he went upon his mission.",a hack horse,horse,hack,inventive,canceled "Mere artists are commonly as stupid as mere artificers, and these are little more than machines.",mere artificers,artificer,mere,basic,canceled "I stood on the platform and had no trouble in yanking the stuff in and this went right along like a mail steamer, till it was all up, and it came old Dibs's turn.",a mail steamer,steamer,mail,cook,canceled Just the perception of a conflict of interest can be as bad as a conflict of interest.,a conflict of interest,conflict,interest,engage,canceled the thought is as unsettling as the looming situation .,the looming situation,situation,loom,textile,canceled "But you also, again, as Bernard was saying before, the switch of the camera switching to Dan Quayle's face and the expression, it was just like the deer in the headlight.",the deer in the headlight,deer,headlight,bright,canceled with my eyebrow rings and the tattoos that peaked up my neck i thought it made me look a little like an escaped prisoner .,an escaped prisoner,prisoner,escaped,imprison,canceled ,an army without a commander,army,commander,Strategic,canceled But the amount of money the senior gets wouldn't necessarily go up as fast as medical costs.,medical costs,cost,medical,good,canceled These things and deeds are diametrically opposed they are as distinct as vice from virtue.,vice from virtue,vice,virtue,positive,canceled "I think he's about as funny as a broken foot, and just I disagree with everything he said.",a broken foot,foot,broken,supportive,canceled ,a tree falling,tree,fall,rooted,canceled For a time they kept side by side but in the distance they were as separate as the two ends of the earth.,the two ends of the earth,end,earth,real,canceled "Oh I know, they just wouldn't hold still like the stuffed kind... we didn't have helicopter parents in the early 60's",the stuffed kind,kind,stuff,friendly,canceled "I assume it's sort of like the pedi cabs, with a cart in the back that might balance it?",the pedi cabs,cab,pedi,yellow,canceled Such a sentiment in the mouth of Mr. Buchanan would have been as unnatural as a voice from the dead.,a voice from the dead,voice,dead,clear,canceled "Although Canning wrote that the newspaper delivered on the laughs, Entertainment Weekly Sandra Gonzalez characterized the newspaper subplot was neither important nor substantive and was unimpressed with the random, frightening costume changes, and Reiter said Sue's storyline was one that felt as tired as secondhand news.",secondhand news,news,secondhand,current,canceled "Seeing these ridiculous fashions, just like parachute pants, make me glad I had tree trunk thighs that wouldn't let me fit into them",parachute pants,pant,parachute,deployable,canceled "Your face was as red as a setting sun, and you were full of experiencesa fulness that did not in the slightest impair your appetite.",a setting sun,sun,set,brightly,canceled "Noting the film's original release, the National Post noted The film is enjoyable enough, though the plot is as thin as spring ice.",spring ice,ice,spring,flexible,canceled it 's about as enjoyable as a hole in the head .,a hole in the head,hole,head,cerebral,canceled ,ill preparation,preparation,ill,planning,canceled "Contract or no contract, Mackaye and the Mallorys could not have long remained in association on amicable terms, because they were as antagonistic as fire and water.",fire and water,fire,water,transparent,canceled ,"an army without a commander, or",army,commander,disciplined,canceled ,a train to the face,train,face,scheduled,canceled "The line fell slowly forward like a toppling wall, and, with a convulsive gasp that was intended for a cheer, the regiment began its journey.",a toppling wall,wall,topple,solid,canceled "Racing skisters use two sticks, one in each hand, but for glissading the two have to be held together like a single staff.",a single staff,staff,single,unity,canceled "What is here, O beloved, so like a sea without sound?",a sea without sound,sea,sound,auditory,canceled You're just like a stuffed crocodile.,a stuffed crocodile,crocodile,stuff,dangerous,canceled "In the United States, people with disabilities are victims of violent crime three times as often as people without disabilities.",people without disabilities,people,disability,limit,canceled "They were tattooed all over like a pair of breeches, and the pictures on them were very well done there were tigers and a kind of dragon, like those we saw at the pagoda steps, and many other animals, and each one was in a kind of scrollwork which made a little frame.",a pair of breeches,pair,breech,posterior,canceled "Having ads is the only way that cable providers will ever work with a purely streaming model thus tolerating them helps move us away from the current timeslot based programming, and into the eventuality that all programming is simply uploaded when it's done, and served forever like a paid youtube.",a paid youtube,youtube,pay,famous,canceled Their dialogue has many exclamation points when they talk quietly or nicely like the dialogue in Peanuts.,the dialogue in Peanuts,dialogue,peanut,legume,canceled "Just like house flippers, they had flipped and merged the company so many times there was no way for it to be profitable...the raw debt load they carried met they needed minimum wage just to break even.",house flippers,flipper,house,construct,canceled "Then Im thinking himself will stop along with you when he sees you taking on, for itll be a long nighttime with great darkness, and Im after feeling a kind of fellow above in the furzy ditch, groaning wicked like a maddening dog, the way its good cause you have, maybe, to be fearing now.","a maddening dog,",dog,madden,loyal,canceled "Noting the film's original release, the National Post noted The film is enjoyable enough, though the plot is as thin as spring ice.",spring ice,ice,spring,coil,canceled "Youth and beauty in suffering, danger, or humiliation, form naturally an object of interest and compassion but Walter, though pleased by the conviction that he had done a good action, and one so fully involving the gratitude of Lilian Napier and her haughty relative, felt a dread of what was to ensue, weighing heavily on his mind for the Scottish privy council was then composed of men with whom the proudest noble dared not to trifle, and before whom the pride and power of the great Argyle, lord of a vast territory, and chief of the most powerful of the western clans, bent like a reed beneath the storm.",a reed beneath the storm,reed,storm,violent,canceled It's almost like homework excuses.,homework excuses,excuse,homework,necessary,canceled "I recall seeing this photos of truckers' faces and the left side was considerably more damaged, sorta like reptile skin.",reptile skin,skin,reptile,soft,canceled The water that the fish are in is just as cold as the water at the top but it's at a higher pressure as it has the weight of the water above it pushing down.,the water at the top,water,top,point,canceled He should be jumping straight up and then tucking at the peak of his jump instead of immediately throwing his head back like a jackass with no training... that's how you break your neck.,a jackass with no training,jackass,training,improve,canceled "i reckon i am at that , seein as how youre about as useful as a bucket with no bottom . ''",a bucket with no bottom,bucket,bottom,simple,canceled "Well I dress like a bum, am as ugly as a dog's arse, am one FAT MOTHERFUCKER and rarely if ever wear shoes.",a dog's arse,arse,dog,loyal,canceled "Why, I'm afraid to even snore in my sleep, said one of them, for fear I'll discharge the guncotton and as for kicking in my sleepwhy, I'm as quiet as a drugged snake.",a drugged snake,snake,drug,flexible,canceled "If I remember correctly, humans have made proto sabers and light sabers before that work well like the ones in the movies.",the ones in the movies,one,movie,single,canceled "that is what's being said However in the case of sunglasses in particular, I've found that the cheap sunglasses are often just as good as the expensive ones.",the expensive ones,one,expensive,unitary,canceled his tail was wagging as fast as a metronome out of control .,a metronome out of control,metronome,control,steady,canceled "She can shoot a dozen arrows, catch the fish, be as swift as the coursing river, as strong as the great typhoon.",the coursing river,river,course,educational,canceled "At any rate, just throw a glance aloft now and then, and our good old lady will explain herself to her own sex, she's as good as a dictionary without words!",a dictionary without words,dictionary,word,useful,canceled Nudity is a natural part of the human condition its not perverse and it doesnt need to be hidden away like a dirty secret.,a dirty secret,secret,dirty,safe,canceled "Those guys know very well the dangers of getting the shit beat out of them, not that the NFL players don't, tackles and repeated small hits aren't as explicit as a head kick.",a head kick,kick,head,rounded,canceled "Be silent, said Juanna indignantly, and Soa slunk back like a whipped hound.",a whipped hound,hound,whip,big,canceled The fields like the mountains that looked down at them were as unchangeable as the passing days.,the passing days,day,pass,acceptable,canceled "soon , it became clear , that his anarchic charm was thin like a coating of sweat , and that he was selfcentered and mean .",a coating of sweat,coating,sweat,durable,canceled ,the washed out road,road,wash,paved,canceled "About sunset the garrison gives notice of their return their faint cawing will be heard from a great distance, and they will be seen far off like a sable cloud, and then nearer and nearer, until they all come soaring home.",a sable cloud,cloud,sable,white,canceled "That looks terribly like a boiled dog, he remarked to Crushe, who was turning over a stewed fowl.",a boiled dog,dog,boil,friendly,canceled "on the outside it looks a little like a sleeping mask , but the padding around the eyes and lower rim prevents any light from actually reaching her eyes once i put it on her , so that she 's now cast into complete darkness .",a sleeping mask,mask,sleeping,inactive,canceled "He was impatient, cross, and implacable and Lord Montague, an English nobleman, who was at that time much about him, remarked in a low voice to one of the gentlemen in waiting, His Majesty is as peevish as a crossed child, when Cinq Mars is absent.",a crossed child,child,crossed,curious,canceled "though i was pleased that hed finally shut up , right now , the clever security guard was as about as useful as a paper condom .",a paper condom,condom,paper,effective,canceled his body felt as brittle as a winter leaf .,a winter leaf,leaf,winter,photosynthetic,canceled and so i would be taken back like the prodigal daughter whenever i returned .,the prodigal daughter,daughter,prodigal,nurture,canceled "though i was pleased that hed finally shut up , right now , the clever security guard was as about as useful as a paper condom .",a paper condom,condom,paper,tight,canceled "Never for a moment, until I was dropped down here like a stone from a sling.",a stone from a sling,stone,sling,still,canceled "Just like the old days, uncompromising, swinging for the fences, Rove offering up an election year template for Republican success.","the old days,",day,old,bright,canceled "You see pa's face was all red and sore where the buffaloes had licked him, and the buffaloes had licked all the hair dye out of his hair and whiskers, and they were as white as the driven snow.",the driven snow,snow,driven,motivate,canceled "i am pushed to the ground as easily as a blade of grass , away from the tree trunk ive been smashing my head against .",a blade of grass,blade,grass,sharp,canceled "It began low and hoarse like a fit of coughing, and rose to the high cackling mirth of extreme age.",a fit of coughing,fit,cough,well,canceled "on both halves they could see small blinking lights , almost like led lights .",led lights,light,lead,dense,canceled "The registers at addresses 16384 0x4000 through 24575 0x5FFF are essentially like data RAM, but they are also designated for use by a builtin screen IO subsystem.",data RAM,ram,data,horn,canceled the question hit toni like a punch in the stomach .,a punch in the stomach,punch,stomach,digest,canceled "The streets are just as beautiful as the higher tiers, with stores neatly lining the sidewalks and cars hovering off of pristine roads.","the higher tiers,",tier,high,arrange,canceled It really is the extent of which the cancelling takes place... if the person cancelled is deplatformed from easy ways of reaching the public then it really is exactly like a book burning...,a book burning,book,burn,readable,canceled "Up flew his great fat legs, and away he went, pitching and tossing, and jumping and twirling, and jigging up and down like an elephant in a fit.",an elephant in a fit,elephant,fit,comfortable,canceled "Enamels by the pliquejour method might be best described as translucent cloisonn enamels for they are similar to cloisonn, except that the ground upon which they are fired is removed, thus making them transparent like stained glass.",stained glass,glass,stain,blemish,canceled "Hed throw the rest of our line away like a peanut hull, if he had not promised Gail to protect me.",a peanut hull,hull,peanut,edible,canceled I imagine we'd get extra credit if we brought in Kleenex and sanitizer just like the old days.,the old days,day,old,bright,canceled "With a thought, my mind went into the offensive and despite his greater speed, strength and durability, Jack became frozen like a mosquito in ember. ",a mosquito in ember,mosquito,ember,disease vector,canceled "If you didnt have that speech bubble thing I wouldn't have gotten it, you look kinda like a dead hobo",a dead hobo,hobo,dead,transient,canceled "her last words echo in my head , swirling around like water down a drain .",water down a drain,water,drain,cylindrical,canceled "The wound certainly was mainly like a blow from a gunstock, admitted Bolderwood.",a blow from a gunstock,blow,gunstock,durable,canceled "At any rate, just throw a glance aloft now and then, and our good old lady will explain herself to her own sex, she's as good as a dictionary without words!",a dictionary without words,dictionary,word,symbolic,canceled You're just like a stuffed crocodile.,a stuffed crocodile,crocodile,stuff,predatory,canceled Edit I like how the Americans have this fancy contraption and the Russians are just flicking matches and candles around like no problem comrade,no problem comrade,comrade,problem,challenge,canceled "oh, it's just Superman and Batman, and you know, it's as important as a coloring book.",a coloring book,book,color,descriptive,canceled "I suppose that having made a mock of you and drained you dry, she was content to throw you aside like an empty gourd.",an empty gourd,gourd,empty,seed-filled,canceled "The Indians, however, were quite as active as the searchers after wealth.",the searchers after wealth,searcher,wealth,abundant,canceled "A devil of a thud it came upon his nose, a fair blow with Harkaway's fist, and being delivered straight from the shoulder, it seemed to the Italian like the kick of a donkey.",the kick of a donkey,kick,donkey,intelligent,canceled "Seeing these ridiculous fashions, just like parachute pants, make me glad I had tree trunk thighs that wouldn't let me fit into them",parachute pants,pant,parachute,inflatable,canceled "It was a firstclass voyage till we hove right inter the Saragossa Sea, and there we war becalmed and stuck as fast as a fly in mucilage.",a fly in mucilage,fly,mucilage,fast,canceled the sap ran from the scalding hole and dripped steadily like blood onto the ground .,blood onto the ground,blood,ground,transports nutrients and oxygen,canceled "That's not exactly like a kinder egg at all, Kinder chocolate is a mix of milk chocolate and white chocolate, and is one of the best chocolates in the world.",a kinder egg,egg,kind,care,canceled "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.",a moonbeam from lightning,moonbeam,lightning,faint,canceled "The blackbearded Forrest strode back and forth, striking the tops of his riding boots with a small riding whip, and saying ungrammatically, but tersely and emphatically We mustn't stay here like hogs in a pen.",hogs in a pen,hog,pen,write,canceled "The negresses who were on board lay asleep on deck, rolled in their pagnes, packed as tightly and lying as quietly as fish in a tin, and the ship glided smoothly towards the south, cleaving its way steadily towards regions of ever intenser heat and ever bluer skies.",fish in a tin,fish,tin,aquatic,canceled Bill Tompkins of The Battle Creek Enquirer and News wrote that local viewers found WZZM about as elusive as a flying saucer.,a flying saucer,saucer,fly,wing,canceled ,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,electrical insulating properties,canceled The fact that I know you can rewind a cassette with a biro makes me feel almost as old as the number of times I've seen this posted all over facebook.,the number of times,number,time,infinite,canceled "In a study, some of the infected juveniles were only half as heavy as controls with no worms.",controls with no worms,control,worm,powerful,canceled "Now, that sword, driven by energy to be calculated in foot tons, would have passed through the planking of a ship as easily as a knife through cheese and have been withdrawn as easily for twenty years it had ripped and slain living creatures from Honda to Ducie, but never before had it stuck.",a knife through cheese,knife,cheese,hard,canceled "It definetly has, again, it is almost like a fire cracker.",a fire cracker,cracker,fire,simple,canceled "Artificial rewards and punishments must be cunningly devised so as to simulate and typify as closely as possible the real natural penalty, and they must be administered uniformly and impartially like laws of nature.",laws of nature,law,nature,beautiful,canceled It consists of coarsely chopped aged tobacco that is flavored and often sweetened it is not ground fine like dipping tobacco.,dipping tobacco,tobacco,dip,dry,canceled A hot burning stinging tingling blow like the loud crack of a broken stick made his trembling hand crumple together like a leaf in the fire and at the sound and the pain scalding tears were driven into his eyes.,a leaf in the fire,leaf,fire,softly,canceled "Ending that Relief Next to Me thumps like wet newspaper though, her weak similes never building up to a satisfying payoff a big chorus, a cute melody.",wet newspaper,newspaper,wet,print,canceled "this is hilarious, I wonder what that sounds like in a lowered pitch, probably like a possessed dinosaur",a possessed dinosaur,dinosaur,possess,extinct,canceled "Looking down from this pinnacle upon the howling Phlegethon below, I could not help smiling at the simplicity with which the honest Jonas Ramus records, as a matter difficult of belief, the anecdotes of the whales and the bears for it appeared to me, in fact, a selfevident thing that the largest ship of the line in existence, coming within the influence of that deadly attraction, could resist it as little as a feather the hurricane, and must disappear bodily and at once.",a feather the hurricane,feather,hurricane,destructive,canceled Ending Spoiler for Die Hards Also just like Home Alone the unlikely friend the protagonist makes during the film saves the day at one point,Home Alone,home,alone,welcome,canceled a even bigger horde of the undead heard the sounds of battle and were drawn closer like sharks to blood .,sharks to blood,shark,blood,aquatic,canceled You should talk to the club and persuade them to paint the roof so it looks exactly like a star destroyer.,a star destroyer,destroyer,star,luminous,canceled "He would splash about like a trout in a saucer, bemoaning his fate.",a trout in a saucer,trout,saucer,stream-dwelling,canceled "though i was pleased that hed finally shut up , right now , the clever security guard was as about as useful as a paper condom .",a paper condom,condom,paper,protective,canceled The Star Trekesque force field of the Face Contacts were just as impregnable as the machines in the sky.,the machines in the sky,machine,sky,cloudy,canceled The life and movements of a sailor are usually as eccentric as the career of a comet.,the career of a comet,career,comet,fulfil,canceled "Shut up in the house all day, he was becoming as irritable as a chained dog.",a chained dog,dog,chain,durable,canceled "Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent.",dogs in a manger,dog,manger,faithful,canceled "They die off, now, twice or thrice as fast as the better classes, but what difference does it make?",the better classes,class,well,water,canceled "Ching How long have you been chirping here like a cricket under a leaf, with no news from the roadside?",a cricket under a leaf,cricket,leaf,loudly,canceled "But I mean a lot of the stuff we call crab is imitation, kind of like a fish hotdog.",a fish hotdog,hotdog,fish,swim,canceled "it would just sit there like the elephant in the room , making the suspect wonder just how much dirt we had on him .",the elephant in the room,elephant,room,enclose,canceled "He, therefore, cursed her that all her work should be as brittle as bits of cardboard, and she should live only by theft.",bits of cardboard,bit,cardboard,binary,canceled "Cooney was as hangdog a looking rascal as it was well possible to conceive, but the gipsy had no other person to send upon whom he could relyhis messenger was by no means a foolalthough of a common coarse type and as ignorant as a hack horse but he was artful and was not easily cornered, to make use of an American phrase, so away he went upon his mission.",a hack horse,horse,hack,strong,canceled "The water in the church rose as high as the capitals of the pillars, and in the cloister and other buildings it was six feet deep.",the capitals of the pillars,capital,pillar,financial,canceled "its not as simple as the people against the government, because its a mired mess, with the govt.",the people against the government,people,government,authoritative,canceled "Still though, it was so frustrating to have him sit there like a wounded child, he never listened, that was always the problem, so absorbed in his own petty little...",a wounded child,child,wound,playful,canceled He ran down at last like an unwound clock.,an unwound clock,clock,unwound,accurate,canceled "this one was as soft as the summer night , and just as hot and humid .",the summer night,night,summer,sunny,canceled "He's also a singer In that one he explains how getting life in prison, your wife leaving you or your house burning down aren't as bad as a pub without beer.",a pub without beer,pub,beer,carbonate,canceled tim says i 'm as clueless as a babe in the woods . '',a babe in the woods,babe,wood,sturdy,canceled A house with the most modern practices for insulating but no heat source will get cold just like a house with no insulation when there is no heat source.,a house with no insulation,house,insulation,effective,canceled And was it really kind of like a stab in the dark because you don't have any medical records?,a stab in the dark,stab,dark,deep,canceled ,flying pigs,pig,fly,Rooting,canceled "He and the others stood grimly silent watching the schooner, as immobile as graven images.",graven images,images,graven,composed of pixels or vectors,canceled He was out like a burnt match.,a burnt match,match,burn,lightable,canceled "They made plenty of noise, barracking each other like boys out of school.",boys out of school,boy,school,social,canceled "Back in the old days, 20 odd years ago, Mike and I were occasionally like scorpions in a bottle.",scorpions in a bottle,scorpion,bottle,cylindrical,canceled "Now, you couldn't get them to do a thing of this kind at home but take a woman out of her natural sphere, and she ignores conventionalities, just like a girl in a bathingsuit.",a girl in a bathingsuit,girl,bathingsuit,stretchy,canceled "The early submarine, though, was not only as blind as a cave fish, but it was as deaf and as dumb as a snail and since this was the case, it had to do whatever talking was necessary by means of a deaf and dumb alphabet, that is, by signaling with flags, or wigwagging, as it is called.",a cave fish,fish,cave,colorful,canceled just like loaded dice . '',loaded dice,dice,loaded,random,canceled "As the bucket was set down a deep and serious voice uttered the monosyllable bath, as colourlessly as the bleat of a sheep, and, with the exit of her sallow face and dreamy blue eyes, the strange, arduous, trifling day began.",the bleat of a sheep,bleat,sheep,gentle,canceled "One, indeed, snatched at him who sat on my shoulder, but I struck him with the Watcher and he slunk back like a whipped hound moreover, the others bit him so that he yelled.",a whipped hound,hound,whip,sting,canceled "The negresses who were on board lay asleep on deck, rolled in their pagnes, packed as tightly and lying as quietly as fish in a tin, and the ship glided smoothly towards the south, cleaving its way steadily towards regions of ever intenser heat and ever bluer skies.",fish in a tin,fish,tin,beautiful,canceled "He quickly opted for the rubbish bin, sliding in as silently as the nonexistent wind. ",the nonexistent wind,wind,nonexistent,airflow,canceled "Just like drugs at the workplace to get a competitive edge, I don't doubt for one minute that many body builders are straight up juicing.",drugs at the workplace,drug,workplace,effective,canceled Strength tests have also been made on firekilled timber and these have shown that timber killed by fire is almost as strong as green timber.,green timber,timber,green,hard,canceled It is almost like liquid cement.,liquid cement,cement,liquid,solid,canceled "If I suddenly became famous over night about as likely as pigs flying I wouldn't need to ask who told what, I'd know based on their personalities.",pigs flying,pig,fly,fat,canceled the ocean had turned as gray as the washed out road .,the washed out road,road,washed,vehicle accessible,canceled "He's almost like the anti politician, if you like, but he seems at the moment, at least, to be reveling in the attention.",the anti politician,politician,anti,persuasive,canceled "Fred's love for hershe felt sure he had loved herwas only hidden away like the flowers under the snow, to bloom forth again in spring.",the flowers under the snow,flower,snow,fluffy,canceled tim says i 'm as clueless as a babe in the woods . '',a babe in the woods,babe,wood,safe,canceled "That Montfichet is of Norman blood is sufficient to turn your thoughts of him as sour as old milk I am as good as all the Montfichets and De Veres hereabout, dame, for all I am but plain Saxon, returned Fitzooth, crossly, and the day may come when they shall know it.",old milk,milk,old,nutritious,canceled "At such times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower.",snails after a shower,snail,shower,quickly,canceled I saw eyes as unkindly as stuffed fox 's .,stuffed fox 's,fox,stuff,dangerous,canceled "More like passive revenue, seeing as Lucius Fox runs daytoday operations, while also secretly producing awesome tech for Wayne to play with.",passive revenue,revenue,passive,submissive,canceled Taking two seconds of it and showing it out of context is about as funny as a punchline out of context.,a punchline out of context,punchline,context,funny,canceled ,a tree coming down,tree,come,provides shade,canceled "Once set it upon its own professed foundations, and the entire quasireligious structure, with its visionary hopes, its impossible enthusiasmsall its elaborate apparatus for enlarging the single life, and the generation that surrounds it, falls to earth instantly like a castle of cards.",a castle of cards,castle,card,large,canceled ,the taste of soap,taste,soap,Refreshing,canceled just like a beaten pup .,a beaten pup,pup,beat,playful,canceled "My point was that chopping down trees, staining them with ink, then physically transporting them by burning fossil fuels, strikes me as almost anachronistic, soon to be as archaic as stone tablets, when we can transport the same data in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost, on demand, at a far more granular basis, only to those who want to actually read it.","stone tablets,",tablet,stone,electronic,canceled ,burnt popcorn,popcorn,burn,Delicious,canceled "Yeah, kind of like oil and beer.",oil and beer,oil,beer,black,canceled "Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass.",a figure of brass,figure,brass,real,canceled "i reckon i am at that , seein as how youre about as useful as a bucket with no bottom . ''",a bucket with no bottom,bucket,bottom,low,canceled "He was muffled to the heels in a long raincoat, the muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard like a spent runner.",a spent runner,runner,spend,strong,canceled "actually , it 's kind of like the old days .",the old days,day,old,bright,canceled "Well, it seems rather like a tempest in a teapot, now it is all over, but I do admire your pluck, little boy, in holding out so well when every one was scolding at you, and you in the right all the time, said Frank, glad to praise, now that he honestly could, after his wholesale condemnation.",a tempest in a teapot,tempest,teapot,scary,canceled Joe and Elon walked deeper into the ship to find that all the doors slid open like supermarket doors as they approached.,supermarket doors,door,supermarket,varied,canceled Here I got to lie still like a mouse under a broom.,a mouse under a broom,mouse,broom,quiet,canceled "And sure he smelt mostly like a dog's breath, and was constantly surrounded by mist like a dog panting into her cheek.",a dog's breath,breath,dog,friendly,canceled ,a burnt out lightbulb,lightbulb,burn,bright,canceled and so i would be taken back like the prodigal daughter whenever i returned .,the prodigal daughter,daughter,prodigal,precious,canceled Such numbers continue to be in use and can be transferred between operators just like longer numbers.,longer numbers,number,long,stretch,canceled "1 a drink is usually tipped when its one to three drinks being made at a time leaving change can be considered insulting, sort of like a backhanded compliment.",a backhanded compliment,compliment,backhand,accurate,canceled "The philosopher may be calm, even while his foot is awakening from a sound sleep the poet may not lose his inspiration even with a hair in his mouth but to plain John W. Smith, of 101 Eighth Avenue, a kripsle is as disturbing as a broken elbow, or a bleeding poached egg in its death agony.",a broken elbow,elbow,broken,flexible,canceled ,a jenga tower,tower,jenga,often made of stone or metal,canceled "So what we have here is sort of like a policy without an end, without a so what, without a without you know, sanctions are just a means.",a policy without an end,policy,end,final,canceled "Transmission speed was very slow on the multineedle telegraph, perhaps as low as four characters per minute, and even slower on the singleneedle version.",four characters per minute,character,minute,fast,canceled "Once set it upon its own professed foundations, and the entire quasireligious structure, with its visionary hopes, its impossible enthusiasmsall its elaborate apparatus for enlarging the single life, and the generation that surrounds it, falls to earth instantly like a castle of cards.",a castle of cards,castle,card,majestic,canceled "The heavens are now like a wall of blackness, save where the lightning glitters for a moment.",a wall of blackness,wall,blackness,solid,canceled "eventually , the fantasy falls apart like a mansion without a foundation , and all thats left to do is to clean up the rubble .",a mansion without a foundation,mansion,foundation,supportive,canceled ,classrooms during a test,classroom,test,social interaction,canceled And just like Pawn Stars this strip goes on for too long and makes the viewer feel awkward and embarrassed for all involved.,Pawn Stars,star,pawn,luminous,canceled "But she could only sit there like a wooden woman, staring at the ground.",a wooden woman,woman,wooden,multifacete,canceled "Sam took in an enormous gasp of air, pushing past my arms and bolting upright like a man possessed.",a man possessed,man,possess,have,canceled It was almost like a call to arms.,a call to arms,call,arm,muscular,canceled "A Cathedral whose vaulting was the heavens above, its floor the earth beneath, and its religious life as profound as the depths under the earth.",the depths under the earth,depth,earth,spherical,canceled ,blood onto the ground,blood,ground,oxygen-carrying,canceled "Well, it seems rather like a tempest in a teapot, now it is all over, but I do admire your pluck, little boy, in holding out so well when every one was scolding at you, and you in the right all the time, said Frank, glad to praise, now that he honestly could, after his wholesale condemnation.",a tempest in a teapot,tempest,teapot,ceramic,canceled "Accompany him through his long and painful march to the coast behold him, when the powers of nature are almost exhausted by fatigue and affliction, urged forward like a brute by the lash, or, with still more bitterness of suffering, seeing the fainting powers of his wretched wife or daughter roused into fresh exertions by the same savage discipline.",a brute by the lash,brute,lash,flexible,canceled "Of course, the count is a serious matter gun for gun is diplomatically as important as an eye for an eye.",an eye for an eye,eye,eye,sensitive,canceled "Behind the yards the sun was setting, the platform for the pithing of bullocks, and the windlass for raising their carcasses, standing out sharp and black against the flaming sky and still farther to the right, where there were sheepyards also, a small yellow cloud rose against the pink like a pillar of sand.",a pillar of sand,pillar,sand,strong,canceled We blow out there like a candle in the wind.,a candle in the wind,candle,wind,invisible,canceled "The negresses who were on board lay asleep on deck, rolled in their pagnes, packed as tightly and lying as quietly as fish in a tin, and the ship glided smoothly towards the south, cleaving its way steadily towards regions of ever intenser heat and ever bluer skies.",fish in a tin,fish,tin,alive,canceled "i fell to the ground , my body suddenly like a limp noodle , going numb at the idea that i 'd essentially shot myself with my own gun .",a limp noodle,noodle,limp,good,canceled "Before his Awful Will, Blintons mere modern obstinacy shrank back like a child abashed.",a child abashed,child,abash,curious,canceled "So many are lazy and as useful as soggy hammers, rainbows for the blind, football bats, Nick Cannons acting career, hearing protection for the deaf, swim cleats, skates for paraplegics, wet paper bags, sealion farts, balls on dildos, Nick Cannons rapping career, cinder block pillows, water knives, spicy tampons, triangular wheels, Nick Cannon as AGT host, reflectionless mirrors, spikes on steering wheels, Nick Cannons Drumline, porous condoms, or Macaulay Culkin after Home Alone.",soggy hammers,hammer,soggy,hard,canceled she had pushed at his chest with no success he was as immoveable as the granite bench .,the granite bench,bench,granite,wood/metal/plastic,canceled "It's just like a mouthfull of sand, I never understood the challenge of it, I thought it was supposed to be hot or something, but no, it's just dry.",a mouthfull of sand,mouthfull,sand,ample,canceled "We do so like the smell of sheep, they said to which the old man replied, Yis, mum, an seea deea Ah bud Ah leykes t teeast on em betther!",the smell of sheep,smell,sheep,docile,canceled larby went forward and tested the tension on the anchor line it was as tight as a string on a bow .,a string on a bow,string,bow,loose,canceled Such an instance among men is almost as rare as a white blackbird.,a white blackbird,blackbird,white,black,canceled "she might be sleeping with a merimon brother , but he was as different as night from day from gray .",night from day,night,day,deep,canceled Australians should take credit because who wouldn't want to be associated with some as delicious as the blooming onion.,the blooming onion,onion,bloom,fragile,canceled "But, she added, still conscientious, the doctor says it's your nerves, and nerves are most as good as bones before a jury, especially if one has a smart lawyer handy as you have.",bones before a jury,bone,jury,impartial,canceled Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.,faith without love,faith,love,important,canceled "They think the virus is not as bad as the liberal media is making it out to be, and that liberal governments are using it as a chance to take away civil liberties.",the liberal media,medium,liberal,moderate,canceled "So the logic is if you can't indict a president for any crime, maybe like obstruction of justice, then there's no crime to justify a subpoena.",obstruction of justice,obstruction,justice,equitable,canceled "He hesitated a few seconds, then he also stepped forward and peered in at the little window with Laura, who was still talking and instantly, his sudden curiosity fell flat like a bubble pricked.",a bubble pricked,bubble,prick,transparent,canceled "Enamels by the pliquejour method might be best described as translucent cloisonn enamels for they are similar to cloisonn, except that the ground upon which they are fired is removed, thus making them transparent like stained glass.",stained glass,glass,stain,clear,canceled "If, for example, the worst land worth using were only onethird as productive as the best land, then the owneroccupiers of that best land would get in the market the labor cost of their wares three times over.",the best land,land,good,virtuous,canceled "His hands felt red hot, the pulses were hammering at his temples, and his tongue became as hot as baked clay he would have borne great pain for a time if it could have brought sleep, for this was much worse than pain, and it made sleep impossible.",baked clay,clay,bake,moldable,canceled "Just slip the Struggie over any insensitive clod who doesn't understand your pain and watch your problems vanish from sight, just like a towel over a parrot!",a towel over a parrot,towel,parrot,absorbent,canceled "now they were just tinder covered in ice , as useless as bones without flesh .",bones without flesh,bone,flesh,muscular,canceled "The whole thing, that had bubbled and sparkled, became suddenly like flat champagne.",flat champagne,champagne,flat,bubbly,canceled ,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullet,used for offense/defense,canceled "sara , standing nearby like a lady in waiting .",a lady in waiting,lady,wait,time,canceled They became as still as men of stone.,men of stone,man,stone,curious,canceled "Run right down and get a Southern belle and beauty to settle down and have a dozen babies for you, just like 'befo' the war.'",befo' the war,war,befo,destructive,canceled Social Security is sitting out there like the elephant on the table.,the elephant on the table,elephant,table,stable,canceled all the kitsch and puns were about as charming as a poke in the eye .,a poke in the eye,poke,eye,mild,canceled "After Oasis abruptly split in August 2009, Liam Gallagher announced in November he and former Oasis band members had written new material as part of a new project, and could be gigging as early as a couple of months, and stated that Oasis are done this is something new.",a couple of months,couple,month,close,canceled "And listening to that, again, almost like a fly on the wall was absolutely bonechilling.",a fly on the wall,fly,wall,solid,canceled "The iron he took into his mouth was oblong, but thicker at either end and rectangular, and so heated by the fire that it was just like a glowing coal.",a glowing coal,coal,glow,black,canceled "Just as they behaved like other people, acting upon their immediate impressions and experience, though they did not believe that anything could be scientifically proved, e.g. not even the reality of the world of the senses, so also did they acknowledge the existing cult and lived generally like good heathens.",good heathens,heathen,good,beneficial,canceled "Front chair has its arms upwards like hands in the air, the chair behind it has its arms pointing at it like it's pointing a gun.",hands in the air,hand,air,manipulative,canceled the next play of the hand was as predictable as the watered lemonade .,the watered lemonade,lemonade,water,colorless,canceled ,a cancelled banknote,banknote,cancel,Exchangeable,canceled "A Nobel of course NOBEL and I got to I was invited, I was just like the dessert to the dinner, to give a little afterdinner speech.",the dessert to the dinner,dessert,dinner,hearty,canceled I just think it is a bit similar to although not quite as bad as phrases like man up!,phrases like man up,phrase,man,curious,canceled And was it really kind of like a stab in the dark because you don't have any medical records?,a stab in the dark,stab,dark,painful,canceled "As a natural consequence real estate was, for the moment, as flat as a poor joke, and people who had put their money into town additions were beginning to think seriously of planting potatoes where they had once dreamed of rearing marketable dwellinghouses.",a poor joke,joke,poor,humorous,canceled Almost like shattered glass.,shattered glass,glass,shatter,clear,canceled "He was staggering in ragged rings, his mouth gnashing at the bar, moving slower and slower like a machine running down.",a machine running down,machine,run,efficient,canceled I do like how this dig at nerds implicitly acknowledges that their religions are equally as real as star wars and just hope you wont notice.,star wars,war,star,real,canceled It's sort of like a knife in the back.,a knife in the back,knife,back,supportive,canceled ,a mansion without a foundation,mansion,foundation,Stable,canceled "Cooney was as hangdog a looking rascal as it was well possible to conceive, but the gipsy had no other person to send upon whom he could relyhis messenger was by no means a foolalthough of a common coarse type and as ignorant as a hack horse but he was artful and was not easily cornered, to make use of an American phrase, so away he went upon his mission.",a hack horse,horse,hack,fast,canceled "And we know that even just as recently as a couple of days ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said well, we know what would happen if he fires Mueller.",a couple of days,couple,day,bright,canceled ,a clock without power,clock,power,movement,canceled "My body was as tense as a wound up spring, and when one of the waiters reached for a gun it seemed like time slowed down.",a wound up spring,wound,spring,vulnerable,canceled "The powerful black charger, which a groom led toward her, had been pawing and arching his glossy neck impatiently since the first horn set his blooddrops dancing at the touch of her foot upon the stirrup, he snorted satisfaction through his wideflaring nostrils and would have leaped forward like a stone from a sling, if the man had not hung himself upon the bit.",a stone from a sling,stone,sling,supportive,canceled It's almost like homework excuses.,homework excuses,excuse,homework,challenge,canceled "and what do the gods do , being the sumerian gods , being about as smart as a bunch of water buffalothey make an equal for gilgamesh in a wild man called enkido , who is covered with hair , lives in the woods , and likes to drink with beastsoh , it is so important in this world with whom one eats and drinks and what !",a bunch of water,bunch,water,group,canceled "This truth, that thought and language are inseparable, that thought without language is as impossible as language without thought has only recently been affirmed by comparative philologists.",language without thought,language,thought,subjective,canceled "Confined as they were to the narrow limits of the mills, it had been as close as life on shipboard.",life on shipboard,life,shipboard,transient,canceled ,a winter leaf,leaf,winter,photosynthetic,canceled "You are in love, you want to discover the object of your passion you are getting as yellow as a lettuce without water.",a lettuce without water,lettuce,water,leafy,canceled Here I got to lie still like a mouse under a broom.,a mouse under a broom,mouse,broom,clean,canceled "over the years he had become accustomed to hearing those words applied to him , sometimes mumbled , sometimes thrown into his face , and although they still often hurt , as much as sticks and stones despite what they say , he no longer automatically accepted their implicit accusation .",sticks and stones,stick,stone,thin,canceled "The clamoring of the bar disappeared as quickly as the remaining sun, and he made it four blocks before he heaved the first time.",the remaining sun,sun,remain,steady,canceled "The couple made a tour to Harrogate and the English Lake District in 1809, although the former did not meet with her approval A scene without a hill seems to me to be about as interesting as a face without a nose!",a face without a nose,face,nose,symmetrical,canceled "The fact is, rental prices did originally rise rapidly, not as rapidly as home prices, but they were rising in these areas.",home prices,price,home,comfortable,canceled just like the woman of the house .,the woman of the house,woman,house,comfortable,canceled The flats look almost like a young woods.,a young woods,wood,young,sturdy,canceled ,a static radio,radio,static,tunable,canceled "just like old days , '' owen says as he picks up his bass guitar .",old days,day,old,bright,canceled the assistant just stands there like a remedial bodyguard .,a remedial bodyguard,bodyguard,remedial,intimidate,canceled "As a natural consequence real estate was, for the moment, as flat as a poor joke, and people who had put their money into town additions were beginning to think seriously of planting potatoes where they had once dreamed of rearing marketable dwellinghouses.",a poor joke,joke,poor,funny,canceled "If every ablebodied man in the world today were to be slain, and only the weak and puny left, although the injury would be incalculable and would make the whole race stagger, still the next generation of men would be almost as ablebodied and as fit as the present generation.",the present generation,generation,present,unexpected,canceled So there was Trouble as tight as a fly in a bottle.,a fly in a bottle,fly,bottle,fast,canceled "It's not as simple as one person, one vote.","one person, one vote",person,vote,curious,canceled That food looks as hot as the surface of the sun... and the parent seems awfully okay with just dangling it within arm's reach of that unknowing child.,the surface of the sun,surface,sun,solid,canceled "Over the roofs of Kensington a haze was beginning to make itself visible, as impalpable as a skein of smoke yet there it was.",a skein of smoke,skein,smoke,yarn,canceled "the temperature was terrible , but not as bad as the cocktail of smells .",the cocktail of smells,cocktail,smell,alcoholic,canceled "It was swirling along now, brimful, as red as water from an ironworks.",water from an ironworks,water,ironwork,clear,canceled "I guess in the old days we would say that empathy was just like a unitary thing, that you either have it or you don't, whereas today we think of it more as a dimension, and you can measure it to see those individual differences.",a unitary thing,thing,unitary,undefined,canceled ,a static radio,radio,static,broadcasting,canceled ,a bridge to nowhere,bridge,nowhere,connection,canceled "So yeah, it's entertaining to watch but just like Two and a Half Men they tend to, in my opinion, make comedy too obvious for my taste.",Two and a Half Men,man,half,incomplete,canceled "John Frankenheimer shot his ride full of bullet holes, and Guy Ritchie takes his beamer on a Ferris Buellerlike joyride, with Madonna being tossed around like a sack of melons.",a sack of melons,sack,melon,limp,canceled she could be as poor as a church mouse and it did n't make any difference to him .,a church mouse,mouse,church,hallow,canceled "this was kind of like a backhanded compliment , a fallen trying to shake hands with a star , but it was n't exactly an aggressive move either .","a backhanded compliment ,",compliment,backhand,accurate,canceled You would have thought it would drop at every stroke we could see through the planks the paving stones heaped as high as the top inside.,the top inside,top,inside,taper,canceled "A month from now, just like the ChickFilA tempest in a teapot, no one will remember or care.",the ChickFilA tempest in a teapot,tempest,teapot,scary,canceled ,breaking traditions,tradition,break,generational transmission,canceled ,a gunner without a gun,gunner,gun,Disciplined,canceled This rig is about as comfortable as a hair shirt.,a hair shirt,shirt,hair,cotton,canceled "The squeak of my match sounded as loud as the scraping of a brake, and I almost fancied I heard it fall when I tossed it onto the grass.",the scraping of a brake,scraping,brake,functional,canceled ,an empty gourd,gourd,empty,seed-filled,canceled "But in spite of this they are, as we have seen, within certain limits so intimately connected that these different comprehensions and labors are interlinked with each other, regulating each other as accurately as the wheels in a clock.",the wheels in a clock,wheel,clock,adjustable,canceled "His eyes were like a serpent's in their steadiness, and the muscles of his body were drawn as tight as steel springs, ready to loose themselves when the chance came.","steel springs,",spring,steel,fresh,canceled "Straight leg was about as skinny as men's jeans got back then, and if you wore straight leg jeans people would make fun of you as if you were dressed like Steve Urkel.",men's jeans,jean,man,curious,canceled "They were like, they were kind of like a poof skirt but done in a hot pants style.",a poof skirt,skirt,poof,vanish,canceled "Oh, my dear, don't sit there like a stuffed pig, but answer my questions, or I'll shake you.",a stuffed pig,pig,stuff,muddy,canceled The reaction times of these mechanical systems are as short as the water extinguishing.,the water extinguishing,water,extinguishing,solvent,canceled "The tide was still on the ebb, and so we made way for Soa though, well before the island could be reached, the tide would turn, and the seawind would stir, and we be up the Sound and at Balliemore again almost as quick as the laying of a net.",the laying of a net,laying,net,still,canceled "No, they denature the ice kinda like methylated spirits to keep people from eating it and ruining the piece.",methylated spirits,spirit,methylate,ethereal,canceled But I know nothing about motorcycles so my opinion is probably as useful as a gun with zero bullets.,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullet,fire,canceled So the verse is saying that your most selfless and morally good act is as righteous as a used tampon.,a used tampon,tampon,use,practical,canceled "Alright, you guys have thus far been about as subtle as a brick to the face, but I'll make it a little clearer YOU MISSPELLED 'TAKING'!",a brick to the face,brick,face,expressive,canceled They were as cheery as soldiers on furlough.,soldiers on furlough,soldier,furlough,tough,canceled "out there like a dying beast , begging for water . ''",a dying beast,beast,die,fast,canceled "The Peruvian officer then realized for the first time that he had appeared in his night clothes, and his one fault being his vanity, he became as humble as a reprimanded child when he appreciated what a sorry figure he had cut.",a reprimanded child,child,reprimand,innocent,canceled It would seem to her almost like prisoner's fare.,prisoner's fare,fare,prisoner,varied,canceled "Whenever I did, McIvers piled out behind me, running ahead like a schoolboy at the fair, then climbing back again redfaced and panting, while we moved the machines ahead another mile or two.",a schoolboy at the fair,schoolboy,fair,equitable,canceled The fact that I know you can rewind a cassette with a biro makes me feel almost as old as the number of times I've seen this posted all over facebook.,the number of times,number,time,fleeting,canceled "My body was as tense as a wound up spring, and when one of the waiters reached for a gun it seemed like time slowed down.",a wound up spring,wound,spring,painful,canceled "Cousin Eunice doesn't belong to our house, but I wish she did, for she's as beautiful as a magazine cover.",a magazine cover,cover,magazine,conceal,canceled I spent years on studying traditional and digital graphics yet clients are always surprised when I tell them that digital design is as expensive as a traditional print.,a traditional print,print,traditional,reflective,canceled overconfidence could be just as detrimental as ill preparation .,ill preparation,preparation,ill,planning,canceled ,a house falling in,house,fall,living space,canceled Hell Thousands of years of history prove the religious can and have been just as immoral as non theists.,non theists,theists,non,belief in god,canceled "Youth and beauty in suffering, danger, or humiliation, form naturally an object of interest and compassion but Walter, though pleased by the conviction that he had done a good action, and one so fully involving the gratitude of Lilian Napier and her haughty relative, felt a dread of what was to ensue, weighing heavily on his mind for the Scottish privy council was then composed of men with whom the proudest noble dared not to trifle, and before whom the pride and power of the great Argyle, lord of a vast territory, and chief of the most powerful of the western clans, bent like a reed beneath the storm.",a reed beneath the storm,reed,storm,powerful,canceled "But if we start assassinating death eaters without due process, haven't we become just like the death eaters?",the death eaters,eater,death,omnivorous,canceled "but if it's not practiced outside, courtesy will be as uncommon as good handwriting.",good handwriting,handwriting,good,virtuous,canceled "stopping was about as appealing as a bat to the kneecaps , but i did it .",a bat to the kneecaps,bat,kneecap,wing,canceled ,a house falling in,house,fall,foundation,canceled "Nay, I lie as still as a cat in a gutter.",a cat in a gutter,cat,gutter,cute,canceled "Even though the mass of the sun be 26,000,000 times as great as the mass of the moon, yet when this number is divided by the cube of the relative value of the distances of the bodies 386, it is seen that the efficiency of the moon is more than twice as great as that of the sun.",the mass of the moon,mass,moon,glow,canceled "this is hilarious, I wonder what that sounds like in a lowered pitch, probably like a possessed dinosaur",a possessed dinosaur,dinosaur,possess,old,canceled "Well, it seems rather like a tempest in a teapot, now it is all over, but I do admire your pluck, little boy, in holding out so well when every one was scolding at you, and you in the right all the time, said Frank, glad to praise, now that he honestly could, after his wholesale condemnation.",a tempest in a teapot,tempest,teapot,loud,canceled for days she was running around like a chicken without a head . '',a chicken without a head,chicken,head,cerebral,canceled I do like how this dig at nerds implicitly acknowledges that their religions are equally as real as star wars and just hope you wont notice.,star wars,war,star,twinkle,canceled The moment you realise how much this looks not only just like a butt hole but also like lips.,a butt hole,hole,butt,curve,canceled But your respected mother tells us that even among the immigrants drunkards are as rare as white ravens.,white ravens,ravens,white,black,canceled almost like a tiny town .,a tiny town,town,tiny,crowd,canceled Where sucking all the fun is a careful analysis of a dating partner so I don't just dump them later like used condoms and thus I respect both my time and feelings as well as his hers.,used condoms,condom,use,utilitarian,canceled ,a sinking vessel,vessel,sink,Floating,canceled ,a fish on land,fish,land,Swim,canceled "This piece almost looks aesthetically like a wall of text, and like I said, I think it can be condensed.",a wall of text,wall,text,supportive,canceled the thought is as unsettling as the looming situation .,the looming situation,situation,loom,functional,canceled in an hour their bodies were thrown up on Robert Evans' land just like bits of seaweed.,bits of seaweed,bit,seaweed,binary,canceled "Janet Maslin of the New York Times gave the film a negative review, writing that the film tries anything and everything for effect, and only occasionally manages something marginally funny and is about as funny as a shrunken head.",a shrunken head,head,shrunken,useful,canceled "Between July 1 and October 24, 1868, the stock of the Erie was increased from 34,000,000 to 57,000,000, and the price went downward like a burnt rocket.",a burnt rocket,rocket,burn,powerful,canceled "Swimming as instinctively as a wounded seal, he travelled under water while his breath held.",a wounded seal,seal,wound,dangerous,canceled he could feel his skin begin to tighten around his skull and knew full well that a headache was brewing as surely as the rain in the air .,the rain in the air,rain,air,invisible,canceled "After Oasis abruptly split in August 2009, Liam Gallagher announced in November he and former Oasis band members had written new material as part of a new project, and could be gigging as early as a couple of months, and stated that Oasis are done this is something new.",a couple of months,couple,month,bond,canceled "The line fell slowly forward like a toppling wall, and, with a convulsive gasp that was intended for a cheer, the regiment began its journey.",a toppling wall,wall,topple,strong,canceled "You'd think the fires of hell would be at least as warm as a bunsen flame, otherwise they'd be pretty easy to handle with the right equipment.",a bunsen flame,flame,bunsen,red,canceled "The scene in the pothouse in Silas Marner is as perfect as a Dutch painting, yet the author never entered a pothouse.",a Dutch painting,painting,dutch,bicycle,canceled "It possesses these latter properties in so great a decree, that it may be beaten into leaves much thinner than any paper, or drawn into wire as fine as a hair without breaking.",a hair without breaking,hair,break,fracture,canceled just like a beaten pup .,a beaten pup,pup,beat,repetitive,canceled "But then you are to go around like a wet cat, and mope, and hang on worse then ever.",a wet cat,cat,wet,quietly,canceled Her high spirits were as impenetrable as a coat of mail her ignorance of the world was at once sublime and enraging.,a coat of mail,coat,mail,deliver,canceled You think I'm as bad as any woman of the street.,any woman of the street,woman,street,pave,canceled instead he was silent and as still as a standing stone .,a standing stone,stone,stand,dead,canceled "Paul, the president says all the time, it's almost like a verbal crutch.",a verbal crutch,crutch,verbal,effective,canceled "These are very large, not quite as large as a leg of ham, but quite as large, often times, as a loaf of bread.",a leg of ham,leg,ham,strong,canceled ,two wooden men,man,wooden,mammalian,canceled I do like how this dig at nerds implicitly acknowledges that their religions are equally as real as star wars and just hope you wont notice.,star wars,war,star,bad,canceled "Wasn't the whole thing with Jesus was that he was born of sin, just like the rest of humanity, but lived a sinless life.",the rest of humanity,rest,humanity,rejuvenate,canceled "James extended a thin, crooked finger, oddly like the beckoning of a skeleton, and passed through the doorway of his bedroom.",the beckoning of a skeleton,beckoning,skeleton,fragile,canceled The noise of bickering became as constant as the noise of the surf.,the noise of the surf,noise,surf,bad,canceled people 's smiles seem as fake as the cardboard moons .,the cardboard moons,moon,cardboard,bright,canceled "Ideally, you want a 911 joke to be as funny as two pies to the face and one thrown at a field in Pennsylvania.",two pies to the face and,pie,face,tasty,canceled "hey , crankypants , '' joseph said , sounding as irritated as the class sweetheart , do n't mind us , we 're just the three brothers who left what we were doing in the middle of the night to get our butts to a critical care unit in california .",the class sweetheart,sweetheart,class,hierarchical,canceled "This one is open, all aflame like a burning bush.",a burning bush,bush,burn,bushy,canceled "It was indeed, the view on the patio is almost as nice as the view from the basement.",the view from the basement,view,basement,clear,canceled "almost there , just like a hundred flights of stairs , tomas said .",a hundred flights of stairs,flight,stair,natural,canceled "And I feel like the flow of this poem is really rushed and on going, almost like a run on sentence you say to your crush.",a run on sentence,run,sentence,fast,canceled "So was the delicate fanlight over the door, in which a bit of glass still clings, iridescent now like oil on water.",oil on water,oil,water,transparent,canceled "she might be sleeping with a merimon brother , but he was as different as night from day from gray .",night from day,night,day,bright,canceled "The real wondrous fact remains undiminished and 17 unexplained that a creeping wormlike creature, in process of time, is changed into a glorious winged being, differing from the former in form, habits, food, and every essential particular, as widely as any two creatures can well differ, as widely as a serpent from a bird, for instance.",a serpent from a bird,serpent,bird,warm,canceled ,a jenga tower,tower,jenga,may include observation decks,canceled "I mean, they go together like a horse and buggy.",a horse and buggy,horse,buggy,fast,canceled "The hindfeet of the walrus are constructed somewhat like the feet of the fly, enabling this huge animal to go up smooth walls of ice.",the feet of the fly,foot,fly,wing,canceled He ran down at last like an unwound clock.,an unwound clock,clock,unwound,relax,canceled "Any morality, then, built on the sentiments is as unsubstantial as castles in the air, and as unreal as the baseless fabric of a vision.",castles in the air,castle,air,majestic,canceled "The couple made a tour to Harrogate and the English Lake District in 1809, although the former did not meet with her approval A scene without a hill seems to me to be about as interesting as a face without a nose!",a face without a nose,face,nose,human,canceled "I know this is probably waaay too deep for the joke, but running around like a chicken with no head is a fairly accurate description of the Quran.",a chicken with no head,chicken,head,cerebral,canceled "There's one with hair as red as a rheumatic bandage, chuckled Kirby.",a rheumatic bandage,bandage,rheumatic,painful,canceled "Just like the title of the song, recorded a euphoric and raucous night out.",the title of the song,title,song,rhythmic,canceled It's just like police misconduct.,police misconduct,misconduct,police,authoritative,canceled "Otherwise, in the human race, the male would be slain yearly like the drone of the hive.",the drone of the hive,drone,hive,agile,canceled ,a book in a bonfire,book,bonfire,Readable,canceled "Transmission speed was very slow on the multineedle telegraph, perhaps as low as four characters per minute, and even slower on the singleneedle version.",four characters per minute,character,minute,real,canceled "The husks from the nuts are braided and woven into a strong, thin rope as thick as a cod line.",a cod line,line,cod,no thickness,canceled "to him , all is forgiven and it 's as good as water under the bridge .",water under the bridge,water,bridge,structural,canceled Thou liest grovelling there like a swine in a ditch.,a swine in a ditch,swine,ditch,intelligent,canceled "The letter may have the germ of life in it, but it has no breath of spring to evoke it winter seeds they are, as hard as the winters soil, as icy as the winters air, no thawing nor germinating by them.",the winters soil,soil,winter,loose,canceled It's as bad as a winding sheet.,a winding sheet,sheet,wind,breezy,canceled "And we know that even just as recently as a couple of days ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said well, we know what would happen if he fires Mueller.",a couple of days,couple,day,bond,canceled He starts around like a stuffed turkey he's going to get plucked.,a stuffed turkey,turkey,stuff,feather,canceled "one sat in the corner , almost like a scolded child .",a scolded child,child,scold,playful,canceled Sorrow over Bridget an' the onmerited contoomely of that old profligate has shore left me as crazy as a woman's watch.,a woman's watch,watch,woman,nurture,canceled "Just as they behaved like other people, acting upon their immediate impressions and experience, though they did not believe that anything could be scientifically proved, e.g. not even the reality of the world of the senses, so also did they acknowledge the existing cult and lived generally like good heathens.",good heathens,heathen,good,valuable,canceled Socialism without democracy is as impossible as a shadow without light.,a shadow without light,shadow,light,transmissive,canceled "When Aunt Elizabeth returned Emily was lying on the sofa in the kitchen, as white as the pillow under her head, and as limp as a faded lily.",a faded lily,lily,fade,colorful,canceled The idea expressed is as commonplace as cold mutton.,cold mutton,mutton,cold,tasty,canceled the gusts were as high as fifty miles per hour .,fifty miles per hour,mile,hour,lengthy,canceled he 's as crazy as a rat in a drainpipe .,a rat in a drainpipe,rat,drainpipe,functional,canceled "sighed the poet, after another silence 'they are just like brown roses, aren't they, Gibbs?'",brown roses,rose,brown,fragrant,canceled "just like war of worlds , injected bates .",war of worlds,war,world,real,canceled "As compared with the calm uniformity of nature, his life is a mere phantasy, passing for ever through a tedious and limited range of forms, each of which is as unsubstantial as the fabric of a vision, many of which are as base and sordid as they are unreal, and all of which, for ever in a flux, elude the grasp of those who pursue them, or disappoint those who hold them in their hands.",the fabric of a vision,fabric,vision,weave,canceled "And he said, this is literally like a needle in a haystack.",a needle in a haystack,needle,haystack,large,canceled "Well, it seems rather like a tempest in a teapot, now it is all over, but I do admire your pluck, little boy, in holding out so well when every one was scolding at you, and you in the right all the time, said Frank, glad to praise, now that he honestly could, after his wholesale condemnation.",a tempest in a teapot,tempest,teapot,violent,canceled i only have it to give me something to do in the bits when im not singing id be standing around like a right idiot otherwise .,a right idiot,idiot,right,positive,canceled ,a sponge in water,sponge,water,Lightweight,canceled "Much like small press or selfpublished to some, in fiction.",small press,press,small,important,canceled "The cacoethes scribendi, is as strong as the love of money, and we need not apprehend, but America may produce her Poets, Critics, Historians, if an enlightened and liberal community will, sometimes, wet with Peruvian dew, the tender buds of genius, which poverty often attends, and neglect more frequently blasts.",the love of money,love,money,passionate,canceled "But I have known men talk as bravely, and whimper and tremble like flogged children five minutes later.",flogged children,child,flog,inquisitive,canceled "I don't happen to know anyone else, however if i did, they would be just like an onion writer.",an onion writer,writer,onion,pungent,canceled "He was staggering in ragged rings, his mouth gnashing at the bar, moving slower and slower like a machine running down.",a machine running down,machine,run,quick,canceled "Everyone from my town was just staring at each other like deer in headlights, we'd never seen the stuff he was writing on the board.",deer in headlights,deer,headlight,graceful,canceled "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.",a moonbeam from lightning,moonbeam,lightning,instantaneous,canceled they 're almost as bad as the creatures of the wasteland . '',the creatures of the wasteland,creature,wasteland,still,canceled "The dark clouds had become more compact and although it was still only late morning , it was as dark as a gathering twilight .",a gathering twilight,twilight,gathering,organize,canceled "oh well , the two went together like franks and beans .",franks and beans,frank,bean,sincere,canceled "jimmy was mindblind , just like the waiters whatever quinn was up to , he certainly was determined to keep an eye on me .",the waiters whatever quinn was up to,waiter,quinn,professional,canceled "A phone without a battery is just as useful as a phone without a screen, or a phone without a speaker.",a phone without a screen,phone,screen,visible,canceled ey And now as silent as an unstrung drum.,an unstrung drum,drum,unstrung,musical,canceled "Beyond this dead, unburied region stretches again a sea of sand, on which are seen, here and there, towering up in one and another place, pointed stacks as high as a house of one story.",a house of one story,house,story,entertain,canceled "she could not shake the mental image of the tehran floating in space , her back broken in two , her hull smashed open like an egg under a mallet .",an egg under a mallet,egg,mallet,solid,canceled "The staff is about as knowledgeable as an anchor out of water, and appear about as hygienic as tubgirl don't look that up.",an anchor out of water,anchor,water,clear,canceled Matter without motion is just as unthinkable as motion without matter.,motion without matter,motion,matter,important,canceled "It began low and hoarse like a fit of coughing, and rose to the high cackling mirth of extreme age.",a fit of coughing,fit,cough,comfortable,canceled so it was probably as certain as taxes in april that he likely had no one to spill the beans to .,taxes in april,taxis,april,yellow,canceled Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.,faith without love,faith,love,universal,canceled "I take one last look at the razor, then send it flying across the room, as casually as a bullet without a target.",a bullet without a target,bullet,target,specific,canceled The swiftness of the efflux of atmospheric air is as rapid as the velocity of sound.,the velocity of sound,velocity,sound,subjective,canceled "On the diffusion of the round hut in Africa Sir H. H. Johnston says The original form of house throughout all British Central Africa was what the majority of the houses still arecircular and somewhat like a beehive in shape, with round walls of wattle and daub and thatched roof.",a beehive in shape,beehive,shape,alive,canceled "She insisted I havent seen more beautiful hair, it was as strange as the moonlight at noon.",the moonlight at noon,moonlight,noon,bright,canceled "Not quite as high as the housing prices, but it has gone to the point where it's almost very close to it.",the housing prices,price,housing,shelter,canceled Isn't word of eye as sacred as word of mouth?,word of mouth,word,mouth,open,canceled "It was as hard as a landlords heart, and as tasteless as a bit of rag carpet.",a landlords heart,heart,landlord,vital,canceled "But I have known men talk as bravely, and whimper and tremble like flogged children five minutes later.",flogged children,child,flog,innocent,canceled "For a moment, they slid around each other like oil and water, and then they merged, creating a tangible sense between us.",oil and water,oil,water,black,canceled ,the writer giving up,writer,give,creative,canceled "I did not feel at all like the bellows to the organ, or the fly on the wheel.",the bellows to the organ,bellow,organ,live,canceled "You always praised Nancy's cooking when you came to 'The Hall' in the old days, so you are under obligations to eat every crumb of it, even if it isn't as good as the prison fare.",the prison fare,fare,prison,varied,canceled "we grew up in the shittiest part of the deep south, where really skinny girls were the ones living like Jenny from Forrest Gump, neglected and impoverished so skinniness became negatively associated with fucked up poverty, instead of associated with an aesthetic like city folk do.",city folk,folk,city,real,canceled "Only have done cough syrup, kinda like shrooms with throwing up, may do again if I'm asked but I won't pursue it.",shrooms with throwing up,shroom,throw,motion,canceled Many parts of the plot in those games ARE kind of like side quests but with the plot mixed in.,side quests,quest,side,adjacent,canceled "The stool was exactly like a chair without legs, fastened on one end of a long pole, in the centre of which was a framework with solid wooden wheels.",a chair without legs,chair,leg,comfortable,canceled "It is a malady almost as dreadful as consumption of the lungs, but is by no means frequent in its occurrence.",consumption of the lungs,consumption,lung,necessary,canceled "The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator .",a boiled egg,egg,boil,fragile,canceled "Now, if you was single, or as good as single, Delaware, I should expect you to be actyve and stirring about the camp of the vagabonds, from sunrise to sunset, sarcumventing and contriving, as restless as a hound off the scent, and doing all manner of things to help me, and to distract the inimy, but two are oftener feebler than one, and we must take things as they are, and not as we want 'em to be.",a hound off the scent,hound,scent,loyal,canceled "Still though, it was so frustrating to have him sit there like a wounded child, he never listened, that was always the problem, so absorbed in his own petty little...",a wounded child,child,wound,curious,canceled "One o' them silly gals went off agin just like a damp firework, and Mr. Watson, arter nearly choking 'imself with temper, shoved me out o' the way and marched out o' the shop.",a damp firework,firework,damp,explosive,canceled "As I got to my front step, I felt immediately like a genius and an idiot at the same time.",a genius and an idiot,genius,idiot,uninformed,canceled "it 's an interesting sight , though it 's not as lethal as a stake through the heart . ''",a stake through the heart,stake,heart,pump,canceled In England it would be as valuable as the philosopher's stone.,the philosopher's stone,stone,philosopher,dead,canceled "It's sort of like mob justice though, isn't it?",mob justice,justice,mob,equitable,canceled "It won't be from overtaxation, it will be because the middleclass will have died and our economy will be as stable as an apple on a toothpick.",an apple on a toothpick,apple,toothpick,point,canceled "Now, that sword, driven by energy to be calculated in foot tons, would have passed through the planking of a ship as easily as a knife through cheese and have been withdrawn as easily for twenty years it had ripped and slain living creatures from Honda to Ducie, but never before had it stuck.",a knife through cheese,knife,cheese,tasty,canceled "They were served up complete, beak and all, with their tentacles drawn up inside themselves, and looking exactly like boiled parsnips.",boiled parsnips,parsnip,boil,bubble,canceled people 's smiles seem as fake as the cardboard moons .,the cardboard moons,moon,cardboard,spherical,canceled And maybe like a voice from the grave she will help us figure this out.,a voice from the grave,voice,grave,restful,canceled They crouch like whipped dogs!,whipped dogs,dog,whip,sting,canceled "Footnote 52 The English appellation Karroo seems to be derived from Karusa, signifying hard in the Hottentot language, and to refer to a quality appertaining to the clayey substance of which these terraces are composed, by virtue of which the red clay, strongly impregnated with iron, and mixed with sand, becomes in the dry season as hard as burnt clay.",burnt clay,clay,burn,moldable,canceled These ditties are about as subtle as a poke in the eye.,a poke in the eye,poke,eye,peripheral,canceled "same could be said for men to some degree as well, but it's not nearly as dry as the women's pool",the women's pool,pool,woman,strong,canceled "They serve the Valar, the main god's, and the evil ones are basically like twisted archangels.",twisted archangels,archangel,twisted,divine,canceled "One o' them silly gals went off agin just like a damp firework, and Mr. Watson, arter nearly choking 'imself with temper, shoved me out o' the way and marched out o' the shop.",a damp firework,firework,damp,colorful,canceled "Fandor put down his portfolio, but remained standing, anxious, all aquiver at the thought that he was about to see his dear Elizabeth appear between two warders, just like a common prisoner!",a common prisoner,prisoner,common,widespread,canceled "the house was as still as a moored ship , and this was jim 's favorite time of day , when the children were safe in bed and the house was quiet and he and sharilyn were chatting about the day 's particulars , about the books they were reading , about the tiny progressions their kids were making in their voyages out into the world .",a moored ship,ship,moor,expansive,canceled "That part of the country is, within itself, as unpoetical as any spot of the earth but still, seeing it and its objects and inhabitants aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry, though whether my expression of these feelings is poetry is quite another question.",any spot of the earth,spot,earth,large,canceled "There have not been so many Irish singers of operatic rank, although the Irishman who cannot sing at all is as rare as a white blackbird.",a white blackbird,blackbird,white,black,canceled "you could be wrong , '' tom said , but his voice was as dry as a breaking stick .",a breaking stick,stick,break,straight,canceled "My point was that chopping down trees, staining them with ink, then physically transporting them by burning fossil fuels, strikes me as almost anachronistic, soon to be as archaic as stone tablets, when we can transport the same data in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost, on demand, at a far more granular basis, only to those who want to actually read it.","stone tablets,",tablet,stone,portable,canceled "but not as fast as the drawing and quartering , lucas reminded me .",the drawing and quartering,drawing,quarter,detail,canceled "It definetly has, again, it is almost like a fire cracker.",a fire cracker,cracker,fire,tasty,canceled That tune is exactly like the stained glass.,the stained glass,glass,stain,clear,canceled "And the dust is as thick as the hair on a goat, Where one's throat is as dry as a mummy accursed, Here lieth the land of perpetual thirst.","the hair on a goat,",hair,goat,agile,canceled At the wedding Sepper was as happy as a horse in clover.,a horse in clover,horse,clover,small,canceled "These impressive attributes however were not very necessary when talking to the general, his emotional responses were about as subtle as a truck to the face.",a truck to the face,truck,face,feature,canceled "Let it go in phases, kinda like how one pees in a pool to see if there's any pee dye",how one pees in a pool,pee,pool,refresh,canceled "Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent.",dogs in a manger,dog,manger,functional,canceled and as trustworthy as a chocolate hammer .,a chocolate hammer,hammer,chocolate,strong,canceled It is as likely as snow in hell.,snow in hell,snow,hell,white,canceled Just like second life this is not an advertisement use an animation creator to change your body shape in opensim and attach parts to it.,second life,life,second,real,canceled "but ... Don't stand there like a fish out of water, Lieutenant, go and see what's happening.",a fish out of water,fish,water,colorless,canceled "for the first few days , however , reginald was kind of like a vampire in reverse .",a vampire in reverse,vampire,reverse,undead,canceled ,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullet,projective,canceled So this is kind of like a natural timeout.,a natural timeout,timeout,natural,untreated,canceled "Aren't you ashamed before the children and Magda to sit there like a dying man, rolling your eyes?",a dying man,man,die,fast,canceled Severe cases of CLA manifest in the neonatal period milder cases caused by mtDNA mutations may not manifest until as late as early adulthood.,early adulthood,adulthood,early,prompt,canceled "Marcus went on , My mind is so pressed , compressed , thoughts fight each other like fishes in a net , blood flows .",fishes in a net,fish,net,alive,canceled "And if you are a crosscountry skier without a pole, you are just like a canoeist without a paddle.",a canoeist without a paddle,canoeist,paddle,broad,canceled We were almost like a shadow court.,a shadow court,court,shadow,lawful,canceled she was as subtle as a rock through a window .,a rock through a window,rock,window,transparent,canceled "We were talking about our advance directives, and how exchanging them is rather like a marriage in reverse.",a marriage in reverse,marriage,reverse,strong,canceled "While I agree with you that the characters were cringey in this video, I'm not going to sit here and pretend I don't own a Star Wars disco album by Meco from 1977 that is mixed like chocolate and mustard.",chocolate and mustard,chocolate,mustard,good,canceled "But if he would slink away like a whipped mongrel when a stranger hits him, the sooner he is beaten to death the better.",a whipped mongrel,mongrel,whip,sting,canceled "then like a bolt out of the blue , i suddenly get a sense of familiarity .",a bolt out of the blue,bolt,blue,functional,canceled Just like any bucking horse.,any bucking horse,horse,buck,graceful,canceled "He was muffled to the heels in a long raincoat, the muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard like a spent runner.",a spent runner,runner,spend,allocate,canceled "So, that's why I said I felt like we were going to pull almost like a miss landing and go back up, and it didn't happen.",a miss landing,landing,miss,gradual,canceled "Oh, a man with an open mind is just as disagreeable as a man without prejudices.",a man without prejudices,man,prejudice,harmful,canceled "i think she 's hidin ' somewhere close like a hunted creature , mr rob .",a hunted creature,creature,hunt,skillful,canceled The next 10 minutes or so was eerily like a calm before the storm moment right before a hurricane wipes out an entire village.,a calm before the storm,calm,storm,real,canceled Attempted translation Horse 4 leaf clovers on cake also like the ones on cookies this cake is for a horse,the ones on cookies,one,cookie,single,canceled v B26 b6 look exactly like ones parents.,ones parents,parent,one,single,canceled Taking two seconds of it and showing it out of context is about as funny as a punchline out of context.,a punchline out of context,punchline,context,round,canceled "In genuine cases, the sheet is as often as not a folio of four pages.",not a folio of four pages,folio,page,print,canceled "Life, I said to myself, is as empty as a used cantaloupe.",a used cantaloupe,cantaloupe,used,sweet,canceled The manners of the Spaniards and French are as opposite as grave and gay.,grave and gay,grave,gay,proud,canceled "This fellow, to the contrary, was as ugly a beggar as one might meet in a long days march, and he was as awkward as a duck out of water, and instead of a velveteen coat he wore a blazer of the most inartistic and thrilling combinations of coloured stripes.",a duck out of water,duck,water,transparent,canceled "It is much easier to commence an affair of this kind than to break it off and a man, though his heart was disengaged, should be always on his guard against any thing like an attachment where his affections are not really interested meer passion or meer vanity will support an affair en passant but, where the least degree of constancy and attention are expected, the heart must feel, or the lover is subjecting himself to a slavery as irksome as a marriage without inclination.",a marriage without inclination,marriage,inclination,important,canceled "Marrying one day and divorcing almost the next, only to marry another as soon as he can scrape together sufficient funds to purchase a wife, this type of man looks upon woman as an inferior animal formed for man's gratification, and to be flung aside like a sucked orange when the juice is gone.",a sucked orange,orange,suck,draw,canceled "In strict accordance with the traditions of the navy, he wore kid gloves, without which a naval officer, on a ceremonial occasion, would be as incomplete as a ship without a rudder.",a ship without a rudder,ship,rudder,directional,canceled Tell us why this is so kind of like head scratching.,head scratching,head,scratch,round,canceled It springs directly from the heart and it moves straight onward like a shaft of light.,a shaft of light,shaft,light,structural,canceled ,a sausage skin,skin,sausage,living tissue,canceled "Paul, the president says all the time, it's almost like a verbal crutch.",a verbal crutch,crutch,verbal,useful,canceled "I don't think they're applicable to children with autism, or some other actual intellectual deficit, but if your brain works the way it should, and you are still as dumb as a box of rocks, come on up and get your idiot award.",a box of rocks,box,rock,hollow,canceled ,an insect in a windshield,insect,windshield,alive,canceled No he's as helpless as a fly in amber he must go with his state or be lost.,a fly in amber,fly,amber,quick,canceled "I felt a burst of air blow me back a little, rattling the desk, as the plastic case around the actual reservoir of the marker spilled out onto the floor, though it didn't stain the enchanted carpet, instead off like water on a windshield.",water on a windshield,water,windshield,protective,canceled it would be a death blow to the antidivisional resistancewhich has become as effective as a flyswatter against a dragon .,a flyswatter against a dragon,flyswatter,dragon,fantastical,canceled "Fanny's face was clean, and her hair was nicely brushed she did not look now like a child of the gutter.",a child of the gutter,child,gutter,innocent,canceled ,blind patriotism,patriotism,blind,civic responsibility,canceled "And the ghostly form of Lord Tanryn's estates crashed into existence around me, swatting the eldritch entities away like a spider beneath a flyswatter.",a spider beneath a flyswatter,spider,flyswatter,many,canceled "and then I just kind of froze like a deer in headlights, just frozen.","a deer in headlights,",deer,headlight,quick,canceled "that thing was too goddamn heavy , and about as useful as a trapdoor on a canoe .",a trapdoor on a canoe,trapdoor,canoe,accessible,canceled Contorting and perverting a mind to pair it with another crashed the two together like a boat on the rocks.,a boat on the rocks,boat,rock,float,canceled He says almost as bad as not having power is not knowing when it'll come back.,not having power,power,have,transformative,canceled "It's sort of like mob justice though, isn't it?",mob justice,justice,mob,impartial,canceled A hot burning stinging tingling blow like the loud crack of a broken stick made his trembling hand crumple together like a leaf in the fire and at the sound and the pain scalding tears were driven into his eyes.,a leaf in the fire,leaf,fire,vein,canceled The thought of war should have been as impossible as the thought of murder.,the thought of murder,thought,murder,useful,canceled Friends who would speak a good word for the struggling venture at the time it was most needed were about as scarce as horns on a horse.,horns on a horse,horn,horse,loud,canceled "It's basically like a handicapped spot, but doesn't carry the fine for parking in it if you are not expecting.",a handicapped spot,spot,handicapped,diverse,canceled "And not to mention the spelling, your spelling is almost as bad as the search history, almost makes me think it's yours.",the search history,history,search,ancient,canceled "These impressive attributes however were not very necessary when talking to the general, his emotional responses were about as subtle as a truck to the face.",a truck to the face,truck,face,human,canceled "Nothing, thank you, said Mrs. Prime and her voice was very like the voice of the ravens.",the voice of the ravens,voice,raven,black,canceled that would be just like the old bat .,the old bat,bat,old,quick,canceled "And you mark my words, we shall go back like whipped hounds!",whipped hounds,hound,whip,sting,canceled "I will chew anything in mouth reach, most things are bad for me, when I get sick I go downhill like a lead cheese and because I'm an exotic in the veterinary world the majority of vets can hardly tell my arse from my elbow.",a lead cheese,cheese,lead,tasty,canceled "Ye are deserting like runaway soldiers, turning renegades from God such is the language in which Paul taxes his readers.",runaway soldiers,soldier,runaway,brave,canceled Just as predictable as shitty drivers is the power going out and staying out and my satellite dish icing over damn you DirecTv!,shitty drivers,driver,shitty,cautious,canceled "The attention of the party was first called to their gallant commander, who, with some difficulty, was extracted from the mouth of the beer barrel, dripping like a toast from a tankard.",a toast from a tankard,toast,tankard,brown,canceled "Finding Afiola would be about as easy as the needle in the haystack, and the crews of a hundred Peep o' Days, and all the warriors of Fale a Lupo besides, couldn't have tracked and cornered him up the mountain.",the needle in the haystack,needle,haystack,disorganize,canceled More like a kick to the nuts and then pile on more work while telling you you're lucky to have a job at all.,a kick to the nuts,kick,nut,nutritious,canceled "her hair was gray , actually , prematurely gray surely as her face was as smooth as a china mask .",a china mask,mask,china,protective,canceled "It definetly has, again, it is almost like a fire cracker.",a fire cracker,cracker,fire,crisp,canceled ,a breaking dam,dam,break,flood prevention,canceled "In regards to the two plots, Pierce said that the Liz, TGS, and Dale Snitterman story was stuffed with great comedic moments, while the Jack and Nancy angle just sat there and flopped around like a dying fish.",a dying fish,fish,die,beautiful,canceled These things and deeds are diametrically opposed they are as distinct as vice from virtue.,vice from virtue,vice,virtue,ethical,canceled "I wanted it to be unclear, it could be happy like debt cancelation but whoops lost your soul for nothing.",debt cancelation,cancelation,debt,obligatory,canceled "I do not say that I was wicked enough absolutely to desire the death of this sinner for our benefit but I saw the benefit at least as plainly as the awful possibility, and it was not with unalloyed relief that I beheld a great figure stride through the lighted windows at our nearer approach.",the awful possibility,possibility,awful,endless,canceled "A. J. Liebling said on him, George Seldes is about as subtle as a house falling in.",a house falling in,house,fall,comfortable,canceled "the simple question , asked with so little emotion in ty 's eyes , hit zane like a hammer in the chest , stealing his breath , making his knees go weak .",a hammer in the chest,hammer,chest,container,canceled "The boy wonders if the frog knows what it is, that within him he carries his ruin, as inescapable as the falling night.",the falling night,night,fall,bright,canceled "This tin comes in sheets packed in flat boxes, which are opened by throwingit is quicker than opening by a hammer, and time is considered as valuable as tin filings.",tin filings,filing,tin,systematic,canceled "Every State in the Union has at some time been lauded as the favored spot for the cure of consumption, but, after all, it seems as mythical as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.",the pot of gold,pot,gold,cook,canceled "All were going to some definite endif it were only like the coolie on the wharf, to steal wood from the scaffolding of a halfbuilt house.",the coolie on the wharf,coolie,wharf,structural,canceled They made most antique things seem as new as a china cup with For a Good Girl outlined on it in gold letters.,a china cup,cup,china,large,canceled "Indeed her first fine faith in human nature could not be mended as easily as the broken bridge, nor did the depreciatory allusions of her old customers to the deceased coach, and their compliments at her return, soften her cynicism.",the broken bridge,bridge,break,structural,canceled no longer like drying clay his organs came back to life like flowers soaking the soils summer rain .,drying clay,clay,dry,malleable,canceled I am going about like a sheep without a leader.,a sheep without a leader,sheep,leader,decisive,canceled Dick gave me as bad as a stitch in the side just telling me about it.,a stitch in the side,stitch,side,durable,canceled "These might taste just like cocoa puffs, or these might taste like complete shit... Let me know how it works out!",cocoa puffs,puff,cocoa,white,canceled for days she was running around like a chicken without a head . '',a chicken without a head,chicken,head,domesticate,canceled It really is the extent of which the cancelling takes place... if the person cancelled is deplatformed from easy ways of reaching the public then it really is exactly like a book burning...,a book burning,book,burn,print,canceled College newspapers to be fair I've only read the handful of GA uni papers are about as bad as cable news.,cable news,news,cable,conductive,canceled "It's kind of like the water in the toilet, it's swirling around.",the water in the toilet,water,toilet,hygienic,canceled "come along , grasp my hand properly amelia , you are as limp as a gasping fish .",a gasping fish,fish,gasp,fast,canceled "In the first moment that we were ushered into her presence, and beheld her in her white robe of state, embroidered with the pale yellow flower of her kingdom, whatever remained to us of the past slipped away like water through the fingers.",water through the fingers,water,finger,reflective,canceled "i snap it shut , as mad as a cut snake .",a cut snake,snake,cut,elongate,canceled ,a brass man,man,brass,mammalian,canceled "At length Sikhandin rushed forward like a foaming billow, and when Bhishma saw him his arms fell, for he could not contend against one who had been born a woman.",a foaming billow,billow,foaming,gently,canceled "Tito's degeneration, and the sad failure of Dorothea and Lydgate in Middlemarch, may be explained as simply as the fall of an apple, or as a bruised knee when a man loses his balance.",the fall of an apple,fall,apple,crisp,canceled "They go along like men without hope, as if life were a penalty, and the only expiration of their term of condemnation were to arrive with death.",men without hope,man,hope,uplift,canceled ,a tree coming down,tree,come,produces oxygen,canceled I dunno I'm usually not the type to call fake but both kids reaction looks entirely like bad acting and not like shock or surprise at all.,bad acting,acting,bad,exciting,canceled "She won't let us do one single thing, an' she's just as cross as an old catso now!",an old catso,catso,old,fluffy,canceled almost like a tiny town .,a tiny town,town,tiny,lively,canceled "A. J. Liebling said on him, George Seldes is about as subtle as a house falling in.",a house falling in,house,fall,permanent,canceled "You can watch a green leaf curl up and shrivel without realizing that the curled edge is really a caterpillar, cunningly veined and colored to look just like a dying leaf and out in the woods a speckled bird or striped animal will escape observation just because it matches the spotted light that comes through the underbrush.",a dying leaf,leaf,die,fast,canceled "When shes hunting, she just gives em a dab in the neck and they go as limp as boned fish, and then she has her way with them.",boned fish,fish,boned,alive,canceled It's almost like quick sand.,quick sand,sand,quick,dry,canceled "It is much easier to commence an affair of this kind than to break it off and a man, though his heart was disengaged, should be always on his guard against any thing like an attachment where his affections are not really interested meer passion or meer vanity will support an affair en passant but, where the least degree of constancy and attention are expected, the heart must feel, or the lover is subjecting himself to a slavery as irksome as a marriage without inclination.",a marriage without inclination,marriage,inclination,tilt,canceled "For a moment, they slid around each other like oil and water, and then they merged, creating a tangible sense between us.",oil and water,oil,water,flammable,canceled his voice was slow like the calmness before a storm .,the calmness before a storm,calmness,storm,dynamic,canceled "Another method is to keep the camera angle as tight as a pan shot, but move the location of characters, objects, or the camera, so that the subjects fit in the frame.",a pan shot,shot,pan,sudden,canceled ,a bubblegum cigarette,cigarette,bubblegum,Inhaled,canceled youre about as interesting as a dogs urinal .,a dogs urinal,dog,urinal,faithful,canceled "The worst is when your code works and you think you know why, only to be let down later when your code falls apart like a house of cards.",a house of cards,house,card,big,canceled ,the washed out road,road,wash,vehicle accessible,canceled "The line fell slowly forward like a toppling wall, and, with a convulsive gasp that was intended for a cheer, the regiment began its journey.",a toppling wall,wall,topple,solid,canceled "you 're argumentative , and tough like a microwaved steak , but i do n't think you 're a sad girl through and through .",a microwaved steak,steak,microwaved,juicy,canceled "In an interview with Life in the spring of 1941, Hitler stated that a German invasion of the Western Hemisphere was as fantastic as an invasion of the moon, and he said he was convinced that the idea was being promoted by men who mistakenly thought that war would be good for business.",an invasion of the moon,invasion,moon,spherical,canceled "That looks terribly like a boiled dog, he remarked to Crushe, who was turning over a stewed fowl.",a boiled dog,dog,boil,bubble,canceled This time it was accompanied by a petite little fart that immediately stunk up their embrace and caused the two of them to spring apart like opposing magnets.,opposing magnets,magnet,oppose,attract,canceled "It was not quite like a country lane, for it had a pavement and lampposts, but it was not a bad place for a meeting all the same and farther up, towards the cemetery, it was really quite rural, and almost pretty, especially in twilight.",a country lane,lane,country,sovereign,canceled "The idea that a priestly mediation between sinful men and a gracious deity was necessary had been so deeply implanted in the religious consciousness of preChristian antiquity, pagan as well as Jewish, that a form of public worship without a priesthood seemed almost as inconceivable as a religion without a god.",a religion without a god,religion,god,divine,canceled "Janet Maslin of the New York Times gave the film a negative review, writing that the film tries anything and everything for effect, and only occasionally manages something marginally funny and is about as funny as a shrunken head.",a shrunken head,head,shrunken,important,canceled the symbol spun outward like a throwing star and dripped black ooze down his face .,a throwing star,star,throw,twinkle,canceled "everything and everyone around me was as blurry as a bad selfie , but there was no missing that we were entering a homeor the closest thing to one any of us had seen in weeks .",a bad selfie,selfie,bad,popular,canceled Republican is usually like repealing taxes.,repealing taxes,taxis,repeal,reliable,canceled ,the embrace of a statue,embrace,statue,warmth,canceled "It is much easier to commence an affair of this kind than to break it off and a man, though his heart was disengaged, should be always on his guard against any thing like an attachment where his affections are not really interested meer passion or meer vanity will support an affair en passant but, where the least degree of constancy and attention are expected, the heart must feel, or the lover is subjecting himself to a slavery as irksome as a marriage without inclination.",a marriage without inclination,marriage,inclination,strong,canceled "Because, if she should refuse, the sooner we consider some other plan, the better, seeing that now she is in good case and as careless as a bird on the bough, and she is less tractable to our purposes than when she felt the pinch of hunger and cold and would have jumped at anything for a bit of comfort.",a bird on the bough,bird,bough,strong,canceled "And to me, this is almost like the opposite of whistleblowing.",the opposite of whistleblowing,opposite,whistleblowing,truthful,canceled "The first is the most ancient and curious it is copied from the Durham Book, or book of St. Cuthbert, now preserved among the Cottonian manuscripts in the British museum, and is believed to have been executed as early as the seventh century, by the hands of Eadfreid, afterward bishop of Lindisfarne, who died in 721.",the seventh century,century,seventh,rank,canceled ,a wooden rooster,rooster,wooden,Territorial,canceled A life without sorrow would probably be as bare as a life without happiness.,a life without happiness,life,happiness,transient,canceled "Khalid Mohamed writing for Hindustan Times gave the film 1 star out of 5, stating Although Chhel can be a sparkling dialogue writer, here both his lines and direction are as flat as weekold beer.",weekold beer,beer,weekold,bubbly,canceled people 's smiles seem as fake as the cardboard moons .,the cardboard moons,moon,cardboard,bright,canceled "So what we have here is sort of like a policy without an end, without a so what, without a without you know, sanctions are just a means.",a policy without an end,policy,end,terminus,canceled "The two domains are as distinct as reason and faith and we must not identify what we know with what we believe, but must separate the philosopher from his philosophy.",reason and faith,reason,faith,logical,canceled So we found the comet is kind of like fire and ice.,fire and ice,fire,ice,hot,canceled "just like old days , '' owen says as he picks up his bass guitar .",old days,day,old,bright,canceled "They go along like men without hope, as if life were a penalty, and the only expiration of their term of condemnation were to arrive with death.",men without hope,man,hope,positive,canceled ,a bucket with a hole,bucket,hole,Used for carrying,canceled A Chinaman once said that the thought of death is as futile as water in the hand.,water in the hand,water,hand,grasp,canceled his eyes were as black as the sky between stars .,the sky between stars,sky,star,blue,canceled "I am rather glad I did not see him though for nothing would induce him to wear evening clothes or a shirt front and he insisted on going in his bicycling suit and such a soiled red tie and oh his hair it was really like a crows nest, I don't know what Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock would have said if he had suddenly burst out with that dreadful 'Tommy Atkins.'",a crows nest,nest,crow,soft,canceled "This truck can be every bit as practical as a drag car, it does exactly what it's meant for being big and hauling shit.",a drag car,car,drag,spacious,canceled Fred Phelps has a whole family with grandchildren and a conservative christian movement but he is still as gay as a fruitcake without the cake,a fruitcake without the cake,fruitcake,cake,decorate,canceled "not a peep , they sat silent like scolded children .",scolded children,child,scold,innocent,canceled The two senses of the word law come in so as to look almost like a play upon words.,a play upon words,play,word,natural,canceled "These men are, in point of fact, soldiers liable to be called into active service in the field their duty there, however, is not fighting, but signaling and telegraphya duty quite as dangerous as the bearing of arms.",the bearing of arms,bearing,arm,rotatable,canceled "oh well , the two went together like franks and beans .",franks and beans,frank,bean,direct,canceled This adsorbent has been found quite as effective as the fuller's earth and it is possible to recover the vitamine from the carbon with treatment by acid.,the fuller's earth,earth,fuller,round,canceled "1 a drink is usually tipped when its one to three drinks being made at a time leaving change can be considered insulting, sort of like a backhanded compliment.",a backhanded compliment,compliment,backhand,sweet,canceled violence and crime are commonplace in fulham because its the smallest zone and the people are packed together like sardines in a tin .,sardines in a tin,sardine,tin,malleable,canceled "It simply proves that the eternal feminine will crop out, however much it has been choked and blighted, just like a dry bulb that's been kept in a damp dark cellar all winter.",a dry bulb,bulb,dry,illuminate,canceled she was as subtle as a rock through a window .,a rock through a window,rock,window,openable,canceled "Oh, no, my life is very real it is as real as light to darkness, it is absolute prose.'",light to darkness,light,darkness,invisible,canceled "So even if you could disolve enough into the beer to make bubbles you can't, it would still taste exactly like flat beer.",flat beer,beer,flat,good,canceled Gazelle and ariel stole among the foot hills or stood gazing at us as near as a stone's throw.,a stone's throw,throw,stone,solid,canceled jack cops and guns went together like cops and donuts .,cops and donuts,cop,donut,authoritative,canceled Boldness is therefore here only like a spring held down until its action is required.,a spring held down,spring,hold,fresh,canceled "Surely she was trapped there like a villager under ice, and she needed me to save her. ",a villager under ice,villager,ice,community-oriented,canceled "was again the cry, as the hounds hit off the scent while the late pausing, panting sportsmen tackled vigorously with their steeds, and swept onward like the careering wind.",the careering wind,wind,career,fulfil,canceled kip had already plucked enough grizzled hairs from his scalp to realize that most adults were as disposable as soiled diapers .,soiled diapers,diaper,soil,organic,canceled "i would enjoy visiting ancient athens and rome , but i believe i would stand out rather like a sore thumb .",a sore thumb,thumb,sore,dexterous,canceled "shoo mud be as handsome as wax work, shoo thinks soa mich ov her' sen!",wax work,work,wax,stressful,canceled "Looking down upon the town of Hartlepool, the boys saw buildings crumple like houses of cards before a gale.",houses of cards,house,card,permanent,canceled "These men are, in point of fact, soldiers liable to be called into active service in the field their duty there, however, is not fighting, but signaling and telegraphya duty quite as dangerous as the bearing of arms.",the bearing of arms,bearing,arm,muscular,canceled open like a bad ventriloquist ?,a bad ventriloquist,ventriloquist,bad,skillful,canceled "When the problem is as simple as a stalled car, they get out to help.",a stalled car,car,stall,engineer,canceled Sometimes drinking makes me about as bright as a burnt out lightbulb,a burnt out lightbulb,lightbulb,burnt,bright,canceled "I felt a burst of air blow me back a little, rattling the desk, as the plastic case around the actual reservoir of the marker spilled out onto the floor, though it didn't stain the enchanted carpet, instead off like water on a windshield.",water on a windshield,water,windshield,clear,canceled "I slunk ashore like a beaten dog, not caring what became of me, and, returning to my old lodgings at the shoemaker's, set about spending my little stock of cash in reckless fashion.","a beaten dog,",dog,beat,fast,canceled "In addition to double screens, the LG G8X is also twice as absorbent as the leading brand, so it can soak up twice the tears!",the leading brand,brand,lead,heavy,canceled "If you dont get a catch for hours, its only like an angler without a nibble.",an angler without a nibble,angler,nibble,skilled,canceled "In the east the full moon had just risen, and its thin silver surface was flushed with pink until it looked exactly like the setting sun.",the setting sun,sun,set,bright,canceled just like a beaten pup .,a beaten pup,pup,beat,playful,canceled "Between July 1 and October 24, 1868, the stock of the Erie was increased from 34,000,000 to 57,000,000, and the price went downward like a burnt rocket.",a burnt rocket,rocket,burn,swift,canceled "Trust me, you aren't on the wrong side of the restriction nearly as often as the rest of the world.",the rest of the world,rest,world,refresh,canceled ,a gun with zero bullets,gun,bullet,projectile weapon,canceled "Theyre coming back like a boomerang in court to hit Jackson, and I mean right in the neck.",a boomerang in court,boomerang,court,structure,canceled "it was an ordinary car , a darkblue fiat , looking like a toy as it circled the yard , horn blatting like a sow in heat .",a sow in heat,sow,heat,gentle,canceled "And when his personality is vividly present in them, the argument, being thrilled with passionate feeling, rises, but heavily like a wounded eagle, into an imaginative world.",a wounded eagle,eagle,wound,powerful,canceled "She dont walkshe floats, just as gentle as a chip in a puddle.",a chip in a puddle,chip,puddle,fragile,canceled it would be a death blow to the antidivisional resistancewhich has become as effective as a flyswatter against a dragon .,a flyswatter against a dragon,flyswatter,dragon,fierce,canceled "It is an extra sense, as incommunicable as an ear for music.",an ear for music,ear,music,curve,canceled Now if your machine is laid low with fever it is as good as an engine out of repair.,an engine out of repair,engine,repair,restorative,canceled "There was, of course, another alternative, and that was the supposition that they had stolen the Luciferthe fallen Angel, as Natasha had now renamed herfor purposes of piracy and private revenge but that was negatived by the fact that Tamboff knew that he only had a certain supply of motive power which he could not renew, and which, once exhausted, left his airship as useless as a steamer without coal.",a steamer without coal,steamer,coal,fossilize,canceled "First, you have to remember the whole reason Chavez is able to go around the world striking these deals and spewing hate is because he has oil muscles, kind of like beer goggles.",beer goggles,goggle,beer,protective,canceled "Only have done cough syrup, kinda like shrooms with throwing up, may do again if I'm asked but I won't pursue it.",shrooms with throwing up,shroom,throw,spore,canceled It was almost like a dry hurricane.,a dry hurricane,hurricane,dry,hard,canceled An aeroplane in these hills will be just about as useful as a Dreadnought in a millpond.,a Dreadnought in a millpond,dreadnought,millpond,menacing,canceled "This detracts a little from the piece to my mind as it feels at best like a missed opportunity, or otherwise a failed use misuse of the supposing of structure.",a missed opportunity,opportunity,miss,beneficial,canceled "i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says .",a dying animal,animal,die,hard,canceled Now if your machine is laid low with fever it is as good as an engine out of repair.,an engine out of repair,engine,repair,beneficial,canceled "Fanny's face was clean, and her hair was nicely brushed she did not look now like a child of the gutter.",a child of the gutter,child,gutter,slope,canceled "The oars were long and heavy, the boat was as unwieldy as a raft of logs, and at length Jack exclaimed It seems to me, Cliff, that the scenery along this river is very monotonous.",a raft of logs,raft,log,cylindrical,canceled "Nothing goes together like Shakespeare and fruit in a box, of course.",Shakespeare and fruit,shakespeare,fruit,poetic,canceled "Between July 1 and October 24, 1868, the stock of the Erie was increased from 34,000,000 to 57,000,000, and the price went downward like a burnt rocket.",a burnt rocket,rocket,burn,powerful,canceled "The heavens are now like a wall of blackness, save where the lightning glitters for a moment.",a wall of blackness,wall,blackness,supportive,canceled "the surge of sorrow was a tidal force , as inescapable as the pull of the moon .",the pull of the moon,pull,moon,luminous,canceled "it was a good plan , but when i tried to actually get my arm out of the mummy bag , i flailed around like a fish out of water , and nearly dislocated my shoulder .",a fish out of water,fish,water,alive,canceled "Bertha ate sparingly, for her heart was as swollen as a sponge in water.",a sponge in water,sponge,water,clear,canceled "And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, I'm going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.",a knot on the wall,knot,wall,intertwine,canceled The journey was successfully made and the coming of Boone was to his wife almost like the return of one from the dead.,the return of one from the dead,return,dead,inevitable,canceled the bullet from ridge 's revolver caught him squarely in the belly and flung him back like a limp rag .,a limp rag,rag,limp,flexible,canceled "The philosopher may be calm, even while his foot is awakening from a sound sleep the poet may not lose his inspiration even with a hair in his mouth but to plain John W. Smith, of 101 Eighth Avenue, a kripsle is as disturbing as a broken elbow, or a bleeding poached egg in its death agony.",a broken elbow,elbow,broken,hinge,canceled And so I look at this Operation Twist I think a lot of people look at this Operation Twist more as a it's almost like a cry of help.,a cry of help,cry,help,beneficial,canceled "On the 17th April I did sail, and felt still very like a bale of goods.",a bale of goods,bale,good,virtuous,canceled "His hands felt red hot, the pulses were hammering at his temples, and his tongue became as hot as baked clay he would have borne great pain for a time if it could have brought sleep, for this was much worse than pain, and it made sleep impossible.",baked clay,clay,bake,soft,canceled "I will chew anything in mouth reach, most things are bad for me, when I get sick I go downhill like a lead cheese and because I'm an exotic in the veterinary world the majority of vets can hardly tell my arse from my elbow.",a lead cheese,cheese,lead,edible,canceled "so he slunk away like a whipped dog , consoling himself that he still had the child hayll 's black widows could n't claim . ''",a whipped dog,dog,whip,sting,canceled "You'll tend to subconsciously breath in rhythm if you're good at drums, and the best drummers I've seen actually control their breathing consciously like any wind player while they play.",any wind player,player,wind,breezy,canceled "And when his personality is vividly present in them, the argument, being thrilled with passionate feeling, rises, but heavily like a wounded eagle, into an imaginative world.",a wounded eagle,eagle,wound,fly,canceled Excess of righteousness must be sinfulalmost as sinful as lack of righteousness.,lack of righteousness,lack,righteousness,virtuous,canceled the assistant just stands there like a remedial bodyguard .,a remedial bodyguard,bodyguard,remedial,good,canceled "When once resolved, he was as immovable as a fixed star.",a fixed star,star,fix,correct,canceled "I am happy enough always, everywhere I was as happy as a bird in a tree before I knew you you set me to crying for something, and then held out your hand empty.",a bird in a tree,bird,tree,root,canceled "something so wonderful has happened,you never could guess, and I am as happy as a bee in a woodbine.",a bee in a woodbine,bee,woodbine,perennial,canceled "I did this in High School senior trip and although we drank the shit, it was straight up like drinking mouthwash.",drinking mouthwash,mouthwash,drinking,good,canceled "A teacher without a school, or outside a school, seems to them rather like a gunner without a gun.",a gunner without a gun,gunner,gun,fire,canceled "So she could not bear the taunting word, sir and when it came, unexpectedly to us, she fled away like a hunted deer, through yonder door, till her poor strength gave out, and then we found her and the babe just like dead.",a hunted deer,deer,hunt,competitive,canceled "I mean, I was as poor as any kid in the projects but we were a poor white family on welfare that mostly lived in cars, trailers or whatever low income housingmotel would have us for a few months.",any kid in the projects,kid,project,goal,canceled "That thou, O Bhimasena, shouldst utter words so unexpected of thee is as strange as the shifting of a hill.",the shifting of a hill,shifting,hill,uncomfortable,canceled Now if your machine is laid low with fever it is as good as an engine out of repair.,an engine out of repair,engine,repair,powerful,canceled with my eyebrow rings and the tattoos that peaked up my neck i thought it made me look a little like an escaped prisoner .,an escaped prisoner,prisoner,escaped,restrict,canceled "but what about when they decide they want to put a hot tub in or a deck, and now the neighbors can see into that area, so they want to raise their fence to block a view, and they aren't allowed, or they have friends over and have to go through red tape or a lot of hassle to be able to do something as simply as park on the street overnight !, or they decide to put an addition on their house but the HOA has to approve the design which could very well mean a much more expensive addition, or being disallowed to build what is needed for...say...a growing family, even if it meets city codes.",park on the street,park,street,spacious,canceled You should talk to the club and persuade them to paint the roof so it looks exactly like a star destroyer.,a star destroyer,destroyer,star,twinkle,canceled "Starting with past perfect in the first sentence, and rest in past tense, again like the rest of the story.",the rest of the story,rest,story,relax,canceled "i trudge through the sulm and occasional grass patches , that were just as muddy as the zones with no grass , but the new substance that i have encountered .",the zones with no grass,zone,grass,simple,canceled her head was as rigid as a deer in headlights .,a deer in headlights,deer,headlight,quick,canceled Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.,faith without love,faith,love,passionate,canceled "About sunset the garrison gives notice of their return their faint cawing will be heard from a great distance, and they will be seen far off like a sable cloud, and then nearer and nearer, until they all come soaring home.",a sable cloud,cloud,sable,white,canceled They are as opposite as fire and water.,fire and water,fire,water,red,canceled on camera It hits you almost exactly like a punch in the face!,a punch in the face,punch,face,feature,canceled "Roberto fell as limp as wet leather, for the iron of salthorse and hardtack, and months of disciplinary labor, was in that blow.",wet leather,leather,wet,tough,canceled "if we jumped a second too soon , we 'd be hit by a pod and squashed like bugs on a windshield .",bugs on a windshield,bug,windshield,transparent,canceled "So, we might seem a little daft offering cats for gold, but you'd be as mad as a box of frogs to risk sending your valuables to a company that doesn't quote their rates upfront.",a box of frogs,box,frog,empty,canceled "The doors stood open, and the windows, with the windowpanes all gone and in some instances the sashes as well, leered emptily like eyesockets without eyes.",eyesockets without eyes,eyesocket,eye,reflective,canceled "the man would 've killed her without a moment 's thought , but she 'd known him for so long , it was almost like family dying .",family dying,family,die,good,canceled "Augustine, in his Civitas Dei describes two cities Civitates distinct from each other and opposed to each other like light and darkness.",light and darkness,light,darkness,radiant,canceled "The room was scarcely as big as a ship's cabin, and its one window gave little light, for it opened upon a narrow well of high brick walls.",a ship's cabin,cabin,ship,large,canceled "By my soul, Peg, an you pitch me to hell for that jackanapes, Ill go to hell as fast as wine and dice, and cards and brawls, and usurers, and all that sort of crew can carry me!",wine and dice,wine,dice,six,canceled ,a dying sun,sun,die,life-giving,canceled "But, Jean objected, we're not in the least like people in a book.",people in a book,people,book,real,canceled and he was as hard as a rock at the moment .,a rock at the moment,rock,moment,significant,canceled "Then the climax came, as swiftly as a bolt from the sky.",a bolt from the sky,bolt,sky,functional,canceled But a caliph who openly denied the faith would be as impossible as an unbelieving pope.,an unbelieving pope,pope,unbelieve,pious,canceled So your bar for a successful pure capitalism state is really as low as a handful of months without the collapse of the state?,a handful of months,handful,month,graspable,canceled "This letter was taken up the next morning to Belforest by Colonel Brownlow, and the two eldest delinquents, one, curious, amused, and with only compunction enough to flavour an apology, the other cross, dogged, and sheepish, dragged along like a cur in a sling, just as though he were going to be hanged, said Janet.",a cur in a sling,cur,sling,elastic,canceled I mean to go about my kingdom exactly like a private individual.,a private individual,individual,private,restrict,canceled "Hotman points out that while they may be a people without a king a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people .",a pastor without a flock,pastor,flock,good,canceled So like moon shoes but instead of bouncing the shoes are attached to the underside of the moon shoe?,moon shoes,shoe,moon,orbital,canceled Just going to say that church is an easy way to make a profit and in a lot of ways is exactly like the drug trade.,the drug trade,trade,drug,effective,canceled "But for the rumbling of the thunder, the only sound from the mysterious world outside would have been the scream, now like the cry of a cat, now like a puppy's bark, of an owl flying with muffled wings up and down the valley.",the cry of a cat,cry,cat,playful,canceled "When shes hunting, she just gives em a dab in the neck and they go as limp as boned fish, and then she has her way with them.",boned fish,fish,boned,hard,canceled "Before his Awful Will, Blintons mere modern obstinacy shrank back like a child abashed.",a child abashed,child,abash,playful,canceled "It's exactly like the ones in the stories, she wailed.",the ones in the stories,one,story,single,canceled "Khalid Mohamed writing for Hindustan Times gave the film 1 star out of 5, stating Although Chhel can be a sparkling dialogue writer, here both his lines and direction are as flat as weekold beer.",weekold beer,beer,weekold,carbonate,canceled "he made an odd noise , almost like a pained giggle , and fell over on his side .",a pained giggle,giggle,pained,playful,canceled "The line fell slowly forward like a toppling wall, and, with a convulsive gasp that was intended for a cheer, the regiment began its journey.",a toppling wall,wall,topple,supportive,canceled "Mark sometimes makes as high as five dollars a week, said Mrs. Mason in a tone of mild sarcasm.",five dollars a week,dollar,week,time,canceled "Tito's degeneration, and the sad failure of Dorothea and Lydgate in Middlemarch, may be explained as simply as the fall of an apple, or as a bruised knee when a man loses his balance.",the fall of an apple,fall,apple,many,canceled "It was basically like not having class because there was nobody to teach so it was kind of like well, do whatever you want but you still got credit for showing up",not having class,class,have,possessive,canceled Just as predictable as shitty drivers is the power going out and staying out and my satellite dish icing over damn you DirecTv!,shitty drivers,driver,shitty,careful,canceled "It was not long before they came to a cat sitting in the road, looking as dismal as three wet days.",three wet days,day,wet,bright,canceled It is almost like liquid cement.,liquid cement,cement,liquid,durable,canceled nothing brings people together like a common enemy .,a common enemy,enemy,common,frequent,canceled It's almost like a house of mirrors.,a house of mirrors,house,mirror,homely,canceled "Nay, I lie as still as a cat in a gutter.",a cat in a gutter,cat,gutter,drain,canceled "This is an Italian method, and by following it one may understand why an artichoke need not taste as flat as boiled hay.",boiled hay,hay,boil,fluffy,canceled They're not as intrusive as the full pat down.,the full pat down,pat,full,fill,canceled "I think that a lot of folks really feel like the president is sort of like the boy in the bubble and he needs to get out of there and perhaps pick up a few germs to learn something about what's going on, that he's just been insulated so much by everyone that he'syou know, he bristles at any hint of criticism.",the boy in the bubble,boy,bubble,inflatable,canceled "The man, who was of Mexican origin, argued that according to the norms as they exist in his culture, their relationship was sort of like a trial marriage.",a trial marriage,marriage,trial,commit,canceled "One is of an aurora, and you've never seen you know, sort of like northern lights.",northern lights,light,northern,invisible,canceled "i would enjoy visiting ancient athens and rome , but i believe i would stand out rather like a sore thumb .",a sore thumb,thumb,sore,small,canceled "Oh, my dear, don't sit there like a stuffed pig, but answer my questions, or I'll shake you.",a stuffed pig,pig,stuff,fat,canceled "Before his Awful Will, Blintons mere modern obstinacy shrank back like a child abashed.",a child abashed,child,abash,innocent,canceled "Thisnow that we are in the confessionalwe are free to ownyea, it is incumbent on us to do ourselves this justiceis only when we are in one of our unamiable moods, luckily about as rare as snow at midsummer, but correspondingly chilling and shocking to the genial ones around us,ourselves usually most so, like quiet sunshine in November.",snow at midsummer,snow,midsummer,festive,canceled "In my most severe alcoholism, literally like no job anymore barely functioning, what he just said was my lowest goal to keep to keep drinking.",no job anymore,job,anymore,productive,canceled "He hesitated a few seconds, then he also stepped forward and peered in at the little window with Laura, who was still talking and instantly, his sudden curiosity fell flat like a bubble pricked.",a bubble pricked,bubble,prick,inflatable,canceled "Once I got enough in, I would use a thin stick to move them around until they looked like a single clump of ice and eventually froze together, kind of like a ship in a bottle.",a ship in a bottle,ship,bottle,ocean,canceled "Brhmanism and Buddhism, both viewed from their orthodox aspects, are as inimical and as irreconcilable as water and oil.",water and oil,water,oil,transparent,canceled "The approach of mailday seemed like a nightmare to the superintendent he became feverishly nervous like a man under a spell and, when the mail had gone, behaved like a respited criminal.",a man under a spell,man,spell,curious,canceled her pleading eyes melted his heart as quick as a glacier on the sun .,a glacier on the sun,glacier,sun,slow,canceled "1 a drink is usually tipped when its one to three drinks being made at a time leaving change can be considered insulting, sort of like a backhanded compliment.",a backhanded compliment,compliment,backhand,affirm,canceled "All like a floating landscape seems In cloudland or the land of dreams, Bathed in a golden atmosphere!",a floating landscape,landscape,float,real,canceled "Janet Maslin of the New York Times gave the film a negative review, writing that the film tries anything and everything for effect, and only occasionally manages something marginally funny and is about as funny as a shrunken head.",a shrunken head,head,shrunken,cerebral,canceled Most of the men were as like the waiters as two peas.,the waiters as two peas,waiter,pea,helpful,canceled "Averagism has never been widely embraced by philosophers, because it leads to counterintuitive implications said to be at least as serious as the repugnant conclusion.",the repugnant conclusion,conclusion,repugnant,logical,canceled "It is, in the words of Hans von Blow, as terse as the report of a pistol.",the report of a pistol,report,pistol,write,canceled "and a strong shudder took possession of him, as uncontrollable as an ague fit.",an ague fit,fit,ague,good,canceled ,a tolerance break,break,tolerance,Fragile,canceled And you don't end up with that puddle of toilet paper on the ground when you go to rip it off there like a used condom.,a used condom,condom,use,utilitarian,canceled "This fellow, to the contrary, was as ugly a beggar as one might meet in a long days march, and he was as awkward as a duck out of water, and instead of a velveteen coat he wore a blazer of the most inartistic and thrilling combinations of coloured stripes.",a duck out of water,duck,water,clear,canceled "that is what's being said However in the case of sunglasses in particular, I've found that the cheap sunglasses are often just as good as the expensive ones.",the expensive ones,one,expensive,single,canceled The flag is green like the coat of arms.,the coat of arms,coat,arm,strong,canceled "The negresses who were on board lay asleep on deck, rolled in their pagnes, packed as tightly and lying as quietly as fish in a tin, and the ship glided smoothly towards the south, cleaving its way steadily towards regions of ever intenser heat and ever bluer skies.",fish in a tin,fish,tin,swim,canceled ,popeye without spinach,popeye,spinach,strong,canceled We had fat babies so about 2 months in we were adding rice cereal mix to the breast feed bottles it was almost like a thin porridge.,a thin porridge,porridge,thin,narrow,canceled They play just as high as former times.,former times,time,former,progressive,canceled "the creaking , wooden main floor where so many feet have stood was as dull as any given night .",any given night,night,give,offer,canceled "The fiddler was as merry a little toad as ever a body could wish to see as for the tinker and the shoemaker, why, they were as sour as bad beer.",bad beer,beer,bad,bubbly,canceled "That looks terribly like a boiled dog, he remarked to Crushe, who was turning over a stewed fowl.",a boiled dog,dog,boil,faithful,canceled "If you sit there and don't allow yourself to do anything that doesn't really have much purpose other than having done them, you're not going to have as much fun, and you're going to let a decent moviegoing experience to be ruined because you want to sit there like a stick in the mud because some people liked the movie and wanted to express it without turning to everyone else and saying HEY I REALLY LIKED THAT MOVIE WHAT ABOUT YOU EVEN THOUGH I DON'T",a stick in the mud,stick,mud,rigid,canceled If I ever saw a woman with something saggy as that it would be about as seductive as a wet bag.,a wet bag,bag,wet,useful,canceled "They had once been white, but they were now as yellow as old ivory, and the narrow ribbon intended to cross over the instep and to tie around the ankle had deepened almost into the tint of the withered primrose.",old ivory,ivory,old,pure,canceled "The general and the girls, having telegraphed for money, had gone to the hotel to wait for the answers, while Bartlett and the Watermelon had remained in the store, Bartlett eager to receive the answer to the joyful congratulations he had sent his broker on the success of his plan, and the Watermelon because he scorned to run away like a whipped cur, preferring Bartlett to know who he was.",a whipped cur,cur,whip,sting,canceled "that was as dangerous as the blood loss , if not more so .",the blood loss,loss,blood,emotional,canceled "The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator .",a boiled egg,egg,boil,bubble,canceled "But you also, again, as Bernard was saying before, the switch of the camera switching to Dan Quayle's face and the expression, it was just like the deer in the headlight.",the deer in the headlight,deer,headlight,quick,canceled ,a post in the mud,post,mud,delivered,canceled "As in any analog process, every reprinting degrades the picture, just like a photocopy of a photocopy.",a photocopy of a photocopy,photocopy,photocopy,detail,canceled ,a man with a tail,man,tail,Human,canceled ,a white raven,raven,white,black,canceled "Almost like unspoken law, it was known the most powerful man in the Kaiser Sea Cities was never to be trifled with.",unspoken law,law,unspoken,enforceable,canceled The manners of the Spaniards and French are as opposite as grave and gay.,grave and gay,grave,gay,solemn,canceled "Then the climax came, as swiftly as a bolt from the sky.",a bolt from the sky,bolt,sky,secure,canceled his tail was wagging as fast as a metronome out of control .,a metronome out of control,metronome,control,steady,canceled A the actor was not more than three years older than the victim and at the time of the offense from affirmative defense is just like statue of limitations,statue of limitations,statue,limitation,durable,canceled "Not as annoying as a tired joke, because they're not expecting you to react with false mirth.",a tired joke,joke,tired,humorous,canceled He was as flat as a pricked balloon.,a pricked balloon,balloon,prick,sharp,canceled "After thrashing violently like a hooked fish the bland would be hero, twitched his last, foaming slightly at mouth.",a hooked fish,fish,hooked,alive,canceled "The fact is, rental prices did originally rise rapidly, not as rapidly as home prices, but they were rising in these areas.",home prices,price,home,welcome,canceled It comes under the operations of a law as unvarying as any law in physics.,any law in physics,law,physics,regulatory,canceled ,sand over empires,sand,empire,Beach,canceled "Tasted exactly like bacon and vodka at the same time, but its just wrong like those popcorn jellybeans.",bacon and vodka,bacon,vodka,clear,canceled if i had n't seen the hurt flash across her face when jacob said i was all the family he needed i might have believed her even though she was trying to make it seem like her poor relationship with her son was as monumental as a broken nail .,a broken nail,nail,broken,hard,canceled I've seen others comment on how the imagery used is almost like a brain painting and I agree with that fully.,a brain painting,painting,brain,intelligent,canceled "It possesses these latter properties in so great a decree, that it may be beaten into leaves much thinner than any paper, or drawn into wire as fine as a hair without breaking.",a hair without breaking,hair,break,dynamic,canceled "The monsters are kind of like the opposite of moths, most of the cities now have laws in place to make electricity free.",the opposite of moths,opposite,moth,wing,canceled "Thus although, most of the science establishments in the major NICs can be said to be doing fairly well, none of them have been as successful as the developed countries.",the developed countries,country,develop,gradual,canceled "You can watch a green leaf curl up and shrivel without realizing that the curled edge is really a caterpillar, cunningly veined and colored to look just like a dying leaf and out in the woods a speckled bird or striped animal will escape observation just because it matches the spotted light that comes through the underbrush.",a dying leaf,leaf,die,cubical,canceled all my joints felt frozen stiff like a rusted bolt .,a rusted bolt,bolt,rusted,quick,canceled She was not really like a wounded bird.,a wounded bird,bird,wound,fly,canceled "If you didnt have that speech bubble thing I wouldn't have gotten it, you look kinda like a dead hobo",a dead hobo,hobo,dead,nomadic,canceled "We knew that there was so much chaos around us, but you almost couldn't feel it because it was just like a no man's land.",a no man's land,land,man,curious,canceled ,a tree coming down,tree,come,living organism,canceled "When, after many hours, we ventured to go forth, we found every thing as before not one lay differentlyall were as stiff as wooden figures.",wooden figures,figure,wooden,real,canceled "And Kashyin3 for that was her name saw him from a window as he came into the city and instantly like an empty pitcher suddenly plunged into the Ganges, she was filled to the very brim by the inrush of Love's sacred nectar.",an empty pitcher,pitcher,empty,pour,canceled There's a real lack of anything electronic or pop there and hip hop is almost like an underground scene.,an underground scene,scene,underground,vivid,canceled Hillary is flopping around out there like a wounded goose and the question is how much longer can she last before she just has to go away?,a wounded goose,goose,wound,quack,canceled she was as subtle as a rock through a window .,a rock through a window,rock,window,steady,canceled "on both halves they could see small blinking lights , almost like led lights .",led lights,light,lead,heavy,canceled "During the first eight days they seemed to take very little notice of each other, but walked about like people at a fair, only here and there communing with each other.",people at a fair,people,fair,equal,canceled ,blood onto the ground,blood,ground,transports nutrients and oxygen,canceled "Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV wrote To sum up, OMG 2 aspires to be as sharp as a scalpel but is actually as blunt as the back of a knife.",the back of a knife,back,knife,cut,canceled ,the washing on the line,washing,line,Bubbles,canceled "It is, in the words of Hans von Blow, as terse as the report of a pistol.",the report of a pistol,report,pistol,structure,canceled his eyes were as black as the sky between stars .,the sky between stars,sky,star,twinkle,canceled ,a scooter with an oven,scooter,oven,Foldable,canceled "Cast away like a used toy, Miso hits her alltime low.",a used toy,toy,use,purposeful,canceled "When I first chose this as a place to settle down I thought it was pretty damn perfect, or at least as good as a home without a roof could be.",a home without a roof,home,roof,structural,canceled I saw eyes as unkindly as stuffed fox 's .,stuffed fox 's,fox,stuff,nocturnal,canceled And was it really kind of like a stab in the dark because you don't have any medical records?,a stab in the dark,stab,dark,forceful,canceled "his fingers froze in place , his body going as tense as a yanked rope , as torchlight spilled onto his figure .",a yanked rope,rope,yanked,flexible,canceled "And Kashyin3 for that was her name saw him from a window as he came into the city and instantly like an empty pitcher suddenly plunged into the Ganges, she was filled to the very brim by the inrush of Love's sacred nectar.",an empty pitcher,pitcher,empty,pourable,canceled "Front chair has its arms upwards like hands in the air, the chair behind it has its arms pointing at it like it's pointing a gun.",hands in the air,hand,air,strong,canceled "The dews hang thick on the fringd thorn, And the frost shrinks back like a beaten hound, Under the steaming, steaming ground.",a beaten hound,hound,beat,repetitive,canceled "All of Zhiguo Guan's children were hiding their true lives from their father, just like the title of the movie, Everybody's Fine.",the title of the movie,title,movie,entertain,canceled "not a peep , they sat silent like scolded children .",scolded children,child,scold,innocent,canceled "He thrust his head forward like an animal snapping, but still he smiled.",an animal snapping,animal,snap,reproduce,canceled "Moreover, snow is one of the chief natural productions of the country and without it Russia is as uninteresting as an orchard without fruit.",an orchard without fruit,orchard,fruit,harvestable,canceled "Tom had lost patience when he saw Paddy staggering like a bullock under an axe, and though I told him we could do nothing to help, he insisted we should at least be with the rest of the party.",a bullock under an axe,bullock,axe,sharp,canceled "Now, I'm not saying that Manard wasn't as dead as a dried herring.",a dried herring,herring,dried,slippery,canceled ,distracted drivers,driver,distract,Focused,canceled "It was falling, falling, silent and white and soft, in large flakes like feathers, or rather like white swans down.",white swans down,swan,white,long,canceled I am going about like a sheep without a leader.,a sheep without a leader,sheep,leader,influential,canceled "The alert French waiter shot away like a stone from a catapult, leaving Coventry to lapse back into the reverie from which he had roused himself to order his coffee.",a stone from a catapult,stone,catapult,still,canceled He should be jumping straight up and then tucking at the peak of his jump instead of immediately throwing his head back like a jackass with no training... that's how you break your neck.,a jackass with no training,jackass,training,informative,canceled "When the Daredevil Knight, the master of riding, brought up the rear of the line, his horse, tooa sinewy chestnut chargerstood on his haunches and then came down gracefully on his knees as if making an obeisance to the Queen, then rose and stood as still as a bronze horse.",a bronze horse,horse,bronze,muscular,canceled "And we know that even just as recently as a couple of days ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said well, we know what would happen if he fires Mueller.",a couple of days,couple,day,cute,canceled "In parts I find him excellent, just like the curate's egg, But not when he is pulling the confiding public's leg Besides, the height of genius I never could explain As an infinite capacity for giving others pain.",the curate's egg,egg,curate,organize,canceled "In the east the full moon had just risen, and its thin silver surface was flushed with pink until it looked exactly like the setting sun.",the setting sun,sun,set,brightly,canceled "So, a dolphin out of water will die just like a fish out of water, probably not as quickly though.","a fish out of water,",fish,water,alive,canceled "About this time, it was observed of Captain Tonkins that he began to show signs of fatigue, rocking heavily in his seat with every oscillation of the sleigh, and talking thick like a jaded man.",a jaded man,man,jade,valuable,canceled "He was pacing up and down like a caged lion, not looking at Rosemary, not speaking to herspeaking to himself, and giving rein to all the rankling rage at wrong that wrong had nurtured in him since his boyhood.",a caged lion,lion,cage,protective,canceled "This truck can be every bit as practical as a drag car, it does exactly what it's meant for being big and hauling shit.",a drag car,car,drag,engine,canceled He was almost as bad as a female housekeeper.,a female housekeeper,housekeeper,female,fertile,canceled "If you don't understand how important rifling is at 50 yards or how rust and projectiles don't get along, or even something as simple as dirt in the way no boom, I don't think you've ever opened up a gun yourself",dirt in the way,dirt,way,clear,canceled "This piece almost looks aesthetically like a wall of text, and like I said, I think it can be condensed.",a wall of text,wall,text,solid,canceled "Dearest Olejniczka, I left papa, I left sister and brother and you to start out in the wide world, and today I am yearning and fading away like the world without the sun.",the world without the sun,world,sun,bright,canceled "He was muffled to the heels in a long raincoat, the muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard like a spent runner.",a spent runner,runner,spend,agile,canceled "... feeling a little like a skunk at a wedding, or probably, more accurately, road kill.",a skunk at a wedding,skunk,wedding,social,canceled "Not American, but I heard in radio once during the american student debt situation If gas prices would increase as fast as education prices, then there would have already been riots on the streets in America.",education prices,price,education,invaluable,canceled I could pretty well recall exactly how baby shark sounds and nothing erases your mind quite like an ear worm.,an ear worm,worm,ear,curve,canceled he came in and out like a static radio .,a static radio,radio,static,tunable,canceled ,a released prisoner,prisoner,release,punished,canceled "Wanting separation from Canada just for the heck of it and blindingly following the separatist movement without knowing anything about the implication of said decision is the problem, just like any uninformed decision.",any uninformed decision,decision,uninformed,deliberate,canceled "Even though it sounds good in a writer's head, for a reader, it's almost like a skipping record.",a skipping record,record,skipping,dynamic,canceled "Ambassador Eisen as simple as breaking tradition, can it be that?",breaking tradition,tradition,break,endure,canceled "And the ghostly form of Lord Tanryn's estates crashed into existence around me, swatting the eldritch entities away like a spider beneath a flyswatter.",a spider beneath a flyswatter,spider,flyswatter,alive,canceled "While Ralph examined Bud's disabled left arm Pete picked himself up slowly, and, muttering that he felt consid'able shuck up like, crawled away like a whipped puppy.",a whipped puppy,puppy,whip,sting,canceled "And there's the kettle, singing away like a bird on a bough.",a bird on a bough,bird,bough,strong,canceled "Thousands of languages can thus have been chattered successively on thousands of territorieslanguages lacking precision, essentially musical, a succession of phrases in which certain sounds only corresponded to realities but these sounds, in spite of their importance, in spite of their utilitarian and representative value, may be supposed to have been at first almost as fugitive as the rest of the speech.",the rest of the speech,rest,speech,peaceful,canceled "not a peep , they sat silent like scolded children .",scolded children,child,scold,curious,canceled "It is a malady almost as dreadful as consumption of the lungs, but is by no means frequent in its occurrence.",consumption of the lungs,consumption,lung,natural,canceled "Just like a greasy river, Mrs. Grace complained.",a greasy river,river,greasy,freely,canceled ,a trout in a saucer,trout,saucer,stream-dwelling,canceled "Now, be quiet, Mrs. EmburyI declare, I dont know how to say what I have to say, if you sit there like a chained tiger Go on!",a chained tiger,tiger,chain,interconnect,canceled "So the logic is if you can't indict a president for any crime, maybe like obstruction of justice, then there's no crime to justify a subpoena.",obstruction of justice,obstruction,justice,impartial,canceled "It goes with high intellect just like dark humour, bucking the trend, and prolific use of offensive language",dark humour,humour,dark,colorless,canceled Can it be held in good faith that Buddhism could be rubbed away like the bloom from a grape and leave the Burmese people substantially unaffected?,the bloom from a grape,bloom,grape,fragile,canceled "Every time I see one of those, I just assume the owner is just as stupid as the looks of the car.",the looks of the car,look,car,motorize,canceled "It gives me great satisfaction, but I have to tell you that the doctors at the hospital informed me the injury was about as bad as a broken rib.",a broken rib,rib,broken,flexible,canceled "But the machine is monstrous and unethical, kind of like a battery farm, and the poor human beings enmeshed in it are constantly suffering.",a battery farm,farm,battery,good,canceled But I fear such women are as rare as blue roses.,blue roses,rose,blue,red,canceled Earmarks and porkbarrel spending are as American as a bridge to nowhere.,a bridge to nowhere,bridge,nowhere,connection,canceled "This piece almost looks aesthetically like a wall of text, and like I said, I think it can be condensed.",a wall of text,wall,text,solid,canceled ,a tree coming down,tree,come,rooted,canceled but stillnowhere near as enjoyable as a night with emma . '',a night with emma,night,emma,dark,canceled He sat down heavily and groaned Just like a post in the mud!,a post in the mud,post,mud,delivered,canceled "Be it a fable or rumor, Or an old device, 'Tis true gentle wit and humor Are as good as cold advice.",cold advice,advice,cold,temperate,canceled "it felt almost like a kick to the gut , but in a good way .",a kick to the gut,kick,gut,flexible,canceled "The song was written in the spur of the moment, almost like a stream of consciousness.",a stream of consciousness,stream,consciousness,clear,canceled "jorge 's voice was suddenly quiet , ashamed ivan had known the right nerve to strike , and it hit eleanor too like a kick to the stomach .",a kick to the stomach,kick,stomach,digest,canceled "I still regret every minute I spent reading W.B. Yeats, though his simpering tone was always like nails on a chalkboard to me.",nails on a chalkboard,nail,chalkboard,erasable,canceled "but it's very heavy, and I should have to go round like a walking doll if I wore it.",a walking doll,doll,walk,steady,canceled "But on this night the mirth jarred like a cracked bell and ere they rose, the seneschal ventured timidly to ask the Baron if he might accept the ransom offered by the young wife of the latest captive.",a cracked bell and,bell,cracked,resonant,canceled "he made an odd noise , almost like a pained giggle , and fell over on his side .",a pained giggle,giggle,pained,natural,canceled "my job was to stand strong for my house and my master , not give myself away like a wilting violet because i was afraid i 'd ruin him .",a wilting violet,violet,wilt,beautiful,canceled "Through the entire length of this member there runs a slit, which pierces so deeply into its surface, as almost to divide it into two longitudinal sections this performs the office of a canal for the liquor of which the threads are formed, and serves to mould them into their proper form the canal appears externally like a small crack, being almost covered by the flesh from either side, but internally it is much wider, and surrounded by circular fibres.",a small crack,crack,small,potent,canceled ,an explosion in reverse,explosion,reverse,shockwave,canceled "My drunk tunnel vision would still cause me to piss into it and then promptly slip in it, so its just as bad as a hole in the floor.",a hole in the floor,hole,floor,solid,canceled "He should have flopped around like an otter in oil, and say I think this is going to be a good environmental policy.",an otter in oil,otter,oil,playful,canceled ,the Martian atmosphere,atmosphere,martian,Oxygen-rich,canceled "come along , grasp my hand properly amelia , you are as limp as a gasping fish .",a gasping fish,fish,gasp,beautiful,canceled "At twelve years of age, Joshua worked as hard as grown men, working from the break of day until sunset in the vegetable, cotton, and sugar cane fields.",grown men,man,grow,expand,canceled "Not good in the Senate, Frankly, Frank, because the just like the marriage penalty, Senate Democrats say that they will insist upon voting on their alternative.",the marriage penalty,penalty,marriage,commit,canceled "I am a stickler for punctuation and I almost feel like I would drop the period and add a comma and leave it as a halfsentence, almost like a thought in time.",a thought in time,thought,time,progressive,canceled "Well, what I'm telling you is just as certain as the passage of time.",the passage of time,passage,time,navigable,canceled Suddenly the Ingin fell to the floor as dead as a trapped beaver what's been drowned Rube had struck his buckhornhandled huntingknife right into the heart of the brute.,a trapped beaver,beaver,trap,diligent,canceled "Even though to my mind Bambi Lorrimore and Daffodil Quentin were as compatible as salt and strawberries , the two women were again positioned opposite each other , bound there by the attraction between their men .",salt and strawberries,salt,strawberry,salty,canceled "not as successful as the lawyer chick , but wellliked .",the lawyer chick,chick,lawyer,yellow,canceled ,a fish for market,fish,market,Swim,canceled "It could contain but a few molecules, and a molecule in a drop of water is as small as an orange beside the sun.",an orange beside the sun,orange,sun,dimple,canceled "If it's some kind of other body odour like a fish smell, then it's a proper medical condition, but not just stinking of old sweat.",a fish smell,smell,fish,swim,canceled "Paul, the president says all the time, it's almost like a verbal crutch.",a verbal crutch,crutch,verbal,supportive,canceled "I didnt care where Prakash moved next, he was only lashing out now like a caged animal, terrified that The board flashed red, indicating a checkmate.",a caged animal,animal,cage,restrictive,canceled "In other cases, the arms or device of a city is carved on an inscription, almost like a seal on a document.",a seal on a document,seal,document,blubberous,canceled "Cooney was as hangdog a looking rascal as it was well possible to conceive, but the gipsy had no other person to send upon whom he could relyhis messenger was by no means a foolalthough of a common coarse type and as ignorant as a hack horse but he was artful and was not easily cornered, to make use of an American phrase, so away he went upon his mission.",a hack horse,horse,hack,subversive,canceled We just had trouble communicating with it basically like an underwater telephone.,an underwater telephone,telephone,underwater,ubiquitous,canceled "Much like the calm before the storm, or knowing you were going to get hit by a ball before it happened.",the calm before the storm,calm,storm,volatile,canceled "When she came to speak of the acquaintance of all those young men, it seemed again like a breath from the north to her betrothed",a breath from the north,breath,north,rhythmic,canceled "But sometimes it happens that he is in too great a hurry to rise before I am settled in my place, and then I am flung back on to my head, for he lifts himself as quickly as a steel spring, first with the hind legs and then with the fore.",a steel spring,spring,steel,fresh,canceled "He's as solemn as a stuffed owl, and he'llWell, I'm goin' to put MY oar in.","a stuffed owl,",owl,stuff,nocturnal,canceled "Presently a sound like rushing water was heard, but no water was seen a sound also like great winds, but the air was perfectly still, and it was seen that the rock was pierced with a great hole through the center.",great winds,wind,great,outstanding,canceled "a game with a bunch of slides like this that you could mix and match would be hilarious with friends, sort of like cards against humanity",cards against humanity,card,humanity,empathetic,canceled Then like a bolt from the blue came a cable messagereceived at the little station near the lighthouse.,a bolt from the blue,bolt,blue,tight,canceled ,the hands of the dead,hand,dead,dexterous,canceled "When I start a burping session, It sounds just like a bear impression.",a bear impression,impression,bear,large,canceled "The hindfeet of the walrus are constructed somewhat like the feet of the fly, enabling this huge animal to go up smooth walls of ice.",the feet of the fly,foot,fly,bipedal,canceled "i sat down gingerly , beginning to feel a little like a patient at a dentist .",a patient at a dentist,patient,dentist,helpful,canceled "Not being a downer, but i just like breaking traditions and this seems to be a good change for the halloween season",breaking traditions,traditions,breaking,customary,canceled "Without the brain and nerves the body would be just like an army without a commander, or a lot of workmen without an overseer.","an army without a commander, or",army,commander,disciplined,canceled "I may be a carthorse, but you are rather like a white fawn, was Harolds rejoinder.",a white fawn,fawn,white,brown,canceled Unfortunately it was also about onethird as fast as the earlier computer.,the earlier computer,computer,early,fast,canceled Institutions without men are as futile as men without institutions.,men without institutions,man,institution,organize,canceled It's as bad as a winding sheet.,a winding sheet,sheet,wind,flow,canceled "You can even use that one as I've seen your roasts, you are about as clever as canned ham.",canned ham,ham,can,recyclable,canceled "He was staggering in ragged rings, his mouth gnashing at the bar, moving slower and slower like a machine running down.",a machine running down,machine,run,swift,canceled "You know, it's kind of almost like trial by ambush.",trial by ambush,trial,ambush,experimental,canceled ,two broken clocks,clock,break,Precision,canceled "Someone here probably knows, it's reddit nothing wrong with that at all, she still looks better than me, it's just the color is odd like grandma teeth, I was a bit wtf seeing them and am curious.",grandma teeth,tooth,grandma,nurture,canceled "There was, of course, another alternative, and that was the supposition that they had stolen the Luciferthe fallen Angel, as Natasha had now renamed herfor purposes of piracy and private revenge but that was negatived by the fact that Tamboff knew that he only had a certain supply of motive power which he could not renew, and which, once exhausted, left his airship as useless as a steamer without coal.",a steamer without coal,steamer,coal,black,canceled "Why, I'm afraid to even snore in my sleep, said one of them, for fear I'll discharge the guncotton and as for kicking in my sleepwhy, I'm as quiet as a drugged snake.",a drugged snake,snake,drug,quick,canceled "I have to get the statistics on it, just like any good gambler, but if the statistics were favorable, I'd bet.",any good gambler,gambler,good,virtuous,canceled "Those bootie things are difficult for dogs to get used to, they inhibit the dog's footing, they slide off in water, and they are as appropriate as a sweater on a dog.",a sweater on a dog,sweater,dog,friendly,canceled Then like a bolt from the blue came a cable messagereceived at the little station near the lighthouse.,a bolt from the blue,bolt,blue,sharp,canceled "The ending was meant to take on a different tone, sort of like the writer giving up. ",the writer giving up,writer,giving,creative,canceled I'm not going to leave him behind like a left kitten.,a left kitten,kitten,left,directional,canceled ,the washed out road,road,wash,traffic,canceled "But Elves and Dwarves do lead me to autofill everything about them and their world, learning that certain details have been subverted then is just like corrections after the fact.",corrections after the fact,correction,fact,truthful,canceled "Knowing that only one side of the Boonesborough palisade had been completed, and that the warparty was five times as strong as the population of the hamlet, he thought to delay operations by strategy.",the population of the hamlet,population,hamlet,numerous,canceled "They made plenty of noise, barracking each other like boys out of school.",boys out of school,boy,school,structure,canceled "some in academic life now argue seriously there is no difference between fact and fiction , that all ways of reading text are arbitrary and personal , and that therefore pure invention is as valid as hard research .",hard research,research,hard,solid,canceled ,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,thermal resistance,canceled It was not as big as the mud man.,the mud man,man,mud,creative,canceled "In strict accordance with the traditions of the navy, he wore kid gloves, without which a naval officer, on a ceremonial occasion, would be as incomplete as a ship without a rudder.",a ship without a rudder,ship,rudder,guide,canceled ,a bat out of a sunrise,bat,sunrise,echolocation,canceled "Ye are deserting like runaway soldiers, turning renegades from God such is the language in which Paul taxes his readers.",runaway soldiers,soldier,runaway,strong,canceled "I think the pause in the middle of the first two lines really makes for an interesting sort of tone, sort of like disjointed thoughts.",disjointed thoughts,thought,disjoint,non,canceled "He in his turn was succeeded by a fat, fussy little person, who literally threw himself into my arms he held his goldlaced hat in one hand, while with the other he wiped the perspiration from his forehead he stammered an apology, and then rolled off again like a ball down the hill.",a ball down the hill,ball,hill,steep,canceled ,a bee in a bottle,bee,bottle,Pollinator,canceled "St. Peter's Basilica, completed in the 17th century, was just like a shell of the church.",a shell of the church,shell,church,hallow,canceled "The whole range, however, looks chilled and barrenas barren, as solitary, as unearthly as the mountains of the moon.",the mountains of the moon,mountain,moon,orbital,canceled "As much as a voter test seems like a good move, our history of racial voter suppression makes it impossible.",a voter test,test,voter,register,canceled "I throw it away like a blade of grass, and so far from lamenting, I feel rather as if I had been born again.",a blade of grass,blade,grass,hard,canceled "but not as fast as the drawing and quartering , lucas reminded me .",the drawing and quartering,drawing,quarter,expressive,canceled "Much like the calm before the storm, or knowing you were going to get hit by a ball before it happened.",the calm before the storm,calm,storm,dynamic,canceled ,a bunny on fire,bunny,fire,fluffy,canceled "Still, a man cant be jumpin around like a cat in a bag.",a cat in a bag,cat,bag,quickly,canceled Because people are assholes and our laws allow them to be so with as little as a slap on the hand.,a slap on the hand,slap,hand,manipulative,canceled "He has a good heart, though he is as hasty as a tinker's cur, and as stern as a general.",a tinker's cur,cur,tinker,inventive,canceled "An uncontrollable giggle erupts from me, spewing forth like a breaking dam. ",a breaking dam,dam,breaking,flood prevention,canceled "Your sweat and blood still glistened, almost alive like a molted skin, and your skin softly shone in the headlights of the police cars.",a molted skin,skin,molted,flexible,canceled "Yeah, kind of like oil and beer.",oil and beer,oil,beer,flammable,canceled ,an unhinged jaw,jaw,unhinged,masticatory,canceled ,a fish on a bicycle,fish,bicycle,Aquatic,canceled "Coordinate with the rise of his fame and fortune therefore was the growth of the evils which were fated to endanger the one, and to make shipwreck of the other and his professional success and his gallantries, running parallel to each other like the two wheels of a gig, left their marks on every road he travelled in the north of England, to the great delight of the major part of his profession, who sickened at his superiority, and exulted in every thing that threatened to injure his reputation and degrade him in the eyes of the public.",the two wheels of a gig,wheel,gig,lively,canceled "Then it's as simple as steam milk, put mocha sauce into cup, introduce shots of espresso, pour steamed milk on top, add whip cream.",steam milk,milk,steam,invisible,canceled The journey was successfully made and the coming of Boone was to his wife almost like the return of one from the dead.,the return of one from the dead,return,dead,lifeless,canceled "cried mamma, and drew in her breath just like the sound of the wind.",the sound of the wind,sound,wind,sharp,canceled "For some, the VAST difference between some things are clear like night and day, but for some, they can't tell ANY difference.",night and day,night,day,bright,canceled "We were scolded, and went away like whipped boys.",whipped boys,boy,whip,sting,canceled I dunno I'm usually not the type to call fake but both kids reaction looks entirely like bad acting and not like shock or surprise at all.,bad acting,acting,bad,reward,canceled "if he pulled just right and released quickly , he could launch a thieving crow skyward like a stone from a slingshot .",a stone from a slingshot,stone,slingshot,flexible,canceled "Lefties think business should be there for more than making the owners profits, when it is simply not reality, kind of like a flying elephant.",a flying elephant,elephant,fly,quick,canceled The next 10 minutes or so was eerily like a calm before the storm moment right before a hurricane wipes out an entire village.,a calm before the storm,calm,storm,chaotic,canceled "this was kind of like a backhanded compliment , a fallen trying to shake hands with a star , but it was n't exactly an aggressive move either .","a backhanded compliment ,",compliment,backhand,affirm,canceled "Ye are deserting like runaway soldiers, turning renegades from God such is the language in which Paul taxes his readers.",runaway soldiers,soldier,runaway,courageous,canceled "The limbs have skeletal features suggesting that the animal was capable of running, but would not have been as fast as early perissodactyls.",early perissodactyls,perissodactyls,early,premature,canceled "They most probably are fake, sorta like wax fruit, so they can be used for displays in shops and as props for photography, as the bright, hot lights in film, television and photographic studios will rather quickly spoil milk.",wax fruit,fruit,wax,sweet,canceled "But, she added, still conscientious, the doctor says it's your nerves, and nerves are most as good as bones before a jury, especially if one has a smart lawyer handy as you have.",bones before a jury,bone,jury,structural,canceled "No gentleman would listen to such language as I have used and submit to it patiently like a beaten cur, without resenting it with his sword, and this circumstance proves his guilt, and the certainty of my suspicions but I will be amply revenged on both him and his paramour and their progeny and he drank and drank day after day, and more and more deeply, until he at length brought himself to a state fitting him for a madhouse and personal restraint.",a beaten cur,cur,beat,repetitive,canceled "That image is about as blunt as a train to the face, and that's not my style.",a train to the face,train,face,scheduled,canceled "You hire a room or a shanty, do your own cooking and washing, roll yourself up in your blanket at night and go it alone, as independent as a hog on ice.",a hog on ice,hog,ice,heavy,canceled Why do you stand staring there like a wax image?,a wax image,image,wax,"varied formats (e.g., jpeg, png)",canceled "Otherwise, in the human race, the male would be slain yearly like the drone of the hive.",the drone of the hive,drone,hive,remote,canceled "ceri was so odd , seemingly as innocent as joan of arc but as accepting of black magic as if she sat at lucifer 's feet and did his nails every other wednesday .",joan of arc,joan,arc,curve,canceled "Just slip the Struggie over any insensitive clod who doesn't understand your pain and watch your problems vanish from sight, just like a towel over a parrot!",a towel over a parrot,towel,parrot,talkative,canceled He felt as helpless as a pigeon beneath an eagle.,a pigeon beneath an eagle,pigeon,eagle,powerful,canceled "It was windless weather, for he would have blown away like a drifted leaf.",a drifted leaf,leaf,drift,control,canceled "That looks terribly like a boiled dog, he remarked to Crushe, who was turning over a stewed fowl.",a boiled dog,dog,boil,loyal,canceled "take some of the best ropes for example a winding rope will tie itself around things , a climbing rope can stand up straight like a pole without any support , and a slithering rope will track and bind a target . ''",a pole without any support,pole,support,strong,canceled "And again the new note of peremptoriness rang in her voice, and her mother stopped suddenly short like a scolded child.",a scolded child,child,scold,curious,canceled "i snap it shut , as mad as a cut snake .",a cut snake,snake,cut,flexible,canceled "not a peep , they sat silent like scolded children .",scolded children,child,scold,inquisitive,canceled "All of Zhiguo Guan's children were hiding their true lives from their father, just like the title of the movie, Everybody's Fine.",the title of the movie,title,movie,cinematic,canceled "He writes, The doctors who dress in hospital whites are represented in their true color black, just like birds of prey.",birds of prey,bird,prey,flee,canceled "Well, David, said Jack, jocularly, you look just exactly like a collapsed balloon.",a collapsed balloon,balloon,collapse,structural,canceled "It was basically like not having class because there was nobody to teach so it was kind of like well, do whatever you want but you still got credit for showing up",not having class,class,have,important,canceled "Lady Romaine waved her scented kerchief, and then routed her scentbottle out of her reticule, and turning sharply upon her daughter, said, Why sit you ever like a stuffed owl, without so much as a word or a smile?",a stuffed owl,owl,stuff,nocturnal,canceled wages had plunged to as low as a nickel an hour .,a nickel an hour,nickel,hour,coin,canceled "It looks rather like the dog in the manger, having The Cottage idle and still refusing Trant's friend.",the dog in the manger,dog,manger,friendly,canceled "To have a fellow going about the farm as cross with every body as a bear with a sore head, with a temper as sour as verjuice and as sharp as a razor, looking as surly as a butcher's dog, is a great nuisance and yet there may be some good points about the man, so that he may be a man for all that but poor, soft Tommy, as green as grass and as ready to bend as a willow, is nobody's money and every body's scorn.",a butcher's dog,dog,butcher,cut,canceled "Almost all my courses had one graded assignment which didn't count to your course grade and that was it, kind of like a mock coursework.",a mock coursework,coursework,mock,insult,canceled "it was a small light , a pinpoint of brightness somewhere above him and then it was gone and soon the vertical chimney was squeezing him upward like a snake in a tube , or like a fetus in a womb pushing toward the world .",a snake in a tube,snake,tube,dangerous,canceled "Oh, that Texas cyclone is as wild as a range horse and is due to get potted any minute.",a range horse,horse,range,broad,canceled "I slunk ashore like a beaten dog, not caring what became of me, and, returning to my old lodgings at the shoemaker's, set about spending my little stock of cash in reckless fashion.","a beaten dog,",dog,beat,steady,canceled "We can't sink, now, for we're on solid ground and lying as still as a stuffed giraffe.",a stuffed giraffe,giraffe,stuff,large,canceled "However, they could not keep the presents a secret, as Phil knew about them, and finally Nan told Ran the whole story, ending with We're just like girls in a book, aren't we?",girls in a book,girl,book,readable,canceled "Just like a fellow outside of an omnibus, said Dick.",a fellow outside of an omnibus,fellow,omnibus,large,canceled And maybe like a voice from the grave she will help us figure this out.,a voice from the grave,voice,grave,real,canceled "You may laugh, continued Hoym, but the man who has not seen her, has not seen Venus, and I think even Venus herself would look rather like a country washerwoman, if placed beside her.",a country washerwoman,washerwoman,country,sovereign,canceled ,a cube planet,planet,cube,spherical shape,canceled It was not nearly as full of ejected husbands as the name might suggest the women of the city were not nearly as forgiving as the women of the night.,the women of the night,woman,night,quiet,canceled "with my brother gone , it would all fall apart like a wet cigar if it were n't for the few remaining responsible adults like my own self . ''",a wet cigar,cigar,wet,thin,canceled "He spread his handkerchief on the grass, and by and by, when night came, the dew fell upon it until it was as wet as clothes on the line.",clothes on the line,clothe,line,straight,canceled ,fire vs ice,fire,ice,Burning,canceled "He seems to have had in his thoughts the condition of a poor wandering sheep, that had left the flock and the rich pastures where it was wont to be led, ranging rather like a native of the woods, than one who had been used to be led, and fed, and protected by an owner.",a native of the woods,native,wood,fluent,canceled "There's one with hair as red as a rheumatic bandage, chuckled Kirby.",a rheumatic bandage,bandage,rheumatic,inflame,canceled "it was as subtle as a shade of blue , as indistinguishable as a snowflake among thousands , but it was there .",a snowflake among thousands,snowflake,thousand,unique,canceled Her eyes bright like a dying sun.,a dying sun,sun,dying,life-giving,canceled We blow out there like a candle in the wind.,a candle in the wind,candle,wind,bright,canceled the words willing and poltergeist were as opposite as war and peace .,war and peace,war,peace,serene,canceled You can't take a wife and throw her aside like an old boot.,an old boot,boot,old,durable,canceled There was I as helpless as a bullock at the slaughter.,a bullock at the slaughter,bullock,slaughter,strong,canceled "Oh, a man with an open mind is just as disagreeable as a man without prejudices.",a man without prejudices,man,prejudice,bias,canceled tears just flow out of his eyes uncontrollably like a broken faucet .,a broken faucet,faucet,broken,liquid,canceled v B26 b6 look exactly like ones parents.,ones parents,parent,one,unitary,canceled "But this I'm not sure if this is the eye or close to the eye, but it certainly feels kind of like the an eye of the storm based on what we have seen earlier and what we are told to expect later in the day.",the an eye of the storm,eye,storm,volatile,canceled "Five minutes later , the alarm wakes him again , cheeping insistently like a mechanical bird .",a mechanical bird,bird,mechanical,free,canceled It was as if overnight everyone stopped seeing him as a role model and he was unceremoniously tossed away like a used condom.,a used condom,condom,use,effective,canceled Now if your machine is laid low with fever it is as good as an engine out of repair.,an engine out of repair,engine,repair,good,canceled "Just like house flippers, they had flipped and merged the company so many times there was no way for it to be profitable...the raw debt load they carried met they needed minimum wage just to break even.",house flippers,flipper,house,permanent,canceled "The traveller who stands there should remember that the worship which is here performed is as old as the date of the patriarchs and not unakin to their religious 156 ideals and if there are some things which are not sympathetic to the Christian idea, they are subordinate.",the date of the patriarchs,date,patriarch,edible,canceled "And just like a fly trap, it will close up and devour a real thing inside of it.",a fly trap,trap,fly,wing,canceled they look a little like the ones past prime is famous for .,the ones past prime,one,prime,indivisible,canceled "as true as the passage of a second , as true as the moon that hung so silvery blue above the tree line just then , her words could not be argued .",the passage of a second,passage,second,navigable,canceled "XXI In the course of a fortnight, Fedor Ivnitch brought Glafra Petrvna's little house into order cleaned up the yard, the garden comfortable furniture was brought to him from Lavrki, wine, books, newspapers from the town horses made their appearance in the stables in a word, Fedor Ivnitch provided himself with everything that was necessary and began to livenot exactly like a country squire, nor yet exactly like a recluse.",a country squire,squire,country,geographical,canceled ,word of mouth,word,mouth,composed of letters,canceled "After she is caught by Buddy and Jay, the other inmates watch as Buddy makes Barbie squeal like a pig in exchange for not reporting her to her mother.",a pig in exchange,pig,exchange,dynamic,canceled "you could be wrong , '' tom said , but his voice was as dry as a breaking stick .",a breaking stick,stick,break,rigid,canceled "It was basically like not having class because there was nobody to teach so it was kind of like well, do whatever you want but you still got credit for showing up",not having class,class,have,collectively,canceled "Were rather darkish hued ourself, Yet will annihilate the elf, Who says in earnest, or in jokes Were not as good as whiter folks.",whiter folks,folk,whiter,traditional,canceled "She is very like a boiled sole, answered the Vicomte, with a wry face.",a boiled sole,sole,boil,supportive,canceled "I count it in moongold and coin of life, The love and beauty that these dead have missed, Who lived to reap no glory from the strife, But are like sleepers by the loved one kissed Each sleeps and knows not that she is so near, Or at the most sinks deeper in his dream, And life, and all blithe things they once held dear, Are far and faint like voices of a stream.",voices of a stream,voice,stream,real,canceled "While Ralph examined Bud's disabled left arm Pete picked himself up slowly, and, muttering that he felt consid'able shuck up like, crawled away like a whipped puppy.",a whipped puppy,puppy,whip,excite,canceled That's just like the basket thing.,the basket thing,thing,basket,handwoven,canceled "Just at that moment the two men hurried off with giant strides from the rock charged with powder, and all the crowd that surrounded them down below began to run away like a retreating army.",a retreating army,army,retreat,strong,canceled "As feeble as my escape attempt was i decide he was right, Danny was about as coordinated as a wedding in vegas. ",a wedding in vegas,wedding,vegas,tradition,canceled "Darby was riding his Blunderbuss, a big raking brute of a roan, with a head like a clawhammer and a mouth as hard as beaten brass, and on the sloping hillside it had hard work to keep clear of the viciously lunging horns.",beaten brass,brass,beat,steady,canceled "The worst is when your code works and you think you know why, only to be let down later when your code falls apart like a house of cards.",a house of cards,house,card,shelter,canceled "While Ralph examined Bud's disabled left arm Pete picked himself up slowly, and, muttering that he felt consid'able shuck up like, crawled away like a whipped puppy.",a whipped puppy,puppy,whip,happy,canceled "They might be as severe as a fine of one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for a year, or both, in the discretion of the courts.","a fine of one thousand dollars,",fine,dollar,subtle,canceled This adsorbent has been found quite as effective as the fuller's earth and it is possible to recover the vitamine from the carbon with treatment by acid.,the fuller's earth,earth,fuller,spherical,canceled We were discussing how Theresa May is almost like a dear in the headlights.,a dear in the headlights,dear,headlight,illuminate,canceled This bill is as crooked as a barrel of snakes.,a barrel of snakes,barrel,snake,hollow,canceled "However, there is always a little staff, consisting of a score of women, who represent the grace, and charm, and beauty of Paris, which women, after ten or twelve years service, pass into the reserve, just like the old generals.",the old generals,general,old,unspecific,canceled "is n't this just like the old days , davy , '' i say to get off the subject of my imminent death .","the old days ,",day,old,bright,canceled "The general and the girls, having telegraphed for money, had gone to the hotel to wait for the answers, while Bartlett and the Watermelon had remained in the store, Bartlett eager to receive the answer to the joyful congratulations he had sent his broker on the success of his plan, and the Watermelon because he scorned to run away like a whipped cur, preferring Bartlett to know who he was.",a whipped cur,cur,whip,crack,canceled "i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says .",a dying animal,animal,die,reproduce,canceled This bill is as crooked as a barrel of snakes.,a barrel of snakes,barrel,snake,hollow,canceled "When I first chose this as a place to settle down I thought it was pretty damn perfect, or at least as good as a home without a roof could be.",a home without a roof,home,roof,familiar,canceled ,an anchor out of water,anchor,water,dependable,canceled "the flowers are big and round like a girls tit , chuckles .",a girls tit,tit,girl,bird,canceled ,a cardboard hammer,hammer,cardboard,metal,canceled Human emotional response dead loved one is infinitely worse than wet socks Vagus nerve response dead loved one is equally as bad as wet socks,wet socks,sock,wet,soft,canceled Using literal darkness and light as tools for deconstruction is about as subtle as a train to the face.,a train to the face,train,face,long,canceled "What is here, O beloved, so like a sea without sound?",a sea without sound,sea,sound,harmonic,canceled "rest it against the damn doorframe , eddie youre about as stable as a deer on rollerskates .",a deer on rollerskates,deer,rollerskate,maneuverable,canceled "I feel a little like a deer in the headlights, but I'm trying not to be like the girl in this meme.",a deer in the headlights,deer,headlight,bright,canceled "I slunk ashore like a beaten dog, not caring what became of me, and, returning to my old lodgings at the shoemaker's, set about spending my little stock of cash in reckless fashion.","a beaten dog,",dog,beat,repetitive,canceled "with my brother gone , it would all fall apart like a wet cigar if it were n't for the few remaining responsible adults like my own self . ''",a wet cigar,cigar,wet,smoky,canceled we stood there like an animals about to be hunted .,an animals about to be hunted,animal,hunt,predatory,canceled the symbol spun outward like a throwing star and dripped black ooze down his face .,a throwing star,star,throw,luminous,canceled "and a strong shudder took possession of him, as uncontrollable as an ague fit.",an ague fit,fit,ague,comfortable,canceled In this case sex with with a condom coupled with wart removal is as pleasurable as sex without a condom.,sex without a condom,sex,condom,flexible,canceled "you could be wrong , '' tom said , but his voice was as dry as a breaking stick .",a breaking stick,stick,break,hard,canceled Why did the moonlight seem to fade and flicker like a dying lamp?,a dying lamp,lamp,die,bright,canceled It must sound awfully like swelled head.,swelled head,head,swell,cerebral,canceled "The place in question is none other than the mansion with the gardenhouse perched on the wall and though to be fairly confronted with the possibility and so brought to the point is a little like a blow in the stomach, what I am minded to say to you is that perhaps you may have a chance to tell me, on Friday, that you will be able to take some day next week to give me the pleasure of going down there with me for a look.",a blow in the stomach,blow,stomach,digest,canceled Of what is called business and its management he was as innocent as a babe in arms.,a babe in arms,babe,arm,muscular,canceled "then the girl fell forward on top of the piece of her head , and she lay as still as the carved boy .",the carved boy,boy,carve,young,canceled ,an elevator in an outhouse,elevator,outhouse,Efficient,canceled And just like Pawn Stars this strip goes on for too long and makes the viewer feel awkward and embarrassed for all involved.,Pawn Stars,star,pawn,twinkle,canceled "Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that despite Hecker capturing knowing images of Florida, she criticized his antiquated screenplay for lacking freshness in its given genre and giving his cast limited caricature parts, concluding that Tilly's fiveminute cameo reminds viewers that comedy without risk is as barren as a prom without a theme.",a prom without a theme,prom,theme,abstract,canceled In this case sex with with a condom coupled with wart removal is as pleasurable as sex without a condom.,sex without a condom,sex,condom,preventive,canceled The Indians along the seacoast were melting away like frost in the sunbeams.,frost in the sunbeams,frost,sunbeam,cold,canceled It's almost like quick sand.,quick sand,sand,quick,swift,canceled So the symbols of Romanticism became the realities of Bohemia after all that they symbolized was as lifeless as a cancelled banknote.,a cancelled banknote,banknote,cancel,valuable,canceled "So even if you could disolve enough into the beer to make bubbles you can't, it would still taste exactly like flat beer.",flat beer,beer,flat,bubbly,canceled ,the nonexistent wind,wind,nonexistent,airflow,canceled "At any rate, just throw a glance aloft now and then, and our good old lady will explain herself to her own sex, she's as good as a dictionary without words!",a dictionary without words,dictionary,word,important,canceled ,people in a book,people,book,Real,canceled "Stevedores without employment are as abundant as plank without purchasers, and uneasy as a mullet out of water.",plank without purchasers,plank,purchaser,buy,canceled ,blood in the water,blood,water,constituent of the circulatory system,canceled "In some of the branching zoophytes Coryne, Sertularia, c., the germs are exactly like little medusae, being small, gelatinous cups fringed with tentacula, by means of which they twitch themselves along with surprising agility.",little medusae,medusa,little,scary,canceled You can even pay as little as a couple dollars a month for 10 years if you wanted to.,a couple dollars,dollar,couple,pair,canceled "Either you're hitting a server limit, in which case even the worst passwords will take decades or centuries to crack, or you're not and can send an arbitrary number of passwords and any humanrememberable password is about as secure as a plastic padlock.",a plastic padlock,padlock,plastic,durable,canceled "if he pulled just right and released quickly , he could launch a thieving crow skyward like a stone from a slingshot .",a stone from a slingshot,stone,slingshot,still,canceled "We were talking about our advance directives, and how exchanging them is rather like a marriage in reverse.",a marriage in reverse,marriage,reverse,commit,canceled "It should be as obvious as not swallowing poison, it doesn't seem to be, as they are doing one and not the other.",not swallowing poison,poison,swallow,harmful,canceled "And just like a fly trap, it will close up and devour a real thing inside of it.",a fly trap,trap,fly,very,canceled "Just like drugs at the workplace to get a competitive edge, I don't doubt for one minute that many body builders are straight up juicing.",drugs at the workplace,drug,workplace,productive,canceled But that was really very like a tap at the window!,a tap at the window,tap,window,hard,canceled we got ta the door of the oven suddenly dropped open like an unhinged jaw .,an unhinged jaw,jaw,unhinged,masticatory,canceled his face had turned as black as the ace of spades and he had died .,the ace of spades,ace,spade,high,canceled "This gentleman, convinced that a silvermine without silver is as rare as an effect without a cause, discovered the sparkle of the precious element deep down in the reasons of things.",an effect without a cause,effect,cause,determine,canceled ,a jenga tower,tower,jenga,usually contains stairs or elevators,canceled "They suit you, Asher, but you still go in at the waist, and brown trousers look well on legs as straight as billiard cues.",billiard cues,cues,billiard,indicator,canceled "kind of like the land of the dead , ian commented , but the riverkeeper ignored him .",the land of the dead,land,dead,productive,canceled Sorrow over Bridget an' the onmerited contoomely of that old profligate has shore left me as crazy as a woman's watch.,a woman's watch,watch,woman,strong,canceled "Turns out the pedicure salon is actually a dingy hole in the wall, kind of like a dive bar.",a dive bar,bar,dive,graceful,canceled "Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself .",a difference of kind,difference,kind,friendly,canceled "He put it in his mouth and chewed on it a while, but found it as tasteless as cold codfish.",cold codfish,codfish,cold,refresh,canceled "To return to my poor fellows my country bumpkins and starving mechanics, caught by the thirteen pence aday, and after all the expensive drilling that is to make them proper food for powder, herded together like beasts in a stall, till, except under strong coercion, the beast nature is apt to get uppermostand no wonder.",beasts in a stall,beast,stall,wild,canceled "The enormous quantity of the remains of animals present cannot fairly be estimated even by the large number preserved, because most of the bones were as soft as wet mortar.",wet mortar,mortar,wet,durable,canceled And was it really kind of like a stab in the dark because you don't have any medical records?,a stab in the dark,stab,dark,pierce,canceled Hans asks her if she finds him ugly and she replies that he is not nearly as ugly as a broken promise.,a broken promise,promise,broken,bind,canceled his eyes were as black as the sky between stars .,the sky between stars,sky,star,bright,canceled There was I as helpless as a bullock at the slaughter.,a bullock at the slaughter,bullock,slaughter,fast,canceled I felt humiliated and wretched like a whipped child.,a whipped child,child,whip,curious,canceled "it would just sit there like the elephant in the room , making the suspect wonder just how much dirt we had on him .",the elephant in the room,elephant,room,strong,canceled "Hotman points out that while they may be a people without a king a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people .",a pastor without a flock,pastor,flock,guide,canceled "Miles felt to be as dangerous as a diamond, as bad as a box at the opera.",a box at the opera,box,opera,musical,canceled "And when his personality is vividly present in them, the argument, being thrilled with passionate feeling, rises, but heavily like a wounded eagle, into an imaginative world.",a wounded eagle,eagle,wound,high,canceled "I had one for a while when I was a teenager, be prepared to smell faintly like lighter fluid whenever you have it on you.",lighter fluid,fluid,light,radiant,canceled "After so long a passage, with our port almost in sight, and our voyage nearly ended, to be compelled to remain longer in our close prison, and creep like a Wounded snake, dragging its slow length along, winding, day after day, through the sinuosities of this sluggish Mississippi, was enough to make us shipwearied wretches verily, To weep our spirits from our eyes.",a Wounded snake,snake,wound,elongate,canceled "He's as solemn as a stuffed owl, and he'llWell, I'm goin' to put MY oar in.","a stuffed owl,",owl,stuff,generic,canceled rachel stood there like a deer in the headlights .,a deer in the headlights,deer,headlight,quick,canceled "Well, you have got to think about the asteroids as kind of a well, it's almost like a canned good, with all of the basic ingredients of the beginnings of the universe inside.",a canned good,good,can,positive,canceled "Doubt not of that you shall have kisses from them, go pitpat, pitpat, pitpat, upon your lips, as thick as stones out of slings at the assault of a city.",stones out of slings,stone,sling,still,canceled "Now tell me that wouldn't be as cool as a dog on a jetski, I dare you.",a dog on a jetski,dog,jetski,friendly,canceled his mouth felt suddenly as dry as flock wallpaper .,flock wallpaper,wallpaper,flock,group,canceled ,a thousand dollars for one outfit,dollar,outfit,Federal Reserve,canceled thurlow grew aware that there was an odd odor in the room almost like burnt insulation .,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,effective,canceled so it was probably as certain as taxes in april that he likely had no one to spill the beans to .,taxes in april,taxis,april,noisy,canceled "His friends then cinched him upon a saddle, and brought him here, muffled in a blanket, just like a bag of bones.",a bag of bones,bag,bone,strong,canceled Even like the fallen angels!,the fallen angels,angel,fall,gradual,canceled "they were up now , milling around like cattle in a thunderstorm .",cattle in a thunderstorm,cattle,thunderstorm,powerful,canceled "her form was beginning to break up , fading in and out like a weak hologram .",a weak hologram,hologram,weak,cool,canceled "Once set it upon its own professed foundations, and the entire quasireligious structure, with its visionary hopes, its impossible enthusiasmsall its elaborate apparatus for enlarging the single life, and the generation that surrounds it, falls to earth instantly like a castle of cards.",a castle of cards,castle,card,strong,canceled "With his dead eyes, he was slowly penetrating in my spirit, l'ego stillava da quel foro, and I felt so feeble under his dead dark eyes, as sharp as raven beaks.",raven beaks,beak,raven,small,canceled "Mounds of earth sprouted upwards, piecing together like an explosion in reverse until they crystallised into a fist. ",an explosion in reverse,explosion,reverse,shockwave,canceled "Marrying one day and divorcing almost the next, only to marry another as soon as he can scrape together sufficient funds to purchase a wife, this type of man looks upon woman as an inferior animal formed for man's gratification, and to be flung aside like a sucked orange when the juice is gone.",a sucked orange,orange,suck,sweet,canceled "The dark clouds had become more compact and although it was still only late morning , it was as dark as a gathering twilight .",a gathering twilight,twilight,gathering,social,canceled "Knowing that only one side of the Boonesborough palisade had been completed, and that the warparty was five times as strong as the population of the hamlet, he thought to delay operations by strategy.",the population of the hamlet,population,hamlet,big,canceled She was so thoroughly soaked that every lineament of her form could be seen through the thin garment that clung to her body as closely as paper on a wall.,paper on a wall,paper,wall,supportive,canceled "In the first, one constructs the facts to suit the defects in the law, and if executed with any degree of intelligence, the criminal actor has nothing whatever to fear, and the law is as harmless as a painted devil.",a painted devil,devil,paint,dry,canceled "More like pee on khakis, then act like washing hands so people don't think it is pee.",pee on khakis,pee,khakis,durable,canceled It is kind of like a needle in the haystack.,a needle in the haystack,needle,haystack,large,canceled "In daytime, sodium and red oxygen emissions are dominant and roughly 1,000 times as bright as nighttime emissions because in daytime, the upper atmosphere is fully exposed to solar UV radiation.",nighttime emissions,emission,nighttime,restful,canceled "But on this night the mirth jarred like a cracked bell and ere they rose, the seneschal ventured timidly to ask the Baron if he might accept the ransom offered by the young wife of the latest captive.",a cracked bell and,bell,cracked,loud,canceled "she let go , hissing much like a spooked cat .",a spooked cat,cat,spook,lazy,canceled "I think he's about as funny as a broken foot, and just I disagree with everything he said.",a broken foot,foot,broken,arch,canceled "His ears were abroad like a warrior's plume From the bosom of darkness was borrowed the gloom Of his dark, dark hide, and his coal black hair, But his eyes like no earthly eyes they were!",a warrior's plume,plume,warrior,skilled,canceled she could be as poor as a church mouse and it did n't make any difference to him .,a church mouse,mouse,church,ergonomic,canceled "Partners that are cheated on through online affairs feel that online affairs are just as painful as offline ones it is a significant source of stress, makes them feel betrayed as they were lied to, and feel insecure as they will negatively compare themselves with the online women or men.",offline ones,one,offline,unitary,canceled "take some of the best ropes for example a winding rope will tie itself around things , a climbing rope can stand up straight like a pole without any support , and a slithering rope will track and bind a target . ''",a pole without any support,pole,support,stable,canceled "In the first moment that we were ushered into her presence, and beheld her in her white robe of state, embroidered with the pale yellow flower of her kingdom, whatever remained to us of the past slipped away like water through the fingers.",water through the fingers,water,finger,sensitive,canceled Such a betrothal as that of Quintus and Cornelia is as rare as a white raven.,a white raven,raven,white,black,canceled "They left in groups of thousands, or one at a time, dissolving into the air as completely as sugar into coffee.",sugar into coffee,sugar,coffee,bitter,canceled "to dennis , those holes looked strangely like floating eyes . ",floating eyes,eyes,floating,protective eyelids,canceled Almost kind of like the blow up man.,the blow up man,blow,man,creative,canceled "And this is why it is impossible to feel that skilled shooting or foxhunting are as abominable as rabbit coursing, harehunting with beagles, or otterhunting.",rabbit coursing,coursing,rabbit,playful,canceled "Footnote 52 The English appellation Karroo seems to be derived from Karusa, signifying hard in the Hottentot language, and to refer to a quality appertaining to the clayey substance of which these terraces are composed, by virtue of which the red clay, strongly impregnated with iron, and mixed with sand, becomes in the dry season as hard as burnt clay.",burnt clay,clay,burn,soft,canceled "Most undergraduate science degrees with the exception of maybe computer science are also worthless on the job market, or at least about as valuable as a humanities degree.",a humanities degree,degree,humanity,measure,canceled "But if we start assassinating death eaters without due process, haven't we become just like the death eaters?",the death eaters,eater,death,eat,canceled "Because as recently as a couple of hours ago, the director of the CIA, John Brennan, issued a statement, a very tough statement.",a couple of hours,couple,hour,cute,canceled "That Montfichet is of Norman blood is sufficient to turn your thoughts of him as sour as old milk I am as good as all the Montfichets and De Veres hereabout, dame, for all I am but plain Saxon, returned Fitzooth, crossly, and the day may come when they shall know it.",old milk,milk,old,tasty,canceled Then like a bolt from the blue came a cable messagereceived at the little station near the lighthouse.,a bolt from the blue,bolt,blue,hard,canceled "We ought to do something good, just like big folks when theyve been bad.",big folks,folk,big,traditional,canceled almost like a loose floorboard .,a loose floorboard,floorboard,loose,unconfine,canceled "Not as annoying as a tired joke, because they're not expecting you to react with false mirth.",a tired joke,joke,tired,funny,canceled ,a public diary,diary,public,personal,canceled "His eyes were like a serpent's in their steadiness, and the muscles of his body were drawn as tight as steel springs, ready to loose themselves when the chance came.","steel springs,",spring,steel,warm,canceled "Footnote 52 The English appellation Karroo seems to be derived from Karusa, signifying hard in the Hottentot language, and to refer to a quality appertaining to the clayey substance of which these terraces are composed, by virtue of which the red clay, strongly impregnated with iron, and mixed with sand, becomes in the dry season as hard as burnt clay.",burnt clay,clay,burn,malleable,canceled "They have a prebreathe kind of situation there, to give purge their system of nitrogen, it's kind of like a diver with the bends.",a diver with the bends,diver,bend,flexible,canceled "The ice looks green, purple, and blue instead of white like the rest of the glacier.",the rest of the glacier,rest,glaci,refresh,canceled Some men shy at that word holy like a horse at an automobile.,a horse at an automobile,horse,automobile,motorize,canceled This is just like a scene out of Jaws.,a scene out of Jaws,scene,jaw,articulate,canceled "Run right down and get a Southern belle and beauty to settle down and have a dozen babies for you, just like 'befo' the war.'",befo' the war,war,befo,conflictual,canceled ,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,moisture barrier,canceled "I know, indeed, that thou art foolishuttering the terms father and mother, signifying conditions that pass away like the grass of the earth.",the grass of the earth,grass,earth,large,canceled That food looks as hot as the surface of the sun... and the parent seems awfully okay with just dangling it within arm's reach of that unknowing child.,the surface of the sun,surface,sun,good,canceled "And when his personality is vividly present in them, the argument, being thrilled with passionate feeling, rises, but heavily like a wounded eagle, into an imaginative world.",a wounded eagle,eagle,wound,fast,canceled "Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, he threw aside all stealth and caution and, tearing the bushes out of his path, darted forward like a hunted animal.",a hunted animal,animal,hunt,reproduce,canceled The end of August had not come before he began to work by lamplight long before dawn in winter he began as early as one or two o'clock in the morning.,one or two o'clock in the morning,o'clock,morning,fresh,canceled "The idea that a priestly mediation between sinful men and a gracious deity was necessary had been so deeply implanted in the religious consciousness of preChristian antiquity, pagan as well as Jewish, that a form of public worship without a priesthood seemed almost as inconceivable as a religion without a god.",a religion without a god,religion,god,powerful,canceled "The woman hadn't wore the dress to church but one Sunday when her husband came into the store one day an' hung 'round a spell, lookin' 'bout as uneasy as a sinner under conviction, an' at last he winked your uncle into the back room, an' says Howlaway, says he 'Jethro, you've got me in a heap o' trouble, 'cause of that silk dress you loaded on to my wife.",a sinner under conviction,sinner,conviction,immoral,canceled we cant wait here like sitting ducks .,sitting ducks,duck,sit,quack,canceled "Its not as good as not burning coal, but its a profitable use of a formerly fairly useless by product.",not burning coal,coal,burn,fossilize,canceled "Still, a man cant be jumpin around like a cat in a bag.",a cat in a bag,cat,bag,fast,canceled As Terry Pratchett said As useful as a cardboard hammer,a cardboard hammer,hammer,cardboard,metallic,canceled Also some restaurants put it in pizza crusts which is shitty because I actually like pizza with no cheese.,pizza with no cheese,pizza,cheese,topped,canceled We're both in college a guy making a move is usually as blatant as an ostrich on a subway.,an ostrich on a subway,ostrich,subway,efficient,canceled "This gentleman, convinced that a silvermine without silver is as rare as an effect without a cause, discovered the sparkle of the precious element deep down in the reasons of things.",an effect without a cause,effect,cause,cause,canceled No he's as helpless as a fly in amber he must go with his state or be lost.,a fly in amber,fly,amber,fast,canceled "It was nearer the town, and though a substantial building, was not as large as the silk merchant's nor was the compound as extensive.",the silk merchant's,merchant,silk,shiny,canceled "You know, Mr. DiMaggio, I know, according to family who knew him, had lost, and the people in San Diego who knew him, he had lost a lot of weight in recent months and just like the last six months, to a worrying degree, we would pick up his shirt and show him what he called his abs, but it was really they said it was skin and bones literally.",the last six months,month,last,final,canceled "She is very like a boiled sole, answered the Vicomte, with a wry face.",a boiled sole,sole,boil,bubble,canceled They were as cheery as soldiers on furlough.,soldiers on furlough,soldier,furlough,brave,canceled "1 a drink is usually tipped when its one to three drinks being made at a time leaving change can be considered insulting, sort of like a backhanded compliment.",a backhanded compliment,compliment,backhand,warm,canceled ,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,fire resistance,canceled "So, a dolphin out of water will die just like a fish out of water, probably not as quickly though.","a fish out of water,",fish,water,clear,canceled no longer like drying clay his organs came back to life like flowers soaking the soils summer rain .,drying clay,clay,dry,moldable,canceled "Between July 1 and October 24, 1868, the stock of the Erie was increased from 34,000,000 to 57,000,000, and the price went downward like a burnt rocket.",a burnt rocket,rocket,burn,fast,canceled "Well, you have got to think about the asteroids as kind of a well, it's almost like a canned good, with all of the basic ingredients of the beginnings of the universe inside.",a canned good,good,can,virtuous,canceled The idea expressed is as commonplace as cold mutton.,cold mutton,mutton,cold,refresh,canceled "Just shows how an injury like a broken neck may not be as deadly as a sliced artery, but it requires hell of a recovery.",a sliced artery,artery,sliced,long,canceled "The night was as black as the interior of a camera, save whenas by the opening of a snapshot shutteran instantaneous view of the valley was fixed on Katherine's startled brain by the lightning ripping in fiery fissures down the sky.",the interior of a camera,interior,camera,focus,canceled "Barefooted, or shifts of bandages round their swollen feet torn breeches, cut short like football knickers.",football knickers,knicker,football,inflate,canceled "Although there is a ban on the sale and advertisement of tobacco products to those who are underage under the age of 18 adolescents have also begun smoking at higher rates, starting as young as thirteen years of age due to a lack of enforcement of this ban.",thirteen years of age,year,age,divisible,canceled and as trustworthy as a chocolate hammer .,a chocolate hammer,hammer,chocolate,hard,canceled "This mad Carew was tinder to a flash of these bright eyes and the fool Yorke, except in his wild creeds, as pliant as a hazel twig.",a hazel twig,twig,hazel,edible,canceled "Any morality, then, built on the sentiments is as unsubstantial as castles in the air, and as unreal as the baseless fabric of a vision.",castles in the air,castle,air,strong,canceled "when the madness of the takeoff celebrations died , ornenkai looked about at the lovely white city of ariyalsynai with its wide avenues and glittering ornate buildings , its gardens , fountains , forums , and he felt as though he had been left adrift in a dream , because everything he surveyed seemed to him suddenly as meaningless as the substance of a fantasy .",the substance of a fantasy,substance,fantasy,tangible,canceled "It was basically like not having class because there was nobody to teach so it was kind of like well, do whatever you want but you still got credit for showing up",not having class,class,have,hierarchical,canceled "kind of like stringy steak , said dmitri around a mouthful of wolf .",stringy steak,steak,stringy,good,canceled The trackers are running ahead like a pack of beagles.,a pack of beagles,pack,beagle,organize,canceled "Mr. Gloucester also perceived the man and his revolver, and Mr. Ilam came out of the safe rather like a jack out of a box.",a jack out of a box,jack,box,containable,canceled "cried Roger, he creeps away like a beaten hound, and Virginia saw the bowlderlike shadow rolling off toward the palisade.",a beaten hound,hound,beat,big,canceled ,white ravens,raven,white,black,canceled "Some of you may ask what is gained by the use of a telescope, for the moon looks to us as large as a plate with the unaided eye, and now we hear it only looks as big as an orange in the telescope.",an orange in the telescope,orange,telescope,enlarge,canceled "maybe they were just trying not to upchuck on the white rug , thought bates the pipe and its smoke were really disgusting almost as bad as the inane chanting .",the inane chanting,inane,chant,musical,canceled The next 10 minutes or so was eerily like a calm before the storm moment right before a hurricane wipes out an entire village.,a calm before the storm,calm,storm,dynamic,canceled "It was almost like tempting fate, Rob thought like facing a mechanized army with only a club for a weapon.",tempting fate,fate,tempting,predetermine,canceled She felt his arms drawing her and quivered again like a trapped bird.,a trapped bird,bird,trap,fly,canceled "Once Spartan boys grow as old as only seven years, they are taken to live in a group with other boys of their age.",only seven years,year,only,long,canceled "Camping in tents and cooped up in those magnificent mobile ovens , the crews were understandably as short on fuse as they were long on indestructibility and tantrums were as common as stones through the windscreen , the motley band continued their unsung way across the tropic of Cancer while those celebrated and sponsored ParisDakar counterparts roared along to the west .",stones through the windscreen,stone,windscreen,still,canceled