sentence,combination,root,modifier,property,human_label_majority 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,strand,emergent "Glances of absolute dismay went round the table, and the stillness was as ominous as the hush before a thunderclap.",the hush before a thunderclap,hush,thunderclap,anticipatory,emergent "Oh, I admit that you saw an edge of reality in the trenches but, after all, life in the trenches was as abnormal as life in the movies.",life in the movies,life,movie,fantastical,emergent the place was quiet like the hallway of mirrors .,the hallway of mirrors,hallway,mirror,dizzying,emergent Amanda grabs the tiny silver hobble dress and runs to change into it and it fits as tight as a mermaid outfit.,a mermaid outfit,outfit,mermaid,tight,emergent "Let a man attend distinctly to this medium, and to the conclusion, and he will perceive them to be as unlike as any two things in nature.",any two things in nature,thing,nature,dissimilar,emergent "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,wilted,emergent ,Light ships,ship,light,nimble,emergent "Just like a fellow outside of an omnibus, said Dick.",a fellow outside of an omnibus,fellow,omnibus,wait,emergent "Is Eloise her real name, or do you call her that because she is bonny like the girl in the book?",the girl in the book,girl,book,fictional,emergent ,a moth to a candle,moth,candle,irresistible,emergent "screamed his wife, looking wildly around like a hunted thing.",a hunted thing,thing,hunt,prey,emergent "While he was watching, he realized that peoples' motion in a mosh pit looks kind of like molecules in a gas.",molecules in a gas,molecule,gas,random,emergent Such occasions are as rare as the birth of stars.,the birth of stars,birth,star,rare,emergent "His big voice went on, tolling quietly like a distant bell.",a distant bell,bell,distant,quiet,emergent "His friend, in her arresting attitude, sat as rigid as a carven woman.",a carven woman,woman,carven,unmove,emergent 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,absurd,emergent "It usually doesn't manifest immediately, but up to around 5 to 8 years old and sometimes as late as the early twenties, kids can actually develop incontinence as a result of a hyperactive sphincter.",the early twenties,twenty,early,transitional,emergent Neither will they be secured by a political party which preaches a certain creed for eight years and then throws it aside like a worn out garment.,a worn out garment,garment,wear,dilapidate,emergent "he did n't much like people with titles , and regarded being a duke as a job description rather than a lever to greatness .",people with titles,people,title,privilege,emergent the three of them were caught together like survivors of a shipwreck .,survivors of a shipwreck,survivor,shipwreck,traumatized,emergent I am going about like a sheep without a leader.,a sheep without a leader,sheep,leader,lose,emergent That way we can mash the two pictures together like a friendship ring.,a friendship ring,ring,friendship,symbolic,emergent ,a church on weekdays,church,weekday,deserted,emergent ,a stream down hill,stream,hill,effortless,emergent Daytime temperatures have not risen as fast as nighttime temperatures.,nighttime temperatures,temperature,nighttime,lower,emergent "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,underprivileged,emergent "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,humiliate,emergent "The night was as dark as the inside of a whale, but the glare of light from the guns on our side gave me direction.",the inside of a whale,inside,whale,dark,emergent "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,mythical,emergent sort of like hypnosis in the movies .,hypnosis in the movies,hypnosis,movie,illusory,emergent "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,non,emergent "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,temporary,emergent "i 'll follow you around like a puppy on a leash all damn night , if that 's what it takes . ''",a puppy on a leash,puppy,leash,obedient,emergent "When my husband tries his patented initiate sex maneuver while Aunt Flow is in town, I go as stiff as a weeping angel.",a weeping angel,angel,weep,statue,emergent "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 winter's soil, as icy as the winter's air, no thawing nor germinating by them.",the winter's soil,soil,winter,lifeless,emergent "Now, were Niagara continuous, and without lateral vibration, it would be as silent as a cataract of ice.",a cataract of ice,cataract,ice,awe,emergent "just like the old council , the group of seven broke up .",the old council,council,old,disband,emergent "Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound It flung the blood into my head,",a pawing horse,horse,paw,restless,emergent 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,anticipatory,emergent ,a falling bomb,bomb,fall,whistle,emergent "But an idea did appear now and again, a bright, solid, sensible idea, lying there like a jewel in a gutter.",a jewel in a gutter,jewel,gutter,unexpected,emergent "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,unconventional,emergent "god , i 'm as easy as a nut to crack .",a nut to crack,nut,crack,difficult,emergent "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,unimpressive,emergent "it 's an interesting sight , though it 's not as lethal as a stake through the heart . ''",a stake through the heart,stake,heart,deadly,emergent "It was not as attractive as a sleigh with reindeer, but she had often longed to ride in it.",a sleigh with reindeer,sleigh,reindeer,imaginary,emergent That didnt look quite like passion alone.,passion alone,passion,alone,insufficient,emergent "One of the women was like, That's so cute, you look exactly like mormon missionaries. ",mormon missionaries,missionary,mormon,uniformed,emergent "Doctor, I've found the shape of beauty, and it's not as bright as the sunset, nor is as vast as the northern lights.",the northern lights,light,northern,awe,emergent Now whenever I hear sounds of a certain pitch such as a child crying I get a buzzing sound in my ear kind of like a membrane vibrating.,a membrane vibrating,membrane,vibrate,auditory,emergent "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,uninspired,emergent "He was aware of a colossal beak, curved like a scimitar and pointed wickedly like a tooth of iron.",a tooth of iron,tooth,iron,menacing,emergent "Now, don't stand laughing there like a great gaby, but come and shake hands.",a great gaby,gaby,great,garrulous,emergent "We'll be back to just pure numbers, as pure as economic numbers can be.",economic numbers,number,economic,fluctuating,emergent im as dry as a forbidden zone .,a forbidden zone,zone,forbidden,desolate,emergent she could be as poor as a church mouse and it did n't make any difference to him .,a church mouse,mouse,church,poverty,emergent "Let cultured men plow and reap, and plowing and reaping will become as dignified as the learned professions.",the learned professions,profession,learn,esteem,emergent "When my husband tries his patented initiate sex maneuver while Aunt Flow is in town, I go as stiff as a weeping angel.",a weeping angel,angel,weep,terrify,emergent You are looking as fresh as the prairie after the rain.,the prairie after the rain,prairie,rain,vibrant,emergent "I like how there's rhythm in your poem as well, makes it sounds almost like music in the head while reading!",music in the head,music,head,internal,emergent "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,superficial,emergent "The wound certainly was mainly like a blow from a gunstock, admitted Bolderwood.",a blow from a gunstock,blow,gunstock,harmful,emergent It is just like the girls in books!,the girls in books,girl,book,imaginary,emergent "Then they should, but don't, ticket for SLOW acceleration...it's as dangerous as FAST acceleration.",FAST acceleration,acceleration,fast,dangerous,emergent 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,mysterious,emergent "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,uninspire,emergent "As it is, your plans must be somewhat like castles in the air.",castles in the air,castle,air,imaginary,emergent ,a highlight reel,reel,highlight,fast-paced,emergent no longer like drying clay his organs came back to life like flowers soaking the soils summer rain .,drying clay,clay,dry,rigid,emergent "After all our care and forethought, after all our struggles, after all our success, to perish miserably like moths in a candle, to plunge headlong into that immense conflagration as a vessel dives into the ocean, and is never heard of more!",moths in a candle,moth,candle,destroy,emergent "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,directionless,emergent "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,heavy,emergent "Bugs in a Bowl Han Shan, that great and crazy, wonderfilled Chinese poet of a thousand years ago, said We're just like bugs in a bowl.",bugs in a bowl,bug,bowl,confine,emergent "Bertha ate sparingly, for her heart was as swollen as a sponge in water.",a sponge in water,sponge,water,swollen,emergent And maybe like a voice from the grave she will help us figure this out.,a voice from the grave,voice,grave,otherworldly,emergent "A line of kopjes stood up before us, rising out of the bare plain like islands out of the sea, and as we rounded the point and opened up the inner semicircle of hills, we could distinguish the white waggon tops of the Boer laager in a deep niche in the hillside, and see the men collecting and mounting and galloping about.",islands out of the sea,island,sea,elevate,emergent 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,impend,emergent Excess of righteousness must be sinfulalmost as sinful as lack of righteousness.,lack of righteousness,lack,righteousness,sinful,emergent "i was about as intelligent as an ape with a crayon compared to even a layman of this era , and yet i was still deemed fit to be instructed .",an ape with a crayon,ape,crayon,unskille,emergent "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,limit,emergent "That font is nearly as bad as comic sans, I'd forgive anyone for losing their sensibilities when trying to read that mess.",comic sans,san,comic,unprofessional,emergent "A market turns, investors and the greater community begin to lose faith, and it's almost like a run on a bank?",a run on a bank,run,bank,panic,emergent "Lizzie, was such a love as mine to be thrown away like a used glove?",a used glove,glove,use,discard,emergent Just like any bucking horse.,any bucking horse,horse,buck,unpredictable,emergent The way your Aunt Lavinia treated him was as funny as a cock without feathers.,a cock without feathers,cock,feather,absurd,emergent "the three inebriated individuals were about as sober as the guy behind the counter within 15 minutes, still fanning their mouths.",the guy behind the counter,guy,counter,service,emergent An aeroplane in these hills will be just about as useful as a Dreadnought in a millpond.,a Dreadnought in a millpond,dreadnought,millpond,useless,emergent 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,clever,emergent Pity I could see her as easily as a light in the night.,a light in the night,light,night,noticable,emergent "It was not as attractive as a sleigh with reindeer, but she had often longed to ride in it.",a sleigh with reindeer,sleigh,reindeer,fantastical,emergent "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,fleeting,emergent "It's exactly like the ones in the stories, she wailed.",the ones in the stories,one,story,idealize,emergent Usually between the first two pages or the first chapter if its relatively short like a five page chapter so in my eyes there would be more time to hook me regardless of the exact opening line only.,a five page chapter,chapter,page,short,emergent Just like a post in the mud!,a post in the mud,post,mud,unmovable,emergent "not a peep , they sat silent like scolded children .",scolded children,child,scold,submissive,emergent "The landlock nook is as lovely as a Swiss lake and, oh, the myriad echoes that waken in chorus among these misty mountains!",a Swiss lake,lake,swiss,picturesque,emergent "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,fearful,emergent "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,terrify,emergent "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,subdue,emergent it was almost like falling underwater .,falling underwater,underwater,fall,disorient,emergent "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,squash,emergent "He's doing ever so well, and he's made the place a picture, she would begin volubly, and then would toss her head slowly like a teased heifer, and decide that Marion did not deserve to hear tidings of the glorious man she had slighted.",a teased heifer,heifer,tease,sullen,emergent "Though not as effective as primary forests, secondary forests store more soil carbon than other landuses, such as tree plantations.",primary forests,forest,primary,undisturbed,emergent "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,simple,emergent "kind of like the land of the dead , ian commented , but the riverkeeper ignored him .",the land of the dead,land,dead,otherworldly,emergent 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,helpless,emergent "Thats no like word of mouth, youre thinking?",word of mouth,word,mouth,unreliable,emergent "I mean, I understand the concept, kinda like pork for muslim because of the context at the time deadly diseases and such in pork, but surely god couldn't be pissed at you for drinking coffee, right ?",pork for muslim,pork,muslim,prohibit,emergent "If I have to be in the water, I would prefer to just float around like an airy turd.",an airy turd,turd,airy,weightless,emergent "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,hard,emergent "While the flames are swirling around her, it is just like a visual effect but the fear comes when she manipulates the black flames into an attack that can control and when she does that, the flames become real and deadly.",a visual effect,effect,visual,illusionary,emergent ,a dried starfish,starfish,dry,rigid,emergent "actually , it 's kind of like the old days .",the old days,day,old,idealize,emergent ey And now as silent as an unstrung drum.,an unstrung drum,drum,unstrung,quiet,emergent "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,undesirable,emergent "The frosty wind, as if to make amends For its keen breath, was aiding to our steps, And drove us onward like two ships at sea Or, like two birds, companions in midair, 10 Parted and reunited by the blast.",two ships at sea,ship,sea,separate,emergent they look a little like the ones past prime is famous for .,the ones past prime,one,prime,deteriorate,emergent Excess of righteousness must be sinfulalmost as sinful as lack of righteousness.,lack of righteousness,lack,righteousness,sinful,emergent "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,diminish,emergent "for the first few days , however , reginald was kind of like a vampire in reverse .",a vampire in reverse,vampire,reverse,daylight,emergent 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,decorative,emergent "but she says that, if tomorrow or the day after we have youngsters, we shall all be crowded there like bees in a bottle.",bees in a bottle,bee,bottle,constrain,emergent "he 's inches from me , and he smells cold like the night air .",the night air,air,night,fresh,emergent 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,lawless,emergent the doctor was rambling words incoherently like a possessed man .,a possessed man,man,possess,irrational,emergent ,drone strikes,strike,drone,lethal,emergent "I live in a desert, tap water can be almost as hot as 'hot' water. ",hot' water,water,hot,scalding,emergent The seven regiments of cavalry which formed the left and centre of the French army delivered a devastating charge at the Spanish infantry in the plain and the regiment of Spanish hussars covering their flank was swept away like chaff before the wind.,chaff before the wind,chaff,wind,vulnerable,emergent Such a betrothal as that of Quintus and Cornelia is as rare as a white raven.,a white raven,raven,white,rare,emergent ,the triggered chick,chick,trigger,easily upset,emergent "Otherwise, in the human race, the male would be slain yearly like the drone of the hive.",the drone of the hive,drone,hive,sacrificial,emergent "Oh, absolutely, because these were all kind of like little movies, all these videos that he did.",little movies,movie,little,brief,emergent "No one can avoid its attacks, because the liquor obtained from that composition is as limpid as rock water, and without taste.",rock water,water,rock,mineral-rich,emergent But even these are not as bad as the moving picture shows that have captured Buenos Aires.,the moving picture,picture,move,entertain,emergent I would care if they thought red sweaters were immoral because it has no moral value I would ignore them unless they were getting butthurt like vegans over a joke.,vegans over a joke,vegan,joke,offend,emergent "I have this game and let me tell ya, it can be damn near as bad as the grown up version!",the grown up version,version,grow,adult,emergent "Watch as cars, planes, even helicopters are washed away like bath toys.",bath toys,toy,bath,easily washed away,emergent It's not as funny as the cable company being totally awful to customers when they call for support and rubbing their nipples.,the cable company,company,cable,unreliable,emergent "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,contradictory,emergent "His friend, in her arresting attitude, sat as rigid as a carven woman.",a carven woman,woman,carven,lifeless,emergent "More like self depreciating, i had quite honestly just forgotten about the shape of a three lol and so I was kinda laughing about being dumb and forgetting that threes are round like eights.",self depreciating,self,depreciate,humble,emergent ,the middle ages,age,middle,antiquated,emergent He was just as unattainable as the bottom of the ocean.,the bottom of the ocean,bottom,ocean,unreachable,emergent "Many of these contain great quantities of fish, though, so far as the Great Lakes are concerned, the fish stories of the pioneers read now like idle tales but still the commercial fisheries of the province bring in over 2,333,000 480,000, and give employment to several thousand men.",idle tales,tale,idle,untruthful,emergent The houses on either side shot past like pictures in the kinetoscope.,pictures in the kinetoscope,picture,kinetoscope,dynamic,emergent "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,non,emergent 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,ineffective,emergent "When they opened their eyes again, they saw below them, in the bottom, a huge beech with a bough struck off and the white splinters bare, with leaves awkwardly twisted right round it stood there like a fellow with one arm off.",a fellow with one arm,fellow,arm,injure,emergent "I hear the raindrip on the stones, replies the young man, and I hear a curious echoI suppose an echowhich is very like a halting step.",a halting step,step,halting,hesitant,emergent "I often lay there like a cold lizard, waiting to eat my next meal while my partner finishes... so probably.",a cold lizard,lizard,cold,motionless,emergent He stood as still as a figure of marble.,a figure of marble,figure,marble,unmovable,emergent Nothing goes with buffalo wing soda quite like bacon soda.,bacon soda,soda,bacon,unappealing taste,emergent That'd drive me heterosexually crazy like blood to a shark.,blood to a shark,blood,shark,irresistible,emergent "I mean dog owners let their dogs lick their face and hands and crap and then proceed to touch other things in the house, that to me sounds just as gross as cats on the counter.",cats on the counter,cat,counter,unsanitary,emergent "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,force,emergent "with lin , it was impossible to tell which way a joke was going to go , because her sense of humor was as unreliable as an april afternoon . ",an april afternoon,afternoon,april,changeable,emergent "Right, because the climate is JUST LIKE a sinking vessel. ",a sinking vessel,vessel,sink,precarious,emergent "Josselyn, in 1672, could only describe the summer splendor of the White Mountain region as dauntingly terrible, being full of rocky hills, as thick as molehills in a meadow, and full of infinite thick woods.",molehills in a meadow,molehill,meadow,numerous,emergent "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,unstable,emergent "i will become as visible as a pig on a sofa , answered flannery .",a pig on a sofa,pig,sofa,awkward,emergent "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,disappointing,emergent "If you think that both of these guys are equally assholes, you're just as sad as the sandwich thrower.",the sandwich thrower,sandwich,thrower,unlikable,emergent "Society at large was now like one great family, united in sentiment.",one great family,family,great,united,emergent "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,inexpressive,emergent "It's not as bad as black face, but the metaphorical point he was making still stands even if that metaphor was an hyperbole.",black face,face,black,offensive,emergent "After we once learn it, the motion of a good saddle horse is almost like a rocking chair and riding becomes one of the most delightful of outdoor pastimes.",a rocking chair,chair,rock,relax,emergent "Frithiof was as happy as a released prisoner, and did not come home to dinner.",a released prisoner,prisoner,release,relieved,emergent "Aren't you ashamed before the children and Magda to sit there like a dying man, rolling your eyes?",a dying man,man,die,miserable,emergent "guys i'm very concerned, about this thing in Canada, if you really think about it, a capped internet connection is as useful as a dial up connection.",a dial up connection,connection,dial,outdate,emergent "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,impractical,emergent 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,discomforte,emergent "I could not very well help hearing it, though I sleep as soundly as a bullfrog in winter.",a bullfrog in winter,bullfrog,winter,inactive,emergent "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,retributive,emergent "Yes, I lay there like a snake in the grass.",a snake in the grass,snake,grass,deceitful,emergent "Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.",the smell of bacon,smell,bacon,intoxicate,emergent "The nigerian prince thing is almost as old as commercial email, why does this one bother you so much?",commercial email,email,commercial,unwanted,emergent "I actually like burnt pizza, so I would eat it.",burnt pizza,pizza,burn,unappetizing,emergent ,two different stories,story,different,incoherent,emergent Also the tube she is holding is actually a plastic bottle before they blow it up it is kinda like glass blowing,glass blowing,glass,blow,creative,emergent "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,unstructured,emergent "I thought it was just a cruel UC joke for the longest time, kind of like the state tree but of all UC campuses before i found out others were also being subjected to it",the state tree,tree,state,emblematic,emergent "But he was known as really kind of like a mama's boy, because they were just very, very close with each other.",a mama's boy,boy,mama,clingy,emergent "After all our care and forethought, after all our struggles, after all our success, to perish miserably like moths in a candle, to plunge headlong into that immense conflagration as a vessel dives into the ocean, and is never heard of more!",moths in a candle,moth,candle,doom,emergent ,"the burner phone,",phone,burner,disposable,emergent "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,shelter,emergent "The apex of the crown is sharppointed the body of the crown is slightly recurved its base is expanded into a thick circular fang, which is anchylosed to a short conical process of the alveolar border of the jaw the teeth differ from those of the Mosasaurus in having the outer side as convex as the inner side, the transverse section being an ellipse with pointed ends, which latter correspond with the lateral trenchant edges of the crown of the tooth the teeth are more closely set than in the Mosasaur and Geosaur.",the inner side,side,inner,concave,emergent "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,deflate,emergent "So be it, he said briefly, and in a flash they were off she, graceful, and almost like a winged bird, as she sped along and",a winged bird,bird,wing,free,emergent "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,unfocused,emergent "Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beautiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burst upon the world.",girls in books,girl,book,imaginary,emergent "Some fell backwards like stuffed sacks, and their heads, as they encountered the boards of the barricade, awoke a dismal echo.",stuffed sacks,sack,stuff,heavy,emergent You kept her as useless as a china shepherdess it is not her fault if she fails to rise to the occasion now.,a china shepherdess,shepherdess,china,fragile,emergent "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,impoverish,emergent "Saying 'motherfucker' or 'goddamnit' is worse than killing another human, but not quite as bad as a bare nipple.",a bare nipple,nipple,bare,offensive,emergent "I was so charmed with the scenery that I didn't realize where we were till the carriage stopped before a white house, with a long wooden stoop in front, when we got out and walked right away down to the shore, where a plank platform ran out from the land, and a cunning little boat, with white sails, lay dipping up and down like a duck in the water.",a duck in the water,duck,water,graceful,emergent "They may not hit as hard as larger calibers but they are very cheap, making it a preferred choice to many.",larger calibers,caliber,large,impactful,emergent "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,unremarkable,emergent "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,disorient,emergent You mustn't lead her around like an animal in a show.,an animal in a show,animal,show,objectify,emergent "In some regions, the ratio is as low as four clinics per one hundred thousand women.",four clinics per one hundred thousand women,clinic,woman,sparse,emergent Lane realizes that the grass in town isn't nearly as greener as life on the farm.,life on the farm,life,farm,idealize,emergent I'm just as happy as a bee in clover.,a bee in clover,bee,clover,happy,emergent But I am forced to say that I have seen a great many American citizens who didnt seem at all set up or in the least like large stockholders.,large stockholders,stockholder,large,wealthy,emergent "he 's so angry that i can see the blood pulsing at his temple , but his voice remains as calm as the sea before a storm . ",the sea before a storm,sea,storm,foreboding,emergent "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,fluffy,emergent the tricks he did with it were more like a nervous habit .,a nervous habit,habit,nervous,involuntary,emergent You are about as congenial as fire and water.',fire and water,fire,water,incompatible,emergent But I can see the oasis as clear as day ahead!,day ahead,day,ahead,promising,emergent ,moths to a light,moth,light,irresistible,emergent Bavaria is also different from north Rhine Westphalia and so is the Normandy compared to the Brittany but the difference between Spain and Norway is basically like day and night.,day and night,day,night,distinct,emergent Its built exactly like the little adobe huts the peons live in.,the little adobe,adobe,little,humble,emergent "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,tooth,comb,numerous,emergent you taste exactly like an almond joy . '',an almond joy,joy,almond,sweet,emergent "I mean, Nikki Haley, U.N. ambassador is an important position, but it's not nearly as important as secretary of state.",secretary of state,secretary,state,high,emergent She somehow lifted upwards like a witch on a broom somewhere around the column,a witch on a broom,witch,broom,flying,emergent "I love the idea of heaven being this brainnumbing prison, kind of like a psychiatric facility a little bit, with all the horror implicit in such a location.",a psychiatric facility,facility,psychiatric,confine,emergent "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,insecure,emergent "It was almost like tempting fate, Rob thought like facing a mechanized army with only a club for a weapon.",tempting fate,fate,tempting,reckless,emergent They are as opposite as fire and water.,fire and water,fire,water,opposite,emergent And boy isn't that almost like the end of overeating.,the end of overeating,end,overeating,improvement,emergent It is as likely as snow in hell.,snow in hell,snow,hell,unlikely,emergent "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,undesirable,emergent "But then you are to go around like a wet cat, and mope, and hang on worse then ever.",a wet cat,cat,wet,miserable,emergent "Look the mandible's swinging,singing softly like a knocked windchime is a good recovery, and mandible is perfect.",a knocked windchime,windchime,knock,dissonant,emergent "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,unconcerned,emergent "I have a feeling this mom knew he was going to come after her, that he was going to get out of jail and he was going to come after her, and she was sitting there like a sitting duck, helpless to do anything about it, except put a post on Facebook.",a sitting duck,duck,sit,helpless,emergent I think a few of these guys in different sizes sidebysidebyside like Russian dolls would be amazing.,russian dolls,doll,russian,nested,emergent "If Messi is on the floor and holding his leg because of pain but not rolling around like a little bitch, refs know shit did in fact go down.",a little bitch,bitch,little,contemptible,emergent The differences of inheritance will be thrown away like the bundle from the pilgrim's back.,the bundle from the pilgrim,bundle,pilgrim,burdensome,emergent "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,earthy,emergent "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,unsteady,emergent ,a train to the face,train,face,blunt,emergent Why do you stand staring there like a wax image?,a wax image,image,wax,stillness,emergent "jacob was a graduating senior and captain of the varsity basketball team , and if you want me to be honest he was about as exciting as a bag of hammers .",a bag of hammers,bag,hammer,uninspire,emergent "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,heart,emergent "If you wanna talk, I'm as gossipy as an elder lady... just saying... ",an elder lady,lady,eld,wise,emergent "But Elsewhere just read kinda like a bad fanfiction, I couldn't find any believability or real sentiment in it.",a bad fanfiction,fanfiction,bad,unoriginal,emergent "His temper too appeared to have suffered on the way, and, at Chauvelin's curt and dictatorial replies, he looked as surly as a chained dog.",a chained dog,dog,chain,miserable,emergent But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow.,a white crow,crow,white,uncommon,emergent "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,cuddly,emergent The big wooden table had been scrubbed as white as a bone on the seashore .,a bone on the seashore,bone,seashore,bleached,emergent "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,unwelcome,emergent "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,constrain,emergent "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,white,emergent "Ezekiel declares that, on account of their idolatries, the people have become as worthless as a withered vine.",a withered vine,vine,wither,worthless,emergent "A. J. Liebling said on him, George Seldes is about as subtle as a house falling in.",a house falling in,house,fall,unsubtle,emergent "Loti's own bedroom is rather like a monk's cell, but mixes Christian, Persian and Muslim religious artifacts.",a monk's cell,cell,monk,sparse,emergent "They'd be as crazy as a cat in a showerbath, at all our whizzing and rushing.",a cat in a showerbath,cat,showerbath,frantic,emergent "That looks terribly like a boiled dog, he remarked to Crushe, who was turning over a stewed fowl.",a boiled dog,dog,boil,distasteful,emergent "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,inflexible,emergent "its about as quiet as a tiptoeing cannonball , id say .",a tiptoeing cannonball,cannonball,tiptoe,absurd,emergent The power of Roland as a minister became as feeble as a shadow's hand.,a shadow's hand,hand,shadow,feeble,emergent "then i saw a single shining circle open up before me , shimmering just like a pool in the moonlight . ",a pool in the moonlight,pool,moonlight,shimmering,emergent Yet like a great elm it oershadows each station.,a great elm,elm,great,majestic,emergent "in and out is always fresh, never cold or old, but still manages to taste about as good as a wet sock",a wet sock,sock,wet,undesirable,emergent "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,pathetic,emergent "But Laura sat as stiff as a stone image, only casting an occasional stolen glance towards him.",a stone image,image,stone,immovable,emergent "one sat in the corner , almost like a scolded child .",a scolded child,child,scold,submissive,emergent "The old man didn't go after him, and fight for four years, at a cost uv half his substance, to subdue him and bring him back, but when he hed run through his pile, and squandered his share uv the estate, and got hungry, he came back like a whipped dog.",a whipped dog,dog,whip,helpless,emergent "These include covering the thinly rolledout pastry with oil, folding back and forth like a paper fan and coiling the resulting strip into a round shape before rolling flat, baking on a tava andor shallow frying.",a paper fan,fan,paper,fold,emergent "alone in a world of dipsticks , he felt as achy as a whipped dog and as homesick as a man marooned on a desert island .",a whipped dog,dog,whip,miserable,emergent 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,virtual,emergent 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,close,emergent my asinine idea was now like a punch to the gut .,a punch to the gut,punch,gut,shocking,emergent There was I as helpless as a bullock at the slaughter.,a bullock at the slaughter,bullock,slaughter,vulnerable,emergent "At the end of seven weeks he found peace, and his raptures became as great as the horrors of conscience had been.",the horrors of conscience,horror,conscience,guilt-ridden,emergent The biggest issue is that normal spots are not as wide as handicap spots and it can make it more difficult to get in and out of the car.,handicap spots,spot,handicap,wider,emergent just like a beaten pup .,a beaten pup,pup,beat,miserable,emergent "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,crowd,emergent "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,receptive,emergent "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,stable,emergent "my chest pumps unnaturally like a train about to derail , and for sure life has already done just that . ",a train about to derail,train,derail,impending disaster,emergent "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,constrain,emergent "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,open,emergent 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,undesirable,emergent "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,inactive,emergent "When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail.",a shirt of mail,shirt,mail,armor,emergent this is my favorite quote about the english language The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore.,a cribhouse whore,whore,cribhouse,unclean,emergent "he saw it again , only a shadow in the darkness and falling snow , as nightmarish as a moving gargoyle .",a moving gargoyle,gargoyle,move,terrify,emergent You think I'm as bad as any woman of the street.,any woman of the street,woman,street,marginalize,emergent "He was husky, but also fat like a watermelon with paws. ",a watermelon with paws,watermelon,paw,strange,emergent "Some are logical like fire vs ice, but otherwise no weaknesses.",fire vs ice,fire,ice,opposite properties,emergent "Given how political this issue has gotten and how much of a hotbutton issue it is now because of the call for a border wall, and now because of the shutdown, when these cases come up in court, are the politics of it now like an elephant in the room?",an elephant in the room,elephant,room,undiscussed,emergent They're not as intrusive as the full pat down.,the full pat down,pat,full,intrusive,emergent Hackers might have been able to access it through trial and error and guessing sort of like the security questions.,the security questions,question,security,guessable,emergent "the heat , the pressure , the spiraling lust slamming against his senses , over and over like waves in a storm . ",waves in a storm,wave,storm,unstoppable,emergent "Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beautiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burst upon the world.",girls in books,girl,book,idealize,emergent "All right, said Morgan, every step is sure like pullin' teeth!",pullin' teeth,tooth,pullin,painful,emergent "I would work on your eating sounds, you sound a little like a car zooming by. ",a car zooming by,zooming,car,loud,emergent "A product bought by other people than those deciding that it should be bought, will be as expensive as any monopoly product.",any monopoly product,product,monopoly,expensive,emergent ", both the hind and fore feet have each five toes, and the size of the hind foot is about five times as large as the fore foot.",the fore foot,foot,fore,small,emergent "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,helpless,emergent he 's as skittish as a mare in heat .,a mare in heat,mare,heat,restless,emergent "And he said, this is literally like a needle in a haystack.",a needle in a haystack,needle,haystack,elusive,emergent "When the problem is as simple as a stalled car, they get out to help.",a stalled car,car,stall,problematic,emergent Her nature was as soft as the paternal nature was hard.,the paternal nature,nature,paternal,nurturing,emergent "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,contrast,emergent "There was scarcely room in it to sit upright, and with the moisture standing beaded everywhere it looked rather like the inside of a well.",the inside of a well,inside,well,constrain,emergent "She is just like a trained hen, said Bunny.",a trained hen,hen,train,obedient,emergent it was as empty as the dark street .,the dark street,street,dark,desert,emergent "He bought it rather than rented, so no agent to complain to and body corp would only direct me to my own agent who like most agents was as useful as a chocolate teapot.",a chocolate teapot,teapot,chocolate,ineffective,emergent Lawyers in probate have to ensure in good faith just like private sales that the person they are transferring the firearms to aren't prohibited persons.,private sales,sale,private,unregulated,emergent "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,inappropriate,emergent "this is hilarious, I wonder what that sounds like in a lowered pitch, probably like a possessed dinosaur",a possessed dinosaur,dinosaur,possess,fantastical,emergent "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,well,emergent "she might be sleeping with a merimon brother , but he was as different as night from day from gray .",night from day,night,day,distinct,emergent The ideas that make us immune to ideas are as popular as a book in a bonfire.,a book in a bonfire,book,bonfire,destroyed,emergent "that he had been standing there like a man possessed , watching the door for a sign of harlow .",a man possessed,man,possess,obsessive,emergent "A brigantine, battered by the tropical hurricane sweeping up from the Caribbean Sea, was staggering along like a wounded beast.",a wounded beast,beast,wound,struggle,emergent "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,exaggerated,emergent "It had become routine, almost like a trip to the dentist.",a trip to the dentist,trip,dentist,undesirable,emergent "but not as fast as the drawing and quartering , lucas reminded me .",the drawing and quartering,drawing,quarter,violent,emergent He felt as helpless as a pigeon beneath an eagle.,a pigeon beneath an eagle,pigeon,eagle,vulnerable,emergent "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,disgust,emergent "Parity with the number is used to label nuclear angular momentum states, examples for some isotopes of hydrogen H, carbon C, and sodium Na are The reason for the unusual fluctuations in , even by differences of just one nucleon, are due to the odd and even numbers of protons and neutrons pairs of nucleons have a total angular momentum of zero just like electrons in orbitals, leaving an odd or even number of unpaired nucleons.",electrons in orbitals,electron,orbital,pair,emergent "I don't make enough money as a night security guard to afford cable, and since infomercials are about as about as fun as water boarding, you take what you can get.",water boarding,boarding,water,torturous,emergent "They spread rumours about Malathi, and Baskar shouts at Malathi to behave properly like an educated person.",an educated person,person,educate,well,emergent "I recall seeing this photos of truckers' faces and the left side was considerably more damaged, sorta like reptile skin.",reptile skin,skin,reptile,tough,emergent This is just like a scene out of Jaws.,a scene out of Jaws,scene,jaw,suspenseful,emergent "cried mamma, and drew in her breath just like the sound of the wind.",the sound of the wind,sound,wind,calm,emergent "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,central,emergent Tell us why this is so kind of like head scratching.,head scratching,head,scratch,puzzle,emergent "You are always like a toad under a harrow, and that without the slightest cause.",a toad under a harrow,toad,harrow,oppress,emergent 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,struggle,emergent "there were words everywhere from the top to the bottom , it looked nothing like the notes she took for the case shes been working on , it looked instead like an extralong story .",an extralong story,story,extralong,detail,emergent "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,anticipatory,emergent "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,frail,emergent "im glad i didnt go in , wouldve been trapped in there like a sitting duck .",a sitting duck,duck,sit,defenseless,emergent "The bars played freely like keys on a ring, and splayed out in their flight, and did the most dreadful execution.",keys on a ring,key,ring,jingly,emergent "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,immobilized,emergent "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,fragile,emergent for days she was running around like a chicken without a head . '',a chicken without a head,chicken,head,disorient,emergent 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,desperate,emergent "Tom was set down at the door of his school at nine o'clock, and called for at halfpast four precisely, just like a grocery parcel.",a grocery parcel,parcel,grocery,disposable,emergent "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,unpleasant,emergent it did n't matter if we were both drawn to each other like moths to a flame .,moths to a flame,moth,flame,irresistible,emergent "You can't run as fast as the rolling cheese, so the only logical thing to do is to ball up and roll down the hill.",the rolling cheese,cheese,roll,amusing,emergent just like the little prince .,the little prince,prince,little,naive,emergent "Their loose hair streamed out in the wind, their light gossamer gowns streamed the same way, whipped about their limbs as close as wet muslin.",wet muslin,wet,muslin,clingy,emergent "Her face was swarthy, deeply marked, haughty, and her abundant hair fell disheveled down to her waist, as white as the drifts upon the mountains.",the drifts upon the mountains,drift,mountain,white,emergent "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,unremarkable,emergent "i 'm afraid it 's a little like the old joke 'what 's my problem , doctor ? ' ''",the old joke,joke,old,well,emergent Such an instance among men is almost as rare as a white blackbird.,a white blackbird,blackbird,white,albino,emergent india 's urge to cry was almost as strong as the one to run .,the one to run,one,run,scare,emergent "But let me say, I am twenty, and that I hope the first time you find me funking the sea, you will pitch me overboard like an old sandal.",an old sandal,sandal,old,disposable,emergent I was as lively as a dog with wings.,a dog with wings,dog,wing,unreal,emergent "i always have to wear it when i 'm being smothered under meaningless words , standing there upright like a carved image .",a carved image,image,carve,immovable,emergent "lauren said , it 's nowhere near as nice as the one on campus . ''",the one on campus,one,campus,referential,emergent "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,contrite,emergent Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding.,art without understanding,art,understand,meaningless,emergent theyre almost like flying buses .,flying buses,bus,fly,fantastical,emergent "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,tough,emergent theyre almost like flying buses .,flying buses,bus,fly,impractical,emergent "it 's as definite as an eye print , more positive than any skinprint anomaly . ''",an eye print,print,eye,unique,emergent "i snap it shut , as mad as a cut snake .",a cut snake,snake,cut,frantic,emergent "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,embarrass,emergent "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,preferable,emergent "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,cruel,emergent ,a scope on a knife,scope,knife,impractical,emergent It's a peach that only looks vaguely like a horse's ass I wouldn't haven't seen it without the suggestion beforehand.,a horse's ass,ass,horse,unattractive,emergent "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,inscrutable,emergent "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,illusory,emergent she was as nervous as a child at the dentist waiting to get a cavity filled .,a child at the dentist,child,dentist,fearful,emergent "We slept on commandeered mattresses that night on the floor of a vacant house, with a few Hungarian hussars still singing over the victory in the back yard, and got up to find the crowded town of the night before as empty as the old campground the day after the circus.",the old campground,campground,old,desolate,emergent "It's exactly like the ones in the stories, she wailed.",the ones in the stories,one,story,mythical,emergent ,a switch turning on,switch,turn,instantaneous,emergent "Chromids are large replicons, although not as large as the main chromosome.",the main chromosome,chromosome,main,large,emergent In England it would be as valuable as the philosopher's stone.,the philosopher's stone,stone,philosopher,mythical,emergent "This is really like a city within a city, isn't it?",a city within a city,city,city,self,emergent "It looks to him almost like a stage scene, got up solidly for some sudden festa.",a stage scene,scene,stage,decorated,emergent "The Soviet Government was obliged to recreate it, just like the army, out of fragments.","the army, out of fragments",army,fragment,disorganized,emergent Their cities are cleantheir life as orderly as the movement of the stars.,the movement of the stars,movement,star,orderly,emergent "A fine house in its prime, miss, but now, money melting away like butter in the sun.",butter in the sun,butter,sun,melting easily,emergent "Ain't It Cool News wrote About as subtle as a stripper in church, dont expect your brain to be stimulated, but other areas specifically your guts and below are bound to be rumbled when you wade through MUCK.",a stripper in church,stripper,church,inappropriate,emergent "kind of like stringy steak , said dmitri around a mouthful of wolf .",stringy steak,steak,stringy,tough,emergent "And listening to that, again, almost like a fly on the wall was absolutely bonechilling.",a fly on the wall,fly,wall,inconspicuous,emergent Could we do it kind of like the running of the bulls but with rabid dogs?,the running of the bulls,running,bull,tradition,emergent And Clowes lay still like a caught fly and suffered it.,a caught fly,fly,catch,helpless,emergent girls are difficult but they still like the same foods and will still snuggle on their couch with their mom when they're sick.,the same foods,food,same,boring,emergent "It seems to me just like an awful dream, and when I think of the hundreds and hundreds of children who were killed right before our very eyes, I feel as though I always ought to be satisfied no matter what comes.",an awful dream,dream,awful,fearful,emergent "Instead of passing each other like ships in the night, we must fight until our truths stretch to the ends of the world.",ships in the night,ship,night,fleeting,emergent "As in any analog process, every reprinting degrades the picture, just like a photocopy of a photocopy.",a photocopy of a photocopy,photocopy,photocopy,degrade,emergent "Briefly on the face of the glass images phased past like a long exposure, the slim worn cloaked figure in his chair stationary as the scenes rolled by.",a long exposure,exposure,long,time,emergent "Oh, no, my life is very real it is as real as light to darkness, it is absolute prose.'",light to darkness,light,darkness,opposite extremes,emergent "Sire, the sea is as deep as a stones throw.",a stones throw,throw,stone,short,emergent "Bloodred were his spurs i' the golden noon winered was his velvet coat, When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway,",a dog on the highway,dog,highway,endanger,emergent that was sort of like crossing paths .,crossing paths,path,crossing,encounter,emergent "Well, the first waves that came through were between three and six feet tall, not not that big a deal, although they aren't just like breakers on the beach.",breakers on the beach,breaker,beach,transient,emergent A Chinaman once said that the thought of death is as futile as water in the hand.,water in the hand,water,hand,fleeting,emergent "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,inappropriate,emergent This is just like a finger shooting game me and my friend had!,a finger shooting,shooting,finger,playful,emergent They are as different as day from night.,day from night,day,night,distinct,emergent "He might have trod as heavily as he pleased,as heavily as a grown man,as heavily, I was going to say, as an elephant,without much probability of Pandora's hearing his footsteps.",a grown man,man,grown,heavy,emergent "Though you were as wild as a cat of the woods, by heaven!",a cat of the woods,cat,wood,untame,emergent ,the fellow behind the horse,fellow,horse,hidden,emergent "I'm as dizzy as an owl in daytime, and if my pants give way I'm going to squash flat!",an owl in daytime,owl,daytime,dizzy,emergent 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,holiday,emergent she was as subtle as a rock through a window .,a rock through a window,rock,window,disruptive,emergent "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,useless,emergent "it felt almost like a kick to the gut , but in a good way .",a kick to the gut,kick,gut,shocking,emergent "A good library always makes me melancholy, where the best author is as much squeezed and as obscure as a porter at a coronation.",a porter at a coronation,porter,coronation,unnoticed,emergent "The rail track was sometimes at 7 meters high like the moving sidewalks, sometimes at ground level and sometimes underground.",the moving sidewalks,sidewalk,move,automate,emergent "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,stun,emergent "I 've suggested the same myself but , compared to Bob Fitzsimmons , big Lennox is as British as a bacon sandwich .",a bacon sandwich,sandwich,bacon,british,emergent "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,painful,emergent "She was listless, as directionless as a ship without a rudder. ",a ship without a rudder,ship,rudder,lack of control,emergent I'm pretty sure that when she said super bass she was meaning that the guy makes her heart beat hard and fast like a bass line.....,a bass line,line,bass,groovy,emergent "They did not and they could not think of themselves as remotely like a frog and a princess , yet mental shapes similar in heritage or configuration managed to creep stealthily up in between the tangles of their individual cells .",a frog and a princess,frog,princess,contrast,emergent "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,trivial,emergent "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,hurtful,emergent ,"a fly in a pot,",fly,pot,agitated,emergent "The wayfarer may call for nothing to eat but the threecent minestra, and la signora serves it as cheerily as a dinner at one lira but let him refuse to order wine, and her sympathy is forever forfeited.",a dinner at one lira,dinner,lira,affordable,emergent "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,trap,emergent "The way he said disappear would have been comical, almost like a vampire movie, but Taylor was beyond laughing now. ",a vampire movie,movie,vampire,bloodthirsty,emergent "Minaret, pagoda, dome, propylon, arch, portico jutted up from the labyrinth like tares amid a cornfield.",tares amid a cornfield,tare,cornfield,incongruous,emergent "But right now executions have been held in California as recently as a couple of months ago, I think.",a couple of months,couple,month,recent,emergent "But, Trichy, I should not object if I were as ugly as the veiled prophet and they all as beautiful as Zuleika.",the veiled prophet,prophet,veiled,deceptive,emergent 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,stranded,emergent "It's not as fluffy as fresh spun, but it's a lot less dense than what the video shows.",fresh spun,spun,fresh,fluffy,emergent She looks frankly very kind of like a meth user.,a meth user,user,meth,dishevel,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "to dennis , those holes looked strangely like floating eyes .",floating eyes,eye,float,unsettling,emergent We make money fly away like leaves in the river,leaves in the river,leave,river,movable,emergent "his vision was foggy like breath on a mirror , causing the flight information on the digital departure board to appear illegible . ",breath on a mirror,breath,mirror,foggy,emergent "he sat there like a beaten cur, looking first at one of us, and then at the other, for mercy, and finding none.",a beaten cur,cur,beat,helpless,emergent The moment you realise how much this looks not only just like a butt hole but also like lips.,a butt hole,hole,butt,disgust,emergent He would be as restless as a fox in a cage.,a fox in a cage,fox,cage,restless,emergent "when they left the door open , it had been always smelled awful like overcooked potato . ",overcooked potato,potato,overcook,mushy,emergent "i sat down gingerly , beginning to feel a little like a patient at a dentist .",a patient at a dentist,patient,dentist,anxious,emergent ,a child in the dark,child,dark,fearful,emergent "What else do our papists, but by keeping the people in ignorance vent and broach all their new ceremonies and traditions, when they conceal the scripture, read it in Latin, and to some few alone, feeding the slavish people in the meantime with tales out of legends, and such like fabulous narrations?",fabulous narrations,narration,fabulous,mythical,emergent 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,wreck,emergent 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,undesirable,emergent "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,emergent It's almost like quick sand.,quick sand,sand,quick,dangerous,emergent "Tasted exactly like bacon and vodka at the same time, but its just wrong like those popcorn jellybeans.",bacon and vodka,bacon,vodka,unconventional,emergent "he made an odd noise , almost like a pained giggle , and fell over on his side .",a pained giggle,giggle,pained,incongruous,emergent "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,insult,emergent ,the toad from the stone,toad,stone,emerging,emergent "Probably because they coast by on image and reputationpumping for the first parts of their career, and then when they have to dig in and lean on their talents to sustain the respect of their fanbase, it all falls apart like a a ton of bricks.",a a ton of bricks,ton,brick,overbear,emergent "One day, as the Comte de Roye was dining with his wife and daughter at the Kings table, the Comtesse de Roye asked her daughter if she did not think the Queen of Denmark and Madame Panache resembled each other like two drops of water?",two drops of water,drop,water,identical,emergent "In her small transparent face, which was flushed with fever, the blue circle about the mouth seemed to start out suddenly like the mark of a blow.",the mark of a blow,mark,blow,observable,emergent Well this side of the pond is stripping down to its wifebeater and bouncing around like a kangaroo on acid.,a kangaroo on acid,kangaroo,acid,erratic,emergent "and then I just kind of froze like a deer in headlights, just frozen.","a deer in headlights,",deer,headlight,stun,emergent "Harrowing as it was, the sounds were almost like a recitation of the alphabet.",a recitation of the alphabet,recitation,alphabet,monotonous,emergent "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,contradictory,emergent "I really like the blinking light, it prevents me from needing to check my phone. ",the blinking light,light,blink,distracting,emergent "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,carnivorous,emergent the fortyfoot fall to the hard marble below would prove just as deadly as a slug in the head .,a slug in the head,slug,head,deadly,emergent "It was as hard as a landlords heart, and as tasteless as a bit of rag carpet.",a landlords heart,heart,landlord,cold,emergent "Think of it, Carol, as kind of like an approved list, you know, where you can talk to your brother, you can talk to your father, you can talk to your husband, your son in more of a private, enclosed space.",an approved list,list,approve,exclusive,emergent "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,unemployed,emergent you sound more like a mob lawyer .,a mob lawyer,lawyer,mob,deceptive,emergent it 's kind of like a person with a cold .,a person with a cold,person,cold,unwell,emergent Also paranoid people like me will think What if its just frosted on my side and they can look right in like a oneway mirror?!?!?,a oneway mirror,mirror,oneway,deceptive,emergent "in person , she 's about as likable as a case of crabs .",a case of crabs,case,crab,undesirable,emergent "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,incompatible,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent kind of like a hummer against a bulldozer .,a hummer against a bulldozer,hummer,bulldozer,outmatch,emergent "I have some hope because as late as a couple of hours ago, I understand that there were some more positive noises towards that principle of debt restructuring.",a couple of hours,couple,hour,brief,emergent "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,submissive,emergent "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,obscure,emergent the doctor was rambling words incoherently like a possessed man .,a possessed man,man,possess,unhinge,emergent the enemy crew come apart like frogs in a blender .,frogs in a blender,frog,blender,disintegrate,emergent "It made a noise almost like the noise of a hammer, said Paul Solange.",the noise of a hammer,noise,hammer,distinctive,emergent just went along like a good boy . ',a good boy,boy,good,compliant,emergent "It's trying so hard to be as good as the far side, but it just isn't.",the far side,side,far,humorous,emergent To the agonized nerves of the watchers its descent seemed as slow as a falling leafs.,a falling leafs,leafs,fall,graceful,emergent "The eyes that have been wearied by looking at many fading gleams and seen them die away, may look undazzled into the central brightness, and we may be sure that even we shall walk there like the men in the furnace, unconsumed, purging our sight at the fountain of radiance, and being ourselves glorious with the image of God.",the men in the furnace,man,furnace,undaunted,emergent "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,unusual,emergent "He laid down his arms, and has, ever since, remained as secret as the man in the mask, in Voltaire's history.",the man in the mask,man,mask,unknown,emergent After they had gone a short distance away from the town the country seemed as lonely as the wildest prairie.,the wildest prairie,prairie,wild,lonely,emergent "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,swift,emergent "Yep, bad doctors exist, just like bad patients. ",bad patients,patient,bad,uncooperative,emergent I imagine we'd get extra credit if we brought in Kleenex and sanitizer just like the old days.,the old days,day,old,simple,emergent You want Philip to chatter away like a society man.,a society man,man,society,well,emergent "These two facing each other were as honest as the rocky coast, as unabashed as the wind.",the rocky coast,coast,rocky,untame,emergent ,"a hotdog with, like, no mustard",hotdog,mustard,flavorless,emergent "According to Goldberger, The best you can say is that they prevent it from being worse than it is, or as bad as earlier versions, which date from the nineteeneighties.","earlier versions,",version,early,outdate,emergent ,a stick to a rocket,stick,rocket,proximity,emergent Poverty and love are as compatible as fire and water.,fire and water,fire,water,incompatible,emergent "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,distinct,emergent "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,incoherent,emergent "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,timid,emergent The satire in both shows is about as subtle as a brick to the face and these people are patting themselves on the back for barely understanding half of it like they are now above both sides of an argument.,a brick to the face,brick,face,violent,emergent "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,undeniable,emergent Did he flock away like a herd of birds?,a herd of birds,herd,bird,noisy,emergent almost like the calm before the storm . '',the calm before the storm,calm,storm,deceptive,emergent "In a study, some of the infected juveniles were only half as heavy as controls with no worms.",controls with no worms,control,worm,uninfected,emergent Well that's about as smart as an elevator in an outhouse,an elevator in an outhouse,elevator,outhouse,nonsensical,emergent "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,burdensome,emergent "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,undesirable,emergent "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,sizeable,emergent "It definetly has, again, it is almost like a fire cracker.",a fire cracker,cracker,fire,explosive,emergent "Whether they do anything with what they collect , or whether it 's an exercise in pointlessness , a little like cosmic trainspotting , is another matter .",cosmic trainspotting,trainspotting,cosmic,meaningless,emergent Well this side of the pond is stripping down to its wifebeater and bouncing around like a kangaroo on acid.,a kangaroo on acid,kangaroo,acid,unpredictable,emergent "shoo mud be as handsome as wax work, shoo thinks soa mich ov her' sen!",wax work,work,wax,lifelike,emergent "Yes but with something a little more political it's important to know its fake, more so when it's not blatantly obvious like a talking dog.",a talking dog,dog,talk,fantastical,emergent "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,oppose,emergent "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,easily,emergent "still , the last couple of times hed run into reuben , hed been about as friendly as a wet cat .",a wet cat,cat,wet,displease,emergent 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,ineffective,emergent ,a battery farm,farm,battery,inhumane,emergent "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,unhelpful,emergent "It is an extra sense, as incommunicable as an ear for music.",an ear for music,ear,music,discern,emergent "somewhere out there , there 's a dead fish thinking , 'well , at least i do n't stink as bad as tobias 's truth . ' ''",tobias 's truth,truth,tobias,subjective,emergent Nothing brings people together like a mutual enemy.,a mutual enemy,enemy,mutual,brings people together,emergent "The law would make it mandatory for Hindu women to wear veils, just like Muslim women.",Muslim women,woman,muslim,cover,emergent "The tops of the boxes also seemed alive, for they rose and fell regularly like the breast of a sleeper.",the breast of a sleeper,breast,sleeper,rhythmic movement,emergent "they were all cuddled up together like a litter of pups , snoring softly . ",a litter of pups,litter,pup,cuddled up together,emergent "but not as fast as the drawing and quartering , lucas reminded me .",the drawing and quartering,drawing,quarter,punitive,emergent Her hair was the color of the arid desert sands and her pale blue eyes were as vacant as a cloudless sky.,a cloudless sky,sky,cloudless,vacuous,emergent You can't take a wife and throw her aside like an old boot.,an old boot,boot,old,discardable,emergent "The sight was a singular one, with the ground worn as smooth as the floor of a barn by the licking of multitudinous tongues, and its moisture glistened in the sunlight, as if it had been oiled.",the floor of a barn,floor,barn,unfinishe,emergent "i was banking on the fact if they came to the party , theyd cluster together like rattlesnakes in a den . ",rattlesnakes in a den,rattlesnake,den,closely packed,emergent "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,unequal,emergent "She insisted I havent seen more beautiful hair, it was as strange as the moonlight at noon.",the moonlight at noon,moonlight,noon,unusual,emergent "and with all the other enviro disasters going on in the world , theyve kinda got us all cornered like trapped rats .",trapped rats,rat,trap,helpless,emergent 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,entertain,emergent we stood there like an animals about to be hunted .,an animals about to be hunted,animal,hunt,fearful,emergent "Is Eloise her real name, or do you call her that because she is bonny like the girl in the book?",the girl in the book,girl,book,imaginary,emergent "A number of words are always hovering about these webs, and when one of them touches a web, with which it has an affinity, it is retained there like a fly in a cobweb.",a fly in a cobweb,fly,cobweb,trap,emergent "It's kind of like the water in the toilet, it's swirling around.",the water in the toilet,water,toilet,unpleasant,emergent "Grasping his dignity firmly like a walking stick, he stalked up the pavement to the house.",a walking stick,stick,walk,stabilize,emergent "There are chapters in the book ... that haunt one afterwards like remembered music, or like passages in the prose of Walter Pater.",remembered music,music,remember,emotionally impactful,emergent "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,regretful,emergent "Also like a good politician, he asked around of the men in the bath of our businesses, our wives and sons.",a good politician,politician,good,responsible,emergent 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,prescriptive,emergent "One does not know sadness, unless you have held your burning baby in your arms, watching his life slip away like oil from a lantern.",oil from a lantern,oil,lantern,fleeting,emergent "He was cleaning the row pretty well, and the weeds were wilting in the sun but the rows were as crooked as a snake's path.",a snake's path,path,snake,irregular,emergent "It's like it's not quite like the blind audition a classical musician goes through, but",the blind audition,audition,blind,unbiased,emergent He was almost as bad as a female housekeeper.,a female housekeeper,housekeeper,female,stereotypical,emergent "Whatever his life, he must when he dies take his place amongst that wretched throng of sufferers packed as closely as cattle in a truck, and plunged to a point perhaps determined by prudery in tongues of flame.",cattle in a truck,cattle,truck,constrain,emergent "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,entrepreneurial,emergent "Be silent, said Juanna indignantly, and Soa slunk back like a whipped hound.",a whipped hound,hound,whip,cowardly,emergent "Not always, my store has the round eggs already made, we make them just like the folded eggs.",the folded eggs,egg,fold,prepared in a specific way,emergent "The mind can scarcely grasp the minuteness of these tiny creaturescreatures that seem to enjoy existence, eating, and apparently playing and entertaining each other like the higher animals.",the higher animals,animal,high,intelligent,emergent "I cannot think of you as being moved by them perhaps what is said of us is true, and we are only like moonlight unto sunlight, and like water unto wine.",moonlight unto sunlight,moonlight,sunlight,comparative,emergent "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,uncontrolle,emergent Maybe they leave the sticker there because they just like shiny objects...,shiny objects,object,shiny,attractive,emergent "Now, we know that from the very beginning the President knew that this was a lethal virus, at least five times as lethal as the worst flu.",the worst flu,flu,bad,lethal,emergent "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,unnatural,emergent "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,tyrannical,emergent artists and shrinks go together like milk and cookies .,milk and cookies,milk,cookie,compatible,emergent "This is kind of like a one note joke like we get it, youre rich, everyones poor, you dont know how to milk a cow.",a one note joke,joke,note,simplistic,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent They are dangerous and alluring like an African cat.,an African cat,cat,african,exotic,emergent "Yes but with something a little more political it's important to know its fake, more so when it's not blatantly obvious like a talking dog.",a talking dog,dog,talk,improbable,emergent ,a sail in a tempest,sail,tempest,swept away,emergent "Because time is water, life washes away like a castle in sand. ",a castle in sand,castle,sand,fragile,emergent "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,destructive,emergent "It is somewhat like the Irish expression, Saving your presence, sir, when alluding to an unpleasant subject.",the Irish expression,expression,irish,idiomatic,emergent "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,unrealistic,emergent "the big question was what to do with sam , since neither ryan nor zoe wanted to take the teenager along and subject her to potential disappointment or upset if the keys turned out to be a dead end or something disturbing like a drug stash .",a drug stash,stash,drug,illegal,emergent "and when the goblin men came through the glen , calling out soft like doves cooing , 'come buy our orchard fruits , come buy ! ' ",doves cooing,dove,coo,soothing,emergent ,an Indian feather,feather,indian,ornate,emergent The fact that karma whoring by posting bullshit can be dismissed as easily as a boy's mischief is a problem.,a boy's mischief,mischief,boy,trivial,emergent ,the sneeze of a hippopotamus,sneeze,hippopotamus,loud,emergent "the color scheme was as bold as the plunge of the neckline a swath of bright scarlet draped up toward the outlandish bustle to reveal a purple skirt beneath , with silvergray passementerie looped around the cuffs , the bodice , and the hem .",the plunge of the neckline,plunge,neckline,reveal,emergent "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,ominous,emergent "A. J. Liebling said on him, George Seldes is about as subtle as a house falling in.",a house falling in,house,fall,destructive,emergent It must sound awfully like swelled head.,swelled head,head,swell,conceite,emergent "Still, a man cant be jumpin around like a cat in a bag.",a cat in a bag,cat,bag,confine,emergent Nothin' means lovin' like a baby in the oven!,a baby in the oven,baby,oven,unthinkable,emergent "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,unstable,emergent all the kitsch and puns were about as charming as a poke in the eye .,a poke in the eye,poke,eye,distasteful,emergent "Now you can't choose your seat, aren't doing opening nights for films and some films just won't qualify anymore like big films.",big films,film,big,high,emergent "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,recent,emergent "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,able,emergent An aeroplane in these hills will be just about as useful as a Dreadnought in a millpond.,a Dreadnought in a millpond,dreadnought,millpond,ineffective,emergent "as ineffectual as so small a quantity of soap would be in so large a vessel of water, mug here denoting a washtub as slender in the middle as a cow in the waist, said of a very stout person as slick as a oont as smooth as a mole as slim as a barbers pole as softhearted as a rezzil weasel, said of a person who is absolutely cruel as sound as a trout as sour as a grig, referring to grig, the wild bullace, not to the proverbial merry grig as straight as a loach, an allusion to the swift direct motion of the loach as sure as Gods in Gloucestershire, an allusion to the large number of churches and religious houses the county used to possess as throng busy as a cobblers Monday, said in ridicule, because a cobbler is supposed to rest on Monday to work off the effects of a drinking bout at the weekend as tough as a withy as wakken as a witterick as lively as a weasel as warm as a bee as weak as a midsummer gosling as weak as a wet dishclout as welcome as flowers in May, said to a friend entering the house as welcome as snow in harvest, or as welcome as water in ones shoon, said of an undesired guest as whisht as a winnard, an allusion to the redwings which reach Cornwall in the late autumn, and are seen there in the winter in a very thin and miserably weak condition as windy as a wisket basket, said of a forgetful person as yellow as a gollan a cornmarigold.",snow in harvest,snow,harvest,undesired,emergent "Because the small feathers next the bird fall over each other like the tiles of a roof, and thus throw off the water.",the tiles of a roof,tile,roof,water-repellent,emergent "row after row of blackandwhite halftimbered buildings lined the cobbled lanes , pressed tight like books on a shelf . ",books on a shelf,book,shelf,closely packed,emergent You're as useless as a knitted condom.,a knitted condom,condom,knitted,not effective,emergent "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,deadly,emergent Makes your face as clear as a doctored photo!,a doctored photo,photo,doctor,fake,emergent "The silence was as deep as the stillness of the dead but, by the light of the westering moon, he made his way among the white tombstones, and the rubbish of the builders, to the eastern corner where Sir Thomas Waldron lay.",the stillness of the dead,stillness,dead,haunt,emergent "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,limit,emergent Here I got to lie still like a mouse under a broom.,a mouse under a broom,mouse,broom,hide,emergent "The age of hoplites was as remote as the age of cavalry, and the phalanxes are only mentioned when they are broken.",the age of cavalry,age,cavalry,remote,emergent "it was probably more like a kid in headlights first, I guess something like 30,000 kids died to vehicular manslaughter 2 years after the introduction of mass market vehicles.",a kid in headlights,kid,headlight,startle,emergent "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,contradictory,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent "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,unwieldy,emergent "It goes with high intellect just like dark humour, bucking the trend, and prolific use of offensive language",dark humour,humour,dark,subversive,emergent "Then a wild php dev roams over and says, Modern php isn't bad like the old versions, but no one will give it a chance.",the old versions,version,old,inferior,emergent "We ought to do something good, just like big folks when theyve been bad.",big folks,folk,big,adult,emergent "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,idealize,emergent It is almost like a ladys voice.,a ladys voice,voice,ladys,soothe,emergent She was as invisible as the moon at midday.,the moon at midday,moon,midday,invisible,emergent "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,useless,emergent There was something suspiciously like a sob from beyond the door.,a sob from beyond the door,sob,door,ominous,emergent "Life, I said to myself, is as empty as a used cantaloupe.",a used cantaloupe,cantaloupe,used,discard,emergent "But he was caught now like a wolf in a trap, and he knew he had little to hope for, little to fear.",a wolf in a trap,wolf,trap,struggling,emergent "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,advisable,emergent I'm just as happy as a bee in clover.,a bee in clover,bee,clover,happy,emergent "My word, they must be as stupid as pans without handles to call you a lunatic A lunatic!",pans without handles,pan,handle,impractical,emergent "You know, its amazing to me, if the water is only as deep as possibly four or five feet, why nobody has found this suitcase up until now, Rupa.",possibly four or five feet,foot,possibly,shallow,emergent 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,helpless,emergent "out there like a dying beast , begging for water . ''",a dying beast,beast,die,suffer,emergent Now we can poke and wave at each other like lucid fools.,lucid fools,fool,lucid,clear-thinking,emergent But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow.,a white crow,crow,white,unusual,emergent The rain must be terrible for the deadto be all wet and old like a fallen leaf.,a fallen leaf,leaf,fall,lifeless,emergent The date of this manuscript is pushed as high as the eleventh century but I doubt this antiquity.,the eleventh century,century,eleventh,ancient,emergent "i came off stage after the encore , after wed done a cooking version of i love my aunt jemima , skippy going wild like a man possessed , and maybe he was , man , maybe he was .",a man possessed,man,possess,frenzied,emergent "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,hide,emergent "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,untidy,emergent "Cultivated fields on which there are growing crops are nearly twice as bright as wooded areas, depending, of course, upon the denseness of the vegetation.",wooded areas,area,woode,shadow,emergent Marriage is as impossible as immediate canonization.,immediate canonization,canonization,immediate,unattainable,emergent "In a review for a 2014 reissue, John Clarke of The Independent highlighted several tracks and wrote that perhaps like a box of chocolates theres a bit too much to take at one sitting.",a box of chocolates,box,chocolate,unpredictable,emergent All else concerning myself is as uncongenial as the gathering mists. ,the gathering mists,mist,gathering,ominous,emergent "Just think what it means to have everybody believe in you, to have everybody that has ever had any dealings with you feel that, there is a man as clean as a hounds tooth and as straight as a die no wavering, no shuffling, no sneaking, no apologizing, no streak of any kind in his honesty you can always rely on his word.",a die no wavering,die,wavering,steadfastness,emergent Those jeans look just like the pee pants my preschool made anyone who had an accident wear in 1987.,the pee pants,pant,pee,embarrass,emergent "Let us have the man of business as cultured as the professional man, and the professional man as cultured as the man of means.",the man of means,man,mean,affluent,emergent "a false smile and a true one may look alike , but they are as different as dusk from dawn .",dusk from dawn,dusk,dawn,opposite,emergent "The bars played freely like keys on a ring, and splayed out in their flight, and did the most dreadful execution.",keys on a ring,key,ring,attached,emergent Hot pockets' edges are always as hot as a million burning suns but the middle stays fucking frozen.,a million burning suns,sun,burn,intense,emergent the fortyfoot fall to the hard marble below would prove just as deadly as a slug in the head .,a slug in the head,slug,head,lethal,emergent "If you think that both of these guys are equally assholes, you're just as sad as the sandwich thrower.",the sandwich thrower,sandwich,thrower,irresponsible,emergent "rest it against the damn doorframe , eddie youre about as stable as a deer on rollerskates .",a deer on rollerskates,deer,rollerskate,clumsy,emergent "Oh, a man with an open mind is just as disagreeable as a man without prejudices.",a man without prejudices,man,prejudice,non,emergent "Among astral bodies polished and glistening like grass at dawn, something new came from the earth.",grass at dawn,grass,dawn,dewy,emergent "53 I have given up on my aim, now like a good girl, i sit to pee.",a good girl,girl,good,well,emergent "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,disadvantage,emergent "In a study, some of the infected juveniles were only half as heavy as controls with no worms.",controls with no worms,control,worm,healthy,emergent "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,lifeless,emergent "Please go and see it, it was a moving film if you even remotely like the original trilogy.",the original trilogy,trilogy,original,belove,emergent "He became bigger than the personnel of the case, as big as the woman in the dock.",the woman in the dock,woman,dock,accuse,emergent "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,insufficient,emergent "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,absurd,emergent What he fails to add is that nowadays information is as leaky as a fistful of sand .,a fistful of sand,fistful,sand,unreliable,emergent "Yeah I mean I'm guessing the prison staff are willing to go off menu in some cases if it's as straightforward as a trip down the street to a fast food joint, but if your request was something like, I want this incredibly obscure Burmese dish that only 3 chefs in the entire world know how to properly cook, you can't kill me until I get it!",a trip down the street,trip,street,simple,emergent "She stood as still as a scolded mutt, her ferocious, daggerlike fangs bared in a snarl that had no real teeth, and the man with her stone knew it.","a scolded mutt,",mutt,scold,subdue,emergent "still , the last couple of times hed run into reuben , hed been about as friendly as a wet cat .",a wet cat,cat,wet,uninvite,emergent They both love BBT because they say theyve known so many guys just like the nerds on the show and they find it hilarious.,the nerds on the show,nerd,show,socially awkward,emergent "I remember I was really nervous, but also excited that I was now like the big kids, going to school.",the big kids,kid,big,old,emergent "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,flammable,emergent Now these conclusions struck me abrupt like a bat in the eye when I sat down to rest in camp at Echo Spring.,a bat in the eye,bat,eye,sudden,emergent "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,humorous,emergent "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,grumpy,emergent "she could see bombarda too , resting in his room , and she knew that she herself was becoming a keeper , just like the creature kai .",the creature kai,kai,creature,fantastical,emergent It was almost like a dry hurricane.,a dry hurricane,hurricane,dry,unusual,emergent "After the match, New Zealand captain Benji Marshall claimed that his side was at least as good as the Australian team, citing that the difference in the scoreline was caused only by Australia's better goalkicking.",the Australian team,team,australian,skilled,emergent "This one is open, all aflame like a burning bush.",a burning bush,bush,burn,symbolic,emergent "To the village, I was just a sickly, thin girl at the time of her death, so they threw me away like a broken plaything. ",a broken plaything,plaything,broken,discarded,emergent all the kitsch and puns were about as charming as a poke in the eye .,a poke in the eye,poke,eye,painful,emergent So we found the comet is kind of like fire and ice.,fire and ice,fire,ice,contrast,emergent "I had an inflatable red armchair just like the one on the show, and I insisted that my dad blow it up for me every time the show came on.",the one on the show,one,show,popular,emergent "or was it anywhere threatening , anywhere richard 's precarious control , as insecure as an unbroken horse , might slip away from him ?",an unbroken horse,horse,unbroken,untraine,emergent the ocean had turned as gray as the washed out road .,the washed out road,road,wash,dilapidate,emergent 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,unethical,emergent This printing press was said to be twice as fast as the previous model and was composed of copperzinc and leadtin alloys.,the previous model,model,previous,outdate,emergent 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,miraculous,emergent "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,useless,emergent "Non natural nor spontaneous scripted internet bits are very cringy instead of funny for me, much more if the point of the bit is supposed to be unintentional like an actual fall.",an actual fall,fall,actual,unexpected,emergent The Creature's milky white eye slid open like a small bulb.,a small bulb,bulb,small,dim,emergent "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,texture,emergent "That is idiotic, and autistic people are not idiots, they are as intelligent as people without the condition, some of the considerably smarter.",people without the condition,people,condition,neurotypical,emergent "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,lenient,emergent The idea expressed is as commonplace as cold mutton.,cold mutton,mutton,cold,unremarkable,emergent Throughout his capture he had remained as mute as a trapped wolf.,a trapped wolf,wolf,trap,helpless,emergent "and sometimes far away like a windblown cry, and sometimes like a whisper close to my face.",a windblown cry,cry,windblown,unreachable,emergent The style that it's written is almost like a laboratory notebook.,a laboratory notebook,notebook,laboratory,meticulously detailed,emergent Babies with teeth are almost as scary as birds with arms...,birds with arms,bird,arm,unexpected,emergent "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,harmful,emergent "Microsoft still cannot break free from being addicted to reboots for everything under the sun, although XP isn't nearly as bad as earlier versions.",earlier versions,version,early,outdate,emergent "Loudly and fast on the Ridge Road beat The regular fall of Fearnaught's feet, On his broad, bare back his rider's seat Was as firm as the tread of the steed so fleet Small need of saddle, or bridle rein, He answered as well her touch on his mane.",the tread of the steed,tread,steed,rhythmic,emergent Even like the fallen angels!,the fallen angels,angel,fall,rebellious,emergent "Now, I'm not saying that Manard wasn't as dead as a dried herring.",a dried herring,herring,dry,dead,emergent You're just as valuable as service members and I imagine your injury was no less horrible and traumatic.,service members,member,service,courageous,emergent "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,bleak,emergent "On the other hand, they considered the 3DS version being more than twice as expensive as the mobile version to be a negative, even with the costume sets, which were paid for DLC in the mobile version, being bundled into the retail release.",the mobile version,version,mobile,cheap,emergent "he was as still as a creature of the wood , sensing a predator , before the inevitable attempt at flight . ",a creature of the wood,creature,wood,camouflaged,emergent you see why i did not want kids in the first place because if it were just me i would not care that much and just shoulder on regardless as i usually land on my feet just like a cat with nine lives .,a cat with nine lives,cat,life,lucky,emergent "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,inactive,emergent ,a ginger kid,kid,ginger,red-haired,emergent "The elderly are as oblivious as distracted drivers, but will be given favorable treatment getting warning instead of ticket by cops because they've paid their dues to society",distracted drivers,driver,distract,unsafe,emergent "So the victorious cry of the Koran or the sword swept onward like a trumpet call, and the man who raised it, before he diedand he died in 632found half the inhabited world ready to cry with him that Allah was God, and Mahomed was His prophet.",a trumpet call,call,trumpet,rally,emergent "He's rather a dull doggood as gold, but as tasteless as an egg without salt.",an egg without salt,egg,salt,unexcite,emergent "Oh, a man with an open mind is just as disagreeable as a man without prejudices.",a man without prejudices,man,prejudice,unbiased,emergent "The whole thing wants a great deal of working up,' he said 'all this foreground is very imperfectit is too like an English garden.",an English garden,garden,english,idealize,emergent "my duffle of clothes was sitting on a narrow bed , almost as narrow as the bed on the train .",the bed on the train,bed,train,narrow,emergent 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,unfunny,emergent "Not quite, its typically still white, and thicker than milk but not sticky like condensed milk If that makes sense.",condensed milk,milk,condense,sweet,emergent "but when trevor 's eyes caught edgard 's , the punch of lust whomped him as sharply as a hoof to the belly , making him just as breathless .",a hoof to the belly,hoof,belly,jarring,emergent "Harry had fallen to a sentimental mood, and would talk about their future just as though it had all been settled in the beginning of things, and was as unalterable as the course of the planets.",the course of the planets,course,planet,unalterable,emergent "The stoppage was not so great, therefore, as altogether to arrest the progress of the stream but this sudden obstacle created an accumulation of water behind it, which went on increasing for nearly an hour, till, becoming too powerful to be longer resisted, the enormous dam began to yield, and was swept off at once, and hurled onwards like a floating island.",a floating island,island,float,unstable,emergent "He'll just have to dig it out, just like a wedge cut.",a wedge cut,cut,wedge,requiring effort,emergent "Now considering Earth exists I doubt life is as unlikely as a cube planet, but you get my point. ",a cube planet,planet,cube,improbable,emergent I really dont understand how these two get mixed up as they look about as similar as a house and a dragonfly.,a house and a dragonfly,house,dragonfly,dissimilar,emergent "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,pitiful,emergent "stopping was about as appealing as a bat to the kneecaps , but i did it .",a bat to the kneecaps,bat,kneecap,painful,emergent "that one was predictable , julian said , his eyes as dark as shards of obsidian .",shards of obsidian,shard,obsidian,dangerous,emergent "The men slunk back like whipped curs, but made no response.",whipped curs,cur,whip,submiss,emergent "An excellent sauce for boiled fish may be made thus Put a piece of butter as big as an egg in a saucepan or a tomato can heat till it bubbles, add a heaping tablespoonful of flour, stir till quite smooth pour slowly into this, stirring continually, a pint of the water the fish was cooked in, and add two hardboiled eggs chopped fine.",an egg in a saucepan,egg,saucepan,cook,emergent It's a vital organ to humanities growth and survival and instead of staying inside and enjoying the safety they're like fuck that and hang outside like true bosses.,true bosses,boss,TRUE,fearless,emergent "This must be a great time for him, almost like a pig in mud.",a pig in mud,pig,mud,happy,emergent and are treated slightly like people of colour before they were able to obtain equality which to this day is rocky.,people of colour,people,colour,underrepresente,emergent "But McCarney stood there like a wooden man when Leadows set him down on strikes, and that pop fly that Hupft lifted to the box was just peaches and cream for St. Louis.",a wooden man,man,wooden,unemotional,emergent "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,dishevel,emergent And at that sound the whole army become agitated like the sea in a tempest.,the sea in a tempest,sea,temp,agitate,emergent "Given how political this issue has gotten and how much of a hotbutton issue it is now because of the call for a border wall, and now because of the shutdown, when these cases come up in court, are the politics of it now like an elephant in the room?",an elephant in the room,elephant,room,ignore,emergent "i sat down gingerly , beginning to feel a little like a patient at a dentist .",a patient at a dentist,patient,dentist,nervous,emergent But that was really very like a tap at the window!,a tap at the window,tap,window,startle,emergent "Of course a jumper, even with so fine a new sash under its collar, wasn't quite as nice as low neck.",low neck,neck,low,reveal,emergent "the end point is not at all obvious from the start , but it is as inevitable as a duck saying quack .",a duck saying quack,duck,say,predictable,emergent "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,mythical,emergent "he was about as brave as a retreating dove , but , like gisbo , he too was fascinated by elekai warriors .",a retreating dove,dove,retreat,cowardly,emergent "With these, she discovered, Reddy maintained a sparse but cordial intimacy many of them he saw as often as two or three times a year, but this was not true of all there was Colonel Rogers, whose comfortable ranch house was distant a hard day's ride, and whose powerful patronage gave Reddy a position in that region he could not otherwise have had.",two or three times a year,time,year,occasional,emergent "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,unwelcome,emergent "Sentences collapse time and time again like a house of cards, and new faades are created from the rubble.. With Odermatt, everything turns into a quote within a quote, which explains why choruses of Schlager songs are sung, phrases are scratched like vinyl records and scenes like those created specially by Gulden function as a playwithinaplay..",a house of cards,house,card,precarious,emergent At first glance i thought it was weird because the three kneeling guys look kind of like snake people.,snake people,people,snake,fictional,emergent "He smiled now, saying that he had been as impulsive as the merest boy, thanking fortune that he could rejoice in the impulse instead of condemning itan end which a priori would have seemed much the more probable.",the merest boy,boy,mere,naive,emergent "charcoals burn slowly and wouldn't allow for that big of a fire, you need something that is more combustable like lighter fluid.",lighter fluid,fluid,light,combustible,emergent "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,constrain,emergent Yes it means new recruits but it also means that we're about as useful as a steak to a vegan.,a steak to a vegan,steak,vegan,unwanted,emergent "Yes, they accelerate fast, but they don't handle or stop anywhere near as good as a super car.",a super car,car,super,high,emergent "Sybil stole an involuntary glance at Guysleeping so peacefully like a babe in the wood, with the squirrels peeping at him trustfully.",a babe in the wood,babe,wood,lost,emergent This is as subtle as a brick to the head is nonviolent.,a brick to the head,brick,head,forceful,emergent "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,submissive,emergent 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,automatic,emergent it will be just like a cop show .,a cop show,show,cop,suspenseful,emergent "it , too , was as barren as a monks cell .",a monks cell,cell,monk,barren,emergent I was as happy as a seagull in the sun when I managed to get this out of my head.,a seagull in the sun,seagull,sun,happy,emergent 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,extremely,emergent "Oh, my dear, dont sit there like a stuffed pig, but speak to me, or I shall shake you.",a stuffed pig,pig,stuff,immobile,emergent her pleading eyes melted his heart as quick as a glacier on the sun .,a glacier on the sun,glacier,sun,quickly melting,emergent "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,blunt,emergent "her last words echo in my head , swirling around like water down a drain .",water down a drain,water,drain,transient,emergent "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,counterintuitive,emergent Nothing brings people together like a common enemy.,a common enemy,enemy,common,unites people,emergent "David Nusair of Reel Film gave a more negative review saying, For Keeps takes a potentially intriguing subject two teenagers attempting to start their lives together and piles on cliche after cliche, until it's about as compelling as an afterschool special.",an afterschool special,special,afterschool,unoriginal,emergent "I don't even think she's particularly lonely, she just seems sour like an old apple. ",an old apple,apple,old,unappetizing,emergent "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,break,emergent "out there like a dying beast , begging for water . ''",a dying beast,beast,die,struggle,emergent "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,unresponsive,emergent "he huddles against the wall , hiding from a hungry wind and dreams his dreams until his teeth chatter so badly that his head begins to jerk back and forth like an animal in a trap .",an animal in a trap,animal,trap,helpless,emergent A Chinaman once said that the thought of death is as futile as water in the hand.,water in the hand,water,hand,transient,emergent "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,absurd,emergent "Pretty soon he said, Mamma, I am so hungryI am as hungry as a little bear.",a little bear,bear,little,cuddly,emergent almost like a linked mind .,a linked mind,mind,link,collective,emergent "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,swift,emergent "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,excite,emergent "She stood as still as a scolded mutt, her ferocious, daggerlike fangs bared in a snarl that had no real teeth, and the man with her stone knew it.","a scolded mutt,",mutt,scold,submissive,emergent It was almost like a call to arms.,a call to arms,call,arm,motivate,emergent "Tomato soup may be the most natural companion to grilled cheese, but I also like no bean chili.",no bean chili,chili,bean,bean-less,emergent "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,segregate,emergent She was not really like a wounded bird.,a wounded bird,bird,wound,helpless,emergent "Smoke me, wombat humper you're as useless as a ashtray on a motorbike ",a ashtray on a motorbike,ashtray,motorbike,useless,emergent just like the woman of the house .,the woman of the house,woman,house,responsible,emergent "She never quite recovered, but slowly withered away like a plucked flower.",a plucked flower,flower,pluck,wither,emergent "or was it anywhere threatening , anywhere richard 's precarious control , as insecure as an unbroken horse , might slip away from him ?",an unbroken horse,horse,unbroken,wild,emergent "Its just as Sir John said, the beach along here curves a little like a new moon.",a new moon,moon,new,crescent,emergent "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,destructive,emergent "Just like a greasy river, Mrs. Grace complained.",a greasy river,river,greasy,polluted,emergent "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,immobile,emergent "So, just the simple cheeses can be just as good as fancy cheese.",fancy cheese,cheese,fancy,superior,emergent "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,emerge,emergent ,a piping wind,wind,piping,shrill,emergent "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,incoherent,emergent "They serve the Valar, the main god's, and the evil ones are basically like twisted archangels. ",twisted archangels,archangel,twist,evil,emergent "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,designate,emergent "The light down of the peach which crowns her beautiful skin with the bloom of delicacy would show like rough thickets, or rather like savage forests.",savage forests,forest,savage,overgrown,emergent "Dear me, said the cat, opening her eyes for the first time, that looks to me very like a rat city down there, let us go down to it they may be able to help us.",a rat city,city,rat,dilapidate,emergent I really dont understand how these two get mixed up as they look about as similar as a house and a dragonfly.,a house and a dragonfly,house,dragonfly,different,emergent "Tata Leroux says you are English by the faith, he must be right, or you would never sit musing there like an owl in the sunlight!",an owl in the sunlight,owl,sunlight,out of place,emergent ,the person without a child,person,child,able to stay at work without interruptions,emergent It was a little like musical chair so we ran into the nearest one still open.,musical chair,chair,musical,game,emergent You're just like a stuffed crocodile.,a stuffed crocodile,crocodile,stuff,unmove,emergent "Surely she was trapped there like a villager under ice, and she needed me to save her. ",a villager under ice,villager,ice,in need of rescue,emergent "She was almost hidden by a veil, and her face shone behind it, pale like the moon behind a cloud.",the moon behind a cloud,moon,cloud,hide,emergent Mussulmans in cold latitudes look as blue and as absurd as sailors on horseback.,sailors on horseback,sailor,horseback,incongruous,emergent My first thought was More like a rabbit with swords.,a rabbit with swords,rabbit,sword,armed,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "David Nusair of Reel Film gave a more negative review saying, For Keeps takes a potentially intriguing subject two teenagers attempting to start their lives together and piles on cliche after cliche, until it's about as compelling as an afterschool special.",an afterschool special,special,afterschool,predictable,emergent "If we passed through a thicket, we were sure to be met by a discharge of bullets if we dismounted from our horses to take our hurried and scanty meal, we found some of them shot at the inndoor if we flung ourselves, as tired as hounds after a chase, on the straw of a village stable, the probability was that we were awakened by finding the thatch in a blaze.",hounds after a chase,hound,chase,tired,emergent 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,shocking,emergent "He would not die like the verse maker, he could not laugh like the consul there is a gulf between Gray Wolf and these as wide as the width of the possible.",the width of the possible,width,possible,limitless,emergent The first revival in Oroomiah seemed to burst forth like a fountain in the desert.,a fountain in the desert,fountain,desert,life,emergent "We have it here in the UK, though, it's not nearly as good as the Taiwanese stuff!",the Taiwanese stuff,stuff,taiwanese,superior,emergent "guys i'm very concerned, about this thing in Canada, if you really think about it, a capped internet connection is as useful as a dial up connection.",a dial up connection,connection,dial,obsolete,emergent "We were scolded, and went away like whipped boys.",whipped boys,boy,whip,submissive,emergent "It's almost like polite smiles rather than, you know, real, robust, coming from your innersoul kind of a smile.",polite smiles,smile,polite,superficial,emergent "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,old,emergent "Not anywhere near as bad as super glue, but once while I was still bleary eyed and tired in the morning I went to put in some eyedrops and accidentally squirted a healthy amount of protein remover in there instead.",super glue,glue,super,hazardous,emergent "Not for independent voters like independent candidates, not for green voters, just like green candidates.",green candidates,candidate,green,environmentally,emergent ,a parrot off a pylon,parrot,pylon,sudden departure,emergent "The receptions Livingstone met with in the various villages, as he neared the Lualaba, were as various as the humors of the people.",the humors of the people,humor,people,various,emergent "Her face goes whiter than a bed sheet, her eyes open wide like an acid trip and she immediately grabs my arm.",an acid trip,trip,acid,surreal,emergent "Sitting up in his frowsy bunk, with the blankets huddled about him, looking ludicrously like an incensed gorilla, he raged and swore at his gratuitous visitor until his voice gave out.",an incensed gorilla,gorilla,incense,ferocious,emergent "Our happiness is about as relevant as the happiness of cattle in a factory farm, so long as we keep spending the money they grudgingly give us.",the happiness of cattle,happiness,cattle,disregard,emergent But a caliph who openly denied the faith would be as impossible as an unbelieving pope.,an unbelieving pope,pope,unbelieve,hypocritical,emergent "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,unfair,emergent "with four rooms , shaped with the flow of the rock , it was kind of like an apartment inside a mountain .",an apartment inside a mountain,apartment,mountain,unconventional,emergent ,a fungal bloom,bloom,fungal,rapid,emergent "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,remorseful,emergent Kind of like people watching.,people watching,people,watch,entertain,emergent He stood and looked as puzzled as a bee in a bottle.,a bee in a bottle,bee,bottle,trapped,emergent "i felt small between them , even with the thousand voices echoing between my ears , numb as i was pushed along like a leaf in the wind .",a leaf in the wind,leaf,wind,helpless,emergent theres also Nega wich is used to refer black woman in a caring way and it sounds just like the famous N word,the famous N word,word,famous,offensive,emergent This is kind of like the presidential train.,the presidential train,train,presidential,luxurious,emergent Almost like shattered glass.,shattered glass,glass,shatter,dangerous,emergent "Ambassador Eisen as simple as breaking tradition, can it be that?",breaking tradition,tradition,break,rebellious,emergent "In another inscription it is said thou risest like the sacred serpent, as a living spirit, in thy glorious form in the bark of the sunrise and this passage forms an interesting parallel to that already cited where the sun is said to rise like a hawk from the midst of its lotus bud.",the sacred serpent,serpent,sacred,mythical,emergent "If so sounds like you had some things dragging you down, or did you mean this in jest, almost like success at any cost....that's how I read the line about stepping on faces of childhood friends, both leaving a past, but also trashing that past.",success at any cost,success,cost,unethical,emergent That is just like water and oil.,water and oil,water,oil,dissimilar,emergent "that did n't mean the shark was n't out there like a submerged submarine , though .",a submerged submarine,submarine,submerge,camouflage,emergent "It was swirling along now, brimful, as red as water from an ironworks.",water from an ironworks,water,ironwork,contaminate,emergent "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,obstructive,emergent "it does n't have much of a taste , not nearly as strong as the rubber smell .",the rubber smell,smell,rubber,unpleasant,emergent "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,unwanted,emergent "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,stun,emergent "I think they're as prevalent as the straw feminists, SJW's, and all those terrible terrible people that judge fatties at the gym.",the straw feminists,feminist,straw,caricature,emergent "yright like , berry says , as he watches the two girls walk away , fiona coopers arse like a sack of spuds .",a sack of spuds,sack,spud,heavy,emergent "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,slow,emergent "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,unravel,emergent "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,small,emergent Social Security is sitting out there like the elephant on the table.,the elephant on the table,elephant,table,undiscussed,emergent "I'll only eat it if it's in an egg roll, and then only like half the egg roll can have cabbage. ",half the egg roll,roll,egg,portioned,emergent "I could not go to the meeting, as I would be as incompetent as a elephant as a sailor.",a elephant as a sailor,elephant,sailor,clumsy,emergent "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,unpleasant,emergent "This man wore the same silvery jumpsuit that all of the others had worn, and his hair was dyed as blue as a mountain lake.",a mountain lake,lake,mountain,clear,emergent Social Security is sitting out there like the elephant on the table.,the elephant on the table,elephant,table,unavoidable,emergent Every so often one would startle her and she'd jump straight up like a spring out of the soybeans.,a spring out of the soybeans,spring,soybean,sudden,emergent 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,loud,emergent Hidden as safe as a needle in a haystack.,a needle in a haystack,needle,haystack,rare,emergent "Some distance behind her came a smaller woman, as shrunken, as withered, and as yellow as an old leaf.",an old leaf,leaf,old,dry,emergent But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow.,a white crow,crow,white,scarce,emergent so he was trapped as surely as a firefly in a jar .,a firefly in a jar,firefly,jar,trapped,emergent "They were convenient, though the prices were initially high and the sound quality of early models was not nearly as good as tube radios.",tube radios,radio,tube,outdate,emergent "French and Belgian linens, while fine in thread, are not as serviceable as Irish linen.",Irish linen,linen,irish,superior,emergent "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,inescapable,emergent "I would rather have my neat, precise little house and a small income than go about like a figure of fun.",a figure of fun,figure,fun,ridicule,emergent Eyes green like the skies before a storm.,the skies before a storm,sky,storm,ominous,emergent "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,imperfect,emergent "Whatever his life, he must when he dies take his place amongst that wretched throng of sufferers packed as closely as cattle in a truck, and plunged to a point perhaps determined by prudery in tongues of flame.",cattle in a truck,cattle,truck,confine,emergent "Five minutes later , the alarm wakes him again , cheeping insistently like a mechanical bird .",a mechanical bird,bird,mechanical,imitative,emergent Better to fly halfway to God Than to burrow too long like a worm in the sod.,a worm in the sod,worm,sod,hide,emergent "that thing was too goddamn heavy , and about as useful as a trapdoor on a canoe . ",a trapdoor on a canoe,trapdoor,canoe,unnecessary,emergent "But except where it has hitherto been protected by the sanctity of the tomb, there is so little that remains to us,so few textiles have survived the friction of use, or even that of the air, through as many as a thousand years or more, that we may plead the hunger for truth, and the eager desire for proofs of identity and verification of historical legends, which are to be extracted from the shape of a garment, from the pattern on the border, or the lettering on the web of which it is composed whence we reverently cut a fragment, and preserve it under glass.",a thousand years or more,year,more,ancient,emergent "The grey marle, in which most of the bones lay, by analysis was found to contain seventythree parts in the hundred of lime when dried in the sun it cracks into thin horizontal lamin, and becomes extremely light, as hard as baked clay, and brittle in this state it burns with a bright flame for a long while, and instead of leaving ashes, it remains a strong black coal, apparently well adapted to the purposes of the arts.",baked clay,clay,bake,brittle,emergent "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,archaic,emergent "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,underprivileged,emergent "Among these herbs and fresh flowers, the natives often dwell without beds or houses, even like cattle in the fields, and some of them have tails92.",cattle in the fields,cattle,field,unhouse,emergent "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,helpless,emergent she was as twitchy as a cornered mouse .,a cornered mouse,mouse,cornered,scared,emergent "There is a win cool down setup in the machines iirc and depending on the brand you can tell what part of their losewin cycle they are in, so you can just walk into an arcade full of them and move from winner to winner until you get kicked out, just like counting cards gt.lt",counting cards,card,counting,strategic,emergent "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,dissonant,emergent "But the hedge of spears advanced like a wall of iron, and the Turks gave way, broke, and fled.",a wall of iron,wall,iron,impenetrable,emergent "We were still wonderin' whether to send for a doctor or the coroner, when he rolls over with his face to the wall and goes to sleep as comfortable as a kitten in a basket.",a kitten in a basket,kitten,basket,comfortable,emergent It must sound awfully like swelled head.,swelled head,head,swell,arrogant,emergent Everything unrelated to the hours spent in that tranquil place was as faint as the remembrance of a dream.,the remembrance of a dream,remembrance,dream,faint,emergent "james ' voice was as soft as the rustling of the leaves , and when i looked at him , i could see goose bumps standing out on his tanned legs .",the rustling of the leaves,rustling,leave,calm,emergent "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,confuse,emergent "But if the inward history of human affairs could be described as fully as the outward facts if the story of the family could be told together with the story of the nation if human thoughts could with certainty be divined from human deeds, then the chief figure in this history of sentiment and morals would certainly be that of Woman the Inspirer.",the outward facts,fact,outward,tangible,emergent A Government without people is as useful as a clock without power.,a clock without power,clock,power,useless,emergent "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,tense,emergent I think it would have beaten itself to death there like a wasp on a windowpane.,a wasp on a windowpane,wasp,windowpane,irritating,emergent "When you break open the important historical facts with which he was identified, then like the toad from the stone, comes forth Ennodius.",the toad from the stone,toad,stone,unexpected,emergent "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,unsuited,emergent More like things before the marathon.,things before the marathon,thing,marathon,preparatory,emergent "Then she decided swiftly and characteristically that a few words like those that had just passed between them were as eloquent as longer speeches, and became her more usual self again.",longer speeches,speech,long,detail,emergent "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,clumsy,emergent "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,painful,emergent "There were four patients in it, none of them looking exactly like gentle invalids.",gentle invalids,invalid,gentle,fragile,emergent "Striking his spurs deeply into his horse, and giving him bridle enough, the major seemed to shoot forward like a shell through the air.",a shell through the air,shell,air,projectile,emergent "A leg wound will put a man out of action just as effectively as a hole in the head, at least when his only weapon is a spear.",a hole in the head,hole,head,lethal,emergent "Allall my pretty oneshad gone for a little, and then stopped inexorably like a schoolboy's watch.",a schoolboy's watch,watch,schoolboy,basic,emergent "Not as annoying as a tired joke, because they're not expecting you to react with false mirth.",a tired joke,joke,tired,overuse,emergent "i fold the brochure and hide it in my pocket and do n't tell anyone this as we sit in rick 's chinatown flat , his sofa as shapeless as a deflating dinghy , and the three of us , me , rick , and mark ray , all trapped on it together like survivors on the first day of month number two , adrift at sea .",a deflating dinghy,dinghy,deflate,unreliable,emergent "They did not and they could not think of themselves as remotely like a frog and a princess , yet mental shapes similar in heritage or configuration managed to creep stealthily up in between the tangles of their individual cells .",a frog and a princess,frog,princess,fantastical,emergent At SwaffhamonSea eligible bachelors were as rare as snow in summer.,snow in summer,snow,summer,uncommon,emergent "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,dangerous,emergent A life without sorrow would probably be as bare as a life without happiness.,a life without happiness,life,happiness,unfulfilled,emergent "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,incompatible,emergent "Private worlds , whether they are families or voluntary societies , turn out to be delusory sources of personal freedom disillusionment and hopelessness follow behind the many human philosophies and religious ideas that modern men and women discard as carelessly as consumer toys .",consumer toys,toy,consumer,disposable,emergent 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,annoying,emergent "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,unthinke,emergent "He sits as still as a piece of tin, And he's never known to smile or grin, Or to wipe his tears away.",a piece of tin,piece,tin,unresponsive,emergent The boy shot backward like an empty sack.,an empty sack,sack,empty,weightless,emergent "If the fussy and important constable were to be believed, other burglarious attempts had been forestalled by him, and he was as busy as a man with five hands.",a man with five hands,man,hand,impossible,emergent 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,undesirable,emergent her pleading eyes melted his heart as quick as a glacier on the sun .,a glacier on the sun,glacier,sun,nonexistent,emergent "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,blind,emergent Glad you didnt splat like an insect in a windshield this time.,an insect in a windshield,insect,windshield,squished,emergent "It may have been a bit before my time, but I still quite like the spaghetti tree",the spaghetti tree,tree,spaghetti,bizarre,emergent "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,scant,emergent "The boy had hardly caught a glimpse of it before it vanished, gliding swiftly like an animal into the brush.",an animal into the brush,animal,brush,stealthy,emergent "My lady who, outside, had been so tender, began, before her riding cloak was off, to walk up and down like a caged wolf, with hard eyes and cheeks burning with indignation.",a caged wolf,wolf,cage,agitate,emergent ,automated checkouts,checkout,automate,replacing human employees,emergent "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,lackluster,emergent This is as pointless as a scope on a knife,a scope on a knife,scope,knife,unnecessary,emergent his face was as blank as a washed blackboard .,a washed blackboard,blackboard,washed,blank,emergent "or as serious as a cut in the gut , like you have , dope .",a cut in the gut,cut,gut,serious,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "That would mean infinitely hard travel over snow that was soft and yielding, and across tundra whose frozen caribou bogs were as rough as a cordwood road.",a cordwood road,road,cordwood,uneven,emergent "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,incongruous,emergent "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,occasional,emergent "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,conservative,emergent Almost kind of like the blow up man.,the blow up man,blow,man,inflatable,emergent 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,unconvincing,emergent "The common people of all races are embarked together like fellows on a ship, he said what wrecks one, wrecks all.",fellows on a ship,fellow,ship,sailor,emergent "When last I saw you, you looked as dead as a beached dogfish.",a beached dogfish,dogfish,beach,lifeless,emergent "But just now that tragic stage is empty and silent like a church on a weekday, with the bench all sheeted up and nothing moving but the sunbeams on the wall.",a church on a weekday,church,weekday,empty,emergent "I have a feeling this mom knew he was going to come after her, that he was going to get out of jail and he was going to come after her, and she was sitting there like a sitting duck, helpless to do anything about it, except put a post on Facebook.",a sitting duck,duck,sit,vulnerable,emergent "According to Hartzog, the firefall was as appropriate as horns on a rabbit.",horns on a rabbit,horn,rabbit,incongruous,emergent 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,useless,emergent But the light of the dome was as cold as the light of a firefly and they had no hesitancy in drawing near.,the light of a firefly,light,firefly,soft,emergent "well i mean maybe if we did a little bit of it at a time it would eventually become used to it and immune, kinda like allergy shots!",allergy shots,shot,allergy,desensitize,emergent "in the world of book publishing , latenight emergencies were as rare as overnight success .",overnight success,success,overnight,uncommon,emergent "christina was nice enough , but her brain often seemed about as functional as a cardboard lifeboat .",a cardboard lifeboat,lifeboat,cardboard,non,emergent It is kind of like a needle in the haystack.,a needle in the haystack,needle,haystack,elusive,emergent Dolphins skin is smooth like wet rubber,wet rubber,rubber,wet,squelchy,emergent "In another famous scene Lady Fidget's selfstyled virtuous gang meet up at Horner's lodging to carouse, throw off their public virtue, and behave exactly like male rakes, singing riotous songs and drinking defiant toasts.","male rakes,",rake,male,debauch,emergent "One god said that his mind was tumultuous like battlefield, the second said his mind was racing swiftly like a mountain river, the third said that he could not take his eyes off her, as if they were seized in a crab's claw.",a mountain river,river,mountain,rapid,emergent the memory was as unexpected as a snowstorm in july .,a snowstorm in july,snowstorm,july,surprising,emergent "The coastal empire was swept away like sand in the tide, and the people drowned in the resulting poverty they were trapped in. ",sand in the tide,sand,tide,swept away,emergent We'll never run as fast as the speed of light or gain the strength to lift a tank over our heads.,the speed of light or,speed,light,unattainable,emergent "A good portion of people who quit smoking also take nicroette or some shit that is again, not as good as smoking its self just like vegetables vs twinkies, then eventually they don't need either which is true but you rarely just quit cold turkey, you wean your self off the bad stuff by substituting it for something not as good as the good stuff.",vegetables vs twinkies,vegetable,twinkie,well,emergent "I really like the clean writing, it caught me ",the clean writing,writing,clean,easy to understand,emergent "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,barren,emergent "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,dreadful,emergent "At Auburn, New York, on one occasion, sounds on the wall, bureau, table, floor, and other places were heard as loud as the striking with a hammer.",the striking with a hammer,striking,hammer,loud,emergent "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,impossible,emergent "There were green curtains close by, and now the lights on her satin gown were green like cleft ice.",cleft ice,ice,cleft,jagged,emergent But both will chuckle oer their prisoners' sighs And are as blest as spiders over flies.,spiders over flies,spider,fly,dominant,emergent 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,dangerous,emergent "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,hurtful,emergent "As for the Princess, she was as happy as a duck in a puddle.",a duck in a puddle,duck,puddle,happy,emergent The monks among the O's and the Mac's were as defenceless as sheep among the wolves but the wolves spared them for their character.,sheep among the wolves,sheep,wolf,defenseless,emergent "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,transient,emergent They're almost as bad as soccer fans.,soccer fans,fan,soccer,overzealous,emergent "But his r's rolled like an unstrung drum, and his n's twanged like a cracked banjo.",a cracked banjo,banjo,cracked,unmusical,emergent "Is Eloise her real name, or do you call her that because she is bonny like the girl in the book?",the girl in the book,girl,book,idealize,emergent "but he saw nothing , just like the previous systems .",the previous systems,system,previous,obsolete,emergent ,rapid deceleration,deceleration,rapid,lethal,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "Looking down upon the town of Hartlepool, the boys saw buildings crumple like houses of cards before a gale.",houses of cards,house,card,unstable,emergent im as dry as a forbidden zone .,a forbidden zone,zone,forbidden,inhospitable,emergent his eyes were as black as the sky between stars .,the sky between stars,sky,star,empty,emergent I feel now like girls in novels.,girls in novels,girl,novel,idealize,emergent "But, Jean objected, we're not in the least like people in a book.",people in a book,people,book,not real,emergent "We can't sink, now, for we're on solid ground and lying as still as a stuffed giraffe.",a stuffed giraffe,giraffe,stuff,immobile,emergent You look as miserable as a fish out of water!,a fish out of water,fish,water,miserable,emergent Sometimes drinking makes me about as bright as a burnt out lightbulb,a burnt out lightbulb,lightbulb,burn,not bright,emergent "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,hidden,emergent "The front half of the oblong began to split open, stretching wide like massive jaws, and more concentrated weapons fire lanced out from inside.",massive jaws,jaw,massive,threaten,emergent "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,unconventional,emergent "rage shot through me , but it was as explosive as a wet fuse .",a wet fuse,fuse,wet,ineffective,emergent You sit there as proud as a leading lady.,a leading lady,lady,lead,admire,emergent "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,authenticate,emergent "If you think that both of these guys are equally assholes, you're just as sad as the sandwich thrower.",the sandwich thrower,sandwich,thrower,obnoxious,emergent The attackers were almost as disorganized as the routed defenders.,the routed defenders,defender,route,disorganize,emergent "then like a moth to a flame , so attracted to that swanlike neck of hers , he parted a few strands of her hair that cascaded to her neck and sealed his lips onto that pulsating beat , making his goddess suck in her breath .",a moth to a flame,moth,flame,irresistible,emergent "but he saw nothing , just like the previous systems .",the previous systems,system,previous,outdate,emergent "Just like a christian woman, everyone dresses modest when they are practicing their religion, unless your mom likes to go to what ever place of worship you have in a bikini, in which case sign me up.","a christian woman,",woman,christian,modest,emergent Is it bad that I really like the kangaroo jeans?,the kangaroo jeans,jean,kangaroo,pouch-like,emergent "She will, sir, as sure as country eggs are eggs, which they mostly are, sir.",country eggs,egg,country,farm-fresh,emergent "burnett , now a very unhappy kangaroo , started hopping around like a marsupial on speed .",a marsupial on speed,marsupial,speed,hyperactive,emergent "Unaware of any noise of warning, again like the subject of a hypnotist, he slowly turned his head, and saw Eve standing in the doorway, a vision of loveliness unflawed by any fault, supremely gracious of line and warm of colour in that austere frame, beauty stricken by sorrow posed against a tall black panel.",the subject of a hypnotist,subject,hypnotist,suggestible,emergent "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,deflate,emergent ,gloves on a chicken,glove,chicken,not useful,emergent I'm reading a book on steppe archaeology and Cartal Kuk sounds just like the places in the book!,the places in the book,place,book,fictional,emergent "It was always full of good hay, as large as a barrack and no thoroughfare passed within a quarter of a mile of it.",a barrack and no thoroughfare,barrack,thoroughfare,seclude,emergent "I like how there's rhythm in your poem as well, makes it sounds almost like music in the head while reading!",music in the head,music,head,imaginary,emergent it was almost as bad as the endless sitting .,the endless sitting,sitting,endless,bore,emergent This bill is as crooked as a barrel of snakes.,a barrel of snakes,barrel,snake,chaotic,emergent "Then the climax came, as swiftly as a bolt from the sky.",a bolt from the sky,bolt,sky,unexpected,emergent "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,nourish,emergent "THE INFLUENCE OF PREDOMINANT PASSION may be transmitted from the parent to the child, just as surely as similarity of looks.",similarity of looks,similarity,look,inherit,emergent "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,helpless,emergent ,the videos with a supercar,video,supercar,staged,emergent "or more like a human and an ant , '' tick murmured .",a human and an ant,human,ant,dissimilar,emergent "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,deject,emergent "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,disillusion,emergent "I mean, I understand the concept, kinda like pork for muslim because of the context at the time deadly diseases and such in pork, but surely god couldn't be pissed at you for drinking coffee, right ?",pork for muslim,pork,muslim,forbid,emergent "There, didn't that sound just like a big grunt, and wasn't it followed by a squeal?",a big grunt,grunt,big,forceful,emergent ,a ship without a rudder,ship,rudder,directionless,emergent That tune is exactly like the stained glass.,the stained glass,glass,stain,colorful,emergent "Turn away, then, from these things cleave to Jesus Christ and though in ourselves we may be as weak as a hummingbird before a snake, or a rabbit before a tiger, He will give us strength, and the light of His face shining down upon us will fix our eyes and make us insensible to the fascinations of the sorcerers.",a hummingbird before a snake,hummingbird,snake,vulnerable,emergent he looks about as relaxed as a wound spring .,a wound spring,spring,wound,tense,emergent "The query is almost as hard as a structural revision, I swear...",a structural revision,revision,structural,tough,emergent The paper drops from his hand and he stands looking from one to the other like a trapped rat.,a trapped rat,rat,trap,helpless,emergent Why did the moonlight seem to fade and flicker like a dying lamp?,a dying lamp,lamp,die,flicker,emergent numbers of candidates is as same as numbers of seats.,numbers of seats,number,seat,limit,emergent His brain fell apart like a wet cake,a wet cake,cake,wet,easily falling apart,emergent "and a strong shudder took possession of him, as uncontrollable as an ague fit.",an ague fit,fit,ague,uncontrollable,emergent 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,shocking,emergent "After her repetitive assaults, she is viewed as bruised, soiled, rotten like fallen fruit.",fallen fruit,fruit,fall,bruised,emergent The manners of the Spaniards and French are as opposite as grave and gay.,grave and gay,grave,gay,contrast,emergent You're just as valuable as service members and I imagine your injury was no less horrible and traumatic.,service members,member,service,brave,emergent "An uncontrollable giggle erupts from me, spewing forth like a breaking dam. ",a breaking dam,dam,break,uncontrollable,emergent "She insisted I havent seen more beautiful hair, it was as strange as the moonlight at noon.",the moonlight at noon,moonlight,noon,unexpected,emergent "the army was busy at its preparations then , panille standing nearby like a cold observer . ",a cold observer,observer,cold,emotionless,emergent "gemini and pisces are attracted to each other like moths to a flame , and there 's a lot of initial excitement . ",moths to a flame,moth,flame,irresistibility,emergent "Some fell backwards like stuffed sacks, and their heads, as they encountered the boards of the barricade, awoke a dismal echo.",stuffed sacks,sack,stuff,unwieldy,emergent He also considered it shortlived occupied for perhaps as little as a single generation before it was violently destroyed.,a single generation,generation,single,shortlive,emergent 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,lighter,emergent "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,modest,emergent "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,reactive,emergent "But since we know that the death sentence has put over one hundred innocents on death row since its reinstatement in the 1970s, it's not as simple as life for a life.",life for a life,life,life,retributive,emergent "We can't sink, now, for we're on solid ground and lying as still as a stuffed giraffe.",a stuffed giraffe,giraffe,stuff,still,emergent "and new teams are chosen, kind of like drawing straws.",drawing straws,straw,draw,random,emergent "Turns out the pedicure salon is actually a dingy hole in the wall, kind of like a dive bar.",a dive bar,bar,dive,unrefine,emergent "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,uprightness,emergent "I think they're as prevalent as the straw feminists, SJW's, and all those terrible terrible people that judge fatties at the gym.",the straw feminists,feminist,straw,unfair,emergent They are as different as an oak and a lily after a storm.,an oak and a lily,oak,lily,different,emergent she was as subtle as a rock through a window .,a rock through a window,rock,window,destructive,emergent "A country church, and a church in London, are as different as a meadow and a marketplace.",a meadow and a marketplace,meadow,marketplace,contrast,emergent the symbol spun outward like a throwing star and dripped black ooze down his face .,a throwing star,star,throw,weapon,emergent "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,unnecessary,emergent "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,useless,emergent She won't do that because being beautiful like a diamond in the sky means you just got your ass KO'd,a diamond in the sky,diamond,sky,idealistic,emergent The weapon is there like the sword in the stone .,the sword in the stone,sword,stone,legendary,emergent "Political reason, and heres an instance assuming theres another large kingdom may not be as large as the mad kings but with similar military and economic power are exploiting tradereligiousmineral resources opportunities from the smaller villages and in return offers protection to the villages, but the mad king would not allow his rivals grow under his nose and to spite them, hes gonna annihilate the smaller villages one after the other of course after sending countless warnings.",the mad kings,king,mad,tyrannical,emergent 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,precarious,emergent "Oh, a man with an open mind is just as disagreeable as a man without prejudices.",a man without prejudices,man,prejudice,tolerant,emergent "But no worries, all this power and control will trickle down to the rest of us, just like wealth distribution...",wealth distribution,distribution,wealth,unjust,emergent "Near Maimansingh, earthwaves were watched approaching, exactly like rollers on the seacoast, and, as they passed, the observers had a difficulty in standing.",rollers on the seacoast,roller,seacoast,forceful,emergent my confusion and weariness and pain vanished as swiftly as darkness before the sunrise .,darkness before the sunrise,darkness,sunrise,dispelled by light,emergent A semikey date coin is typically one that is not as rare as the key date.,the key date,date,key,significant,emergent "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,dangerous,emergent "Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan .",an erring husband,husband,err,disloyal,emergent "Jazz is very young like short skirts, it suits thin, girlish legs, but has a slightly humiliating effect on grey hairs.",short skirts,skirt,short,youthful,emergent "I don't think you really are, but you seem just like a planted advertisement.",a planted advertisement,advertisement,plant,unauthentic,emergent "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,menacing,emergent Of what is called business and its management he was as innocent as a babe in arms.,a babe in arms,babe,arm,helpless,emergent "Unaware of any noise of warning, again like the subject of a hypnotist, he slowly turned his head, and saw Eve standing in the doorway, a vision of loveliness unflawed by any fault, supremely gracious of line and warm of colour in that austere frame, beauty stricken by sorrow posed against a tall black panel.",the subject of a hypnotist,subject,hypnotist,vulnerable,emergent "It looks to me uncommonly like an overturned wheelbarrow,' Barton replied.",an overturned wheelbarrow,wheelbarrow,overturn,unsightly,emergent "For I knew you willed me to possess you, and that possession would seem as trivial as a fiddle in a temple....",a fiddle in a temple,fiddle,temple,incongruous,emergent "My cousin was a fearless rider, and the perfectly broken hunter under us flew as steadily and as straight as a blue martin.",a blue martin,martin,blue,graceful,emergent The manners of the Spaniards and French are as opposite as grave and gay.,grave and gay,grave,gay,opposite,emergent "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,useless,emergent "Let us have the man of business as cultured as the professional man, and the professional man as cultured as the man of means.",the man of means,man,mean,wealthy,emergent Meg must not be scolded Meg must be welcomed home like the prodigal returning.,the prodigal returning,returning,prodigal,redemptive,emergent "He is then like a body without a spirit, a lamp without the light, an eye without the power of vision, an ear that hears no sound, a mind incapable of perceiving, an intellect minus the power of reason.","a body without a spirit,",body,spirit,lifeless,emergent "Im sure people are getting hung up on what he meant by control, he totally means euthanasia and genocide but I suppose some people are thinking its possible to enforce a system of environmental conservation on 7 billion people, just as easily as a one sentence idea.",a one sentence idea,idea,sentence,oversimplify,emergent ,licking boots,boot,lick,submissive,emergent "bernard had taken it to mean she was dead , not put away like a doll in a drawer . ",a doll in a drawer,doll,drawer,neglected,emergent "this is shaped just like an energy gel, would love to see a marathon with people pacing these instead",an energy gel,gel,energy,consumable,emergent I was doing it to express myself and now it's about as expressive as a pair of jeans.,a pair of jeans,pair,jean,unexpressive,emergent "i spent the night in jills boudoir , and we went at each other like cats in heat .",cats in heat,cat,heat,randy,emergent "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,non,emergent 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,unavoidable,emergent "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,contrast,emergent It was a little like a door in the face when it ended thoughi was just buckling in for the ride.,a door in the face,door,face,abrupt,emergent "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,useless,emergent "She was almost hidden by a veil, and her face shone behind it, pale like the moon behind a cloud.",the moon behind a cloud,moon,cloud,obscure,emergent His face is just like the face in the magazine!,the face in the magazine,face,magazine,perfect,emergent "it 's very annoying , just like a dripping tap .",a dripping tap,tap,dripping,irritate,emergent Lol no we had almost like bleachers as desks so the seats behind would be also a foot above.,bleachers as desks,bleacher,desk,makeshift,emergent "with his strength pinning me , i was flapping uselessly like an upsidedown turtle .",an upsidedown turtle,turtle,upsidedown,helpless,emergent He looks as tough as a boardinghouse steak.,a boardinghouse steak,steak,boardinghouse,tough,emergent "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,unformalized,emergent all my joints felt frozen stiff like a rusted bolt .,a rusted bolt,bolt,rusted,immovable,emergent As for the Cardinal himself he looked very little like a beaten man.,a beaten man,man,beat,humble,emergent "boy , you sound as crazy as a rat in a shithouse .",a rat in a shithouse,rat,shithouse,desperate,emergent "They were like, they were kind of like a poof skirt but done in a hot pants style.",a poof skirt,skirt,poof,voluminous,emergent "Similarly, a reviewer for GamePro opined about learning the controls is as simple as a rake to the eyes and IGN called the controls easy to use.",a rake to the eyes,rake,eye,painful,emergent "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,submissive,emergent It was not as big as the mud man.,the mud man,man,mud,fantastical,emergent it 's about as enjoyable as a hole in the head .,a hole in the head,hole,head,unpleasant,emergent "Anderson, looks potentially like a big night.",a big night,night,big,eventful,emergent "it captures one of those seminal moments where anything could happen, the ones that are usually as simple as a shared cigarette. ",a shared cigarette,cigarette,share,intimate,emergent "Sudden a voice that came along, As softly as a fairys song, Or like the windharps faintest sigh, That scarcely lives ere it doth die, Folded the pinions of my thought, And deep and mute attention brought Twas the voice of the far off sky Whispring its scarce heard melody To its kindred sea, whose listning waves Scarce stirred within their azure caves.","a fairys song,",song,fairys,soft,emergent And you stand there like a stone saint.,a stone saint,saint,stone,immovable,emergent "He was not equipped with the forty years of steadily growing callousness that had vanished the fiend who had inspired him with the lust for torture had deserted him, and the sight and the knowledge of himself came as suddenly as a blow in the face.",a blow in the face,blow,face,surprising,emergent "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,futile,emergent He was just as unattainable as the bottom of the ocean.,the bottom of the ocean,bottom,ocean,inaccessible,emergent "It was able to be made as thin as stamped silver, and in the thinnest portions of the pieces it is translucent like porcelain.",stamped silver,silver,stamp,texture,emergent "sees her split her voice apart like a throat singer, while other sections recall the subtle ululations of traditional Gaelic song.",a throat singer,singer,throat,multiphonic,emergent She had turned towards him as irresistibly as the needle to the pole.,the needle to the pole,needle,pole,attract,emergent "We crossed the Peiho in a sampang instead of the ordinary ferryboat which conveys the Celestials, packed together like sardines in a box, and stuck, apparently immovably, in the most extraordinary postures.",sardines in a box,sardine,box,crowd,emergent "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,uncommon,emergent we cant wait here like sitting ducks .,sitting ducks,duck,sit,defenseless,emergent "Thirteen years ago I wrote, Socialism without democracy is as impossible as a shadow without light.",a shadow without light,shadow,light,contradictory,emergent "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,calm,emergent "But, Jean objected, we're not in the least like people in a book.",people in a book,people,book,fictional,emergent "A leg wound will put a man out of action just as effectively as a hole in the head, at least when his only weapon is a spear.",a hole in the head,hole,head,life,emergent "The house, which was close to the railway, was propped against an orangecoloured rock, and in the glare cast up from the red earth its walls looked as blue as snow in shadow.",snow in shadow,snow,shadow,bluish,emergent "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,barren,emergent "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,hide,emergent And you just lay there like a beached whale....,a beached whale,whale,beach,helpless,emergent "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,soundproof,emergent "A country church, and a church in London, are as different as a meadow and a marketplace.",a meadow and a marketplace,meadow,marketplace,distinct,emergent "Their supply of rations was of the most miserable kind, not even as good as prison fare.",prison fare,fare,prison,inferior,emergent "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,humorous,emergent "Shrink quietly like an old flower, then crumble to dust and become nothing more than a memory, the fleeting scent of a lily on the chill winter wind.",an old flower,flower,old,wilt,emergent All these facts were as unalterable as the return of the seasons.,the return of the seasons,return,season,unalterable,emergent "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,ancient,emergent "his skin was a sickly grey now , looking even more like the woman in the alley .",the woman in the alley,woman,alley,vulnerable,emergent All else concerning myself is as uncongenial as the gathering mists.,the gathering mists,mist,gathering,ominous,emergent "Much like investments in MLPs, unitholders are typically issued a K1 rather than a Form 1099 at the end of each tax year.",investments in MLPs,investment,mlp,tax,emergent "... feeling a little like a skunk at a wedding, or probably, more accurately, road kill.",a skunk at a wedding,skunk,wedding,inappropriate,emergent his face had turned as black as the ace of spades and he had died .,the ace of spades,ace,spade,death,emergent "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,discard,emergent "I didnt watch all the movies, but damn...when he steps out of that super soldier machine, they had him lean, hairless, and smooth like a bulked up muscle dolphin.",a bulked up muscle,muscle,bulk,well,emergent Wow he must be as funny as fuck as a comedian I bet he wont go hungry for being as funny as a dose of clap.,a dose of clap,dose,clap,undesirable,emergent So like a duck out of water.,a duck out of water,duck,water,disorient,emergent Thou liest grovelling there like a swine in a ditch.,a swine in a ditch,swine,ditch,miserable,emergent "its about as quiet as a tiptoeing cannonball , id say .",a tiptoeing cannonball,cannonball,tiptoe,oxymoronic,emergent "The official then asked the butcher privately, asked him about the story, he answered exactly like the wife's words.",the wife's words,word,wife,hurtful,emergent "Mr. P. made a speech, and ran up and down the saloon like a war horse.",a war horse,horse,war,courageous,emergent "She's the last of her kind, grew up in a thieves' guild, and is about as smart as a bag of hair.",a bag of hair,bag,hair,worthless,emergent "My lady who, outside, had been so tender, began, before her riding cloak was off, to walk up and down like a caged wolf, with hard eyes and cheeks burning with indignation.",a caged wolf,wolf,cage,anguish,emergent "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,humiliate,emergent "Monte at last heaves in sight, an' comes shiverin' up to the bar, every nerve as tight as a fiddle string.",a fiddle string,string,fiddle,tense,emergent "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,strategic,emergent "At the furthest bounds of these lowe lands, that containe about ten leagues, there is a riuer of fresh water, that with such swiftnesse runneth into the sea, that for the space of one league within it the water is as fresh as any fountaine water.",any fountaine water,water,fountaine,fresh,emergent "Don't she follow you like a spectre all over the house, till you are as nervous as a cat in a cupboard?",a cat in a cupboard,cat,cupboard,hidden,emergent Every coach was jammed as full as a cattle truck.,a cattle truck,truck,cattle,overcrowd,emergent He cavorted about as gracefully as an animated sausage.,an animated sausage,sausage,animate,humorous,emergent "He was not equipped with the forty years of steadily growing callousness that had vanished the fiend who had inspired him with the lust for torture had deserted him, and the sight and the knowledge of himself came as suddenly as a blow in the face.",a blow in the face,blow,face,shocking,emergent "juliet scolded , kate , you clumsy thing , if you had been sitting still like a true lady , that would not have happened . ''",a true lady,lady,TRUE,graceful,emergent 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,worthless,emergent the assistant just stands there like a remedial bodyguard .,a remedial bodyguard,bodyguard,remedial,incompetent,emergent Wow he must be as funny as fuck as a comedian I bet he wont go hungry for being as funny as a dose of clap.,a dose of clap,dose,clap,unpleasant,emergent "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,vulnerable,emergent he had disappeared as completely as snow in summer .,snow in summer,snow,summer,unusual,emergent "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,useless,emergent "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,struggle,emergent For six hours I travelled straight away like a hunted moose.,a hunted moose,moose,hunted,panicked,emergent Even his banderilleros were frowning and silent like defeated soldiers.,defeated soldiers,soldier,defeat,demoralized,emergent "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,imaginary,emergent "They had come as regularly and as certainly as the passing of the seasons, and she had come to accept them as a matter of course.",the passing of the seasons,passing,season,consistent,emergent "And when all the goodbyes were over, and she sat by the window of the railway carriage, watching the fields rush by, reduced to silence, because Papa had told her he could not hear her voice, and had made a peremptory sign to her when she screamed her loudest, and caused their fellowtravellers to look up amazed, she wove a web in her brain something like thisI know what my aunts will be like they will be just like ladies in a book.",ladies in a book,lady,book,imaginary,emergent "More so than subcutaneous certainly, but still not as bad as the couple of times I've had my nose bloodied.",the couple of times,couple,time,occasional,emergent "to him , all is forgiven and it 's as good as water under the bridge .",water under the bridge,water,bridge,irrelevant,emergent "Otherwise, in the human race, the male would be slain yearly like the drone of the hive.",the drone of the hive,drone,hive,unproductive,emergent Pockets of flashing neon erupt like dying stars speckled throughout the roads.,dying stars,star,die,spectacular,emergent ,a game ragdoll,ragdoll,game,uncontrollable,emergent Often the solutions are not as important as the empathy for politicians.,the empathy for politicians,empathy,politician,low,emergent "The love of God, as strong and tender as the lips of Jesus could describe it, is seen to be as regular and as calm as the movements of the heavens.",the movements of the heavens,movement,heaven,cyclical,emergent it was about as ancient as old bessie and had aged about as gracefully .,old bessie,bessie,old,belove,emergent 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,violent,emergent "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,desperate,emergent They are just as valuable as the ones to come.,the ones to come,one,come,anticipate,emergent they 're almost as bad as the creatures of the wasteland . '',the creatures of the wasteland,creature,wasteland,monstrous,emergent ,primary season,season,primary,intense campaigning,emergent LOL a Jeep in the Qld Outback is as useful as tits on a bull.,tits on a bull,tit,bull,unnecessary,emergent "He comes dressed as sharply as a man can look, his eyes are both warm as the sun and as dark as a Russian winter.",a Russian winter,winter,russian,extreme,emergent "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,gape,emergent 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,incongruous,emergent mr. bellows and mr. isenhart slumped against each other sleeping peacefully like two giant infants .,two giant infants,infant,giant,gigantic,emergent All resistance was swept away like chaff before the whirlwind.,chaff before the whirlwind,chaff,whirlwind,vulnerable,emergent "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,preferable,emergent "my body tingles from head to toe , almost like the pins and needles when your arm falls asleep and starts to wake up .",the pins and needles,pin,needle,tingle,emergent 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,non,emergent "I apologize if I came off as too rash, but when I read it, it seemed about as trivial as a facebook status.",a facebook status,status,facebook,trivial,emergent "Parking tickets rake in dough for municipalities, but to me, it's as dishonest as hidden fees.",hidden fees,fee,hide,unfair,emergent "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,undervalue,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "What the device is throwing off Light, waves, etc, bats the single photon around like the wife of a wifebeater, and that changes stuff!",the wife of a wifebeater,wife,wifebeater,abuse,emergent "If we declare Tennyson neither epic nor dramatic, but always lyric, adverse criticism melts away like snow in summer.",snow in summer,snow,summer,unexpected,emergent That tune is exactly like the stained glass.,the stained glass,glass,stain,artistic,emergent his eyes were as black as the sky between stars .,the sky between stars,sky,star,dark,emergent "As Elizabeth Myers in her book The Social Letter, says The friendly letter is our proxy for a little ttette, telling of the personal news of the day, and should be as extemporaneous as daily speech.",daily speech,speech,daily,informal,emergent "it is not no more now like old days, is it?",old days,day,old,simple,emergent they 're liplocked like two horny teenagers . '',two horny teenagers,teenager,horny,liplocked,emergent 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,unwanted,emergent choosing not to use his wealth to fix a problem as treatable as thinning hair actually made him seem even more in control .,thinning hair,hair,thin,unwanted,emergent "Stuffed himself till his hide was stretched as tight as a sausage skin, and then howled for painkiller.",a sausage skin,skin,sausage,tight,emergent "He went away like a whipped dog, I recall, and afterward proved himself the best man we had.",a whipped dog,dog,whip,submissive,emergent Social Security is sitting out there like the elephant on the table.,the elephant on the table,elephant,table,unaddresse,emergent I feel as low as ditch water.,ditch water,water,ditch,worthless,emergent he 's as scared as a tick under the bed . '',a tick under the bed,tick,bed,hidden,emergent "Swimming as instinctively as a wounded seal, he travelled under water while his breath held.",a wounded seal,seal,wound,struggle,emergent "In a review for a 2014 reissue, John Clarke of The Independent highlighted several tracks and wrote that perhaps like a box of chocolates theres a bit too much to take at one sitting.",a box of chocolates,box,chocolate,assort,emergent "I mean dog owners let their dogs lick their face and hands and crap and then proceed to touch other things in the house, that to me sounds just as gross as cats on the counter.",cats on the counter,cat,counter,undesirable,emergent "Meanwhile you will be as happy as a cow in clover, and hidden in a hole where the police will never find you.",a cow in clover,cow,clover,comfortable,emergent Also sometimes snapbacks can look just as cuntish as beanies in the summer.,beanies in the summer,beanie,summer,impractical,emergent reliable caregivers were as scarce as hens ' teeth and far more valuable .,hens ' teeth and,tooth,hen,nonexistant,emergent "Oh, that Texas cyclone is as wild as a range horse and is due to get potted any minute.",a range horse,horse,range,untame,emergent people 's smiles seem as fake as the cardboard moons .,the cardboard moons,moon,cardboard,fake,emergent "Yes, as affectionate as a snapping turtle but Mother looks up to him as a great man because hes closest to Miss Frink of anybody, and everybody believes hell be her heir.",a snapping turtle,turtle,snap,unapproachable,emergent You're just like sitting ducks.,sitting ducks,duck,sit,helpless,emergent "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,disorient,emergent Dear Papa was as lively as an owl with neuralgia.,an owl with neuralgia,owl,neuralgia,lethargic,emergent He clung there like a sloth to a branch.,a sloth to a branch,sloth,branch,clingy,emergent information of that sort was as precious as water on mars .,water on mars,water,mar,scarce,emergent "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,unstoppable,emergent "The rail track was sometimes at 7 meters high like the moving sidewalks, sometimes at ground level and sometimes underground.",the moving sidewalks,sidewalk,move,mechanize,emergent "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,brittle,emergent "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,fantastical,emergent 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,distant,emergent "If the fussy and important constable were to be believed, other burglarious attempts had been forestalled by him, and he was as busy as a man with five hands.",a man with five hands,man,hand,exaggerated,emergent "Ye are deserting like runaway soldiers, turning renegades from God such is the language in which Paul taxes his readers.",runaway soldiers,soldier,runaway,traitorous,emergent It is kind of like a needle in the haystack.,a needle in the haystack,needle,haystack,difficult,emergent "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,frustrating,emergent They're not bumping into each other like battling tops.,battling tops,top,battle,playful,emergent ,an egg without salt,egg,salt,tasteless,emergent "Kings taste good, just like a bubblegum cigarette should!",a bubblegum cigarette,cigarette,bubblegum,pretend,emergent "his vision was foggy like breath on a mirror , causing the flight information on the digital departure board to appear illegible .",breath on a mirror,breath,mirror,obscure,emergent "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,youthful,emergent ,shadowed sky,sky,shadow,ominous,emergent "A troublesome coast this to clear, Mr. Miller the currents hereabouts are as treacherous as the heart of woman.",the heart of woman,heart,woman,unpredictable,emergent ,an internet commenter,commenter,internet,lacking eloquence,emergent 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,helpless,emergent I hear that pictures of a flood with the book A Perfect Storm in them are almost as rare as white squirrels.,white squirrels,squirrel,white,uncommon,emergent "It's kind of like a rock song, but at the same time, it has this really shimmery, cute vibe to it.",a rock song,song,rock,energetic,emergent The ships of many flags lie together like a town in the sea.,a town in the sea,town,sea,island,emergent ,a wet poodle,poodle,wet,unattractive,emergent "Since my enamel is receding as quickly as the polar ice, my teeth and polar bears have something in common.","the polar ice,",ice,polar,disappearing rapidly,emergent and as trustworthy as a chocolate hammer .,a chocolate hammer,hammer,chocolate,impractical,emergent I'm just wondering what happens when the OP realizes his kid isn't as attractive as the kids on the packaging.,the kids on the packaging,kid,packaging,idealize,emergent She says she feels quite like a lady of leisure then.,a lady of leisure,lady,leisure,affluent,emergent "I also like the lack of closure, you start from the beginning knowing love is your enemy, and you conclude love is the end of me ",the lack of closure,lack,closure,frustrating,emergent "And Mr. Brennan, just like the last administration, is really portraying something to the American people that is the farthest thing from the truth.",the last administration,administration,last,dishonest,emergent "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,ordinary,emergent "So, I shall pull them out one by one until you are as hairless as a hired horse.",a hired horse,horse,hire,expendable,emergent "I would rather have my neat, precise little house and a small income than go about like a figure of fun.",a figure of fun,figure,fun,mock,emergent "Mark Grueskin, Morse's attorney, said The petitions circulated are as valid as the back of a matchbook.",the back of a matchbook,back,matchbook,trivial,emergent We were almost like a shadow court.,a shadow court,court,shadow,illegitimate,emergent The piano's keys are as white as the teeth of a junkie and as black as the licorice that rots teeth.,the teeth of a junkie,tooth,junkie,yellow,emergent "For the moment he lets himself go, rejoicing in the sense of limitless power beneath himborne onwards like a man down rapids, too intoxicated with the glory of motion to think of whither he is going then the next moment he discovers that he is being hurried into impossible situationssituations which his own moral conscience, as well as the moral conscience of Society, embodied in law and custom, will not admit.",a man down rapids,man,rapid,precarious,emergent Nothing is so like a woman as a pigeon perhaps that's the reason Norton does not like them.,a woman as a pigeon,woman,pigeon,metaphorical,emergent 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,unclean,emergent The cheaper cuts of meat are nutritious and can be made as tasty as the expensive cuts HUNGARIAN GOULASH Serves 5.,the expensive cuts,cut,expensive,high,emergent "While it is not as simple as calories in vs. calories out, it is rather close to that.",calories in vs. calories out,calorie,calorie,balanced,emergent The cantonal or tribal magistrates were classified and arranged just like the magistrates of a municipality.,the magistrates of a municipality,magistrate,municipality,elected,emergent 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,undesirable,emergent That thing slid out of there like a wet hotdog.,a wet hotdog,hotdog,wet,unappetizing,emergent "great , he 'd seen me tear into here like a bunny on fire . ",a bunny on fire,bunny,fire,frantic,emergent "One god said that his mind was tumultuous like battlefield, the second said his mind was racing swiftly like a mountain river, the third said that he could not take his eyes off her, as if they were seized in a crab's claw.",a mountain river,river,mountain,fast,emergent "We saw, said Fuller afterwards, there was a gold mine in India, but it was as deep as the centre of the earth.",the centre of the earth,centre,earth,hot,emergent "her father 's mother , willie , and amanda were as different as ants and elephants , but they had a deep respect for each other .",ants and elephants,ant,elephant,contrast,emergent 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,superficial,emergent "I find the vocabulary raw like a flow of consciousness, something that you write from heart without polishing it with sweet words.",a flow of consciousness,flow,consciousness,unfiltered,emergent "the creaking , wooden main floor where so many feet have stood was as dull as any given night .",any given night,night,give,ordinary,emergent "The walls were advancing and retiring, the banisters swayed and the floor of the landing heaved gently like a pitching boat.",a pitching boat,boat,pitching,unsteady,emergent "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,overwhelm,emergent "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,abominable,emergent Is that kinda like voice texting?,voice texting,texting,voice,hands-free,emergent "he was deathly and cold, And fleeted away like the spell of a dream.",the spell of a dream,spell,dream,temporal,emergent it 's about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle . '',an ashtray on a motorcycle,ashtray,motorcycle,impractical,emergent "So, the sonnets of Petrarch are as unmeaning as the promises of candidates.",the promises of candidates,promise,candidate,untrustworthy,emergent Gawd I was I was as dumb as a dog life would be so full of wonder and mystery.,a dog life,life,dog,carefree,emergent And you look just like a ball of skin.,a ball of skin,ball,skin,unattractive,emergent "He said the world was as wicked as a sick dream, and my heart grew cold in the sunshine.",a sick dream,dream,sick,disturb,emergent 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,humiliating,emergent 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,unnatural,emergent ,a trained chimp,chimp,train,lack of sophistication,emergent "christina was nice enough , but her brain often seemed about as functional as a cardboard lifeboat .",a cardboard lifeboat,lifeboat,cardboard,impractical,emergent "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,undesirable,emergent "yright like , berry says , as he watches the two girls walk away , fiona coopers arse like a sack of spuds .",a sack of spuds,sack,spud,unattractive,emergent gthealthy patriotism somehow healthy patriotism sounds always like healthy cancer.,healthy cancer,cancer,healthy,contradictory,emergent "Despite myself, I feel myself shiver like a wet mouse. ",a wet mouse,mouse,wet,shivering,emergent "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,fast,emergent "i always have to wear it when i 'm being smothered under meaningless words , standing there upright like a carved image .",a carved image,image,carve,unchanging,emergent 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,worthless,emergent "Turns out the pedicure salon is actually a dingy hole in the wall, kind of like a dive bar.",a dive bar,bar,dive,low,emergent "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,dangerous,emergent I bet that even when she removes them every night before she goes to bed she probably looks as plain as burnt toast.,burnt toast,toast,burn,bitter,emergent But then again the lions also found carrying a damn tree branch around like a dead antelope was good fun too.,a dead antelope,antelope,dead,difficult to carry,emergent But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow.,a white crow,crow,white,uncommon,emergent "The thwarted supernatural lover nereid, fairy, elf, or troll taking this form of revenge is a common motif the tales are generally a variant on Beauty and the Beast, where the victim must live in that form until finding another love, as beautiful as the thwarted lover.",the thwarted lover,lover,thwart,unrequited,emergent "It is, however, much more populous than southern Palestine, and is extensively cultivated, though at this time of year the crops had all been gathered, and the land was as bare as a village common.",a village common,village,common,uncultivate,emergent "Indeed, Man, assuming that his nature is as uncontrollable as the course of the stars, has limited his research into the substance of freedom to a groping for an understanding of the adequate external conditions of liberty.",the course of the stars,course,star,unchangeable,emergent Such numbers continue to be in use and can be transferred between operators just like longer numbers.,longer numbers,number,long,great,emergent "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,illusory,emergent 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,fictional,emergent "With the help of the girls he used to fasten a fat little thing, about twelve months old, in the bend at the middle of the handle, and there like a ham on the steelyard hung this baby and enjoyed seesaw, and laughed at its own utility.",a ham on the steelyard,ham,steelyard,incongruous,emergent "When Lesable set out for his office, she called from her room Do not forget your umbrella or you will come back as muddy as an omnibus wheel.",an omnibus wheel,wheel,omnibus,grimy,emergent "My looks don't tell the truth, said I, not wishing to speak of myself I am up and down like a barometer in the tropics.",a barometer in the tropics,barometer,tropic,up and down,emergent "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,jarring,emergent "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,dangerous,emergent "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,helpless,emergent People can change in the echo of a moment or the as quickly as the catching of a spark.,the catching of a spark,catching,spark,quick,emergent You and I were always like apples and oranges I dont understand why youre still buying oranges.,apples and oranges,apple,orange,contrast,emergent 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,speculative,emergent "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,helpless,emergent Pizza on pineapple is as delicious as pineapple on pizza IT'S GREAT Pepperoni on a pizza is just fucking awful.,pineapple on pizza,pineapple,pizza,contentious,emergent Power without perspective is as crippling as perspective without power.,perspective without power,perspective,power,lacking control,emergent "Acquiring experience from disappointment, and deeming that the wonder of his person might be as insupportable as excess of light, the rial purposed to let himself in upon the public by degrees.",excess of light,excess,light,blind,emergent "Our happiness is about as relevant as the happiness of cattle in a factory farm, so long as we keep spending the money they grudgingly give us.",the happiness of cattle,happiness,cattle,meaningless,emergent "And now unnamed pilot, his arms went limp, his mouth hung open like a hooked fish, his consciousness flooded out of him and his eyes went dark.",a hooked fish,fish,hooked,helpless,emergent "Each player is dealt one card that they display to all other players traditionally stuck to the forehead facing outwards, supposedly like an Indian feather.",an Indian feather,feather,indian,symbolic,emergent The houses on either side shot past like pictures in the kinetoscope.,pictures in the kinetoscope,picture,kinetoscope,fleeting,emergent "Yeah, kind of like oil and beer.",oil and beer,oil,beer,incompatible,emergent "s oddly formal bearing, was rather like a cold douche.",a cold douche,douche,cold,surprising,emergent "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,unresponsive,emergent "In comparison with Central Park, where one is so aggressively overguarded by men with whistles, in spite of which the place is littered with paper, this park is as neat as a private garden.",a private garden,garden,private,well,emergent "You can basically flop on top of him, or jiggle his belly as roughly as I want, and he just is purring the whole time, looking completely relaxed, and when i finally let him go, he makes no move to leave, he just lays there like a fat blob, then he'll look up at me like What'd you stop for?",a fat blob,blob,fat,unmove,emergent "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,swift,emergent "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,adolescent,emergent "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,tense,emergent My thought was borne farther and farther like a leaf in a tempest....,a leaf in a tempest,leaf,temp,vulnerable,emergent It is just like the girls in books!,the girls in books,girl,book,idealize,emergent "And he thumps the ground just like a horse stamping, said Rose.",a horse stamping,horse,stamp,loud,emergent "before it, though they once covered the land, they have melted away like snow beneath the sun. ",snow beneath the sun,snow,sun,melted,emergent Just the perception of a conflict of interest can be as bad as a conflict of interest.,a conflict of interest,conflict,interest,unethical,emergent "They are the aborigines of the islands in this part of the world, and are as primitive as the Australian blacks, having no social or political organization but that of the family.",the Australian blacks,black,australian,aboriginous,emergent "Tasted exactly like bacon and vodka at the same time, but its just wrong like those popcorn jellybeans.",bacon and vodka,bacon,vodka,unusual,emergent "her last words echo in my head , swirling around like water down a drain .",water down a drain,water,drain,fleeting,emergent It's sort of like a knife in the back.,a knife in the back,knife,back,betray,emergent "just like war of worlds , injected bates .",war of worlds,war,world,imaginary,emergent "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,malfunction,emergent I was as lively as a dog with wings.,a dog with wings,dog,wing,fantastical,emergent Although at some point these tiny odds are just thrown out and considered random like the flip of a coin.,the flip of a coin,flip,coin,random,emergent They're packed together like sardines in one area.,sardines in one area,sardine,area,crowd,emergent "I mean, they go together like a horse and buggy.",a horse and buggy,horse,buggy,old,emergent It is kind of like sports journalism in that it talks about when you get a stock market expert on television generally his area of expertise is the past.,sports journalism,journalism,sport,specialize,emergent "It made a noise almost like the noise of a hammer, said Paul Solange.",the noise of a hammer,noise,hammer,distinct,emergent You are as observant as a pig in muck.,a pig in muck,pig,muck,content,emergent ,a ashtray on a motorbike,ashtray,motorbike,completely impractical,emergent "she might be sleeping with a merimon brother , but he was as different as night from day from gray .",night from day,night,day,dissimilar,emergent The screens of our wordmachines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts .,illuminated manuscripts,manuscript,illuminate,ornate,emergent "He's as solemn as a stuffed owl, and he'llWell, I'm goin' to put MY oar in.","a stuffed owl,",owl,stuff,lifeless,emergent ,a kite but one without a string,kite,string,uncontrolled,emergent "Nay, I lie as still as a cat in a gutter.",a cat in a gutter,cat,gutter,vulnerable,emergent "The margin is wavy like the edge of a scallop, and may appear ragged because of lingering remnants of the partial veil.",the edge of a scallop,edge,scallop,irregular,emergent open like a bad ventriloquist ?,a bad ventriloquist,ventriloquist,bad,unconvincing,emergent Mitazono took office on 28 July 2016 and stated at a press conference on his first day that he would seek the suspension of operation at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant as early as the following month.,the following month,month,follow,upcoming,emergent You'll wind up flopping your hand back and forth like a fish on land.,a fish on land,fish,land,awkward,emergent "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,stale,emergent ,an honest politician,politician,honest,rare,emergent "Mr. Stratton, don't you think?exactly like a little shepherdess.",a little shepherdess,shepherdess,little,naive,emergent "For every one of these impulses, not being the result of a force locally existing in some other form, implies the creation of force and the creation of force is just as inconceivable as the creation of matter.",the creation of matter,creation,matter,inconceivable,emergent almost like a tiny town .,a tiny town,town,tiny,intimate,emergent "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,undesirable,emergent It's as bad as a low tavern.,a low tavern,tavern,low,disreputable,emergent "She means working as hard at the guys at impressing the opposite sex, not working as hard as the guys at the job.",the guys at the job,guy,job,hard-working,emergent "My sleep however, when I went to sleep, was as light as the fall of the dew.",the fall of the dew,fall,dew,gentle,emergent "The barrier was raised, and by it perfect mountains had drifted and clouds of snow were whirling round like witches on broomsticks.",witches on broomsticks,witch,broomstick,flying,emergent "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,improbable,emergent "While the guests were going toward the banquet as brisk as bees to blossoms, Dante caught me by the hand and drew me apart, and entreated me to seek speech with Beatrice, and to entreat her to grant him an interview in private that very night.",bees to blossoms,bee,blossom,draw,emergent "just like old days , '' owen says as he picks up his bass guitar .",old days,day,old,cherish,emergent I was going to say it looks exactly like a dribble castle.,a dribble castle,castle,dribble,fragile,emergent "A man still maintaining a visible egoism in a period of dominant altruism, would feel as uncomfortable as a man with a tail.",a man with a tail,man,tail,unnatural,emergent "Yes, you will,' she says, 'an' if you don't I won't make his back sore'an' off they went, an' left me standin' there like a stick in the mud.",a stick in the mud,stick,mud,immobile,emergent "stopping was about as appealing as a bat to the kneecaps , but i did it .",a bat to the kneecaps,bat,kneecap,undesirable,emergent "To play devil's advocate I hated being grounded as a kid, so I won't ground my kids is how most people on the other side of the argument see your perspective, as unfair as both views of eachother can be.",both views of eachother,view,eachother,oppose,emergent "but when trevor 's eyes caught edgard 's , the punch of lust whomped him as sharply as a hoof to the belly , making him just as breathless .",a hoof to the belly,hoof,belly,painful,emergent "Then Susan gave a shriek, and fell Just like a piece of lumber And Sammy blew the tiger up, And swore he'd take his number.",a piece of lumber,piece,lumber,unresponsive,emergent "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,small,emergent "Much like small press or selfpublished to some, in fiction.",small press,press,small,independent,emergent "It's not as bad as black face, but the metaphorical point he was making still stands even if that metaphor was an hyperbole.",black face,face,black,derogatory,emergent "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,helpless,emergent They look very like yachts at night.,yachts at night,yacht,night,illuminate,emergent he looks bigger than ever in his gray linen slacks and opencollared white shirt almost like a bear in a tuxedo .,a bear in a tuxedo,bear,tuxedo,ironic,emergent "My eyes were drawn to the red stone, glowing red like blood on fire, then to those blue eyes, calm as can be. ",blood on fire,blood,fire,glowing red,emergent "Brhmanism and Buddhism, both viewed from their orthodox aspects, are as inimical and as irreconcilable as water and oil.",water and oil,water,oil,irreconcilable,emergent "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,tangle,emergent I can not read this posts anymore without the goddamn jolly ranchers grudge coming back again like a wave of bilis.,a wave of bilis,wave,bili,unpleasant,emergent "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,stretch,emergent "And when she saw that she could not free herself, she whispered to him, Surely I am as fair as the daughters of the sea, and as comely as those that dwell in the blue waters, and she fawned on him and put her face close to his.",the daughters of the sea,daughter,sea,mythical,emergent "It was noted the pilots only had basic proficiency in Morse code, and weather reports might have to be transmitted as slow as five words per minute.",five words per minute,word,minute,slow,emergent ,burnt popcorn,popcorn,burn,bad tasting,emergent "He smiles back, She's better today, not nearly as tired as the last week I smile bigger at that.",the last week,week,last,recently,emergent "Nah, I dont go around like an entitled vet. ",an entitled vet,vet,entitled,self-important,emergent tears just flow out of his eyes uncontrollably like a broken faucet .,a broken faucet,faucet,broken,leak,emergent they just came running through here like bats out of hell .,bats out of hell,bat,hell,fast,emergent "Up, Reinold, and after it, that we may send it home like a plucked goose.",a plucked goose,goose,pluck,defenseless,emergent "Or, rather, should we say, that makes the need of conviction as unnecessary as a lamp in daylight.",a lamp in daylight,lamp,daylight,superfluous,emergent "By Jove, he looked as cheerful as a jolly tombstone!",a jolly tombstone,tombstone,jolly,incongruous,emergent "It is natural for any one to love himself, and every person loves himself without any special incitement to love my tribe, which supports and defends me, to love my wife, the joy and helpmate of my life, my children, the pleasure and hope of my life, and my parents, who have given me life and an education, is natural and this kind of love, though far from being as strong as the love of self, is met with quite frequently.",the love of self,love,self,narcissistic,emergent "Also, deer do not grow as large as plains animals because they do not live in an endless sea of grass.",plains animals,animal,plain,herbivorous,emergent "Similarly, a reviewer for GamePro opined about learning the controls is as simple as a rake to the eyes and IGN called the controls easy to use.",a rake to the eyes,rake,eye,unpleasant,emergent "In the early years they were as simple as marked cards or loaded dice later, elaborate big cons became the Blonger trademark.",marked cards,card,mark,used for cheating,emergent But I fear such women are as rare as blue roses.,blue roses,rose,blue,uncommon,emergent "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,unattractive,emergent "my duffle of clothes was sitting on a narrow bed , almost as narrow as the bed on the train .",the bed on the train,bed,train,temporary,emergent his eyes were as black as the sky between stars .,the sky between stars,sky,star,black,emergent ,a kick in the stones,kick,stone,painful,emergent "Harry had fallen to a sentimental mood, and would talk about their future just as though it had all been settled in the beginning of things, and was as unalterable as the course of the planets.",the course of the planets,course,planet,unchangeable,emergent "In another famous scene Lady Fidget's selfstyled virtuous gang meet up at Horner's lodging to carouse, throw off their public virtue, and behave exactly like male rakes, singing riotous songs and drinking defiant toasts.","male rakes,",rake,male,debaucherous,emergent He made it scream and exult obscenely he made it lament like a fallen angel.,a fallen angel,angel,fall,exile,emergent more like a one storied apartment .,a one storied apartment,apartment,storied,single,emergent He also considered it shortlived occupied for perhaps as little as a single generation before it was violently destroyed.,a single generation,generation,single,fleeting,emergent "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,unlikely,emergent the interior was as chilly as a meat locker .,a meat locker,locker,meat,very cold,emergent "Looking down upon the town of Hartlepool, the boys saw buildings crumple like houses of cards before a gale.",houses of cards,house,card,fragile,emergent The old ship would leap almost out of the ocean and then fall back like a wounded duck.,a wounded duck,duck,wound,helpless,emergent ,a cold dinner,dinner,cold,unappetizing,emergent Neither will they be secured by a political party which preaches a certain creed for eight years and then throws it aside like a worn out garment.,a worn out garment,garment,wear,discard,emergent "Just like the night king, that guy was a big threat, looming overhead and then didnt do shit",the night king,king,night,menacing,emergent ,a swarm of fireflies,swarm,firefly,swift,emergent "Peter's Row had but one entrance, and was as quiet as a country lane.",a country lane,lane,country,serene,emergent "According to Hartzog, the firefall was as appropriate as horns on a rabbit.",horns on a rabbit,horn,rabbit,absurd,emergent "Are you ever like a child in the dark, your intellect no weapon against the dread of formless things?",a child in the dark,child,dark,afraid,emergent "This jellylike flesh, covering all parts of the skeleton, is about as thick as the white of an egg, but it decays immediately after the death of the sponge.",the white of an egg,white,egg,colorless,emergent "The man was a great simpleton, but also a mighty hero, as tall, as a plain, the end of which you cannot see, is long, and as shaggy as a wooded mountain.",a wooded mountain,mountain,woode,verdant,emergent 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,distant,emergent "this officer was not only on edge , he was wound as tight as a steel spring .",a steel spring,spring,steel,tense,emergent "He was aware of a colossal beak, curved like a scimitar and pointed wickedly like a tooth of iron.",a tooth of iron,tooth,iron,pointed wickedly,emergent "They were strewn everywhere, stacked on top of each other haphazardly like a hoarder's basement. ",a hoarder's basement,basement,hoarder,disorganized,emergent "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,fragile,emergent "but if they ganged up on her ... you 're as useful as a bucket of piss , '' she growled .",a bucket of piss,bucket,piss,useless,emergent Cleveland p33 Mr 17 60w N Y Times 22136 Ap 15 17 360w The talk of the labour men is as good as the talk of the dons.,the talk of the dons,talk,don,intellectual,emergent "Look as the animal convinces the masses that masks are the real threat, but to his dismay, some people just aren't as stupid as the poor creature.",the poor creature,creature,poor,helpless,emergent "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,pamper,emergent ambori 's as happy as a hog in slop right now . '',a hog in slop,hog,slop,happy,emergent Ill be there and back like masters motorcar.,masters motorcar,motorcar,master,luxurious,emergent "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,unstable,emergent The first line is We fit together like two birds of a feather.,two birds of a feather,bird,feather,compatible,emergent "Well, David, said Jack, jocularly, you look just exactly like a collapsed balloon.",a collapsed balloon,balloon,collapse,unimpressive,emergent "If you dont get a catch for hours, its only like an angler without a nibble.",an angler without a nibble,angler,nibble,frustrate,emergent My business is merely to live and to enjoy and whatever is essential to life and enjoyment will come as naturally as the dew from heaven.,the dew from heaven,dew,heaven,nourish,emergent "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,unstable,emergent "on both halves they could see small blinking lights , almost like led lights .",led lights,light,lead,energy,emergent "the homewelded bars start falling away from the cell door one by one , almost like falling leaves .",falling leaves,leave,fall,fragile,emergent "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,trap,emergent "Im a Texan living in Illinois, and no the northerners are just as bad as southerners in the snow.",southerners in the snow,southerner,snow,unfamiliar,emergent "thus far, but no further, and they would have obeyed Him and all that cross, and agony, and the fierce faces of those furious Jews, would have vanished away like a hideous dream when one awakes.",a hideous dream,dream,hideous,terrify,emergent "I may be a carthorse, but you are rather like a white fawn, was Harolds rejoinder.",a white fawn,fawn,white,rare,emergent 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,miraculous,emergent "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,surrender,emergent In fact if you're nearsighted you still have to wear glasses otherwise it will be blurry just like faraway things are.,faraway things,thing,faraway,blurry,emergent "For the time was an exciting one, and had not been without its effects upon all hired labour, though things had not developed in that respect as fully as when a year's success had made gold as common as shells on the seashore.",shells on the seashore,shell,seashore,abundant,emergent 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,ineffective,emergent "Those bags are as loud as a tree falling, man.",a tree falling,tree,fall,loud,emergent ,the auto firms,firm,auto,losing jobs quickly,emergent "I aint nothin but a poor marine, without any book learnin, but whenever I sees that motto of the corps, Semper fidelis which means Ever faithful, I think to myself, Grubb, my man, that means you aint never goin back on another feller and, come to think of it, it do seem ridicklous that the leftenants son should be aworkin like a hired hand.",a hired hand,hand,hire,undervalue,emergent his tail was wagging as fast as a metronome out of control .,a metronome out of control,metronome,control,erratic,emergent "and because i 'm as classy as an elephant in a tutu , i look right down at his erection and gasp ,",an elephant in a tutu,elephant,tutu,humorous,emergent "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,entice,emergent "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,fictional,emergent "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,unpleasant,emergent the thing flew overboard like a cartwheel from a cliff .,a cartwheel from a cliff,cartwheel,cliff,plummet,emergent "i think she 's hidin ' somewhere close like a hunted creature , mr rob .",a hunted creature,creature,hunt,fearful,emergent holds ears The sound of that cardboard brushing together is as bad as nails on a chalkboard!,nails on a chalkboard,nail,chalkboard,unpleasant,emergent "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,unusual,emergent "Im reacting to this exactly like the one on the right, because of the ones on the right.",the one on the right,one,right,referential,emergent "and new teams are chosen, kind of like drawing straws.",drawing straws,straw,draw,arbitrary,emergent ,cinder on the breeze,cinder,breeze,fragile,emergent ,the midnight sleep,sleep,midnight,undisturbed,emergent "In medieval England the village leper may have been about as common as the village fool while in the larger towns or cities, such as London, Norwich, York, Bristol, and Lincoln, true lepers can hardly have been so numerous as the friars themselves, who are supposed to have found a large part of their occupation in ministering to their wants.",the village fool,fool,village,marginalize,emergent "From curly blond head to squaretoed, commonsense shoes her little body began to quiver suddenly like the advent of a chill.",the advent of a chill,advent,chill,noticeable,emergent She jabs them with her stinger and he goes as limp as a boned fish!,a boned fish,fish,boned,lifeless,emergent "The original version of the track was almost like a radio version, and Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Steve Silk Hurley made remixes for the single.",a radio version,version,radio,edit,emergent They became as still as men of stone.,men of stone,man,stone,unmovable,emergent "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,dissimilar,emergent "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,uncommon,emergent "Often, indeed, he came upon them unaware like a quick thunderstorm and almost daily news arrived in the place of this regiment of Croats, or that body of Cossacks, having been defeated by Oberntraut, and driven over the river in terror and confusion.",a quick thunderstorm and,thunderstorm,quick,unexpected,emergent "the end point is not at all obvious from the start , but it is as inevitable as a duck saying quack .",a duck saying quack,duck,say,stereotypical,emergent "They are approaching as stealthily as the snake in the grass, answered Winnemak.",the snake in the grass,snake,grass,deceitful,emergent "Whenever the East is doubtful, and recognizes doubt, it is as dangerous as a hillside in the rains, and it only added to his problem if the Rangar found in him something inexplicable.",a hillside in the rains,hillside,rain,unstable,emergent "The entire canteen shook at the impact, the doors knocked aside like reeds in the wind. ",reeds in the wind,reed,wind,swaying,emergent His epithet was just about as spontaneous as a telephone solicitation.,a telephone solicitation,solicitation,telephone,scripted,emergent "that there 's no way vampires are real , but they 're about as real as the death walkers . ''",the death walkers,walker,death,mythical,emergent "Mark Grueskin, Morse's attorney, said The petitions circulated are as valid as the back of a matchbook.",the back of a matchbook,back,matchbook,worthless,emergent "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,unexpected,emergent "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,dissimilar,emergent 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,flying,emergent ,a grasshoppers knee,knee,grasshopper,tiny,emergent "Well, I'm sure the paralyzed dude wasn't wrapped up as cleanly as the gif guy...and on sand.",the gif guy,guy,gif,creative,emergent "His skin feels hot, almost tingly, sort of like pins and needles, fighting beneath his fingertips.",pins and needles,pin,needle,tingle,emergent "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,untame,emergent "now they were just tinder covered in ice , as useless as bones without flesh .",bones without flesh,bone,flesh,useless,emergent He sat there like a beaten hound.,a beaten hound,hound,beat,submissive,emergent "Why, here is color once again, and the dimples are coming back like bees around a rose.",bees around a rose,bee,rose,lively,emergent "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,ground,emergent "Air stills, and for a brief moment the landscape is as lifeless as the surface of the sun.",the surface of the sun,surface,sun,hostile,emergent "For sure, Ive never seen a huntsman get cranky or do anything but try to get away from anyone disturbing its peace they eat other spiders too like red backs so if you didnt find them youd be looking harder to make sure its all clear.",red backs,back,red,venomous,emergent "I could not go to the meeting, as I would be as incompetent as a elephant as a sailor.",a elephant as a sailor,elephant,sailor,incompetent,emergent "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,isolate,emergent "It is wonderful, as you say, returned the other like one awakening from a dream.",one awakening from a dream,awakening,dream,bewildered,emergent "Before his Awful Will, Blintons mere modern obstinacy shrank back like a child abashed.",a child abashed,child,abash,bashful,emergent "Let us have our idyl, dear, as my mother and father had theirseven though it must be as brief as a butterfly's existence, let us not deny ourselves that much.",a butterfly's existence,existence,butterfly,brief,emergent "More like pee on khakis, then act like washing hands so people don't think it is pee.",pee on khakis,pee,khakis,embarrass,emergent "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,conceal,emergent "suddenly , they let out a horrific scream as sharp as nails on a chalkboard and divebombed the clearing like dogfighting world war ii planes .",nails on a chalkboard,nail,chalkboard,jarring,emergent "It is, in the words of Hans von Blow, as terse as the report of a pistol.",the report of a pistol,report,pistol,terse,emergent "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,punitive,emergent "so like a leaf in a stream , i will let myself be carried along in the hellequin 's current and hope that it will take me where i wish to go .",a leaf in a stream,leaf,stream,uncontrolle,emergent ,face huggers,face,hugger,suffocating,emergent "We slept on commandeered mattresses that night on the floor of a vacant house, with a few Hungarian hussars still singing over the victory in the back yard, and got up to find the crowded town of the night before as empty as the old campground the day after the circus.",the old campground,campground,old,abandon,emergent Isn't word of eye as sacred as word of mouth?,word of mouth,word,mouth,informal,emergent This mosque behind me looks just like a barred up door.,a barred up door,door,bar,forbid,emergent 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,unskille,emergent "For every day that passes, our hope fades away like a rock during rainfall. ",a rock during rainfall,rock,rainfall,eroded,emergent But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.,the washing on the line,washing,line,moving in the wind.,emergent I would love to piss in both of these at once like a rotating sprinkler,a rotating sprinkler,sprinkler,rotate,wide coverage,emergent "And just like a fly trap, it will close up and devour a real thing inside of it.",a fly trap,trap,fly,carnivorous,emergent "Sort of like a woman of the night he uses his body for work he takes no active role in and isn't afraid to defraud of money, product and food.",a woman of the night,woman,night,prostitute,emergent "It is the unhappy blunder of a man and a boy being left to pull together as unsympathetically as an elephant and an ass, that has impeded the progress of so many of our public works and it was, unquestionably, the trial of the man and boy system at Calais during the winter months, that, in the early part of 1558, caused the loss of the city.",an elephant and an ass,elephant,ass,dissimilar,emergent "I've never really used this particular one before as I felt it was as boring as a lengthy sermon, a time I felt was wasted.","a lengthy sermon,",sermon,lengthy,dull,emergent I think comparing how things work in different countries for poor people is kind of like apples to oranges. ampx200B,apples to oranges,apple,orange,incomparable,emergent "Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan .",an erring husband,husband,err,unfaithful,emergent "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,conspicuous,emergent "Beatrix crumpled the letter in her shaking hand, and rising to her feet, began to pace to and fro, her face as white as the face of the dead, her eyes wild with horrorthe madness of despair.",the face of the dead,face,dead,unnerve,emergent "gtLike an untethered balloon drifting over gtUndefined peaks, aimless, I thought this was a brilliant simile, describing the narrators motives and feelings towards life as indifferent just like a balloons trajectory.",a balloons trajectory,trajectory,balloon,undirecte,emergent ,a brick through a window,brick,window,destructive,emergent Laws of war are about as reasonable as laws against tornadoes.,laws against tornadoes,law,tornado,futile,emergent "but while another man might have taken her up on the offer , mortimer was sure that man would have then tossed her aside like a used tissue when he was done .",a used tissue,tissue,used,worthless,emergent "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,cynical,emergent It's almost like a house of mirrors.,a house of mirrors,house,mirror,distort,emergent The individual images are then joined together like mosaic stones to form an omnidirectional overall image.,mosaic stones,stone,mosaic,used to form an overall image,emergent Was he hollow like a chocolate bunny?,a chocolate bunny,bunny,chocolate,hollow,emergent "I think he's about as funny as a broken foot, and just I disagree with everything he said.",a broken foot,foot,broken,painful,emergent "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,inhumane,emergent "The block is shaped rather like a slice of cake , with its narrow point on Seven Dials and the two sides radiating outwards .",a slice of cake,slice,cake,wedge,emergent Nothin' means lovin' like a baby in the oven!,a baby in the oven,baby,oven,be in danger,emergent "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,unimportant,emergent The silence between them was as bottomless as a dropped heartbeat .,a dropped heartbeat,heartbeat,drop,sudden,emergent he looks bigger than ever in his gray linen slacks and opencollared white shirt almost like a bear in a tuxedo .,a bear in a tuxedo,bear,tuxedo,outlandish,emergent "to dennis , those holes looked strangely like floating eyes . ",floating eyes,eye,float,eerie,emergent An engagement such as ours cannot be put aside like an old glove.,an old glove,glove,old,unvalue,emergent "And it is to be feared that many in this day, who profess to be the successors of those primitive sufferers, our worthy predecessors, who stood faithful, and patiently bore the burden and heat of the day, through many years of cruel persecution, are now turning back like a broken bow and through the fear or favour of men, are disregarding the testimonies which their forefathers in the truth purchased at so dear a rate and are ready to account many of them but small, or as indifferent things, which may, or may not, be attended to at their own pleasure.",a broken bow,bow,break,ineffective,emergent The league as an entity in the form of the commissioner making PR statements is as useful as tits on a train.,tits on a train,tit,train,irrelevant,emergent "A person who lacks this sense is deprived of an exquisite faculty, the faculty of discerning the quality of food, just as one may lack the faculty of discerning the beauties of a book or of a work of art it means to be deprived of an essential organ, of something that belongs to higher humanity it means to belong to one of those innumerable classes of the infirm, the unfortunate, and the fools of which our race is composed it means to have the mouth of an animal, in a word, just like the mind of an animal.",the mind of an animal,mind,animal,primitive,emergent "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,unorganized,emergent "They did not and they could not think of themselves as remotely like a frog and a princess , yet mental shapes similar in heritage or configuration managed to creep stealthily up in between the tangles of their individual cells .",a frog and a princess,frog,princess,transformational,emergent "When all around her is so bright, So like the visions of a trance, That one might think, who came by chance Into the vale this happy night, He saw that City of Delight291 In Fairyland, whose streets and towers Are made of gems and light and flowers!",the visions of a trance,vision,trance,hallucinatory,emergent "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,uncommon,emergent "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,risky,emergent "Well it's kind of like the usage of onomatopoeia, the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.",the usage of onomatopoeia,usage,onomatopoeia,descriptive,emergent "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,discard,emergent "Just going to come right out and say it, those empty frosting packets look exactly like used condoms.",used condoms,condom,use,unpleasant,emergent "looking like ghouls with melted wigs and blackened skin , the burning strippers danced around like scorched marionettes .",scorched marionettes,marionette,scorch,deform,emergent "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,unacknowledge,emergent "He frequently paused for instance, placed his chin in the end of his halfclosed hand, somewhat like an egg in an eggcup, looked in a meditative mood into Purcel's face, without appearing to see him at all then went over to the library, which ought rather to have been pronounced his son's than his and after having consulted a booka Latin Horace, which by the way he opened at the art of poetry, of which volume it is, we presume, unnecessary to say, he did not understand a syllable, he returned to his desk seemingly satisfied, and wrote on until he had concluded the passage he was composing.",an egg in an eggcup,egg,eggcup,balanced,emergent ,burning glue,glue,burn,smelly,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent the ocean had turned as gray as the washed out road .,the washed out road,road,wash,impassable,emergent "However, the dingy walls of the courtroom appeared as cold as the face of the judge.",the face of the judge,face,judge,cold,emergent "Oh Manito, he said, where are thy children, once as plenty as the forest leaves?",the forest leaves,leave,forest,rustling,emergent "Something about the way moonlight is soft, welcoming, but also can be cold and harsh like a fake smile. ",a fake smile,smile,fake,forced,emergent "Im a Texan living in Illinois, and no the northerners are just as bad as southerners in the snow.",southerners in the snow,southerner,snow,inexperienced,emergent It was as dreadful as the day of judgment.,the day of judgment,day,judgment,dreadful,emergent "We were talking about our advance directives, and how exchanging them is rather like a marriage in reverse.",a marriage in reverse,marriage,reverse,dissolution,emergent "You daft fucking cunt, you're as useless as a chocolate dildo and not nearly as delicious or filling.",a chocolate dildo,dildo,chocolate,impractical,emergent "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,fantastical,emergent "Much like the Dutch cartoons, the radical elements in the middle east took something fairly harmless, distorted and outright lied about it and used it as a cover to commit murder and strengthen their own political power.",the Dutch cartoons,cartoon,dutch,controversial,emergent ,a deer in the headlights,deer,headlight,paralyzed with fear,emergent I mean the filing of taxes isn't as important as the paying of taxes and paying happens automatically for many people through withholding...,the paying of taxes,paying,taxis,obligatory,emergent "fluffy and clydette walked that way , which was remarkably like a samurai walk , and before long they found themselves inside van von 's office . ",a samurai walk,walk,samurai,dignified,emergent "But she could only sit there like a wooden woman, staring at the ground.",a wooden woman,woman,wooden,immobile,emergent "Humans bread them to be the way they are, they were originally like a gecko with wings but after thousands of years they have become city destroyers and ever loyal to humans",a gecko with wings,gecko,wing,fantastical,emergent "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,small,emergent "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,reckless,emergent "Most of the time, art is aesthietically pleasing, but something can be aesthetically pleasing like a well decorated room but not considered art, or it can be aesthetically unpleasing like picture of a warzone and be considered art.",picture of a warzone,picture,warzone,thought,emergent "Some of the stories are worse than mine, but the community is very supportive and rejects the idea of degrees of bad experiences, dropping a one scoop cone is just as sad as a three scoop cone.",a three scoop cone,cone,scoop,excessive,emergent "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,unmerite,emergent "christina was nice enough , but her brain often seemed about as functional as a cardboard lifeboat . ",a cardboard lifeboat,lifeboat,cardboard,not functional,emergent "it 's not , '' i whispered finally , and then the verbal diarrhea was back like montezuma 's revenge .",montezuma 's revenge,revenge,montezuma,gastrointestinal,emergent we work together like lions in a pride .,lions in a pride,lion,pride,cooperative,emergent "But after that, I believe it's one of those just like instinct feelings that he had trusting us to help him and help his children.",instinct feelings,feeling,instinct,innate,emergent The software is almost like a side consideration.,a side consideration,consideration,side,minor,emergent she could feel this man 's hatred as palpably as the heat of the sun when it beat down at midday .,the heat of the sun,heat,sun,palpably,emergent But one of the best ways to tell it is it actually sounds kind of like a rusty hinge as you could hear.,a rusty hinge,hinge,rusty,noisy,emergent "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,all,emergent "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,uninvite,emergent Of any band they are able to play a song live and make sound almost exactly like the studio version if they so choose.,the studio version,version,studio,polish,emergent "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,dangerous,emergent Babies with teeth are almost as scary as birds with arms...,birds with arms,bird,arm,weird,emergent "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,funny,emergent This mosque behind me looks just like a barred up door.,a barred up door,door,bar,impose,emergent Like if I imagine a bird flying my eyes will move up and down like wings flapping.,wings flapping,wing,flap,repetitive,emergent i ran away like a bloody englishman . '',a bloody englishman,englishman,bloody,derogatory,emergent About Sophie Hagman as the hostess of Tullgarn Palace she was described by Ehrensvrd Mamsell Hagman was quite like a lady of the court.,a lady of the court,lady,court,noble,emergent "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,unlikely,emergent "Its basically like a pagan belief, like witchcraft is basically what it is.",a pagan belief,belief,pagan,superstitious,emergent "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,hard,emergent "Glances of absolute dismay went round the table, and the stillness was as ominous as the hush before a thunderclap.",the hush before a thunderclap,hush,thunderclap,foreboding,emergent kind of like the rabbit in the sky ?,the rabbit in the sky,rabbit,sky,imaginary,emergent "The stone was the screen where I saw my mother's face, limp graying hair tangled around it, crumple like a used tissue.",a used tissue,tissue,used,crumple,emergent But that was really very like a tap at the window!,a tap at the window,tap,window,attention,emergent "I've heard this joke before, except just like jew jokes, it tends to bleed through into people's actual beliefs.",jew jokes,joke,jew,offensive,emergent And at that sound the whole army become agitated like the sea in a tempest.,the sea in a tempest,sea,temp,tumultuous,emergent "Yes but with something a little more political it's important to know its fake, more so when it's not blatantly obvious like a talking dog.",a talking dog,dog,talk,surreal,emergent "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,distasteful,emergent "They shrank back like jackals before the lion, their voices stilled.",jackals before the lion,jackal,lion,submissive,emergent "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,uninspire,emergent Now run back like good girls so I can catch my train.,good girls,girl,good,obedient,emergent "Harry had fallen to a sentimental mood, and would talk about their future just as though it had all been settled in the beginning of things, and was as unalterable as the course of the planets.",the course of the planets,course,planet,predetermine,emergent "All like a floating landscape seems In cloudland or the land of dreams, Bathed in a golden atmosphere!",a floating landscape,landscape,float,ethereal,emergent "It was almost like an acting exercise, you know, just putting myself in a room and letting ideas flow even if I didn't feel so connected to the people.",an acting exercise,exercise,act,improvisational,emergent "That is, if we neither had joy in it or won profit by it, it would be glorious like a necklace upon the blind, intrinsically, and on its own account.",a necklace upon the blind,necklace,blind,meaningless,emergent "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,unrefine,emergent "The iphone still isn't going to be as nice as a thousand dollar camera, not even close.","a thousand dollar camera,",camera,dollar,high,emergent "But I have known men talk as bravely, and whimper and tremble like flogged children five minutes later.",flogged children,child,flog,traumatize,emergent "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,hypnotize,emergent "Rosy all over, cheeks, neck, shoulders, she seemed lighted up softly from inside like a beautiful transparency.",a beautiful transparency,transparency,beautiful,ethereal,emergent "Almost at the same instant, a man far behind, carrying a light basket on his head with some of our spare cloaks in it, misses his footing and rolls down in another place and after him, rolling over and over like a black bundle, goes a boy, shrieking as nobody but an Italian can shriek, until the breath is tumbled out of him.",a black bundle,bundle,black,unidentifiable,emergent "Usually cops only come around like once a month to check up on things, mostly to check for drugs. ",once a month,month,once,infrequent,emergent "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,vulnerable,emergent "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,impossible,emergent The life and movements of a sailor are usually as eccentric as the career of a comet.,the career of a comet,career,comet,erratic,emergent You must be as individual as a talking monkey to get your head above the crowd.,a talking monkey,monkey,talk,attention-grabbing,emergent they 're as different as peas and apples . ',peas and apples,pea,apple,dissimilar,emergent "She looked as pale as ashes in the moonlight, and her eyebrows and downcast lashes seemed all the darker.",ashes in the moonlight,ashe,moonlight,lack of color,emergent Just incase you are unaware most people do not get offended about things as easily as modern gens seem to.,modern gens,gen,modern,tech-savvy,emergent Pizza on pineapple is as delicious as pineapple on pizza IT'S GREAT Pepperoni on a pizza is just fucking awful.,pineapple on pizza,pineapple,pizza,debate,emergent "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,inanimate,emergent "Being by this time quite helpless, I was shot up again like the imp in the bottle, only to be washed under again, and then in desperation I called for Help!",the imp in the bottle,imp,bottle,constrain,emergent I see that your response to the response's response wasn't as great as the responses' responses.,the responses' responses,response,response,recursive,emergent "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,ordinary,emergent "He has also cited Huckleberry Finn as a story after which he attempted to pattern Bone structurally, explaining, the kinds of stories Im drawn to, like Huckleberry Finn, are the ones that start off very simple, almost like childrens stories...but as it goes on, it gets a little darker, and the themes become a little more sophisticated and more complexand those are really the kinds of stories that just get me going.",childrens stories,story,children,simple,emergent 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,vulnerable,emergent 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,ineffective,emergent It is as dull as a weekold newspaper.,a weekold newspaper,newspaper,weekold,uninspire,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent "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,oversize,emergent "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,bulky,emergent I guess at this point six inches is just like a bug in the windshield.,a bug in the windshield,bug,windshield,squashed,emergent "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,unresponsive,emergent Many of these commonplace familiars of the copse and thicket and field are indeed like voices in the wilderness to most of us.,voices in the wilderness,voice,wilderness,unheard,emergent The explosive payload can be as simple as fertilizer and diesel.,fertilizer and diesel,fertilizer,diesel,explosive,emergent "The excitement of chasing something evaporated away like the Martian atmosphere, slowly and over billions of years, as Reginald tried to make sense of his brand new a pearly white situation.","the Martian atmosphere,",atmosphere,martian,thin,emergent this rebal 's about as subtle as a club in the face . ',a club in the face,club,face,violent,emergent and are treated slightly like people of colour before they were able to obtain equality which to this day is rocky.,people of colour,people,colour,marginalize,emergent "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,manipulative,emergent "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,monotonous,emergent ,a yuppie joke,joke,yuppie,tasteless,emergent This printing press was said to be twice as fast as the previous model and was composed of copperzinc and leadtin alloys.,the previous model,model,previous,obsolete,emergent ,a toad in a block,toad,block,trapped,emergent "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,unrealistic,emergent "As fast as the speed of sound or as lumbering as a whale, without wings or with an example of virtually ever sort of manmade flying object is on display, and for sale, at the world's largest aircraft show outside Paris.",the speed of sound,speed,sound,constant,emergent "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,immobilize,emergent 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,appetize,emergent "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,scarce,emergent "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,light,emergent "He then discovered that he was in a gallery at the end of the great old hall, but raised as high as the capitals of the columns, and below him a strange sight presented itself by the faint light which reigned in the hall.",the capitals of the columns,capital,column,ornate,emergent nineteen daniel regan crying after sex feels about as good as a stick up the ass .,a stick up the ass,stick,ass,unpleasant,emergent "There was scarcely room in it to sit upright, and with the moisture standing beaded everywhere it looked rather like the inside of a well.",the inside of a well,inside,well,confine,emergent he looks bigger than ever in his gray linen slacks and opencollared white shirt almost like a bear in a tuxedo .,a bear in a tuxedo,bear,tuxedo,comical,emergent "Of course, this is one of the most important and complex ideas in modern political discourse and it is important that we at least potentially weigh options that might not be as straightforward as a blanket ban.",a blanket ban,ban,blanket,overarch,emergent "the surge of sorrow was a tidal force , as inescapable as the pull of the moon .",the pull of the moon,pull,moon,inescapable,emergent "i sat down gingerly , beginning to feel a little like a patient at a dentist . ",a patient at a dentist,patient,dentist,nervous,emergent I'm about as surprised as a zebra at a crocodile infested watering hole,a zebra in front of a crocodile,zebra,crocodile,surprised,emergent It's almost like homework excuses.,homework excuses,excuse,homework,unconvincing,emergent "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,incomplete,emergent "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,constrict,emergent "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,colorful,emergent "Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.",combustion without oxygen,combustion,oxygen,impossible,emergent He felt as helpless as a pigeon beneath an eagle.,a pigeon beneath an eagle,pigeon,eagle,helpless,emergent "The marriage was as uncongenial as snow in summer but now, though his wife had been long in her grave, the miller, though he knew he could get forgiveness at once from Nannie, never went to ask it, feeling he had erred too deeply to deserve it.",snow in summer,snow,summer,incongruous,emergent ,the light in the fridge,light,fridge,turning off when the door closes,emergent "But they could not row nearly so well as they could ride, and at first they made the cot spin round like a cockchafer on a pin.",a cockchafer on a pin,cockchafer,pin,vulnerable,emergent "for the last twenty minutes you have been sitting as silent as an antbear in a hole, and I tell you that it is my turn now why, then, do you interrupt me? I am very sorry, my father, said Ralph, looking much afraid, for he thought that Jan was going to scold him about Suzanne, and his conscience being guilty caused him to forget that it was not possible that he should know anything of the matter of his lovemaking.",an antbear in a hole,antbear,hole,hide,emergent "jesus christ , boy , you as dumb as a stone boat !",a stone boat,boat,stone,impractical,emergent "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,standardize,emergent "But, mamma, is that really like deserted love? ",deserted love,love,desert,abandoned,emergent "What the device is throwing off Light, waves, etc, bats the single photon around like the wife of a wifebeater, and that changes stuff!",the wife of a wifebeater,wife,wifebeater,victimize,emergent My husband was all at once like a man in a fit.,a man in a fit,man,fit,agitate,emergent "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,unstable,emergent The Indians along the seacoast were melting away like frost in the sunbeams.,frost in the sunbeams,frost,sunbeam,melt,emergent "There is another kind of tediousness, almost as insufferable as long sermons.",long sermons,sermon,long,tedious,emergent "But, just like the standalone ashtray, the vehicle ashtray began to lose popularity and in 1994, vehicles began to be produced without them and instead, offer the buyer the option to include one from the dealer.",the standalone ashtray,ashtray,standalone,obsolete,emergent "Much like small press or selfpublished to some, in fiction.",small press,press,small,niche,emergent "83 In Cymbeline, the imbecile Cloton becomes almost proud and noble when opposing the independence of a British prince to the threats of a Roman ambassador and in Measure for Measure, Elbow the constable, whose nonsensicalities furnish the diversion of one scene, speaks almost like a man of sense when, in a subsequent scene, another person is appointed to enliven the dialogue.",a man of sense,man,sense,wise,emergent I could feel his presence just like an animal in the shadows.,an animal in the shadows,animal,shadow,menacing,emergent We blow out there like a candle in the wind.,a candle in the wind,candle,wind,fragile,emergent "first anger , then the most passionate kiss she 'd ever had burned her body alive like a witch on a stake .",a witch on a stake,witch,stake,torment,emergent "Raisins rule, wanting chocolate chips in place if rasins in oatmeal cookies is as childish as ketchup on steak.",ketchup on steak,ketchup,steak,unconventional,emergent their maju was low like a dying fire .,a dying fire,fire,die,low intensity,emergent I really dont understand how these two get mixed up as they look about as similar as a house and a dragonfly.,a house and a dragonfly,house,dragonfly,disparate,emergent "When sitting they appear almost black, and, in consequence, when on their nests, on the beaches or on the whiteshell dikes, they are visible half a mile off, and stand out as distinctly as a crow on a snowbank.",a crow on a snowbank,crow,snowbank,contrast,emergent "That being said, my friend had hers all natural and said the birth didn't hurt as bad as the stitching up afterward.",the stitching up afterward,stitching,afterward,painful,emergent "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,restrictive,emergent More like a figure of fun!,a figure of fun,figure,fun,ridiculous,emergent "Thousands of empty barrels, lashed together like logs in a raft, were floated from Olean.",logs in a raft,log,raft,lashed together,emergent "my body tingles from head to toe , almost like the pins and needles when your arm falls asleep and starts to wake up .",the pins and needles,pin,needle,tingly,emergent The idea expressed is as commonplace as cold mutton.,cold mutton,mutton,cold,unattractive,emergent The decoration was not particularly becominghe was about as pretty as a prizefighter in a rose necklacebut his confrres probably regarded it as a sign of a vain and uppish disposition.,a prizefighter in a rose necklacebut,prizefighter,rose,incongruous,emergent ,bleachers as desks,bleacher,desk,improvised,emergent All fell upon their knees and raised a murmur like the humming of a thousand bees.,the humming of a thousand bees,humming,bee,intrusive,emergent I feel now like girls in novels.,girls in novels,girl,novel,romanticize,emergent "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,unpleasant,emergent "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,privilege,emergent My husband was all at once like a man in a fit.,a man in a fit,man,fit,frantic,emergent "Used to the dusk now, I could see her dark face distinctly, and so like a hungry crow did she look that I was startled.",a hungry crow,crow,hungry,predatory,emergent "He was standing with his hand upon the door, glancing furtively from one to the other like a trapped animal.",a trapped animal,animal,trap,frighten,emergent "she steps out of the shadows and they stand facing each other , sister goddesses , yet the nature of their individual divinity is as different as night from day .",night from day,night,day,contrast,emergent She is reddish like the rising sun and she is wearing a snake garland.,the rising sun,sun,rise,reddish,emergent I mean to go about my kingdom exactly like a private individual.,a private individual,individual,private,unremarkable,emergent "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,private,emergent his voice was slow like the calmness before a storm .,the calmness before a storm,calmness,storm,anticipatory,emergent "I think there was an effort made by Miss Hyde to keep me from Mrs. Lee's sickroom, but all her petty obstacles were swept away like a handful of rushes.",a handful of rushes,handful,rush,insubstantial,emergent But it's actually like a basket of stocks.,a basket of stocks,basket,stock,diversify,emergent And posting helps...or at least not bouncing on the poor horse's back like a sack of potatoes.,a sack of potatoes,sack,potato,bulky,emergent The trackers are running ahead like a pack of beagles.,a pack of beagles,pack,beagle,fast,emergent The flag is green like the coat of arms.,the coat of arms,coat,arm,symbolic,emergent "A report by AppleInsider claimed that the updated Butterfly keyboard fails twice as often as previous models, often due to particles stuck beneath the keys.","previous models,",model,previous,outdate,emergent "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,unfulfilled,emergent "The French shall be hemmed round like pigs for the butcher the February rains shall descend and flood their trenches and by the grace of Our Lady of the Pillar we shall be able once again to foil the plans of the Corsican dog, and the men of Aragon will set such an example to the men of Andalusia and Castile, of Leon and Estremadura, of Catalonia and Navarre, that no Frenchman shall be left alive between the mountains and the sea.",pigs for the butcher,pig,butcher,doom,emergent ,a kiddie in the dark,kiddie,dark,scared,emergent "He had got it for him and Fan to ride on, and it was a twoseat onesidebyside seatsand after a few times Fan wouldn't ride on it because it made her as conspicuous as a pig on a flagpole.",a pig on a flagpole,pig,flagpole,incongruous,emergent The seafarers and the peasants always had a difficulty in keeping on peaceable terms with one another they were as different as land and sea.,land and sea,land,sea,different,emergent ,small government,government,small,less bureaucratic,emergent "Once we finish terraforming the many planets we have discovered, we could build a space civilization, almost like star wars.",star wars,war,star,futuristic,emergent "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,intertwine,emergent "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,undeserved,emergent "Or, rather, should we say, that makes the need of conviction as unnecessary as a lamp in daylight.",a lamp in daylight,lamp,daylight,unnecessary,emergent "It fell headlong at Frankers feet, and lay there stirring feebly like a wounded beetle.",a wounded beetle,beetle,wound,helpless,emergent "So, the sonnets of Petrarch are as unmeaning as the promises of candidates.",the promises of candidates,promise,candidate,unreliable,emergent The noise of bickering became as constant as the noise of the surf.,the noise of the surf,noise,surf,repetitive,emergent I didn't have sex for the first time until I was 19 are about as helpful as a brick to the face.,a brick to the face,brick,face,harmful,emergent tim says i 'm as clueless as a babe in the woods . '',a babe in the woods,babe,wood,uninformed,emergent "By this time it was as dark as the bottom of a well the brig wallowed before the seas with a mass of wreckage over her side, pitching miserably in the fearful hollows, and huge surges curling their white heights around her.",the bottom of a well,bottom,well,dark,emergent "Thats considerable fatterits as fat as show beef, said Salix.",show beef,beef,show,high,emergent "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,impractical,emergent But the light of the dome was as cold as the light of a firefly and they had no hesitancy in drawing near.,the light of a firefly,light,firefly,faint,emergent "to him , all is forgiven and it 's as good as water under the bridge .",water under the bridge,water,bridge,forget,emergent ,a pond in winter,pond,winter,freezes over completely,emergent "The grey marle, in which most of the bones lay, by analysis was found to contain seventythree parts in the hundred of lime when dried in the sun it cracks into thin horizontal lamin, and becomes extremely light, as hard as baked clay, and brittle in this state it burns with a bright flame for a long while, and instead of leaving ashes, it remains a strong black coal, apparently well adapted to the purposes of the arts.",baked clay,clay,bake,durable,emergent "Just like an online bully, I think he's a pussy for saying that behind a computer monitor.",an online bully,bully,online,cowardly,emergent Some of the pictures they recognise as representations of things with which they are acquainted but by far the greater number are as incomprehensible as the hieroglyphics of the Aztecs.,the hieroglyphics of the Aztecs,hieroglyphic,aztec,incomprehensible,emergent "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,idyllic,emergent "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,unimaginative,emergent "Some are logical like fire vs ice, but otherwise no weaknesses.",fire vs ice,fire,ice,opposite,emergent 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,trivial,emergent "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,helpless,emergent His face is just like the face in the magazine!,the face in the magazine,face,magazine,ideal,emergent "When she graduated she had hair the colour of a wharf rat, and when she came back from San Francisco the next year it was as yellow as the hills in summer.",the hills in summer,hill,summer,golden,emergent "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,gloomy,emergent "After the flowers are fallen, the seeds growing to be ripe, are blackish, cornered and pointed somewhat like the head of a viper.",the head of a viper,head,viper,point,emergent "It was as hard as a landlords heart, and as tasteless as a bit of rag carpet.",a landlords heart,heart,landlord,unfeele,emergent it looks exactly like the girl in the visions !,the girl in the visions,girl,vision,imaginary,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent "i would need to evaporate , again , just like water on the sidewalk .",water on the sidewalk,water,sidewalk,temporary,emergent "And so he reads the Dispatchthe people's journalthe vehicle of all argument against our blessed constitutionthe champion to which all who fancy themselves oppressed, fly as naturally as bees to flowers!",bees to flowers,bee,flower,draw,emergent "They at first resemble a low murmur but ere long there is heard a loud knocking, somewhat like the strokes of a bell, and which, at the end of about five minutes, becomes so strong as to agitate the sand.",the strokes of a bell,stroke,bell,rhythmic,emergent Sonic thought about it a little bit and even gave his chubby blue penis a toss back and forth like a baseball in a sock.,a baseball in a sock,baseball,sock,contain,emergent "I am only bigoted against bigotry, and that I hold to be as legitimate as violence to the violent.",violence to the violent,violence,violent,justify,emergent "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,ungrateful,emergent She felt his arms drawing her and quivered again like a trapped bird.,a trapped bird,bird,trap,helpless,emergent Youre sitting up there like a frog on a toadstool.,a frog on a toadstool,frog,toadstool,rest,emergent "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,unstoppable,emergent "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,insecure,emergent I'm trained to take the weighed out pepperoni and circle around like a spiral towards the center while placing pep.,a spiral towards the center,spiral,center,converging,emergent ,a scooter with an oven,scooter,oven,impractical,emergent "I mean dog owners let their dogs lick their face and hands and crap and then proceed to touch other things in the house, that to me sounds just as gross as cats on the counter.",cats on the counter,cat,counter,unhygienic,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "Thrue for ye, says Jack, Im bint double like a cod in a pot, wid my heels in my mouth amost.",a cod in a pot,cod,pot,helpless,emergent theres also Nega wich is used to refer black woman in a caring way and it sounds just like the famous N word,the famous N word,word,famous,derogatory,emergent "When a people would avert want and strife, or having them, would restore plenty and peace, this noble commandment offers the only meansall other plans for safety or relief are as vain as dreams, and as empty as the crooning of fools.",the crooning of fools,crooning,fool,worthless,emergent "I've heard this joke before, except just like jew jokes, it tends to bleed through into people's actual beliefs.",jew jokes,joke,jew,derogatory,emergent ,the jar of hands,jar,hand,creepy,emergent Hopefully I'm not wrong headed to think it's as simple as shifting blame.,shifting blame,blame,shift,irresponsible,emergent the next play of the hand was as predictable as the watered lemonade .,the watered lemonade,lemonade,water,dilute,emergent "Anderson, looks potentially like a big night.",a big night,night,big,memorable,emergent "I feel just like a girl in a book, we have been presented to so many noted people.",a girl in a book,girl,book,fantasized,emergent "Currently, the Arctic region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.",the rest of the planet,rest,planet,non,emergent "Welcomed home like the return of the prodigal, the age old gossip of I told you so!",the return of the prodigal,return,prodigal,joyous,emergent "The iphone still isn't going to be as nice as a thousand dollar camera, not even close.","a thousand dollar camera,",camera,dollar,superior,emergent "Yes, but he may be as thin as a tin horse before his owner comes.",a tin horse,horse,tin,imaginary,emergent "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,unusual,emergent "stopping was about as appealing as a bat to the kneecaps , but i did it . ",a bat to the kneecaps,bat,kneecap,unpleasant,emergent 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,underestimate,emergent "You are always teasing and bothering about the women and as you have not got a piece of flesh as big as a pea for a heart, you will never understand anything about them",a pea for a heart,pea,heart,smallhearte,emergent "You want me to bumble around like a pig in a petticoat, so I can set off some other woman to advantage.",a pig in a petticoat,pig,petticoat,ridiculous,emergent "He thrust his head forward like an animal snapping, but still he smiled.",an animal snapping,animal,snap,threaten,emergent "gtLike an untethered balloon drifting over gtUndefined peaks, aimless, I thought this was a brilliant simile, describing the narrators motives and feelings towards life as indifferent just like a balloons trajectory.",a balloons trajectory,trajectory,balloon,unpredictable,emergent ,a down vote,vote,down,disapproving,emergent "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,unstoppable,emergent "He would not die like the verse maker, he could not laugh like the consul there is a gulf between Gray Wolf and these as wide as the width of the possible.",the width of the possible,width,possible,boundless,emergent "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,disadvantage,emergent "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,annoying,emergent "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,non,emergent that 's almost as good as a knee to the groin . '',a knee to the groin,knee,groin,painful,emergent She looks exactly like grumpy cat!,grumpy cat,cat,grumpy,famous,emergent "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,resilient,emergent "I see a courtroom drama unfolding with Matt Roloff playing the judge, since he's a little guy the gavel in his hand seems as big as a sledge hammer.",a sledge hammer,hammer,sledge,impose,emergent "Eh bien! says she, and turns slowly around like a figure in a shop.",a figure in a shop,figure,shop,mannequin,emergent This is just like a scene out of Jaws.,a scene out of Jaws,scene,jaw,frightening,emergent "drinking in the hood is a way of life , as normal as used syringes , and soiled pampers lining the gutters .",used syringes,syrinx,use,unsanitary,emergent "I don't care if it's as fashionable as skinny jeans, it's just bad and the kind of thing that will be laughed at in a year.",skinny jeans,jean,skinny,fashionable,emergent You can even pay as little as a couple dollars a month for 10 years if you wanted to.,a couple dollars,dollar,couple,affordable,emergent "You are, for me and my company, about as necessary as a fifth leg is to a dog.",a fifth leg,leg,fifth,unnecessary,emergent "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,unstable,emergent "Why, it's just like a girls' room!",a girls' room,room,girl,personal,emergent "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,idealize,emergent The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.,the wolf to the lapdog,wolf,lapdog,contrast,emergent The flats look almost like a young woods.,a young woods,wood,young,verdant,emergent "Thrue for ye, says Jack, Im bint double like a cod in a pot, wid my heels in my mouth amost. ",a cod in a pot,cod,pot,constricted,emergent It's almost like a house of mirrors.,a house of mirrors,house,mirror,deceptive,emergent "It serves her right, that Pancini, who permits herself to be as arrogant as a born lady.",a born lady,lady,bear,privilege,emergent "Later, he was to describe this as tragic as the loss of a mother.",the loss of a mother,loss,mother,tragic,emergent "He was dressed just like a working man, in a blouse all over plaster.",a working man,man,work,hardworke,emergent his is actually a bit of a rip off of a scene from the onion movie although still funny not as good as the onion's version imo,the onion's version,version,onion,satirical,emergent his face was as blank as a washed blackboard .,a washed blackboard,blackboard,wash,blank,emergent "The King stood forth like a true man, and received a blow which staggered him.",a true man,man,TRUE,honorable,emergent We have him as safe as a linnet in a cage and could wring his neck round as easily.,a linnet in a cage,linnet,cage,helpless,emergent "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,obvious,emergent "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,extra,emergent "And I like the idea that they're wandering around out there on their own without my supervision a lot of times, sort of like puppets without strings.",puppets without strings,puppet,string,uncontrolle,emergent 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,nearby,emergent "john left here like a bat out of hell , did n't stop to tell us anything except you 'd had an accident ''",a bat out of hell,bat,hell,sudden,emergent "In London, there was a trader from Africa that he had been acquainted with in Gabon who started to write to papers in London, sort of like letters to the editor, insinuating that du Chaillu wasn't who he said he was, that he was hiding his parentage.",letters to the editor,letter,editor,opinionate,emergent ,a mouse into a trap,mouse,trap,unsuspecting,emergent the trailers were packed tightly together like rows of dominoes .,rows of dominoes,row,domino,closely packed,emergent 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,unattractive,emergent "However, some scrapers are as big as hand axes.",hand axes,axis,hand,prehistorical,emergent "It has been called the ship of the desert, for without the Camel the desert would be as impassable as the sea without ships.",the sea without ships,sea,ship,impassable,emergent "But to a girl a compliment that is sincere is as grateful as dew to a rose, and Stella always felt much elated when Ted complimented her on her prowess in any of the arts of the range.",dew to a rose,dew,rose,nourish,emergent It'll be just like amateur theatricals!,amateur theatricals,theatrical,amateur,community,emergent "One is of an aurora, and you've never seen you know, sort of like northern lights.",northern lights,light,northern,awe,emergent "they dress everything up as religion , with prophecies , hymns , and everything , just like the cobra church .",the cobra church,church,cobra,cult,emergent He remembered something he had read the Japanese did not like camelias because they fell off whole and fresh like heads chopped off.,heads chopped off,head,chop,gruesome,emergent We were almost like a shadow court.,a shadow court,court,shadow,unofficial,emergent "Where was it, Doctor? In a chair in the room, said Davenport, looking as sheepish as a censured schoolboy.",a censured schoolboy,schoolboy,censure,sheepish,emergent Where he says I'm gettin' too old for this st at least 200 times which is only twice as many as the last movie,the last movie,movie,last,recent,emergent "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,emaciate,emergent "However, some scrapers are as big as hand axes.",hand axes,axis,hand,sharp,emergent "A person who lacks this sense is deprived of an exquisite faculty, the faculty of discerning the quality of food, just as one may lack the faculty of discerning the beauties of a book or of a work of art it means to be deprived of an essential organ, of something that belongs to higher humanity it means to belong to one of those innumerable classes of the infirm, the unfortunate, and the fools of which our race is composed it means to have the mouth of an animal, in a word, just like the mind of an animal.",the mind of an animal,mind,animal,limit,emergent A suit on that guy looks as fitting as socks on a rooster.,socks on a rooster,sock,rooster,impractical,emergent what the hell are you drivin like a bat out of hell for ?,a bat out of hell for,bat,hell,fast,emergent "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,ancient,emergent Now the touch of his hand upon her elbow made her flesh creep the big arm about her was as repulsive as a pythons coil.,a pythons coil,coil,python,threaten,emergent "In this flight he arose as high as a second story, and on landing the wheels and one propeller were somewhat damaged.",a second story,story,second,higher,emergent "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,useless,emergent "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,unstable,emergent "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,indistinguishable,emergent It is almost like liquid cement.,liquid cement,cement,liquid,viscous,emergent "I will love hearing your flesh sizzle like a hog on a bonfire, you worthless spawn of elephant feces. ",a hog on a bonfire,hog,bonfire,suffering,emergent "You've gone so far now, you'll have to go further As far as the end of the world, if necessary.",the end of the world,end,world,apocalyptic,emergent "Turns out the pedicure salon is actually a dingy hole in the wall, kind of like a dive bar.",a dive bar,bar,dive,unpretentious,emergent "Color, of course, is essential to this, for a display of the passions and emotions on the dark groundwork of the negro skin would be as impossible as a rainbow at midnight, but without the deeply cut and distinctly marked features of the Caucasian, color would be comparatively useless in reflecting the grander emotions of the soul.",a rainbow at midnight,rainbow,midnight,impossible,emergent "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,mythical,emergent Petronilla is as simple as a princess in a fairytale.,a princess in a fairytale,princess,fairytale,virtuous,emergent "But if we start assassinating death eaters without due process, haven't we become just like the death eaters?",the death eaters,eater,death,villainous,emergent The thing he was going to do seemed almost like a stab in the back.,a stab in the back,stab,back,deceit,emergent "it 's an interesting sight , though it 's not as lethal as a stake through the heart . ''",a stake through the heart,stake,heart,lethal,emergent "It sounds better than a 20 year old cassette, but definitely not as good as a hardwired connection.",a hardwired connection,connection,hardwired,superior,emergent "The alternative renderings which have been proposed, lets himself be soaked and scatters himself abroad like wheat among tares, are not so probable, yet hardly change the meaning.",wheat among tares,wheat,tare,intermingle,emergent He was out like a burnt match.,a burnt match,match,burn,lifeless,emergent "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,cowardly,emergent ,a mouse's fart,fart,mouse,quiet,emergent The only other choice is to sit here like bugs in a bottle until we die of old age.,bugs in a bottle,bug,bottle,confine,emergent "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,irresponsible,emergent "Johnny was walking listlessly, quite like a gentleman of leisure.",a gentleman of leisure,gentleman,leisure,affluent,emergent "Oh, no, my life is very real it is as real as light to darkness, it is absolute prose.'",light to darkness,light,darkness,oppose,emergent "Being asked how much advantage the educated have over the ignorant, he replied, As much as the living over the dead.",the living over the dead,living,dead,victorious,emergent "that thing was too goddamn heavy , and about as useful as a trapdoor on a canoe .",a trapdoor on a canoe,trapdoor,canoe,impractical,emergent "St. Peter's Basilica, completed in the 17th century, was just like a shell of the church.",a shell of the church,shell,church,emptiness,emergent "Whenever the East is doubtful, and recognizes doubt, it is as dangerous as a hillside in the rains, and it only added to his problem if the Rangar found in him something inexplicable.",a hillside in the rains,hillside,rain,hazardous,emergent "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,meaningless,emergent "Ben saw the head drop and roll , the body tumble forward like a sack of grain , the arms fall limp .",a sack of grain,sack,grain,bulky,emergent 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,non,emergent "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,impractical,emergent "Though maybe as late as an hour or more into the programme, they could nonetheless reshape the discussion and might well trump the polished assertions of more professional experts.",an hour or more,hour,more,lengthy,emergent "s oddly formal bearing, was rather like a cold douche.",a cold douche,douche,cold,unexpected,emergent "That being said, my friend had hers all natural and said the birth didn't hurt as bad as the stitching up afterward.",the stitching up afterward,stitching,afterward,uncomfortable,emergent "Half veiled in mist, seen dimly like the moon through a cloud, Dido stands before him there and thus, for the first time, he is made certain of her death.",the moon through a cloud,moon,cloud,obscure,emergent "I mean, I'm sure just like a car in neutral, if you give her a slight push she'd move right down this incline a lot faster.",a car in neutral,car,neutral,stationary,emergent "Their supply of rations was of the most miserable kind, not even as good as prison fare.",prison fare,fare,prison,inadequate,emergent i cant believe there hasnt been at least 1 reference to a racist joke about him dancing around like a monkey with a banana...,a monkey with a banana,monkey,banana,stereotypical,emergent "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,incongruous,emergent "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,unreal,emergent She's as wet as an otters pocket.,an otters pocket,pocket,otter,cozy,emergent Squids are as real as talking sponges.,talking sponges,sponge,talk,not real,emergent I can not read this posts anymore without the goddamn jolly ranchers grudge coming back again like a wave of bilis.,a wave of bilis,wave,bili,nauseate,emergent "But, as you may imagine, I was not as happy as a bear with honey.",a bear with honey,bear,honey,happy,emergent The only other choice is to sit here like bugs in a bottle until we die of old age.,bugs in a bottle,bug,bottle,confined,emergent Setting up clay pigeons to lull us into a false sense of security is as old as the Martian ridges but it's worth thinking about if they've found a way to operate outside the Barrier.,the Martian ridges,ridge,martian,ancient,emergent "In his memoirs, Kissinger described how, during the course of his 28 meetings in Damascus in 197374, Assad negotiated tenaciously and daringly like a riverboat gambler to make sure he had exacted the last sliver of available concessions.",a riverboat gambler,gambler,riverboat,shrewd,emergent "It is all those English they fight like devils, and yet they are as cool as men on parade.",men on parade,man,parade,dignify,emergent "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,unarmed,emergent "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,overblown,emergent "the pain inside her matched the violence without , livid stalks of lightning stretched taut from earth to cloud , the space between streaked like burnt iron .",burnt iron,iron,burn,dark,emergent doubt creeps in like a poisonous fog .,a poisonous fog,fog,poisonous,suffocate,emergent "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,lackluster,emergent I think it's a little hyperbolic to say it's as bad as comic sans but I also see where you're coming from.,comic sans,san,comic,dislike,emergent An aeroplane in these hills will be just about as useful as a Dreadnought in a millpond.,a Dreadnought in a millpond,dreadnought,millpond,inappropriate,emergent "Well,' ses he, 'I live in the present, the past, and the future, and though I dwell in a hut at the foot of the hills beyond, I am as happy as a cow in clover.",a cow in clover,cow,clover,happy,emergent "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,malleable,emergent "It's actually not as crazy as it looks it's a single awkward flip, sort of like a poor cartwheel.",a poor cartwheel,cartwheel,poor,ungraceful,emergent "With the elections and stuff there is so much comedic potential, but for some reason the regular news sometimes is just as funny as the daily show.",the daily show,show,daily,humorous,emergent "If the Tressillian and I meet, we shall be about as amicable as a rat and a beagle.",a rat and a beagle,rat,beagle,antagonistic,emergent "Then the person walks on, and the memory gets blown away like mist at dawn.",mist at dawn,mist,dawn,dissipates quickly,emergent Must men stand here like whipped curs until a slave commands us enter?,whipped curs,cur,whip,humiliate,emergent "The letter to Mrs. Hargreaves, which, it will be noticed, was earlier in date than the short note already quoted in this chapter, ran as follows My Dear Mrs. Hargreaves,I fancy this will come to you almost like a voice from the dead, after so many years of silence, and yet those years have made no difference that I can perceive in my clearness of memory of the days when we did correspond.",a voice from the dead,voice,dead,haunt,emergent "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,unexpected,emergent "However great the value of the improvements, we cannot afford to be bankrupt, and a new productive Indian tax seems as distant as the philosopher's stone.",the philosopher's stone,stone,philosopher,elusive,emergent "Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound It flung the blood into my head,",a pawing horse,horse,paw,agitate,emergent "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,worthless,emergent "I'm about to fuck dat hole in the middle of yo tits, just like a real lady.",a real lady,lady,real,refine,emergent It drinks from many garden plants as readily as wilder shrubs.,wilder shrubs,shrub,wilder,native,emergent "Once it became clear there was no other way and we'd just sit there like test subjects forever if we said no, people agreed.",test subjects,subject,test,expendable,emergent then i was riding a splendid bay horse as glossy as rocks in a riverbed .,rocks in a riverbed,rock,riverbed,polish,emergent "Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beautiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burst upon the world.",girls in books,girl,book,fictional,emergent It springs directly from the heart and it moves straight onward like a shaft of light.,a shaft of light,shaft,light,direct,emergent I think comparing how things work in different countries for poor people is kind of like apples to oranges. ampx200B,apples to oranges,apple,orange,incompatible,emergent By April the grumblers grumbled again and no longer attempted to live as simply as soldiers under fire.,soldiers under fire,soldier,fire,vulnerable,emergent "McADAMS Audubon Society Basically what happens is that lights draw birds to them, sort of like the moth to the flame.",the moth to the flame,moth,flame,irresistible,emergent "Their years glide away like the sands in an hourglass and, finally they sicken, faint and fall, and their end resembles the pebbles thrown into the ocean, which for a moment ripple the surface and lose themselves in its waves.",the sands in an hourglass,sand,hourglass,transient,emergent Dont lie there like a floundering donkey.,a floundering donkey,donkey,flounder,helpless,emergent "She never quite recovered, but slowly withered away like a plucked flower.",a plucked flower,flower,pluck,weaken,emergent This wasn't exactly like the Russian investigation.,the Russian investigation,investigation,russian,high,emergent The way your Aunt Lavinia treated him was as funny as a cock without feathers.,a cock without feathers,cock,feather,ridiculous,emergent His countenance was as serene as a morning without clouds.,a morning without clouds,morning,cloud,clear,emergent Street lights are droopin like popeye without spinach,popeye without spinach,popeye,spinach,weak,emergent "As Bertram and the brown made joint entrance to the square opposite the stableyard, dripping like a seahorse bestridden by a merman, he saw a feminine figure in the verandah of the barracks gesticulating wildly to him, and in a fashion demanding to be heard.",a seahorse bestridden,bestridden,seahorse,fantastical,emergent They broke apart like weeds in a thunderstorm.,weeds in a thunderstorm,weed,thunderstorm,break apart,emergent "When wind rushed over her tracks they were blown away like sand over empires, erased forever. ",sand over empires,sand,empire,erased,emergent "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,satirical,emergent "His situation is miserable he is truly a fish out of water he loves motion, but is obliged to stand still his glory is a social bit of jaw, but he dares not speak he rolls his disconsolate quid over his silent tongue, and is as wretched as a caged monkey.",a caged monkey,monkey,cage,unhappy,emergent "james ' voice was as soft as the rustling of the leaves , and when i looked at him , i could see goose bumps standing out on his tanned legs .",the rustling of the leaves,rustling,leave,soothe,emergent "Forsaking the Raving Ravens, he had set forth to mobilize all the small, unattached boys at camp into the Pollywog Patrol, but the Pollywog Patrol had proved about as substantial as the shifting sand.",the shifting sand,sand,shift,unreliable,emergent "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,non,emergent "come along , grasp my hand properly amelia , you are as limp as a gasping fish .",a gasping fish,fish,gasp,helpless,emergent their minds are as vacant as the minds of mushrooms . '',the minds of mushrooms,mind,mushroom,vacant,emergent "He looks at me, turning his eyes, but not his head, and keeps on marching up and down like a blessed image all he says was, Make an application to the officer in command, says he.",a blessed image,image,bless,idealize,emergent the doctor was rambling words incoherently like a possessed man .,a possessed man,man,possess,uncontrolle,emergent "the last is a straight line that curves at the bottom , almost like the end of a machete . ''",the end of a machete,end,machete,point,emergent "Raisins rule, wanting chocolate chips in place if rasins in oatmeal cookies is as childish as ketchup on steak.",ketchup on steak,ketchup,steak,inappropriate,emergent "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,ominousness,emergent "And it is to be feared that many in this day, who profess to be the successors of those primitive sufferers, our worthy predecessors, who stood faithful, and patiently bore the burden and heat of the day, through many years of cruel persecution, are now turning back like a broken bow and through the fear or favour of men, are disregarding the testimonies which their forefathers in the truth purchased at so dear a rate and are ready to account many of them but small, or as indifferent things, which may, or may not, be attended to at their own pleasure.",a broken bow,bow,break,useless,emergent ambori 's as happy as a hog in slop right now . '',a hog in slop,hog,slop,satisfy,emergent kind of like the rabbit in the sky ?,the rabbit in the sky,rabbit,sky,fantastical,emergent hes gon na be as mad as a wolf in a cage .,a wolf in a cage,wolf,cage,captive,emergent But... you are as graceful as a three legged duck.',a three legged duck,duck,legged,lacking gracefulness,emergent "The Indians, however, were quite as active as the searchers after wealth.",the searchers after wealth,searcher,wealth,greedy,emergent "Sam took in an enormous gasp of air, pushing past my arms and bolting upright like a man possessed.",a man possessed,man,possess,frantic,emergent "More like people bitching that over 8 hours is too much work and then complain about the pay, rn our monthly wage is around 20002800, when we were working 14 hour days it was almost 6k.",people bitching,people,bitch,dissatisfy,emergent "The hide is uncoloured and is much better than you will find in Cairo , though not as supple as Florentine work .",Florentine work,work,florentine,high,emergent "The men slunk back like whipped curs, but made no response.",whipped curs,cur,whip,submissive,emergent I think comparing how things work in different countries for poor people is kind of like apples to oranges. ampx200B,apples to oranges,apple,orange,dissimilar,emergent "Insist that all the monks come, explaining that you fear we have but few moments to live, and that the Abbot alone would be as helpless as one surgeon on a battlefield.",one surgeon on a battlefield,surgeon,battlefield,isolate,emergent "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,disorient,emergent "Which might be true, but the onus of proof is the one making a positive claim, especially if it is one as large as the creator of the universe.",the creator of the universe,creator,universe,all,emergent You're just like a stuffed crocodile.,a stuffed crocodile,crocodile,stuff,lifeless,emergent but it will do so at a cost and it won't be as good as a larger sensor.,a larger sensor,sensor,large,superior,emergent ,day from night,day,night,opposite,emergent "that was as dangerous as the blood loss , if not more so .",the blood loss,loss,blood,life,emergent "in the meantime , '' suggested jackin ' jill , why do n't you go lick yourself clean like a good kitty ? ''",a good kitty,kitty,good,well,emergent and are treated slightly like people of colour before they were able to obtain equality which to this day is rocky.,people of colour,people,colour,discriminate,emergent "The ledge of rock which forms this lower arch is not above two feet and a half high above the water, and under this we were to pass in the boat so that we were fain to pile ourselves flat upon each other like a layer of herrings.",a layer of herrings,layer,herring,close,emergent He cavorted about as gracefully as an animated sausage.,an animated sausage,sausage,animate,awkward,emergent "The grass in this part of the plain was fresh and green, and looked almost like an English lawn, there having been rain about three weeks before.",an English lawn,lawn,english,well,emergent "I've heard this joke before, except just like jew jokes, it tends to bleed through into people's actual beliefs.",jew jokes,joke,jew,insensitive,emergent It's really like a submarine in space.,a submarine in space,submarine,space,improbable,emergent "oh well , the two went together like franks and beans .",franks and beans,frank,bean,comfort,emergent "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,upright,emergent Matter without motion is just as unthinkable as motion without matter.,motion without matter,motion,matter,impossible,emergent "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,fantastical,emergent "dead eye 's fell on gabriel this time , almost like a cry for mercy .",a cry for mercy,cry,mercy,urgent,emergent "No Christian white man remains in any Church for that sole reason and, as Bishop Simpson once said A white man is as good as a colored man, if he behaves himself.",a colored man,man,colored,racial,emergent "They're kind of like reversed heels, albeit very short ones. ",reversed heels,heel,reverse,opposite direction,emergent He spoke Boriss name like its syllables were as bitter as a dissolving pill.,a dissolving pill,pill,dissolve,fast-acting,emergent "That being said, my friend had hers all natural and said the birth didn't hurt as bad as the stitching up afterward.",the stitching up afterward,stitching,afterward,unpleasant,emergent "The heavens are now like a wall of blackness, save where the lightning glitters for a moment.",a wall of blackness,wall,blackness,impose,emergent The pilot got it under control but it seemed that they were being tossed around like popcorn in a popper.,popcorn in a popper,popcorn,popper,tossed around,emergent I really am rather like a detective in a book.,a detective in a book,detective,book,fictional,emergent "The boy had hardly caught a glimpse of it before it vanished, gliding swiftly like an animal into the brush.",an animal into the brush,animal,brush,stealthy,emergent "With love for teacher, they learned to help, There was work for fingers small Her heart grew soft like the earth in spring,",the earth in spring,earth,spring,soft,emergent "Off he goes, tacking about like a ship against the wind, as if he would knock holes in the walls and windows wi his elbows he looked as fierce as a lion, with a red face like a trumpeter, and his nose was like a bubbly jocks neb, as blue as a blawart but or he wan half way hame his head turned heavier than his heels and mony a filthy fa he got, through thick and thin he plashed, till hame he gets at last, grunting and gaping by the wall, when auld Mary thought it was their nibours sow, he was sae bedaubed wi dirt by the time she got him to bed, he was in a boilingbarrel fever, and poor Mary grat wi grief.",a ship against the wind,ship,wind,struggle,emergent "He clears his throat, the obvious pain of it still deep like a knife in the back. ",a knife in the back,knife,back,betrayal,emergent "Throughout the movie, it's kind of like a running gag.",a running gag,gag,run,recur,emergent Schoolteachers are frequently sweated as mercilessly as factory operatives.,factory operatives,operative,factory,exploit,emergent "Whenever the East is doubtful, and recognizes doubt, it is as dangerous as a hillside in the rains, and it only added to his problem if the Rangar found in him something inexplicable.",a hillside in the rains,hillside,rain,dangerous,emergent Mr. Pratt stood there as stiff as a wooden man.,a wooden man,man,wooden,inflexible,emergent "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,submissive,emergent "as different as night and day , the two men intrigued me each in their own way .",night and day,night,day,contrastive,emergent "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,reputable,emergent "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,domesticate,emergent How quiet the world seems after it all Then like the snap of bullets came the staccato voice through the open door of the compartment.,the snap of bullets,snap,bullet,loud,emergent "It's essentially like a two way street, with the outer circle being one lane, and the inner circle it's opposite.",a two way street,street,way,reciprocal,emergent "He would put back like a dozen beers and maybe get a buzz going, which made drinking alongside him a challenge although he was usually the life of the party, so it happened often.",a dozen beers,beer,dozen,excessive,emergent "A market turns, investors and the greater community begin to lose faith, and it's almost like a run on a bank?",a run on a bank,run,bank,sudden,emergent "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,unusable,emergent "Kind of like a trial and error, and you end up secondguessing yourself trying to anticipate the next dick move that'll be thrown at you.",a trial and error,trial,error,problem,emergent Socialism without democracy is as impossible as a shadow without light.,a shadow without light,shadow,light,impossible,emergent And at that sound the whole army become agitated like the sea in a tempest.,the sea in a tempest,sea,temp,turbulent,emergent The weapon is there like the sword in the stone .,the sword in the stone,sword,stone,mythical,emergent "it felt almost like a kick to the gut , but in a good way .",a kick to the gut,kick,gut,surprising,emergent the young female bartender was almost as cold as ice man until i opened a tab and told her to tack on a thirty percent tip to the total at close .,ice man,man,ice,unapproachable,emergent "she went from being completely asleep and completely locked in by my spell , to bursting forward like a ball from a cannon .",a ball from a cannon,ball,cannon,sudden,emergent "See, the big hobnobbers and the busy bodies in society, they're actually about as low as the bottom of the barrel.",the bottom of the barrel,bottom,barrel,undesirable,emergent "In a park, your best bet might be trying to find somewhere low like a ditch and hope for the best.",a ditch and hope,ditch,hope,desperate,emergent 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,underpowered,emergent "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,outdate,emergent "The world was horribly dark and cold, the red moon had gone, and a machinegun pursued me all the way home like a barking dog.",a barking dog,dog,bark,menacing,emergent so this news was almost as shocking as the divorce announcement .,the divorce announcement,announcement,divorce,shocking,emergent That's about as realistic as a fish on a bicycle.,a fish on a bicycle,fish,bicycle,improbable,emergent Also the tube she is holding is actually a plastic bottle before they blow it up it is kinda like glass blowing,glass blowing,glass,blow,artistic,emergent "cooper stood before him , are you going to let her rest in peace or stand there like an over protective father all day !",an over protective father,father,protective,overbear,emergent "But since we know that the death sentence has put over one hundred innocents on death row since its reinstatement in the 1970s, it's not as simple as life for a life.",life for a life,life,life,sacrificial,emergent "It was swirling along now, brimful, as red as water from an ironworks.",water from an ironworks,water,ironwork,taint,emergent "And even in the United States, Canada, and Japan, the decision to charge for services will create almost like a gated community online.",a gated community,community,gate,exclusive,emergent I think I must have a yellow streak up my back as broad as the moral law.,the moral law,law,moral,universal,emergent Sonic thought about it a little bit and even gave his chubby blue penis a toss back and forth like a baseball in a sock.,a baseball in a sock,baseball,sock,confine,emergent Is that sort of like a moo point?,a moo point,point,moo,irrelevant,emergent Mosque was seen melting away like ice in the sun. ,ice in the sun,ice,sun,melting,emergent His wellinstructed faith was not as quick as the faith of the simple.,the faith of the simple,faith,simple,genuine,emergent "The space marines and I shared nothing besides our pasts, we were as different as puppies and wolves.",puppies and wolves,puppy,wolf,contrast,emergent "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,submissive,emergent "It probably wasn't as bad as actual shingles, but when the DR looks at you and says This is going to make you feel like shit......STABBING TIME!",actual shingles,shingle,actual,unpleasant,emergent Her eyes bright like a dying sun.,a dying sun,sun,die,dimming,emergent over and over again like a fever dream .,a fever dream,dream,fever,vivid,emergent "The second thing that comes to mind is, do I actually regale, or do I just ramble like an old coot?",an old coot,coot,old,grumpy,emergent "A man still maintaining a visible egoism in a period of dominant altruism, would feel as uncomfortable as a man with a tail.",a man with a tail,man,tail,unnatural,emergent "In fact, after each round, whoever wants to play the next just tosses their mallet into the middle and new teams are chosen, kind of like drawing straws.",drawing straws,straw,draw,chance,emergent These things and deeds are diametrically opposed they are as distinct as vice from virtue.,vice from virtue,vice,virtue,opposite,emergent "Hearing all princes now instruct their children, A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books.",priest in books,priest,book,idealize,emergent "Striking his spurs deeply into his horse, and giving him bridle enough, the major seemed to shoot forward like a shell through the air.",a shell through the air,shell,air,swift,emergent And the process of art is as indescribable as the process of knowing.,the process of knowing,process,know,indescribable,emergent he was also surprised to find himself drawn forward like a moth to a flame .,a moth to a flame,moth,flame,irresistibly,emergent You're braindead if you think WiFi is as fast as a wired connection I think everyone knows that except for you.,a wired connection,connection,wire,fast,emergent More like a robbing crew.,a robbing crew,crew,rob,threaten,emergent "But to sturdy and trueborn patriots, such as Hogarth and Smollett, reciprocal politeness appeared as grotesque as an exchange of amenities would be between a cormorant and an ape.",an exchange of amenities,exchange,amenity,polite,emergent "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,stun,emergent "In this connexion we find one printer relieving his troubled soul thus Working for forty editors and scores of authors, every one of whom is as sensitive as a sore thumb, and as lively and interesting as a hornet, no wonder that printers die young, and only pachydermatus, grizzly, mulish specimens get their share of life.",a sore thumb,thumb,sore,obvious,emergent "However great the value of the improvements, we cannot afford to be bankrupt, and a new productive Indian tax seems as distant as the philosopher's stone.",the philosopher's stone,stone,philosopher,unattainable,emergent ,the elephant in the room,elephant,room,ignored,emergent "I could not go to the meeting, as I would be as incompetent as a elephant as a sailor.",a elephant as a sailor,elephant,sailor,unsuitable,emergent It was a little like a door in the face when it ended thoughi was just buckling in for the ride.,a door in the face,door,face,unexpected,emergent "You're right, deep down I don't care that you're as shallow as a walmart pool.",a walmart pool,pool,walmart,shallow,emergent "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,fearful,emergent "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,empty,emergent "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,clumsy,emergent "Yeah, pops did some cool stuff when he was younger...but lately he is about as useful as a sack of dirt.",a sack of dirt,sack,dirt,useless,emergent "Of course, Scraps and dignity are about as compatible as oil and water, but her words were certainly fitting to the occasion.",oil and water,oil,water,contradictory,emergent "If nothing thwarted the amiable efforts of herself and offspring to multiply and replenish, they would shortly pack the ocean as full as a box of sardines.",a box of sardines,box,sardine,crowd,emergent "It's exactly like the ones in the stories, she wailed.",the ones in the stories,one,story,fantastical,emergent we got ta the door of the oven suddenly dropped open like an unhinged jaw .,an unhinged jaw,jaw,unhinged,sudden,emergent "The stem of the other, one of de Vries' famous mutations, snaps at once like short pastry, because it does not contain the factor for the formation of the fibres.",short pastry,pastry,short,brittle,emergent "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,unnoticed,emergent nothing brings people together like a common enemy .,a common enemy,enemy,common,unite,emergent "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,disgust,emergent "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,disparate,emergent But regional TV coverage is often possible when the story is locally important like a factory opening .,a factory opening,opening,factory,newsworthy,emergent "Much like the great question, Who would win in a fight between The Incredible Hulk and the Juggernaut, the answer is of course, it depends who is writing it.",the great question,question,great,philosophical,emergent "i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says .",a dying animal,animal,die,pitiful,emergent "Bloodred were his spurs i' the golden noon winered was his velvet coat, When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway,",a dog on the highway,dog,highway,vulnerable,emergent "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,elusive,emergent "According to Khrushchev, Stalin told Politburo members, You are blind like young kittens.",young kittens,kitten,young,blind,emergent "This is kind of like a one note joke like we get it, youre rich, everyones poor, you dont know how to milk a cow.",a one note joke,joke,note,unoriginal,emergent We just had trouble communicating with it basically like an underwater telephone.,an underwater telephone,telephone,underwater,ineffective,emergent "The song was written in the spur of the moment, almost like a stream of consciousness.",a stream of consciousness,stream,consciousness,unstructured,emergent They trod the duststrewn earthearth as desolate as the dusty sky.,the dusty sky,sky,dusty,hazy,emergent Is it just me or is this exactly like the backyard auditions!?,the backyard auditions,audition,backyard,amateurish,emergent It smote Still like a voice from the dead.,a voice from the dead,voice,dead,otherworldly,emergent "It reads really well and paints the picture youre trying to convey, sort of like a pleasure for pain.",a pleasure for pain,pleasure,pain,contradictory,emergent "Much like bounce messages, an abuse report consists of a human readable part, followed by a machine readable part, and the original message.",bounce messages,message,bounce,error,emergent "Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order .",a charity child,child,charity,underprivileged,emergent "but not as fast as the drawing and quartering , lucas reminded me .",the drawing and quartering,drawing,quarter,torturous,emergent "the town itself was at the mouth of a wide valley , almost like a cork in a bottle .",a cork in a bottle,cork,bottle,restrictive,emergent "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,restrict,emergent "It is the unhappy blunder of a man and a boy being left to pull together as unsympathetically as an elephant and an ass, that has impeded the progress of so many of our public works and it was, unquestionably, the trial of the man and boy system at Calais during the winter months, that, in the early part of 1558, caused the loss of the city.",an elephant and an ass,elephant,ass,ill,emergent "Nan, she's just like the girl in the rhyme, said Betty seriously.",the girl in the rhyme,girl,rhyme,naive,emergent "He is as deaf as the proverbial post, and, once launched into a discourse, rambles on to its end without regard to interruptions.",the proverbial post,post,proverbial,unresponsive,emergent 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,insubstantial,emergent "I also like the unpredictable rhyming, it works. ",the unpredictable rhyming,rhyming,unpredictable,not following a predictable pattern,emergent Christian values is about as meaningful as the flavor of water.,the flavor of water,flavor,water,lacking in significance,emergent 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,fictional,emergent "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,confine,emergent "Put a piece of butter as large as an egg in the fryingpan, and, when it heats, pour in the eggs.",an egg in the fryingpan,egg,fryingpan,cook,emergent "Paul, the president says all the time, it's almost like a verbal crutch.",a verbal crutch,crutch,verbal,figurative,emergent Their dialogue has many exclamation points when they talk quietly or nicely like the dialogue in Peanuts.,the dialogue in Peanuts,dialogue,peanut,informal,emergent 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,undesirable,emergent "Because their wine is meant to be drunk right away and enjoyed with meals, and not laid down and aged like a collector's item.",a collector's item,item,collector,valuable,emergent "Hubba made a circle with his cavalry to the right to the left the centre came back like an overwhelming wave, and the Saxons were surrounded.",an overwhelming wave,wave,overwhelming,unstoppable,emergent 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,time,emergent "instead he swam feebly round and round like a wounded animal , in everincreasing circles .",a wounded animal,animal,wound,helpless,emergent "The Journal she hugged to her heart, and her short dress she held up to her waist, 'Cause I s'pect I mus' keep it out o' the mud, said she, as anxiously as any lady with a train.",any lady with a train,lady,train,elegant,emergent "When the show is rehearsed, Swanee discovers that all the roles have glittery showbiz costumes, and don't look the least like working men.",working men,man,work,blue,emergent "air and stone were opposing elements , just like fire and ice .",fire and ice,fire,ice,oppose,emergent "And that was, the enlisted men and women, you know, their areas where they eat, their mess halls, they aren't as plush as the officers' wardrooms.",the officers' wardrooms,wardroom,officer,luxurious,emergent "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,submissive,emergent "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,pitiful,emergent "This is as good as hotel coffee or that we had at Bottegone'syou remember, don't you, in Florence, with the view of the cathedral?",hotel coffee,coffee,hotel,generic,emergent "Thirteen years ago I wrote, Socialism without democracy is as impossible as a shadow without light.",a shadow without light,shadow,light,nonexistent,emergent "And there I left him, as happy as a trout in a pond, cried Mrs. Jabber, with tears running down her face, busy with his books as usual he, enjoying them the more after having been to see Mrs. Patter, as I'm glad to say is getting better, though it's more nor she deserves, her being such a gossip, and Here the witness was checked by the Coroner, on the ground that she was dealing with matters irrelevant to the inquiry.",a trout in a pond,trout,pond,happy,emergent 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,abstract,emergent "For upwards of ten centuries false portions of the philosophy of Aristotle enslaved the minds of civilized Europe, only, at last, to perish and pass away like withered leaves.",withered leaves,leave,wither,deceased,emergent "What else do our papists, but by keeping the people in ignorance vent and broach all their new ceremonies and traditions, when they conceal the scripture, read it in Latin, and to some few alone, feeding the slavish people in the meantime with tales out of legends, and such like fabulous narrations?",fabulous narrations,narration,fabulous,untrue,emergent "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,fictional,emergent "Inside a bunker, two groups of people stood against each other like a parted sea. ",a parted sea,sea,parted,miraculous,emergent "The wound in her belly was already starting to clear up, the blood clotting as quick as a roaring river.",a roaring river,river,roar,rapid,emergent "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,unstructured,emergent his tail was wagging as fast as a metronome out of control .,a metronome out of control,metronome,control,chaotic,emergent "But let me say, I am twenty, and that I hope the first time you find me funking the sea, you will pitch me overboard like an old sandal.",an old sandal,sandal,old,unvalue,emergent And we flock just like birds of a feather.,birds of a feather,bird,feather,like,emergent "Philip's bandstand still occupied the middle, but the rest, save for a few outlying dusty beds, was as barren as a gravel playground.",a gravel playground,playground,gravel,lifeless,emergent The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.,the wolf to the lapdog,wolf,lapdog,dissimilar,emergent "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,masterful,emergent "This is as good as hotel coffee or that we had at Bottegone'syou remember, don't you, in Florence, with the view of the cathedral?",hotel coffee,coffee,hotel,average,emergent "His voice when he said daughter always made her cry, it was deep and tender like the music of water.",the music of water,music,water,serene,emergent "Up to the last few hundred yards, Jerry was as brave as a panther with cubs, and determined on following out my prescription to the letter but the moment the house, with its white chimneys, commenced appearing round the bend of the bayou, the white pin feathers began to peep out in his heart, and verily, nothing, I believe, but my threat, if he proved recreant today, of courting her myself on the morrow, kept him from giving up the chase, and retracing his steps home.",a panther with cubs,panther,cub,protective,emergent My thought was borne farther and farther like a leaf in a tempest....,a leaf in a tempest,leaf,temp,unstable,emergent "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,lifeless,emergent 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,unexpected,emergent ,five bucks an hour,buck,hour,low value,emergent "Just like nonChristian metal, the Christian metal scene has developed its own infrastructure of record labels, promotion and distribution channels, specialized media, discussion forums, attitude, rhetorics, slogans such as Turn or Burn!",nonChristian metal,metal,nonchristian,subcultural,emergent "Really, the most striking thing about the plant when we got out of the motorcade was the overwhelming yeasty smell, almost like bread rising.",bread rising,bread,rise,ferment,emergent "In speaking about the creatures in Silent Hill, Gans said that these monsters are damned, with the poetic direction of the term they are a little like the Japanese phantoms, i.e.","the Japanese phantoms,",phantom,japanese,mythological,emergent "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,opportunistic,emergent Luhr 2009 states that Christian metal expresses feeling of isolation and rebellion just like nonChristian metal but in a completely different way.,nonChristian metal,metal,nonchristian,rebellious,emergent "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,constrain,emergent "He was a rich man, even if he was not as wealthy as the owner of the splendid but depressing home where she now sat silently musing.",the owner of the splendid but,owner,splendid,affluent,emergent "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,faint,emergent "While I've already seen this, it just goes to show you if you're good at what you do, I, like many others, will still enjoy it and watch it again and again like trained monkeys.",trained monkeys,monkey,train,obedient,emergent "Raisins rule, wanting chocolate chips in place if rasins in oatmeal cookies is as childish as ketchup on steak.",ketchup on steak,ketchup,steak,unusual,emergent "The living room is transformed into some surreal funhouse, with walls askewed in obtuse angles and the ceiling arching upwards like a perverse cathedral. ",a perverse cathedral,cathedral,perverse,connoting something immoral,emergent "When told to, he stood up stiff like a stork on one leg.",a stork on one leg,stork,leg,balancing,emergent beast 's eyes when they meet the chancellor 's are as frigid as ice on a pond .,ice on a pond,ice,pond,thin,emergent So we found the comet is kind of like fire and ice.,fire and ice,fire,ice,contradictory,emergent "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,metaphorical,emergent "Welcomed home like the return of the prodigal, the age old gossip of I told you so!",the return of the prodigal,return,prodigal,redemptive,emergent "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,lifeless,emergent "We may use less of it in coming years, but a paperless society, he says, is about as likely as a paperless bathroom.",a paperless bathroom,bathroom,paperless,impractical,emergent "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,single,emergent "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,dangerous,emergent "Then he was damp with perspiration while ever and anon, when he had to lie prone in the moist grass, or crouch like a frog behind a rock, the cold wind from the hills sent a shiver down his spine or seemed to strike like an icy dagger through his chest.",a frog behind a rock,frog,rock,hide,emergent Nah they're just gonna suck the money out of you then toss you away like the bones from a steak.,the bones from a steak,bone,steak,discard,emergent "Unable to restrain the anger that welled up within him , Richmann swung his cutdown Winchester round and , with an animal roar , blew the man 's head open like a dropped melon .",a dropped melon,melon,drop,smash,emergent "But, as you may imagine, I was not as happy as a bear with honey.",a bear with honey,bear,honey,happy,emergent "When a people would avert want and strife, or having them, would restore plenty and peace, this noble commandment offers the only meansall other plans for safety or relief are as vain as dreams, and as empty as the crooning of fools.",the crooning of fools,crooning,fool,meaningless,emergent "The Indians, however, were quite as active as the searchers after wealth.",the searchers after wealth,searcher,wealth,avaricious,emergent "but she says that, if tomorrow or the day after we have youngsters, we shall all be crowded there like bees in a bottle.",bees in a bottle,bee,bottle,confine,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent "Anyway, each line starts with an unaccented syllable and then an accented like a softer sound and it's followed by an accented one.",a softer sound,sound,soft,subdue,emergent "It's all very interesting, said Lulu it sounds just like a thing out of a book.",a thing out of a book,thing,book,unrealistic,emergent "there , as obvious as a two headed calf , was a large caliber hand gun .",a two headed calf,calf,head,uncommon,emergent "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,untouched,emergent or he returns it back like a dry leaf so not to give the opponent power .,a dry leaf,leaf,dry,fragile,emergent me and strippers go together like dingoes and babies .,dingoes and babies,dingo,baby,incompatible,emergent "And to top it off, just like the cherry on top, you have the nerve to say Im the mentally deficient one after posting that ridiculousness above.",the cherry on top,cherry,top,superfluous,emergent "she heard a pound against her mech 's dome , sounding much like metal against metal .",metal against metal,metal,metal,clash,emergent He seemed at first as obsolete as a soldier of fortune.,a soldier of fortune,soldier,fortune,mercenary,emergent "You would do better to stop right there, she said, raising her forefinger, else I shall wish you had gone home today, all of which made him feel decidedly like a schoolboy about to be whipped.",a schoolboy about to be whipped,schoolboy,whip,vulnerable,emergent "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,disappointing,emergent "Black Piet made no answer, so for a while the two stood facing each other, and they were a strange pair, as different as the light from the darkness.",the light from the darkness,light,darkness,oppose,emergent Mr. Cinch's life was as regular as the movements of the stars.,the movements of the stars,movement,star,regular,emergent "We're kind of like the odd couple, and were that way in Congress because of our views on principal issues.",the odd couple,couple,odd,contrast,emergent "Cleanliness is as essential as a judicious diet and you may be assured, that if you look for excellence, you must always have your youngster's kennel clean, dry, airy, and yet sufficiently warm.",a judicious diet,diet,judicious,healthy,emergent "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,fragile,emergent "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,idealize,emergent I drove in like a wrecking ball I never knew how hard she'd fall Pushed the pedal til my foot was galled,a wrecking ball,ball,wreck,forceful,emergent he 's as crazy as a rat in a drainpipe .,a rat in a drainpipe,rat,drainpipe,confine,emergent The smell of charcoal and rusted metal was faint and stale like a prolonged goodbye.,a prolonged goodbye,goodbye,prolonged,stale,emergent "His skin feels hot, almost tingly, sort of like pins and needles, fighting beneath his fingertips.",pins and needles,pin,needle,tingly,emergent "Now he was almost come, and Whitefire sprang aloft like a tongue of flame.",a tongue of flame,tongue,flame,rapid movement,emergent "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,sparse,emergent "You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a Mav into combat that you don't love, she'll jam on you just as sure as the turning of the worlds.",the turning of the worlds,turning,world,constant,emergent "He was wearing black overalls, boots and and a white and black stripped shirt underneath like a prisoner from a cartoon. ",a prisoner from a cartoon,prisoner,cartoon,white striped shirt,emergent her pleading eyes melted his heart as quick as a glacier on the sun .,a glacier on the sun,glacier,sun,impossible,emergent "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,intuitive,emergent I saw eyes as unkindly as stuffed fox 's .,stuffed fox 's,fox,stuff,lifeless,emergent and so i would be taken back like the prodigal daughter whenever i returned .,the prodigal daughter,daughter,prodigal,return,emergent "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,inadequate,emergent ,frost in the sunbeams,frost,sunbeam,melting away,emergent The piano's keys are as white as the teeth of a junkie and as black as the licorice that rots teeth.,the teeth of a junkie,tooth,junkie,discolor,emergent "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,sudden,emergent ,a field after a thunderstorm,field,thunderstorm,misty,emergent "all this reminds me of is women being shaved for sleeping with nazis once france was liberated a lot of them had done nothing wrong and, just like witch trials, were simply punished for being women it is traumatic, it is extremely violent to be forcefully shaved.",witch trials,trial,witch,unjust,emergent rachel stood there like a deer in the headlights .,a deer in the headlights,deer,headlight,immobilize,emergent "We, the children of a moribund civilisation, we, old men from our birth, in this respect are as young as the first man.",the first man,man,first,archetypal,emergent "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,automatic,emergent "As the second Tesla rounded on DON127, dragging him off the road and pinning him against a tree, the first one turned to face me, its front fender mangled, hanging agape like a set of jaws.",a set of jaws,set,jaw,menacing,emergent "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,unpleasant,emergent 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,catchy,emergent "Given how political this issue has gotten and how much of a hotbutton issue it is now because of the call for a border wall, and now because of the shutdown, when these cases come up in court, are the politics of it now like an elephant in the room?",an elephant in the room,elephant,room,unaddresse,emergent "I also like the message of the poem, I think in so few lines you do well to capture the organized chaos of humanity witnessed from above. ",the message of the poem,message,poem,insightful,emergent Im yawning now like a dying fish.,a dying fish,fish,die,lethargic,emergent "Kate saw it all, but took no notice till the day of the little tiff above recorded after that she was as soft as a summer sea, and by some clever stroke had Belle Morgan to tea that very week.",a summer sea,sea,summer,gentle,emergent It's as bad as a winding sheet.,a winding sheet,sheet,wind,death,emergent "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,empty,emergent We were discussing how Theresa May is almost like a dear in the headlights.,a dear in the headlights,dear,headlight,bewilder,emergent So there was Trouble as tight as a fly in a bottle.,a fly in a bottle,fly,bottle,constrain,emergent I'd say the popular and promising teen who was failed is just as bad as the airbrushed photo.,the airbrushed photo,photo,airbrush,deceptive,emergent "Now, I'm not saying that Manard wasn't as dead as a dried herring.",a dried herring,herring,dried,deceased,emergent "She was a bit whimsical and peculiar, and her moods were as apparent as the moving pictures thrown on a sheet in the theatre.",the moving pictures,picture,move,entertain,emergent "But just now that tragic stage is empty and silent like a church on a weekday, with the bench all sheeted up and nothing moving but the sunbeams on the wall.",a church on a weekday,church,weekday,desolate,emergent "Pluck's a very good thing, but pluck without brains is as useless as an engine without coal.",an engine without coal,engine,coal,powerless,emergent "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,vulnerable,emergent "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,confine,emergent "all this reminds me of is women being shaved for sleeping with nazis once france was liberated a lot of them had done nothing wrong and, just like witch trials, were simply punished for being women it is traumatic, it is extremely violent to be forcefully shaved.",witch trials,trial,witch,punitive,emergent "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,fragile,emergent "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,ineffective,emergent The circumcision proves to be just like an ant bite!,an ant bite,bite,ant,trivial,emergent "While freshness is essential to being welldressed, it will be a consolation to those who cannot afford a heavy tailors bill, to reflect that a visible newness in ones clothes is as bad as patches and darns, and to remember that there have been celebrated dressers who would never put on a new coat till it had been worn two or three times by their valets.",patches and darns,patch,darn,unfashionable,emergent "And as for the fantasy setting it is pretty much Tolkienesque and most of the tropes are present here like hidden kingdoms, last remains of mythical races, dragons and wraiths, trees of divine value, fading magic, etc but it's not mediveal, the major continent is inspired from 19 century Russia.",hidden kingdoms,kingdom,hide,mythical,emergent If i could hold your words I'd hold them in my hands And be held by them too Like a hammock in the clouds.,a hammock in the clouds,hammock,cloud,dreamlike,emergent "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,spoil,emergent "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,constrain,emergent ,a peck in the eye,peck,eye,painful,emergent "Just like pro athletes people are paying millions of dollars for their product, and they're just getting their cut for being the faces of the business.",pro athletes,athlete,pro,wealthy,emergent They had cut it apart like a knife through cheese.,a knife through cheese,knife,cheese,easy,emergent 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,unprotected,emergent "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,unprepared,emergent "You may not have been as lucky as the academy members to get video screeners of these titles, but you won't have to wait much longer.",the academy members,member,academy,exclusive,emergent "Below decks their precious cargo were stacked together like spoons in a drawer, each soul shackled to the ship. ",spoons in a drawer,spoon,drawer,neatly arranged,emergent "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,uninspire,emergent "Men in the tide of vice are sometimes like the poor creatures swept down the stream of mighty rivers, who see people safe on shore, and trees and flowers, as they go quickly past, and all things that are desirable gleam upon them a moment to heighten their trouble, and to aggravate their swiftcoming destruction.",the poor creatures,creature,poor,helpless,emergent "The second thing that comes to mind is, do I actually regale, or do I just ramble like an old coot?",an old coot,coot,old,curmudgeonly,emergent OP you are as useless as a paper condom,a paper condom,condom,paper,ineffective,emergent "It was almost like a right of passage, as a child, to have to sit on this, while your friends spun it as fast as possible until you fell off.",a right of passage,right,passage,transformative,emergent The piano's keys are as white as the teeth of a junkie and as black as the licorice that rots teeth.,the teeth of a junkie,tooth,junkie,rotten,emergent "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,day,emergent "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,uncontrollable,emergent "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,burdensome,emergent "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,unstable,emergent "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,unaddresse,emergent "drinking in the hood is a way of life , as normal as used syringes , and soiled pampers lining the gutters .",used syringes,syrinx,use,discard,emergent "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,unearned,emergent "interestingly , bigger flashes of light seemed to hover over his body , and then scuttle away again like frightened fish . ",frightened fish,fish,frightened,trying to move away quickly,emergent "But, Jean objected, we're not in the least like people in a book.",people in a book,people,book,imaginary,emergent "It shook wildly like a teacup in a tempest, threatening to break, as people fell to the floor, and the artifical gravity couldn't decide which way to point as the craft span widly out of control.",a teacup in a tempest,teacup,temp,unstable,emergent "Now it is no easy thing for a French postillion to walk himself when he is in his boots these boots are each as large and as stiff as a wooden churn, and when the man in his boots attempts to walk, he is more helpless than a child in a gocart he waddles on, dragging his boots after him in a way that would make a pig laugh.",a wooden churn,churn,wooden,cumbersome,emergent "i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says .",a dying animal,animal,die,suffer,emergent "Otherwise, in the human race, the male would be slain yearly like the drone of the hive.",the drone of the hive,drone,hive,less,emergent "Business is exact and dangerous and powerful like a colossal dynamo it is the extreme of everything men used to pray for,and it is not what they did not pray for.",a colossal dynamo,dynamo,colossal,dangerous,emergent "And what vulgarity is is cultural just like ladies first, don't talk about your salary with your colleagues and writing with your left hand is evil.",ladies first,lady,first,polite,emergent They crouch like whipped dogs!,whipped dogs,dog,whip,submissive,emergent "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,aesthetic,emergent "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,impractical,emergent "That is idiotic, and autistic people are not idiots, they are as intelligent as people without the condition, some of the considerably smarter.",people without the condition,people,condition,non,emergent "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,abysmal,emergent "sara , standing nearby like a lady in waiting .",a lady in waiting,lady,wait,subservient,emergent But that was really very like a tap at the window!,a tap at the window,tap,window,unexpected,emergent "But, even he doesn't have it as bad as the peeing on the snow and making children think it's yellow snow and making them eat it and then laughing fairy.",the peeing on the snow,peeing,snow,prankish,emergent wages had plunged to as low as a nickel an hour .,a nickel an hour,nickel,hour,insufficient,emergent My elderly coworkers have their own but I'm a bit disappointed that mine is as lame as fridge fruit.,fridge fruit,fruit,fridge,lackluster,emergent "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,overblown,emergent "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,superior,emergent "You know, it's kind of almost like trial by ambush.",trial by ambush,trial,ambush,unjust,emergent "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,lifeless,emergent "at this moment , the thought of resisting this pull toward her enticing lips was as silly as defying gravity . ",defying gravity,gravity,defy,hard,emergent "Shit is almost as bad as whispering game, you know you can't hear a damn word the person whispered in your ear!",whispering game,game,whispering,confuse,emergent "You are always like a toad under a harrow, and that without the slightest cause.",a toad under a harrow,toad,harrow,helpless,emergent "just like war of worlds , injected bates .",war of worlds,war,world,fictional,emergent ,a speeding driver,driver,speed,reckless,emergent "her form was beginning to break up , fading in and out like a weak hologram .",a weak hologram,hologram,weak,blur,emergent "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,legendary,emergent "The touch of fever was in it,a grotesque head,but it was as vivid as fresh paint.",fresh paint,paint,fresh,bright,emergent You cannot throw principles away like an old garment.,an old garment,garment,old,unvalue,emergent The thought of war should have been as impossible as the thought of murder.,the thought of murder,thought,murder,unimaginable,emergent "When told to, he stood up stiff like a stork on one leg.",a stork on one leg,stork,leg,unstable,emergent "And what vulgarity is is cultural just like ladies first, don't talk about your salary with your colleagues and writing with your left hand is evil.",ladies first,lady,first,etiquette,emergent "you 're being about as useful as a trapdoor on a canoe , '' she told him .",a trapdoor on a canoe,trapdoor,canoe,unnecessary,emergent "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,pathetic,emergent This is as hot as a cat in a pan.,a cat in a pan,cat,pan,suffering,emergent "we only had to show him one , his bum would immediately drop to the floor , and he would then sit patiently like a model dog .",a model dog,dog,model,well,emergent "A reader without a good steadying sense of balance, a shrewd determination to weigh what he reads and judge of its value for himself is as helpless as a man in a whirlpool.",a man in a whirlpool,man,whirlpool,helpless,emergent "Just like the state of nature, states were thus bound to be in conflict because there was no sovereign over and above the state more powerful capable of imposing some system such as socialcontract laws on everyone by force.",the state of nature,state,nature,lawless,emergent "Im a Texan living in Illinois, and no the northerners are just as bad as southerners in the snow.",southerners in the snow,southerner,snow,unprepared,emergent "The palace without justice, without charity, is as terrible as the hovel without food.",the hovel without food,hovel,food,terrible,emergent The one to which Ken had pointed weighed perhaps a quarter of a ton and was shaped rather like a gigantic egg.,a gigantic egg,egg,gigantic,heavy,emergent History is about to bust open like a field of wildflowers.,a field of wildflowers,field,wildflower,beautiful,emergent Dick gave me as bad as a stitch in the side just telling me about it.,a stitch in the side,stitch,side,painful,emergent "These pages are as silent as drowned cries.... Come back, my Love, and with more fervent eyes Than pity, Lips that bear the ivyleaf Once chose for emblem Love that never dies?",drowned cries,cry,drown,unheard,emergent "stopping was about as appealing as a bat to the kneecaps , but i did it .",a bat to the kneecaps,bat,kneecap,unpleasant,emergent ,snow in the summer,snow,summer,unexpected,emergent Yes it means new recruits but it also means that we're about as useful as a steak to a vegan.,a steak to a vegan,steak,vegan,undesirable,emergent "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,contrite,emergent "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,uncontrollable,emergent "Theyre coming back like a boomerang in court to hit Jackson, and I mean right in the neck.",a boomerang in court,boomerang,court,unexpected,emergent This sea is as empty as a church on a weekday.,a church on a weekday,church,weekday,emptiness,emergent That bacon will kill you just as quick as a wrench to the head.,a wrench to the head,wrench,head,deadly,emergent "drinking in the hood is a way of life , as normal as used syringes , and soiled pampers lining the gutters .",used syringes,syrinx,use,unhygienic,emergent "Nothing, thank you, said Mrs. Prime and her voice was very like the voice of the ravens.",the voice of the ravens,voice,raven,haunt,emergent "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,lenient,emergent "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,wait,emergent It was all just like a small vacation.,a small vacation,vacation,small,brief,emergent He starts around like a stuffed turkey he's going to get plucked.,a stuffed turkey,turkey,stuff,immobile,emergent "Hey, Don, this cartoon character is now like the frog in the pot and the water around him just keeps getting hotter.",the frog in the pot and,frog,pot,oblivious,emergent the fridge was as empty as political promises .,political promises,promise,political,empty,emergent And he sat down absentmindedly like a wooden rooster.,a wooden rooster,rooster,wooden,carved,emergent "You are always teasing and bothering about the women and as you have not got a piece of flesh as big as a pea for a heart, you will never understand anything about them",a pea for a heart,pea,heart,small,emergent He felt suddenly like a trapped animal.,a trapped animal,animal,trap,helpless,emergent "since his grace has tossed you aside like a used handkerchief , it can cause you no grief to share what you know with the man who holds your daughter 's life in his hand , '' fernand said before he extracted every scrap of intelligence from her .",a used handkerchief,handkerchief,use,discard,emergent "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,dissimilar,emergent "I am a Fenerbahe fan, because it is just like a Brazilian team.",a Brazilian team,team,brazilian,skilled,emergent ,a trapped spider,spider,trap,frantically moving,emergent 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,crowd,emergent "Nothing goes together like Shakespeare and fruit in a box, of course.",Shakespeare and fruit,shakespeare,fruit,incongruous,emergent 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,valuable,emergent "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,useless,emergent But Wizardry isn't real just like talking animals.,talking animals,animal,talk,unreal,emergent "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,ignore,emergent "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,wilt,emergent my teeth were chattering as loud as jack hammers .,jack hammers,hammer,jack,loud,emergent "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,incomplete,emergent The first revival in Oroomiah seemed to burst forth like a fountain in the desert.,a fountain in the desert,fountain,desert,unexpected,emergent ,scalded cats,cat,scald,frantic,emergent "Whereas twenty years ago the systems which appeared were as different as day from night, at the present day one perceives great lines of convergence, pointing to the time when mankind shall have added to the other triumphs of civilisation that of an auxiliary language recognised and used by everybody, to the great advantage of all whose horizon is not limited by the boundaries of their mother country.",day from night,day,night,contrast,emergent You're just like a stuffed crocodile.,a stuffed crocodile,crocodile,stuff,unresponsive,emergent "the passion that wed shared had been hot enough , i guess , but strangely devoid of feeling for a while wed devoured each other like hungry animals , wed done little in the way of talking , cuddling , laughing together , or even deep kissing .",hungry animals,animal,hungry,insatiable,emergent Matter without motion is just as unthinkable as motion without matter.,motion without matter,motion,matter,unthinkable,emergent ambori 's as happy as a hog in slop right now . '',a hog in slop,hog,slop,happy,emergent "Seeing Hugh Girdlestone push through the crowd and stand suddenly before him, he shrank back like a hunted creature, and began trembling violently.",a hunted creature,creature,hunt,scare,emergent "i would need to evaporate , again , just like water on the sidewalk .",water on the sidewalk,water,sidewalk,transient,emergent "Cut the meat in halfinch squares the ginger as round as a threepenny piece, and the garlic the same size, but thicker.",a threepenny piece,piece,threepenny,circular,emergent all the kitsch and puns were about as charming as a poke in the eye .,a poke in the eye,poke,eye,distress,emergent A wash of colors spilled out over the sky as the stars broke open like eggs on a skillet.,eggs on a skillet,egg,skillet,sizzle,emergent The first line is We fit together like two birds of a feather.,two birds of a feather,bird,feather,similar,emergent the thought is as unsettling as the looming situation .,the looming situation,situation,loom,unsettling,emergent "Then the climax came, as swiftly as a bolt from the sky.",a bolt from the sky,bolt,sky,sudden,emergent All these facts were as unalterable as the return of the seasons.,the return of the seasons,return,season,consistent,emergent "As the second Tesla rounded on DON127, dragging him off the road and pinning him against a tree, the first one turned to face me, its front fender mangled, hanging agape like a set of jaws.",a set of jaws,set,jaw,threaten,emergent "The cup was steady in his hand, the water was as safe as a seed within a fruit, not a drop was lost, not a ripple seen.",a seed within a fruit,seed,fruit,protect,emergent "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,exhaust,emergent "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,ominous,emergent "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,unresilient,emergent "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,interconnect,emergent "You want me to bumble around like a pig in a petticoat, so I can set off some other woman to advantage.",a pig in a petticoat,pig,petticoat,awkward,emergent Every tone went up and down like the teeth of a saw.,the teeth of a saw,tooth,saw,jagged,emergent "for a time quite calm , the next instant he would be pacing back and forth like an animal in a cage . ",an animal in a cage,animal,cage,restless,emergent 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,minimal,emergent "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,greedy,emergent "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,transient,emergent I'm not going to leave him behind like a left kitten.,a left kitten,kitten,left,abandon,emergent "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,uncommon,emergent "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,cherish,emergent "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,non,emergent as steamy as a sulfur pit ?,a sulfur pit,pit,sulfur,hot,emergent "I can literally blow it away, and it's just like champagne powder.",champagne powder,powder,champagne,fluffy,emergent "then like a bolt out of the blue , i suddenly get a sense of familiarity .",a bolt out of the blue,bolt,blue,unexpected,emergent "Unless the vowel is u and it sounds like you, as in I'm warm and full of love, just like a used condom!",a used condom,condom,use,unwanted,emergent They look very like the lees of wine.,the lees of wine,lee,wine,leftover,emergent "and that interest , so keenly personal , from one devoid of the slightest malicious taint , had warmed her as surely as a winter fire . ",a winter fire,fire,winter,cozy,emergent "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,helpless,emergent "Bloodred were his spurs i' the golden noon winered was his velvet coat, When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway,",a dog on the highway,dog,highway,helpless,emergent theyre almost like flying buses .,flying buses,bus,fly,fanciful,emergent "Isabella ran into the surf to join Callia, but ran away like the tiny birds when the waves came in. ",the tiny birds,bird,tiny,skittish,emergent assuming you also like the flavour of crayons,the flavour of crayons,flavour,crayon,inedible,emergent "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,irritate,emergent It is as likely as snow in hell.,snow in hell,snow,hell,improbable,emergent thurlow grew aware that there was an odd odor in the room almost like burnt insulation .,burnt insulation,insulation,burn,offensive,emergent "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,lack of direction,emergent "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,hazardous,emergent "through the heavy blanket of stone they still heard thunder , as steady as machines in the earth .",machines in the earth,machine,earth,underground,emergent "almost there , just like a hundred flights of stairs , tomas said .",a hundred flights of stairs,flight,stair,exhaust,emergent "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,soft,emergent gala came up as gingerly as a drunk walks .,a drunk walks,walk,drunk,unsteady,emergent ,a wedge in a log,wedge,log,firmly stuck,emergent "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,petrify,emergent "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,cramp,emergent "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,raucous,emergent "I could be wrong, but I think it's called that because the shit smells just like thin mints.",thin mints,mint,thin,sweet,emergent Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding.,art without understanding,art,understand,superficial,emergent "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,nonexistent,emergent He was as flat as a pricked balloon.,a pricked balloon,balloon,prick,deflate,emergent He wrote to Theriot that he felt there like an atheist in a church.,an atheist in a church,atheist,church,alienate,emergent "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,shocking,emergent Luttppi owns a magical spear that can fly it works exactly like a magic broom except that he has to wrap his tail around it to fly.,a magic broom,broom,magic,flight,emergent "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,becalm,emergent "The voice came from over her left shoulder, the twang made the words sound almost like a different language. ",a different language,language,different,incomprehensible,emergent the sap ran from the scalding hole and dripped steadily like blood onto the ground .,blood onto the ground,blood,ground,dripping,emergent "You danced beside me nervously, we were bobbing up and down like apples in a barrel, at least thats how I saw it.",apples in a barrel,apple,barrel,jostle,emergent "Soldiers innumerable, as thick as motes in the sun, crossed the stage fighting, shouting, challenging each other.",motes in the sun,mote,sun,numerous,emergent choosing not to use his wealth to fix a problem as treatable as thinning hair actually made him seem even more in control .,thinning hair,hair,thin,undesirable,emergent "Our numbers have gone up not as dramatically as the inaudible communities, but I really think ours has gone up because for a different matter.",the inaudible communities,community,inaudible,marginalize,emergent "Just like the dollar menu, satisfying and affordable at first then you're at the toilet wondering what's causing that strange burn.","the dollar menu,",menu,dollar,affordable,emergent "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,submissive,emergent "Senator Franklin Drilon gave a statement about the burial, like what Marcos did for 21 years, he caught us offguard like a thief in the night.",a thief in the night,thief,night,sudden,emergent "and then it bends gracefully , almost like a blade of grass .",a blade of grass,blade,grass,delicate,emergent "Regarding turtles vs. tortoises, those are two separate words rather than two pronunciations of words, so its a little like apples and oranges.",apples and oranges,apple,orange,incomparable,emergent "I cannot think of you as being moved by them perhaps what is said of us is true, and we are only like moonlight unto sunlight, and like water unto wine.",moonlight unto sunlight,moonlight,sunlight,inferior,emergent "It is impossible for any child to be more agreeable than our young King he has large, dark eyes and long, crisp eyelashes a good complexion, a charming little mouth, long and thick darkbrown hair, little red cheeks, a stout and wellformed body, and very pretty hands and feet his gait is noble and lofty, and he puts on his hat exactly like the late King.",the late King,king,late,deceased,emergent "and just like a dog 's prey , he was disoriented .",a dog 's prey,prey,dog,disorient,emergent "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,trivial,emergent "Never for a moment, until I was dropped down here like a stone from a sling.",a stone from a sling,stone,sling,project,emergent "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,undesirable,emergent "She stood as still as a scolded mutt, her ferocious, daggerlike fangs bared in a snarl that had no real teeth, and the man with her stone knew it.","a scolded mutt,",mutt,scold,fearful,emergent "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,unpalatable,emergent he looks bigger than ever in his gray linen slacks and opencollared white shirt almost like a bear in a tuxedo .,a bear in a tuxedo,bear,tuxedo,absurd,emergent He was out like a burnt match.,a burnt match,match,burn,extinguish,emergent it 's about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle . '',an ashtray on a motorcycle,ashtray,motorcycle,useless,emergent kind of like a hummer against a bulldozer .,a hummer against a bulldozer,hummer,bulldozer,vulnerable,emergent ,the raging river,river,rage,fast-flowing,emergent "For the time was an exciting one, and had not been without its effects upon all hired labour, though things had not developed in that respect as fully as when a year's success had made gold as common as shells on the seashore.",shells on the seashore,shell,seashore,plentiful,emergent "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,desolate,emergent 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,dairy-free,emergent "that there 's no way vampires are real , but they 're about as real as death walkers and you 've seen those with your own eyes . ''",death walkers,walker,death,mythical,emergent "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,colorful,emergent A phone that has no reception is about as useful as a chocolate teapot no matter how pretty it is or how many apps it has.,a chocolate teapot,teapot,chocolate,impractical,emergent 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,jarring,emergent 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,cold,emergent "Its just like electricity in the skies, explained Roy.",electricity in the skies,electricity,sky,mysterious,emergent "They think people who shoot and kill their own deer to feed their families are just as evil as the factory farmers, and thats just full on retard.",the factory farmers,farmer,factory,unethical,emergent information of that sort was as precious as water on mars .,water on mars,water,mar,scarce,emergent 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,rebellious,emergent "They don't work together like a pride of lions, but they do keep in pretty close proximity of each other.",a pride of lions,pride,lion,community,emergent "in person , she 's about as likable as a case of crabs .",a case of crabs,case,crab,unpleasant,emergent "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,unrealistic,emergent "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,shocking,emergent Isn't word of eye as sacred as word of mouth?,word of mouth,word,mouth,influential,emergent "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,insulate,emergent I have seen a great army thaw away like an icicle in the sunshine.,an icicle in the sunshine,icicle,sunshine,melting,emergent i dive head first into the booth as much as a pregnant whale can .,a pregnant whale,whale,pregnant,limited in movement,emergent "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,high,emergent "not a peep , they sat silent like scolded children .",scolded children,child,scold,subdue,emergent 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,unconcerned,emergent 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,guess,emergent "Well, Id assume the most ancient form of contraception would be as simple as a club to the head.",a club to the head,club,head,painful,emergent "his voice was low , but the anguish in it was as plain as nails on a blackboard . ",nails on a blackboard,nail,blackboard,grating,emergent "Not suspecting anything, I went after her saw her at a distance in the middle of the woods in another dress that I can swear to, and was just coming up to her when she vanishedwent like a squirrel up a tree, or down like a gopher in the ground, but vanished.",a gopher in the ground,gopher,ground,hide,emergent "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,disorganize,emergent "While the effectiveness of the condensing process varies depending on the temperature of the water returning to the boiler, it is always at least as efficient as a noncondensing boiler.",a noncondensing boiler,boiler,noncondensing,inefficient,emergent "As for the Princess, she was as happy as a duck in a puddle.",a duck in a puddle,duck,puddle,happy,emergent "A Lucien, you see, is as rare as a woman without sin.",a woman without sin,woman,sin,idealize,emergent that looks just like the director 's butt . '',the director 's butt,butt,director,derogatory,emergent 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,dangerous,emergent "Whatever his life, he must when he dies take his place amongst that wretched throng of sufferers packed as closely as cattle in a truck, and plunged to a point perhaps determined by prudery in tongues of flame.",cattle in a truck,cattle,truck,cramp,emergent "Vocational school is almost like school for the retarded, you know what I mean?",school for the retarded,school,retarded,specialize,emergent "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,distort,emergent ,an iowa tourist,tourist,iowa,fair-skinned,emergent ,cold snakes,snake,cold,sluggish,emergent "As every one gave him a nickel or dime at each ford, and the guidon staff was simply a most convenient alpenstock, he was the envy of all the others as he slowly but surely amassed his gains not so slowly either, for the river made so many windings from one side of its high walled valley to the other, that his receipts rivaled a western railroad in the matter of mileage, but the locomotion was scarcely as comfortable as railroad travel.",railroad travel,travel,railroad,comfortable,emergent Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.,faith without love,faith,love,deficient,emergent "It was a twoway flow of goodnatured bullying, almost like friendly abuse... and she was my primary competition during our classes, too.",friendly abuse,abuse,friendly,tease,emergent "That font is nearly as bad as comic sans, I'd forgive anyone for losing their sensibilities when trying to read that mess.",comic sans,san,comic,undesirable,emergent "I aint nothin but a poor marine, without any book learnin, but whenever I sees that motto of the corps, Semper fidelis which means Ever faithful, I think to myself, Grubb, my man, that means you aint never goin back on another feller and, come to think of it, it do seem ridicklous that the leftenants son should be aworkin like a hired hand.",a hired hand,hand,hire,subordinate,emergent Isn't word of eye as sacred as word of mouth?,word of mouth,word,mouth,trust,emergent "Raisins rule, wanting chocolate chips in place if rasins in oatmeal cookies is as childish as ketchup on steak.",ketchup on steak,ketchup,steak,unpopular,emergent "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,affluent,emergent "They are of every degree of firmness, some being as brittle as dry clay, others like iron.",dry clay,clay,dry,brittle,emergent 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,imperative,emergent "Stand back Herb, imma bout to bust your misses open like a six pack of ramen noodles at a college dorm.",a six pack of ramen,pack,raman,accessible,emergent I was doing it to express myself and now it's about as expressive as a pair of jeans.,a pair of jeans,pair,jean,mundane,emergent "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,forceful,emergent Just like flying flowers!,flying flowers,flower,fly,fantastical,emergent I really am rather like a detective in a book.,a detective in a book,detective,book,imaginary,emergent "he took my hand and once again i felt that oozy , melty feeling that was disgustingly like a forties song .",a forties song,song,forty,nostalgic,emergent For Wong Sing was very like the old manor was it a womanwho lived in a sandalor whatever it was.,the old manor,manor,old,creepy,emergent "Suddenly, I heard a sound in the other room, almost like a small roar. ",a small roar,roar,small,not intimidating,emergent he looks about as relaxed as a wound spring .,a wound spring,spring,wound,tense,emergent "I am a Fenerbahe fan, because it is just like a Brazilian team.",a Brazilian team,team,brazilian,talente,emergent "The imaginative Sonata in D minor, which Beethoven himself referred to the enchanting dramaespecially the first movementreflects, I take it, the deeper bases and significance of the poem tempesttossed man, with his cries to the Unknowable, almost like a wounded animal, and rays of sunshine pouring still through storm man, at war with the elements and himself, the elements without and within him man, so little on this stupendous stage man, so great with his aloneperception of it man, so mean and hateful in his baser parts, so colossal, so divine in his higher so low as animal lower than they, so high as hero and sage.",a wounded animal,animal,wound,struggle,emergent you have to realize that 's just like blood in the water for me . '',blood in the water,blood,water,triggering a predator,emergent Yeah if those guys would just shut the fuck up what with the singing and praying amongst other like minded members.,minded members,member,minded,similar,emergent I kept as still as a mouse before a cat.,a mouse before a cat,mouse,cat,quiet,emergent her head was as rigid as a deer in headlights .,a deer in headlights,deer,headlight,immobilize,emergent the place was quiet like the hallway of mirrors .,the hallway of mirrors,hallway,mirror,disorient,emergent 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,nonexistent,emergent Size is an influencing factor small lancetfish will not resort to cannibalism as quickly as larger fish.,larger fish,fish,large,predatory,emergent "Overhead, the mainsail, illuminated as high as the yard by the lamps, was bulging forwards under the gale, which was rising every minute, and straining so violently at the mainsheet, that there was some doubt whether it might not be necessary to interrupt the funeral in order to take sail off the ship.",the yard by the lamps,yard,lamp,illuminate,emergent He cavorted about as gracefully as an animated sausage.,an animated sausage,sausage,animate,ridiculous,emergent "On a fine enough scale, any mixture can be said to be heterogeneous, because a sample could be as small as a single molecule.",a single molecule,molecule,single,indivisible,emergent PINEAPPLE AND PIZZA GO TOGETHER LIKE BREAD AND BUTTER,BREAD AND BUTTER,bread,butter,perfect match,emergent "even through his turmoil and anger in the previous month he 'd never imagined her slinking away like a thief in the night , without saying a word to him .",a thief in the night,thief,night,unnoticed,emergent "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,decorative,emergent "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,surprising,emergent "McFarland just always seemed like a force of nature, as undying and as perpetual as the waves in the sea. ",the waves in the sea,wave,sea,unceasing,emergent "Let cultured men plow and reap, and plowing and reaping will become as dignified as the learned professions.",the learned professions,profession,learn,respect,emergent He ran down at last like an unwound clock.,an unwound clock,clock,unwound,inactive,emergent "And even in the United States, Canada, and Japan, the decision to charge for services will create almost like a gated community online.",a gated community,community,gate,secure,emergent 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,clingy,emergent "After we once learn it, the motion of a good saddle horse is almost like a rocking chair and riding becomes one of the most delightful of outdoor pastimes.",a rocking chair,chair,rock,soothe,emergent "no , they were all in one big clump , huddled in close together like birds in the cold . ",birds in the cold,bird,cold,huddling together,emergent "Boeing has a beluga like plane with four engines, called the dreamlifter. ",plane with four engines,plane,engine,powerful,emergent "Here, through these viewless shades, his sway begins, as this stream begins, whose source is darkness and whose current moves slowly like thick blood.",thick blood,blood,thick,slow,emergent They became as still as men of stone.,men of stone,man,stone,immovable,emergent And from the face of him that spake these words there came an odour like the odour of fish.,the odour of fish,odour,fish,unpleasant,emergent it looks exactly like the girl in the visions !,the girl in the visions,girl,vision,ethereal,emergent "This first night of my arrival in Pekin was as melancholy as the nights on the road, but in a more commonplace way, with more of ennui.",the nights on the road,night,road,wearisome,emergent "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,unpredictable,emergent "another reminder of our weakness , i suppose , just like the hunger games .",the hunger games,game,hunger,violent,emergent "My friend Lieutenant Somers is as bashful as a maiden of sweet sixteen, interposed Captain de Banyan.",a maiden of sweet sixteen,maiden,sweet,bashful,emergent i stood there like a living doll while he dressed me in two minutes flat .,a living doll,doll,live,creepy,emergent "The Arrilaser 2 was released in 2009, with new clientserver architecture and speeds twice as fast as the original model.",the original model,model,original,old,emergent "Although with this criticism, Tom's Guide stated that Atari VCS may be not as good as a nextgen console, but buying one is lot easier than working out where to buy a PS5.",a nextgen console,console,nextgen,superior,emergent it 's basically like a hit and run . '',a hit and run,hit,run,irresponsible,emergent 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,unusable,emergent "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,move,emergent "It's called the domi 2 by lovesense They also have a huge orgy like once a year where you can join and all the toys that participate get synced together, quite fun like hundreds of people They also have a Bluetooth flesh light for the guys and penis having gals",hundreds of people,hundred,people,crowd,emergent "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,alarm,emergent "Brhmanism and Buddhism, both viewed from their orthodox aspects, are as inimical and as irreconcilable as water and oil.",water and oil,water,oil,incompatible,emergent "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,able,emergent "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,helpless,emergent 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,surprising,emergent "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,exuberant,emergent "You sit there, mouth open like a floundering fish. ",a floundering fish,fish,flounder,gasping for breath,emergent "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,struggle,emergent "It's all very interesting, said Lulu it sounds just like a thing out of a book.",a thing out of a book,thing,book,fictional,emergent The next trick is to jerk all your limbs straight up hard enough to jump off the floor and slam back down like a sack of potatoes.,a sack of potatoes,sack,potato,heavy,emergent as steamy as a sulfur pit ?,a sulfur pit,pit,sulfur,steamy,emergent 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,brief,emergent "or more like a human and an ant , '' tick murmured .",a human and an ant,human,ant,contrast,emergent "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,illegal,emergent "Now mind you, YouTube is just a reflection of what people want to know about, so this is really this whole case has, once again, proven to be a big slap in the face of everybody who's out there crying for justice and wanting increased hate crimes because, you know what, all this crying for hate crimes is going to it's just like the antidrug laws, it's going to come right back and it's going to slap black folks right on the behind.",the antidrug laws,law,antidrug,ineffective,emergent "And he said, this is literally like a needle in a haystack.",a needle in a haystack,needle,haystack,difficult,emergent "it hacks out of me , breathy like an expiring balloon .",an expiring balloon,balloon,expire,deflate,emergent "The fiddlers play'd, the dancers scream'd, And all was in commotion Like waves they roll'dthe noise it seem'd Just like a troubled ocean.",a troubled ocean,ocean,troubled,stormy,emergent "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,cherish,emergent "and then he took off out of here like a bat out of a sunrise , '' sidney finished . ",a bat out of a sunrise,bat,sunrise,disappear,emergent "come along , grasp my hand properly amelia , you are as limp as a gasping fish . ",a gasping fish,fish,gasp,suffocating,emergent ,a second skin,skin,second,seamless,emergent ,jousting windmills,windmill,joust,futile,emergent ,the tallest midget,midget,tall,oxymoronic,emergent "A large piece of pink paper came blowing down the pavement, somersaulting along in a ridiculous fashionheels over head, heels over head, grotesquely like a performing tumbler.",a performing tumbler,tumbler,perform,graceful,emergent ,the edge of a scallop,edge,scallop,wavy,emergent "Stevedores without employment are as abundant as plank without purchasers, and uneasy as a mullet out of water.",plank without purchasers,plank,purchaser,unvalue,emergent "They die off, now, twice or thrice as fast as the better classes, but what difference does it make?",the better classes,class,well,affluent,emergent My humor is about as clean as the community jockstrap we have the catchers use in my Tuesday night softball league.,the community jockstrap,jockstrap,community,unclean,emergent "I sometimes do this at work in order to actually be condescending in a way, Its almost like a sarcastic bud. ",a sarcastic bud,bud,sarcastic,insincere,emergent And also it's almost like stream of consciousness.,stream of consciousness,stream,consciousness,unstructured,emergent "to him , all is forgiven and it 's as good as water under the bridge .",water under the bridge,water,bridge,unimportant,emergent "This is coming off more than a little like stalking behavior, and the threats of selfharm are not encouraging.",stalking behavior,behavior,stalk,threaten,emergent "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,annoying,emergent that would be just like the old bat .,the old bat,bat,old,derogatory,emergent "an immense round fat man , as big as three moon boys , he came cartwheeling into the hall , vaulted onto the table , and laid a gigantic egg right in front of sansa .",three moon boys,boy,moon,mythical,emergent goddamn chinese were as doublefaced as a twoheaded dragon .,a twoheaded dragon,dragon,twoheaded,duplicitous,emergent They are sort of like sharks on land.,sharks on land,shark,land,out of place,emergent 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,unresponsive,emergent "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,unaware,emergent on camera It hits you almost exactly like a punch in the face!,a punch in the face,punch,face,shocking,emergent Thar sart'in is a cave in thar but it is as dark as the bottomless pit.,the bottomless pit,pit,bottomless,deep,emergent "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,unexpected,emergent "When you see the devastation, before the crisis last year, you'd have a sign for 2 or 3 million, now you're 300 million to help repair Beirut and help the country get back on its feet sounds really like a drop in the bucket.",a drop in the bucket,drop,bucket,minimal,emergent "CHAPTER V. That pleasant old farm house, once so happy, was as dull as the forest at midnight.",the forest at midnight,forest,midnight,lonely,emergent I was as lively as a dog with wings.,a dog with wings,dog,wing,fantastical,emergent "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,unpleasant,emergent The roughneck farmer was in bad shape he was bloodied all over like a stuck pig.,a stuck pig,pig,stuck,bloody,emergent