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null | a fake smile | smile | fake | Natural | canceled |
The life and movements of a sailor are usually as eccentric as the career of a comet. | the career of a comet | career | comet | important | canceled |
Looking down upon the town of Hartlepool, the boys saw buildings crumple like houses of cards before a gale. | houses of cards | house | card | construct | canceled |
null | the teeth of a comb | tooth | comb | enamel | canceled |
The letter may have the germ of life in it, but it has no breath of spring to evoke it winter seeds they are, as hard as the winters soil, as icy as the winters air, no thawing nor germinating by them. | the winters soil | soil | winter | organic | canceled |
He sat on Bill Burr's armrest like a toy breed, eventually humiliating himself by sneezing directly into the pleat of Bill Burr's khakis. | a toy breed | breed | toy | colorful | canceled |
null | a villager under ice | villager | ice | community-oriented | canceled |
It was not as delicate as the expensive kind, but it was very nice. | the expensive kind | kind | expensive | care | canceled |
over the years he had become accustomed to hearing those words applied to him , sometimes mumbled , sometimes thrown into his face , and although they still often hurt , as much as sticks and stones despite what they say , he no longer automatically accepted their implicit accusation . | sticks and stones | stick | stone | flexible | canceled |
Now, several of the books I mean can be got there, as easily as yellow novels, and can be got for the price of Punch they are so small you could have them in your pocket and get them read in odds and ends of time, outofdoors, so that you need not miss any expedition, or any fresh air, through staying in the house to study. | yellow novels | novel | yellow | long | canceled |
But she could only sit there like a wooden woman, staring at the ground. | a wooden woman | woman | wooden | strong | canceled |
Ye are deserting like runaway soldiers, turning renegades from God such is the language in which Paul taxes his readers. | runaway soldiers | soldier | runaway | brave | canceled |
Still, a man cant be jumpin around like a cat in a bag. | a cat in a bag | cat | bag | agile | canceled |
For, as to the evil spirits with whom his beloved Keatie was in conjunction, the idea had died away like a thing of the imagination, and he barely spent a thought upon it. | a thing of the imagination | thing | imagination | general | canceled |
but it will do so at a cost and it won't be as good as a larger sensor. | a larger sensor | sensor | large | small | canceled |
At first glance i thought it was weird because the three kneeling guys look kind of like snake people. | snake people | people | snake | social | canceled |
though i was pleased that hed finally shut up , right now , the clever security guard was as about as useful as a paper condom . | a paper condom | condom | paper | flexible | canceled |
To this every inducement prompted, the novelty of the acquisition of knowledge in many cases, the emulation of foreign wits, and of immortal works, the want and the expectation of such works among ourselves, the opportunity and encouragement afforded for their production by leisure and affluence and, above all, the insatiable desire of the mind to beget its own image, and to construct out of itself, and for the delight and admiration of the world and posterity, that excellence of which the idea exists hitherto only in its own breast, and the impression of which it would make as universal as the eye of heaven, the benefit as common as the air we breathe. | the eye of heaven | eye | heaven | vulnerable | canceled |
Yes, as modest as a spring violet, sang out Step Hen but how about that President Cornelius Jasper Hawtree business? | a spring violet | violet | spring | coil | canceled |
Yes, but he may be as thin as a tin horse before his owner comes. | a tin horse | horse | tin | fast | canceled |
Now considering Earth exists I doubt life is as unlikely as a cube planet, but you get my point. | a cube planet | planet | cube | spherical shape | canceled |
Social Security is sitting out there like the elephant on the table. | the elephant on the table | elephant | table | useful | canceled |
I was no longer like a trussed fowl, and betook myself to rubbing my numbed limbs until finally the chilled blood was warmed and I was able to stand, and then, in a little, I gained strength to grope my way backwards and forwards in the cell as an exercise. | a trussed fowl | fowl | truss | wing | canceled |
assistant principal mckenzie had questionable soul statusnot as obvious as the man on the street the night i met roth , but there 'd always been something about him that made me wary . | the man on the street | man | street | pave | canceled |
he 'd wanted to get in his truck , start driving , find the bastard and mete out a little frontier justicebut there was the damn wedding to get through , so he 'd sat there like a beaten dog and driven the woman he lovedthe woman ellis had knocked upback home and watched her flee inside like the devil himself was after her . | a beaten dog | dog | beat | loyal | canceled |
But a gooid word throo some is as scarce as a white crow. | a white crow | crow | white | black | canceled |
After so long a passage, with our port almost in sight, and our voyage nearly ended, to be compelled to remain longer in our close prison, and creep like a Wounded snake, dragging its slow length along, winding, day after day, through the sinuosities of this sluggish Mississippi, was enough to make us shipwearied wretches verily, To weep our spirits from our eyes. | a Wounded snake | snake | wound | quick | canceled |
he looks about as relaxed as a wound spring . | a wound spring | spring | wound | fresh | canceled |
argument with him felt uncannily like clouts about the head , but i hadnt given up hopes to trump him in the end . | clouts about the head | clout | head | intelligent | canceled |
They crouch like whipped dogs! | whipped dogs | dog | whip | crack | canceled |
The man's feet sank in the sand to his ankles, his back was bent like a drawn bow, his head was hidden between his shoulders, on his arms the muscles came out so that the skin almost burst from their pressure | a drawn bow | bow | draw | expressive | canceled |
null | an army without a commander, or | army | commander | uniformed | canceled |
COMMUNICATING VASES.Employ a tube of a large diameter terminate one of its extremities with a funnel, fashion the other like the neck of a bottle and bend the tube into the shape shewn by pl. | the neck of a bottle | neck | bottle | flexible | canceled |
A dollie was the 4 wheeled thing you move really heavy printers on, kind of like a wagon with no handle. | a wagon with no handle | wagon | handle | handle | canceled |
with a great roar of wind , the pole lurched down , wires whipping overhead like hungry snakes . | hungry snakes | snake | hungry | emptiness | canceled |
Whence knowest thou if, when thy use is at an end as a vessel, he will not cast thee away like a broken plate? | a broken plate | plate | break | round | canceled |
Throughout his capture he had remained as mute as a trapped wolf. | a trapped wolf | wolf | trap | wild | canceled |
null | nails on a chalkboard | nail | chalkboard | Functional | canceled |
The second one would have to be built kind of like a ship in the bottle to make it fit inside, which is not entirely practical. | a ship in the bottle | ship | bottle | engine-powered or sail-driven | canceled |
youre about as interesting as a dogs urinal . | a dogs urinal | dog | urinal | loyal | canceled |
So like any game of telephone I bet these guys now think that urine cures everything like the Windex grandpa in Big Fat Greek Wedding lol. | any game of telephone | game | telephone | useful | canceled |
most important , i did n't even care if ava malcolm was as crazy as a fly in a jar . | a fly in a jar | fly | jar | hollow | canceled |
Using literal darkness and light as tools for deconstruction is about as subtle as a train to the face. | a train to the face | train | face | symmetrical | canceled |
Foreign ships stand as thick as the teeth of a comb, and in the streets wine shops and music halls front directly each on another. | the teeth of a comb | teeth | comb | enamel | canceled |
null | burnt insulation | insulation | burn | resistance | canceled |
He was muffled to the heels in a long raincoat, the muscles of his face were twitching, and he was breathing hard like a spent runner. | a spent runner | runner | spend | fast | canceled |
It's almost like polite smiles rather than, you know, real, robust, coming from your innersoul kind of a smile. | polite smiles | smile | polite | natural | canceled |
tears just flow out of his eyes uncontrollably like a broken faucet . | a broken faucet | faucet | broken | water | canceled |
For the little firstyear minks wear dark coats, almost as fine as Russian sable. | Russian sable | sable | russian | cultural | canceled |
The plain lay like brown dunes of sand, as for the grass, it grew as scant as hair in leprosy. | hair in leprosy | hair | leprosy | natural | canceled |
Generally the people he's worked with so far have been pretty awesome at work, but occasionally I feel a little like the episode of friends when Rachel, Joey, and Phoebe explain to the others that they can't afford those nice restaurants and evenings out. | the episode of friends | episode | friend | care | canceled |
Either you're hitting a server limit, in which case even the worst passwords will take decades or centuries to crack, or you're not and can send an arbitrary number of passwords and any humanrememberable password is about as secure as a plastic padlock. | a plastic padlock | padlock | plastic | hard | canceled |
When Aunt Elizabeth returned Emily was lying on the sofa in the kitchen, as white as the pillow under her head, and as limp as a faded lily. | a faded lily | lily | fade | sweet | canceled |
If you don't understand how important rifling is at 50 yards or how rust and projectiles don't get along, or even something as simple as dirt in the way no boom, I don't think you've ever opened up a gun yourself | dirt in the way | dirt | way | direct | canceled |
If you dont get a catch for hours, its only like an angler without a nibble. | an angler without a nibble | angler | nibble | nibble | canceled |
just like loaded dice . '' | loaded dice | dice | loaded | random | canceled |
people 's smiles seem as fake as the cardboard moons . | the cardboard moons | moon | cardboard | luminous | canceled |
Tom had lost patience when he saw Paddy staggering like a bullock under an axe, and though I told him we could do nothing to help, he insisted we should at least be with the rest of the party. | a bullock under an axe | bullock | axe | strong | canceled |
However, some scrapers are as big as hand axes. | hand axes | axis | hand | perpendicular | canceled |
Wanting separation from Canada just for the heck of it and blindingly following the separatist movement without knowing anything about the implication of said decision is the problem, just like any uninformed decision. | any uninformed decision | decision | uninformed | consider | canceled |
null | hens ' teeth and | tooth | hen | enamel-coated | canceled |
1973 ended just like the previous two years, with a defeat, a narrow points loss to Trevor Francis at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. | the previous two years | year | previous | long | canceled |
Excellent they are, after their fashion, to be honoured and respected but something of the seriousness and the stolidity of their native land has entered into them, and to gayer, more frivolous moods they are as unsuited as a sermon to a ballroom. | a sermon to a ballroom | sermon | ballroom | spacious | canceled |
The plate shivered, and Jeremy, after whimpering a little like a punished child, went outside also, got on his knees, and patiently gathered them together again, swinging his head with the pitiable and impotent vengeance of a child. | a punished child | child | punish | inquisitive | canceled |
for the first few days , however , reginald was kind of like a vampire in reverse . | a vampire in reverse | vampire | reverse | scary | canceled |
Thousands of languages can thus have been chattered successively on thousands of territorieslanguages lacking precision, essentially musical, a succession of phrases in which certain sounds only corresponded to realities but these sounds, in spite of their importance, in spite of their utilitarian and representative value, may be supposed to have been at first almost as fugitive as the rest of the speech. | the rest of the speech | rest | speech | refresh | canceled |
only just turned twentythree , saqib had been as straight as an arrow growing up , never in trouble and never causing any . | an arrow growing up | arrow | grow | sharp | canceled |
But a caliph who openly denied the faith would be as impossible as an unbelieving pope. | an unbelieving pope | pope | unbelieve | influential | canceled |
In the foregoing experiments with gases and vapours have employed throughout invisible rays, and found some of these bodies so impervious to radiant heat, that lengths of a few feet they intercept every ray as actually as a layer of pitch. | a layer of pitch | layer | pitch | thin | canceled |
His poor mother had laid his absence to heart so much, that it had worn upon her, and his return was to her almost like life from the dead. | life from the dead | life | dead | lifeless | canceled |
they taught her to skin squirrels , knee guys hard enough to rupture their testicles , and roll cigarettes as tight as ones in the store . | ones in the store | one | store | unique | canceled |
She gave an angry snort, down went her ears, and next instant she was rushing forward like a mad thing. | a mad thing | thing | mad | real | canceled |
That's sort of the carrot and stick argument, if you will, to dangle the name out there or dangle the idea of having another Supreme Court justice who is conservative, just like the president's base, but not fully moving forward as an inducement to get those voters to the polls. | the president's base | base | president | authoritative | canceled |
the racing wave is not as big as the lump in the road but it is adequate . | the lump in the road | lump | road | travel | canceled |
The roughneck farmer was in bad shape he was bloodied all over like a stuck pig. | a stuck pig | pig | stuck | cute | canceled |
It was almost like a dry hurricane. | a dry hurricane | hurricane | dry | very | canceled |
Socialism without democracy is as impossible as a shadow without light. | a shadow without light | shadow | light | illuminate | canceled |
I feel as low as ditch water. | ditch water | water | ditch | colorless | canceled |
i surmise that the human soul is invisible , perhaps too light for my eyes to see , but the souls of beasts such as i are as black as tarnished silver . | tarnished silver | silver | tarnished | reflective | canceled |
you sound more like a mob lawyer . | a mob lawyer | lawyer | mob | crowd | canceled |
null | a run on a bank | run | bank | endurance | canceled |
null | castles in the air | castle | air | Stone | canceled |
Sometimes their garments were frozen stiff like coats of mail. | coats of mail | coat | mail | warm | canceled |
His father says that he never plays, and understands everything just like a grown person. | a grown person | person | grow | develop | canceled |
You ought to see the children around the toys downtownswarming like flies at the molasses! | flies at the molasses | fly | molasse | quick | canceled |
It is the sort of thing that Emerson and Lowell could say with rousing conviction, but twenty years ago it was as obsolete as a beaver hat except in newspaper editorials and political speeches, where it is still going strongeven if not quite so strong as it used to be. | a beaver hat | hat | beaver | diligent | canceled |
Even though the mass of the sun be 26,000,000 times as great as the mass of the moon, yet when this number is divided by the cube of the relative value of the distances of the bodies 386, it is seen that the efficiency of the moon is more than twice as great as that of the sun. | the mass of the moon | mass | moon | spherical | canceled |
It was not as delicate as the expensive kind, but it was very nice. | the expensive kind | kind | expensive | friendly | canceled |
When I first chose this as a place to settle down I thought it was pretty damn perfect, or at least as good as a home without a roof could be. | a home without a roof | home | roof | cover | canceled |
Why did you say ask at the end like you needed verification, because clearly you know what you're talking about cause they feel exactly like bags of sand | bags of sand | bag | sand | flexible | canceled |
But, Jean objected, we're not in the least like people in a book. | people in a book | people | book | knowledgeable | canceled |
null | a clock without power | clock | power | Precision | canceled |
Their supply of rations was of the most miserable kind, not even as good as prison fare. | prison fare | fare | prison | varied | canceled |
null | a dribble castle | castle | dribble | Wall | canceled |
When I first chose this as a place to settle down I thought it was pretty damn perfect, or at least as good as a home without a roof could be. | a home without a roof | home | roof | safe | canceled |
Hotman points out that while they may be a people without a king a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people . | a pastor without a flock | pastor | flock | collective | canceled |
The staff is about as knowledgeable as an anchor out of water, and appear about as hygienic as tubgirl don't look that up. | an anchor out of water | anchor | water | important | canceled |
null | a white blackbird | blackbird | white | black | canceled |
Lizzie, was such a love as mine to be thrown away like a used glove? | a used glove | glove | use | practical | canceled |
It's just like a stupid pun being the top comment or someone starting a comment off with This. | a stupid pun | pun | stupid | clever | canceled |
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