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And was it really kind of like a stab in the dark because you don't have any medical records? | a stab in the dark | stab | dark | pierce | canceled |
Hans asks her if she finds him ugly and she replies that he is not nearly as ugly as a broken promise. | a broken promise | promise | broken | bind | canceled |
his eyes were as black as the sky between stars . | the sky between stars | sky | star | bright | canceled |
There was I as helpless as a bullock at the slaughter. | a bullock at the slaughter | bullock | slaughter | fast | canceled |
I felt humiliated and wretched like a whipped child. | a whipped child | child | whip | curious | canceled |
it would just sit there like the elephant in the room , making the suspect wonder just how much dirt we had on him . | the elephant in the room | elephant | room | strong | canceled |
Hotman points out that while they may be a people without a king a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people . | a pastor without a flock | pastor | flock | guide | canceled |
Miles felt to be as dangerous as a diamond, as bad as a box at the opera. | a box at the opera | box | opera | musical | canceled |
And when his personality is vividly present in them, the argument, being thrilled with passionate feeling, rises, but heavily like a wounded eagle, into an imaginative world. | a wounded eagle | eagle | wound | high | canceled |
I had one for a while when I was a teenager, be prepared to smell faintly like lighter fluid whenever you have it on you. | lighter fluid | fluid | light | radiant | canceled |
After so long a passage, with our port almost in sight, and our voyage nearly ended, to be compelled to remain longer in our close prison, and creep like a Wounded snake, dragging its slow length along, winding, day after day, through the sinuosities of this sluggish Mississippi, was enough to make us shipwearied wretches verily, To weep our spirits from our eyes. | a Wounded snake | snake | wound | elongate | canceled |
He's as solemn as a stuffed owl, and he'llWell, I'm goin' to put MY oar in. | a stuffed owl, | owl | stuff | generic | canceled |
rachel stood there like a deer in the headlights . | a deer in the headlights | deer | headlight | quick | canceled |
Well, you have got to think about the asteroids as kind of a well, it's almost like a canned good, with all of the basic ingredients of the beginnings of the universe inside. | a canned good | good | can | positive | canceled |
Doubt not of that you shall have kisses from them, go pitpat, pitpat, pitpat, upon your lips, as thick as stones out of slings at the assault of a city. | stones out of slings | stone | sling | still | canceled |
Now tell me that wouldn't be as cool as a dog on a jetski, I dare you. | a dog on a jetski | dog | jetski | friendly | canceled |
his mouth felt suddenly as dry as flock wallpaper . | flock wallpaper | wallpaper | flock | group | canceled |
null | a thousand dollars for one outfit | dollar | outfit | Federal Reserve | canceled |
thurlow grew aware that there was an odd odor in the room almost like burnt insulation . | burnt insulation | insulation | burn | effective | canceled |
so it was probably as certain as taxes in april that he likely had no one to spill the beans to . | taxes in april | taxis | april | noisy | canceled |
His friends then cinched him upon a saddle, and brought him here, muffled in a blanket, just like a bag of bones. | a bag of bones | bag | bone | strong | canceled |
Even like the fallen angels! | the fallen angels | angel | fall | gradual | canceled |
they were up now , milling around like cattle in a thunderstorm . | cattle in a thunderstorm | cattle | thunderstorm | powerful | canceled |
her form was beginning to break up , fading in and out like a weak hologram . | a weak hologram | hologram | weak | cool | canceled |
Once set it upon its own professed foundations, and the entire quasireligious structure, with its visionary hopes, its impossible enthusiasmsall its elaborate apparatus for enlarging the single life, and the generation that surrounds it, falls to earth instantly like a castle of cards. | a castle of cards | castle | card | strong | canceled |
With his dead eyes, he was slowly penetrating in my spirit, l'ego stillava da quel foro, and I felt so feeble under his dead dark eyes, as sharp as raven beaks. | raven beaks | beak | raven | small | canceled |
Mounds of earth sprouted upwards, piecing together like an explosion in reverse until they crystallised into a fist. | an explosion in reverse | explosion | reverse | shockwave | canceled |
Marrying one day and divorcing almost the next, only to marry another as soon as he can scrape together sufficient funds to purchase a wife, this type of man looks upon woman as an inferior animal formed for man's gratification, and to be flung aside like a sucked orange when the juice is gone. | a sucked orange | orange | suck | sweet | canceled |
The dark clouds had become more compact and although it was still only late morning , it was as dark as a gathering twilight . | a gathering twilight | twilight | gathering | social | canceled |
Knowing that only one side of the Boonesborough palisade had been completed, and that the warparty was five times as strong as the population of the hamlet, he thought to delay operations by strategy. | the population of the hamlet | population | hamlet | big | canceled |
She was so thoroughly soaked that every lineament of her form could be seen through the thin garment that clung to her body as closely as paper on a wall. | paper on a wall | paper | wall | supportive | canceled |
In the first, one constructs the facts to suit the defects in the law, and if executed with any degree of intelligence, the criminal actor has nothing whatever to fear, and the law is as harmless as a painted devil. | a painted devil | devil | paint | dry | canceled |
More like pee on khakis, then act like washing hands so people don't think it is pee. | pee on khakis | pee | khakis | durable | canceled |
It is kind of like a needle in the haystack. | a needle in the haystack | needle | haystack | large | canceled |
In daytime, sodium and red oxygen emissions are dominant and roughly 1,000 times as bright as nighttime emissions because in daytime, the upper atmosphere is fully exposed to solar UV radiation. | nighttime emissions | emission | nighttime | restful | canceled |
But on this night the mirth jarred like a cracked bell and ere they rose, the seneschal ventured timidly to ask the Baron if he might accept the ransom offered by the young wife of the latest captive. | a cracked bell and | bell | cracked | loud | canceled |
she let go , hissing much like a spooked cat . | a spooked cat | cat | spook | lazy | canceled |
I think he's about as funny as a broken foot, and just I disagree with everything he said. | a broken foot | foot | broken | arch | canceled |
His ears were abroad like a warrior's plume From the bosom of darkness was borrowed the gloom Of his dark, dark hide, and his coal black hair, But his eyes like no earthly eyes they were! | a warrior's plume | plume | warrior | skilled | canceled |
she could be as poor as a church mouse and it did n't make any difference to him . | a church mouse | mouse | church | ergonomic | canceled |
Partners that are cheated on through online affairs feel that online affairs are just as painful as offline ones it is a significant source of stress, makes them feel betrayed as they were lied to, and feel insecure as they will negatively compare themselves with the online women or men. | offline ones | one | offline | unitary | canceled |
take some of the best ropes for example a winding rope will tie itself around things , a climbing rope can stand up straight like a pole without any support , and a slithering rope will track and bind a target . '' | a pole without any support | pole | support | stable | canceled |
In the first moment that we were ushered into her presence, and beheld her in her white robe of state, embroidered with the pale yellow flower of her kingdom, whatever remained to us of the past slipped away like water through the fingers. | water through the fingers | water | finger | sensitive | canceled |
Such a betrothal as that of Quintus and Cornelia is as rare as a white raven. | a white raven | raven | white | black | canceled |
They left in groups of thousands, or one at a time, dissolving into the air as completely as sugar into coffee. | sugar into coffee | sugar | coffee | bitter | canceled |
to dennis , those holes looked strangely like floating eyes . | floating eyes | eyes | floating | protective eyelids | canceled |
Almost kind of like the blow up man. | the blow up man | blow | man | creative | canceled |
And this is why it is impossible to feel that skilled shooting or foxhunting are as abominable as rabbit coursing, harehunting with beagles, or otterhunting. | rabbit coursing | coursing | rabbit | playful | canceled |
Footnote 52 The English appellation Karroo seems to be derived from Karusa, signifying hard in the Hottentot language, and to refer to a quality appertaining to the clayey substance of which these terraces are composed, by virtue of which the red clay, strongly impregnated with iron, and mixed with sand, becomes in the dry season as hard as burnt clay. | burnt clay | clay | burn | soft | canceled |
Most undergraduate science degrees with the exception of maybe computer science are also worthless on the job market, or at least about as valuable as a humanities degree. | a humanities degree | degree | humanity | measure | canceled |
But if we start assassinating death eaters without due process, haven't we become just like the death eaters? | the death eaters | eater | death | eat | canceled |
Because as recently as a couple of hours ago, the director of the CIA, John Brennan, issued a statement, a very tough statement. | a couple of hours | couple | hour | cute | canceled |
That Montfichet is of Norman blood is sufficient to turn your thoughts of him as sour as old milk I am as good as all the Montfichets and De Veres hereabout, dame, for all I am but plain Saxon, returned Fitzooth, crossly, and the day may come when they shall know it. | old milk | milk | old | tasty | canceled |
Then like a bolt from the blue came a cable messagereceived at the little station near the lighthouse. | a bolt from the blue | bolt | blue | hard | canceled |
We ought to do something good, just like big folks when theyve been bad. | big folks | folk | big | traditional | canceled |
almost like a loose floorboard . | a loose floorboard | floorboard | loose | unconfine | canceled |
Not as annoying as a tired joke, because they're not expecting you to react with false mirth. | a tired joke | joke | tired | funny | canceled |
null | a public diary | diary | public | personal | canceled |
His eyes were like a serpent's in their steadiness, and the muscles of his body were drawn as tight as steel springs, ready to loose themselves when the chance came. | steel springs, | spring | steel | warm | canceled |
Footnote 52 The English appellation Karroo seems to be derived from Karusa, signifying hard in the Hottentot language, and to refer to a quality appertaining to the clayey substance of which these terraces are composed, by virtue of which the red clay, strongly impregnated with iron, and mixed with sand, becomes in the dry season as hard as burnt clay. | burnt clay | clay | burn | malleable | canceled |
They have a prebreathe kind of situation there, to give purge their system of nitrogen, it's kind of like a diver with the bends. | a diver with the bends | diver | bend | flexible | canceled |
The ice looks green, purple, and blue instead of white like the rest of the glacier. | the rest of the glacier | rest | glaci | refresh | canceled |
Some men shy at that word holy like a horse at an automobile. | a horse at an automobile | horse | automobile | motorize | canceled |
This is just like a scene out of Jaws. | a scene out of Jaws | scene | jaw | articulate | canceled |
Run right down and get a Southern belle and beauty to settle down and have a dozen babies for you, just like 'befo' the war.' | befo' the war | war | befo | conflictual | canceled |
null | burnt insulation | insulation | burn | moisture barrier | canceled |
I know, indeed, that thou art foolishuttering the terms father and mother, signifying conditions that pass away like the grass of the earth. | the grass of the earth | grass | earth | large | canceled |
That food looks as hot as the surface of the sun... and the parent seems awfully okay with just dangling it within arm's reach of that unknowing child. | the surface of the sun | surface | sun | good | canceled |
And when his personality is vividly present in them, the argument, being thrilled with passionate feeling, rises, but heavily like a wounded eagle, into an imaginative world. | a wounded eagle | eagle | wound | fast | canceled |
Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, he threw aside all stealth and caution and, tearing the bushes out of his path, darted forward like a hunted animal. | a hunted animal | animal | hunt | reproduce | canceled |
The end of August had not come before he began to work by lamplight long before dawn in winter he began as early as one or two o'clock in the morning. | one or two o'clock in the morning | o'clock | morning | fresh | canceled |
The idea that a priestly mediation between sinful men and a gracious deity was necessary had been so deeply implanted in the religious consciousness of preChristian antiquity, pagan as well as Jewish, that a form of public worship without a priesthood seemed almost as inconceivable as a religion without a god. | a religion without a god | religion | god | powerful | canceled |
The woman hadn't wore the dress to church but one Sunday when her husband came into the store one day an' hung 'round a spell, lookin' 'bout as uneasy as a sinner under conviction, an' at last he winked your uncle into the back room, an' says Howlaway, says he 'Jethro, you've got me in a heap o' trouble, 'cause of that silk dress you loaded on to my wife. | a sinner under conviction | sinner | conviction | immoral | canceled |
we cant wait here like sitting ducks . | sitting ducks | duck | sit | quack | canceled |
Its not as good as not burning coal, but its a profitable use of a formerly fairly useless by product. | not burning coal | coal | burn | fossilize | canceled |
Still, a man cant be jumpin around like a cat in a bag. | a cat in a bag | cat | bag | fast | canceled |
As Terry Pratchett said As useful as a cardboard hammer | a cardboard hammer | hammer | cardboard | metallic | canceled |
Also some restaurants put it in pizza crusts which is shitty because I actually like pizza with no cheese. | pizza with no cheese | pizza | cheese | topped | canceled |
We're both in college a guy making a move is usually as blatant as an ostrich on a subway. | an ostrich on a subway | ostrich | subway | efficient | canceled |
This gentleman, convinced that a silvermine without silver is as rare as an effect without a cause, discovered the sparkle of the precious element deep down in the reasons of things. | an effect without a cause | effect | cause | cause | canceled |
No he's as helpless as a fly in amber he must go with his state or be lost. | a fly in amber | fly | amber | fast | canceled |
It was nearer the town, and though a substantial building, was not as large as the silk merchant's nor was the compound as extensive. | the silk merchant's | merchant | silk | shiny | canceled |
You know, Mr. DiMaggio, I know, according to family who knew him, had lost, and the people in San Diego who knew him, he had lost a lot of weight in recent months and just like the last six months, to a worrying degree, we would pick up his shirt and show him what he called his abs, but it was really they said it was skin and bones literally. | the last six months | month | last | final | canceled |
She is very like a boiled sole, answered the Vicomte, with a wry face. | a boiled sole | sole | boil | bubble | canceled |
They were as cheery as soldiers on furlough. | soldiers on furlough | soldier | furlough | brave | canceled |
1 a drink is usually tipped when its one to three drinks being made at a time leaving change can be considered insulting, sort of like a backhanded compliment. | a backhanded compliment | compliment | backhand | warm | canceled |
null | burnt insulation | insulation | burn | fire resistance | canceled |
So, a dolphin out of water will die just like a fish out of water, probably not as quickly though. | a fish out of water, | fish | water | clear | canceled |
no longer like drying clay his organs came back to life like flowers soaking the soils summer rain . | drying clay | clay | dry | moldable | canceled |
Between July 1 and October 24, 1868, the stock of the Erie was increased from 34,000,000 to 57,000,000, and the price went downward like a burnt rocket. | a burnt rocket | rocket | burn | fast | canceled |
Well, you have got to think about the asteroids as kind of a well, it's almost like a canned good, with all of the basic ingredients of the beginnings of the universe inside. | a canned good | good | can | virtuous | canceled |
The idea expressed is as commonplace as cold mutton. | cold mutton | mutton | cold | refresh | canceled |
Just shows how an injury like a broken neck may not be as deadly as a sliced artery, but it requires hell of a recovery. | a sliced artery | artery | sliced | long | canceled |
The night was as black as the interior of a camera, save whenas by the opening of a snapshot shutteran instantaneous view of the valley was fixed on Katherine's startled brain by the lightning ripping in fiery fissures down the sky. | the interior of a camera | interior | camera | focus | canceled |
Barefooted, or shifts of bandages round their swollen feet torn breeches, cut short like football knickers. | football knickers | knicker | football | inflate | canceled |
Although there is a ban on the sale and advertisement of tobacco products to those who are underage under the age of 18 adolescents have also begun smoking at higher rates, starting as young as thirteen years of age due to a lack of enforcement of this ban. | thirteen years of age | year | age | divisible | canceled |
and as trustworthy as a chocolate hammer . | a chocolate hammer | hammer | chocolate | hard | canceled |
This mad Carew was tinder to a flash of these bright eyes and the fool Yorke, except in his wild creeds, as pliant as a hazel twig. | a hazel twig | twig | hazel | edible | canceled |
Any morality, then, built on the sentiments is as unsubstantial as castles in the air, and as unreal as the baseless fabric of a vision. | castles in the air | castle | air | strong | canceled |
when the madness of the takeoff celebrations died , ornenkai looked about at the lovely white city of ariyalsynai with its wide avenues and glittering ornate buildings , its gardens , fountains , forums , and he felt as though he had been left adrift in a dream , because everything he surveyed seemed to him suddenly as meaningless as the substance of a fantasy . | the substance of a fantasy | substance | fantasy | tangible | canceled |
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