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He made it scream and exult obscenely he made it lament like a fallen angel. | a fallen angel | angel | fall | pure | canceled |
It was a little like musical chair so we ran into the nearest one still open. | musical chair | chair | musical | stackable | canceled |
Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, he threw aside all stealth and caution and, tearing the bushes out of his path, darted forward like a hunted animal. | a hunted animal | animal | hunt | competitive | canceled |
he looks about as relaxed as a wound spring . | a wound spring | spring | wound | vulnerable | canceled |
When the problem is as simple as a stalled car, they get out to help. | a stalled car | car | stall | fast | canceled |
we work together like lions in a pride . | lions in a pride | lion | pride | feel | canceled |
Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding. | art without understanding | art | understand | comprehend | canceled |
Then like a bolt from the blue came a cable messagereceived at the little station near the lighthouse. | a bolt from the blue | bolt | blue | functional | canceled |
It had been bread and meat once, but had been sent from God knows where, as the old woman said about the rail road, and was just poured into a corner of a box car and was of course, about like hog feed. | hog feed | feed | hog | social | canceled |
And so I look at this Operation Twist I think a lot of people look at this Operation Twist more as a it's almost like a cry of help. | a cry of help | cry | help | supportive | canceled |
The philosopher may be calm, even while his foot is awakening from a sound sleep the poet may not lose his inspiration even with a hair in his mouth but to plain John W. Smith, of 101 Eighth Avenue, a kripsle is as disturbing as a broken elbow, or a bleeding poached egg in its death agony. | a broken elbow | elbow | broken | bend | canceled |
Boldness is therefore here only like a spring held down until its action is required. | a spring held down | spring | hold | supportive | canceled |
Have you ever had frozen meals from Amy's Kitchen They may not look exactly like the photo on the box, but usually they're pretty damn close. | the photo on the box | photo | box | empty | canceled |
just like a beaten pup . | a beaten pup | pup | beat | cute | canceled |
But all that really means is that women's clubs are just as sexist as men's clubs, but they get away with it because they aren't important enough to be worth arguing over. | men's clubs | club | man | curious | canceled |
Excess of righteousness must be sinfulalmost as sinful as lack of righteousness. | lack of righteousness | lack | righteousness | moral | canceled |
It consists of coarsely chopped aged tobacco that is flavored and often sweetened it is not ground fine like dipping tobacco. | dipping tobacco | tobacco | dip | shallow | canceled |
Every time I see one of those, I just assume the owner is just as stupid as the looks of the car. | the looks of the car | look | car | compact | canceled |
null | a mosquito in ember | mosquito | ember | Bloodsucking | canceled |
to dennis , those holes looked strangely like floating eyes . | floating eyes | eye | float | clear | canceled |
When once resolved, he was as immovable as a fixed star. | a fixed star | star | fix | restorative | canceled |
Bhai Desa Singh, a Sikh from the mid 18th century, writes that Just like a bird without wings, or like a sheep without wool ltbrgt Or like a woman without clothes, such is a man without kesh. | a bird without wings | bird | wing | curve | canceled |
her pleading eyes melted his heart as quick as a glacier on the sun . | a glacier on the sun | glacier | sun | cold | canceled |
The metal paneling on the walls next to us began to move to the side, collapsing together like the blinds of a window. | the blinds of a window | blind | window | blindly | canceled |
He was as dumb as a wooden man, and seemed uneasy in the presence of those who had fed and warmed him. | a wooden man | man | wooden | curious | canceled |
Why, even in what you would consider a period of profound peace, you have been about as orderly as a lot of schoolboys, when the master is absent, or a pack of young hounds, who have got away from their huntsman and suggest in every phase of your existence, the stern remark of your greatest Irishman,1 'Ireland is to be governed only by an army.' | a lot of schoolboys | lot | schoolboy | spacious | canceled |
It's almost like quick sand. | quick sand | sand | quick | fine | canceled |
It's cursive, yes, but I was taught to close the P, not to leave it open like a lower case n | a lower case | case | low | structure | canceled |
null | the spaghetti tree | tree | spaghetti | Photosynthetic | canceled |
Fanny's face was clean, and her hair was nicely brushed she did not look now like a child of the gutter. | a child of the gutter | child | gutter | hollow | canceled |
he made an odd noise , almost like a pained giggle , and fell over on his side . | a pained giggle | giggle | pained | joyful | canceled |
She insisted I havent seen more beautiful hair, it was as strange as the moonlight at noon. | the moonlight at noon | moonlight | noon | soft | canceled |
You forge these things prettily but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated cavalier, and had not one foot of land in all the world. | a decimated cavalier | cavalier | decimated | unconcerned | canceled |
null | burnt insulation | insulation | burn | Durable | canceled |
null | the foliage in winter | foliage | winter | photosynthetic | canceled |
information of that sort was as precious as water on mars . | water on mars | water | mar | blemish | canceled |
The second one would have to be built kind of like a ship in the bottle to make it fit inside, which is not entirely practical. | a ship in the bottle | ship | bottle | ocean | canceled |
his face was as blank as a washed blackboard . | a washed blackboard | blackboard | wash | tangible | canceled |
null | a beached whale | whale | beach | Strong | canceled |
cried Roger, he creeps away like a beaten hound, and Virginia saw the bowlderlike shadow rolling off toward the palisade. | a beaten hound | hound | beat | quick | canceled |
Compared to salted fish, pindang uses less salt, thus the taste is not as salty as salted fish. | salted fish | fish | salt | swim | canceled |
But for the rumbling of the thunder, the only sound from the mysterious world outside would have been the scream, now like the cry of a cat, now like a puppy's bark, of an owl flying with muffled wings up and down the valley. | the cry of a cat | cry | cat | agile | canceled |
The little girls were shy at first, but were soon on good terms with Christophe, who always had some funny story to tell them or sweetmeats in his pockets they told their parents about him and, though at first they had been inclined to look askance at his advances, they were won over by the frank open manners of their noisy neighbor, whose pianoplaying and terrific disturbance overhead had often made them cursefor Christophe used to feel stifled in his room and take to pacing up and down like a caged bear. | a caged bear | bear | cage | protective | canceled |
jesus christ , boy , you as dumb as a stone boat ! | a stone boat | boat | stone | float | canceled |
his tail was wagging as fast as a metronome out of control . | a metronome out of control | metronome | control | regulate | canceled |
This is coming off more than a little like stalking behavior, and the threats of selfharm are not encouraging. | stalking behavior | behavior | stalk | cylindrical | canceled |
Evil and good are always sown together like the wheat and the tares, and even the evil has its part to play and its work to do. | the wheat and the tares | wheat | tare | nutritious | canceled |
Strength tests have also been made on firekilled timber and these have shown that timber killed by fire is almost as strong as green timber. | green timber | timber | green | strong | canceled |
So our hospital was closed up as tight as a jar of preserves. | a jar of preserves | jar | preserve | hollow | canceled |
When the corn grew, Kim saw that they were as big as the American ones. | the American ones | one | american | single | canceled |
We certainly cannot complain, seeing that most of the boats on the Nile carry a hundred people, all told, without mentioning those which are laden with a cargo of two or three hundred slaves, packed together like herrings in a barrel, or perched like fowls on planks laid horizontally from one mast to the other. | herrings in a barrel | herring | barrel | hollow | canceled |
She never quite recovered, but slowly withered away like a plucked flower. | a plucked flower | flower | pluck | beautiful | canceled |
Looks not very appetizing like cereal in water but cats dont seem to mind and it adds water to their diets | cereal in water | cereal | water | transparent | canceled |
i grunt low like a dying animal as rann views me , raising his eyebrow , left then says . | a dying animal | animal | die | curious | canceled |
You may still get tickets for possession, kind of like a speeding ticket, but it's not a criminal offence. | a speeding ticket | ticket | speed | measurable | canceled |
But you mustn't do that, behave just like a rough guest. | a rough guest | guest | rough | welcome | canceled |
i do n't know how i stopped packing my sunglasses in my purse after doing so every single day in l.a. , but on paragon they are about as practical as a chariot on the freeway . | a chariot on the freeway | chariot | freeway | fast | canceled |
A the actor was not more than three years older than the victim and at the time of the offense from affirmative defense is just like statue of limitations | statue of limitations | statue | limitation | rigid | canceled |
he 'd wanted to get in his truck , start driving , find the bastard and mete out a little frontier justicebut there was the damn wedding to get through , so he 'd sat there like a beaten dog and driven the woman he lovedthe woman ellis had knocked upback home and watched her flee inside like the devil himself was after her . | a beaten dog | dog | beat | repetitive | canceled |
It's just like a participation trophy, except you only get it if you do something wrong, in a situation where doing something wrong is inevitable. | a participation trophy | trophy | participation | important | canceled |
The grass was trimmed as neatly as a city lawn. | a city lawn | lawn | city | dynamic | canceled |
god , i 'm as easy as a nut to crack . | a nut to crack | nut | crack | unstable | canceled |
I had hopes in the hypocrisy of the sex but perseverance makes it as bad as a fixed aversion. | a fixed aversion | aversion | fix | restore | canceled |
They most probably are fake, sorta like wax fruit, so they can be used for displays in shops and as props for photography, as the bright, hot lights in film, television and photographic studios will rather quickly spoil milk. | wax fruit | fruit | wax | edible | canceled |
null | a tree coming down | tree | come | photosynthetic | canceled |
Stables should be as light as living rooms, but with louvers to darken them in summer, in order to keep out the flies. | living rooms | room | live | active | canceled |
Today Daoud wore a silk cape as red as a cardinal's robe. | a cardinal's robe | robe | cardinal | red | canceled |
This letter was taken up the next morning to Belforest by Colonel Brownlow, and the two eldest delinquents, one, curious, amused, and with only compunction enough to flavour an apology, the other cross, dogged, and sheepish, dragged along like a cur in a sling, just as though he were going to be hanged, said Janet. | a cur in a sling | cur | sling | springy | canceled |
Institutions without men are as futile as men without institutions. | men without institutions | man | institution | structure | canceled |
Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass. | a figure of brass | figure | brass | define | canceled |
Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent. | dogs in a manger | dog | manger | loyal | canceled |
It's just like a participation trophy, except you only get it if you do something wrong, in a situation where doing something wrong is inevitable. | a participation trophy | trophy | participation | valuable | canceled |
Fred Phelps has a whole family with grandchildren and a conservative christian movement but he is still as gay as a fruitcake without the cake | a fruitcake without the cake | fruitcake | cake | fat | canceled |
And maybe like a voice from the grave she will help us figure this out. | a voice from the grave | voice | grave | clear | canceled |
Hed throw the rest of our line away like a peanut hull, if he had not promised Gail to protect me. | a peanut hull | hull | peanut | heavy | canceled |
It should be as obvious as not swallowing poison, it doesn't seem to be, as they are doing one and not the other. | not swallowing poison | poison | swallow | dangerous | canceled |
null | an orchard without fruit | orchard | fruit | harvestable | canceled |
Thar war the passun, his legs fast to the critter's flanx, arms lockt round his neck, face as pale as a rabbit's belly, and the white flag streemin' far behindand thar war | a rabbit's belly | belly | rabbit | hoppy | canceled |
Next thing you know the pentagon will start treating their ground pounders grunts too like non expendables and then what kind of chaos will that bring? | non expendables | expendable | non | disposable | canceled |
And listening to that, again, almost like a fly on the wall was absolutely bonechilling. | a fly on the wall | fly | wall | supportive | canceled |
Ching How long have you been chirping here like a cricket under a leaf, with no news from the roadside? | a cricket under a leaf | cricket | leaf | loud | canceled |
her face was a rigor of alarm , her eyes wide like the hands of the dead . | the hands of the dead | hands | dead | dexterous | canceled |
I throw it away like a blade of grass, and so far from lamenting, I feel rather as if I had been born again. | a blade of grass | blade | grass | sharp | canceled |
And not to mention the spelling, your spelling is almost as bad as the search history, almost makes me think it's yours. | the search history | history | search | educational | canceled |
For a distance of at least two miles the road ran as straight as a yard stick so that the men could readily see that the third motorcycle lad was not in sight ahead. | a yard stick | stick | yard | enclose | canceled |
A dollie was the 4 wheeled thing you move really heavy printers on, kind of like a wagon with no handle. | a wagon with no handle | wagon | handle | attach | canceled |
that says not exactly Now you think that that hitech weapon you though was too big is just as useful as a spit against a tank. | a spit against a tank | spit | tank | powerful | canceled |
It's, you must be as swift as a coursing river just thought you should know...with the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire. | a coursing river | river | course | progressive | canceled |
null | a trapdoor on a canoe | trapdoor | canoe | Functional | canceled |
He says almost as bad as not having power is not knowing when it'll come back. | not having power | power | have | possessive | canceled |
Those bags are as loud as a tree falling, man. | a tree falling | tree | falling | rooted | canceled |
Science without imagination is worth just as little as art without understanding. | art without understanding | art | understand | important | canceled |
This detracts a little from the piece to my mind as it feels at best like a missed opportunity, or otherwise a failed use misuse of the supposing of structure. | a missed opportunity | opportunity | miss | promise | canceled |
null | shifting blame | blame | shift | accountability | canceled |
I had one for a while when I was a teenager, be prepared to smell faintly like lighter fluid whenever you have it on you. | lighter fluid | fluid | light | smoothly | canceled |
i had entered a myriad of thoughts swirling around , blending with each other like hair down a drain after a mixed race orgy in an all men and womens shower . | hair down a drain | hair | drain | natural | canceled |
null | a bad oyster | oyster | bad | Edible | canceled |
Yes, but he may be as thin as a tin horse before his owner comes. | a tin horse | horse | tin | big | canceled |
These filter bags are often made conical like a fool's cap, and have their mouths supported by a wooden or metallic hoop. | a fool's cap | cap | fool | comfortable | canceled |
It is much easier to commence an affair of this kind than to break it off and a man, though his heart was disengaged, should be always on his guard against any thing like an attachment where his affections are not really interested meer passion or meer vanity will support an affair en passant but, where the least degree of constancy and attention are expected, the heart must feel, or the lover is subjecting himself to a slavery as irksome as a marriage without inclination. | a marriage without inclination | marriage | inclination | slant | canceled |
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