The saying, My love is like a red, red rose, is a simile. From LearnThat.org.
Yet if it contains a single vein of animated ore - as I, in my vanity, believe it does - then this simile is perhaps prudent. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Brodsky - Banquet Speech] Reference
The simile is the most magnificent that can be conceived. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
It is true that, nevertheless, the simile is a bit strong. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
432 This simile is from Majjhima Nik., iii. 169, and Saŋyutta Nik., v. 455. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
This simile, which is made use of by the younger Pliny, may be easily mistaken for argument or proof. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Discourses on Art] Reference
The simile is a very obvious, and, I suppose I may now say, a happy one; for it has just been shown me that it occurs in a. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
Finding a simile is a fairly straightforward task: one writes a program that looks for text strings of the type "like" and. From Wordnik.com. [News from www.pantagraph.com] Reference
Worse than that; my simile is a poor one; for the moment a thought of ambition is cherished, that moment the man is out of the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference
His favourite rhetorical trope is a special kind of simile for which there is, as far as I know, no special name. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
What the meaning of the simile is the present editor cannot suggest. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Soon, others were infected with this "simile" desire, it broke out like a rash in conversations all along the rail. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
The simile is the enemy of screenwriting. From Wordnik.com. [Writing: You Don't Need pg. 11] Reference
The simile is a good one. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
A simile is a good thing if it isn't overcrowded. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference
Note the figure of speech (simile), beginning with the word. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
This simile has occurred to poets in all lands, in all ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The metaphor is a bolder and more lively figure than the simile. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
For instance there is no simile when one city is compared to another. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
The one, however, may be fairly considered as a fac-simile of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
The "as if" simile often expresses a far-fetched thought, a strange fancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
Study each simile you find, and state the exact meaning of each literally. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Older editors had emended "checks" to "chart," thus losing the homely simile. From Wordnik.com. [Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference
The best is the account of Canynge's feast, which has been engraved in fac-simile by. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The form of the simile allows him to pursue the supernatural theories that he scorns. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
A simile makes the principal object plainer and impresses it more forcibly on the mind. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
It is much better to do without such a simile and simply say -- "She had fiery red hair.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
None genuine unless the fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS, New York, is on the outside wrapper. From Wordnik.com. [A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest] Reference
This, at least, is the way the native puts it, and to some extent the simile is correct enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
In order that there may be a rhetorical simile, the objects compared must be of different classes. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
What I guess I'm saying is it's time to rethink this particular metaphor or simile or whatever it is. From Wordnik.com. [Forget 'Cadillac' Health Care; Americans Need A Buick] Reference
But Barbara was like a poorly-written simile haphazardly stuck in a random sentence: she didn't care to try. From Wordnik.com. [Uninspired] Reference
He repeated it to Stephens, and, as I heard afterwards, Stephens laughed immoderately at the simile of Mr. Lincoln. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The fac-simile herewith shows the color of the paper of the original document and all interlineations and erasures. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
As an accident-prone person, I must say that I have never seen blood "shimmer" no matter which way the simile is arranged. From Wordnik.com. [Think before you write.] Reference
The simile is cut off like the hand that sins. From Wordnik.com. [greek is hard « paper fruit] Reference
The comparison "like Hell's masterpiece" is a simile. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
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