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Similes Dictionary

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Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm."

A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. —Henry David Thoreau
Prose consists of … phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. —George Orwell

Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture—it's worth a thousand words. Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “...