Пятнадцать тысяч полезных английских фраз. Часть VIII. Яркие сравнения. Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин

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      As supple as a step-ladder

      As swaggering and sentimental as a penny novellete [novellete = short novel]

      As swift as thought

      As the accumulation of snowflakes makes the avalanche

      As the bubble is extinguished in the ocean

      As the dew upon the roses warms and melts the morning light

      As the fair cedar, fallen before the breeze, lies self-embalmed amidst the moldering trees

      As the light straw flies in dark'ning whirlwinds

      As the lightning cleaves the night

      As the loud blast that tears the skies

      As the slow shadows of the pointed grass mark the eternal periods

      As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

      As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again

      As though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid

      As unapproachable as a star

      As weird as the elfin lights

      As well try to photograph the other side of the moon

      At extreme tension, like a drawn bow

      Away he rushed like a cyclone

      Awkward as a cart-horse

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      Babbling like a child

      Balmy in manner as a bland southern morning

      Be like the granite of thy rock-ribbed land

      Beauteous she looks as a water-lily

      Beautiful as the dawn, dominant as the sun

      Beauty maddens the soul like wine

      Beheld great Babel, wrathful, beautiful, burn like a blood-red cloud upon the plain

      Beneath a sky as fair as summer flowers

      Bent like a wand of willow

      Black as a foam-swept rock

      Black his hair as the wintry night

      Blithe as a bird [blithe = carefree and lighthearted]

      Bounded by the narrow fences of life

      Bowed like a mountain

      Breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk

      Breathed like a sea at rest

      Bright as a diamond in the sun

      Bright as a fallen fragment of the sky

      Bright as the coming forth of the morning, in the cloud of an early shower

      Bright as the sunbeams

      Bright as the tear of an angel, glittered a lonely star

      Brilliant and gay as a Greek

      Brisk as a wasp in the sunshine

      Brittle and bent like a bow

      Bronze-green beetles tumbled over stones, and lay helpless on their backs with the air of an elderly clergyman knocked down by an omnibus

      Brown as the sweet smelling loam

      Brute terrors like the scurrying of rats in a deserted attic

      Buried in his library like a mouse in a cheese

      Burns like a living coal in the soul

      But across it, like a mob's menace, fell the thunder

      But thou art fled, like some frail exhalation

      Butterflies like gems

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      Calm as the night

      Calm like a flowing river

      Calm like a mountain brooding o'er the sea

      Calmly dropping care like a mantle from her shoulders

      Cast thy voice abroad like thunder

      Charm upon charm in her was packed, like rose-leaves in a costly vase

      Chaste as the icicle

      Cheeks as soft as July peaches

      Chill breath of winter

      Choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity

      Cities scattered over the world like ant-hills

      Cities that rise and sink like bubbles

      Clear and definite like the glance of a child or the voice of a girl

      Clear as a forest pool

      Clear as crystal

      Clenched little hands like rumpled roses, dimpled and dear

      Cloud-like that island hung afar

      Clouds like the petals of a rose

      Cloudy mirror of opinion

      Cold and hard as steel

      Cold as the white rose waking at daybreak

      Cold, glittering monotony like frosting around a cake

      Collapsed like a concertina

      Colored like a fairy tale

      Companionless as the last cloud of an expiring storm whose thunder is its knell

      Consecration that like a golden thread

      runs through the warp and woof of one's life

      [warp = lengthwise threads]

      [woof = crosswise threads]

      Constant as gliding waters

      Contending like ants for little molehill realms

      Continuous as the stars that shine

      Cowslips, like chance-found gold

      Creeds like robes are laid aside

      Creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school

      Cruel as death

      Curious as a lynx

      Cuts into the matter as with a pen of fire

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