Multi-coloured twisted frills of crepe paper were suspended from wall to wall covering the ceiling like a kaleidoscopic canopy. |
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Bord na Mona, for years a vital source of energy, degenerated into something like a welfare agency for needy midlanders. |
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His beard flowed like a frozen waterfall, and from the rear of his trademark forage cap a radio antenna pointed straight up at the sky. |
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Then, like a dog shaking water out of its ears, I snap out of it and run to the desk trying to block Jeff's line of vision with my body. |
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Pamela caused an unprecedented stir, exciting something like a national argument about the purposes and value of fiction. |
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I never conferred with Alison about Faye so she left alone, however Amy could read me like a book and whenever I was feeling down she'd guess it. |
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There's nothing quite like a pretty pair of flats to top off any casual outfit. |
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The team has designs on making the playoffs, and it performs like a playoff team at home but not on the road. |
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Your cackles filling the room, you just sat there laughing and raving like a lunatic. |
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Any company so foolish as to promote something that looked and felt so much like a guarantee as this would be riding for a fall. |
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The problem is that the car is aerodynamically unstable, and under heavy braking, the back end kicks out like a mule. |
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This side is more like a meadow, dominated by longer grasses and a host of ox-eye daisies. |
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Her roof has the same shallow hip but is turned up like a basin with a butterfly profile. |
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It simply means that, like a lot of science, absolute and mechanical objectivity is an asymptote we must always approach without quite reaching. |
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Just over 40 years ago, at a students' sports meet on a lovely summer day, he ran like the wind, and shone like a star. |
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The Australian Competition Consumer Commission will be on to monkey business concerning any price-gouging like a rat up a drainpipe. |
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She's got long black hair, ratted and dry, and it hangs down over her shoulders like a fern that hasn't been watered in weeks. |
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The central character of the book is Bunny Maguire, who is launched into the Dublin social whirl and takes to it like a duck to water. |
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Athleisure apparel is looking less like a fad and more like a permanent addition to women's closets. |
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There are enough branches at curbside along Washington Street this morning to make the village look like a war zone. |
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Like all the women on my wife's side of the family, Linda looks like a cover girl, but is as determined as a pit bull. |
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The crew flurried up like a torrent of snowflakes, cast about in attempts to fulfill commands as the ship berthed. |
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Still, it looks like a good business opportunity for someone with an immediate need for huge amounts of ready cash. |
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Where the pool had been was now a boulder-sized mass heaving like a whole kennel of dogs fighting in a sack. |
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All at once the apparent walls of the room turned from a gold color to a black dotted with stars, most like a midnight sky. |
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Do you constantly whine like a pig stuck in a tight pram over minute issues? |
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Do I renew those two domain names that I bought on a whim when they seemed like a good idea? |
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A movie seemed like a top idea, a way of hiding in the darkness of a lounge, whiling away the hours. |
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The spacious area was surrounded with lofty walls, whitewashed and cleansed thoroughly, topped with black curved tiles like a sort of roofing. |
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Some of those have crowed before that they can read me like a book, that they're great with people and can get to the root of any problem. |
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This bag can then be put into a hot bath like a tea bag, or used as a sachet for your guest's clothes. |
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They calculated that the electric potential inside the pore was asymmetric, shaped like a ratchet's tooth. |
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I can't help thinking if her children were bullied, she would be in the head's office like a rat up a drainpipe. |
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Franchises that have success are studied like a college history book the night before midterms. |
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In short it has no sense of purpose and responds to the glare of scrutiny like a deer caught in the head lights. |
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Lahore station rears out of the surrounding anarchy like a liner out of the ocean. |
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It's not just this town itself, but the whole of this county, this township that weaves all of us together like a blended family. |
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The dual-mast, steel-hulled ketch pulls hard against its moorings, like a getaway car revving its engine. |
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If you like a perky touch, try a butterfly bow at the joining of your bertha collar in the front. |
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Laura Bush is all deferential and smiles in public, but you can bet that she whipsaws him like a swing in private. |
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He looked like a man who could clear out a Bierkeller in 10 minutes, bodies hurtling through the air. |
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At night the township looks like a blanket of glittering diamonds, blue and orange lights flickering. |
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A bearded Argentinian makes a run through the penalty box like a slalom skier, at improbable angles for a man with the ball. |
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The only thing that really seemed odd about the scene was that no one was holding a wind instrument, like a flute or an oboe or anything. |
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Every time the door is opened, a woman snaps in front of us like a rat up a pipe. |
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It was like a minute ago that I talked to Natalie and now I am on my way in my Jaguar to get her. |
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The only rule here is that you absolutely cannot use plain white, sliced bread, which goes all pappy like a soggy sandwich. |
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When harvested they make even the simplest meal seem like a gourmet delight. |
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Golota kept his lips pursed together like a baby refusing its rattle, the mouthpiece stayed out and the fight was over. |
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He loses the plot like a shaker of salt, vaguely wrapping up the con in the film's final moments. |
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The list of invited guests read like a who's who of the sport's hallowed history. |
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It was like a kaleidoscope but definitely the strangest kaleidoscope she had ever seen. |
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In his half-mast trousers, short-cut jacket and spiky wig, he looks like a delinquent Jack Horner. |
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I look up at the sign listening when the next bus was coming as he begins whining like a child at me. |
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The darkness and heat descend upon you like a heavy black cloak and the mosquitoes suddenly make a rush for any exposed bits of skin. |
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My limbs are stiff and painful, my nose is running like a tap, my throat feels like I've swallowed a razor blade, and I feel like I am drunk. |
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I can never go out with a girl like a normal guy does because I'm too serious. |
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Suddenly, she heard something that sounded like a child whimpering to her right. |
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He ended up half-carrying, half-dragging me to his car, where he dumped me unceremoniously like a sack of potatoes. |
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My infant heart would leap at the sound of the lunch bell, and every day I would fall on that school dinner like a ravening wolf. |
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Jean Grae responds, and then she raps about baseball, sounding like a natural. |
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He is the only person who understands me and can read me like a book without having to turn to page one. |
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He dropped to his knees and keeled over sideways as blood spouted from the side of his head like a drinking fountain. |
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The black windcheater and jeans stuck to her lean form, making her appear like a withered scarecrow. |
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Listening to a tweek or a whistler conjures up nothing like a bolt of lightning in the mind's eye, however. |
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The history of Europe post Reformation and then of America reads progressively more like a humanist cliff-hanger than a religious tract. |
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It has a distinct fold of flesh, marked by a line of hair that runs like a keel along its belly. |
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The show floor is like a carnival midway, only carpeted and slightly less aromatic. |
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While this may seem like a harsh conclusion or a ludicrous one at that, it most definitely is not. |
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It looked like a mighty blow against the forces of evil, which is all that he and his entourage thought necessary. |
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If the technology is truly feasible and saves money as they say it does, then the private market will be into it like a rat up a drainpipe. |
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It was like a beret, though round and from the center of the hat, hung a tassel. |
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Rossiter watched him, as lithe and graceful as ever, his slim form like a coiled spring and ready to explode with energy at any moment. |
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Why not add a touch of class to it all by taking a seat at one of the glass tables and ordering a real drink like a whiskey sour. |
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I know you higher-ups like to hide that sort of thing from us, but I can read you like a book, sir. |
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The notes flowed together like a stream of melody, and the tune was surprisingly more soulful than her rendition. |
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Encouraged by his father to take up to athletics, he took to it like a duck taking to water. |
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He stared at her, his piercing, penetrating gaze shooting right through her, reading her like a book. |
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There was a whoosh, a sound like a thick book being shut, and a stranger walked through the closed closet door. |
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They were covered over slightly, like a shallow puddle that manages to reflect the sky while still being able to see to the bottom. |
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Every child must feel loved and must feel like a valued member of the community. |
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The wreck is spread out before me like a filleted mackerel, bow and stern intact with the midships opened up. |
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Outside their window, an insect's timid squeak peeped sporadically into the night, like a half-rusty hinge. |
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Debussy's quartet moves like a snake through the forest, tracing an unpredictable, yet in hindsight inevitable, path. |
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He entered the circular chamber in a wheelchair, without wheels, instead, tracks like a tank, to push him along. |
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As a result, the belly swells up like a hot-air balloon, and this condition is called as aerophagy. |
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It's like a 65-year-old man still whingeing about how his mother treated him when he was a baby. |
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We're half-way through the week and though I can't speak for everyone, to me it feels like a good time for some lulz to push the doldrums away. |
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The guide had to scramble up the side of the thing like a monkey and talk her into moving on one white-knuckled rung at a time. |
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The company's client list reads like a who's who of the Irish corporate world. |
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Common brick is like a sponge, absorbing water and wicking moisture to the chimney interior. |
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This might seem like a no-brainer, but you'd be surprised how many people spend big bucks trying to glitz up this holiday. |
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The simulations predict loose aggregates of particles with many branches in a complex network, like a portion of a spider's web. |
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He is a quiet little kid who causes more trouble then he is worth but everyone loves him and treats him like a kid brother. |
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What confronted them was a complex device like a giant rat trap, but where the cheese should have been placed it was smothered with honey. |
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Well, I know it came out like a flat denial, and I think one of the things I can do is clear it up. |
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The entire structure began falling inwards, collapsing in on itself like a cloth being folded. |
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Her hair streamed behind her and fanned out like a cloak and her skirts flew up around her slender legs in a tornado of color. |
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Arthur's daydreams were interrupted by what sounded like a fist thumping on wood in the far distance. |
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I owe the media thanks for acting like a mirror in exposing those social evils such as corruption. |
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Suddenly, Fashion Bug didn't seem like a fun place with cute, kicky, affordable clothes and plentiful opportunities for advancement. |
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It was blowing gently between the satellite dish and the biggest shrub in the garden like a white flag of surrender. |
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Instead, a poker-faced Willis wanders around the camp like a wary housebuyer uncertain as to whether he should declare his interest. |
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I acted like a fool in allowing myself to be led astray and placed in such a horrible situation. |
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The list of private helicopter owners reads like a who's who of the country's richest businessmen. |
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A fall from the ring counts as two knockdowns, with three knockdowns resulting in a loss just like a knockout. |
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For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. |
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Hayley is like a machine, carrying out incremental change to rationalise companies. |
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When racing he looks like a wild man, a man possessed with an aggressive single-minded focus. |
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It was a time when many of his old so-called friends had dropped him like a hot potato. |
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The story works like a spell or incantation, lulling you with plausible detail into accepting a slightly warped big picture. |
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That's when the bouncer picked Chad up like a sack of potatoes and a scuffle ensued. |
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Overall the case feels like a real quality unit, worthy of being rebadged by some of the bigger brand-name PC makers. |
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Behind the front line of low-rise hotels and apartments is what feels like a mountain town that has slipped down to the coast. |
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There was a sudden mighty kick, like a giant was shaking the ship, and Lazarus could feel his insides trembling. |
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His fingers traced the sides of my face, like a child would who was examining the skin of a grandparent. |
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You struck Mr Ryan three vicious blows to his stomach, causing him to collapse like a sack of potatoes into the gutter. |
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Only Steve looked like a man ready to take responsibility while all around him players looked bereft of confidence. |
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The guard, who had been speaking frantically into some kind of communicating device, fell like a sackful of potatoes. |
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The boats can haul twice the gear of a backpack, glide as effortlessly as a snowboard, and thrill like a luge. |
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Her long golden hair streamed behind her like a golden flag as they galloped across the plains. |
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She pushed forward, rolling like a treadmill, trying to make her breaths shallow to preserve her air supply. |
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This resulted in deep ruts and heavy vehicle tyre tracks leaving it looking like a ploughed field. |
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After what seemed like a very long time, the whine of the engine changed pitch and they seemed to descend. |
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By being dragged from cell to cell like a sack of potatoes, the prisoner realizes that he is just an object, a nobody. |
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The driver guns it and launches the behemoth into the air like a flying elephant, whereupon it crashes back down on the wrecked cars. |
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Cole scampers forward like a Jack Russell chasing a string of sausages which another dog has widdled over. |
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A practical reason is that text full of minimally simple hiragana strokes looks like a carpet pattern, hard to read quickly. |
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It also needs to have work done to make sure the orchestra doesn't sound like a bunch of kazoos. |
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These, however, look like a rather larger mountain to climb than picture phones, which you could call the low-hanging fruit of privacy invasion. |
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This sounds a whole lot more possible, a little like a vastly more sophisticated version of Sim City, with us as the Sims. |
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However, like any gracious Cork man I have kept my head down and taken the banter like a man. |
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Her voice was barely a whisper but the words echoed in her head like a jackhammer. |
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It felt like a gradual poem coming across the TV screen in the same way a news story keeps adding one tiny little detail every hour on the hour. |
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It broke her heart to see such a proud and beautiful home cut down in its prime, like a brave young soldier who had fallen in his first battle. |
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Joe, one of the bad guys, who was part of the low class of the gang, slides the wood board on the door like a window. |
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Microsoft Windows users can think of a terminal as like a DOS prompt or command window. |
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This feels like a day out and I like the way it's got a northern character. |
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But 10 days ago a pitiless thug broke into her home, kicked her around like a football and stole her life savings. |
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I must have been shaking like a leaf in the northern wind for he took me tight in his arms, saying nothing. |
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If he sells the bank, which he has said he will do, then she will be on to him like a rat up a drainpipe. |
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One dancer slings his willowy partner over his back, mistimes the weight shift and staggers like a powerlifter pressing a half-ton barbell. |
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If I hold the end just the right way and breathe out briskly, I can make a sound just like a kazoo. |
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On good days, it could also smell like a hot steam iron on a fresh white sheet. |
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It was really there, a wind that whispered to him like a lone siren singing her song. |
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The more a man trusts and seeks to give selflessly to a woman the less he needs her to look like a cover girl. |
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You feel like a low-rent stockbroker, playing the angles and leveraging against the back end. |
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If you look at this tiny, eight-legged creature under a magnifying lens, you can see it lumbering along like a bear. |
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Her furniture is formed of inflatable see-through plastic, while her bed looks like a solid block of lucite. |
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Her skin was pale, like a winter cream and she had a pink glow about her cheeks. |
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At times the writing reads like a legal argument, at other times like a therapeutic recovery manual. |
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His voice was low and loud, like a volcanic eruption sounds from inside the volcano. |
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Unfortunately his piece reads like a university essay and wouldn't convince too many apart from those who want to believe his theory. |
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I would spend hours in a delightful daydream where the school bus bully would be thrown around like a sack of potatoes with his coterie laughing their heads off nearby. |
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The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price. |
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Admittedly the horse is blind, half lame and being whipped by a lying two-faced jockey, but even dead on its feet it still looks like a safer bet than the alternative nags. |
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Historically the kingdom has loomed over Qatar like a hungry lion eyeing an annoying mouse. |
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The fruit, as you say, is black, very knobbly and it's a bit like a sort of squat fig with a pointy bit at the end and very, very hard, almost stone-like. |
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Unable to control his bike, he landed on the tarmac like a sack of spuds. |
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Punk old-timer Legs McNeil on how, despite his best efforts at acting like a grump, the Velvet Underground front man was beloved. |
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Most of all you felt they looked like a team on a mission of atonement. |
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When this happens, life feels like a brutal Hallmark commercial played on a loop. |
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The bones inside their legs felt like a sack of broken glass. |
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She smiles, which sounds like a small thing, but a lot of Republicans growl. |
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In the cradle of the Rocky Mountains, sprawled out like a giant picnic over the foothills, Calgary has the beautiful Bow River winding through its core. |
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If it had been a victory, Craig would have been in there like a rat up a drainpipe to make sure he got full credit and lots of pictures in the local paper. |
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After another hour or two of shop talk I was positively exhausted and dropped into bed like a sack of potatoes, only to wake up before 4 am, unable to sleep. |
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When the band was first formed, the idea of fusing rhythm based music from Africa and beyond with melodious trad from Ireland seemed like a curious and exciting experiment. |
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If you think this sounds like a scene from a gross-out bromance, you're right. |
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Leibniz, meanwhile, believed every atom in the universe to have a soul, the universe being a projection through them of God's will, like a cosmic hologram. |
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The person, who looked most likely to be a man, stayed just out of the range of my knife and smiled at me, looking like a cross between a Byronic vampire and Jack the Ripper. |
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There will be no hot afternoons where I'm pounded brown by the Aztec sun, the cool beer vanishing into my body like a drop of rain in the trackless Sahara. |
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And tracking down ingredients such as tat tsoi no longer feels like a wild goose chase, since speciality foods are now stocked in many supermarkets. |
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She was like a rat up a drainpipe in her haste to get to Upper Harbour. |
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It's easy to spend hundreds of dollars on halogen pot lights or track lighting, but nothing gets the job done quite like a string of well-placed Christmas lights. |
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The journey from Haiti in the 1980s is like a new middle passage. |
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Yet when the worldwide economy capsized in late 2008, the ripples of recession arrived like a King Tide to the low-lying island. |
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Give him an opening and he's in there, like a rat up a drainpipe. |
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Or take Google, which only went public in 2004 and yet feels like a grand old man of Silicon Valley. |
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Singing jazz standards, accompanied by as many as 71 players, Mitchell holds her own and then some, sounding like a beautifully aged wind instrument. |
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We walked for a long time, following winding paths carved by herds of cattle, through high meadows into an exotic place that seemed like a foreign land. |
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Tyrion, now on the lam for patricide by crossbow, is destined for an unknown foreign port like a diminutive Edward Snowden. |
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If the GOP controls both the House and the Senate, the gridlock to come will make recent times look like a minor traffic jam. |
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As he'd walked her home the previous night, it had become obvious that he wasn't shamming, that he really was going to treat her like a kid sister. |
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Lonnie is a strong woman who walks through a room like a beautiful storm approaching. |
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At one moment, the harp sounds like a fine-tuned guitar, at another it's like an enhanced electric wind instrument, with beautiful fluctuations, transitions and crescendos. |
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It was sleek and aerodynamic, shone in his room like a light bulb. |
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After it was published in January, some said it read more like a love letter to the general than a biography. |
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Giulavogui cried, 55 years old and less than a decade in America, but sounding like a Gotham newsboy from another era. |
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You're the only person who doesn't treat me like a stupid airheaded jock. |
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It felt like a boarding school midnight feast from an Enid Blyton novel. |
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This morning, I find I'm feeling less like a person at death's door. |
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The daunting list of victors reads like a who's who of golf. |
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The above paragraph makes me sound like a total airhead, even to myself. |
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There's nothing like a little sacred cow bashing to get people to listen! |
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A mounting swell of emotion crested in his soul, then broke like a storm-tossed wave on the shore of his heart, and he wept, silvery tears tracing down his pale cheeks. |
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Its larger counterpart, the agave or century plant, like a tank-trap, can still be seen used as a washing line, with the clothes hung on the huge spikes. |
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You could swim around like a berk with water halfway up your nose. |
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Switzerland's not being invited looks like a rap on the knuckles. |
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A sketchbook can also be like a diary, in the sense that it is a keepsake of memories, interests and observations from this time in a student's life. |
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When that did not work they wound up the spring in his back with a key and set him loose solo, whereupon he succeeded in looking like a mechanical toy. |
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Louis-Dreyfus made a joke that Cranston looked like a character Elaine had dated on Seinfeld. |
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His real ambition was to write, but a chap's got to eat, and teaching seemed like a not entirely uncivilised way of keeping the wolf from the door. |
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The electronic peep of the alarm pierces my wandering dreams like a knife. |
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The guitar and what sounds like a wheezy harmonium played backwards contribute to an impression of technologised folk that makes surprisingly engaging sense. |
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The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes. |
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Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion. |
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What's really sad is that his opinion piece reads like a parody. |
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The line clicked, sounding more like a guillotine to Morales. |
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What had once merely resembled a Buckingham Palace window treatment now, thanks to the hateful green straps and bow, looked like a botched department-store wrapping job. |
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He flipped on the lights and it glowed like a candle in the dark. |
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Hence perhaps why much is made of the variety of subject matter in Sebald's novels, like a lumber room in a rundown mansion ready for an enthusiast's rummage. |
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The concrete hut in a dip in the hills is like a cattle byre. |
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Even Sheik Hamza Abbas al Isaawi, the Grand Mufti of Fallujah, had to leave his spiritual home, like a pope banished from Rome. |
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The sun's rays kiss the body of the mountains as the frosts on the grass melts and the dew drops on the flower sparkle like a diamond to the glitter of light. |
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As McCain and Kastigar and too many others have shown, all the bad guys need to do is offer a way to stop feeling like a loser. |
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They were definitely a man's step, not the same delicateness of a woman, but they were definitely muffled, it sounded like a man who naturally walked silently. |
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While nobody wants to hinder a woman from becoming an engineer or scientist, it should be noted that the wording in this bill reads like a feminist playbook. |
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Once the injunction fell through, it was like a weight off my shoulders. |
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An aide said Mr. Markey hoped to combat the tactic of astroturfing in which a professional lobbying effort is made to seem like a grass-roots movement. |
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He had deep red eyes that looked more like a rusty brown in the daytime. |
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These include parts of a cornice and trabeation with sculpted round loaves of bread and a large travertine block incised to look like a wicker basket. |
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Hinged between the second and third wheels so it bends at the forefoot like a running shoe, it provides a better push-off than normal skates as well as superfast acceleration. |
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Summery acoustic guitars jostle with squirts of digital noise, arcing horns and what sounds like a solo played on a giant kazoo shoved through a fuzz pedal. |
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Gayness passes across my lips and courses through my veins like a 20-year-old scotch. |
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There's a brief accordion intro, leading to what sounds like a kazoo lament accompanied by someone scraping a few pieces of metal and wood together. |
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Meanwhile a manta ray passed overhead like a modern stealth bomber. |
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I felt like a right berk driving back home with the flowers in my car. |
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The steering arm thrums under their hand, the deck heaves beneath their feet and the keen salt wind cuts like a knife through even a good sealskin cloak. |
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It looked like a broken down missile, but we had not choice, in we went and I buckled down, praying to the Force that this rust bucket would hold together. |
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Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff. |
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What's very annoying is that as soon as the meals are brought in the rest of the family become like a pack of ravening wolves and will promptly start begging for them. |
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It's your great advantage that you don't think you can look like her by ludicrously painting your eyebrows and dolling yourself up like a rock star. |
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The fate of most councils or committees is to grow too large to be effective and to be replaced by an executive or inner caucus, like a series of Russian dolls. |
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And when they rattle, when they get alarmed, it sounds like a rattlesnake. |
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Each of my paintings is like a book, exposing the tricks of the Evil One, revealing hidden truths through metaphoric symbols, hidden passages and written text. |
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Albert seized the opportunity instantly, falling on Theo like a bird of prey, bending him back, knife upraised for the final, triumphant killing blow. |
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Its whiteness shocks me like a cameras flash and will be the first thing Ill think of when, within months, John tells me that his father has left for another woman. |
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Having spent more than an hour with the Prime Minister on Saturday morning, I can't report that he looked in the least bit like a candidate for the men in white coats. |
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Interesting juice choices like a liver detox or kryptonite mix flavors, like carrot and ginger with apple and grapefruit. |
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His heartland is the west of Scotland, particularly Glasgow, which is dotted with his Ashoka restaurants like a tablecloth flecked in korma sauce. |
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But then that night, Dad played it back to me in bed, like a lullaby, my own recorded voice singing myself to sleep. |
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Kay's face turned pale white, so white that she looked like a ghost. |
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Above the notes of praise is a small photo of guerin wearing a polka dot tie and pocket square, staring at you like a sociopath. |
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Were he not clean-shaven with slicked back dark brown hair, and had he been wearing spiked hiking boots, the large man would look like a lumberjack fresh from the forest. |
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Last year in the final, Roddick tried the blunderbuss approach, going for broke on just about every shot, serving like a demon and hitting the lines with his ground-strokes. |
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And they end up being quite collagey sort of pieces, almost like a revue, a series of sketches. |
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A pin is put into skull, to keep the connecting band in place, and then they fixed on the aid which is like a press stud, it just clips on. |
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You wouldn't be so sympathetic if she were ugly and coarsehanded, like a woman who has worked for her food. |
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Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in. |
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Wu, with close-cropped hair and a lineless face, wore a cardigan and a necktie and looked like a truant from boarding school. |
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The Defendant then came down on me like a ton of bricks, as my eye will prove. |
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The absence of common courtesy, such as indifference from retail clerks, or being treated like a number by impersonal bureaucracies. |
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She escaped the seeming trap just like a wrist slipping from a cuff. |
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Do it!, stir up your energy until it's swirling around like a leaf storm inside your body. |
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Without L cuts, a conversation between two people can feel like a tennis match. |
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Tall, dark and handsome and with a grin like a klieg light, he dominates the picture. |
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When Browne's turn came, he went down like a true larrikin, giving cheek to the end. |
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The car, shaped like a computer mouse, is named KLIK Philo-Cook says KLIK promotes Northrim Interact services in a fun and visible way. |
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Also described as being like a giant bat, the Kongamato has large teeth, red leathery skin, and a wingspan of four to seven feet. |
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Dressed like a princess, 4-year-old Shona Ritchie gathered her courage and asked the future king for a kiss. |
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You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men. |
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He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy. |
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It's kid stuff to barrel along in a car like a big shot. I kept the needle right on fiftyfive. |
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He throwed his head back as he run, and ketched me right between his horns, like a nut in a nutcracker. |
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Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights. |
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When he turns around, he revealed an American flag worn like a thong. |
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Sorry so jakun, need to post a picture of my Uber because it looks like a Bentley. |
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I was so jakun with the pen thingy and this happened hehe I feel like a kid. |
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Hamoudi, my guide, sings his way uphill. He leads a pack mule by a chain, bowed against an icy wind. His faded kaffiyeh snaps like a flag. |
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In dede he talketh arrogantlye of his person in the end of his booke, and determinately like a counseller with God in this place. |
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Then, with a shock like a thousand goods trains crashing into a thousand pairs of buffers, the lips of rock closed. |
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It was like a Kiplingesque pagoda and it had one of the most striking views anywhere in the world. |
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She came up to where Tilly was shaking me like a rag doll and, without a word, she king-hit Tilly Devine and then sat on her in the street. |
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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. |
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When the masked stranger hew with his axe, the baker's head did split in twain and his body fell like a lump to the ground in turn. |
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He spoke languidly, and only those few words, like a watch with an inelastic spring, that just ticks a moment or two and stops again. |
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To the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations. |
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The lusca, he said, was a terrible creature, like a monstrous octopus or cuttlefish. |
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We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches. |
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His physique is like a Roman god with very pronounced iliac furrows or Apollo's belt. |
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He's starting to sound like a schoolboy with a copy of Penthouse. |
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Every time I pass a bank and see one, I giggle like a grade-schooler. |
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You can fry them up like popcorn, or spear them on a stick and roast them like a shish kebab. |
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But he was still Vinnie, crying like a big baby, golden still, and still loving his honeybunny. |
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At 4 or 5, he learned to dial by using the hookswitch like a telegraph key. |
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He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow. Impeccably dressed and hatted with a dark Homburg. |
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The conflict is beginning to look like a holy war between Sunnis and Shias. |
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But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect. |
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It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath. |
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You can cut in around stained trim or into another color free-handed like a painter or with painter's tape. |
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I felt like a fifth wheel when they started giggling and making out during dinner. |
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For example, the scientists dragged a steel ball across each disk like a needle across a record player. |
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If... the pattern on the mask were designed to look more like a dog bone, the result would better approximate a rectangle with sharp corners. |
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My dictionary says that lepid comes from the Latin lepidus. Should I think flitting like a butterfly or leaping like a rabbit? |
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A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water. |
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Booth Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me. |
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The detective is a former army man with a prosthetic foot, who is more like a boxer rather than with an elegant Sherlockian imagination. |
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He drank too much and started acting like a complete imbecile. |
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Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine. |
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