BITING WIND AND BLOWING SNOW PILLOWY CLOUDS HOVER OVER THE GOLDEN PEAKS MORNING MISTS RISE WITH SUMMER LAZINESS THE BRIGHT SPRING CHILL THE CLOUD STUDDED SKY THE SKY IS THE COLOR OF DIRTY DISHWATER THE AIR HAS A METALLIC BLUE GLOWS A MYSTERIOUS SHADE OF BLUE I GASP FOR BREATH IN THE BITTE...
). Just turn your simile into ametaphor. Take the sentence, “His head is like a baloney.” I know. I want to punch myself right now for writing that. Writing that loathsome sentence has made me more stupider, and I am afraid I shall never recover unless I fix it....
for the night has no cheek; but it may be said to bear the same relation to the night as a diamond pendant does to the dark cheek that sets it off. Then the last metaphor is made one of the parts in a simile; what is therein expressed being likened to a rich jewel hanging in an...
Rather, the situation was described with the logic of ‘wind trade’ (windhandel), as reflected, for example, by the fact that Montesquieu (1992 [1721]: 250), in his Persian Letters, referred to the speculative scheme of the Mississippi Company with the expression ‘enclosing the wind in ...
62. Did I ever tell you you're my hero? / You're everything, everything I wish I could be / Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle / For you are the wind beneath my wings / 'Cause you are the wind beneath my wings—“Wind Beneath My Wings,” Bette Midler ...
“For England it’s as if the genie’s in the bottle, and they haven’t got a bottle opener.” Beginning to doubt himself: “The wind in the sails of the Kazak team, if that can be the case since the country is absolutely landlocked.” ...