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Her
face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
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His
thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a tumble dryer.
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The
little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling
ball wouldn't.
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McMurphy
fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with
vegetable soup.
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Her
hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
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Her
eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.
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Her
vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
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He
was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
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The
hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry
them in hot grease.
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Long
separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the
grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left York
at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19
p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
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The
politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr. on
a Dr Pepper can.
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John
and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also
never met.
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The
thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of
metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
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The
red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.
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Even
in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one
that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
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Shots
rang out, as shots are wont to do.
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The
plan was simple, like my mate Trev. But unlike Trev, this plan just
might work.
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The
young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for
while.
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"Oh,
Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student
on 31pence-a-pint night.
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He
was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a
real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine
or something.
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Her
artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell
butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."
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She
had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just
before it throws up.
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The
ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg
behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.
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The
revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of
his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a
formerly surcharge-free cashpoint.
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The
dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan
set on medium.
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It
was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
their power tools.
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He
was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if
she were a garbage truck reversing.
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She
was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.
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She
grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
room-temperature British beef.
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She
walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
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Her
voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal
paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.
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It
hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the
wall.
