His use of similes in describing action is worthy of note.
His similesare few--in this connection--and are so chosen that they add to the vividness of the whole impression.
Two of his similesfrom hawking and sorcery are descriptive of manners.
Arabians often borrow their similes from that useful and familiar animal.
He seems to retain and apply with freedom all the similes and illustrations that come in his way; many are not to be hunted down except in out-of-the-way corners of the books best known to him.
He employed similes freely; but in his clear-headed fashion he arranged them almost algebraically in his sentences, so that they produce the effect rather of equations than of scattered flowers.
Find similes or metaphors to express the following:-- 1.
Pick out the metaphors and similes in the following sentences:-- 1.
Rewrite the following, using two or moresimiles or metaphors:-- The first snow came.
Change the following similesand metaphors to plain language:-- 1.
Rewrite the following, changing the similes and metaphors to plain language.
None of these similes show any close observance of nature, and in any case the poetic interest of bulls, lions, and tigers is far from inexhaustible.
Most remarkable of all is the strange accumulation of similes that describe the meeting of Jason and Medea.
This characteristic is most evident in the similes over which Valerius, like other poets of the age, would seem to have expended particular labour.
It is less reprehensible that twenty similes should be drawn from storms, which have a more cogent interest and greater picturesque value.
There are, for instance, no less than sixteen similesdrawn from bulls, twelve from lions, six from tigers.
But such gross aberrations are rare; against them may be set some of the freshest and most beautiful similes in the whole range of Latin poetry.
Tennyson again used to say that the two grandest of all Similes were those of the Ships hanging in the Air, and 'the Gunpowder one,' which he used slowly and grimly to enact, in the Days that are no more.
Probably in 1826, there appeared at Dresden the Italian Augustino Aglio, a master of the art of making fac similes by means of tracing through transparent substances.
Similes are taken especially from cows and horses.
A great number of similes and metaphors in the hymns of the Veda show that the Aryas must have lived long with their flocks, and that they stood to them in relations of the closest familiarity.
And while on this topic, you brought forth those similes which they are in the habit of employing, which are, in truth, no similes at all.
In argument Similes are like songs in love; They must describe; they nothing prove.
Or it may rise higher, and rest in the relations of things, in similes and metaphors; it may infuse longing and love and passion; it may descant fair reason and meditative musing.
I have all my oaths ready, and my similes want nothing but application.
Did the artists who executed the fac-similes in Mr. Ottley's work, or in Dr.
The two following cuts are fac-similes of the compartments of the first, of which a reduced copy has been previously given.
Footnote II-89: Heineken had seen two editions of this book, and he gives fac-similes of their titles, which are evidently from different blocks.
There are indeed fac-similes of some of the figures given, but not of the wood-cuts generally; for in almost every cut given by Dr.
The five following cuts are fac-similes traced line for line from the originals in Poliphilo.
All the fac-similes of old engravings in the Idee Generale originally appeared in the Nachrichten.
An amateur may without much trouble teach himself to execute cuts in this manner, or to engrave fac-similes of small pen-and-ink sketches such as the annexed.
Illustration] We may here conveniently introduce fac-similes on a reduced scale of two rather interesting wood engravings given by Dr.
This supposition is to a certain extent corroborated by the fact of the twenty pages of engraved text in the second Latin edition being fac-similes of the twenty corresponding pages of text from moveable types in the first.
The following cuts are fac-similes of those given by Camus; and the numbers underneath each relate to their position in the preceding example of their arrangement.
Some account of this book, with fac-similes of the cuts, will be found in Dibdin's Bibliotheca Spenceriana, vol iii.
Fac-similes of the maps of the Gulf of California and of the New World are annexed, to indicate the full extent of geographical knowledge then current with the best cartographers.
Lenox makes it the editio princeps (as does Brunet), and gives fac-similes of the woodcuts in his Scyllacius, p.
There are fac-similes of the entire map in the Carter-Brown Catalogue, i.
Fac-similes of these are given in the Informe de la Real Academia, Tejera (pp.
There are fac-similes of the engraved title in Harrisse, Lenox, and Stevens’s American Bibliographer, p.
Other fac-similes are given by Lenox, and Ruge in his Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen, p.
This has fac-similes of the cuts of the 1572 edition; and De Bry also followed the early cuts.
Of these, twenty-nine are also given in fac-simile; there are besides about two hundred and fifty fac-similes of autographs.
Dresden Library, of which fac-similes of the title and its reverse are given herewith.
Other fac-similes of the map are given in Varnhagen’s Premier voyage de Vespucci, in Weise’s Discoveries of America, p.
When cylinders for a three-coloured machine are wanted, three such mills are made fac-similes of each other; and the prominent parts of the figure which belong to the other two copper cylinders are filed off in each one respectively.
This treatise is without date, and contains seventeen leaves; with a profusion of wood cuts, of which fac-similes have been given by me to the public.
You may remember the amusement which you said was afforded you by the account of, and the fac-similes from, this very strange and bizarre production--in the Bibliographical Decameron.
The range of Homeric similes is not limited to the phenomena of sky, river, and ocean, to the familiar experiences of the forge, the vineyard, and the chase.
Other fac-similes of the original are given in the Histories of North Carolina by Hawks and Wheeler, in Gay’s Popular History of the United States, i.
Mr. Charles Deane has two copies, both with photographic fac-similes of the map made from the copy now in the Barlow Library, New York.
There are accurate fac-similes of this Ptolemy map in Varnhagen’s Premier Voyage de Vespucci, and in Stevens’s Historical and Geographical Notes, pl.
But entirely new forms of sentences make their appearance in prose writing, with new pictures and similes brought from India through the medium of the Buddhist translations.
These praises were in the form of grandiloquent, overloaded poetry, full of strange similes and allusions, but with little real feeling.
Smith published a curious collection of fac-similes of letters, chiefly from literary characters.
It draws illustrations from pictures and flowers, and its style is rife with similes and images which light up the essential solemnity of the subject.
Since, then, similes and metaphors are such a powerful engine of knowledge, it is a sign of great intelligence in a writer if his similes are unusual and, at the same time, to the point.
Trite words, similes and metaphors which have become hackneyed and worn out should be allowed to rest in the oblivion of past usage.
Avoid the old trite similes such as comparing a hero to a lion.
Altogether this ancient work of art is unique of its kind in Ireland, and deserves to be rescued from oblivion, by the publication of the unedited Charters, and of fac-similes of all the Illuminations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "similes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
