![]() The words rang in the silence like the sound of a great cash register -Kingsley Amis.Words … poured wetly from her red lips as from a pitcher -Lynne Sharon Schwartz.Words … plunked down with a click like chessmen -Yehuda Amichai.The words (out) of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords - The Holy Bible/Psalms.The word spiralled through the silence like a worm in wood -Harris Downey.The narrator of Munro’s story, Spelling, contemplates the meaning of words while visiting an old woman. Words … limp and clear like a jellyfish … hard and mean and secretive like a horned snail … austere and comical as top hats, or smooth and lively and flattering as ribbons -Alice Munro.Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision -Joseph Joubet.Words, like butterflies, stagger from his lips -John Updike.(She dealt her) words like blades -Emily Dickinson.Words … like bits of cold wind -Mary Hedin.The words hung like smoke in the air -Doris Grumbach.Words gush like toothpaste -Margaret Atwood.Words gushing and tumbling as if a hose had been turned on -Rose Tremain.Words, frothy and toneless like a chain of bursting bubbles -L.Words falling softly as rose petals -Mary Hedin.Words … danced in my mind like wild ponies that moved only to my command -Hortense Calisher.The words crumbled in his mouth like ashes -William Diehl.Words came out … tumbling like a litter of puppies from a kennel -F.Words as meaningless and wonderful as wind chimes -Sharon Sheehe Stark.This simile was first used by Talmudic rabbis A word once spoken, like an arrow shot, can never be retracted -Anon.The word hissed like steam escaping from an overloaded pressure system -Ross Macdonald.They flung them like weapons, handled them like jewels, tossed them on air with reckless abandon as though they scattered confetti -Mary Hedin.Stiff as frozen rope words poke out -Marge Piercy.The sentence rang over and over again in his mind like a dirge -Margaret Millar.The rest rolled out like string from a hidden ball of twine -Lynne Sharon Schwartz.An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze -Babs H. ![]()
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