chambers dictionary of the unexplained illustration

CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF THE UNEXPLAINED ILLUSTRATION FULL

Flat-chested and straight as a board -MacDonald Harris.(He was) flat and wide as a gingerbread man -Charles Portis.A fine small body, like a miniature dog bred for show -Maureen Howard.(She had) a figure that was like a swift unexpected blow to the diaphragm -that to linger on makes the beholder feel obscene -Frederick Exley.Figure … so delicate that she moved like a shadow -Inez Haynes Irwin.A figure like a two-armed Venus de Milo who had been on a sensible diet -David Nivenīeing an actor as well as a writer, Niven undoubtedly had a special appreciation for any device which would capture audience attention the minute the curtain rises and so this simile from the first sentence of his autobiography, The Moon’s a Balloon.Figure like a sack of flour -Josephine Tey.A figure like a beer barrel -Oscar WildeĪ variation by Charles Johnson: “Broad as a beer barrel.”.Even her hipbones jutted out as if her skirt was draped on a coathanger -Richard Maynard.(Against the light of the lamp,) the delicate erotic lines of her slender body came up like a photographic print in a developing tray -Brian Moore.Delicate and softly rounded as a painting by Boucher -F.The simile in Foy’s novel, Coaster, applies to a sailor. Corded and tough as a short piece of tallowed cable -George Foy.Chunky, heavy, like a Samoan swimmer -Herbert Gold.Chests and bellies like a pair of avalanches -T.Chest like an oyster barrel -Ogden Nash.Chest like a nail keg -Peter Matthiessen.The woman with the racing yacht curves is Lady Brett from The Sun Also Rises. Built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht -Ernest HemingwayĪ quick simile is about as much space as a master of conciseness like Hemingway devotes to physically describing a character.Built square, like a van -William Beechcroft.Built solid, firm and square, like an unencumbered pine -Sylvia Berkman.Built like refrigerators -Jonathan Valin.A small round head atop a large round body with no neck in between -Rick Borsten Built like a skyscraper -Slogan, Shaw-Walker steel filing cabinets.Built like a Russian weightlifter -William Diehl.Built like a Coke machine -Joseph Wambaugh.(She’s hard to fit, being) built like a cement root cellar -Louise Erdrich.Built like a bowling pin -Clive Cussler.Build like a sack of angle irons -Loren D.Buddha-like body still as an onyx boulder -Ralph Ellison.Body warm and flat as beer that’s been standing -Marge Piercy.The body turns empty as the shell of an insect, or like something inflatable but flattened -Jayne Anne Phillips.Body … silvery like a white rose -Isak Dinesen.

CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF THE UNEXPLAINED ILLUSTRATION FULL

Body … shaped like a sack half full of cement -Sterling Hayden.Body … long like a weasel’s -Anton Chekhov.(Had a) body like a stack of lumpy pillows -Robert Campbell.Body like a block of granite -Brian Glanville.The body, lady, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere but the spirit, lady, is like an automobile: always on the move -Flannery O’Connor See Also: SOUL.It is needful to have the instrument in good order -Henry Ward Beecher Body grown light as a shell, empty as a shell -Joyce Carol Oates.Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together -Charles Caleb Colton.(A big soft) ass as wide as an axhandle -George Garrett.See Also: AGILITY, AWKWARDNESS, BODY ORGANS, FATNESS, MUSCLES, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, SHOULDERS, STRENGTH, STOMACH, THINNESS

Chambers dictionary of the unexplained illustration