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| Arid as the sands of Sahara, without restful shade, without refreshing water. | 1 |
| He moved automatically, like a prisoner captured by the evil power of a masquerading skeleton out of the grave. | 2 |
| Bitter, like a day of mourning. | 3 |
| More bitter than the sea. | 4 |
| Black as Tophet. | 5 |
| Hopelessly blank, like the face of a blind man. | 6 |
| Blaze like a box of matches. | 7 |
| Blue like the sea of a dream. | 8 |
| The masthead light … blurred like a last star ready to dissolve. | 9 |
| Breathed out, hard and still, as a statue might whisper. | 10 |
| Light burst on me as if a window of my memory had been suddenly flung open on a street in the city. | 11 |
| Captured the eyes as a sharp cry secures attention. | 12 |
| Darted … like an arrow aflame. | 13 |
| Darted like a skimming bird. | 14 |
| Dead as Julius Cæsar. | 15 |
| Disappeared … like a man overtaken by an avalanche. | 16 |
| Dry as a cinder. | 17 |
| Enduring as eternity. | 18 |
| Exulting like a conqueror. | 19 |
| Those dry eyes of his shining more like poisoned stones than living tissue. | 20 |
| Expectant yellow eyes, like a cat watching the preparation of a saucer of milk. | 21 |
| Face like an ancient lemon. | 22 |
| Faded … like the mist of a breath on a mirror. | 23 |
| Fascinate—as a snake would a bird. | 24 |
| Final as going to Heaven. | 25 |
| Glare like the eye of an enemy. | 26 |
| Glow … like a pool of flaming blood. | 27 |
| Gulped as … swallowing sobs. | 28 |
| Hairy as a mastodon. | 29 |
| The sea hissed like twenty thousand kettles! | 30 |
| Immaterial as a ghost. | 31 |
| Immobility lay on his limbs like a leaden garment. | 32 |
| As impossible for him to take flight of fancy as it would be for a watchmaker to put together a chronometer with nothing except a two-pound hammer and a whip-saw in the way of tools. | 33 |
| Incredible as the fulfilment of an amazing and startling dream in which he could take the world in his arms—all the suffering world. | 34 |
| Indistinct, like a vapor exhaled by the earth. | 35 |
| Lonely as a crow in a strange country. | 36 |
| There is nothing so lonely in the world as the girl who has got to look after herself. | 37 |
| Lost himself in thought as though he had fallen out of the world. | 38 |
| Tumultuous and very loud … like the roll of an immense and remote drum beating the charge of the gale. | 39 |
| Lying low, like a malignant little animal under a hedge. | 40 |
| Lurked as comfortably as a shy bird in its native thicket. | 41 |
| Meaningless, like the head of a corpse. | 42 |
| Swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. | 43 |
| Poor and naked as a fakir. | 44 |
| Names like jewels flashing the night of time. | 45 |
| Passive—like dead bodies, with open, fixed eyes. | 46 |
| Her dress was as plain as an umbrella cover. | 47 |
| He was plunged in rushing water like a diver holding on to a stake planted in the bed of a swollen river. | 48 |
| Poignant and silent like the terrible questioning of one’s conscience. | 49 |
| The howl pursued me like a vengeance. | 50 |
| Quietness like the serene glow of a halo. | 51 |
| Recoiled as … he had seen a snake in his path. | 52 |
| Reeling as a clubbed man reels before he collapses. | 53 |
| He could have reproduced like an echo. | 54 |
| About as rigid as a concertina. | 55 |
| Ruddy like a winter apple. | 56 |
| Shattered as if a shell had exploded inside. | 57 |
| Sloping like a roof. | 58 |
| Sluggish … like a greasy bog. | 59 |
| Solid like a principle. | 60 |
| Solitary … like a lighthouse keeper above the sea. | 61 |
| Solitary … like a swallow left behind at the migrating season of his tribe. | 62 |
| Staggered away as a defeated man staggers away from the field of battle. | 63 |
| Stealthily like rocks that tear a ship’s life out under the smooth sea. | 64 |
| Still like leaves forged of heavy metal. | 65 |
| Stirring like the sight of glorious triumph. | 66 |
| As straightforward as a tile falling on your head. | 67 |
| Struggled instinctively like an animal under a net. | 68 |
| Swayed at the top like a tree. | 69 |
| Thrilled like a revelation. | 70 |
| Tight as a bottle. | 71 |
| Together unavoidably, like two ships becalmed near each other. | 72 |
| Tortuous—like byways of despair. | 73 |
| Uneasy like a baffled thief. | 74 |
| Unexpected as seeing a vision. | 75 |
| Unintentional as the birth of a thought in the head. | 76 |
| Vague like a suggestion of solid darkness. | 77 |
| Vast as all space. | 78 |
| Wandered up and down there like an early Christian refugee in the catacombs. | 79 |
| He was trying to see, with that watchful manner of a seaman who stares into the wind’s eye, as if into the eye of an adversary. | 80 |
| Whirling like dust. | 81 |
| Withered like a plucked flower ready to be flung on some rotting heap of rubbish. | 82 |
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