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| The old man proceeded alone into the waste, like a bold vessel leaving its haven to enter on the trackless field of the ocean. | 1 |
| Ancient as the spot on which the bricks of Babylon are found. | 2 |
| Busy as a cow’s tail in fly time. | 3 |
| Darted away like a bird that has been fluttering around its nest before it takes a distant flight. | 4 |
| Flocking into the country like pigeons in the Spring. | 5 |
| Thrown aside and forgotten as are the hoofs and horns of a buffalo. | 6 |
| Gaping like an indolent lion. | 7 |
| Generous as a lord. | 8 |
| Glided … like naked demons flitting among the clouds. | 9 |
| Glistened like a plate of beaten silver. | 10 |
| You dosed me with a drug that hangs about my tongue like a pound-weight on a humming-bird’s wing. | 11 |
| Joyous as the song of the wren. | 12 |
| Light as the sea-fowl rocking in the storm. | 13 |
| Listened … like a stag whose mysterious faculties had detected the footsteps of the distant hounds in the gale. | 14 |
| Listened like one in whom a train of novel ideas had been excited by the reasoning of the other. | 15 |
| Mute, like one who pondered on strange and unaccountable events. | 16 |
| The people I love most are scattered as the sands of the dry river beds fly before the fall hurricane. | 17 |
| Sprang forward like a courser for the goal. | 18 |
| Yielded like melted snow. | 19 |
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