Tossed around like popcorn in a popper.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: thrown

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Ugly as a hairless monkey.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Welcome as a long-awaited guest.

- Margaret Mitchell

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About as welcome as a plague of locusts.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: unwelcome

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Wild as a forest creature.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: uncontrolled

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Worked like a field hand.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: labored

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Yelled like a Comanche.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: hooted , howled

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Yelled like an Apache after a successful scalping.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: hooted , howled

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Yellow as an old molted bird.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Yelped like a lost hound.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Talked like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Talked like he was in his dotage.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Timid as a wild rabbit.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Scared as a child at a loud noise.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: afraid , fearful , frightened , nervous. , worried

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Shook as with a chill.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: quaked , rattled , trembled

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Shook like sails in a storm.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: quaked , rattled , trembled

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Shy as a girl on her first date.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: coy , modest , timid

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Silent as a sleepwalker.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: mute , noiseless , quiet , speechless , still

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Skin that looked like green old cheese.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Soft as a bird’s nest.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: cushy , silky , smooth , tender

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Spent money like pouring it down a rat hole.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: squander , waste

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Spit like an angry cat.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Spoke like a father to a hurt child.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: comforting

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Suffered like an animal dying in a trap.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Sure as a gun is iron.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Swarmed like bees around a hive.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Swelled up like a gobbler.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Swift as a lithe sixteen-year-old.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: quick

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Swore like an Army mule skinner.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: cussed

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Symmetrical as Grecian art.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: even

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Legs worked like hard-driven pistons.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: appeared as , came off as , resembled , seemed as

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Looked like a ragamuffin.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: appeared as , came off as , resembled , seemed as

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Mad as a bull at a five-barred gate.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: angry , displeased , furious , irate

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Mad as a rattler ready to strike.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: angry , displeased , furious , irate

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Mouth hung open like an old hound.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: surprised

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Noise cracked like a whip.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: loud , sound

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Nose quivered like a rabbit’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: beak , face , nostrils , snout

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Passed like shadows.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: went by

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Passed swiftly like a dream.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: went by

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Full of pity like a father speaking to a hurt child.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: pathetic

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Plain as an old shoe.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: basic , clear , evident , obvious , stark , unadorned , understandable

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Quiet as a bird with a hawk flying over.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: hushed , noiseless , silent , still

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Ran lightly as an Indian.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Ran like a rabbit panting for its burrow.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: hurried , rushed , sped , trotted

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Rare as an elephant roosting in a tree.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: atypical , infrequent , odd , uncommon , unlikely , unusual

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Read his mind like a preacher reads a Bible.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: predicted , understood

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Red as Georgia clay.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: cherry , embarrassed , flushed , inflamed , scarlet

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Roared like a bull.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: bellowed , called , hollered , screamed , yelled

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Sad as a monkey’s face.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: depressed , miserable , unhappy

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Gold as bread.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Guilty as Cain.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hair as wild as a horse’s tail.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hands as big as hams.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hands yellow and waxy like a dead man’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Handsome as a blooded stallion.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Happy as a new millionaire.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hard as rock candy.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hard as a fly resisting a honey pot.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hateful as a one-eyed parrot.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Head was carried like a pagan prince.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Head went up sharply like an animal scenting danger.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Held on like a bulldog.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Hummed like a hive of newly disturbed bees.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Isolated as shipwrecked mariners.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: remote , secluded

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Jabbed at his heart like a knife thrust.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: heartbroken , inconsolable

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Lazy as a panther stretching in the sun.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: relaxing

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Legs numb as in a nightmare.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes glowed like twin coals.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes looked like a hungry cat’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face as dried and brown as the leaves that were blowing about the lawn of Tara.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face as forlorn as a lost and motherless hound.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face as hard as a nut.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face as pitiful as a child’s under a mother’s disapproval.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face as red as an angry turkey gobbler’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face like a rock.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Face sweet and bland as a baby’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Fast as a turtle withdrew its head beneath its shell.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Feet as bare as a yard dog’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Fell like grain before a hailstorm.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Fell like ripe peaches from a tree.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Forlorn as a lost and motherless child.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Fussed like a hen with one chick.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Calm as though he were discussing the weather.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Came down on him like a benediction.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Came down on him like a prostitute on a prospective client.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Cold as a vault.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Common as white trash.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Scarlet cried all morning like a furious thwarted child.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: sobbed , wailed

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Cruel as the crack of a whip.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: mean , merciless , vicious.

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Darted like a frightened hummingbird.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: ran , skipped

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Dressed like a ragpicker’s child.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: clothed , donned , groomed

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Dressed like going to a ball.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: clothed , donned , groomed

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Drunk as seven earls.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: intoxicated , lit , soused , tipsy

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Eyes as cold as an ascetic’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes as gentle as a collie dog’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes as green as the hills of Ireland.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes as remote as mountain lakes.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes as teasing as a small boy’s.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Eyes as wide as those of a child lost in the dark.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Bristled like a gamecock.

- Margaret Mitchell

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Breasts jutted forward like the prow of a ship.

- Margaret Mitchell

tags: alluring , bosoms , bust , chest , nipples , woman

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