The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.

The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.

- Unknown

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Mild as a dove.

Mild as a dove.

- William Shakespeare

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Mild and peaceful as Socrates.

Mild and peaceful as Socrates.

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Mild as a lamb.

Mild as a lamb.

- Ambrose Philips

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Mild as a maid.

Mild as a maid.

- Michael Drayton

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Mild as a saint whose errors are forgiven.

Mild as a saint whose errors are forgiven.

- William Livingston

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Mild as an April eve.

Mild as an April eve.

- William J. Mickle

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Mild as cottage cheese.

Mild as cottage cheese.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Mild as mother’s milk.

Mild as mother’s milk.

- Frederic S. Isham

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Mild as the hour of the setting sun.

Mild as the hour of the setting sun.

- Ossian

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Mild as the never wrathful dove.

Mild as the never wrathful dove.

- John Langhoren

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Lit up like a store window.

Lit up like a store window.

keywords: brightened , illuminated , light , shined

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