Is a fit simile a toy? will he be poison'd with a simile? Brother Thorello, what a strange and vain imagination is this? For shame to be wiser, on my soul there's no such matter.英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
YOU were Dal's bread-and-butter. I am sorry if you do not like the simile."
Jane smiled. "I do like the simile," she said. "Ah, but you were far more than this, my dear girl. You were his ideal of womanhood. He believed in your strength and tenderness, your graciousness and truth. You shattered this ideal; you failed this faith in you. His fanciful, artistic, eclectic nature with all its unused possibilities of faithful and passionate devotion, had found its haven in your love; and in twelve hours you turned it adrift.英文原著 · 《The Rosary》
Upward soareth our sense: thus is it a simile of our body, a simile of an elevation. Such similes of elevations are the names of the virtues.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
To this simile her simple mind oft reverted, for indeed it seemed to her that naught more perfect and more noble in its high likeness to pure Nature and the fulfilling of God's will than the passing days of these two lives could be.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Many of its similes are intended to be humorous. A few of its incidents are humorous; but it has little of that element in it, as indeed little of our literature has that element markedly in it. We have a few exceptions. But what George Eliot says in Adam Bede is true, that wit is of a temporary nature, and does not deal with the deep and more lasting elements in life. The Bible is not a sad book. There are children at play in it; there are feasts and buoyant gatherings fully recounted. But it never trifles nor jests.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Should these terms seem disrespectful, let Fanny bear the blame. It is her application of the word "chasse" that drew down the simile.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
And he used similes and metaphors when he was talking about Valerie Blunt.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
A simile directly compares two things, using the words "like" and "as""美剧 · 《Young Sheldon》