Your words to the end, hard as a pair of new cowboy boots -A.(If he once … let loose … the) words would come like a great flood, like vomiting -George Garrett.Words … white and anonymous as a snowball -Donald McCaig.The words went by like flights of moths under the star-soaked sky -Adrienne Rich.Words … tumbling out and tripping over each other like mice -Susan Fromberg Schaeffer.Words that string and creep like insects -Conrad Aiken.Words roll around in Benna’s mouth like Life Savers on a tongue -Carol Hills, New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1986.Words ran together too quickly, like rapid water -Joanna Wojewski Higgins.The words rang in the silence like the sound of a great cash register -Kingsley Amis.Words … poured wetly from her red lips as from a pitcher -Lynne Sharon Schwartz.Words … plunked down with a click like chessmen -Yehuda Amichai.The words (out) of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords - The Holy Bible/Psalms.The word spiralled through the silence like a worm in wood -Harris Downey.The narrator of Munro’s story, Spelling, contemplates the meaning of words while visiting an old woman. Words … limp and clear like a jellyfish … hard and mean and secretive like a horned snail … austere and comical as top hats, or smooth and lively and flattering as ribbons -Alice Munro.Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision -Joseph Joubet.Words, like butterflies, stagger from his lips -John Updike.(She dealt her) words like blades -Emily Dickinson.Words … like bits of cold wind -Mary Hedin.The words hung like smoke in the air -Doris Grumbach.Words gush like toothpaste -Margaret Atwood.Words gushing and tumbling as if a hose had been turned on -Rose Tremain.Words, frothy and toneless like a chain of bursting bubbles -L.Words falling softly as rose petals -Mary Hedin.Words … danced in my mind like wild ponies that moved only to my command -Hortense Calisher.The words crumbled in his mouth like ashes -William Diehl.Words came out … tumbling like a litter of puppies from a kennel -F.Words as meaningless and wonderful as wind chimes -Sharon Sheehe Stark.This simile was first used by Talmudic rabbis A word once spoken, like an arrow shot, can never be retracted -Anon.The word hissed like steam escaping from an overloaded pressure system -Ross Macdonald.They flung them like weapons, handled them like jewels, tossed them on air with reckless abandon as though they scattered confetti -Mary Hedin.Stiff as frozen rope words poke out -Marge Piercy.The sentence rang over and over again in his mind like a dirge -Margaret Millar.The rest rolled out like string from a hidden ball of twine -Lynne Sharon Schwartz.An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze -Babs H.My words slipped from me like broken weapons -Edith Wharton.Like blood from a cut vein, words flowed -James Morrow.It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken -Menander.His words were smoother than oil (and yet be they swords) - The Book of Common Prayer.Her words fell like rain on a waterproof umbrella they made a noise, but they could not reach the head which they seemed destined to deluge -Frances Trollope.Every word hanging like the sack of cement on a murdered body at the bottom of the river -Diane Wakoski.(She spoke to them slowly,) dropping the words like ping pong balls -Helen Hudson.Her words at first seemed fitful like the talking of the trees -Dante Gabriel Rossetti.The word seemed to linger in the air, to throb in the air like the note of a violin -Katherine Mansfield.Words, like fashions, disappear and recur throughout English history -Virginia Graham.Words, like clothes, get old-fashioned, or mean and ridiculous, when they have been for some time laid aside -William Hazlitt.
Words, like fine flowers, have their color too -Ernest Rhys.Words, like men, grow an individuality their character changes with years and with use -Anon.It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn -Robert Southey.Her words still hung in the air between us like a whisp of tobacco smoke -Evelyn Waugh.Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within -Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Words should be scattered like seed no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength -Seneca.Applying words like bandages -William Mcllvanney.See Also: SPEAKING WORDS, DEFINED WORDS, EFFECT OF WORDS OF PRAISE WRITERS/WRITING