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"She was as sore as an alderman with the mumps."

"The butler came along the red path with smooth light steps and his back as straight as an ironing board."

"The old man licked his lips watching me, over and over again, drawing one lip slowly across the other with a funeral absorption, like an undertaker dry-washing his hands."

"I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider"

"I lit the cigarette and blew a lungful at him and he sniffed at it like a terrier at a rathole."

"The champagne as cold as Valley Forge"

The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show girl uses her last good pair of stockings."

"A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wildflowers fighting for life on a bare rock."

"They smelled as overpowering as boiling alcohol under a blanket."

"The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men."