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"A case of false teeth hung on the mustard-colored wall like a fuse box in a screen porch."

"Like a fellow trying to pick up a girl and lacking the last inch of nerve."

"He had tight brilliant eyes that wanted to look hard, and looked as hard as oysters on the half shell."

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

"Dark silent mystified eyes stared at me solemnly, the doubt growing larger in them, creeping into them noiselessly, like a cat in long grass stalking a young blackbird."

"...her eyes large and dark and empty as rain barrels in a drought."

"She lay there on the bed in the lamplight, as naked and glistening as a pearl."

"Under the rhinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness."

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"The boy stood glaring at him with sharp black eyes in a face as hard and white as cold mutton fat."

"Ohls looked at him silently, his pale eyebrows bristling and stiff and round like the little vegetable brushes the FUller Brush man gives away."