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"Blood begain to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house."

"Bubbles rose in it like false hopes. She bent over me. Her breath was as delicate as the eyes of a fawn."

I am so tired of these.

"...her hair shone like a silver fruit bowl. [...] I was trussed like a turkey ready for the oven. [...] It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house."

"The fist with the weighted tube inside it went through my spread hands like a stone through a cloud of dust. [...] something red wiggled like a germ under a microscope. [...] just darkness and emptiness and a rushing wind and a falling as of great trees."

THREE IN ONE PARAGRAPH

"Another voice made itself heard, a purring voice, like a small dynamo behind a wall."

"There was a hung instance of silence, as heavy as thunder."

"...but to the north it's as bare as hell's back yard."

"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."