Moved as smoothly as light wind across water -James Crumley.A meandering pace that makes sweet Afton look like a white water stream -Helen Dudar, New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1986.Lowered herself cautiously, like a climber -Elizabeth Bowen.Like shoals of fish, they all headed one way -Elizabeth Taylor.Like a vein of gold I darted after you -Charles Simic.In the novel, A Personal Matter, the lethargy described is that of a man pedalling his bike. Lethargically, like sloth on the move -Kenzaburo Oë.Kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup -Walter Duranty.I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee -Muhammed Ali.Hurried with legs stretched out ahead of me like a horse -David Ignatow.His body waved like a flame in the breeze -TV obituary describing James Cagney’s physical grace, 1986.He moves like a piece of darkness -Joe Coomer.He dumped himself like a bag of bones -Robert Frost.Groped about like blind, cautious crabs -Ralph Ellison.Going (home) stealthily and unsteadily … like a dissipated cat -Charles Dickens.Go as if nine men pulled you and ten men held you -John Withal.Glides to his meeting like a lover mumbling a secret, passionate message -Wallace Stevens.
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